I remember showing up early to shows there and being truly excited for all the unknown-to-me openers. For all of my personal nostalgia around that era and "scene", there's a pure distilled positivity to my memories of the knit that nothing else really touches.

forgot about that moment!

I remember seeing you and @johnvanderslice.bsky.social there in... 2000? 2001? So many shows/moments there I would earnestly and unapologetically describe as "life-changing"

like, seeing nostalgia for the williamsburg knitting factory is so confusing to me b/c it's like "NO THE KNITTING FACTORY IS ON LEONARD STREET AND IT IS WHERE I FIRST SAW THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL, SHELLAC, THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN, DEATH CAB, THE PROMISE RING, @themountaingoats.bsky.social, etc etc"

oh my god I was at that show. I drank a lot of free sparks and remember thinking I was going to die, and getting vomited on at least once.

oh hell yes!

vibe accounting

and now I've been listening to Bitch Magnet all morning lol

His drumming with Bitch Magnet is amazing, "Big Pining" is an all-timer for me!

The fact that Janusz Kamiński shot COOL AS ICE is still one of my favorite bits of cinema history

there's a weirdly similar thing happening in the tech sector right now where the people who deeply geek out about how things work are... not necessarily the people reaping social (or material) gain from the things that are working

"no, it's easy, just go to the app store, do a search for 'best qr code scanner app', browse through 20 or 30 sketchy apps with names like 'my best qr code scanner 4 u', figure out which of them is least likely to be spyware, install it, try to click out of the impossible-to-escape display ad, THEN

very good to know, thank you!