
After 15 years, Fun Size is back together and has a new album out entitled "Since We Last Spoke." The reunion show takes place at Strange Matter on Saturday, April 6 with Volunteer and Six Track Amateur . Read my interview with the band for this week's Style Weekly here: styleweekly.com/richmond/fun-n ot-done/Content?oid=1868567
Director: Josh Schwartz Cast: Victoria Justice, Thomas Mann, Jackson Nicoll, Johnny Knoxville, Chelsea Handler Certificate: 12A Running Time: 91 minutes Release: 29th October 2012 Who the hell is Carly Rae Jepsen? Well, as it turns out, Ms Jepsen is a Canadian singer of the reality television variety. Why would this concern a review of Nickelodeon’s new film Fun Size ? Just before the waning main event kicks in, the audience are subjected to this Jepsen character’s latest music video. Unconnected to the plot or the film in any way, this stale appetizer only [...]

Fun Size , which features features James and Pedro from Long Arms, is back together and releasing a new album in 14 years. Here's the video for their first single "End of the Road" from the forthcoming album, "Since Last We Spoke." |

Let's go back 10 years ago. I was a bored punk kid in his senior year of high school, and I just needed to get out of my suburban NJ house for the day... I hopped into my car, and drove out to wherever just to kill some time. I wound up near a mall, and decided I needed some new music since I forgot all my CDs. I go into whatever lame music store (it was probably a Hot Topic...) and check their discount bin. There I saw it for 3 dollars: Asian Man Records "Mail Order Is Fun!" [...]
My new daughter, Teagan Reese, was born a week ago today and that day also happened to be exactly 4 years from my first post on this blog. During the 4 years that CYSTSFTS has been in existence, I've made my affinity for pop punk no secret. It's the music I grew up listening to and the music that keeps me young at heart. There are many different definitions of what exactly pop punk is and with this series of 30 or so posts I'll do my best to broadly define (in MP3's) [...]

O kay folks. This may be the series finale. I think I've busted out just about every pop punk-ish band that I can think of. If you have more suggestions, let me know. Grubbs, the Discount song is for you. You can fins all the posts in their entirety via the links below. Vol. 11 , Vol. 11 , Vol. 10 , Vol. 9 , Vol. 8 , Vol. 7 , Vol. 6 , Vol. 5 , Vol. 4 , Vol. 3 , [...]