undeniably classic. first album is completely unfuckwithable, love songs here and there thereafter as well.
― knive k (k3vin k.), Saturday, 28 March 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
this guy's pop culture references are always so uncomfortable and awkward
yet i still think this band is great, didn't like them first time around in the 90s, now their nostalgia factor is pretty ridiculous
― cutty, Thursday, 13 August 2009 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah those singles have aged well imo, "Graduate" is the shit
― nutsih the clown (some dude), Thursday, 13 August 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
New album isn't out yet, is it?
― we make rub' dongs from 4" to 6" (k3vin k.), Thursday, 13 August 2009 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not out, but it's good and i don't know why
― cutty, Sunday, 16 August 2009 11:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it's leaked, im really excited to listen to it
― pr que (k3vin k.), Sunday, 16 August 2009 13:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm just sayin
i'm imagin harmony notes
and they're right
<3
― some droopy HOOS in makeup (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 18 October 2010 08:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://o.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/17198/blind_jpg_445x1000_upscale_q85.jpg
― hated old moniker, too tired to think of a clever new one (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
dud
― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
when did Matt Damon join?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
"I just joined a shitty alternapop band. Howdya like THEM apples?"
― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
I've always wanted to start a Third Eye Blind tribute band called Third Nostril Anosmic. maybe now's a good time?
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
with hit single "Misplacing a Whole 6 Months"?
― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
song should really have been titled "Losing a Whole 3-½ Minutes" out of sympathy for its listeners.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
f u
― positive rapper (k3vin k.), Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
John Vanderslice with wisdom. The trick: it's not so much the song as a key member of the band.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
That was a fun read.
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
yeah that was awesome. exactly how i picture jenkins lol
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
this is also one of the more insane-o fandoms i've ever semi-engaged with
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
* cues "Never Let You Go" *
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
sometimes you're looking for any news of a new record and you see a bunch of fanboards where jenkins' lawyer is referred to by first name
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
The creative mind at work:
We took a car. The thing that Hwin was keen for me to understand about his life that week was that it wasn’t really his. For the past several days, he’d been doing a “life swap” with Stephan Jenkins, the lead singer of the alternative-rock band Third Eye Blind. Jenkins has a large and lovely house in Pacific Heights, but his charmed life in San Francisco’s old-money district wasn’t helping him write fresh and edgy music. So Hwin would occupy Jenkins’s Pac Heights studio for a while, and Jenkins would inhabit Hwin’s small, dormlike room in the Sub. (“It’s at the intersection of the gentrification on Valencia and the gritty, hard, dug-in city life,” Jenkins said. “People are walking around with knives.”) Hwin asked me whether I wanted to maybe head over there—it was a pretty sweet place, and Jenkins had hella guitars and shit—and I said sure...“Look at the water!” Johnny Hwin said, squinting at the bay as we crested Pac Heights and drove west, toward the Presidio. It was the kind of day that kicks aside the quilt of summer fog, and every detail of a northern coast of the bay showed clearly in the late-afternoon light. We stopped in front of a white house set back slightly from the street. Hwin paid the Lyft fare on his phone, and we headed down an alley passage to a back patio. It was breezy, and it smelled of jasmine, and the movement of palm leaves overhead stippled everything with small feathers of shade. Hwin led me behind the house, where Stephan Jenkins had set up his music studio. Part of the idea of the life swap was that Jenkins and Hwin would share what they had written in each other’s homes. Jenkins had already drafted a song inspired by the Sub, Hwin told me, titled “Back to Zero.”“Welcome to the spaceship!” he said as we entered. Hwin calls most rooms spaceships, but the term seemed apt here. Jenkins’s studio had the air of a man cave that had been subjected to a decorator’s polish. Its walls were covered in a dark-brown acoustic fabric, with cheery, stylishly contrasting green curtains. In the middle of the room was a gigantic mixing board, with a computer at its center.We surveyed Jenkins’s large cache of guitars. “Stephan was just like, ‘Yeah, man—I have the best fucking setup, bro,’ ” Hwin told me, running his fingers up the neck of an electric model. “It’s like, Dude, you do! You do!” He twanged the guitar’s open strings. “Literally, there’s a room dedicated to miking these bad boys.” He twanged again.
“Look at the water!” Johnny Hwin said, squinting at the bay as we crested Pac Heights and drove west, toward the Presidio. It was the kind of day that kicks aside the quilt of summer fog, and every detail of a northern coast of the bay showed clearly in the late-afternoon light. We stopped in front of a white house set back slightly from the street. Hwin paid the Lyft fare on his phone, and we headed down an alley passage to a back patio. It was breezy, and it smelled of jasmine, and the movement of palm leaves overhead stippled everything with small feathers of shade. Hwin led me behind the house, where Stephan Jenkins had set up his music studio. Part of the idea of the life swap was that Jenkins and Hwin would share what they had written in each other’s homes. Jenkins had already drafted a song inspired by the Sub, Hwin told me, titled “Back to Zero.”
“Welcome to the spaceship!” he said as we entered. Hwin calls most rooms spaceships, but the term seemed apt here. Jenkins’s studio had the air of a man cave that had been subjected to a decorator’s polish. Its walls were covered in a dark-brown acoustic fabric, with cheery, stylishly contrasting green curtains. In the middle of the room was a gigantic mixing board, with a computer at its center.
We surveyed Jenkins’s large cache of guitars. “Stephan was just like, ‘Yeah, man—I have the best fucking setup, bro,’ ” Hwin told me, running his fingers up the neck of an electric model. “It’s like, Dude, you do! You do!” He twanged the guitar’s open strings. “Literally, there’s a room dedicated to miking these bad boys.” He twanged again.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 October 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
They deserve each other, really.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 October 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
'his charmed life'
― just sayin, Monday, 7 October 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 7 October 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
http://crystalballr.tumblr.com/post/21411426337/how-i-met-stephan-jenkins
"I put my hand out and said something shy and foolish like “hi, I just wanted to meet you” and he shook my hand. then I said “I didn’t think I’d get to honestly so I don’t have a marker or anything but could you just maybe initial my ticket with this tube of mascara I found on the ground?” to which he replied with “I did not hear a word you just said” and his friends snickered.
My face basically burned up and I said “can you just initial my ticket please” and he’s like “um haha okay I’ve never done this before” His friends started to make faces and were like “whaaat…” to each otherThen, Stephan just went into this like, rap frenzy and started saying vulgar and crude things like “14 year old wet pussy” and people fingering underage girls."
― hackshaw, Sunday, 15 February 2015 05:05 (nine years ago) link
absolutely unsurprised that stephan jenkins "raps," unprompted, in the middle of any situation
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 15 February 2015 05:36 (nine years ago) link
and then there's this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BG_HwQbES0
what is with this dude? i find him oddly compelling. and how has his band not escaped the County Fair circuit
― hackshaw, Sunday, 15 February 2015 05:45 (nine years ago) link
feel sad that that poor girl had to meet him in person to find out he was a douchebag :/
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 February 2015 05:47 (nine years ago) link
yeah that is the worst :\
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 15 February 2015 06:19 (nine years ago) link
best song on earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdTnN_qrfeM
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 6 March 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
Hadn't event listened to that album til today. Pretty good!
― Steph def def (Spottie), Saturday, 7 March 2015 02:30 (nine years ago) link
the first album is their masterpiece but albums 2 and 3 are underrated too
― k3vin k., Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
i pretty much like every song on album 4 at this point too
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 20 March 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
especially this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKJnk7YOY1g
lol rebuttal by close friends (??) of Stephan to that post the fan posted about meeting him: http://vvitchyandbitchy.tumblr.com/post/21421731888/how-i-met-stephan-jenkins
apparently his misogynist uncomfortable rapping was intended as SATIRE, guys!
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 20 March 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
Album 4 very good! What have I been doing neglecting their last two albums all these years...
― Steph def def (Spottie), Saturday, 21 March 2015 07:31 (nine years ago) link
They are playing here w dashboard confessional in a couple months, it's on.
hi Brad
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 March 2015 12:33 (nine years ago) link
hi alfred
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 21 March 2015 20:03 (nine years ago) link
yeah tbh this is my dream show, i need to grab tickets
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 21 March 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
I heard "Graduate" at CVS four nights ago.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 March 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
prob a perfect cvs song tbh
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 21 March 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
considering the line in which I stood for aluminum foil and cigs I deserved "Jumper."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 March 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
can you get your punk ass out the cvs
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 21 March 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
ew dashboard tho, do you have to bring your own GHB or is it easy enough to find there
― k3vin k., Saturday, 21 March 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
Ha. Dashboard will be fine, hoping they play the full band stuff and not the solo acoustic stuff tho.
― Steph def def (Spottie), Saturday, 21 March 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
a mark a mission etc. is a greaaat record
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 21 March 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link