The Best of Riley's 3hree Things: He's BACK!


Last January, Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice and author of the snarky, often hilarious and mostly thoughtful column Riley's 3hree Things, took a hiatus due to family matters. On Tuesday next week, he'll finally be back to give us more of his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.

To celebrate (because we missed him so much), we're giving you a teaser–excerpts from three of Riley's best columns. Read on after the jump.
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3. The Top Three Singles on iTunes And How Old And Out Of Touch They Make Me Feel -Riley lists three songs he just doesn't get. Read the highlights of his discourse:

1) Ke$ha, “We R Who We R” – 6,326,213 views – The only things I know about Ke$ha are that typing the dollar sign in
her name is maddening (and highly unnecessary), and that she looks like
she probably smells like a dead stripper farting into a hobo's armpit.

2) Willow, “Whip My Hair” – 10,359,996 views – Will and Jada Smith's daughter says “I whip my hair back and forth”
SIXTY-SIX TIMES in three minutes and forty-five seconds. You know what
needs to happen 66 times in three minutes and forty-five seconds?
NOTHING. AT ALL. EVER. Even the best things, like orgasms and bacon and
laughter and all other sorts of amazing and fun stuff don't need to
happen that many times in that short of a time span.

3) Far East Movement, “Like a G6” – 14,236,222 views Granted,
I know that as a 35-year-old white male, I'm the polar opposite of the
target demographic for this kind of music, but I feel like I should have
the ability to at least process what I'm hearing and understand its
appeal to the people that have watched the video 14 million+ times. I
just can't. I don't get it. At all.

2. Concert-Goers That I Could Happily Do Without – Riley lists concert goers he hates. Here's an excerpt:

If I'm in the bathroom, it's to take care
of business, not talk about the creativity (or lack thereof) of the
opening band. The only “shooting-of-the-shit” I want to do in a bathroom
is in a purely literal sense, and in that case, at least I'd have the
protection of a stall wall to keep me from being verbally assaulted by a
stranger. 

Bottom line: The only people
I want to talk to when I have my penis in my hand are my girlfriend,
and perhaps a physician of some sort. (Note: Not at the same time.)
Let's save the small talk for when we have our flies zipped and our
pants buttoned, folks.

1.  On Halloween (Plus: Thrice's Best Halloween Costumes!) – Here's a really interesting look at how rock stars really celebrate holidays. (Goofy ones, anyway).

We're all Star Wars
dorks in some regard, with some of us being a bit more versed in
Lucasfilm and literature dorkery than others (*cough* Dustin *cough*),
so when the idea of having last year's Halloween show be Star Wars
themed came up, we went all out. 

I relied on one of
those poorly made, low-effort “costume in a plastic bag” X-Wing fighter
costume that you can buy at any dump of a Halloween shop that pops up in
vacant space at your local strip mall once a year, and I paid for it
(literally, and figuratively.) Aside
from it making me look like an upside down pumpkin in a diaper, it was
basically an ill-fitting one-piece jumpsuit. When seated (read:
drumming), any forward movement of the upper body would result in the
most epic of wedgies. As you well know, drumming requires quite a bit of
upper body movement, and in doing so, I ended up spending an hour on
stage playing Thrice songs while vigorously flossing my ass crack with
the crotch of a bright orange jumpsuit. Boo.

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