#alkari

Headcanon that Lance from Voltron Legendary Defender is actually the child of Rex and Circe, and the entire series takes place in the future of Rex’s universe.

Headcanon that the Reach from Young Justice are an evil cross-time counterpart of the Alkari from Voltron (i mean, they look really similar).

Headcanon that Cyborg from the new Justice League/Teen Titans animated movie continuity was made using nanites recovered from a confrontation with Van Kleiss.

Headcanon that all the unexplained monsters from the old Teen Titans series are the result of Van Kleiss running around infecting people after fleeing the global cure event on his world of origin.

Headcanon that there is a version of Van Kleiss who got the Omega nanite, and who successfully gained full control of Breach’s time powers, and that he is now causing untold havoc across the Omniverse, becoming a major headache for Professor Paradox.

Headcanon that aliens have been avoiding Rex’s earth ever since 4,000 BC when Van Kleiss showed up, afraid of the nanite plague. And that there has been no true magic on Rex’s earth either for that exact reason (Ledgerdomain pulled back every vestige of it’s influence to prevent infection)

Headcanon that Van Kleiss’s meddling in Rome is the reason that Rex’s earth is so much more advanced than the rest of the Earths of the Omniverse.

White Rhino / The Manichean / Alkari / dUNETX / The Sour Notes / Giant Battle Monster / Flowers to Hide / Gretchen Schmaltz / Covington / The Dry Season

2/27/2010; The Mink, Houston, Texas

Oh Christ, this show. This was something I was assigned to by the Houston Chronicle and it was a brutal night. It was a festival at this shitty bar called the Mink, which I don't think I was supposed to be at because I wasn't 21 yet, but press credentials will get you into a lot of shit. Actually, Roky Moon used to bartend there. Shoutouts to Roky, whose been serving me alcohol for so many years that now we're both sober and I'm buying coffee from him instead. An entire decade of alcoholism and eventual recovery spent with that guy. Love you, Roky.

Who even were these bands? This was one of the shit tier local festivals. I mean, it seemed like anybody could get on this bill if you'd been practicing in a garage for five minutes. Let's see...

Man, I remember Alkari or dUNETX, whichever one it was, were these old guys playing post-hardcore and you just knew it was never gonna happen for them. That genre was dead at the time and they were clearly spent from trying so many years to make it. You watch some rise, you watch some fall. The music business is harsh.

Gretchen Schmaltz was actually pretty good as I remember. Giant Battle Monster was a cool project, but I ended up doing some stuff with the guy while working for the Houston Press, and just... holy shit. I liked their music, but the guy clearly thought they were a much bigger, better, and more important band than they really were. His constant badgering for press coverage and long complaints about the lack thereof was exhausting.

The Manichean. Goddamn that band sucked. I'm sorry. They were friends with a lot of people in the scene, so they just automatically got praised (see: Satin Hooks). I was never friends with them, so fuck 'em. Terrible, pretentious, art school dropout shit. Just imagine The Black Parade if My Chemical Romance had no talent and no production budget. I unabashedly hated the Manichean and I don't care that the guy has a new project that everyone is falling all over themselves about playing Day for Night.