2024-06-10 - You got BaM in my HoM
- Lather: House of Mammoth - Smash
- Post Shave: Floïd - The Genuine
- Fragrance: Imaginary Authors - Sundrunk
- Razor: Wolfman Razors - Guerrilla
- Brush: Yaqi Metal Timberwolf
Happy Together:
A collaboration between Billiam F. Tourist and Jammin' Mammoth
Unifying Theme: Orange you glad?
#FOF
There's something to be said for pairings/trio-ings based on things that are
completely independent from scent. I orginally planned an all-HoM day, but
bailed on that idea only once I took the tub of
~~Crash~~
Smash out for today's shave.
I think it's safe to say I would never have tried this otherwise.
Every recipe I've found for a bourbon smash primarily has
bourbon, lemon, and mint.
I guess Smash has neither lemon nor mint, but it's not my place to question
the creative decisions of ol' Billy Tays.
Smash is... fruity.
I maintain that nobody
has ever enjoyed eating a piece of fruit.
Smash smells as though you were wafting the aromas of a neat bourbon, and then
[Chris Ballew](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Presidents_of_the_United_States_of_America_(band))
barged in,
tied you to the wall, stuck a funnel in your mouth,
and force-fed you nothing but
cans of peaches
until you were ~~twenty-~~ ~~thirty-~~ forty-six and a half years old.
The Genuine, in a bizarre interlude,
dumps a barrel of powder on your head before Sundrunk
shoves your face into a rhubarb pie
as your desperate efforts for air are your final memory
before your flailing limbs fall limply for the last time.
Song Day:
I was honestly going to do the ridiculous rhubarb one up there because it
references beards and barbers, but I'm gonna go with
one that happened to play during my shower/shave this morning:
MSMR - Flagpole Sitta
I first heard this song because I had been playing a lot of MSMR,
but I just now discovered that MSMR is no more, this being their final huzzah.
Huh. That bums be out.
Oh well, they have other projects going on and that's okay, too!
With that considered, MSMR was... a temporary collaboration.
As, I guess, is any band.
But I digress.
It's a fantastic, refreshing cover that I feel gives a more serious tone to a
serious song that had nonetheless been altogether too goofy.
I do remember when the original came out,
and I remember the later
viral videos.
It was everywhere, which was terrible because it was overplayed.
#photocontest Animal
Namely, the noble ~~otter~~ mammoth on the label there.
Today's photo was originally going to be even more boring than this,
but once I decided last-minute to do the orange-color thing,
I figured I should slap a #photocontest theme on it,
even if it is the one I was going to use tomorrow.
Oh, I only just noticed that the name Sundrunk is quite fitting to
the boozy basis of Smash. Neato.