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Cy Twombly

Meet the Geeks Episode 2: My Sims are CURSED

the 80s?

A small suburban town somewhere in the States?

A bunch of kids riding around on bikes???

The Geeks - The Double-Sided Sophomore Slump (2017; self-released)

Responses on The Geeks' The Double-Sided Sophomore Slump

In my head, I feel strange

‘Life is a Waste of Time’

A door opens and from the frame, muted moving images from one’s youth.

Obligatory Hipster Filler

If academic papers are now nothing more than sophisticated forms of shitposting (or peer-reviewed shit posts), then perhaps the Obligatory Hipster Filler is the introduction.

Our Mothers

Mine belonged to the years when doo-wop was mod but Mod would come much later, in what was to be (and had been) her elementary school years. And I will forever be under the impression that she handled that age better than me or anyone else. Perhaps the album was written for her kind (and we are their double-sided sophomore slumps).

Life is a Waste of Time

Paranoia: being under the impression that most songs are deliberately timed to end at exactly 4 minutes and 20 seconds. I still think this joke is funny, this is my life and I am not ashamed of it.

Do You, Too?

Awards are bunk, grades are not everything, and healhty relationships are for chumps. Tonight, I stuck double-sided tape at the back of my printed poems and stuck them to my badly painted wall. There was a time when I wanted to convert my tiny room into a tiny art gallery. I painted the walls museum white and every morning I wake up with eggshells on my face.

I Want You to Stay

This song reminds me of lives and moments only lived in the mind. Things that are not or could not be real. I wonder if the sensation of real-ness is also unreal, or, what does the unreal-ness make of the sensation of unreality.

The Girl Who Got Away

She says the bourgeois stay woke by painting fake irises on their eyelids with expensive make-up. Water has now been effectively commodified. She stays hydrated with dank memes.

I’m Leaving You Alone

The papers flutter inside a suitcase. This entire album has the power to remind of my own Age of Shame. Something more potent than nostalgia, the recognition that I’ve left that age behind and have become something else.

Nigel’s Swell Hair Gel

Do I really want to know what it’s made of? I am barely a music writer and only a lukewarm art writer. These years and moments in between are hopefully just a segueway to something better.

Please Say Yes

Somewhere in Point Nemo, two ghosts meet.

It’s Time to Go

Earnestness and simplicity in its lyrics; there is comfort in the image of a nighttime drive in a deserted suburb. Smooth road, warm like Mars against a stark black sky.

Ollie’s Stalker Song

Somehow the stalker is cartoonish, with a shiny ball nose, the reflexes of a rat, and a rubber spatula for a hand.

These Days

What is spoken now versus what has been said. In the midst of explicit statements is an evasion. I respond by remembering something painful.

Before It Rains

As with all good things and lovely moments, all slowly rolls into the acknowledgement that nothing and everything will outlast our consciousness.

The End (An Ode to Nihilist Memes)

If you take off the cross from an ordinary rosary, you are left with a tiny noose.

God is Fair, Brian Sangco is Not

The author is dead but that does not stop me from consulting the artist. A séance is in order.

- May Dy

The Geeks' new single "All My Favorite Songs" is a wonderful dichotomy with a jaunty tune matched with dour sentiments.

The Geeks’ new single “All My Favorite Songs” is a wonderful dichotomy with a jaunty tune matched with dour sentiments. Sad? Empty? Then have your fill of The Geeks today, because if you’re the wallowing type, their jangly-skippy new outing will rub salt on the wound, and, simultaneously, soothe it, too.All My Favorite Songs by The Geeks All My Favorite Songs by The Geeks

March 23, 2021: Every Time We Fall by The Geeks

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