Crazy cool. I picked its nose.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
I'm officially in love with the pacific northwest.
I haven't been posting much as of late, this week I am on tour with my band, last week and the week before that I was mostly panicking about how we were going to manage/afford going on tour, honestly it is going so much better than I imagined!
Day 1: Sacramento, CA.
We drove about 2 hours north of home, got to R5 records where the show was and we were early so we hunted down some food. We ate at a vegetarian vietnamese restaurant called Andy Nguyen's. It was pretty god damn delicious but the service totally sucked. They took forever to get us our food and we were late to the show, sorry sacramento!!
We played with the Grid Rats and the Snot Cocks, they were both awesome and totally punk and made me feel less punk by default but my sassy new haircut is pretty punk and so is my silver sprocket jacket so I felt okay! They were super nice, kids beat the crap out of each other brutally with pillows, the pillow fight even broke out onto the streets of seattle. Those kids were nuts. It was a free show so we didn't really make any money and it was monday so there wasn't a ton of people there but it was a good start.
Immediately after the show we left to portland. It was a hellacious 11 hour drive and Leo drove the whole way! He is a powerhouse. We giggled about everything because we were so exhausted the entire time and that just makes things funnier. Things like "robert brownie junior" yeah I said it.
Day 2: Portland Oregon.
We arrived in portland at the home of Dave and Ryan death ray at 7am. They are amazing dudes and have an enormous couch! We probably only slept for about 3 hours and then got up to drink smoothies (thanks to Ryan and his amazing vita mixer) and check the internet!
Our album is currently streaming at punknews.org, probably not for much longer. http://www.punknews.org/article/32807 we giggled at all the comments about us being so ugly we must be from monster island and one kid said we were "54%" hardcore. There was also a comment about our brutal to brotherhood ratio being "off the fucking charts" which simply doesn't make sense to any of us so is now a constant source of amusement.
We met up with my long time friend Lesa for dinner, she treated us because she is a saint. We had amazing meatball subs at the bye and bye. I had a side of brussel sprouts FTW! After that we went to voodoo donuts (after saint cupcake failed and was all out of vegan donuts) where I got totally happy (you may think you have seen my happy, you probably haven't) I ate a donut called the "old dirty bastard" it was glorious. Lesa then took us to Burnside skate park where all the dudes in my band popped skateboard videogame boners, whatever that means.
The show was at the Mafia House, in a dingy small basement. It was totally fun and there were a bunch of people there. Danger death ray played first and were super good, They had no drummer so just did solo stuff. We played 2nd and the danger death dudes sang along and pillowfighted, Lesa took pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesamonster/sets/72157615820591611/
The only suck part was that I had to use my own microphone which apparently isn't loud enough so they kept turning me up and if I moved in front of the speakers it would feed back a lot so I was confined to a small space. I like to move!!
Early times was amazing, Anchor down is still amazing, they are some of the nicest guys ever. I can't wait till May 15th when they play gilman! After the show I got to drive David's car, Ryan made us vegan pizza, we watched a hella old Elvis costello concert from Germany or something and I got my cuddle on with a cute portland boy!
Leaving portland was really hard because everyone was so awesome but we were way excited to move on to seattle! Before we left Ryan made us vegan pancakes, I had mine ala mode with chocolate ice cream, raspberries, blueberries and pecans. I am a little insane. We also went to food fight grocery and sweet pea bakery. I got some delicious coffee cake which I still haven't finished and a bunch of gelatin mix and ricemallow creme! Yum!!
Day 3: Seattle, Washington
The drive into seattle was kind of slow and traffic jammed. We got into seattle and arrived at my friend Chris Crusher's house. We sat on the couch, listened to records and got fed an amazing vegan meal (spaghetti and meatballs) by a bunch of meat eating non vegans! It was awesome! We all headed over to the funhouse and then walked around by the space needle and sci-fi museum until the show started.
The funhouse was awesome, they gave us whatever we wanted, it was a bar with a basketball hoop in the side yard! The ice giant hurt his ankle really bad playing Horse with the guys. Our set was really fun, senor pantalones rojos was the drunken master of pillowfights! It ruled!
Success! Was amazing, they did a billy bragg cover and my mind was blown! I had tons of fun!! They are awesome dudes and very very talented to boot! Dateless played their last show, it was really fun but also really sad!! They did a bang up job and Kevin played a few songs with them too. It was lots of fun and shennanigans ensued when the pillowfights started a pillowfight during their set.
After the show we went back to Crusher and Alli's house and laughed and talked and played modern english songs on strange instruments until the wee hours of the night.
Day 4: Seattle washington part 2
We slept in! Hooray!! We watched Trale Lewous videos on youtube!! We went to Araya's vegan indian food buffet! We battled the Fremont troll! Gas works park! We got Mighty O motherfucking donuts!!
We showed up at the GRN STRP house, vegan pizza was bought for us, a ton of people from the night before came through again to see us, it made us feel good. The house was awesome, just a fun punk house, I really wanted to mop the floor.
Is electric played first, they were so fun live and barely fit all 6 of them on stage!
Like Claws played second, this band is made up of a really nice guy named Zack and my insanely talented friend Jason Clackley. They were awesome and I kept fixing the mic stand for Zack and jokingly harassing him about breaking everything.
We played third and it went insanely well. Senor pantalones rojos brought his own pillows to the show!! Holy crap!! A lot of kids sang along to our songs which was totally unexpected and awesome, and even more sang along with our kelly clarkson cover. That's right I said it!
The damage done was amazing and totally sweet guys. They were the best band of the night and the living room of the GRN STRP house went nuts. They dedicated an Alkaline Trio cover to us! It was awesome!
After the show we talked and sat around as long as we could until everyone had to leave. We went back to crushers house, relaxed, talked about the pop punk, he put on the green man suit and scared the shit out of all of us and them helped the cat catch a fly. It was a very entertaining night.
We left this morning and are now en route to Boise Idaho. I am going to eat soooo many potatoes.
Day 1: Sacramento, CA.
We drove about 2 hours north of home, got to R5 records where the show was and we were early so we hunted down some food. We ate at a vegetarian vietnamese restaurant called Andy Nguyen's. It was pretty god damn delicious but the service totally sucked. They took forever to get us our food and we were late to the show, sorry sacramento!!
We played with the Grid Rats and the Snot Cocks, they were both awesome and totally punk and made me feel less punk by default but my sassy new haircut is pretty punk and so is my silver sprocket jacket so I felt okay! They were super nice, kids beat the crap out of each other brutally with pillows, the pillow fight even broke out onto the streets of seattle. Those kids were nuts. It was a free show so we didn't really make any money and it was monday so there wasn't a ton of people there but it was a good start.
Immediately after the show we left to portland. It was a hellacious 11 hour drive and Leo drove the whole way! He is a powerhouse. We giggled about everything because we were so exhausted the entire time and that just makes things funnier. Things like "robert brownie junior" yeah I said it.
Day 2: Portland Oregon.
We arrived in portland at the home of Dave and Ryan death ray at 7am. They are amazing dudes and have an enormous couch! We probably only slept for about 3 hours and then got up to drink smoothies (thanks to Ryan and his amazing vita mixer) and check the internet!
Our album is currently streaming at punknews.org, probably not for much longer. http://www.punknews.org/article/32807 we giggled at all the comments about us being so ugly we must be from monster island and one kid said we were "54%" hardcore. There was also a comment about our brutal to brotherhood ratio being "off the fucking charts" which simply doesn't make sense to any of us so is now a constant source of amusement.
We met up with my long time friend Lesa for dinner, she treated us because she is a saint. We had amazing meatball subs at the bye and bye. I had a side of brussel sprouts FTW! After that we went to voodoo donuts (after saint cupcake failed and was all out of vegan donuts) where I got totally happy (you may think you have seen my happy, you probably haven't) I ate a donut called the "old dirty bastard" it was glorious. Lesa then took us to Burnside skate park where all the dudes in my band popped skateboard videogame boners, whatever that means.
The show was at the Mafia House, in a dingy small basement. It was totally fun and there were a bunch of people there. Danger death ray played first and were super good, They had no drummer so just did solo stuff. We played 2nd and the danger death dudes sang along and pillowfighted, Lesa took pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesamonster/sets/72157615820591611/
The only suck part was that I had to use my own microphone which apparently isn't loud enough so they kept turning me up and if I moved in front of the speakers it would feed back a lot so I was confined to a small space. I like to move!!
Early times was amazing, Anchor down is still amazing, they are some of the nicest guys ever. I can't wait till May 15th when they play gilman! After the show I got to drive David's car, Ryan made us vegan pizza, we watched a hella old Elvis costello concert from Germany or something and I got my cuddle on with a cute portland boy!
Leaving portland was really hard because everyone was so awesome but we were way excited to move on to seattle! Before we left Ryan made us vegan pancakes, I had mine ala mode with chocolate ice cream, raspberries, blueberries and pecans. I am a little insane. We also went to food fight grocery and sweet pea bakery. I got some delicious coffee cake which I still haven't finished and a bunch of gelatin mix and ricemallow creme! Yum!!
Day 3: Seattle, Washington
The drive into seattle was kind of slow and traffic jammed. We got into seattle and arrived at my friend Chris Crusher's house. We sat on the couch, listened to records and got fed an amazing vegan meal (spaghetti and meatballs) by a bunch of meat eating non vegans! It was awesome! We all headed over to the funhouse and then walked around by the space needle and sci-fi museum until the show started.
The funhouse was awesome, they gave us whatever we wanted, it was a bar with a basketball hoop in the side yard! The ice giant hurt his ankle really bad playing Horse with the guys. Our set was really fun, senor pantalones rojos was the drunken master of pillowfights! It ruled!
Success! Was amazing, they did a billy bragg cover and my mind was blown! I had tons of fun!! They are awesome dudes and very very talented to boot! Dateless played their last show, it was really fun but also really sad!! They did a bang up job and Kevin played a few songs with them too. It was lots of fun and shennanigans ensued when the pillowfights started a pillowfight during their set.
After the show we went back to Crusher and Alli's house and laughed and talked and played modern english songs on strange instruments until the wee hours of the night.
Day 4: Seattle washington part 2
We slept in! Hooray!! We watched Trale Lewous videos on youtube!! We went to Araya's vegan indian food buffet! We battled the Fremont troll! Gas works park! We got Mighty O motherfucking donuts!!
We showed up at the GRN STRP house, vegan pizza was bought for us, a ton of people from the night before came through again to see us, it made us feel good. The house was awesome, just a fun punk house, I really wanted to mop the floor.
Is electric played first, they were so fun live and barely fit all 6 of them on stage!
Like Claws played second, this band is made up of a really nice guy named Zack and my insanely talented friend Jason Clackley. They were awesome and I kept fixing the mic stand for Zack and jokingly harassing him about breaking everything.
We played third and it went insanely well. Senor pantalones rojos brought his own pillows to the show!! Holy crap!! A lot of kids sang along to our songs which was totally unexpected and awesome, and even more sang along with our kelly clarkson cover. That's right I said it!
The damage done was amazing and totally sweet guys. They were the best band of the night and the living room of the GRN STRP house went nuts. They dedicated an Alkaline Trio cover to us! It was awesome!
After the show we talked and sat around as long as we could until everyone had to leave. We went back to crushers house, relaxed, talked about the pop punk, he put on the green man suit and scared the shit out of all of us and them helped the cat catch a fly. It was a very entertaining night.
We left this morning and are now en route to Boise Idaho. I am going to eat soooo many potatoes.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
I'm on tour!!
We're going to see a troll or something. I'm in seattle, more news later!! I'm having too much fun!
Monday, March 9, 2009
simple pleasures
2009 so far has been a growing experience. Since moving out of my fathers house last spring I have quickly come to realize that paying rent totally fucking blows. I also have learned that I unfortunately do not make as much money as I thought I did when we first moved in.
For the first six months of being on my own I afforded myself so many of lifes simple pleasures. I have since maxed out my credit card and the pleasures are fewer, far between, and much simpler. In these situations one must budget, lucky for me I actually enjoy budgeting.
First I try to eat really cheap simple foods, I stop going to stores and shopping online. I will make every possible combination of food in the house until I am down to just staple foods, and then run out of those and have to shop. I have been baking more lately because I usually have the ingredients for that. Pancakes are also a sinch. In times of crisis I also ride my bike a lot, luckily daylight savings is now in effect and I will have a few more hours of daylight to get home. I also recently patched holes in some old jeans and ressurected them back into my wardrobe. I am upping the punx, I can totally get away with it.
In the opinion of TV FBI guy Special Agent Dale Cooper I should give myself a special treat every day. I will try to Dale but not all of us have that fancy government salary. Until I get my debt under control I am afraid the only treat I'm getting is a nap or maybe some rice.
For the first six months of being on my own I afforded myself so many of lifes simple pleasures. I have since maxed out my credit card and the pleasures are fewer, far between, and much simpler. In these situations one must budget, lucky for me I actually enjoy budgeting.
First I try to eat really cheap simple foods, I stop going to stores and shopping online. I will make every possible combination of food in the house until I am down to just staple foods, and then run out of those and have to shop. I have been baking more lately because I usually have the ingredients for that. Pancakes are also a sinch. In times of crisis I also ride my bike a lot, luckily daylight savings is now in effect and I will have a few more hours of daylight to get home. I also recently patched holes in some old jeans and ressurected them back into my wardrobe. I am upping the punx, I can totally get away with it.
In the opinion of TV FBI guy Special Agent Dale Cooper I should give myself a special treat every day. I will try to Dale but not all of us have that fancy government salary. Until I get my debt under control I am afraid the only treat I'm getting is a nap or maybe some rice.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
me against the world
It would be nice if I could depend on one aspect of my life to be stable, but I know I can't do that. Lately I feel like I am on a balance beam on a raft in the middle of the ocean. I can't fall off, but I guess if I do I can swim. Its just a matter of time before the sharks find me and I'm eaten alive.
I'm going on tour in two weeks, we don't really have any money, or a vehicle to tour in but somehow we are going to make it work. It seems crazy and I feel crazy but everyone wants to do it and It will be fun. (And most likely the most stressful week of our lives.) Regardless I think all of us are welcoming that stress.
Ever since I was a kid I have gotten these weird blood blisters for no reason, and only in certain places, the same places more often than not. When I was little it would be on the top of my foot. Now sometimes I get them on my legs, and when I'm stressed out I always get one on the top of my left wrist, everytime, never fails. Even when it goes away I can see the spot where it was, maybe my skin is too thin there. I dunno.
I feel like a robot lately. My emotions are all wackadoo. I put so much importance on very few things and very little to no importance on everything else. I realized last night that if I actually got what I wanted I probably wouldn't want it anymore.
I'm going on tour in two weeks, we don't really have any money, or a vehicle to tour in but somehow we are going to make it work. It seems crazy and I feel crazy but everyone wants to do it and It will be fun. (And most likely the most stressful week of our lives.) Regardless I think all of us are welcoming that stress.
Ever since I was a kid I have gotten these weird blood blisters for no reason, and only in certain places, the same places more often than not. When I was little it would be on the top of my foot. Now sometimes I get them on my legs, and when I'm stressed out I always get one on the top of my left wrist, everytime, never fails. Even when it goes away I can see the spot where it was, maybe my skin is too thin there. I dunno.
I feel like a robot lately. My emotions are all wackadoo. I put so much importance on very few things and very little to no importance on everything else. I realized last night that if I actually got what I wanted I probably wouldn't want it anymore.
Monday, March 2, 2009
bottomless pit of worry
I feel like I have been tied up and sent to the bottom of a bottomless (that doesn't make sense) pit of horrible worries in my brain. My unshakable ability to worry has taken over almost all aspects of my life, its so wonderful.
This is what I wish was happening in my brain all the time.
This is what I wish was happening in my brain all the time.
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