The Stirling Hotel, in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
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On the road since Aug 2010. Founding editor of Noisecreep (est. 2008). Founder of Buzzgrinder (est 2001). I travel and talk to metal heads for Skull Toaster. Subscribe to the 'Skull Toaster' Email List I draw Seth W. Robots. Email: sethw@sethwismyname.com Twitter: @sethw Tumblr: ask Hire me: Freelance Web Work, Resume |
January 26, 2012
January 26, 2012
I love the type and design on the building on the left. Black and gold. Love it. (Wilkes Barre, PA)
January 25, 2012
This is where I’m waking up these days, here in lovely Wilkes-Barre, PA.
January 22, 2012
My robots are growing up, and starring in their own videos now.
I got up early today to make this, just to offset all the hours I’d spend on my butt watching football.
January 22, 2012
Cold days, quiet woods, and big rocks to climb on. Life is pretty awesome.
January 22, 2012
What a night! Just finished talking to the last ppl. 98% of the crowd stuck around to chat. 5am my legs feel like spaghetti but I love life.
— Johnny Cupcakes (@JohnnyCupcakes) January 22, 2012
I saw Johnny speak at NYU once, not long after I heard of this “Johnny Cupcakes” thing. I was curious. I had yet to buy any of his goods, but I had to see what he was about.
He just recently spoke in Hawaii. I saw some photos he uploaded via Instagram. It was packed. And the above Tweet? He hung out talking with everyone, which I think it pretty awesome. I remember years ago when I saw Coalesce play one of their reunion shows in NYC, and singer Sean Ingram came off the stage and just met with everyone. A line of people, just waiting to talk to him. I told him how I saw them play back in 1998 or so, and how I thought I’d never see them again. He smiled, we chatted and well, I’ve bought all their new albums when they came out.
All that to say - Johnny Cupcakes isn’t the biggest brand in the world, sold in every store and online market. He’s just #1 to his fans. And Coalesce is no Lamb of God, but to their fans, they’re #1.
In the end, I think that’s all that matters. Making one friend at a time, and doing it everyday until you die.
January 21, 2012
What’s the most entertaining thing you can build?
In response to ycombinator’s “Kill Hollywood” appeal, I propose:
We’re funnier / smarter / more creative than you think, so let’s get off our collective asses and start making shit. I bet everyone of us has, at one point, been involved in some sort of funny “oh my good, that should have been a SNL skit” moment. Or a seriously intense debate with someone where some good happened. Or you did something… well, you DID SOMETHING.
Get it out there.
Way back in 2001 I bought a domain name and started Buzzgrinder.com, a music blog with the tag line “music news + useless opinion.” I did it everyday. I wrote posts when no one was looking. I did that for years. YEARS. Finally in 2009 I got a break; a company wanted to buy it. Something I created was up for acquisition! Just like you read in the tech and nerd blogs! Payday! (Except I didn’t sell. No payday. OOPS.)
Look at that: NINE YEARS of writing blog posts. Nine years of posting tour dates, interviewing bands, reviewing CDs and making sure I had 5-12 posts up a day. All that before I got a break.
DOING that led me to get a well paying jobs as a web producer, and finally to launch a metal blog for AOL Music. Pretty cool stuff.
All that to say - DO something. The best time to have started your cool thing - your photography project, your jewelry buisness, your web design studio - was nine years ago. The second best time is right now.
I’ve been saying this for the past year and a half: if you want to be a photographer, start taking photos. Whatever you want to do, start doing it. I always tell that to writers, too. “How do I get a break?” Write. Write. Write. Write so much, with such tenacity, with such passion, with such heartbreak that you don’t just write, but you ARE a writer. Fall asleep with a pencil in your hand, or a long list of sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss’s from falling asleep on your computer.
You don’t have to build the next Facebook, the next Twitter, or be the next Metallica or the next Lady Gaga. Just be the first you. Yea, that sounds all sports-cliche and rah-rah-rah and whatever else, but it’s true.
Spend time honing who you are, stop chasing “things,” be content and humble and freaking build something.
January 20, 2012
I purchased a legit copy of this song, ‘Love as Arson’ by Converge, a few years after discovering it on Napster, sometime ago. I’m not a big, “get to the front and scream the lyrics” dude, and certainly not at a Converge show. But this mantra, “I will rise again,” carried me through some tough times, when dealing with the end of my marriage. It’s not an arrogant, rise from the ashes, call for me. I just remember being rock-bottom, unsure if I’d ever be able to laugh again. Through my months of coming back to this song, “I will rise again,” kept me going.
January 20, 2012
January 19, 2012
Love this video. I’ve probably said all of these things at least once. Maybe twice. I didn’t move from PA to NYC back in 2004 thinking I’d become this, but it happened. It just… happens. But it’s a good thing. I remember I started paying attention to authors names on magazine articles, and reading mastheads just to see if I’d recognize any names. I survived on the pizza and bagel diet for many years. I lived in Queens for a year, then Brooklyn. I went to art spaces, house shows, hockey games and a few weddings. I even catered a wedding.
So yea. NYC can do that to a person. You might watch this video and think “what snobby jerks!” but I’m telling you, unless you lived here (or worked with Elliot like I have!) it’s hard to really get it.
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Full Converge set from Hellfest 2011 - 1hr long.
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