u/Fermented_chaos

Finally saw the infamous Brandi Glanville-Scheana Shay scene at SUR and it’s truly a foreshadowing of Scheana’s trajectory in public life. 

When the Brandi-Scheana conflict started brewing at SUR, Lisa had the chance to tell Scheana to go work somewhere else, but she’s too calculated to see the soap opera unfolding.

Lisa saw this naive gal from the L.A. suburbs that yearned to be famous and went with it.

Developing Scheana as innocent, outgoing, and wanting to be accepted by everyone, yet willing to step into drama and take opportunities that don’t seem practical at all (including all of her relationships).  

Brandi basically scolds and questions her motives, while Scheana responds with typical mistress reasons. 

That Eddie took her to bars/restaurants, got her jewelry, and they went on a trip to Mammoth!!

Honestly, that explains everything about Scheana Shay after this scene. 

She’s constantly seeking the next opportunity to get attention, while inserting herself into drama that will ultimately backfire on her. 

While we all have to suffer through Janet and Jason for another season of The Valley, Scheana could have easily replaced her.

YET!!! She had to make comments and put out a book that would ultimately prevent that from happening. 

All while Lisa Vanderpump collects that producer credit on The Valley.

Scheana is probably still waiting for that call for Dancing With The Stars....

Memorial Day is upon us. Influencers will be freaking out if they can't get to Montauk because of the LIRR strike.

First will be the Hamptons/Martha's Vineyard posts, followed by World Cup.

Then after July 4th, it's off to Europe. Greek Islands and Wimbeldon flex posts.

The question is, with the ongoing fuel crisis (Strait of Hormuz) who will be complaining that their trip is "ruined" because they are stuck in Madrid, Paris, or London and not Mykonos or Ibiza?

Acquired Style for sure, but who else???

To the tune of LCD's losing my edge.

Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
Yeah, I’m losing my edge to Gen-z’ers who are basically wearing everything I wore in the late 90s that I never want to replicate.
But I was there, 
I was there when a show could consist of emo, pop-punk, hardcore, and metal band all in one bill in some steamy VFW hall with no ventilation.
I was there when your thrift shirt game had to be flawless!
I was there for the US Hellfest, Eulogy Fest, and whatever other fest that was just 20 bands playing 20 mins sets at some club for a Saturday matinee. 

Yeah I’m losing my edge, to the emo revival sad boy kids who just discovered American Football, Mineral, and Braid. 20 years later. 

But I was there…. 
I was there during Saves The Day’s Stay What You Are tours, feeling cool that I knew the lyrics to the first two records and that acoustic EP.
I was there in the early 2000s when every copy cat New Found Glory rip off band would give a body part to get signed with Drive Thru, Vagrant, or Victory, and have those CD stickers that say… 
Do you like Britnney Spears meets Bon Jovi meets Joy Division? Then you’ll love this band!

But I’m losing my edge, to kids blending math rock, screams, emo rap and EDM. 

It’s 2003 and you’ve discovered The Postal Service and The Faint, so you're done playing guitar in a Vegan Straight Edge band to do indie dance pop. 
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It’s 2008 and you are ditching that indie sleaze crap and to do a Beach Boys rip off band cause you just discovered Pet Sounds.

But I’m losing my edge to better looking people and better hair.

You say you are a cross between U2, the Gin Blossoms, and Blink-182, but all I see is a boyband with breakdowns. Thanks Finn Mckenty! And how were you able to afford those brand new telecasters and orange amps?

You say your the biggest My Chemical Romance fan but you’ve never listened to the first record off Eyeball produced by the singer from Thursday. Jersey represent!      
 
Yeah, I’m losing my edge. Cause well standing up at GA show for hours is starting to get uncomfortable well in into your late-30s    

I hear you have an extensive vinyl collection with everything from Discord, Bridge9, JadeTree, the early Equal Vision years, Revelation, PolyVinyl and Saddle Creek.

I hear you never paid for a show in the last 20 years and someone always texts you the set times. Fuck the opening bands.  

But I’m losing my edge!!!

Hey buddy, the band is getting back together for some reunion shows. You should come out. It’s 18th anniversary of this record and the 23rd anniversary of this record, so we are playing them both in full! Not with our original bass player thought cause we finally realized why he’s always preferred to sleep in the van at night...

But I’m losing my edge!

You know, I’m over touring in a van, relying on the Wendy’s value meal, working at a coffee shop when I’m not on tour and well making my own records. I should just right emo songs for girls in their 20s who have a much larger fan base and it will surely get me the bag. And no I don’t call that selling out, that’s being logical.     

Did you hear about that scene kid that converted his tape to CDs to mp3s to now just a Spotify playlist of every emo/screamo/slowcore/crabcore/chugga chugga/pop-punk/melodic hardcore/straigh edge song from 1988 to 2008. You know Youth of Today, Judge, Sunny D, Get Up Kids, Gorilla Biscuits, Cursive, Cap N Jazz, Joan of Arc, Promise Ring, Hot Water Music, Have Heart, Champion, American Nightmare, Modern Life, Bane, Taking Back Sunday, The Movielife, Midtown, Dashboard, Refused, At The Drive In, Thursday…

FUGAZI FUGAZI FUGAZI!  

The Miami Open tennis tournament was at Crandon Park on Key Biscayne from 1987 until 2018. The perfect Miami-esque place to hold a tennis event on the water. 

Due to legal and renovation issues, it moved to Hard Rock Stadium in 2019. Then F1 came in to build the Miami Autodrome.

Stephen Ross has been building a campus/complex at the Hard Rock site and claims he makes more $$$ in the F1 weekend than a whole season of Dolphin’s home games. 

Yet one event that was synonymous with Miami during the winter, the Super Bowl, is currently not up for discussion. 

Yes, Hard Rock Stadium has been renovated and modernized, but what’s missing? A/C AND A ROOF. Also, there’s no more land. 

And similar to this year’s super bowl in the San Francisco area, when things are too spread out for the big event, the NFL will start looking elsewhere. 

Simply, South Florida and Hard Rock can’t compete with newer stadiums in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and soon to be in Nashville. 

So while we just hand over Trump free land for his “library” and deal with the I-395 Signature Bridge. By 2040 we’ll still be wondering what to do with Miami Marine Stadium and covered parking for a Dolphin game will be $200 only paid in Crypto. 

Being that Spirit Airlines is South Florida based with its hub at Fort Lauderdale, there’s been a lot of local finger pointing to why this happened. 

The quick punch response is to say that it’s Biden’s fault cause they blocked the merger in 2024.

Yes, this is true however part of the problem was the pandemic. Just as Spirit has been losing money since 2020, so has JetBlue. As much as JetBlue wanted to merge, they saw Spirit’s outstanding debt as a problem. 

So there is a VERY STRONG chance, that if JetBlue merged with Spirit, they would both be grounded. That would be two hubs at Fort Lauderdale Int’l in trouble.

What caused the shutdown this weekend was shareholders/debt collectors. Spirit tried to ask the Trump Admin for $500m as a lifeline. However, that would have possibly erased the money owed thus creating a bigger problem.  

So instead Spirit has to shutdown, liquidate its assets and pay off their debts.

Spirit had already started reducing operations, other airlines will simply pick up their route, planes, and market share.  

You do have to feel for all of the staff/employees and their families.        

Please stop thinking that any new album will match LP1.

I get it we hope some of our favorite bands can recreate the magic from their first records but it's rather hard and you want it to feel organic.

Saves The Day will never recreate the first 3 records. Taking Back Sunday will never produce another Tell All Your Friends.

If we are talking Midwest Emo, we'll never have another Braid's Frame & Canvas, Cursive's Domestica, Owl's first album, or the first three Promise Ring Records. The Get Up Kid's first two records, etc.

The Jazz June, Sunny D, Christine Front Drive, Mineral, Cap N Jazz, Joan Of Arc, it all feels like a bit of time capsule to cherish.

FOR ME, American Football is LP1, the 1998 EP, and Year One Demos. I can appreciate the other three records, but not all the way through. Heir Apparent from LP3 is an absolute banger.

As far as LP4, it slaps. 20+ years later they are going to evolve the sound, more dreamy with influences of Mogwai and The Cure's Disintegration.

But please stop thinking there's going to be another Honestly, Never Meant or Letters/Packages. Just enjoy it for what it is.