Pictures from ASBTB @ Lucky's 9-29-08

Check them out here.

Plus this show was on my birthday which makes it even more rad. There are lots of good pictures from other shows around the state. Add and support Ryan's photography.

Downloads 9-30-08

• One Life Crew - Crime Ridden Society
• Taylor Swift - Beautiful Eyes
• Taylor Swift - Live from SoHo
• Taylor Swift - Sounds of the Season

Downloads 9-27-08

• Alpha and Omega - Death's Bed
• Colin of Arabia - Snitch
• Lewd Acts - Dark Days
• Life or Death - Sentenced
• Staring Problem - You'll Always Be Sick
  

Downloads 9-22-08

• Barricade - Barricade Ep
• Barricade - Be Heard
• COA/Pressvre - Stalemate
• Lie and Wait/Overdose - Split
  
• The Mongoloids/This Means Nothing - Ahead of the Game
• Violation - Devoured
  

Bored at 7 in the morning.

I'm sitting at Tyler's house at 7 in the morning, cause its too late for me to even tryin to go to bed now, especially if I hope to be even somewhat alive while we record/if we record today. Waiting til 10, then calling Dave to find out if we are gonna be able to record today or not. If not, I'm either going to attempt to go back to bed, or going home and sleeping in my bed, cause this foldy chair thing is the most uncomfortable thing I've ever slept on in my life.

Apparently, there is a North Carolina Hardcore forum, that's pretty active, so I've been lurking that for a bit. It's funny watching kids from here argue with each other.

Anyways, we spoke with Scottie P. the other night, and apparently the winter tour thing is still possibly happening. It'll just be ASBTB and Ghost Hunt with Empires on a few shows. Tigerstyle isn't able to do it, and since they are from Florida, instead of debating on going north or south, it was easily decided to go up north towards New York, etc. I'm super excited to get to tour again, and this time with hopefully no bull shit like last time. Hank probably won't get to go, so we'll hopefully find someone else willing to fill in for this short tour, and then hopefully Hank will be able to tour if we tour again over spring break.

Also, apparently Travis Barker and DJ AM were in a plane crash and are both in bad condition with a lot of burns. There were 60 people on board the plane, and 4 died. Apparently the plane didn't take off and then crash, but it went off the runway and ran into some sort of control towers. Sucks to hear news like that, especially when I've been listening to their damn mixtape lately. Best wishes to them.

That's all for this one I think, no one reads this but Sarah, and that's cause she's the biggest creeper ever and likes to make fun of me for anything I say, haha.

Downloads 9-14-08

• Dropdead - 2nd Lp
• Smartbomb - Diamond Heist
• Smartbomb - Chaos and Lawlessness
• Sluts - Self Titled

Debating on compiling a list of all the albums I have either physically or mp3s of. Kind of a waste of A LOT of time though...maybe next time I get way too much free time I'll do that.

September 20th

Ahem.

Was another terrible day. I've been in a slump the past few days, and today was the worst one so far. My grandma went into the hospital today also, which only made it worse on me.

Hopefully I'll cheer up again once Monday gets here, but school I'm sure will just stress me out worse.

On a good note, I reserved Wrath of the Lich King today, which is awesome for me, so I won't have to pay as much when it comes out. Also, I set up my direct deposit at Party City so that I can just have my pay go directly to my checking account. I call in Friday and then I should start a few days after that. I'm excited to have a job, and hopefully I can get enough money and do well enough so that I get to stay there after the Halloween season ends.

I slept in all day today too, so I'll probably stay up kinda late playing on XBL and on WoW. Trying to hit 70 and get some decent gear before the expansion comes out and I'm way behind.

Anyways, that about sums up my day I guess.

Downloads 9-13-08

• Dystopia - Dystopia
• Kylesa - To Walk a Middle Course
• Man is the Bastard - Mancruel
• Witch Hunt - This is Only the Beginning...

Didn't download much today, but that Kylesa album is awesome.

Not much at all.

Today was Tyler's birthday, which was fun. He's gonna be a frat which is awesome.

Right now though, tonight blows it pretty hard. Going to sleep. Not much else to say...

Employed/Today's happenings.

I GOT HIRED! HELL YES. I got the call today in the middle of 1st block. I'm now officially hired by Party City. It's just seasonal but I might get to keep the job after October ends if I'm lucky. Just got back from signing papers/filling out all the stuff. Seemed cool, I know a lot of the people that work there, I start work next Friday on the 21st, so that will be sick. Finally getting some damn money. This will help me pay for all the stuff I want.

Not really any plans for tonight, was gonna hit up some free fighting class thing at Gold's with Lauren, but didn't have a ride, plus it's raining and shit...which blows. I wanted to go work out again anyways. Somewhat soon I'm gonna go get a membership at Planet Fitness, cause it's cheaper and way closer.

Anyways, unless I find a way out of it, I'm stuck home for the night. I guess it's gonna be WoW and COD4 all night, til I go to bed, which will probably be sorta early cause I didn't get to sleep til like 2:30 last night. I also found out today the official release date of Wrath of the Lich King. (New WoW expansion...I know, I'm a nerd) It comes out November 3rd. I'm going to go reserve it as soon as I get the money and the time to go to Gamestop again. Also, I'm thinking of putting a countdown on here til that date, but that would be really fucking lame of me...but then again I don't care.

Senior project is going well, got forms today for my mentor and such. I'm supposed to use someone that works at the Music Loft here, but I need to get in touch with my friend Brantly to take me there to meet him and make sure he's cool with me using him for it. I'm pretty excited to build this home studio. I am also ordering the stuff I need for it really soon, which will be awesome.

Continued later before I go to sleep...

Downloads 9-9-08

• Breathing Fire - Demo
• Crom - The Cocaine Wars 1974-1989
• Give Em' Hell - We Are The Wolves
• Harm's Way - Imprisoned 7"
  
• Mindsnare - The Death
  
• Mongoloids/KLU split
• pg.99 - Document #14: Singles CD
• Pelican - Australasia
• Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
• Steel Nation - Soul Swallower
• Weekend Nachos - It's A Wonderful Life

Just posting this so I can remember what I downloaded easier, so that I can go back and make sure I listen to all the stuff I downloaded.

YES!

Ah.. Yeah, I think I got the job at Party City. They called Lauren's mom cause I had her as a reference and she asked them if they though I had the job, and they said yes. So it'll be awesome if I do, especially if I get to keep it after the Halloween season ends. Either way, this will let me clock in a good amount of hours hopefully even if I do have to leave after Halloween.

I've been listening to a lot of post-rock and other ambient music lately, stuff like Pelican, Isis, Red Sparowes, and Russian Circles. I really like this kind of stuff, it's a good alternative to what I typically would listen to. I wish I would've liked Russian Circles back when I saw them, but I was extremely close-minded about music back then, and the music I did like was terrible. Go check out some of the bands that I listed, and expand your musical tastes. I did, and I love that stuff now.

Anyways, I came home early from school today, just missed one block, which was Algebra 2, but I'm not that worried about it, I suck at math, but what we're doing right now is pretty easy. I just slept once I got home cause I didn't sleep at all night before last. I'm about to eat Subway and then probably play some more Call of Duty 4. If you have a gamer tag, lemme know. Mine is JOJOEDGE.

I keep hearing about some ring over in Switzerland or something that can accelerate particles? And apparently it turns on tomorrow, and then in a few months they'll put a beam of protons going clockwise, and then a few months later shoot another beam going counter-clockwise. Then eventually they'll move them so that they hit. This apparently will prove the big bang theory and also prove to some point the quantum theory and that there are 11 dimensions instead of 3. It might even make a miniature universe? Pretty interesting stuff, I should read up onto a little more.

Interview/other stuff.

The job interview didn't seem to go that great, but that's probably just me being my own worst critic as usual. I knew one of the other guys getting interviewed, so that was good. They interviewed three of us at once, which was odd, and nerve racking as hell. But Ralphie works there and said he should be able to get me hired which would be sick.

Went to the gym today with Zach, Lauren and Daniel, actually got some good work in, which was good, cause I've been lazy as hell.

I'm super tired cause I only got like 2 hours of sleep last night.

Oh and... apparently Blogspot is pretty trendy? Didn't really notice that, but apparently a lot of people have these for some reason. I know that no one cares what I have to say when I go on about random stuff, but it's something for me to do, and get out what I've been up to.

My first post.

Just got a blogspot, and it seems pretty rad.

I doubt anyone will really read the stuff I post on here, but I don't care, just something else to pass my time...

I feel like drawing and screwing around with photoshop, but I need to get to sleep. It's 4 and school's only like 4 hours away... doubt tomorrow's gonna be a good day. Have a job interview at 5 after school, so I hope that goes well... a lot of guitar equipment I want/need.

On another note, the Travis Barker/DJ AM mixtape is sick, if your into real hip-hop, go check that out here. The download is free if you put your e-mail and stuff in.