Backhand comments from work

“So when do you actually plan on remediating this?”

“We’re having trouble scoping this because we need to find an area where there are no known problems.”

“Are you guys planning on walking at this pace for the remainder of the trip? I’m asking because I may need to go faster.”

for the nostalgia

*writing while listening to La La Land, the ostensible nostalgia movie*
Strictly my own opinions --

Childhood bands that have gotten bad

• Relient K: infectious riffs turned vanilla riffs
• Linkin Park: stopped incorporating hip-hop sampling, so the energy and edginess is lost. Now very poopy
• Anberlin: got too new-age-y
• Flyleaf: I was borderline on this, but losing the lead singer will do it
• ONE OK ROCK: western-style sound engineering forced the drummer to overcompensate with more high hat over increased bass. Messy now, and overall sold out
• So-so in descending order Rise Against, The Killers, Starship Cobra

Bands that stopped in time before they got bad

• System of a Down
• Mae
• Daphne Loves Derby
• The Academy Is..
• Last Winter: it's a newer band, I know, but they put out good albums then stopped. Same with Search the City

Bands that stayed good

• Switchfoot
• Fall Out Boy
• Muse
• Mutemath
• Maroon 5: arguably
• Rise Against: changed my mind while writing
• The All-American Rejects: surprisingly
• John Mayer: doesn't count as a band, but much timeless

What do you guys think? Any bands I missed?

My life summarized in three points aka Sarah's parody of my preaching style

• i got three things to say to all of you:
• pants - keep 'em tight
• Bible - keep it esv
• and doe - keep it real

To my accountability partners:

Evan Chen, you write mad long texts deeeeeeeeeeeemmmmmm!!!!!!

Dustin Shung, watch this video.

:) <3