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Ok, so a lot has happened since I last updated in here, not that anyone reads this thing anyway. 1st off, today was Ora and I's 2 year anni. I can't believe it's been this long, I still remember that rainy Saturday night of April 2005 when our lips first met. I'm inlove, that's it.
In other news, I got "kicked" out of The Shake-Up...kinda, haha. I've been looking for a legitimate excuse to quit that fucking band. I got one of Kirk's various angry threatening voicemail's Friday night after Ora's fashion show at Harcum, saying "Bryan, it's Kirk. You need to add at least 200 people to our friends list on myspace by the time I check it tomorrow, or you're out of the band, because I have like 10 other kids who wanna play bass for us." So what did I do? I seized the oppertunity to get the hell out of this stupid obligation and didn't add anyone I'M FREE!! FINALLY!! I was so sick and tired of dealing with his shit. I was waiting for the oppurtunity to free myself from this bullshit commitment. I feel like a weight has been lifted. No more 2 hour drives through the hicksville for practice, no more Kirk bitching at me for money, no more having to drive our drummer home an hour and a half out of my way. I'm so much more at peace now. Yeah.
Anyway, I'm glad I'll be able to put all my time towards The Instigation this summer. I found out I passed all my classes this semester. A 95 in Intro to Psychology, an 85 in Reading 100, and an 80 in English 100. Which is good, cause now my mom will reimburst me to $5,000 I spent on tuition. Anyway, that's all for now.
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| 11:04am 05/04/2007 |
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Yeah, my band The Shake Up! is going on tour again in a few hours. My drummer, Glenn and I are sitting in the Beachwood Library right now burning last minute cds to sell at our shows, waiting for our guitarist to get off work. Sadly, Ora couldn't go. We left eachother yesterday in tears, I won't lie. But it's okay, cause I'll see her in a few days. And we have contact via cell phone and whatnot. It's funny, in the past, with ex gfs I could go weeks without seeing them. But with her, I can barely manage a few days. I'm inlove, what can I say? lol. Our 2 year is coming up soon. I can't believe it. 2 years, and our relationship is still strong. I can't ever remember being this happy in my life as i am with her. Anyway, I should get back to burning cds.
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| 09:22pm 29/03/2007 |
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Poison Ivy SUCKS it's soo annoying. On a better note, I got the new Big D. and the Kids Table cd "Strictly Rude" it's awesome. I listened to it all the way to band practice with The Shake Up! and all the way back. Yeah, that's all.
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| 01:19am 28/03/2007 |
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I finally got a new bass amp. Another Ampeg, a 200 Watt combo amp, SWEET! The thing's a fuckin' beast, probably the next best thing to a half stack. It also came with a foot switch and all these crazy effects. It was $600, but so worth it. It only cost me my old 70 Watt Ampeg combo amp and that Marshall Micro Full Stack that I haven't touched since like 11th grade. Plus an additional $444 I have to pay back within the next 12 months. I probably got jipped, but soo worth it. I did one of those pay as you go plans. It'll only b e $$38 a month, that's not so bad. It'll be perfect for tour. And I can finally won't be over powered by Kirk and Dylan's Amps in The Shake Up. I liked my old bass amp, I've had it for forver(like 9th grade, haha) it was a good little amp, but I had the sneaking suspicion it was dying. I hated to part with it, but, ya gotta move on.
Other than that, not much has been going on, went to work today, came home, finnished a Psych reaction paper I put off all through spring break, called a bunch of venues trying to book some shows in South Jersey. Looked at the American Legion hall in Cherry Hill, Cooper River Park. I think Cooper river park will probably be my best bet. O O O! And I was talking to one of the guys from SGR(big SJ Ska band) they're concidering playing a reunion show with us, if that works out it'll be so kick ass. Anyway, I should probably get to bed, class tomorrow. Nah, fuck it, I'm gonna go play with my amp some more.
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| 05:15pm 20/03/2007 |
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I'm really getting sick of this bi-weekly paycheck deal at work. I need fucking money!!!! I wanna bleach the tips of my dreads again before The Shake-Up's show in Waretown this Saturday. I also need to get gas, food, new bass strings, a new guitar cord, probably guitar picks as well. Ahhh.
I've been feeling kind of down lately, life's good, don't get me wrong. I guess it's just that I'm finally coming to the realization that I'm 20 years old, I feel so old. I miss senior yeah, when I still felt alive and young. Now I just feel, old and fat, hahaha. I mean, I'm glad my life is going somewhere with school and my band(s), I have a steady gf that I'm inlove with, and she loves me too, I've got great friends, I dunno, I'm just rambling. I know it's ridiculous, but when you reach the big 2-0, you'll know what I mean. It's probably just a phase.
Work was alright today, Bob's giving me more hours for the next 2 weeks, so that's good. I also wanna put money towards a new bass amp, cuz my Ampeg is getting kinda old and I think it's just about had it(I've had it since 9th grade). I've been talking to this guy online and I'm hoping to buy a bass amp he's selling for $250. It's pretty nice, it's a Pevy 150 watt combo amp, so it'll suffice for now...if I can get the money that is. Anyway, that's all for now. I'll probably try and update in here more often. Shower time. |
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| 02:24am 20/03/2007 |
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wow...haven't updated in here in a while. Not too much has been going on lately.
2 weeks ago, my band(s) The Instigation and The Shake Up! had our show at the Pontiac
Grille on Southstreet in Philly. It was pretty sweet. It was always a dream of mine to have my band play on South Street. It was a nice day out, so Ora and I took out some of the lawn chairs and sat outside my apartment and just relaxed for a few hours before Kirk and Shannon picked us up to go into Philly to handout some flyers and do some last-minute promoting for the show. Then around 5ish we went back to the van(which we had to park all the way back at Penn's Landing) to lug our shit like 3 blocks to the Pontiac Grille. I hated that. The show went pretty well I'd say. The Instigation opened. We did pretty well up until the 4th song when Chris snapped a guitar string, then the rest of the bands were being dicks and refused to lend us one of their guitars for the rest of our set. Finally Dylan and Kirk came back in and Dylan let Chris borrow his Les Paul. So we finnished our set and felt pretty good about it granted the circumstances
After The Instigation's set, The Shake Up! went on, which met I just kinda lingered around onstage waiting for everyone else to set their equipment up. It was actually kinda strenuous, being onstage 2 sets straight, but fun none the less. We played pretty well on our first 4 songs, then started to get a little shaky on the last 2, but finnished, and people liked us for the most part. I think we may change some things around and drop/add some songs. After the show The Instigation band members wanted to leave right away, which was kind of annoying, since Ora's friend Kaitie came all the way from Harcum College in Bryn Mawr to see the show, and we just kinda left, which made me feel like a dick, but whatever. I guess I'll post some pics from the show since I'm not going to sleep anytime soon:
The Instigation @ The Pontiac Grille:
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The Shake-Up! @ The Pontiac Grille:
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-No lj cut, o well, deal.
So after the show The Instigation went back to Jeff's house and ordered pizza and discussed what we thought we needed to improve on, or change, or drop, or whatever. Scott and Alex came to the conclusion that they want to add more Metal into our songs, now I have no problem with that what so ever. BUT, the stuff Scott and Alex came up with isn't metal at all. Basically, it's just generic, No Regret, Skacore. And not the good Skacore. I'm talking about the Post-Hardcore fused with Ska, Skacore. And honestly, I don't like the direction we're going. In any case. The Instigation is taking a break from shows until late April/early May to work on new material(for better or for worse) and record a demo Hopefully so we can get rid of those shitty live recordings from The Troc. Unfortunatly, the band drama doesn't end there. To make a long story short, Gollmer accidentally broke Scott's guitar and Alex's amp at the show. Now Scott and Alex are pissed off at Chris and are concidering kicking him out of the band because of that, and the fact that they just don't like his singing. Now, I'm not going to get in the middle of it, because, 1st off, Chris is one of my best friends, 2nd off I don't have a problem with his singing. However, the past 2 Instigation practices have not been productive at all. It basically consists the band playing while Scott and Alex awkwardly ignore Chris, who is standing there doing nothing, which pisses me off because we're not getting shit done. Blahh, whatever, that's enough for now I guess. That's really it for band news.
Okay, I lied. The Shake-Up has a few more Jersey shows and a mini-tour coming up in April:
3/24/07 Waretown Fire Hall Waretown NJ
4/13/07 **SCUM FEST** Tom's River NJ
**SHAKE-UP! MINI-TOUR!!**
4/19/07 Sterling Hotel Allentown PA
4/20/07 Need Hall Erie PA
4/21/07 Katie's Basement! Cleveland OH
-Okay, I swear that's it.
College is going well for me so far. I'm keeping up in my studies so far. So that's good. Spring break started for me today, which is pretty sweet. Especially simce it was like 77 degrees out today. WOOO!!! I got to drive around with the windows down blasting music for once in like forever. Mostly Streetlight Manifesto, it brought back good memories.
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| 04:45am 03/02/2007 |
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Tonight was pretty cool. After practice with The Shake Up! I dropped our drummer off, then attempted to drive home. Got a little lost, and ended up driving through Chatsworth and Tabernacle without even realizing it. I realized where I was once I saw Seneca High School though, and got my bearings straight from there. I stopped in Cherry Hill to see my Ora, she was really tired, so I kissed her goodnight, then came home. I dunno, lately I've been traveling down memory lane, senior year to be specific. I dunno why, I guess because that was probably the best year of my youth( wait, I'm only 20, haha). Meeting all my East friends(Carl,Neuner, Applebaum, Gollmer, anyone else I forgot) being in TGL(despite how much I sometimes resent it), driving around in my soccer mom van blasting Beastie Boys shouting at people with my friends, running around with army helmets acting stupid, meeting the one girl I have ever truely loved, Ora.
I dunno, it was like after being with her and falling for her, the way she made me feel just made all the other relationships I had ever been in or even said to have had a significance to me seem so petty and pointless. I guess because I actually truely fell in love. I before when I said I was "inlove" I really just loved the person, or was just attatched.
lol, I'm rambling cuz I'm tired. I'm gonna go to sleep, I have work tomorrow 11:30 to 3:30. Ohhh that's right. The Instigation's having a show tonight, we got added last-minute, please go!
FRIDAY, FEB. 2ND(tomorrow) @ ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
149 SOUTH MAIN ST. WOODSTOWN, NJ, 08098:
UNKNOWN SOLDIERS(Local Punk/Rock)
THE INSTIGATION(Cherry Hill Ska/Indie)
TEN PERCENT(Touring Conneticut band)
THE FILTHY 42'S(Punk Rock)
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| 11:23pm 01/02/2007 |
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Last weekend was pretty rad. Friday The Instigation had a show @ Espresso Joe's in North Jersey. It was...unorganized to say the least. To make a long story short, our drummer, John, called us and told us he was dropping out of the band 20 minutes before we left for the show. However, this didn't stop us, we played our 1st "acoustic set" that night. It was intresting, people actually liked it for some odd reason. In any case, we're looking for a new drummer. As of now, Kyle Applebaum is covering on drums. He may even be permanent. He's gotten mad good at drumming in the past 2 years. Gollmer, Alex and I practiced briefly with him last Saturday...and we have a show at Asbury Methodist Chruch this Friday, so hopefully we can practice tomorrow so we can be somewhat prepared for the show.
Saturday Applebaum, Skalex and I drove up to North Jersey to see Westbound Train, Bomb Town, Sneaky Sea Lions, Awful Waffle, and The Executives at the Hamilton St. Cafe. It kicked ass, probably one of the best shows I've been to all year. The whole environment gave me a 1970's dance hall kinda vibe, it was pretty sweet. I danced so much I was sore until Tuesday. I love ska.
College has been going well so far. 3rd times' a charm, haha. I like Harcum College. The kids are nice, the teachers are cool. If I do well this semester I wanna live on campus next year. The dorms are sweet and have an awesome view. And since there's only like a %20 male ratio at the college, I'd probably get a dorm all to myself. Plus since it's in Bryn Mawr, I'd only be like 10 minutes from Philly. The only thing that I haven't liked about the college is this old toad woman that's in my into to Psych class. She's one of those like 40 year old women who go to college just to say they can. She is so fucking annoying, acts like since she's 40 she knows more than the professor. Whenever He's trying to explain something to us, she cuts him off, and %80 of the time she isn't even right. Honestly, I don't even mind that as much as what happened today. Ora and I were out in the hall kissing - not even kissing, pecking. And she's like "Get a room, where are we? In a hotel?" I don't mind old people going to college 'cause they did something to fuck their life up in their teen years which prevented them to go to college or for whatever reason. But I'll be dammed to have some self rightious, bible-thumping, old fossil act like she's better than everyone else and have some strange sense that she has authority over other students. She is, after all, a student just like the rest of us, no better, no worse...if not worse. But yeah, haha, other than that, school's going pretty well. I'm keeping up in my classes, I'm with my Ora, I feel like I'm actually accomplishing something in higher education.
Oh yeah, I worked out everything in The Shake Up! I basically told Kirk I wasn't going to take his shit anymore and that he better stop criticizing me and show me some respect, or I was out. And he listened. So yeah, we're practicing tomorrow, yay. Oh, and both The Instigation and The Shake Up! will be playing a show together Sunday, February 18th in Cherry Hill:
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| 11:36am 24/01/2007 |
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Alright, so my 11:30 class got cancelled, so I'm updating in here cuz I'm bored. Not to much has been going on. I started college again last Wensday, everything's been going smoothely so far, I've been doing my hw and studying and whatnot, so that's good.
On a down note, band stuff isn't so great. In The Shake Up! Im really starting to get annoyed at our guitarist, Kirk, he treats me like crap. Monday night, after practice, he made me drive our drummer, Glenn home, which is completly out of my way. I mean, I already have to drive an hour and 10 minutes just from my house to where we practice, dropping Glenn off was an additional hour out of the way, not to mention it killed my gas tank. Now some of you might say "oh so what?" As of now, I have no money to my name, I emptied out my savings account for my college tuition. All the funding I'm getting is $75 every 2 weeks for food, $625 for my apartment's rent, and $55 for my cellphone bill from my mother. I started working at Great Wraps yesterday, but I don't get paid 'till next week. And I almost didn't have enough money for trainfare to get to school today. Kirk always tells me he does the most for the band, well, no kidding, you did found it. If Glenn can't get a ride to and from practice, it's not Kirk's responsibility to drive him home, but it sure as hell isn't mine either. It's like he has this crazy idea that I'm from some rich family in Cherry Hill, and that's not the case. My mother has money, I do not. She has just been generous and is still supporting me as long as I am in school. I'm just as broke as all the other members in the band. Blahhh, whatever. I may just drop out of this band if he doesn't change his attitude and start showing me some respect. Now I know why all his former bandmates dropped out. I like playing in The Insitgation better anyway. They're more layed back. Oooh, yeah, we have a show in North Jersey this Friday, so that's something to look foward to.
Ora and I have been doing well. lol, we see eachother like all the time now that we go to the same school together. Our classes are like literally right across the hall from eachother. I really like this school. All my professors are cool, espeically Mr. Thorton in Intro to Psych. Anyway, I think I'm gonna go take a walk before my next class.
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| 12:21am 12/01/2007 |
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So I just found my old mp3 player I got for my 18th birthday senior year. I hadn't picked it since the day after I got it. It was amusing how I don't listen to any of the songs that were on there anymore. Anyway, today I went to traffic court in South Hampton...aand I got my penalty of 4 points reduced to 2, so that's good. As for college, I start January 17th, I'm excited to go back...for the 3rd time, lol. As for band shit, both The Instigation and The Shake Up! have a few shows coming up
Upcoming Instigation Shows:
10/20/07-Gloucter County Library Mullica Hill, NJ
10/26/07-Espresso Joe's Keyport, NJ
Upcoming Shake-Up Shows:
2/10/07-Club Deep Asbury Park,NJ
3/3/07-Need Hall Beachwood,NJ
So yeah, make it out to any of those shows if you can, it's gonna be a good time. Check out our myspaces(yes, myspaces) for more details. |
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| 03:37pm 07/01/2007 |
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So yeah, I got back from tour Friday morning. There were good points and bad points of the tour. All in all I had fun though. I made some awesome friends, made some fans. Hell, I even got asked for autographs and pictures, oddly enough. But I must say, for once, it actaully felt good to be back in Jersey. I'll admit I missed it. When I got home I dropped Glenn and my Ora off, then took a shower for the first time in almost a week. It felt gooood, hahaha. Then I went to practice with The Instigation at Jawn's house, that was fun. I missed playing with them. We'll hopefully have a few shows lined up soon. I'd write more, but I'm too lazy. I'm taking Ora out to dinner tonight and I'll probably blow some of my birthday on other things as well.
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| 09:31am 29/12/2006 |
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Okay, so Wensday night we got into Jacksonville FL, it was fucking amazing, it felt so good to be back. I love it here. Much better than Jersey. This crust punk couple is letting us stay at their apartment, its nice as hell and they're cool as fuck. So we got here around 11pm and hungout and talked to them, then we crashed for thje night.
Yesterday we woke up, went out to get lunch, then went skateboarding, I haven't skated in awhile, so I was pretty sloppy. After we hungout at the beach, we left for our show at the Kountry Tavern. It was a pretty kickass show. It was a bar with a bunch of rednecks drinking beer, they were cool as hell though. There was alittle drama during the night. This band that we kinda have a rivalry with, The Mad Conductor, was supposed to play a show at some place called "The Imperial" down the street and their show got cancelled, so they asked the kid who was running the show at The Kountry Tavern if they could hop on the show. They did a little more than just "hop on". We were supposed to go second and we got all of our equipment out of the van and ready to go on stage, and then the singer from The Mad Conductor comes up to us and was like "actually we're going next cuz we wanna just play and then get out of here" (they stayed for the entire show) so Kirk and him were arguing and when we started brining our shit onto the stage, they already had their equipment set up. If it wasn't for the fact that the vocalist was an arrogent prick, we wouldn't have really cared. But while we were waiting out in front of the bar, he was looking at us, giving us these cocky-ass sneers and then came out of the bar during a song and starts yelling at us "yeah! I'm the rudest motha' fucka' around, I'm a real MC, you can't beat me!" lol, one of the rednecks at the bar started calling him a jackass and told him to get his yankee ass back inside, haha. Then I looked in the door and realized that literally no one was watching their set. The only people in thee bar were the rednecks, and they weren't even paying attention to the band, they were just drinking and talking among themselves, haha. Then when their set was over and we were setting up, the vocalist was stil in there and Ora went up to him and was like "I really like how you draw the crowd in" and at first he laughed and was like "hey, thanx" then his facial expression completly changed when he realized Ora just dissed him since there wasn't a crowed at all, and he just scowled and walked off.
Then we went on. lol, all the kids came back in, the room completely filled up and the pit started up and the kids were dancing and moshing and getting into the music. They loved our set and we sold a pretty good amount or merch. Then after the show, the vocalist from The Mad Conductor came up to us and was like "wow, you guys have a bigger following than we do, maybe we can play together in Jersey or something" and Kirk was like "pash, yeah right". I guess he was attempting to suck up to us because he realized people like us more than them. lol, Tim's girlfriend said it was like the ending to a Disney movie. It was a great show and a great night.Our next show is at Churchill's Pub on Miami Beach, so I'll update in here sometime later, maybe.I only got 2 pics off this show, yeah the battery in my camera died.
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| 12:11pm 28/12/2006 |
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Okay, so yesterday we left for tour. Kirk picked Glenn, Ora and I up around 7am and we set off for our first show in The drive down was alright at first, then we ran into traffic once we get into Virginia and we started to running late. It was ok tho, cuz Glenn had a portable dvd player and we found a porn dvd and Glenn kept putting it up to the window when a car would pull up next to us with little kids in it, haha, it was great. When stopped at a rest stop and we got out and skated for awhile, I sucked, but it was fun. When we finally got to the venue, the show was already over...but they let us play anyeway, and a shitload of kids came back in to see us. Our performance...could have been better, Kirk's guitar kept coming out of tune, which kept throwing Glenn and I off, but we still did a good job apparently, and we had fun, which is what counts. Right now we're at some random kid's house who let us crash here. Next stop, Jacksonville, FL!
I'll just post some of the pictures from the show below:
( 12/26/06 @ Newbrookland Tavern, Columbia, SC ) |
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So I leave for tour with The Shake Up in a few hours. I'm really excited, I probably won't be able to sleep. This is something I've always wanted to do, and I'm finally going to accomplish it. I don't know weither or not I'll get a chance to update in here or not, or anywhere else for that matter, hopefully I will. If not I'll see you fuckers when I get back in a week and a half.
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| 11:45pm 18/12/2006 |
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Once again, alot of stuff has been going on, ironically, my new laptop just came in toaday. I haven't had time to open it though, because I never have any free time anymore. All my life really consists of anymore is, band(s), Ora, work, preparing for school. Unfortunatly, work has been consuming most of my time which is the the only time-consuming activity I'm not particularly fond of.
I mean, I'm glad I didn't get fired, and I'm glad Wayne's giving me more hours, but not this many. Like this week, I'm working 4 8 hour shifts, Monday thru Friday. Today was the first of them, and I'm already exhausted, I know I'm not going to want to get up tomorrow morning, or the mornings that follow. I mean 8 hours a day is a pain in the ass to begin with, but ontop of it, it's the holidays, which makes it even more hectic and exhausting, plus all the whinny customers ontop of it all. It's so annoying and nerve-racking. While Ora's in New York City tommorw having fun with her sister, I'll be stuck at work being bored, or overworked, blahhh.
As for the tour with The Shake Up, we've got like 13 shows lined up all down the East Coast. We even have 2 shows in 1 day on some of the date's in Florida. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm starting to get used to this whole rockstar lifestyle, but as everything in life, in addition to it's up's, it has it's down's as well. I'll just say I've been getting a lot of unwanted female attention lately, which Ora doesn't like, she really gets annoyed when all the little annoying tenny boppers hit on me on myspace, and at work and whatnot. I don't like it anymore than she does, and I wish she'd realize that. And she thinks I'm going to ignore her when at all our shows on tour, which I'm not. I love her. I think she's realized that now though, so it's all good.
Also, there are a few financial issues with the tour I need to take care of. I'll probably need to chip in a total of $250 for gas, merch, and food and anything else I want. I'm pretty sure this week's paycheck will take care of that though, plus the $75 my moher gives me for food every week. So yeah, nevermind lol.
We're going into the recording studio at Metro to record our new album for the tour this Thursday, which I'm excited about. I just hate the drive all the way over to Krik's for practice and whatnot. You have to drive like all the way down 70 East, which is like an hour and 20 minutes from my apartment. And I'm alittle sketchy about driving through there because of all the cops swarming around the area. Oh well, it's worth it to me.
After the tour, I start school at Harcum College Jan 17th, which I'm looking foward to. Working in retail at FYE made me realize why it's vital for me to go to college. I wouldn't wanna do the shit the rest of my life, fuck that.
So yeah, that's basically everthing I needed to say in here. I should probably go to bed, I have work at 9 again tomorrow...blahhhhh... |
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| 11:23pm 10/12/2006 |
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Okay, my laptop has been broken for the past few weeks, and a shitload of stuff has happend in, so I'll just summerize in here while I have a chance.
-Got 2 speeding tickets in a week, I'm gonna try and plead them down in court.
-Saw Leftover Crack live at Asbury Park with Ora, Kirk, and Shannon, LOC was amazing, definetly up there with best shows of the year.
-Could've sworn I got shit-canned from my job at FYE for calling out sick last week, then came in today and realized I wasn't, in fact, Wayne actually gave me a decent number of hours.
-I got my paycheck today, which was a suprising $82.26(concidering I only worked 2 days in the past 2 weeks.
-I start school...again at Harcum College January 17th, majoring in the Liberal Studies program, which I'm looking foward to.
-Best of all I'll be going to school with my Ora<333.
-Lastnight I went to the Drive Thru Pharmacy/No Regrets/Retrotones/The Gadgets show with Dave P., Josh, and Alex.
-It kicked ass, I had an awesome time, Drive-Thru was amazing, as were most of the other bands. And I picked up Drive-Thru Pharmacy's new cd, it kicks ass.
-The winter tour I'm playing with The Shake Up!(the grindcore ska band I'm playing bass in) is falling into place, we have like 9 or 10 shows lined up in 6 different states. They go as follows:
12/26/06 Newbrookland Tavern Columbia SC
12/28/06 Kountry Tavern Jacksonville FL
12/29/06 The Pegasus Lounge Tampa FL
12/30/06 The Brass Mug Tampa FL
12/31/06 Bowman's Archery Prariesville LA
1/1/07 Langford Sound Stage Roswell GA
1/2/07 The Pink Palace Savannah GA
1/3/07 Lucky's Pub Wilmington SC
1/4/07 TT Reynold's Fairfax VA
1/6/07 1st Pitman Presbyterian Church Pitman NJ
-so yeah, I'm really exited about this tour. It's something I've always dreamed of doing, I can't wait. Even my mother is being supportive of my decision, which is suprising, to say the least, because she's usually never supportive of anything I do. So yeah, that's basically it. Hell, it's not like anyone uses lj anymore, let alone reads this goddamn thing. Great way to kill time none the less.
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So yeah, this weekend was pretty rad.
Friday: Alex and I had quite an adventure. Alex is going out with this girl Claire now...and she lives it this place called Woodstown, which is like all the way down 295 South, which is about 40 minutes away from Cherry Hill. Alex had plans to hangout with her lastnight and needed a ride. And I was in a good mood, so I was like "what the hell?" So I picked him up around 6ish and we headed out. We got soooo lost lol. We finally ended up on 295 South and I realized it was the same route to took to go to and from college at Wesley last year. So the drive brought back lots of memories lol. I must have drove that route at least 40 times last year. So that was cool. We finally found the school where Alex was supposed to meet her. There was a play going on, so after Alex found Claire, we watched it. It was actually pretty funny for a high school play. There really wasn't any plot or storyboard at all, I didn't understand it, but it did make me laugh. After the play, we all went to a diner and I forced Alex to pop the question and ask her out. He did, and she said yes, so I'm happy for him. I don't know why I was so willing to drive him to see her. I guess it's partially because I know how is is having a girlfriend a million miles away, and what a pain in the ass it can be not having a license. But yeah, on the way home we got compeltly lost again, but we eventually found our way. Then I drove home, cause I was tired as fuck, talked to Ora on the phone for a bit, then hit the sack.
Saturday: Woke up, got ready for work, stopped by Ora's to see her before I had work, then drove to work. Work was a bit irritating today. First off, I attempted to cash in my paycheck...then realized all the banks closed at 12 on Saturdays. Seriously, don't they think there might be people who want to use the bank after 12? Morons. secondly, I swear, if I hear one more jackass ask me "when are we getting the new ps3?" or "do we sell bum fights?" I'm going to slit someone's throat, I can't believe some of the idiots that come in that store. After work I drove back to my apartment and got changed, then Ora and I drove into Philly to hangout with her friend Nina at Drexel. When Ora and I were getting ready to go into the SEPTA Station, I ran into Kim Kelly, so we talked breifly, then Ora and I got on the train. We met Nina in the foodcourt in the train station, then went to some crappy, overpriced ripp-off of Starbuck's and hungout with all her Jewish friends. I also found Andrew Schwartz, who I hadn't seen since I worked at Tall Pines the summer after 9th grade. So we caught up on things and remminised on memories of Tall Pines and whatnot. Then we all went to South Street and got Filafel at the vegitarian place. I love that stuff. After that Nina and her friend went back to Drexel and Ora and I took the train home. Then we hungout at her house and watched "Entourage" that show kicks ass.
So the tour with The Shake Up is falling into place, the dates look like this so far:
12/26/06 The Newbrookland Tavern Columbia South Carolina
12/28/06 Kountry Tavern Jacksonville Florida
12/29/06 Churchill's Pub Miami Florida
1/1/07 Langford Sound Stage Rosswell Georgia
1/2/07 The Pink Palace Savannah Georgia
Aaand...it works out because the tour will be over before I start college again. That reminds me, I took my accuplacer placement test Friday, I'm in all remedial english -_- blaah, oh well, at least I didn't get the lowest class. and I'm taking introduction to Social Science, so I'm pretty excited. Yeah, life is good right now. I'm finally fufilling my dream of going one tour with a band, I'm going back to college with my Ora, yeah, life is at an highpoint right now.
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I'm at Harcum College with my Ora right now, waiting to take my placement test in like half an hour, so I'll make a quick update. So I'm going on tour with The Shake Up!(the grindcore/ska band I joined a few months ago) down the eastcoast. We've got 5 shows booked so far, one in Virginia, one in Savanah, South Carolina, one in Jacksonville, Florida, one in Talahasse Florida, and one in Miami, Florida. We may have a few more. We're shooting to have the tour last a week and a half. And it'll all workout because we'll be home 2 weeks before I start 2nd semestier of college. So yeah, it's gonna kick ass. I'm kinda bummed cuz I'm missing out on 2 Instigation shows -_- Blah, oh well. Ya gotta make sacrifices for tour. I better head upstairs to take my test...
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So yeah, The Instigation had our show at Harcum College on Friday, it could've been better, could've been worse. The bands were all awesome. We had a great set. We made $280 dollars for the cancer benefit. The only letdown was...like 20 people(not including the bands) showed up. I think it was a combination of lack of promotion, and the location of the venue. Oh, well, the show was still fun as hell. I feel kinda bad that Drive-Thru Pharmacy was helping us with the PA the whole time, and then there was like no one there for their set, blah, oh well, it was still a kick ass time. Ora slept over my apartment after the show =D Didn't do much today, just went to work, then came home. I also picked up The Sublime cd "40 oz to Freedom" from work before I left, it kicks ass. Then I drove back to my apartment and got changed, then left to go pick up my Ora and her sister Devra and we drove to Medport and met Greg, Kyle Hodum, Fred and a bunch of other people there for the rest of the night. Then we drove back to Ora's and Ora and I watched "In Good Company" it's a pretty rad movie. Now I'm watching Fast Times At Ridgemont High, god I haven't watched that movie in forever. Tomorrow I'm practing with The Shake Up again.
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