Comments on: Blake Schwarzenbach Day

By: skip webber

skip webber — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:30:19 +0000

i’ve been a sucker for jawbreaker since i heard caroline off their demo tape in 1989/90.once a sucker always a sucker!

By: dilemma

dilemma — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:28:08 +0000

Nice work, keep it up. Cheers.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:23:51 +0000

Jets to Brazil is my all time favorite band. I am going through a very rough break up right now ( lost my girlfriend of 4.5 years) and I’ve been listening to Jets about 5 hours each day. Listening to Blake both makes me cry and warms my heart at the same time. Blake is a one of a kind writer and I’m glad we can all recognize this. Can’t wait to hear the Thorns of Life. Let me know if anyone has any more information about his new project. Let’s hope it lasts long for at least one record and one tour. We love you Blake.

By: Sean Dana

Sean Dana — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:50:48 +0000

Very well put! I only discovered Blakes work about a year ago. I was immediately and completely floored. I don’t think any artist has ever spoken to me so deeply. Not even Nirvana. I am a lover of things punk and indie, but this was different. His words are light years beyond anybody I can think of. His songs make me ache and rejoice at the same time. Many Jawbreaker fans don’t completely accept Jets, but I can say without hesitation that I love them both equally. To me their differences are simply a representation of a nautral progression. Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to witness the genius of Blake in person with “Thorns”. I feel like I really missed the boat with Jets and Jawbreaker, and I would consider myself blessed. Anyway very nice commentary and God Speed!

By: karen

karen — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:30:12 +0000

i completely agree, glad i could stumble upon this post and i hope you may have already heard the good news. blake is starting a new band. the name is “thorns of life”
he apparently has a facebook and you can youtube “thorns of life” and a couple videos will show up (of the first of his shows.) im 23 years old, ive been listening to jets and jawbreaker for a little more than 7 years now, i have never seen blake perform live and am completely taken that i may finally have the chance.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:34:52 +0000

I think that everything you said was great. Blake Scharzenbach is a poet and his words helped me through my crazy early teen years. In fact, I have NEVER stopped listening to any Jawbreaker or Jets to Brazil (even though I felt a little betrayed at first). You heard “Dear You” first, but I heard them all in order…and I have to say, poetry is always there. I think it is great that Blake is teaching at the University now, considering that I am working on my master’s in Library and Information Sciences, and all I hear from other punk bands I used to listen to is, “Who needs school?, Education is for those fuckers who think they are better than we are !!” Well anyway, I am doing all that I fucking can, so just give me a break and do whatever it is that you would like to do. I still think Blake S. is awesome, but I am 26 years old now…not a little kid…he is a great poet…but he’s never gonna fall in love with me.

By: Corey Vilhauer

Corey Vilhauer — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:49:46 +0000

Even weirder: he wrote video game reviews for GameSpot.

By: eric

eric — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:46:43 +0000

just yesterday i was think about whatever happened to jtb and i found out that blake is teaching english at a college in new york