txef asked: Hey Jon what is the name of Juls and Jordan's new band?
Asshole Adult! http://assholeadult.bandcamp.com
My friends/ex-bandmates are on tour. They are awesome. Check them out.
Juls and Jordan’s other still-active band is really good. I don’t know their tour dates but check them out and shit.
-Jon
txef asked: I just want to know if the band is still active?
I guess I forgot to update the page about it but no, we called it quits a month or two ago. We’re still sitting on some recordings but the plans for those aren’t finalized. Tied Down, however, is fucking dead, as they say.
-Jon
lyrics for newest cassette with explanations
FIFTEEN
no way to live
troubled teen taken to a whole new level
you had problems, low self-esteem
wonder why she’s cutting?
fall from grace, what the fuck does that mean?
locked in; no way out
fall from grace, what the fuck does that mean?
destroy the body to match the mind
“i’m dying, i can’t keep living like this.”
i wrote this song about a fifteen year old girl i worked with as a child and youth care worker. the girl had a pretty fucked up life and was a pretty extreme self-harmer. her arms and legs were covered in lines of scars, shapes, sometimes even names… while some of her regular staff were good and did everything they could for her, many of them would make negative comments about her appearance as a result of her cutting. times when the kid would try to open up to staff and talk about relationship problems or unrequited love or catching up in school or any other totally normal topic for a 15 year old canadian girl they would comment on how she had sealed her fate by altering her physical appearance the way she had.
HE-MAN WOMAN HATERS CLUB
my lack of confidence brings me to new lows
i feel the need to bring you down a peg
to feel better about myself
it’s a hurtful coping mechanism.
i need a way to not feel inferior to you.
i try my best to be supportive but so often
succumb to petty one-upping.
this is me calling myself out on my own shit.
i wrote these lyrics to call myself out on being shitty and unsupportive of other girls/women, especially those in the punk/hardcore scene. all of this is well and good in theory but when it comes to actually interacting with other women i often fall short, especially if i feel intimidated or threatened by them.
POLYAGONY
so i got tied down, what does that make me?
a little too wrapped up in “the ethical slut” to take my
feelings into consideration. am i less of a feminist for
re-assessing my needs?
am i a hypocrite? a shitty feminist?
i appreciate your point of view, but these politics aren’t
for everyone, so don’t shove it down my throat.
am i a hypocrite? a shitty feminist?
this song addresses a particular conversation i had with a coworker of mine who i really like and respect. she was telling me about her women’s studies thesis (for her honours degree) and how it was about swingers and modern-day non-monogamy. we got to talking about our personal relationships and i mentioned how the relationship i was in at the time had started off non-monogamous and later we decided to take the monogamy route. i left the conversation feeling guilty or ignorant when i had done nothing wrong. these types of politics are extremely personal and require frequent reflection. you step back and figure out if it works for you. i have intimacy issues and for me, it made more sense to work on developing trust and love and intimacy with one person at a time because i simply did not have the time or energy to tackle both my own issues and insecurities as well as those of my partner in order to make a non-monogamous relationship work.
JORDAN’S DREAM
emotional terrorism
you go from empty political rhetoric to
victim blaming bullshit and change your sound
to appeal to a new crowd.
you haven’t changed a bit.
i can’t help but feel betrayed when
i thought we were on the same team
but you stand proudly at his side singing along
to those misogynist words,
i guess i should have known.
okay, so i wrote a dis song. the lyrics are in retaliation to lyrics written by an ex-boyfriend of mine. the relationship was unhealthy and while i’m not going to deny that i did emotional damage to him (because i’m sure that i did), the dude was extremely emotionally abusive towards me. after the relationship had ended he started a band that would appeal to my group of friends that he, previously, had strongly criticized and urged me to break ties with. a female acquaintance of mine who (however sloppily) i had tried to reach out to joined the band and they played songs with lyrics about his past relationships in which he portrays himself as the victim and i found them to be endlessly problematic.
WHAT WOULD AUDRE LORDE DO? (PT. 1)
who am i kidding? when sometimes i’m the
only girl i can see. am i making a difference?
i don’t know how much of a place there is for feminism.
i don’t know how i fit into this patriarchal framework.
can the master’s tools dismantle the master’s house?
WHAT WOULD AUDRE LORDE DO? (PT. 2)
can i really make the traditional subversive?
can i make this community work
to my advantage, or to the advantage or something bigger?
sticking my nose in the boys’ club
can the master’s tools dismantle the master’s house?
your guess is as good as mine
persist and there just might be hope yet.
what would audre lorde do parts 1 & 2 are in reference to trying to make feminist statements within the punk/hardcore scene. despite the common opinion that punk and hardcore are for the underdogs of society when i take a look around in my eastern-canadian punk scene i mostly see guys. white guys. this isn’t to say that there aren’t really great people, feminists, feminist allies—but the reality is that i’m operating in a male-dominated environment and often feel like i’m either screaming at a wall or preaching to the choir.
I uploaded the rest of our new(ish) tape to bandcamp, complete with radical feminist and Little Rascals references! Listen to it now!
-Jon
Oh look everyone, I uploaded a hundred more tour photos to my flickr while the Galaxie ’90s station on my grandparents’ satellite dish is playing “As Long As You Love Me” by Backstreet Boys.
-Jon
I have spent most of tonight editing and uploading photos to my Flickr. Of the 920 photos I took, I’ve got 105 of them uploaded so far, covering the first week or so of tour. I won’t be uploading the whole 920, obviously. Go check that shit out.
-Jon
