Alternative Tentacles just re-released "Beginning of the End":

http://metal-abortion.blogspot.com/2008/11/amebix-beginning-of-end.html

Been knocking myself out with this. Kicks ass on post-1987 hardcore!

And they're coming around on tour!

http://www.amebix.net/

I'm going to the Austin show. You probably aren't, because it's a bit of a drive.

Austin? Fucking scenster. Oh wait, you Irish nigger scum scenster. haha

If I miss the Providence date I may start walking to make the Austin one. Steers and queers.

If there's a show in Ireland, it might be smart to check ticket prices. That would kick unholy ass!

I dare the anti-Irish to find me a better book of short stories than Dubliners, at least until Hemingway ;)

Whiskey = Literature

I have been listening to old HC, reading Hemingway, and drinking nothing but green tea lately.

It rocks.

Welcome to my world.

Oh wait, you didn't say whiskey. FAIL.

It's rare LOL actually means an unbidden, uncontrollable laughing out loud. In this case, it did.

You summarize Austin exactly. It's also the part of Texas that's far left of Vermont.

But I don't live there. I just go there for the shows, which are generally better than the Houston shows (Houston is too fucking big for much of a scene to come together, except if Slayer shows up).

You should start listening to rockabilly and getting way into hot rods.

Rockabilly, yes. Hot rods... dude, those aren't green.

People in Austin have three hobbies:

1. Brewing beer (good)
2. Growing weed (mixed bag)
3. Being in shitty Austin(tm)-sound bands, which means rockabilly, emo, indie, reggae and folk mixed into one soundalike tubesteak.

Everyone I know is a rockabilly retro jackoff. I assume they went full tilt and humped hot rods and choppers.

My ex is living down there, and I can confirm all of this.

ILOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL ON THE MINI TOUR LUV STIG IM USING SOMONES PUTER SO IDONT HAVE ADDRESS YET NGNM BYE

They're rockabilly retro Democrat jackoffs, and hot rods and choppers are not only expensive (in Austin, everyone borrows from the Motherland) but very un-PC.

AMEBIX-HELL FUCKIN' YESSSSSSSSSSSS!