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Monday, March 24th, 2008
3:32 pm	i'm tired of everything. my friend matt is playing bass now for comeback kid, it was fucking awesome to see him on wednesday. we talked about the brewers, since were both avid fans, and that ruled. next few months are going to be crazy, its going to be awesome to see where we end up. fuck, why am i so tired. (Comment on this)
Friday, January 25th, 2008
4:59 pm	HELLO 2008! its almost 1/12th of the way through the year and I have yet to make my annual entry! Here's an update! -Natalie and I are wonderfully great, things are awesome. She's in her last semester of school, she starts student teaching in 2 weeks I think and its been real stressful between class, work and the complete fuck-ups her university seems to be getting more frequent with.. but there is light at the end of that tunnel now! Its a matter of counting down the months, then weeks, then days until she's done with that wretched university. -the band is pretty much back to normal, other than we really never play shows. Chris, Becki and Seth are all planning on moving down here to Pittsburgh this summer, so until then I really don't mind not playing or practicing much. It just gets too hectic sometimes trying to juggle 15 different things and not let anything fall through the cracks and this is one thing I can just set down and let sit for a few more months until they move down here as they plan too. -work has been awesome. yeah, seems like I work a lot, but its really starting to pay off. I was in NYC for a conference a few weeks ago staying with my brother and anni, and it was really great. Besides the great connections from the conference, just getting to hangout with matt and anni was nice. We went downtown a few times, but I think the most fun was just sitting around not doing anything. Oh, and their dog is awesome. -still book way too many shows between erie and pittsburgh, and sometimes I wonder why I still do it, but I have no real reason to stop since my job is so flexible and most of my shows have been during weekdays so my weekends have been pretty free in a sense. Some pretty incredible shows are coming up too, like the Chuck Ragan show on monday. I'm pretty amped for that one. Well who knows when i'll update this again... hell the only reason I even remembered this even existed was because Natalie showed me something on hers... again, she rules. I'm going to go now, peace. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 9th, 2007
2:36 pm	26 im into my 2nd quarter of life. good 'ol 26. it was a good weekend, drank beer, ate pizza, saw family and friends, I had fun. not much really happened though, just hungout. I guess the night before was some raging party and seth was pretty wild, so everyone just kept it tame on saturday. I had a good time though. I bought new shoes and some records with some cash i got for my birthday. but yeah, im 26, i feel old. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
12:36 pm	in 5 weeks I am going to be in Naples, Florida visiting my brother/annelis/their dog who i will call shitstorm the entire time with Natalie. I can't fucking wait. a.) hanging out with my brother, b.) gulf of mexico, c.) croc and gators, d.) booze. last night I hungout with I Adapt at this dude Jeremys house. It was awesome. They had this liqour called Opal from Iceland with them, I had a sip.. it tasted like a smooth chocolate mouthwash, 27% alcohol mouthwash. They were chugging it. I couldnt believe it, haha. It was definitely a fun night, I got another Mike Budai poster from last nights show, his stuff is AWESOME. all in all I really like pittsburgh way more than edinboro/erie. hooray! back to work time. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
1:19 pm	ramblings So for the first time in 3 years I listened to Brand New's "Your Favorite Weapon", and it brought back a lot of memories from my time at Slippery Rock. My trips to Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh to see Brand New and Taking Back Sunday with Jason and Melissa and Dana, it was a great time. So many memories were remembered this morning on my walk to work. Speaking of walking to work, this weather is so great. Its perfect out, not too hot, not too cold. I can walk to work without a hoodie, but its still cool enough where drinking hot coffee in the morning isn't gross. So on Friday I found out my grandma passed away. 2 years ago my grandpa passed away and I wasn't able to go to his funeral because of fucking college midterms. Its weird, so many of my friends have really strong relationships and memories with their grandparents and I really don't. I mean, we are all very close, my family is very important to me, but I never really got to have that many memories with any of them. My dad's parents lived in Milwaukee, a good 9 hours away, and my mothers mom lives in Germany, which i've only been to twice, back when i was 4 and 6. So my memories with my grandpa and grandma on my dad's side are limited to holiday visits and the summer vacations we used to take out there in the summer time back in elementary and middle school. I feel like I missed out on something, and it didnt really hit me until sunday night. The funeral for her is not going to be until this summer, she asked in her will to be cremated and to have a summer funeral. So this summer the immediate family is going to get together in Milwaukee to bury her with grandpa. The last few years were pretty tough for her, after grandpa died she moved to northern wisconsin to be with my aunt sue and her family, to be looked after. She always worried a lot over things, and around this same time my dad was going through the whole cancer thing, and then last year with the whole seizure/brain surgery thing, my dad and aunt decided that those were things that she did not need to know about, things she didn't need to worry about. I often wonder what would have happened had she known that my dad went through all those things, how much of a toll it really would have taken on her mentally and inturn physically. We went up to antigo for christmas, my dad pretty much told us that we had too, we had no choice, and while my brother and I were kinda bored in the evenings when our cousins left, I know we are both glad we went. When my grandpa died in March 2 years ago the entire family got together in Milwaukee for Thanksgiving, and while it was boring in the evenings when everyone left, we both were glad we were there because that was the last time we saw him. The same goes for christmas, that was the last time we saw her, and she looked so happy, and thinking back, it almost looked like she knew that was the last time we were going to see each other, and when we left my dad was really sad because he knew it too. I know that this is a rambling, but besides natalie and my brother I have not talked to a single person about this, and even them very little. Im never going to forget her, aunt Dorthy and dad making home-made ravioli's in the kitchen at their home in milwaukee, or the playing cards with her and grandpa and my brother in middle school and always trying to cheat and sneak cards off the table, or that distinct laugh that she always had followed by "oh stop" everytime someone made a joke. I miss my grandparents. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
11:31 am	the ramblings of a madman... the database is down... hence my free time to update this.... so its mid january and im sick. if you're ever around little sick kids, make sure thy don't cough in your face for hours, it'll fuck you up. thanks nat, thanks a lot. :) so my holiday's were pretty awesome. I went to Antigo, Wisconsin to see my dad's side of the family for christmas. ya know, a good solid 14 hour drive there and back within 4 days, its good for everyone. the last time I saw all of them was thanksgiving in milwaukee when we all got together 2 1/2 years ago with grandpa before he passed away. My cousin mora has two kids now, my cousin megan has one in the oven, and molly, well, she's got enough on her plate. so we get home and i spent pretty much the following week with natalie. on new years we had a party at my new place in pittsburgh with a bunch of people from edinboro and west virginia. It ruled. the following day we went down to WV to watch the WVU Bowl game at natalie's family's house, it sucked the first half, but the second half was just unreal. a few days later we left for a short little tour with the tradition from cincy. might have only been 3 days, but it ruled so much. st. louis was such a good show, every band was awesome. we played across the street from the anhauser-busch plant. next time were there, beer plant tour. we played cleveland the next day and im not sure what happened, but beer bottles were being smashed, a christmas tree was completey destroyed and just so much random shit was being thrown. most. insane. show. ever. we played pittsburgh on sunday, first time we've played roboto project to more than the bands and a handful of kids! surprisingly it went really well, we sold a bunch of shirts and records on the weekend tour, it ruled. natalie was still in pittsburgh and basically stayed here until monday, so while i was working during last week she was sleeping and randomly making food/cleaning the apartment. Last weekend, thursday - sunday, chris, seth, dave, micah, catie and nat were at our place. yet again, another weekend of drunken debauchery. it ruled. that is where i got this sickness from, from nat, catie's 2 1/2 year old boy. maybe he's 3, maybe he's 2 1/2, but he sure is a whole lot of awesome. minus the sickness and coughing in my face. but he's young, he'll learn, hopefully, haha. so for everyone else I know, minus jed and catie and seth, they started college yesterday. I still am not used to the whole college graduate thing, it took me 7 years to get a bachelors in marketing, granted that involved 2 college's, changing from a music ed major to a communications major to finally marketing, but who is really counting, right? my job is alright, i mean, i like what i do, but I don't feel like I get paid enough for the hours i work. natalie always tells me to get another job, but i want to at least stick this out till the summer (or until it becomes to big of a financial burden to work here), to get the sales experience. having that one year (or more) of experience will do wonders for whenever I decide to move on. This is definitely not a career job in my eyes, its definitely an experience job, because prior to this, my resume basically read pretty quick. I like who i work with, robin is a handful, pretty interesting dude, he used to be a minor league baseball player and tried out for the phillies. that alone, if its true which i assume it is, is awesome. baseball = greatest sport ever. matt is awesome too, he is in a sweet band called Endless Mike and the Beagles Club. If you like Folky stuff like this bike is a pipe bomb and defiance:ohio, this is your kinda stuff. but yeah, back to baseball! the brewers look like they'll be in good shape this next season. they don't play in pittsburgh until fucking june... im so pissed.. BUT, i might drive out to milwaukee to see a game sometime! my friend matt from wisconsin told me to call him if I ever think about coming out, so I plan on it, and plan on fucking raging there with him. maybe natalie will want to take a road trip with me sometime? maybe april? may? who knowwwssss! but im super excited for the brewers this season, by far the most ive been excited since the early 90's when paul molitor played with them. I have to admit, i lost interest when he was traded to toronto and i followed them instead, because he is by far my favorite baseball player of all time. someone tried to argue with me about why he shouldnt be in the hall of fame.. blew my mind. but whatevvvvv, those people like the pirates, who SUCK. so hank jones will be touring in march with bearathon... shit will melt your mind. just a quick 6 day thing, 8 of us crammed in a van with absolutely no room for anything but us and gear. its a good thing we sorta like each other. the plan issss... edinboro, richmond, atlanta, birmingham, chattanooga, nashville and then MAYBE columbus? Not sure, but we'll see how it works out. tlyer moved to atlanta with his girlfriend so we got a place to stay there, and we got a place to crash in b-ham and nashville too. looks like it'll be a good time! so yeah, this was my update. if you made it this far... im sorry. im sick, a little bored and sleepy. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 12th, 2007
11:51 am	Happy New Years! Well, belated new years at least, right? Im only 12 days late with it, thats not too bad! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
6:43 pm	i love my edinboro friends no matter how frustrated i get sometimes, i'll give a good update on my holiday on monday! Gotta go see my nat tomorrow when she gets back from NYC and gets her allergy shot (hinthint) :) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
1:28 pm	edinboro was a lot of fun on saturday. 2 Kegs, 3 bands, 1 house, a bunch of friends. So much fun. We played, it went really well considering the drunkeness + the fact we have not played as a whole band in a month. It was a lot of fun! I think were gunna party again after thanksgiving, thats when we'll all be in town, so that'll be sweet im sure! Chris and Seth are coming to pittsburgh that weekend as well, Chris has a car now so they can go places. Really fast like. Jed bought Guitar Hero II and last night he and I sat down and beat the entire game on Hard mode. God were so lame, but that game is so much fun! Iggy and the Stooges song was sweet and the suicidal tendencies song was fucking hard! I think im gunna play YYZ and the Alman Brothers over and over and over like I did with a few songs on the first one. Oh, hank jones is doing a 5 day tour with The Tradition, Huntington WV, Nashville TN, St Louis MO, Chicago IL and then Pittsburgh PA. I'll be sweet, two bands crammed in one sweet van with a trailer! Good times lay ahead for that! I'll probably update more often now on. Maybe. I'll leave you with this picture from saturday. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
5:44 pm	erggoigho yeah, chuck ragan was incredible last night. pretty much the best thing ive seen all year. Doesnt say much, I cant really think of any shows besides the few bane shows we played that were anything great. Were going on tour in January for a few days, that'll be a nice change of pace, seeing as how we've played 3 shows in.... 6 months now, hahaha. I think were hitting up the midwest, huntington, nashville, st louis, chicago, those area's. it might change, but for now thats kinda the plan. My brother just got home on the 1st from Prague, he's currently sitting at my house, we went to the show last night and tonight im not sure what were doing, but natalie will be here, so im sure the 3 of us will go somewhere and have fun doing something. This weekend is Micah's "offical" 21st birthday, even though it was really on monday. My parents are going to be out of town (REBEL Home ALONE!!!!!) this weekend, and my brother will be in Kent visiting friends and Anni, so saturday will be fun im sure. Im about to leave work and go eat some sweet noodles in oakland. time for a fun weeekend! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
1:21 pm	yo seriously, i am the avalanche is so awesome and so much fun. their album fucking rules and i cannot wait for the new one to come out next year! thats a band i could see every day for months on end and never get bored. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, October 6th, 2006
4:10 pm	things seem to be going pretty well. my brother was just here for almost a week, it was a pretty darn good time if I may say so myself. work is goin, im diggin it. natalie rules still. um, thats really it. oh yeah, and this is a show im doing in pittsburgh. come to it! see you there? (Comment on this)
Monday, September 11th, 2006
9:20 pm	yesss I start work. Know what rules about my job? I get to take home a G4 iBook. Where do I work you ask? I work for Ixtlan Artists! Its funny, ive been booking shows and recently tours for the last 7 years and when i decided to move to pittsburgh earlier this year I was ready to get an office job, work for some company i'd probably hate and just not look forward to waking up the next morning.. well guess what? This job is sooo not that! I get to spend all day booking tours and not for punk/hardcore bands! Ixtlan works with diverse artists, as in Folk groups, Celtic groups, Indian dance groups, African Jazz groups, Jewish groups, etc. When i went to college at slippery rock for 3 years I actually got the chance to see groups like these perform and im pretty stoked to be apart of them! I dunno, it rules. You can check some mp3's out at www.ixtlanartists.com if you have no idea what im talking about. Oh, and the green bay packers are going to be really good this year... the bears are just incredible... but trust me, GB will bounce back! Also, how about those ravens?! man, two HUGE shutouts! Crazy! Oh, and im pretty sure you can expect me to pretty much really pull back from booking shows. Lost too much money on the last few, im tired of it. But I still plan to help out my friends on tour if they need it. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
6:55 pm	jesus fucking christ the new hop con record fucking RULES. contention for one of the best of 06! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
3:02 am	my mood went home today for the first time since my mom and I brought my brother back home from brooklyn. ya know, its not easy. its defintely going to take some time, the person closest to me and my best friend is going through something that I would never wish upon anyone ever. we hope that its just a matter of time for things to just work out, but I feel like that is just kidding ourselves, this is something that will impact him and our family for years. I took my harddrive up with me tonight and put season 6 of the sopranos and both seasons of the office on his computer so he has something to do (for those that dont know my family lives in the country with dial up internet and 5 tv channels) because its boring as fuck at times at home. He seemed glad to have something to do but it just wasnt him. I know its the medication he's on, I know thats what is making him seem so out of it, its just so wierd. So when Jed and I were going back to pittsburgh I of course listened to hot water music because they're the best band ever. Well the album no division was playing and this song really struck a chord in me. check it. im going to go read in bed and then go to sleep. The song is On Our Way. we've seen some real hard times and i hope the hardest are behind but there will be times when it will seem like we are caught someplace in between the ocean and the storm without a shore we'll find our own way home and sing out every song we know no one can keep us down and who gives a fuck what anybody says we'll live and love until we're dead holding on to what we've come to know and on and on and on and on and every time you hear this song be sure you are not alone (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 27th, 2006
11:58 pm	01. Your name plus a Y? mikey 02. Two feelings at the moment? happy happy 03. What are you listening to right now? The Draft 04. A part of a song lyric that's in your mind? its time to party 05. Last person you hugged? natalie 06. The highlight of your week? getting a job!! 07. What are you craving to have right now? candy 08. Any unforgettable childhood memories? playng in the sandbox in our backyard and finding worms in it! 09. A not-so-good childhood memory? the nightmares of quicksand coming out of toliets and eating my house 10. What are your nicknames? bitch 11. Your plans for tomorrow? sleep, clean, some show work 12. Your plans for today? lay in bed with natalie 13. Are you thinking of someone right now? yar 14. Do You Think Someone is thinking of you? yar 15. Do You Have A Job? YAR! 16. Are you single? NAR! 17. Say something to the person who posted this before? MITCH! 18. What do you want? HEALTHY FAMILY 19. are you happy? yes 20. Do you like anyone? YAR! 21. Do you miss anyone right now? nope 22. Describe where you are right now? a room, with a tv, a long flight of steps i fall down on every day, a computer 23. What do you like about the night? how its not hot 24. If you were on a farm what would you want to see? COWS! 25. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? baseball player!!!!!!! 26. Last gift received? BED! 27. Did you like it? yeahhhh! 29. Do you play an instrument? trumpet! 30. The stand? duh? ----WHAT---- 31. Your good luck charm? none 32. Person you hate most? a few people 33. Who makes you laugh the most? natalie? 34. What makes you smile? PIZZA! FACTS Hometown: edinboro, PA Height: 5'9" Hair color: brown! Hair length: short! Eye color: brown! Mood now: good! Sex: yes! School: NONE! Friends: rule! Finish the sentence: 1. My ex is...out of my life! 2. I am listening to.... THE DRAFT!!! 3. Maybe I should... EAT A PIZZA! 4. I love... MUSIC! 5. My best friend.. is in my room right now 6. I don't understand... why mitch is not on tour! 7. I lost... my keys earlier. found them near the fridge! FOOD! 8. People say... lots of things 9. The meaning of my screen name is... some stupid shaving cream. 10. Love is... gross 11. Somewhere, someone is... taking a shit 12. I will always... be somewhat bitter 13. Forever seems.. FURTHER! 14. I never ever want to... grow up 15. My cell phone... will be here tomorrow! 16. When I wake up in the morning... i want coffee 17. I get annoyed when..... i cant eat pizza 18. Parties are... BEER!!!!!! 19. My pet(s) is... DEAD 20. Kisses are the best when... deserved? 21. Today I... DRANK BEEEEEEER! 22. Tomorrow I will... DRINK BEEEEEEEER! (GET MY NEW PHONE!) 23. I really want.. My brother to be better! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
2:57 am	I should be sleeping right now... I feel that i need to be more outspoken. At our show on friday in erie I was so angry. Two local bands, one releasing a record on a national label, and no one was there. 90 kids. Some kid asked me why no one was at the show and i told him my reasoning why that was so, because they dont worship god with their band. he seemed to balk and take offense. but thats the sad truth. War of Ages played at the end of july, ZERO flyers ever made, 300 kids. why? because jesus is awesome, thats why. jesus told them all to go in their prayers and sleep. the represent record release show had about 1000 flyers printed and handed out at the war of ages show, the jesus wept show, and stapled ALL OVER erie PA. 90 kids paid. what the fuck!? oh, yeah, thats right. no god was involved. next time they go to release a record they should slip god a fifty and ask him to plug their show for them. garunteed 200 kids. yes, im bitter. I dont really give a fuck anymore. Im tired of trying to make a change in a city that has never given way over the years. if youre not on victory/trustkill or dont have god promoting your band you're fucked in this city, especially with a venue costing almost 800 bucks. also add to the list that my brother is going through a really rough time right now and he needs to be home. my mother flew out this morning to see him and to help speed up the process of him moving home. im not going into the details on here like I did with my dad's situation because its not necessary for you to know. needless to say his "friends" in brooklyn really seem like shitbags to me right now and i honestly hope I never see them. ever. im driving out to brooklyn most likely on wednesday to help pack his stuff up and bring him home. not exactly sure what the game plan is from there, all I know is that he is moving home and thats all that matters. he needs to be with family and thats what is going to happen. so many good things are happening right now that I do not want to associate them with this entry so im sure i'll add another new one soon. you need to go listen to chuck ragan. hot water music helped me through some really low times in high school for me, rumbleseat helped me through college and his solo project is helping me through these times. something about him is just beyond words to me. http://www.myspace.com/chuckragan Current Music: Chuck Ragan (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 9th, 2006
2:56 pm	update time I feel that i have not really written anything of substance in here in a while, and since im home, maybe its time for a little update. so tour was awesome. we left early june and came home after texas. 25 hours straight. chris drove 730 miles of it from dallas to somewhere in kentucky. then i took over. then jed. oh, we toured in a buick lesabre with a uhaul trailer. sick, huh? we played some awesome shows, met some awesome people and drank some awesome beer with said awesome people. Probably one of the best times i had on tour was when we got to pensacola Florida at 6 am... we just ran to the beach, stripped down to our boxers and just jumped right in. it was like taking a bath... in salt water!! it was so warm! that entire day we spent in the ocean and then went and played at this venue called Sluggo's with Outclassed from sharon (it was awesome they hopped on the show!!) and this band from Oregon that RULED! I forget their name, they were so good though! Like a hot water music/dillinger four kind of band with a girl singer. man... after we got some beer, went back to the hotel, got drunk and swam in the pool! But through almost the entire tour I had other, more important matters, running through my mind. on the fourth day of tour when we were in brooklyn my mother called at 3 am to let me know that my father had had more siezures and that he was being taken to hamot. the first thing I said was "do you want me to come home now?" and she said "no, lets wait to see what is going on first, there is no rush at the moment because if you came home there is nothing you can do." So when i hung up the phone that night, i knew things were going to be a little on edge for me for however long we were going to remain on tour. I was unsure how far we would get, the last date we were going to play was in dallas texas, 2 weeks away, and i didnt know if we'd make it. We played philly and punxy the next few days and i told my mother that if I needed to come home that im only a few hours away and it would be no problem. She still insisted we remain on tour, and so we did. In the following weeks my father went through hell and back. He was put in an induced coma to monitor his brain activity, to slowly bring him out to make sure that the bleeding that occured on his brain was not continuing. A few days later he was out of the coma, but by then clots had formed in his legs, and would need a blood thinner to remove them. But the doctors were hesitant to use the thinners because they were worried about the bleeding on the brain would return with out some measures taken. That next day, 9 am, my dad went down for brain surgery to remove the popped blood vessle. It took 2 days and two operations to finally get it all and 22 staples later he was back in his room in hamot. By this time we were down south in tennessee and my mother continued to insist that I should stay out until texas and then come home then, so we did. And it was tough. It was tough to stay on the road, but the last 8 shows we played were the most passionate, heart-felt and cathartic shows ive ever played in the 3 years this band has been together. So we played a few shows with Kids Like Us and Terror in florida and alabama, and then played in texas with the Knockout Kings and Balls Out. We left dallas texas at 12:05 am monday morning and returned home at 1 am wednesday morning. 25 hours straight driving, and to home I finally returned. The following two weeks that we were home between tours I spent every day at the hospital and rehab center with my dad, bringing him food, his mail, whatever he needed. My mother was about to enter one of the busiest weeks of the summer for real estate, so I did my best to take some of the stress off her shoulders. Not sure if it worked, haha, but i did my best to help out. Natalie came up for a week after she got home from NYC and we went to the rehab center where my dad was and went out to eat with my mother once or twice, and went to the beach to relax one day. It was great having her there. I had my band to talk too if I needed too on tour, but I never did. I probably should have, because a few times I just snapped at seth or jed or chris when I was pissed and I think they were pretty patient with me. But with Natalie here I was able to just spill it all. All my feelings, what was going through my mind, just everything. It was so relieving to do that. I love her more than anything and I dont know if i really ever told her how much I appreciate her in my life before that, but I really do and i told her. So when she left, it was just mom, dad and I, dad still being in re-hab, and mom trying to do whatever she could to get him out as fast as possible. If there is a hell, that place was it. I won't get into it. So dad was scheduled to come home the following weekend (the 7th). I was leaving for tour that day, and my mom called me a few days prior and we talked about it and I decided that it was not fair for me to just leave again just as dad was coming home, so i cancelled the following tour minus a few shows. It really wasnt up for discussion when it came to telling the other guys, I just wasnt leaving. Its something we could make up later this summer and they knew that, so no one was bummed. We were sitll playing the detroit and erie shows with bane and outbreak, and the wheeling show this saturday (the 15th, you should go! hah), and the rest of the time I was going to do what I could to help out. So we played detroit on friday, and it was unfuckingbelievable. We played there 3 years ago, the 4th show hank jones ever played was a house show in detroit called the Radnor House. Problem Solver Revolver, Coalition, Hank Jones and some local band. It sucked. bands ruled, no one was there. So after the show we went and hung out at this bar/bowling alley/pizza place/venue called Magic Sticks. It. Was. Amazing. I said "it would be insane to play here, but I know it'll never happen, werenot a band that would play here". Fast forward to this weekend. the bane show was moved from Alvins due to some shit that happened to the Magic Sticks!!!! FUCK YES!!!! The kids there seemed to dig us, we sold 20 records, 230692762 shirts and just had such a great time with all the bands! It was a blast. Jay from the Suicide Machines came out to the show for our set (which ruled!!!) and Outbreak's set, and said he was really glad to see that "true hardcore bands still exist and are getting this kind of a response". So that was really heartwarming to hear him say that about our bands. I cannot wait to go back to detroit!!!! The erie show was a great time as well! I was super stressed because it was the first time Bane had played erie in 5 years, so I didnt know if kids would come out. It was our release show, and I dont think playing with any other bands would have been more fitting. This Is Hell did a movielife cover, which i was STOKED about, but couldnt sing along because I was stuck at the door... and Van Damage (whose new record you NEED to get) sounded like the Nerve Agents! Loved it. All. 210 kids came out, it was perfect. Paid all the bands, had a great time, and saw kids smiling and singing a long to all the bands. Nothing could have topped lastnight's show. Best show i've ever booked and been apart of. So now im home. Hanging out with my dad, making sure he's okay (which he is), and doing the work i'd probably never gotten around to doing because i'd be in the back seat of the Buick LeSabre on my way to chicago. This was really a much needed entry in this journal, as its relieved some much needed venting that I think im done with. If you read this all, i applaud you, but I really dont expect that many to as the attention span of people today is about 10 lines of reading on here. So in closing, value the family you have because you never know when they're going to leave you. p.s. go buy outbreaks new record, its the 2nd best record in 2006. Maybe i'll update more often, but I really doubt it. Current Mood: content Current Music: Outbreak - Failure (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
5:09 pm	this last month has been sweet. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
9:11 pm	ride high into the sky in the last week ive been on this huge power metal kick thanks to micah's reminder to me of how incredible manowar is.  This has led me to listening to dragonforce and hammerfall nonstop for the last 3 days.  Yeah, im pretty awesome, i know.  lets go slay dragons! Next week is natalie's birthday and it just so happens I booked none more black on a show that one band dropped off!  She's pretty happy about that, as am I, seeing how its one of our favorite bands!  She's coming up tomorrow till wednesday for her birthday!  Chris, Becki, Natalie and I are going to a Japanese restraunt tomorrow and then bowling on saturday!  God, last weekend at bowling I got drunk and it seriously was awesome.  Hopefully the people who come dont actually want to bowl for real and just wanna have fun, because I know after one of those giant mugs of beer again thats all i will want!  Ive watched a bunch of sweet movies thanks to Netflix.  Go get Dark Days, Fog of War or Hotel Rhwanda.  Man, those movies were actually really powerful!  I have a ton of really good movies lined up that ive either never heard of or heard of but could never find.  I never got the chance to see The Pianist and thats the movie natalie and I will watch sometime this weekend.  I heard a lot of great things about it so im looking forward to it. yeah, well, im off to go eat some food with steve and dan at perkins and catch up!  For not having barely any classes this semester I feel like im REALLY busy.  its too bad im really not and I probably waste a lot of my time... TIME FOR A CHANGE! Current Music: DragonForce - Valley of the Damned (4 Comments |Comment on this)