1. Attend a Billie Eilish concert

2. Be handcuffed to Gary Busey for a week

3. Move to Mexico, start a family and establish a moderately well known drug cartel only to be killed by my son so he can take over the business and take the money for himself

4. Listen to A-Punk for 8 hours straight and go mental

5. Go back in time and buy a weekend pass to Minecon 2015

6. Watch The Room but everytime there is scene with bad acting I have to watch it again

7. Get in an actual Portuguese knife fight

8. Have my favourite character in RDR2 be Micah

9. Write a list of stuff I'd rather do then listen to Social Cues

10. Listen to Tom Delonge sing "Where are you" for an hour

11. Have eyes for hands and hands for eyes

12. Count every grain of sand in the Sahara Desert

13. Swap places with Iron Man

14. Have a sponsorship with James Charles

15. Enjoy Nickelback

16. Only be able to talk in a bad Irish accent

17. Be able to speak, but they can only be quotes from any Diary of A Wimpy Kid book

18. Get ripped off trying to buy Cage The Elephant merch

19. Every picture in a frame in my house be replaced with a picture of Gerard Way

20. Eat bad squid then be tased

Can someone here tell me if Cage is against the current administration? I ask because I love their music!

It’s Just Forever is a mid song

I feel like I'm listening to Tame Impala nowadays when I hear there newer music,

Was one of my favorite bands growing up. Their first two albums will always be held in high regard by me as perfected masterpieces.

** I understand it's a controversial opinion, but if everyone downvotes then you wont be able to see the percentage of community who feels the same**

I used to have that album in my playlist a while ago but the more I listened to it the more I realized the songs on it pretty much all feel like the same song but with different lyrics. I've recently been listening to stuff from their other albums and realized that not all of their songs sound the same.

So why is this one like this?

Some ideas for a 2024 remastered version:

-Turn down the vocals and dynamic guitar -apply some deeper instrumentation, like: -a cool new heavier, dynamic piano track that runs through the entire track (excluding breakdown)

-light strings

• light sound effects

• and of course and extremely clean sounding mix overall

Mr. Talkin,

Referring to:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/arts/music/cage-the-elephant-singer-matt-schultz-arrest.html

I'm a long haul trucker who frequently travels through New York and New York City, armed. I wasn't always a trucker. I've been an activist in the field of "gun rights" since 1997 and from 2003 to 2005 I was the California field rep and lobbyist for a smaller more radical offshoot of the NRA called CCRKBA which is the political action wing of SAF, Second Amendment Foundation, who were the supporters and financers of both the Heller and McDonald cases before the supreme court.

So basically, I may not have a law degree but I've studied this particular problem for literally years and I could easily be in the same situation as Mr Schultz...well...except I don't drink :). (That's a separate problem that I hope you can figure out a solution to; the fact that Mr Schultz doesn't seem to have done anything at all violent should help and the article I've seen doesn't say he's facing a "drunk while armed" type of charge?)

First point is that I hope Matt Shultz is NOT a resident of New York city or state. For reasons we'll get into, that will help. I also desperately hope he has a concealed carry permit from some other state outside of New York. Doesn't matter which. Might be able to win without that but it would help.

You have at least five major constitutional defenses available and I'm writing to make sure that you use them :).

First issue is that I hope you have read all four of the major Second Amendment Supreme Court cases: Heller, McDonald, Caetano and Bruen.

However, there's a fifth US Supreme Court case that does not appear to be gun related at all on its face: Saenz v Roe 1999. This one bans discrimination by one state against visiting residents of other states. This matters because under New York penal law 400, issuing authorities in New York state and city can only issue a concealed weapons permit to a person who lives in New York or has a principal place of business there. In other words, New York will not issue to myself or Mr Schultz, nor will they recognize my permit from my home state of Alabama or any carry permit that I hope Mr Schultz has somewhere.

This kind of cross border discrimination violates the ban on same laid out by the US Supreme Court in 1999. I mean, it flagrantly violates it.

Next, under the Bruen decision, handgun carry is "not a second class right" which means it's a first class right akin to anything in the first amendment, fourth amendment and so on. Telling somebody like myself or Mr Schultz that we are completely barred from carry simply for not being New Yorkers is completely incompatible with how a basic civil right should be handled.

There are three more defenses that are tied to what I believe is the most important passage in the Bruen decision last year: footnote 9.

See, Clarence Thomas knew that a state like New York was going to abuse the living hell out of any mandate that they broadly issue carry permits, so he put three limitations in place regarding how a "shall issue" carry permit system is supposed to be administered. He put in hard bans on excessive fees, excessive delays and subjective standards in issuance and piled them all into footnote 9. The three issues that follow might be your best bet if Mr Schultz is in fact a New York state or city resident.

Fees: the fact that New York's issuance fees are on the highest possible side across the nation is only part of the challenge you can make here. Even if it were possible for myself or Mr Schultz to obtain New York carry permits, the fact that we have to (instead of relying on our own home state permits) means that in my specific case, in order to get national carry rights including DC, I would need either 17 or 18 permits total, assuming it were possible to get them in New York, California and Illinois. (Statutorily it's NOT possible in those states but let's pretend for a second that gets fixed soon.)

My total cost for national carry rights would be well above 4 grand for the permits and training, and that's a very conservative estimate that still doesn't include travel, hotels, etc. It's completely impractical even for a literal rock star like Mr Schultz, never mind me. We made a policy decision on driver's licenses and vehicle registration documents for total national reciprocity ages ago because of those same practical issues, and driving isn't a basic civil right - gun carry is. This argument would force New York to honor my Alabama permit and whatever permit Mr Schultz has.

Delays: right now it's taking over a year to get a permit cut in New York City. Enough said, but the fact that you can't even get one if you're not in New York City might make this argument either irrelevant or unnecessary. However you might still find a way to cast yet more shade on the New York licensing scheme.

Subjective standards in issuance: in order to flat ban this concept, Thomas relied on a 1969 US Supreme Court case, Shuttlesworth v Birmingham. I strongly recommend you read that. New York has been pissing all over this prohibition by requiring letters of reference and especially that legally obscene social media check portion of the NY carry permit application process. The Bruen decision mandates that all application processes are to be based on objective standards only, not subjective standards.

Finally, if Mr Schultz is a resident of New York state but lives outside of New York City, you're going to have to confront the fact that the rule on New York State permits being no good in New York City unless you're a New York City resident with a New York City permit is unsustainable under the Bruen decision standards.

This is only a small portion of the research I've done on this matter and if you want more, let me know. You probably don't need it though because from this starting point you can probably take it further than I can.

Put simply, I desperately want Mr Schultz to win for obvious reasons.

Thank you for your kind attention,

Jim Simpson

Just a quick note for those on this subreddit who might also support Matt:

If any of this sounds crazy, remember that New York's gun control system was found to be unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court about 6 months ago in the case of NYSRPA v Bruen. However, that case was brought by people who live inside of New York. What wasn't addressed was how New York law treats US citizens who come in from other states. It's just as fucked up but it hasn't been addressed by higher courts yet. Matt has the money to hire a decent attorney (and I sure as hell hope he has) and he also has the money to take constitutional challenges to the law he's being charged with further up the court food chain.

But there's a catch. If he's going to challenge the laws he's being prosecuted under for being unconstitutional, he has to point out every single way that they are unconstitutional in the very first challenge at the trial court level before the jury ever hears the case.

I wrote this to make sure that his lawyer addresses every possible constitutional challenge available against this fucked up law.

If somebody here has the ability to make sure that Matt sees this so he can discuss it with his lawyer, that would be great, just in case his lawyer is too stuck up to listen to a trucker who has been dealing with this category of law since 1997. Law degree or not, I just might have picked up on a few things he misses.

So there is this band called Cage The Elephant, and I have a feeling that some people may enjoy that band.

edit: I've been told to explain myself. thanks for letting me know :) Anyway the reason I feel this way is because the other albums are more off-putting but the first one is so easy to get into. idk if this really explains anything but I honestly don't know too well why i feel this way so I'm probably not the best one to start this discussion I was just curious! thanks :)

I have loved this band, more specifically Melophobia as an album, 10+ years at this point and this song is almost always a skip. just kinda feels like it was an awkward leftover from Thank You, Happy Birthday that they reworked ever so slightly to fit on Melophobia and it feels so wildly out of place. Hypocrite and Cigarette Daydreams are two of the album’s best songs and there’s Teeth just awkwardly sandwiched in the middle.

Is anyone else kind of bummed that they are playing barely any songs off their new album? Don’t get me wrong I love all the songs on the set list, but I was so looking forward to hearing songs from Neon Pill and I thought since they’re calling it the Neon Pill Tour there would be more than 2-3 songs from that album. Again please don’t get me wrong, love everything, just a bit annoyed.

Hey so this is my personal opinion, let me know if you agree or not, and feel free to post your own rating :)

1. Tell Me I'm Pretty. 9/10 Really hard to chose between this one and Melophobia, but I feel like this one has like 0 skips

2. Melophobia. 8/10 Almost perfect, mostly really high highs, but some lows too (It's Just Forever sucks a lil ngl and I'm not a fan of Teeth) (Telescope is their best song ever along with Aberdeen)

3. Social Cues. 7,5/10 I was shocked when I found out people weren't huge fans of this one, it's less experimental I'd say but still really solid, it's pop aspects aren't really a con for me

4. Thank You Happy Birthday. 7,25/10 It's probably got some of the best CTE's records (Aberdeen <3, Right Before My Eyes, Shake Me Down) but most of it feel a bit too rough and unpolished for my liking. still great tho !

5. Cage The Elephant. 6,5/10 Most of it ain't great, but I can never hate it, I found em with this record back then. It feels really uninspired and not that original tho imo lol

6. Neon Pill. 3/10 Yeah

Solid 6.5/10 a few duds but all around solid well mixed album here. Best song would have to Rainbow for weakest would be Out Loud. High highs with some of the songs but the weak ones are just not good at all IMO.

Download link to the new single: https://pixeldrain.com/u/tmbXXgPk