Ask Tangus a question.

I don't have much work to do, I'm listening to some good music, and I'm enjoying a nice Screwdriver.

So here's your chance to ask me anything you wish!!

Ask away!

what do you concider to be good music?

What constitutes a hero?

Screwdriver? That's not good music, that's racist!!

something that is original, or takes something old and makes it new.

favorite bands: Despistado, The Blood Brothers, Whirlwind Heat, Rival Schools, New Bomb Turks

I like a little bit of everything, although when it comes to rock, I like rock the way it should be; urgent, loud, and music you can sweat to.

someone who can tame dozens of snakes on a plane while still managing to pick the perfect obscenity for the moment.

I apologize, that flew right over my head.

I'm Russian, I like vodka.

I also apologize for my vague answer to stewfnrocker's original question. such an answer would take a quarter pack of cigarettes, a few beers, and about two hours.

I expect only the best answers, like a 20 page paper on what is good music

I wrote my final term paper for American History on the history of emo music and how it had to do with Manifest Destiny.

trust me, I did it. in 8-10 pages.

it started out with a couple of pubes, and I was all "wtf?!"

I don't remember much after that. although I do remember the first time I awkwardly used one of those MagicTouch things to keep shit in check.

UPDATE

can of PBR.

most importantly, what brand of Vodka is in your Screwdriver???

why would anyone write about emo music...
But I am perplexed to see what direction you took in the paper

ha. what a great question. I'm sure you're already aware of the answer and wish to bait me into it.

if so, I thank you.

The Angus Barn

Level.

it's the most amazing vodka. it's even better than Grey Goose. it's made by Absolut, and I was turned onto it by a girl in a pub I was at in NYC that just whipped it out of her pocketbook after seeing that all I had to drink was water.

here's the best part: she was the only girl in the bar, and SHE WAS FROM RALEIGH.

coincidences are insane. I was in Orlando, FL a couple of weeks ago, and in the Virgin Megastore I bumped into two kids from Raleigh. I can't escape my home, it rules.

pretty much the point was that "emo" music today isn't what it used to be (a bastardization of punk/hardcore).

when the Pilgrims came to America and colonized, they used Manifest Destiny saying that they were meant to come. in the process, they exploited the Indians and ruined their culture.

emo music today isn't emo at all. it's a bunch of kids whining about how their lives suck. it's been changed from punk/hardcore with heart into something that's a million times more marketable, which in my thesis was an indication of how American society loves to exploit things and change them if it's not within their comfort zone.

that is a good vodka, i do agree. i was at a holiday get together at a friend's place near xmas this past year, and my friend said try this stuff in your next screwdriver. i was rather impressed!. for the most part when i do drink it will be screwdrivers with Stoli, but i will not turn down one with Level.

good call

he really is!!!

the worst part about my name though is that because of how synonymous the restaurant is in the Triangle (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) community (it's regarded as the nicest restaurant in Raleigh), everyone makes the beef joke first, and never ask about the guitarist, which is where I got my name.

Where do babies come from?

Oh yeah and what were the names of the men who died in the VietNam War?

thanks!

I find that it's an incredibly subtle vodka. not too overpowering, but just that right "vodka kick" that you want, along with a citrusy tang when drank straight. I love it.

babies? Bush-sanctioned relations.

I have no idea what all the men in the Vietnam War were, and there's no joke to make about it because it's such a serious and fucked up issue, so yeah.

Dude, you just went to your prom? When I went to my prom were you born yet?

I was born November 3rd, 1987. you tell me.

I beg to differ... depends what you define as emo...(this is where we have a horrible discussion on what emo is)
There are bands that still hold true to bands like rites of spring, heroin, floodgate, so on and so forth. There are bands who hold true to the political aspect of what emo was and in my opinion still is.
I still believe emo is not a dead or bastardized genre. I believe its still out there, and if you feed into what mtv and rolling stone magazine label emo then I could see you making that statement.