General Madness

“…chargers who fought hard”

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THE PROMISE
R.I.P.

So after a busy weekend of working the BANE + SUICIDE FILE show in Boston (which was awesome), Big Bob, Bedard, and I drove out to Syracuse for the last Promise show. The drive flew by with conversations running from explaining new Bane artwork, to the films of David Gordon Green.

The show was amazing. Bane as always fucking blew me away, but this was The Promise’s show from the first note (which prompted Matty Miller and I to stage dive) to the last, kids where going nuts. I spent the whole fucking set on the floor “going off” as they say, something I haven’t done in quit some time, and I’m paying the price for it now. The show was so much fun and I was surrounded by so many good people that it didn’t really hit me until I got back how sad it was that I would never see The Promise again. After the show I was busy saying goodbyes and solidifying my ride home. I wish I could of stayed for the memorial day cookouts the next day, but I had to get back for work. Punk rock sucks sometimes, it’s harder to call in sick for a job you actually care about.

More PROMISE photos here.
Matt Miller just added some here.

Happy Belated Birthday to BUSKE!!!

CS Lewis film saves Disney from Christians

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The Guardian is reporting on the American Family Association and their recent lift of their Disney Ban. The Mississippi-based American Family Association (AFA) instigated the boycott in 1996 after accusing Disney of “promoting homosexuality” and associating itself with “trash films”. The organization demanded that Disney form an advisory panel of evangelical Christians and ban “Gay Day” revellers from visiting its theme parks in California and Florida. It also objected to the company’s association with Miramax, the studio which had a hand in films such as Pulp Fiction and Fahrenheit 9/11.
Conservative Christians are also heartened by Disney’s decision to adapt The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first book in CS Lewis’s classic series of Narnia stories.

Although set in a magical land populated by talking beasts and witches, Lewis’s tales are traditionally read as thinly-veiled Christian allegories.

Side Note: Looking around the AFA’s website, I came accross this pressing concern “According to Advertising Age magazine, the four major networks are closer to airing ads for condoms than ever before. In February, the networks were “leaning” toward prime-time commercials for condoms.” and their response- “Aren’t you tired of the networks abusing the use of public airwaves to air offensive and inappropriate material? It is inconceivable to think that the networks can get away with broadcasting these kinds of ads when they know our children will be watching.”
but these same people let there children read “… because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.”- Hosea 13:16

Fukk God Let’s Create

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So for some reason I fucking love abstract electronic music like drone. There is nothing like working on a layout for a couple of hours while getting lost in some bizarre soundscape. So when I found FUKKGOD I was stoked. It’s a free online label… I knew when I saw something with the description “Dark, ice cold isolationist drones” is was going to love it…
JT check this shit out!

THE TROUBLE

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Just finished THE TROUBLE layout. I used PANTONE 1787 C for the coverage of the CD and the “Nobody Laughs Anymore” title script thing is Metallic Pantone 877 C. The Atlanta peeps on here will recognize this cover as the same cover as the Crisis Under Control 7″, I wouldn’t of used this for that reason but it was the bands choice not mine…