Brand New - Science Fiction (August 17, 2017) [ARCHIVED] Album • Page 1331

2 seasons so far of the TV show. Currently re-watching the first season. This is Canadian Netflix mind you.

 

Never heard them, but that's not a good band name.

 

Ohhhh right.

I already watched on Hulu.

 

Strongly considering picking up the UO exclusive clear variant of SF even though I really don't need it.

 

How many days do you drink in a week on average? ( I wanna see if I'm normal)

 

received my vinyl from amazon this morning. its still weird that this is a real thing. never thought I would see the day

 

I'll be in a meeting for the hour and a half or so.

Hold my calls, and someone please make sure people are getting reported as needed!

 

3 to 5 maybe sometimes less, sometimes more. But it's never very much at a time.

 

1-3, rarely more. I can't drink heavily and get badly hungover whenever I do.

Smoke weed erryday though, which I don't love anymore

 

Why don't you love it anymore

 

Phil Douglas (ex-Latterman) is a member.
I love that whole label tbh, based outta Long Island so hometown heroes. Ill put Long Island Pop Punk and Emo against any from anywhere else lol.

We already winning off top with Brand New, Glassjaw, Taking Back Sunday, The Movielife, Jeff Rosenstock etc lol

 

Had you asked me this 4-5 years ago my answer would have been wildly different. Now, I have a few drinks maybe 3-4 times a week. My 20s were a wreck though. Would drink a lot 4-5 times a week...Just last night I had a few beers while watching FIVE HOURS OF SHARK TANK

I mean Dragon's Den

 

Jumping from the Lennon conversation to then reading this post, it brought me to think of the situation that happened with Oberst and his ex-girlfriend. Correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't similar accusations of him being abusive come out too?

 

I have a beer (literally 1) pretty much every night with dinner. On Saturdays I might go wild and have a second beer. And Fridays at work we might have one before the day ends too.

 

After basketball each week, I’ll have probably 3 drinks at the bar afterward. Nothing too crazy. Other than that, probably one or two nights a week I’ll have one or two at home after the kids go to bed and I’m either cleaning up or relaxing. Nothing too crazy at this point in my life!

 

I don't think it was an ex girlfriend, pretty sure it was someone he had never even met

 

You'll have to start a Brand New cover band.

Brand Newer

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Also, someone asked how artists/musicians can portray such a positive message and be so talented, yet in their personal life completely contradict it all behind closed doors. Easy answer, the human race sucks. The way our culture and social stigmas are influence it too. We have these ideas that we should desire to be famous and popular and loved by all, and we focus on that and try for it while trying to sweep our emotional issues under the rug because we believe no one wants to know or hear about it. I think those emotions/actions build up and hurt the mindset of somebody who doesn't seek help and they rationalize their shitty actions by looking at their spotlight image and believing they're doing enough, not even remotely realizing or coming to terms with their issues.

JFC are you serious!? That whole story was a complete fabrication?

 

I believe so, need to do some research on that its been a while.

 

Conor Oberst’s Name Cleared; Rape Accuser Admits She Lied

EDIT: I also want to add that this is certainly an anomaly when it comes to such accusations. Victims and accusers should 100% be believed and there is little evidence to suggest that anything more than a minuscule minority of such allegations are false.

 

That sort of negative attention spun out of control in December 2013. A woman calling herself Joanie Faircloth wrote in the comments section of an xoJane piece (about the writer’s abusive relationship with a rock star) that Oberst had raped her (after a concert in 2003). And — as surreal as it was to have been the crush of many straight millennial feminists, only then to be demonized and become the unintentional hero of men’s-rights groups — given Oberst’s long-standing wariness of fans, to him it felt like a reckoning. “I associated creativity and what I put out into the world with this traumatic experience,” he says. “I associated being vulnerable with people being able to say a bunch of crazy shit about you.”

Faircloth (whose real name is Joan Elizabeth Harris), a then-26-year-old North Carolinian, initially came off as sympathetic. But as her accusations gained attention, her credibility came into question. There was confusion about the details of the alleged incident, and witnesses, including ones Faircloth herself named, said she was never anywhere near Oberst on the night she claimed the event had taken place. (From the outset, Oberst vehemently denied the accusations.) Over time, other parties came forward claiming Faircloth had an extensive history of misrepresenting herself online. But for more than six months, this was all being adjudicated in the blogosphere’s court of public opinion.

“I shed some tears in a couple hotel rooms,” Oberst says with a pained smile. We’ve left his home for happy hour at Pageturners Lounge, a onetime bookshop turned bar in East Omaha, that the singer co-owns. He’s pouring rosé and remembering life in the midst of these accusations. In the winter of 2014, after continued silence on Faircloth’s part in response to attempts from Oberst’s lawyers to make contact, he sued her, on the advice of his counsel, which of course enraged victims’-rights advocates. “And then to go on tour … ” He takes a sip of wine. “I had some weird thoughts. Just going out there, literally feeling like, Are people going to kill me tonight? Is someone going to fucking shoot me? But you have to do these shows, because it was like, if you quit, you’re guilty.” Mogis notes that during the ordeal, his friend was uncharacteristically “always checking online because he was concerned what people thought. He was like, ‘How can people think I’m this sort of person?’ ”

The album he was promoting at the time, Upside Down Mountain, earned some of the worst first-week sales of his career. Numerous major outlets declined coverage of Oberst, according to his publicist, because of the scandal or because Oberst was not willing or legally able to discuss the situation. The Daily Nebraskan published a column in which the writer urged readers to stop buying Bright Eyes records.


Then on July 14, 2014, Faircloth recanted. “The statements I made and repeated online and elsewhere over the past six months accusing Conor Oberst of raping me are 100% false,” she wrote in a statement signed in front of a North Carolina notary public, then posted and widely disseminated online. “I made up those lies about him to get attention while I was going through a difficult period in my life.” But for Oberst, the damage was done. Stories about the false accusation still show up prominently when you Google his name.

 

do we know if he knew her or was she just a fan? thats the part I'm having trouble finding

 

I don't know if they ever met. But this is at the end of the article that I posted:

"In February Mr. Oberst filed a libel complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York asserting that the only relationship between the two parties was one of artist and fan; Ms. Faircloth had no physical contact with Mr. Oberst at the Durham, NC show she claimed was the location of the alleged sexual assault."

 

okay that's thats what I was looking for. Glad he got his named cleared, one of my favorite artists for sure.

 

Glad I'm not the only sad sack, haha
I actually did go see the Zelda Symphony, I guess I can count that as a show ;)