Democratic Stuff.com probably struck gold with this button.  I can picture thousands of teenage high school students, most of which probably unable to vote, either sporting this bad boy proudly around school or getting their ass kicked by the football team.

People on Youtube talk shit, but Video Matt proves it in the pit. Last time he interviewed The Devil Wears Prada, some of their fans tried calling him out on a mispronunciation of the band’s name, but check out the above interview to see for yourself that TDWP love Video Matt like a brother. Still don’t believe it? Check out their new musical collaboration below, on some hyphy emo shit. It’s gonna be huge in ‘09.

I was lurking at Hawthorne Heights Myspace page today and I noticed that the big promo pic at the top was shot right here in good ol’ Chico, in Upper Bidwell Park, known around here as simply Upper Park. It seems like the last year or so Upper Park has been in more many emo band pics as Paul Frank. First there’s the cover of the new Saves The Day record, Under The Boards, which makes sense since STD frontman Chris Conley has been known to lurk around these parts:

Then there’s also the video for Number One Gun’s “Wake Me Up,” which makes a lot of sense, since Number One Gun aka Jeff Schneeweis live right here in Chico. In fact, if you look hard enough at that Hawthorne pic you can see a couple pieces of that door that Jeff smashes at around the 3:12 mark in the video, still kicking it on the hillside thar. Wake Me Up, moar liek PICK IT UP AMIRITE?? KEEP BIDWELL PARK BEYOUTEEFUL!!!1

UPDATE: It turns out that the backdrop in the above Hawthorne pic is actually the cover art for their new CD, Fragile Futures.

because really, when was the last time you had the term “blasphemy” explained so eloquently?

YES.

The first black man to be elected the Democratic Presidential Nominee. YES.

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