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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
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3:54 pm - knock knock knock
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I remember having ICQ, AIM, Friendster and Live Journal.
Now having a facebook or a myspace takes care of all of that.
Who even checks this still?
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| Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
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11:19 pm - knock knock knock
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Well, I forgot this existed. Looking back now and reading some of this, I miss it. Not saying I'll start posting in here regularly but, I'll give it a shot.
A quick update, I suppose.
Living
I'm currently living in Bay View on Howell Avenue with Monica. The area is nice, I like our place minus a few things. I love Bay View, I feel comfortable keeping my car parked on the street, I'm in walking distance of cool shops and friends that I do not see enough. There is a park down the block that doesn't seem too sketchy during the day. This is the first time I moved somewhere where I'm not living with all of my friends. It's definately an adjustment, I often feel like my roommates do not like me, I gave up really trying to talk to them, I feel like they have no interest in anything I say. Between not really knowing my roommates and their pets pooping a lot, it's not bad at all, they are very clean and keep the place looking nice. They aren't home to often and they respect our privacy. Despite all of that, I would like to move in with people I know and have that friendly bond that I had back at the other house. I could hold conversations with everyone and hang out without feeling awkward.
School
I'm going to MATC come January. I'm planning on going for Marketing Management, so if you are or know anyone in that field, let me know.. I'm looking for options. I think over the past 5 years, all I have done was marketing in some way or another. I'm looking forward to taking that and putting it to use that can fill my wallet, or at least attempt to.
I'll be going to the Oak Creek campus, anyone else go there? I'm kind of nervous as I haven't been to school since high school, although I'm planning on getting over that quick.
Work
Still working at the Pizza place, I have been there for 9 years now, just typing that makes me kinda sick. I want out. Don't get me wrong I like the job and I have fun when I'm there, I just know that it isn't going to take me to the next level... that's where the school comes into play. I'm hoping to start working internships and such after I start school(so again, if you or someone you know is in this field, speak up).
Girlfriend
I've been seeing Monica for over 2 years now, it's awesome, I can't say enough good things about it. I have little to no problems with her and I can't think of anyone better to be with. She's easy going, laid back, constantly fun and has her shit together. I don't plan on this ending anytime soon.
So that's about it for me, feel free to add me, comment if you still look at this, or whatever. I haven't hung out with a lot of people in a while, so I guess, let me know you are alive and how you are doing.
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| Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
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4:33 am
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So after a lot of thinking, I have decided to stop booking shows.
I started booking in September of 2002 and have kept pretty steady ever since, probably booking over 100 shows. When I started I was really excited about music(still am) and wanted to see a lot of bands come through to milwaukee that I hadn't seen yet.
I did not get into this to try and make money or to gain popularity. If you know me, I am actually pretty broke and sit in my house and dont do much. haha.
Now, more than ever, there are a lot of people booking shows and doing a really good job at it. They have more time to devote to it and above all, more energy. Steve Roche specifically, in the past year he has been way more involved in this scene than anyone I have ever met. Kudos to him.
I have 4 shows booked right now that I will continue to promote and I hope I can get support from everyone to attend as these will be my last efforts. The last show I have booked is November 19th at Shorewood, I'm going to make admission to this show $2 as it will be my last and if anything a thank you to everyone who has supported music in this city for the past 4 years that I have been involved with this.
Thanks for taking out the time to read this. Hope to see you at these shows.
Thursday, October 12th @ Shorewood Legion Hall // 4121 N. Wilson Dr. // Milwaukee, WI
w/ Theadora(Last Show.. foreal), Year of Desolation, Now A Murderer, Burn In Silence, The Beholder
$7 // 6:00
Thursday, October 19th @ Shorewood Legion Hall // 4121 N. Wilson Dr. // Milwaukee, WI
w/ Once For All, Rally the Fray, Suffer In Truth, Rebuild, Doomhammer
$6 // 6:00
Saturday, November 11th @ The Orchard Inn // N83 W12608 Old Orchard Rd // Menomonee Falls, WI
w/ All Shall Perish, Arsis, The Faceless, Carnivale, An End To Flesh
$8 // 6:00
Sunday, November 19th @ Shorewood Legion Hall // 4121 N. Wilson Dr. // Milwaukee, WI
w/ Veil of May, The Serpent Son, Within This Life (Last Show), Thrown Into Chaos, Faux Lament
$2 // 6:00
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| Friday, September 22nd, 2006
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2:00 am
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| Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
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2:37 am
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So after the show tonight we stayed at josh's friends brian, uncles plantation house. We headed out 20 minutes in the opposite direction of the show tomorrow, something I normally would not have done if I were as worried about gas prices as I am. After 20 minutes go by we pull up to a mail box and a dirt road directly next to like 20 acres of.. Something. We turn down the dirt road to immediately be greeted by a dirty "wrong way" sign. We caravaned our 4 automobiles up this dirt road and got close to this 2 story, texas chainsaw massacre looking, haunted house. Half of the house was lit up by lanterns and candles because there was no electricity. We were told kindly that the dog that bites is tied up, so we didn't have anything to be worried about... how kind. We passed manson's house and got up to a pretty well lit bon fire ready for us.
I had never been to a horror movie house so I was pretty excited. I got out and eagerly went towards the house. There was a cellar door that led to the basement, no doors, just spooky. Brian and his uncle came out and gave us a tour of the house. The first room we went into had electricy, it also had bloody hand prints all over the walls, the put them there
because of a hounted house they had set up there previously. The next room is where I slept, a walk through room with 2 matresses and boarded up windows, the walls were painted some grey, black, and white splatter marks all over the 10 ft tall ceilings.
Room 3 had 1 queen sized matress 2 doors that were locked, a cellar door in the floor boards, a stairwell leading to the next floor and a single dimmly lit candle. The room wasn't painted anything just broken board up windows. We grabbed the candle and went upstairs. The story we were told up here is about how when brian was partying one night, he made fun of
the house being haunted and all of a sudden the shudders just slammed open. There was no door to the balcony, or witches walk as they called it, the balcony was caving in and had 2 old shutters they used as beams to walk across. Up here he show us a room where he kept his 7ft ft pet boa which someone stole one night... yeah right, it was going to slither
up from the cellar and into my bed.
We made our way back down the maze we came and back outside. He had 2 dogs that would just lay in front of the house as if they were protecting something. Made me feel better seeing as there were no doors. We made our way back to the bonfire, not before me finding a rope tied to the overly huge spooky tree outside, I jumped on and swung my way to the bon fire. Brians uncle came out minutes later with a picture he had taken a while back, it had a sillouhette in the pic of a ghost like grim reaper. Damn camera trickery.
I don't know if I was tired or just excited to be back in that house, so marc and I packed up our sleeping gear and went inside. There were only 6 of our guys in this huge house, the other 4 coward in the vans. Seriously, you are traveling across the country and have an opportunity to get spooked out with your buddies for the night and you hide in the van? Lame.
"Even babies don't sleep this well." Maybe it was those two dogs sleeping outside the door and occasionally passing my bed or the "ghosts" taking over my body for the night and making me not realize it. Either way I didn't wake up until I heard that gunshot the next morning.
I packed up my stuff and came out to a pretty smoldered fire that was slightly lit. Brians uncle, already drinking beer, was telling more stories about the area. There was another house in back that I completely overlooked the night before. He told us it was where the slaves had lived years ago... no wonder there were "ghosts".
Although the spookiness was gone now, details and such emerged from the daylight, the wall upstairs from room 3 had the word 'beware' written in the dirt on the wall. I went to brush my teeth and snuck a peak in the bathtub... solid rust, the entire thing. There was like a slaughter building in back by the slave house, brian's uncle told use you could hang a cow in there or about 40 chickens, I didn't feel like walking into a funeral home though.
Against my girlfriends warnings of disturbing the dead, I felt it my duty to log this event in my life and began snapping pictures with my built in camera on my phone. If only I had that good camera, every shadow would look like a ghost now and I would be called a moron for snapping shots.
All in all, I am glad we stayed at this place, totally worth the story. My imagination can get really excited about stuff like this, but it doesn't get the best of me. I remain skeptik.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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| Monday, March 13th, 2006
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2:51 am - January tour in retrospect.
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w/ DTYK, Carnivale
01.02.06 - Marshalltown, IA @ The Midnight Ballroom
So I do not know if this is going to be something that happens every tour we ever go on... but our van broke down day one. We had to cancel our first show and get the van into a shop. Luckily it was something that only cost $200 to fix... only. We hung out at home and I got some well deserved rest that I hadn't gotten the night before because of being stressed out. Jamie and I watched the Stand.. an 8 hour made for TV movie based off of the Steven King novel. I think there are about a million samples in that movie that I want to use.
01.03.06 - Silvis, IL @ Brandon's House
We played in Silvis Illinois, which is part of the Quad Cities. This was our first show with Carnivale and our first show with Torch the Morgue, both amazing groups of people and amazing bands. I think the best shows we end up playing are basement shows. Everyone goes nuts and has a good time, the room is usually full of 30-40 people that are friends or have a ton in common. After the show was over we all went to a pizza place in town, we got personal pizzas for like $2 and breadsticks for .75 You can not beat that. We stayed with Gage, the guitar player of Torch the Morgue. I think his name has to be one of the coolest names I ever heard Gage Love. You have to beat girls off with a stick with that name. Anyway, Jamie and Ryan went and played poker with some of the doods at the show. Devon, John and I stayed at Gage's house.
01.04.06 - Minneapolis, MN @ Barfly
I continue to love Minneapolis... The show was scheduled to be at The Ascot Room at the Quest, although about a week before the show a shooting went down and someone got killed in the venue. They shut down the venue along with all of the shows going on. They moved the show to another part of town and with all of that there were still a large group of kids that came out. Tonight was the first night of the tour playing with DTYK. They played very well and had Jon Bouche singing for them. He had put on a show for us in Chicago on the Ion weekend so it was cool seeing him again. After the show we were loading and Brandon from Carnivale pissed in a bottle and put the bottle on our car, Jamie grabbed it.. opened it.. and threw it on their windshield... that started van wars. We headed out to Nick and Gregs house, Alexa was there along with Dan from Nostalia. We hung out and watched the Bury Your Dead DVD and cooked some food.
01.05.06 - Neenah, WI @ Whiting Boat House
Playing in Appleton is always cool cause it's just a bunch of friends who usually drive out to Milwaukee to see shows, it's no drive for them and a fun night for us. The place we played at was in the middle of nowhere and a block away there was a road sign for I believe "Gay St." which was hilarious in light of Carnivale constantly yelling gay sex all the time. We played with Torch the Morgue again it was yet another good show. Afterward we went to Susan's house and hung out, a couple of us played poker and Susan won... like normal. Alicia got really drunk and awkwardly made some 'good' first impressions with everyone, she passed out and we drew on her. We stayed with the Carnivale doods and the DTYK kids stayed with Jacob. *I just remembered something about this show. We found a box of 3d glasses that we made everyone wear.
-Katie Kane
01.06.06 - Houghton, MI @ Level 2 Skate Park
This day sucked a lot, on the way to the show I lost my phone stopping to add window washer fluid to the van. I was really bummed but the show made up for it. We played first and there were about 150 young kids who were all so excited to see music. I love playing to young crowds, I like the fact that they are willing to get hurt, you can jump into them and knock them to the ground and they get back up and are as excited as they were 10 seconds before. Carnivale had been there before and got everyone going nuts. After the show we had our own little brodown right at the show, we danced and hung out for a bit then went to the promoters house to stay the night.
http://www.youtube.com/v/rJ9_FW97xHk
When we got to Joe's house we all got comfortable and started hanging out, this was the only night all 3 bands stayed together. It seems when you are on tour with a bunch of people, the nights everyone stays at the same place are the ones that hold the most fun. Carnivale were shaving lines in peoples eyebrows, after a bit they started shaving peoples body hair, they ended up putting and arrow up my thigh pointing towards my crotch, the hair that was taken from that we put under Calebs nose and it looked like he had a big bushy mustache. It was really funny. They also got Devin to put ILL on his chin, that was hilarious, I would never have pictured Devin being down for something like that. I think he dubbed himself the nickname Ill with the Carnivale kids.
01.07.06 - Round Lake, IL @ Round Lake Social Club
The last show with Carnivale, it was quite a riot actually. There were a ton of people there and they were all really supportive, we had a lot of friends from the Milwaukee area show up so it was like having a home away from home. Hewhocorrupts were on the bill for the show, I was really looking forward to seeing them. During Carnivale some of their fans got really into it and the owner of the hall thought it more of a risk rather than fun. He came into the pit telling people to stop playing. No one listened though... haha. There were like 50 kids mocking this irate man, he told Brandon to stop playing and Brandon encouraged the kids to go off even more and it worked. After they were done everyone got kicked out and 5 cop cars came rolling up with dogs and everything. It was a little intense.. I was bummed that Hewhocorrupts didn't get to play, but I got over it pretty quick. On the car ride to Denny's after the show this girl Abby gave me some water to drink... it ended up being vodka, so I broke edge. We got to Denny's and got food, after we were done we took group photos outside and hung out for a bit talking. Carnivale's merch guy thought it would be a good idea to wrap up van wars by vomiting over the side of our van. Pretty gross.
w/ DTYK, With Dead Hands Rising
01.08.06 - Lake Station, IN @ Eagles Club
First night of tour with wooder. They pretty much opened their set by saying they were willing to trade merch for beer. Even though I don't drink I thought at that moment this would be a fun week. Harlots played this night as well, it was really cool getting to see them again and hang out a bit, they had Andrew from Feeling Faint with them as well. We ended up hanging out at a guy we met, Ryan, his buddies house. It was us and DTYK crammed into a basement that was fucking sick with a big screen TV. We watched Wedding Crashers and I lost my money to Ryan and his Buddy playing Poker. I think we are going to have a rematch next time we go out there so I'm not to worried. I slept behind the couch here wedged up against the wall.. Although a really cool place I got shafted on the sleeping area.
01.09.06 - Southgate, MI @ The Modern Exchange
The monday night show, we were shocked. Around 150 people showed up on a Monday night. I think the local headliner was a good pick for the show, they were able to get a lot of people to come out. This venue was amazing, we played there on the Ion weekend, there is a Coffee shop in back that has a stage there, when shows go on they move all the tables out of the way and throw the show, in the front there is a thrift store, actually this time we got a little more history on the place.. the owner's kids were really big hippies, they would travel all over playing some phish style tunes and singing about god. The family was very supportive of their drive for music, they had a room in back just set up for a jam room, there was a ton of musical equipment there. They kept the house open for bands to stay at just because they new bands needed places to stay on the road. The kids would stay there although they only needed 2 rooms out of the 6 this place had. Well, WDHR, DTYK and us all found our way to this place by the end of the night, half of us stayed at the place and got food while the other half went to a party and got drunk. At the house we ran around being obnoxious as hell, we ended up getting Chris from DTYK to put on a thong and run around. I wish I had a picture of this to add it was hilarious.
01.10.06 - West Dundee, IL @ Clearwater Theater
If you haven't been to Clearwater yet, I'll let you know now, there is a 6 ft stage that you play on. This is really uncomfortable to be playing on when there is around 100 kids standing sporadically on the floor around the stage. The place looks like it could hold 1000. Anne, Forest and Lori made their way to this show again, it was really cool seeing them. They brought us a bag of goodies including brownies, rice crispy treats and wu-tang shirts(if you want to get on our goodside while on tour, bring us food!!!) Despite the awesomeness of them coming out, I was in a pissy mood at this show, I was really hungry and everyone found their way to a thai restarant down the block, by the time the show was over it was closed and I was cranky. I felt bad and got over it quick, we stayed at Bouche's house again. We went to the grocery store and cooked up a feast in his kitchen.
01.11.06 - St. Louis, MO @ Ramp Riders
St. Louis is the shit, I really like playing at skateparks, it's a bunch of kids downright having a goodtime biking and getting down to a show. I want to do a tour where we play Skate Parks, just take out our friends and have a blast.. anyway, Torch the Morgue played this show as well. So it was a reunion within a tour haha, I love those guys. We hadn't played in St. Louis since June and there were actually a bunch of people that came to the shed show we had played back then, I think that was one of the coolest parts of the night, to see the same faces that we did over the summer when playing in that garage on what had to be the hottest day of the year.
01.12.06 - Kansas City, MO @ El Torreon
I think this ties with Detroit for being one of the best nights of tour. We got to the show and aparently there had been very little promotion done, only one person showed up and that was Dustin from Eyes of the Betrayer. We ended up leaving the show without playing and went to the Monster Merch house. I went with the WDHR guys to see Hostel and when we got back half of the guys were drunk playing Risk and the other half had brought equipment in downstairs and decided to jam out. Each of the bands took turns playing songs for each other, Dustin taped a couple songs, it was a lot of fun.
Amora Savant
http://www.youtube.com/v/H-Uh_G6ln_c
WDHR
http://www.youtube.com/v/w_3I-urbZw0
01.13.06 - Tulsa, OK @ The Pinkeye
Alright, so Oklahoma is boring. We drove through nothingness to get to the show, the venue was pretty cool. There wasn't as many kids as everyone hyped it up to be. We were kinda sick at this point and were playing first. There was a 10 hour drive after the show straight to Peoria we were doing so we wanted to get out of there quick. When we played there were only a couple kids, they had came out to see us, which is sincerely rewarding knowing we hadn't played there yet. Some guy off the street came in and the sound guy put his CD on and he grabbed the mic and rapped for us, everyone was getting down and breakdancing on the floor. I hadn't seen anything like that at a show yet, it was fun. We got out of there and made the hike to Bouche's Uncle's house in Peoria... another place that randomly had a house for us to stay at with no rules. We got there pretty late, ate some food then crashed.
01.14.06 - Pekin, IL @ Miah's House
Miah's house!! My favorite place to play, Peoria. Greatest party doods, Burning Love Letters. In their domain, nonetheless. We played in Miah's basement and had a good ass time, Ryan I think had a little too much fun. Before we even left Miah's house he had already drank himself stupid. We actually didn't spend as much time as I would have liked there, but I think it was because it was the last night that we had to hang out with the DTYK kids so we went back to Bouche's uncles house and partied it up. I talked with Jeff for a while and bonded, I miss that guy a lot, I hope his wedding is amazing. John was in the kitchen apparently drinking a lot with Jake, we were told that Jake never drinks so at this point he was wasted. I'm extremely hyper and think it's a good idea to give Jeff a mystery shot of random liquor.. I didn't think this through, I don't drink so how should I know the effect of a mystery shot. Jake, giggling a lot, stumbled upstairs in the the hangout room where Tommy Boy was on. We layed him on the couch and in like 15 minutes I hear water splashing and I look over and he's got a drinking fountain of puke coming out of his mouth. We got him into the bathroom and hugging the toilet. I think, Jake is by far the nicest dunks ever. He was in love with everyone.
01.15.06 - Milwaukee, WI @ Mad Planet
Milwaukee, I have entirely too much pride in this city. I think I get goosebumps when I think about it. I enjoy being at a show with a surplus of friends, hanging out and just having a good time. That is what I see when I go to these shows. There are always familiar faces, the young kids who are too timid to talk to anyone, the old cynical adults who think everyone is corrupt by hot topic, the dumb kids in the bathroom doing their makeup during the touring band, the people who don't care about any of that and are just there to see some music. It's a collage of people and I love watching them all interact. Mad Planet gives off a weird vibe, there is full sound and the lights are all dimmed very low. We opened our set with the Black breakdown which is what WDHR starts off their set with. Chris got on stage and hyped people up, it was hilarious, although I do not think anyone got it. We played our set and said our goodbyes with everyone, it was really sad seeing everyone go.
I wrote a lot of this today 2 months later, so I know I missed a bunch. I'm going to start blogging my stuff every time I get at a computer so I don't miss anything. I really like keeping up with this and having something to look back at and think wow, I remember that I had a lot of fun.
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| Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
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5:08 am
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At night I think a lot, often times I get in very negative moods about life and how pointless our daily routine is. This is a complete opposite of how I feel during the day, I am upbeat and really excited to meet new people. I have a love/hate relationship with the night, I often feel like... what I would think it would feel like to be on drugs. But it's not a euphoric feeling, it's the complete opposite. I get pissed, agravated and turn into a misanthrope. With this, I am not suicidal, dont get me wrong. I just tend to be rather bitter towards things.
I'm not looking for replies of support or feedback, so dont bother.
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| Friday, February 17th, 2006
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2:45 am
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My mom's in the hospital. She went in there over the holidays because she had sugery on part of her lung, she went back in a week later to get something fixed because something wasn't working right. Now she's back in 2 months later due to having problems breathing. I know she'll be okay, it doesn't seem like anything that uncommon. Walking through a hospital you realize how many people are ill and sick everyday.
I also start thinking about if it were to be bad, and how something remorseful like that would change your life. How you would feel about everything after that point on. Would you treat everything differently? Would you cherrish moments longer? That leads me to get upset, why should something tragic like that change your views on life? Why cant you just be happy, outgoing and giving everything you got each day? I think I try that, I put myself on the table. I suppose not as well as I could or should because I do want to keep in contact with older friends, and stay closer with my family after these types of things.
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| Monday, February 13th, 2006
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1:31 am
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Thinking about a lot this week. So everytime I hang out with Mykey he leaves me questioning myself. It pisses me off a lot actually, but when I leave him all I do is think about stuff and in the end I feel a lot better. Tonight we talked about convictions and being passionate about them. I do tend to be very loose about how I feel because I do think that there is a time in my life where I might feel differently. Reading my journal over from 3 years ago to now, I see not much about me stating anything about how I feel. I broke up with my girlfriend for almost 3 years and I'll I wrote was "Nicole and I broke up and I'm single now". How sad is that, I want to know how I really felt at that moment. So I classified my traits, convictions and stuff I want to work on into catagories and I'm going to go over it one by one.
Positivity
I have always tried to be everyones friend, if I heard someone disliked me it brought me down. I would feel it some self rewarding goal to try and show them that I wasn't all that bad. Over the summer for some reason that changed a lot.
Tour alone, playing shows and seeing kids pay more attention to the ground than your band. To have people work their way out of putting you up for the night. To get paid $35 just after you played for 200 people that paid to get in. Everyone bitched, but I worked so hard to get these shows to happen, I saw things I would never have seen otherwise and appreciated every minute of it. When we got back Scott Lishay made a comment about be being in a delusional world of positivity. For some reason that stuck a lot. Why the hell did I care what anyone else thought about any of those shows as long as I had a good time and didn't die?
If someone doesn't like me for who I am, then you know what I do not care anymore.
Atheist
I do not believe in God.
Vegetarian
For the past 5 years I have been going to shows I have been told what being Vegan was. It never stopped me from changing my daily habits. I think I had 3 memorial day parties here where I made beer brats. I never thought I would not eat meat. I read all of those pamphlets one day and realized how much it would suck to be a cow on a factory farm. Your whole life to be lived just to get your head crushed by a mallet then eaten. I thought I would try and not eating meat for a week. It didn't phase me at all, everything I like to eat seems to have a vegi version that doesn't taste much different. In all honesty meat isn't as special as everyone makes it out to be, it isn't like I'm having sex when I eat it.
If it wasn't for reading all of that crap that I had been shown for years and mocked.. would I have decided to change my diet? I dont know, but you know what? I'm glad I did.
Band
I seriously really enjoy being in a band. I remember putting a post about wanting to start a band on didnt that hurt a couple years ago. Right after that I left for tour with Ion Dissonance and Forever is Forgotten, I had soo much fun being on tour and didn't want it to end. I think at that time I figured out that I wanted to travel and meet a ton of people. I joined Amora not to long after.
We are doing all of the traveling and meeting people that I was hoping for and I'm really happy about it.
I do think that the bands that I was really interested in while starting to get in the band was Wings of Scarlet and Cast From Eden. They were Athiest bands who's front men would get up say what they believed and if you didn't like it oh well. So when starting a band I wanted to be that front man that they were.. only I'm Andy and I live in a delusional world of positivity, singing lyrics that my best friend wrote and dont forget I couldn't possible offend anyone. Again, I am not going to care anymore.
What I learned on this one, is do shit for yourself.
Girls
How is it that Okarma is the one to help me out on girl advice? Does that make sence?
If I meet someone I think is cute, I can talk to them, hang out with them not sweat it or anything. I'll get myself in situations that spiral around pretty quick without even realizing it and then when it hits that point, I back out. I realize that there is usually nothing there. When I meet someone I genuinely like, I can't talk to them, I can't just hang out with them and I get really nervous. This is where I fear rejection.
So I can hang out with girls, but I get nervous around ladies.
Living
I wanted to move out, after thinking about it even more and having not brought myself into sending the application to the apt. building in I think I'm not going to do it(Art, if you see this before I call you, sorry). I love this place so much. I hate money, I dislike the responsiblity of money, I do not like being in charge of the 3 most expensive bills in my life that are shared 4 ways. I give the responsibility to other roommates and they do worse at the job than I have done in years. I can't handle that. I love who I live with, if I would move out I wouldn't have the people I really care about telling me how stupid I can be.
So in short, I'm going to start being more self assured, I'm going to find myself a lady(that sounds dirty) and I'm going to hold my friends closer because they will be around in 10 years when everyone else wont.
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| Friday, February 10th, 2006
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4:02 am
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I can not sleep. I should get over this insomnia by now, well, I know it's not insomnia but I can't sleep right now. I want spring now. This snow stuff is starting to bug me.
Chris is coming to town tomorrow, I'm looking forward to seeing him, we are going to kick it hard.
I'm going to see Rocky Horror Picture show on Saturday, so if anyone is interested in coming, that would be rad as well.
Anyone who came to the Waiting watching party tonight, I thank you. Ryan's hair was looking pretty styling by the end of the night....
I think I will attempt to go back to bed.
current mood:  okay
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| Friday, February 3rd, 2006
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2:47 am
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So, I have been thinking about moving out.. and I am going to do it. Even though I'm not going until this summer it already hit me. This house has so much fucking history and played such a role in my life it's not even funny.
When I moved in here the plan was to have a place for bands to crash while on tour, I wanted to get as many beds as I could, couches, blankets ect. We did, and it was great.
We moved in April 1st 2003. There was a show in Bay View a couple nights before. I remember because it was on my birthday. The band Nodes of Ranvier were playing and I offered them a place to stay. I took them out here, but I still did not know my way around that well. They came here and crashed in an empty hardwood floor with some sleeping bags. Since then there probably have been easily over 50 bands that have crashed here.
Every year we have had a memorial day party, I remember the first one in the house here when there was little to no furniture in the whole upstairs and I lived in the room in the attic. There were 10 people gathered upstairs around Mark Fisher just listening to him talk, cause he's good at that. He smashed my scapegoat CD.
I remember Jason Lawler coming over and cooking food.
I remember Art burning food.
I remember Art quitting Die Alone
I remember Chris getting kicked out of Forever is Forgotten
I remember Justin quitting Forever is Forgotten
I remember Scott having a lot of sex and shaking the house
I remember Jerry moving in. I remember giving up my room for him and taking the big living outside of the room.
I remember 2:15 AM suprise I'm jumping on you while you are sleeping Mykey and Art attacks.
I remember Mel and Earl coming from Madison and hanging out a weekend every other week for a show.
I remember little Alex coming over and moshing in the attic with me.
I remember being ready for 2:15 AM suprise attacks and trying hard to beat the shit out of Art.
I remember having girlfriends over with no privacy from walk through room.
I remember slapping brad in the face with my penis
I remember Erica calling into a live porno feed and making them do goofy stuff.
I remember chris nolan singing me a song while I was sick and had no one to take care of me
I remember making buttons with Amy talking about taking over the world.
I remember 926 shutting down.
I remember hauling speakers up and down the stairs every other week.
I remember an insane 21st birthday party where I did not drink.
I remember Chris Nolan making out with girls.
I remember 3 man water balloon rockets to the ass.
I remember Scott moving out.
I remember Jamie moving in.
I remember building a wall of privacy
I remember Amora getting started
I remember a winter I want to forget
I remember a spring I never want to forget
I remember posi bites
I remember Halo Partied
I remember Veil kids
I remember not being here in August
I remember Jerry moving out
I remember Amy moving in
I remember halloween wanting to merge with January so bad.
This place holds a lot of history to me. I wont forget it.
off the top of my head of bands that stayed at this place.
The Red Chord, Only to Remain, The Judas Cradle, Blood In/Blood Out, Ion Dissonance, If Hope Dies, Evergreen Terrace, A Life Once Lost, Light this City, Harlots, Undying, The Wayward, Veil of Maya, Drowningman, Law of All Ends, Between the Buried and Me, An End to Flesh, Nehemiah, With Dead Hands Rising, Last Perfection... I'm sure there were more. I just dont remember them off hand.
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| Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
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1:40 am
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The +/- game.
+ Tour went great, I am going to slowly right up a journal about it. I met some of the craziest guys in a band through Carnivale and some of the most positive people in a band through DTYK. The shows were all great and the kids that attended were all awesome as well.
- My stomach hurts right now, I feel like I'm going to throw up, but I'm not sick.
+ I'm not sick
+ I am going to get my taxes done tomorrow and I'm getting a sidekick(aside from Mykeys warnings about t-mobile)
- Girls, the weird ones.
+ Breakdowns and Backflips going global.
+ Free Pizza, how I missed thee
- Work, I would rather be doing something I truely enjoy.
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| Friday, December 2nd, 2005
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1:42 am
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When fairytales die.(#7)
Let me burn these thoughts and live for now rather than live to live again. No longer do I buy into the pipe dream of immortality through post existence. It's comfort to the living only veils the here-and-right-now, to witness this enurance has filled me with agony. We must cherish what exists instead of clinging to life for gratification. Do not fear damnation, use this time to find your own salvation.
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| Friday, November 25th, 2005
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2:13 pm
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I bought the new Ed Gein CD. I'm really into it. The Lyrics to this song are probably some of the best.
Nothing is more destructive than the belief that god is on your side. Radical muslim suicide bombers have it, and so does our president. We're all screwed. The most dangerous men in the world fighting over who has the better imaginary friend. Grow up before someone gets their eye poked out with a nuke.
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| Thursday, November 24th, 2005
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4:01 am
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Look at everything around you and stop, then take everything you see and quickly relate it to the rest of your existence. Everything most people do, complain about or ponder over is so fucking petty. I bet everyone deep down has similar thoughts. It's not suicidal, it's realization.
I think our lives are pointless.
I know our lives are pointless.
I wish you could crawl in my head, it doesn't seem all that bad.
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| Monday, November 21st, 2005
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3:06 am
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| Thursday, November 17th, 2005
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2:56 am
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| Friday, November 11th, 2005
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1:32 am
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"Monday, January 24, 2005
This is our call to arms, to make it end.
This is our one and only chance to be heard and defend."
I found this journal entry in my old xanga account. Kinda funny in retrospect.
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| Thursday, November 10th, 2005
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2:31 am
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"There is not enough love and kindness in the world to permit us to give any of it away to imaginary beings"
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