we don't know when to quit

Holy carp my favorite boys leaked their own album and just, like, barring that album cover, it's hard for me not to love them, because of how much they love what they're doing. Hindi naman halatang sobra silang excited na i-release yung album nila.

And holy carp I wish I had the vocabulary to talk about music because the music is great, it's less a lyrics album than a music album but you get lines like the person you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger and I got the scars from tomorrow and when Rome's in ruins we are the lions free of the colosseums and the entirety of The Phoenix so I don't even know what I'm saying. The Phoenix is probably up there with my best beloved Fall Out Boy tracks and I love Rat a Tat so much I guess it's obvious that I will never be over furious teenage I do what I do anthems and Foxes were great and the whole album makes the Punk Should Not Be Like Sushi and Neither Should Rock and Roll argument by existing. And also have I said that the music is great? It's bright and layered and alive. It's like Infinity on High without the exhaustion, it's like Folie a Deux without the claustrophobia, and I don't know what I'm saying anymore. Just, guys, what. What. I cannot even. I have lost my ability to even ever again.

8.

PSA: Ever since committing to misandry as a way of life my internal landscape has improved dramatically. (Nothing can be done about the outside world.) 100% rating, highly recommended, would do again. Just in case anyone's interested. Or doubtful.

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feminine protection

oh honey honey I'm telling you — a woman's work is never
done. why that guy who gave me the once-over twice
pumping his hands under his overcoat —
well, his eyes don't open so well
since I sprayed him in the face with my
Miss Lady Aerosol Pump Superhold Formula Hairspray

and then that guy who felt me up on the subway, well —
blame it on my Lady Eve Press-on Manicure Nails in Sin Red
and something about that kind of fruit, why
that adam's apple just fell right out
ripe and red into my hand

and that guy on the corner calling me everyday
with his hey baby baby doncha wanna baby baby
doncha wanna piece of me
and I said yeah baby baby yeah I wanna piece of you
and took off a one-inch slab of his tongue
with my Non-slip Grip Lady Schick

and oh those guys who tried to jump
me on the way home oh don't you know
these things always end in tears
I was so sorry to lose my favorite pair of Foxy Lady
Five-inch Patent Leather Spike Heels — it's going
to be a while before I get over that one

but a girl's got to do what a girl's got to do
and don't even start me on what happened
the night that guy broke into my sanitary
pad it took me hours to clean off my Curling
Iron, my Nail File, my Tweezers, my Just-For-Me
Sandal Toe Queen Size Control Tops are still hanging out to dry

and what with all the screaming
I'm lucky I didn't get caught red-
handed with my Pink Comfort-Tip
Scented Double-Barrel Super-Plus Sawed-
Off Tampax but Thank God for
feminine protection.

A girl never knows when she's gonna need
to soak up some blood.


- Daphne Gottlieb