Much has been going on since I last wrote.
I moved. I got promoted. I dated. I booked shows. I started a band. I opened a DIY venue with a couple of good friends.
Not sure how things got this far, but I guess it all happens for a reason.
Fuck, for the first time in a long time, I'm speechless.
Playlist lately:
Drake - "Thank Me Later"
Terror - "The Damned, The Shamed"
Sparklehorse - "It's A Wonderful Life"
Handguns - "Anywhere But Home"
Jawbox - s/t
Entombed - "Hollowman"
Brand New - "The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Of Me"
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Hello 2009
I kind of forgot about this.
I'm still full of angst and discontent. This world gives me no other option.
We have a new president -- cool. Half the people that voted for Obama had no idea about his policies or what he wants to accomplish in office. They voted for him based on the color of his skin. I mean, there's always going to be a bias and ignorant people during any election. I get it. America. All the masses screaming "Change is here!" But do they really know what is going to change? A break in the line of white presidents? That's all I've heard every day since November. Don't get it twisted though. I'm stoked on Obama. All for the things that are important to me.
But isn't it sad that what's important to most voters is skintone?
I'm still full of angst and discontent. This world gives me no other option.
We have a new president -- cool. Half the people that voted for Obama had no idea about his policies or what he wants to accomplish in office. They voted for him based on the color of his skin. I mean, there's always going to be a bias and ignorant people during any election. I get it. America. All the masses screaming "Change is here!" But do they really know what is going to change? A break in the line of white presidents? That's all I've heard every day since November. Don't get it twisted though. I'm stoked on Obama. All for the things that are important to me.
But isn't it sad that what's important to most voters is skintone?
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
After birthday playlist
Anthrax - "Sound Of White Noise"
Cranes - "Forever"
Foundation - s/t 7" (http://www.myspace.com/xfoundationx)
Mammoth Grinder - "Rage And Ruin" (http://www.myspace.com/mammothgrinder)
Unbroken - "Life. Love. Regret."
Indecision - "Most Precious Blood"
"Less Than Zero" by Bret Easton Ellis
"Batman: Haunted Knight" trade by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
Cranes - "Forever"
Foundation - s/t 7" (http://www.myspace.com/xfoundationx)
Mammoth Grinder - "Rage And Ruin" (http://www.myspace.com/mammothgrinder)
Unbroken - "Life. Love. Regret."
Indecision - "Most Precious Blood"
"Less Than Zero" by Bret Easton Ellis
"Batman: Haunted Knight" trade by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
Monday, July 7, 2008
Warped Tour
After spending a few days hanging out at Warped Tour, I've come to realize (again, like every year I go) that it's probably one of the worst things one could ever go to.
There's thousands of idiotic people every which way you turn: the super tan bros with the horrible tribal work, the super tan chicks with the HORRIBLE TRIBAL WORK, underage mall punks, underage mall goths (still wearing all black and the one-legged pant with chains), the "cool" kids that go to mosh to The Devil Wears Prada, and the wannabe street punks with just Rancid and Sex Pistols written on their studded leather vests. All of which refuse to get out of the way and look at you like a dick when they walk so slow that you could watch "Ben Hur" by the time you're able to get around them.
And who picks out some of the venues that Warped is held at? Seriously, a dirt and gravel filled parking lot with no shade and no indoor restrooms? What the fuck. Granted, it's not every venue that Warped is held at, but I hope whoever it does it is getting a percentage of the $4 bottles of water, the $10-12 cups of beer, and the insane amount of fried and salty food (all that is provided for patrons) that makes people not even want to, but HAVE to go back for more overpriced drinks in fear of heat exhaustion or dehydration.
And what happened to the majority of Warped being good bands? I wanted to see a total of maybe 6 or 7 bands this year out of the 40 that played. Pretty much all bad mall pop-punk bands or disgusting mosh metal. The last time I can even remember good hip-hop on it was in 2001 or so with Kool Keith and Jurassic 5. I can look back on past Warped Tours and pick out at least half the line-up that I would want to watch, but it seems like the past few years have just been about cashing in and not so much on bringing really good bands to the forefront and exposing new kids to something different than what they hear on the radio. Or if/when there are said good bands playing, they only seem to do 1-5 dates in the area(s) in which they live, so it's people that have seen them play local shows over the past decade or so and not the ones living across the country that may or may not have had the chance to see them.
Who knows, maybe the Vans Warped Tour presented by AT&T will have made enough money to stop oversaturating their traveling show with no-talent, no heart bands/artists and get back to their roots.
UP THE PUNX, BRAH!
There's thousands of idiotic people every which way you turn: the super tan bros with the horrible tribal work, the super tan chicks with the HORRIBLE TRIBAL WORK, underage mall punks, underage mall goths (still wearing all black and the one-legged pant with chains), the "cool" kids that go to mosh to The Devil Wears Prada, and the wannabe street punks with just Rancid and Sex Pistols written on their studded leather vests. All of which refuse to get out of the way and look at you like a dick when they walk so slow that you could watch "Ben Hur" by the time you're able to get around them.
And who picks out some of the venues that Warped is held at? Seriously, a dirt and gravel filled parking lot with no shade and no indoor restrooms? What the fuck. Granted, it's not every venue that Warped is held at, but I hope whoever it does it is getting a percentage of the $4 bottles of water, the $10-12 cups of beer, and the insane amount of fried and salty food (all that is provided for patrons) that makes people not even want to, but HAVE to go back for more overpriced drinks in fear of heat exhaustion or dehydration.
And what happened to the majority of Warped being good bands? I wanted to see a total of maybe 6 or 7 bands this year out of the 40 that played. Pretty much all bad mall pop-punk bands or disgusting mosh metal. The last time I can even remember good hip-hop on it was in 2001 or so with Kool Keith and Jurassic 5. I can look back on past Warped Tours and pick out at least half the line-up that I would want to watch, but it seems like the past few years have just been about cashing in and not so much on bringing really good bands to the forefront and exposing new kids to something different than what they hear on the radio. Or if/when there are said good bands playing, they only seem to do 1-5 dates in the area(s) in which they live, so it's people that have seen them play local shows over the past decade or so and not the ones living across the country that may or may not have had the chance to see them.
Who knows, maybe the Vans Warped Tour presented by AT&T will have made enough money to stop oversaturating their traveling show with no-talent, no heart bands/artists and get back to their roots.
UP THE PUNX, BRAH!
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Procreation
Why do we as humans feel the need to and have children? Maybe it's because since birth, we have grown up in a society that insists that we procreate before it's too late. Many even condemn the fact that certain people choose not to participate in this ritual. It's ingrained in our heads that it's the life we MUST choose, if it's really even a choice at all.
But why? There is a world population of close to 7 billion and there is around 127,000 children up for adoption
each year in the U.S. alone.
Maybe I'm the typical selfish human being, but I barely have enough to support myself. I know the same to be true about many of my peers as well. So, based on that and on how many families I see day in and day out, complaining how they don't sleep anymore, or how they don't have money to pay bills, or when they pull out food stamps and the reciepts from cashing in their welfare checks, I wonder, "Why do we do this to ourselves?"
And now, with the way the economy is in the U.S., people are trying harder to get pregnant. Recently, a group of 17 teenagers in Boston made a pregnancy pact, one of whom was so desperate that she had unprotected sex with a homeless man in hopes that she would get pregnant. She did.
Does this scream insanity to anyone else but me?
If you're pro-life, that's fine. Adopt instead of fulfilling the need to continue your own bloodline, because really who's more selfish: me for wanting to take care of myself first or you for caring too much about family pride to adopt a child born of another? If you're pro-choice, don't use abortion as a form of birth control. That's all I ask. Don't be ignorant about sex. Take care of your body. Get on the pill. Use condoms. And we ask to spay and neuter our pets to keep the animal population down, so tell me why we don't ask the same for humans.
Use your head.
But why? There is a world population of close to 7 billion and there is around 127,000 children up for adoption
each year in the U.S. alone.
Maybe I'm the typical selfish human being, but I barely have enough to support myself. I know the same to be true about many of my peers as well. So, based on that and on how many families I see day in and day out, complaining how they don't sleep anymore, or how they don't have money to pay bills, or when they pull out food stamps and the reciepts from cashing in their welfare checks, I wonder, "Why do we do this to ourselves?"
And now, with the way the economy is in the U.S., people are trying harder to get pregnant. Recently, a group of 17 teenagers in Boston made a pregnancy pact, one of whom was so desperate that she had unprotected sex with a homeless man in hopes that she would get pregnant. She did.
Does this scream insanity to anyone else but me?
If you're pro-life, that's fine. Adopt instead of fulfilling the need to continue your own bloodline, because really who's more selfish: me for wanting to take care of myself first or you for caring too much about family pride to adopt a child born of another? If you're pro-choice, don't use abortion as a form of birth control. That's all I ask. Don't be ignorant about sex. Take care of your body. Get on the pill. Use condoms. And we ask to spay and neuter our pets to keep the animal population down, so tell me why we don't ask the same for humans.
Use your head.
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