Fuck surgery!

I just spoke against someone ELSE'S misogynistic image, but then Facebook banned me for 7 days?! Their auto-ban software REALLY needs to be adjusted. They just banned a woman for calling out a man's woman-hating post. Terrible web site. Facebook apparently hates women for defending themselves with free speech, but blatant sexist posts from men are totally fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRvUHfvjqRo

I bought this CD the day it came out. Revolutionary punk rock album. Holy shit, 20 years! I even quoted this band in my senior year high school yearbook! :D

I'm not dead!! I still get really achy at times but it's just part of the healing process. All good so far. Just gonna be a while.

Recovering... Major surgery 3 weeks ago... Bleh. Going well at least.

The design under the various "Fwiends" tabs reminds me so much of the old iam.bmezine.com. I was an active member there 20 years ago. It was basically like a really early social networking site that was geared towards the bodymod community. Cool site for piercings, tattoos, suspension, etc. The site is still around but it's not the same. iam.bmezine is gone. The original founder passed away years ago (RIP Shannon). Things change, it is what it is. The MySpace design just REALLY reminds me of that old site.

I met my first few online friends through iam.bmezine. We still talk sometimes :) One of my BME friends moved to Australia and the other moved to California. Both really cool ladies.

My favorite type of music is punk rock. I love these bands:

Propagandhi
NOFX
Lagwagon
Bad Religion
The Muffs
Guttermouth
Good Riddance
Anti-Flag
AFI (pre-"Sing The Sorrow")
Anti-Flag (earlier stuff)
Offspring (first 3 albums are great)

I also like a lot of metal, prog rock, thrash, cross-over, hardcore, jazz, classical, synthwave, and darkwave. I've seen Billy Joel 9 times in concert, Dream Theater 6 times. My first Billy Joel concert was in 1989. I show my age but I like how I wear it.

These are some shows I have been to. This is why I live:
Bigwig with Ensign, Chernobyl Kids and Split 50 (2003?)
Anti-Flag with Good Riddance, Strike Anywhere, Thought Riot, and The Code (2003?)
The Offspring with MxPx and Cypress Hill (2000)
Green Day with The Living End (2000)
AFI with Death By Stereo, Rise Against, F-Minus, and Revolution Summer (2001)
Dream Theater with Joe Satriani and King's X
Dream Theater with Queensryche and Fates Warning
Dream Theater 4/1/04 in Boston (Orpheum Theater)
Dream Theater 4/2/04 in Philadelphia (Tower Theater)
Dream Theater 4/3/04 in New York City (Madison Square Garden)
Dream Theater with YES
NJ Hardcore And Metal Fest (Children of Bodom, Strapping Young Lad, Hypocrisy, Symphony X, Devin Townsend Band, Unawakened [my old band], etc) 2003
Misfits with Divinity Destroyed, Flatus, and Jerk Chicken (2001)
Good Riddance with Strike Anywhere, Bane, and someone else
Local H with Chevelle (2002?)
Blind Guardian and Symphony X with Judge Drain
Warped Tour '01
Warped Tour '02
Warped Tour '03
Warped Tour '09
NOFX with Anti-Flag, Old Man Markley, and the Bombpops 10/11/11
Dethklok with Mastodon (2010)
Skate 'N Surf Fest '01
Metallica with Godsmack (St. Anger tour)
Divinity Destroyed with Beyond The Flesh (2010, many previous times too)
Propagandhi with Comeback Kid and Capital 10/4/12 (I got punched in the face by some random asshole)
The Casualties with MY BAND, Entropy, Not The Bees, Moped Shred Alliance 9/7/2013
The Misfits with MY BAND, Take Away The Ugly, The Attack 10/25/2013
Carpenter Brut with Le Matos 3/9/17
Perturbator at Le Poisson Rouge in Manhattan (2017?)
Dance With The Dead, GosT (2018?)

I've been playing in bands on and off since year 2000. I've literally played hundreds of gigs.

I currently play drums in the Brooklyn-based trans/queer punk band called Deadname.

https://deadnameband.bandcamp.com/

That is all. Say hi or something.

Hi, Brie!

I quit Twitter and I'm on the verge of quitting Facebook. Twitter is especially awful. Bleh.