Jt Haberstaat
Misanthrope
includes CD, live DVD special & 1-hr documentary featuring folks you've seen on comedy stages & episodes of the X-Files. Youthful, punk rock rage is all well and good, but the agitation of aging transforms a "Fight the man!" fist to a "You kids get offa my lawn!" fist right quick. Each is shaken with equal conviction, but the latter is a sign of success, of having survived through enough for long enough to decide that staying home on a Saturday night is the best plan of all. JT Habersaat's raspy, rapid-fire delivery shows his hardcore roots, but it is in his deep affection for leaning in on middle age, his ability to have sympathy for the "snapped," and his twin assertions that women need better political role models but men need higher standards that we glimpse something even more hardcore: the grown-up atheist's knowledge that heaven is being left alone