#teenage Halloween

[bubblegrungeprincess]

Cutting it a little close, but here's my five favorite albums of the year. It was a hard cut to be honest, and there are definitely "better" albums released, but these are the ones that hit me the right way:

5. Blouse Club by Problem Patterns: angry feminist lesbian punk. Angry women is one of my favorite things and I will always enjoy it in musical form.

4. Between Punk and Bourgeoisie by Baxter: just really good harmonic punk rock. The melodies are super infectious and it gives just enough of that 90's punk nostalgia without being gimmicky or kitschy.

3. Till You Return by Teenage Halloween: their sophomore album full solid, queer, diy punk. I've been following this group for a while and they just keep getting better.

2. Jenny From Thebes by the Mountain Goats: I guess I'm a mountain goats fan now. I've never really been into them for whatever reason. They just never clicked with me, so this really caught me by surprise. Something with these songs just resonates with me and I just really really dig it right now.

1. Inarticulate by CHEWIE: this band has aged and matured to perfection and this album shows it. I can't say enough good things about it. Not just my favorite album of the year, but I've if my favorites of all time.

[landonsheely]

teenage halloween / till you return / 2023

[killiansteinerphoto]

Teenage Halloween

Lager House, Detroit, MI 12/8/23

[punkrockmixtapes]

Listen/purchase: PC VIOLENCE by NYLON

[noradaydreams]

September 30th ㅤㅤ ㅤㅤㅤㅤ October 1st

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:

michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club

*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***

that's it that's the movie

outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative

actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.

aka Michael Myers Is A Republican

but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too

also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain

side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty

i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978

(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)

oh no he's hot

[aoifereal]

This week's album is me doing prep for a concert I'm going to early next month - a teenage Halloween x spook school double bill. I love both these bands so I'm excited to listen to both of their most recent albums so I know the songs ahead of the concert. Till you return by teenage Halloween:

[stars-bean]

Sabrina the Teenage Witch | 3.06 - "Good Will Haunting"

[kobrakids]

the fact that teenage halloween and absib are both playing the bay area on the same night is like extraordinarily homophobic

[abbeyofcyn]

Part 2

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[valaquenta]

Teenage Halloween - Getting Bitter

[darkpolicepsycho]

[meggahamicide]

Frankentello.

[punkrockmixtapes]

Teenage Halloween - "Supertrans/Takeaway" | Music Video

[turnupthevolumebelgium]

WAKE-UP CALL

3 Augustus 2023

[tizeline]

Sorry, he's an only child, he never learned how to share </3