#sorehead

[billlaotian]

[sonicskullsalt]

I love their videos

This is indeed a great selection of German sayings

find their meanings under the cut

Touch me on the feet. (Fass mich an die Füße.) - a less graphic way of saying Kiss my ass

Life is not a pony courtyard. (Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. [I would have said Life is not a pony farm]) - You don't always get what you want. Life isn't perfect.

You're going on my cookie. (Du gehst mir auf den Keks.) - You're annoying.

That is me sausage. (Das ist mir Wurst.) - I don't care.

Now, don't be such an offended liver sausage. (Jetzt sei nicht so eine beleidigte Leberwurst.) - Now, don't be such a sorehead. Don't get butthurt.

Now it goes about the sausage. (Jetzt geht's um die Wurst.) - This is the decisive moment.

Anyway, long talk, short sense. (Wie auch immer, lange Rede, kurzer Sinn.) - tldr; to put it briefly

Lies have short legs. (Lügen haben kurze Beine) - Lies don't pay off. Lies aren't worthwhile.

You're a lucky mushroom. (Du bist ein Glückspilz.) - You're a lucky fellow.

I think my pig is whistling. (Ich glaube mein Schwein pfeift.) - You can't be serious. On no account.

Latch closed, monkey dead. (Klappe zu, Affe tot.) - End of story. The matter is closed.

I have muscle cat. (Ich hab Muskelkater.) - My muscles are sore.

I only understand train station. (Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof.) - I don't get it. I don't understand.

Everything has an end, but the sausage has two. (Alles hat eine Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei.) - Everything must end at some point. Nothing lasts forever.

Brake your neck and legs. (Hals- und Beinbruch.) - Brake a leg. Good luck. Just like in English, this is a traditional way of saying good luck in the theatre.

[thesinglesjukebox]

Steve Albini

The late Steve Albini was many things: musician, engineer, longtime punk, unrepentant gadfly, eventually repentant edgelord, one-time recipe blogger, pretty good poker player, excoriating essayist, late-career Twitter personality, and general opinion-haver–but not, he insisted, a producer. (He’d probably have some specific words to aim at all the obits calling him one.) Producers, he argued, were generally charlatans, in it for the wrong reasons. They could care about music, in theory; they just didn’t have to. And Steve Albini was, perhaps above all, a person who cared.

Albini shaped a tremendous swath of the pantheon of punk and alternative rock – though he’d perhaps say that the pantheon shaped itself by itself, and he was just there to facilitate. The volume and breadth of music he facilitated was so vast we’d never be able to cover it all. So in the spirit of his lifelong egalitarianism, we present songs spanning the many decades of his career by both major artists and cult faves, critical giants and deep cuts, canonical highlights and highlights of our own musical worlds. We like to think it’s what he’d have wanted. If not, we’re sure he’d have something to say.

Read on here for our writers' blurbs on:

TA Inskeep on Big Black, “Jordan, Minnesota”

Jeff Brister on Big Black, Songs About Fucking

Harlan Talib Ockey on Pixies, “Gigantic”

Mark Sinker on Ut, “Griller” and “Griller X”

Taylor Alatorre on Superchunk, “Skip Steps 1 & 3”

Mark Sinker on Cath Carroll, “Train You’re On”

Jonathan Bradley on Jawbreaker, “Ashtray Monument”

Katherine St. Asaph on Souls, “Sonic Sorehead"

Nortey Dowouna on Oxbow, Let Me Be a Woman

Frank Falisi on Veruca Salt, Blow It Out Your Ass, It’s Veruca Salt

Alfred Soto on Bush, “Swallowed”

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann on Pansy Division, “February 17”

Ian Mathers on Low, “Laser Beam”

Rebecca Gowns on Joanna Newsom, Ys

Brad Shoup on Shellac, “Be Prepared"

Claire Biddles on The Breeders, “Bang On”

[angiepants]

The condo association is making me get rid of my "vicious" dog so I'll be living in my car for the foreseeable future. If y'all could use your tumblr bruja to speed up the deaths of the soreheaded old cunts on the board I would appreciate it. Fuck Hickory Meadows, especially Chuck but especially Linda. Zoey will piss on your graves.

[manwalksintobar]

Look For You Yesterday, Here You Come Today   // LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka]

Part of my charm:                            envious blues feeling                            separation of church & state                            grim calls from drunk debutantes

Morning never aids me in my quest. I have to trim my beard in solitude. I try to hum lines from "The Poet In New York".

People saw metal all around the house on Saturdays. The Phone                                                                                             rings.

terrible poems come in the mail. Descriptions of celibate parties                                                   torn trousers: Great Poets dying                                                   with their strophes on. & me                                                   incapable of a simple straightforward                                                   anger. It's so diffuse being alive. Suddenly one is aware                   that nobody really gives a damn.                   My wife is pregnant with her child.                   "It means nothing to me", sez Strindberg.

An avalanche of words could cheer me up. Words from Great Sages.                               Was James Karolis a great sage??                               Why did I let Ora Matthews beat him up                                in the bathroom? Haven't I learned my lesson.

I would take up painting if I cd think of a way to do it better than Leonardo. Than Bosch Than Hogarth. Than Kline.

Frank walked off the stage, singing "My silence is as important as Jack's incessant yatter."

I am a mean hungry sorehead. Do I have the capacity for grace??

To arise one smoking spring & find one's youth has taken off for greener parts.

A sudden blankness in the day as if there were no afternoon. & all my piddling joys retreated to their own dopey mythic worlds.

The hours of the atmosphere grind their teeth like hags.

                                          (When will world war two be over?)

I stood up on a mailbox waving my yellow tee-shirt watching the grey tanks stream up Central Ave.                                     All these thots                                     are Flowers Of Evil                                     cold & lifeless                                     as subway rails

the sun like a huge cobblestone flaking its brown slow rays primititi           once, twice, . My life           seems over & done with.           Each morning I rise           like a sleep walker           & rot a little more.

All the lovely things I've known have disappeared. I have all my pubic hair & am lonely. There is probably no such place as BattleCreek, Michigan!

Tom Mix dead in a Boston Nightclub before I realized what happened.

People laugh when I tell them about Dickie Dare!

What is one to do in an alien planet where the people breath New Ports? Where is my space helmet, I sent for it 3 lives ago ... when there were box tops.

What has happened to box tops??

O, God ... I must have a belt that glows green in the dark. Where is my Captain Midnight decoder?? I can't understand what Superman is saying!

THERE MUST BE A LONE RANGER!!!

                           ****

but this also is part of my charm. A maudlin nostalgia that comes on like terrible thoughts about death.

How dumb to be sentimental about anything To cal it love & cry pathetically into the long black handkerchief of the years.

                 "Look for you yesterday                  Here you come today                   Your mouth wide open                   But what you got to say?"

                                     -part of my charm

                                             old envious    blues feeling                                              ticking like     a big cobblestone clock.

I hear the reel running out . . . the spectators are impatient for popcorn: It was only a selected short subject

F. Scott Charon will soon be glad-handing me like a legionaire

My silver bullets all gone My black mask trampled in the dust

& Tonto way off in the hills moaning like Bessie Smith.

[worldofwardcraft]

Dispatches from the combat zone.

March 4, 2024

The Arizona Theater of Operations in the Republican war on free and fair elections has seen the worst fighting mostly confined to courtrooms, with right-wing attackers lobbing lawsuit after lawsuit against democracy's defenses.

There was, for example, the suit filed by the Mohave County GOP before the November 2022 election, which asked a judge to throw out the state's 31-year-old system of mail-in voting. About which KPNX 12News explains:

Up to 90% of all Arizona voters vote with early ballots. Most mail in their ballot, others drop off the ballot at a polling place. Arizonans have been casting early ballots via mail since 1991 when the Legislature allowed absentee voting that didn't require an excuse. The practice took off in the mid-2000s, with the creation of the permanent early voter list, which automatically sent an election ballot to voters who were on the list.

The county's Superior Court fortunately sided with the state:

There is nothing in the Arizona Constitution which expressly prohibits the legislature from authoring new voting laws, including "no-excuse" mail-in ballots.

Undaunted, Republicans have now launched a frontal assault on Arizona's recently approved Elections Procedures Manual, which lays out the rules for the state's elections, such as voter registration, voting methods and certification of results. Within hours of each other, two lawsuits were filed by Republican organizations challenging an array of policies in the EPM, including those relating to proof of citizenship verification, public access to voter signatures, Arizona's early voting list (which they really hate), and more.

One of the lawsuits specifically singles out a provision of the EPM that protects voters from intimidation. This is especially relevant since masked MAGA vigilantes carrying guns launched an aggressively menacing drop box “monitoring” campaign during the 2022 midterms.

Plus, as Democracy Docket reports, Republican legislators filed yet another lawsuit against the EPM at the end of January. And last week, Stephen Miller’s America First Legal Foundation filed a complaint challenging a slew of election policies in Yavapai County.

All these legal onslaughts are in addition to the barrage launched by Arizona's sorehead election losers Kari Lake (for governor), Mark Finchem (for secretary of state) and Abe Hamadeh (for attorney general). So far, none of these lawsuits has come within a country kilometer of being successful. Lake's doomed complaint failed all the way up to the state Supreme Court, and one judge ordered sanctions against Finchem.

But even though Arizona GOPers have lost every single battle, they continue to believe they will ultimately win the war and defeat their enemy — American democracy.

[westeroswisdom]

There's a cult of spite which sprang up after the Game of Thrones series finale. It's made up of soreheads who vehemently disliked the ending or Season 8 as a whole. Many in this group somehow expected an uncharacteristic ending like Dany and Jon flying off to their honeymoon on the back of Drogon. 😅

Those folks still spew venom about the series and infest the comments sections about GoT despite the contradiction of them claiming that nobody is interested in GoT any more.

As the video reminds us, there's still a strong GoT fanbase and the prequel House of the Dragon has done fine with both fans and TV critics.

[jkanelis]

Cops can't be everywhere

Cops can’t be everywhere

New Year’s Eve in Princeton, Texas appeared to be a fairly raucous event … at least it was in my neighborhood. Understand something. I am not going to bitch about the idiots who violate city ordinances banning the shooting of fireworks inside the city limits. Last time I did so I got called a sorehead for my fuddy-duddy views on such nonsense. Hey, I just did complain about it! Whatever. My…

[boardgametoday]

Scrappa Sorehead is coming to the Blood Bowl pitch!

Scrappa Sorehead is coming to the Blood Bowl pitch! #bloodbowl #warhammercommunity

Games Workshop has revealed the brand new Scrappa Sorehead for Blood Bowl. The figure is a solid update to a classic model with a few different versions over the years. Once per game he can intercept a pass on a 2+. He’ll be coming from Forge World soon.

[gyankatta]

cantankerous (adjective) bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative. 'he can be a cantankerous old fossil at times' synonyms: bad-tempered, irascible, irritable, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, tetchy, testy, crusty, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, peevish, cross, fractious, disagreeable, pettish, crabbed, crabby, waspish, prickly, peppery, touchy, scratchy, splenetic, shrewish, short-tempered, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, dyspeptic, choleric, bilious, liverish, cross-grained, argumentative, quarrelsome, uncooperative, contrary, perverse, difficult, awkward, as cross as two sticks, snappish, snappy, chippy, on a short fuse, short-fused, shirty, stroppy, narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head, cranky, ornery, peckish, soreheaded, snaky, waxy, miffy

cantankerous (adjective) bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative. 'he can be a cantankerous old fossil at times' synonyms: bad-tempered, irascible, irritable, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, tetchy, testy, crusty, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, peevish, cross, fractious, disagreeable, pettish, crabbed, crabby, waspish, prickly, peppery, touchy, scratchy, splenetic, shrewish, short-tempered, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, dyspeptic, choleric, bilious, liverish, cross-grained, argumentative, quarrelsome, uncooperative, contrary, perverse, difficult, awkward, as cross as two sticks, snappish, snappy, chippy, on a short fuse, short-fused, shirty, stroppy, narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head, cranky, ornery, peckish, soreheaded, snaky, waxy, miffy http://dlvr.it/SfYQxm

[penig]

On the one hand I know exactly what you mean. On the other hand, perception and memory are subjective and humans tend to perceive and remember negatives more than positives, so perhaps it will help you feel a little better to know that what I remember, alongside all those stupid takes, is a joyous festival of ace response to the adaptation; absolute waves of posts squealing: “Yes! Finally! Something for us!” Certainly aspec A/C fic is not hard to find, along with more genderfuckery than most fandoms attract.

And I think that a great deal of the nasty “queer baiting” nonsense came from the same relatively small group of sore heads making a disproportionate amount of noise, as soreheads always do, especially when they realize that they have already lost the ground they claim to defend. Probably that is a bit too harsh, since some of those heads are sore due to taking repeated blows; but I’ve taken my share of blows, too, and if it ever led me to shove someone else out of the boat we’re all in, I hope I never did it so loudly or rudely, and I am certainly very sorry for it.

I’m allo, myself, and hopelessly cis, but the paucity of aspec representation bothered me long before I knew what an asexual was, or gained enough knowledge of myself and the world to identify myself as queer. I grew up in the sixties, and approached the question from the feminist perspective that making romantic attachments the greatest thing in life, to which everything else was secondary, was prima faci absurd, out of line with feminist goals, and greatly insulting to people who had worthwhile lives on every other front. I had many historical and literary heroes who either never married, or manifestly should not have married, who led rich, rewarding, productive lives; I knew unmarried adults; as I grew older I was surrounded by people making themselves miserable solely because they didn’t have a romantic partner. There’s plenty in this world to make us miserable, without saddling ourselves with a monolithic vision of what we are supposed to want and making all of our other happiness subject to it. I saw enough divorces to know that romantic love is no guarantee of happiness or anything else.

I had no intention of marrying myself. No one was more surprised than me when I found someone I wanted to marry, and I was prepared to walk away from that if we couldn’t get on the same page. Sex is easy to get if you want it, affection takes many forms, and it is far more important to have equal and mutually respectful relationships than romantic ones. (In the event, I like being married a great deal, but I also think that my willingness to walk away from it in the beginning contributed a lot to my ability to find someone I could like it this much with. )

Anyway, once I identified as bi, it became clear that the division of the queer community into subsets that could be ranked in importance and legitimacy was counterproductive and that any group of people who had to spend time defining themselves and convincing others that they exist holds common cause with me. Bi erasure and ace erasure are the same thing at the root, and if allosexual homosexuals would only recognize it, they are both the same thing as the “just a phase” nonsense so many of them have to deal with (and guess what? So do we!).

Queer people of all kinds have had to live on the crumbs of the heterosexual table. We should all rejoice together now that we have a table, and cooperate to enlarge it and enjoy an ever more varied menu. Perhaps this is due to my own curation of the space I occupy (no anonymous contact, block people who anger or hurt me) but I see that far more than I see these dogs in the manger arrogating to themselves the identity of Only True Oppressed and speaking over and further marginalizing their fellow queers. My impression is, that they are primarily financially secure cis white gay men of a type I have met before, who grew up in the ruling class and internalized the notion that they belong among those who make the rules and hold the privilege to the degree that they can’t conceive of themselves in any other way, or of anyone unlike them being legitimately people. Like all such people, they are noisy out of all proportion to their importance in the larger scheme of things, and it gives them too much power to let them spoil your party. Block them and enjoy yourself. It is not their business what makes you feel represented.

And if you look in the fandom spaces that matter, you’ll find that the aces are not afraid to speak up, write the fics, make the art, and claim the space, and good for them.

i remember 2019 and how just ... shocking it was that people were so repulsed by the idea that crowley and aziraphale could be interpretted as asexual. not canonically! just interpretted that way! just violently hateful towards it i could never understand it and it caused me so much grief back then when i was so new to my identity. people i had followed for years were blogging nonstop about how "it's more important that they're gay" and "just watch a different show if you're ace" and g o d

right? i haven't been around the good omens fandom in years and had hoped people had moved on from the silly 'we're gonna call neil gaiman neilman because he doesn't deserve to have gay in his name cos these two men didn't have a kiss which is the only way to be gay' while we're on the sidelines like.. one, they're not two male characters, two what if they're asexual or demisexual or aromantic or aspec in anyway, three he literally confirmed they're in love, four have you seen all his other works that have gay and trans characters in. i don't know how in this later year post-sandman people can think gaiman has a problem with lgbt characters being lgbt on screen

[jacobvanloon]

portrait of an upstanding sorehead

[clarabelleblog]

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[milldjm]

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[mrjasonsweeney]

School night + Drinking + @scotthannahguitarist = never ever ever ever ever ever ever again!!!!! 😞😞😞😞⁣ ⁣ What a brilliant night at @cafebar1912 followed by a few other establishments 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺⁣ ⁣ #bathgate really has its act together with social distancing measures. It was great to see everywhere with people out supporting the community 👍👍👍⁣ missing live music like crazy. ⁣ I think we have another NO BEER FRIDAY!!!⁣ ❌🍺❌🍺❌🍺❌🍺❌🍺❌🍺❌🍺❌ #beer #goodtimes #sorehead #neveragsin #scotland https://www.instagram.com/p/CEbdtYMJa0J/?igshid=1kx799ycz21lz