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[20 Jul 2009|02:36am] |
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In contrast to the last post on here things are kind of fun now. I know right? Been to some fun shows but unfortunately my band is on an unwanted (by all members) hiatus right now due to some legal bullshit (seriously I'm not making that up to sound badass, it's actually pretty lame) that one of our members has to deal with. Bummer! Oh well still working out plenty of new riffs and for the first time it seems we may live up to the "thrash" in our classification of ourselves as a "shit-thrash" band.
Still have almost two whole months of summer left! Crazy! Turkey Point on Tuesday. I should probably finish writing about my tour as I started it and sort of gave up on it...
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[07 Jul 2009|06:16pm] |
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Is it too much to ask for to not have some depressing bullshit happen to me for a while?
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| oh no you di-in't |
[18 Jun 2009|10:19pm] |
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Bon Iver- Flume and Giant Sons- A Knife In The Dark |
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No internet at home still but the cell phone works now. Been productive without it. Back on a pretty good exercise routine and what not. My new place rules, I love living out in the state park. Even though the neighbors down the road have like 40 (probably abused/malnourished) dogs and the local fox that always creeps around my yard likes to scream bloody murder from time to time when I'm sleeping right next to the open window.
Looks like I'll be getting my custom bike frame in the mail soon courtesy of my Northern transplant associated Tony (www.lmnocycles.com). It's been quite a while and I am STOKED.
Last weekend was Dann's super fun bachelor party. If I'm still welted I can't imagine what the bachelor himself and Dank look like. The wedding is this weekend! Fucking crazy!
ALSO Tragic Johnson will be opening up for the almighty/powerful TIT PATROL tomorrow night as they drop their Official-Punk Rock- Luminary-Produced masterpiece "[Tit Patrol] Gets Less Worse". I've had a copy for a couple months now and it's pretty good so definitely come out, support the Spot, support them, and boo us. So far the new Dinosaur Jr. album seems pretty rad. The new Municipal Waste song on the other hand is pretty boring. I'm surprised that's even possible.
Let's hang out soon! Any who read this and think it applies to them is invited....
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[01 Jun 2009|01:00pm] |
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Pretty much moved out. Sitting around waiting for Kevin and his mom to get here so I can give him a hand moving in if he needs one. Still gotta get all my stuff from the shed though but after that I'm pretty much done. Played two awesome shows this weekend. Well the first was kind of a pain in the ass but the second was an acoustic set (seriously I'm not making that up) and it was pretty hilarious. It's a bummer that 46 Madison won't be around for shows anymore though. Looks like the Spot is our only all ages option these days. Some other kids should step up to the plate. We won't trash your basement tooooo bad. Looks like the bike trip is being pushed back to July 12th to accomodate for Dann's wedding festivities. I get to be a grooms man. I think that's what it's called. Once I get unpacked this week I'm so stoked to just wander around and mountain bike the white clay trails during the day since they are my new backyard.
Good luck with your moves kids!
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Pennsylvania is by far the creepiest state on Earth, and I'm convinced that every horror movie with an unnamed location is set there.
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[14 May 2009|03:57pm] |
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Moving sucks
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[12 May 2009|04:46am] |
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For lots of stuff!
Who wants to ride bikes, swim in creeks and pools, play foursquare, dumpster dive, go to shows, and drink on porches (preferably yours I won't have one anymore) this summer?
I'm playing a show tonight (Tuesday) with a couple awesome bands. If you have $7, are 21+, want to drive to Claymont, and have low standards when it comes to music (at least for my band anyway) then you should come out! I've probably eliminated a lot of you with this one....
Bike trip coming up soon!
Save your money, Star Trek sucked!
Man I can't get the first four chords of "God.Family.Country" by I-Spy out of my head. Awesome 90s punk song. I don't know man youtube it or something.
Shit man, is it really 4:47 am???
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| I don't have to take this shit from you!!!! I have an associates degree (almost!) |
[07 May 2009|03:05am] |
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S.N.F.U.- Get Off Your Ass |
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Well, the day when I am pretty much done with DelTech has come. Who thought THAT would happen? Surely not me. I was pretty sure I was going to become completely disillusioned with the place and drop out and become a union plumber no less then sixty times. I still have to finish a bullshit online class but I never really have to step foot in the building for education again....well except for maybe some plumber certification.
So what now? I guess I go to Wilmington University in the fall.
Being ever prepared when it comes to academic/professional pursuits I have still yet to:
A. Apply to that school
B. Apply for financial aid
C. Take my PRAXIS test (google it!)
I should probably do all those things within the next couple weeks, eh?
So the summer plans from that one boring list entry (google it!) are still planned. In early June the Hammer and I will be riding bicycles from Pittsburgh, PA to Washington DC via the GAP/C&O canal railtrail (google it!), it should be somewhat lighthearted and gentle considering my last tour. ALSO, I should really get crackin' this summer and write out my entire tour journal. I think I posted like five on here and people seemed to be into it but then I stopped. Would you be into me finishing it, eh? eh? There seems to be lots of talk of zines these days as well, along with a few offers from people for me to contribute some work to one. "COMING SOON TO NEWARK NEAR YOU:
What some kid thinks of the new Animal Collective album compared to the first one, why John Cassavettes is actually a hack (google it!), AND BONUS FEATURE: Robby's story about that time he came back home slightly skinnier and smelling strange."
The BIG SUPER HAPPY FUN TIME WEEKEND SHOW AT MY HOUSE THIS WEEKEND is at my house this weekend. Hopefully it doesn't rain too much so we can still bbq, drink, and laugh at each other outside between bands. I don't want to be pent up with all you fuckers in my basement the whole time!!!!!
I'm gonna go watch the ROAD WARRIOR 'til I fall asleep.......
(google it!)
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| Summer Plans!!! |
[27 Apr 2009|01:17pm] |
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May 9th:
All day show at my house!
May 12th:
Opening slot on Peelander-Z show at Mojo 13!
May 16th:
Biking to beach!
May 18th:
Biking to Philadelphia to see Off With Their Heads at the Barbary!
May 31st:
Moving out to White Clay Creek State Park!
June 7th-June 14th or so:
Riding my single speed mountain bike on the C&O/GAP trail from Pittsburgh down to DC with one Kevin McGirr. About 330 miles!
June 20th:
Dann's wedding!
Late July-Early August:
Visiting Delaware beaches in summer for the first time since 2005! Hopefully making it down to Arizona with No Mas Muertes!
All the exclamation points denote a general excited sense for summer!
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| Bye Bye Spring Break! |
[21 Apr 2009|01:10am] |
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You were a relaxing one that most of my friends didn't even know that I was on! Got to hang out with the usual gangs over the week. Punk Rock Flea Market was non-existent. Sucks but I think I'll try and help organize the next one with the Spot so we can actually have it happen. Moved my old dining room table to my uncle's earlier. The move grows ever closer....
Not too much new on the music front. Hoping to record sometime this summer. The record is sure to be craptastically awesome, but with (hopefully) lots of guest vocals and maybe some skits!
Speaking of records I've listening to a lot of records lately. Some awesome punk and hardcore records have come out in the past year or so that have reminded me of why I love the genre still to this day.
Here's my list put on here for listing's sake. Check 'em out if you like punk/hardcore.
Propagandhi- Supporting Caste
Dillinger Four- C I V I L W A R
The Bananas- New Animals
The Holy Mountain/Cobra Noir- split 7"
The Holy Mountain/Black Tusk- split 7"
Surrender- Paper Thrones
The Ergs!- That's All Goodbye! EP
Nobunny- Love Visions
Marked Men- Ghosts
Off With Their Heads- From The Bottom
Appalachian Terror Unit- Greenwashing
That's all for now. Recommend me some new (like in the last year new) in the comments too! You know, unless you're lame.
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| I just hit my head really hard on the attic ceiling and now I'm tired |
[13 Apr 2009|09:07pm] |
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So I'm packing up my shit for the move out of Paper Mill at the end of May and trying to get rid of some old shit.
There is a punk rock flea market this Sunday at the Spot from 10am to 4pm. Hopefully I can unload a few things there. Everything else will either be donated to Christiana Hospital (the remnants of my massive VHS library) or donated to the kids who live in the apartments next to my work (the old comics I don't really want anymore).
Played two shows this weekend. The first was really fun at 46 Madison. The kids seemed to rock out to our particular brand of trash punk, all the other bands played awesome as well. The second show was also pretty fun but pretty awkward. Who knew that Dustin's family (there to see his band) and his little sisters and their teenybopper friends* wouldn't be into poorly played rock music hating on cops and talking about stingray-led genocides against humanity? Color me surprised. We got to play with a bunch of awesome bands though, including Northern Liberties, who we played with for our first show back in the Frottage Cottage basement in December 2007.
Speaking of shows I'm thinking of booking a show myself in the near future with some bigger bands to raise funds for a charity I would like to endorse. I'm thinking something like The Middle East Children's Alliance, Books Thru Bars, something along those lines. If anyone who reads this has any specific charities that you may think are deserving** throw up a comment.
I feel like I'm losing my ability to spell. As I look back up through this entry at all the squiggly red underlined words I kind of sigh to myself and remember when I used to kick ass in English class.
Along with my lost ability of spelling I feel like I've lost my ability to non-awkwardly communicate with acquaintances*** and even friends in a lot of cases.
In other mundane news I cashed in a savings bond and ordered a new fancy computer via another computer! The world is a crazy place. Maybe the next update on this thing will be made with wires hooked straight to my head on my fancy new machine? Only time will tell.
*in all honesty those kids were probably like 20.
**things like the Red Cross, MS, Cancer Societies, etc. already have fuck tons of money and a pretty solid base...something smaller.
***oh fuck, if you could have seen the squiggles under this one...
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| My new favorite quote (@ least dat's wut my facebook sez) |
[30 Mar 2009|09:55pm] |
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"The nationalist is by definition, an ignoramus. Nationalism is the line of least resistance, the easy way. The nationalist is untroubled, he knows, or thinks he knows what his values are, his, that's to say national, that's to say the values of the nations he belongs to, ethical and political; he is not interested in others, they are of no concern of his, hell-it's other people (other nations, another tribe). They don't even need investigating. The nationalist sees other people in his own image-as nationalists."
-Danilo Kis
Must investigate further into this guy's work...
...What's YOUR favorite quote(s)????
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| Man I hate when I'm wide awake this late on a school night |
[26 Mar 2009|04:54am] |
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Gonna be quite the slog into Wilmington in about 5 hours...I hate when thoughts of (multiple) past failings, present concerns, and future worries invade what should be my sleeping hours and keep me awake into the night angry with myself and my station in life. Do you ever get the feeling that you could be so much more then you are? Do these feelings invade the hours when you should be sleeping? I can't be the only one? Man, and I thought I finally got over this happening last year...
Oh well, I have seven goddamn shows to look forward to with my band, including a schlep into Central PA in early May.
In other news, there isn't much other news because it's 5am on a thursday.
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[19 Mar 2009|01:11pm] |
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Well as predicted last weeks bout of shows were awesome. Propagandhi fucking killed it both nights I saw them and Dillinger Four was also awesome, and the guitarist, who I met and hung out with at the bar they all work in/own in Minneapolis wanted to have a drink with me but I didn't get much a chance to talk to him because Eric had to be home for work in the morning.
Tragic Johnson has 4 shows coming up, all of which I'm pretty excited for. Speaking of which over the summer I'm thinking about trying to throw something new together. Anyone decent at fast hardcore/punk drums (or know someone who is)?
Speaking of summer, man I'm looking forward to that. Still hoping to ride the C&O/Gap mountain bike trail from Pittsburgh to DC, as well as heading down to Arizona at some point to work with No Mas Muertes on the border.
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| Meh week behind, Awesome week ahead! |
[09 Mar 2009|01:55am] |
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I'm so fucking stoked for this week. Glad I got my sickness out of the way last week. I have a test on tuesday, which luckily means I don't have one on thursday. I get to see my two FAVORITE (currently playing) punk bands back to back this week! Propagandhi twice, and for the first time, in Baltimore and Philly, and Dillinger Four in Baltimore.
I've been having a pretty good time as of lately, there have been a lot of good shows swinging around this way, part of the contribution to said good time. Last nights at the spot was no exception, Richmond's INTER ARMA fucking killed it with a set in the key of death metal, 80s hardcore punk, and sludgy ass stoner metal (stoner IS a word spell check, get with the fucking times brah) ending with some amazing Minor Threat covers. As usual all local bands killed it as well and Ba-Durr! continues to stay on top of the Best Local Band mountain for me, which is a mountain strewn with the corpses of all the shitty bar rock/cover bands populating the Wilmington-Newark no-man's-land.
Speaking of shows there is going to be an all day show on May 9th at my house. Trying to hook up all the local bands that normally play these things (except Tragic Johnson, they suck). I'm also thinking I'm going to attempt to get Inter Arma down for the cause as well as some other bands that have played Delaware in the past. If you have any suggestions list them here!
I'm also about to go on a David Cronenberg movie netflix kick. Who wants to watch Scanners?!?!?!?! Or Naked Lunch? I hear there's at least two things wrong with the title.
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| I swear did my best to ensure that, his final moments were swift and free from fear... |
[09 Feb 2009|09:37pm] |
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I have a physics test in the morning and was about to shit my pants, but now realize we DID review for it on thursday and I was fine. Whew.
The new Propagandhi record leaked today, which, if any of you read the "current music" column of a good number of my entries, or talk to me when I'm drunk and we're talking about "favorite bands", you know that is something I'm stoked about. As expected from the preview songs it fucking rips. And there's even an amazing* cover song at the end.
Tragic Johnson played a show on Saturday and the crowd was showered with free t-shirts. Ever since I was a young'un I always thought it would be awesome to have a band and throw free t-shirts to a crowd. I suppose I can check that off the list. Also everyone seemed to have a good amount of fun at the show. I believe long time live journal comment contributor and possibly Tragic Johnson fan #1 Matthew Latchford stuck around, perhaps he will chime in with a review on this entry along the lines of "Only kinda sucked" or "somewhat horrible". I was a tad sauced so maybe I was mistaking all of your boos for "boo-urning down the house!" One can only hope. All the other bands also ruled the show and the touring band, Surf City Rockers, were not only super fun but the members were very cool and generous. Speaking of bands I may be half-assing my way through another one quite soon, I enjoyed our first practice so hopefully we can pull something together soon, I want to get hit by angrily thrown beers not necessarily aimed at me and the chances of that seem rather high in this one.
After this physics test the prospects for this week seem rather half and half, other then the fact that I will be missing the Valentine's Day Bike Race in Wilmington. The worst part is I'm only missing it because of work, not even a date or anything! I haven't even had any chalky message hearts yet. I do believe I will be purchasing a box and leaving it on the grass at the cemetery for my mom though, how much does that suck ass? I used to always give her one in person, a tradition that somehow started when I was a mere tot. Now I have to pull some shit that seems more at home in a Cure video.
Oh, and stay tooned for Episode 4 of the ever behind BIKE TOUR JOURNAL. One day I won't flake
anymore.
*When I say amazing I often mean hilarious
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| I should really just wear my bathrobe around the house all the time |
[27 Jan 2009|02:24am] |
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So man when I was 13 it was pretty stupid of me to be like "yeah, I like Propagandhi, but I'll just see them next year or something." Now that its been 9 years since their last nearby appearance I'm glad I have a ticket to their Baltimore and Philadelphia shows.
So I've been reading Lords of Chaos, which is this ridiculously in depth book about, as the subtitle on the cover states "The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground". It's a good read, has me highly interested, and I don't even like 99% of music defined as "black metal", particularly the kind with the racist/nationalistic/nihilist/dickhead message attached.
What's new on the life front. Uh, school is chugging along? I won $13 in Atlantic City yesterday and immediatly turned those profits into dinner before I lost them all and was forced to eat my shoes (again).
Band practice was good, but I'm hoping to get something started on the side in the next few months, just for a little variety.
So, what's my plan for the summer you asked? Well, you didn't really ask...but I'll tell you I guess. I plan on taking a week long bike ride with my pal The Hammer from the wilds of Pittsburgh to the wilds of DC via the C&O/GAP trail.
After that I'm thinking I'll volunteer one-two weeks with No Mas Muertes (no spell check, it's not "No Mas Muensters") on the Arizona-Mexico border. I could go in depth about my feelings on illegal immigration, well about thirty seconds in person really, but as naive as it may sound what it boils down to for me is "what the fuck IS a border anyway/we're all human beings" so I feel it would be a worthy cause. Plus getting away from Delaware and entering a landscape as alien as the desert is always good for the body.
Oh yeah, and Laterian Milton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxPNNWmPgXU&feature=related
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| So Long Fuckface |
[20 Jan 2009|12:29pm] |
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Well, as of about half an hour ago President Bush is now Ex-President Bush. It's weird, part of me is slightly surprised that there are still so many of us left, and that there are no missing major cities in our own country, much less the world (I'm going to not consider "decimated" along the same lines as "missing").
Let's actually hope this is really more then just a changing of the guard. I doubt most of this "change" can come, but maybe we can get a little bit back.
Also man, the job just got a little harder for lots of punk bands, folk singers, and political spoken word artists...
As everybody's favorite ugly New York rock stars put it, "Glad to see you go."
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