k_loud.9

It's just a ride...

[KD$ign @KnoxEndemic]

Apparently concert venues are having a hard time getting Millennials to fill the seats. Well, hello. Millennial here. I think I can help.

DEAR CONCERT VENUES:

🎟️ Just tell me what the ticket costs. I do not want to select a $79 ticket and discover at checkout that it is actually $146 because of a facility fee, service fee, processing fee, and a fee for having successfully paid the other fees.

📱 Stop making ticket buying a military operation. I should not need three apps, a verified fan code, a presale password from a credit card I don’t own, and 11:00 AM availability on a Tuesday to buy two seats.

💺 Assigned seats. We did our time standing shoulder-to-shoulder at shows in 2008. Some of us have mortgages now. Some of us have sciatica.

🕖 Start earlier. A 7 PM show is not embarrassing. In fact, I would like to formally recognize whoever invented the 7 PM show.

⏰ And tell us the actual times. “Doors at 7” is not useful information if the opener starts at 8:15 and the person I came to see appears at 10:07.

🚗 Parking instructions written for a normal person. Tell me which garage to use, what it costs, and whether I will spend 55 minutes trying to leave it afterward. I am willing to pay $20 for certainty.

🍺 I will buy your $14 beer. I have accepted this. But if I miss three songs waiting for it, you have broken the social contract.

🚽 Enough bathrooms. We are in our 30s and 40s. Half of us have had children. This is now infrastructure.

🔉 It can still be loud. We are Millennials, not the Greatest Generation. But some of us are bringing earplugs now and we are no longer ashamed of it.

DEAR ARTISTS:

⏰ Please go on roughly when you said you would. We have babysitters. The babysitter has an end time. This is now a logistics problem involving several adults.

🎤 Play the songs from 2004–2014. You know which ones. We know which ones. Nobody needs to pretend otherwise.

🎶 Play some new stuff. Absolutely. We support your continued artistic development. But there is a point in the evening when you need to play the song that was on our iPod Nano while we drove to high school.

📵 You can tell us to put our phones away. We secretly want someone to make us do this anyway.

🪑 An intermission would not offend us. We can use the bathroom, answer the babysitter, check whether the dog has destroyed anything, and look at Zillow for eight minutes.

And please understand: Millennials still like concerts.

We have disposable income now. We are nostalgic. We will absolutely spend irresponsible amounts of money to hear a band we first discovered on LimeWire.

But we also have jobs, children, dogs, mortgages, lower-back problems, and a very clear memory of when concert tickets cost $35.

You want Millennials back?

Make it easy to buy the ticket. Tell us when the show actually starts. Give us somewhere to sit. Play the song from 2007.

We’ll be there.

We just need to be home by 11.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

I think you are allowed to outgrow your own opinions, your own habits, your own story. The goal was never to stay the same. The goal was always to grow.

[ARROW @phresh_arrow]

Am I crazy or does $18-$20 an hour feel like
the new $7.25 now? 🤷‍♀️

[XY📿* @Amakundi001]

Smelling weed in public for me is like smelling the little baked pie on the windowsill in cartoons I can't lie

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

In 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann accidentally absorbed a tiny amount of LSD through his fingertips and spent the afternoon mildly hallucinating at his desk. Three days later he accidentally took 10 times than the standard recreational dose.

He drank what he believed was a cautiously small dose, and unknowingly took ten times a modern recreational amount with no frame of reference whatsoever.

At precisely 4:20pm on April 19, Hofmann dissolved 250 micrograms in water and drank it.

By 5:00pm his lab journal entries were deteriorating. Dizziness. Anxiety. Visual disturbance. Writing became impossible.

He asked his assistant to take him home. Wartime Basel had banned private cars, so the only option was a bicycle.

He spent the ride convinced his neighbour was a witch and that he had gone permanently insane. April 19 is now celebrated annually as Bicycle Day.

Hofmann later discovered that 20 to 30 micrograms were sufficient for noticeable effects. He had taken more than twelve times that amount.

He lived to 102, took small doses for the rest of his life, and called LSD his "problem child." He never regretted discovering it.

[Katie @ALadyNamedKatie]

When I die, please cover my casket in my sticker collection that I bought but could never commit to applying on things

[Insomniac Events @insomniacevents]

Today, we celebrate the DJs who turn sounds into feelings, and we honor those who we have lost along the journey. On #InternationalDJDay, we’re paying tribute to Avicii and his lifelong legacy. Thank you for making us fall in love with electronic dance music.❤️

[Eargasm @EargasmEarplugs]

don't let tinnitus crash your therapy sesh.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

This is how the rest of the world sees us.

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

Billionaires added a record $2.2 TRILLION in wealth last year - increasing their collective net worth to $11.9 TRILLION.

Just 8 billionaires made up a QUARER of that growth.

Meanwhile, millions of working people are struggling to put food on the table and pay for health care.

Disgusting.

[k_loud.9 @MfkVandal]

I need to tell myself this more....

[໊ @meishato]

PLEASE romanticize your life, take pretty pictures, feel like the main character, light up a candle, read books, go for a walk, dance to your favorite music, buy yourself presents, do whatever you want, be happy. this is your life, don’t let anyone take it from you

[Lex🥰 @sheamourr]

Somebody said don't be afraid to spend money on concert tickets and travel. Be afraid of growing old and realizing the only place you ever went was work.

And I couldn't agree more.

[Black Tiger Sex Machine @OfficialBTSM]

Find yourself someone who will run up to the rail with you at the rave (and keep your spot while you head out to the bathroom haha), someone that will look at you after the nastiiiiiest drop and have the biggest smile, someone who will headbang in sync with you while the bass makes your skin trembles 🫂❤️‍🔥