July 27, 2000: SiN AMoR may play a show all the way up in muthaphukin Oregon! Shocking, I know, but it is not confirmed yet.
Bombs For God is working on its second release: a CD (!!!!) compilation of a bunch of extreme and hardcore bands, including SiN AMoR, Strip-Searched for Speeding, Deadlock, Deadbolt, and other various hardcore bands. There isn't an official release date yet, but we are working as fast as we can.
July 6, 20000: MY SINCERIST APOLOGIES TO GRANT AND THE ACCIDENTS!!!
I made a couple comments about them that were backhanded and undeserved, and I made a couple
enemies, and fellow bandmate Jim got the worst of it. To Grant, the Accidents, and Jim, I
send my sincerist apologies...different ideologies doesn't mean one band is more punk than
another. I am a jackass, and I want to make this apology so everyone who see this page (as if
anyone does) and the Accidents see it. I need to learn to control what I write in my rants... -
Reverend Matt.
Leap Year Day, 2000: The SiN AMoR show is cancelled!
Two big reasons:
One, the flyer we posted around Middletown was too offensive because of a Calvin
and Hobbes comic stating that "All their songs glorify depraved violence, mindless sex, and the
deliberate abuse of dangerous drugs." This goes to show that some people can't take a joke: for
one, SiN AMoR are PACIFISTS!!! For you ignorant
Middletown folk, it means that we are purely peaceful and we are against commiting violence or
being involved in violent acts. Also, the comic was meant as SATIRE!!! Once again,
for you ignorant Middletown folk, it means we were poking fun at the fact that some people
stereotype teenagers as drunken, stoned, sex-crazed lunatics who have nothing better to do than
join gangs and shoot up schoolyards. NO. If you are one of the people that demanded the
SiN AMoR be cancelled, congratulations. You have proved
once again that Middletown is the most intolerant and ignorant place in Northern California.
Two, I (the bassist and the web-geek) was naive enough to believe our old-fart conservative
xenophobic and homophobic redneck town would be able to tolerate a little humor. I was wrong.
My bad. Because of MY ignorance of Middletown's ignorance, I lost an excellent opportunity to
create a fan base and expand the people's idea of "punk" in Lake County to more than just
Blink-182, The Offspring, and (how can anyone call these guys punk?) Limp Bizkit.
We've tried to organize shows, along with fellow Middletown punk band The Wedgies, and each time we've been probed. We tried to arrange a show at the Middletown Lions Club. No was the answer. We tried to arrange a show at the Cobb Mountain Lions Club. No was the answer again. WHY? As the guy in charge of booking at the Cobb one replied, "We don't feel comfortable with the idea of having a teenage rock band play in our club." Once again, old people have proven that they can squander the youth. And before I was in SiN AMoR, Jim and Clay (enough with the different color bold font) turned in a tape to play at the Battle Of The Bands at the Lake County Fairgrounds only to find out that they "happened to find another tape that was turned in" before them. When a punk band called The Accidents were told they couldn't play ON THE DAY OF THEIR PERFORMANCE because of their lyrical content, the reserve band, Sin Amor, wasn't even asked. So, we've been screwed over EVERY TIME we want to organize a show. We are all good, peaceful, intelligent kids (I'm the "dumb" one and I have a GPA of 3.27 and have been accepted to Humboldt State University, although I'm not going for various reasons) who happen to play "punk" and "scumrock" music.
What's in a name though? Punk is rebellious, yes, but there is a negative connotation people stick with that word. That negative connotation is something along the lines of a bunch of scumbag gangster street-trash jerks picking on an old lady with a purse. This is what's going on before Charles Bronson comes along and shoots those punks down. Another thing that bugs me is this about Lake County: Lake County is filled with a bunch of drunken, animal-slaughtering men who thrive on football, violent action movies, and the Bible, which has some of the most blatantly violent and prejudiced images I have ever read, and yet three peaceful kids who want to play a few shows can't because they're punks. Don't get me started on the title "scumrock," the somewhat official genre we place ourselves under.
Jim and Clay will probably read this and think, "That kid sure can talk out of his ass." Well, I'm so angry at this whole town (and county) my ass is breathing fire. This also disturbs me because I have to constantly change my whitey-tightys. But what I mean by this whole rant is that we need to make a difference in our small, redneck communities. In Amarillo, Texas, a punk by the name of Brian Deneke was killed by an intolerant jock (as he ran over Brian Deneke, he said "I'm a ninja in my caddy") and only got off with a lesser charge than murder, not even serving a day in jail! Not only is this bad because a intolerant jock killed a punk (or anyone for that matter) but the intolerant community around him let Deneke's killer go. The defense described Deneke as "violent" and "a mean drunk," assassinating his character to sway the jury. Even if he was, Justin Camp, the killer, deserves more than probation! This is Texas for god's sake! If Deneke had killed Camp, he'd be walking the Green Mile as we speak. I use the Deneke case as an example to show that people do look down on punks compared to other people (no duh comment of the century), and to show that if this prejudice happens in a small redneck town in Texas, it could happen in a small redneck town in California.
The example may be extreme, but take a walk in Middletown. The administration favors the jocks all the time with often-new uniforms, constant bragging, and the fact that one of the secretaries (and one of the most condesending people I have met) is the mother of one of the star football players. You'll see the football team's accomplishments on front page! Everyone has a picture of the football team up around Middletown. The other day, two of my friends (outcasts) kicked a basketball in physical education class and hit one jock in the butt. (He claimed it was head, and I can see how he can mistake the two). Two or three jocks came over to try to pick a fight with the two outcasts, one of whom is openly gay, an automatic taboo in Middletown. Although the other outcast had kicked the ball and admitted to it, they attacked the gay outcast and threatened to kick the tar out of him, constantly pushing as they did. Our P.E teacher came out and broke up the conflict, but after a slap on the hand to the jocks (they were his IWEs, and he has four, a little many for a P.E. teacher) he comes over to the outcasts and start yelling at them for being so stupid, TWICE! Yes, what they did was dumb. But the IWEs should have been disciplined for almost starting a fight, especially since they were much bigger than the outcasts. However, our P.E. teacher is also one of these brainless jocks. He brags about how he reads books but can't understand them, how he received less than a 1.0 GPA his last semester during his senior year, and actually refers to being a P.E. teacher as a "profession." As far as I can tell, all exclusively-P.E. teachers either want easy cash or are too dumb to teach anything else.
The school and town also favor the "cowboy way," allowing animal slaughtering to happen at school and prizing rodeos on Middletown days. However, try walking down the street with weird hair. Try being different without jocks, condesending secretaries, and prejudiced and almost-fascist art teachers wondering if something is wired wrong in your head. "He dresses funny. I bet he's a faggot." Who's worse off for this town: someone who dresses a little differently, or someone who believes all minorities, gays, and pot-smokers should be shot on the spot? Food for thought. Boy, I usually don't rant like this. Wow. That's quite a bit of writing.
Late Feburary 2000: SiN AMoR and Stripsearched For Speeding should be on quite a few compilations soon, one of which being a Pigs Peace Sanctuary compilation. I'll give a list of all the compilations these two bands will be on in the new future.
It turns out SiN AMoR will not be playing with The Wedgies on March 3. They will play later on in March. We, however, will be playing on March 3 at the Middletown High School multi-use room in Middletown, CA, one hour south of Ukiah and 45 mintues north of Santa Rosa and Petaluma, possibly with a band from Santa Rosa. Admission is only two dollars!
Feburary 2000: SiN AMoR is on another comp! The comp is a cassette tape, all punk band lineup released by Unified Records. The comp is called Time For A Change, and it includes other punk bands such as Left Unsaid, The Spectators, Riot Unit, Thanx But No Thanx, Third Fall, SpankBoy, The GrandPrixx, Big Time, PsychoSexuals, We're Not All There, WayWard Youth, The Malefactors, Sniffin Dog Ears, Made In Taiwan, Project-9! The Sin Amor song is "Someday," our most straight-forward punk song. We may order some of these, but if you are impatient and want to order right now, the link to Unified Recordings is http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/unifiedrecordings/. And SiN AMoR should be playing a show with either Middletown Christian punk band The Wedgies or Christian hardcore band Everyone's Dead Hero. Yes, that's right, Christian. Don't worry, we're to the core athiests.
Stripsearched For Speeding has started recording some new songs, including a cover of the Beatles "A Day In The Life." More details on that later...
In other news, Matt of SiN AMoR is filling in bass duties for Christian pop-punkers The Wedgies. Even though Matt is an agnostic, hates pop-punk, (except for Descendents and ALL, ironically) and is a Reverend of the Universal Life Church, he's planning to record a few demo songs with these guys. Odd Couple 2000.
January 2000: SiN AMoR is on the Loco Diablo Underground Sampler 5!
There are three Sin Amor songs on the comp, all recorded in their days as a two piece. The other bands on the comp are HateChoir, Hated Principles, Griswolds, Testicle Bomb, The Grand Prixx, John Q. Public, Kung Fu Chicken, Nobody Cares, Dead End Kids, D.U.I, Infamous, 454, Eternal Silence, Sin 13, Disunion, Filthy Jim, Latrines, The Chick Magnets, Chris Cozort, Vaginal Discharge, Mikey Burleigh and Starr! There is something on this CD for everyone: thrash, scum-rock, "olde-skool" punk and hardcore, metal, melodic punk, and some stuff that defies any sort of categorization.
We are selling this CD for $5 post paid. Make check or M.O out to Clayton Whitt,
or just send WELL-concealed cash to:
BFG Records
P.O. Box 792
Middletown, CA 95461
SiN AMoR should end up on shitloads of compilations in the coming months, one to be released in Feburary. More details on that as the world turns. They are also planning to go into the studio soon to record for...something. Probably a full length CD, but I'll have to double-check with these guys.
1998-1999: Buy our first release!
17 opuses of pure experimental, improvised joy! Made by two bored kids on a cheesy 4-track recorder over the sweltering summer of 1998. D.I.Y. to the extreme! Strange to the extreme! $3 post paid. Only 18 copies left, cassette only. Comes with the infamous S.S.f.S. manifesto! Get it while it’s hot!
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