surreal babies

A girl I dated superficially for something like 2 years is now married with a child in under less than a year. The pics are mind blowing to me. She looks different. She has a child. She does not respond to my congratulatory emails.

She was silly. She was sweet. She had the attention span of a guppie. I will probably never speak to her again. I wish her the best.

vote for us (were in the top 10 for today)

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/SoundWars/

I know the bulk of you have already done so. So Mom... Get to it!

jeeze people stop dying already

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html

from wikipedia...

"The period saw the singer become deeply unhappy; Jackson explained, 'Even at home, I'm lonely. I sit in my room sometimes and cry. It's so hard to make friends ... I sometimes walk around the neighborhood at night, just hoping to find someone to talk to. But I just end up coming home.'"

the guy never had a chance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W70Y_CHnJhQ&NR=1

michael jackson

guess I should weigh in...

it strikes me as strange that the only time you will truly be celebrated in a BIG way is when you die. There will never be more appreciation, respect for your contributions, and just plain outpouring of emotion. I know that's kind of a "well duh" kind of statement but just watching all this media (every radio station, every channel) it just seems ironic that the guy was essentially considered a washed up weirdo just a few days ago.

It reminds me that this kind of attention has little to do with him and more to do with the experiences of other people. So we are basically celebrating our memories and experiences and this man happens to be the catalyst this time around.

But at least I get to see what absolute media dominance looks like. Wow.

Bruno

more than excited to see Bruno. I like the fact that Cohen brings out people's awful awful humanity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pak5ALMdkbE&feature=related

my friend returns (and crazy serendipity ensues)

so Michelle has returned from her sojurn to Virginia with her boyfriend. They are now broken up (surprise!) and she is back for good. (its been about 7 months)

We went to a little local bar last night and met abe for a reunion beer. As we were chatting I mentioned about how the band is soundproofing Alex's room and we are trying to figure out the best way to go about this...

out of nowhere a dude chimes in "You looking for soundproofing? I have a shitload of very high end soundproofing gear I can sell you for pennies on the dollar"

Im interested stranger. Go on.

He turned out to be the CEO of Rozone productions and as he was talking to me about soundproofing he took out two tickets to the Blondie/Pat Benetar/The Donnas show in August and handed them to me. His company is hosting the show. He then starts asking about my band and I tell him we just released our ep. He said "Well I am the guy to talk to about that" and asked I send one his way when we get them. Apparently hes worked with Ghostland Observatory and other bands so this could be a cool opportunity.

If anything we can get some cheap ass soundproofing done which is all I can hope for. Anything else loftier I will just wait and see what happens. I know promises are a dime a dozen in this industry...

Also something worth mentioning. Michelle stayed on my couch last night and in the middle of the night slept-walked outside and laid down in the grass. The sprinklers turned on and she got soaked. Hilarious.

jumping the gun as usual but...

daniel works at the historical paramount theatre. We are going to get to play in the lobby for a summmer event where they show classic movies like Jaws, ET and others.

It will be a short set but the coolest part is that our link to our music will be going out to literally over 100,000 people. This is HUGE. Game changer kind of HUGE. We gotta get things in order before that email drops.

movie weekend

i am the worst moviegoer but this weekend I worked overtime. I saw Star Trek (really good), 300 (good i guess) and The Hangover (a little better than okay).

John's fiancee had her bachelorette party. She came home around 1 and called John. He left the bar to go be with her.

We are stealing his phone for next Friday and getting him a lap dance. The dude is joined at the hip with her but it all changes next week. (Maniacal laughter and tented fingertips)

Something really interesting about those two is that they are both atheists. They are also super great people. My Christian school programming from kindergarten through 2nd grade is still with me at times but I honestly have come to the conclusion that subscribing to any kind of dogma or religious belief says absolutely nothing about your worth as a moral, kind individual. I know atheists and christians that I would trust equally with my secrets, my friendship and my phone calls from a broken down car on the side of the road.

If someone asked what my belief was I would probably just say "confused".

ANYWAY...Watching the play count on our myspace page is like crack. I have to not do it much or else it corrupts the numbers. But Friday was like 300 plays so that was pretty cool. Were getting nice emails from folks and look forward to begin whoring ourselves out for reviews and shows. =P

ahhh

so its finally done. The ep is up on myspace.

http://www.myspace.com/legsagainstarms

too bad im sick of hearing it.

I keep one eye open like CBS...

I am totally and unabashedly rocking Jay-Z's 1996 album Reasonable Doubt. The dude can flow like a mofo. His shit's cool like December.

update on that priest guy

I am very happy for this dude. I thought a couple months was a dry spell. Jeeze

http://www.justnews.com/news/19769148/detail.html

when?

i have a feeling that if I look forward to a day when I am 100% satisfied and content, then I am going to be waiting for a very long time.

challenged

Okay so we are going through some pretty big changes. Daniel is moving out of the house that we play in so we have to find another place to practice. I was considering moving in with my friend Abe to help him and I save some money for a few months once my lease is up so it looks like we might have to convince him to let us play in his garage also. He seems down but says once we start making noise he will see how he feels.

Secondly freaking Mike got a DWI last night. The kid was incoherent. Busted in front of his parents house. Parents got to come out and talk to him as he was taken away. We are concerned because he is going to lose his license most likely and maybe not be allowed in places that serve alcohol.

All of this conveniently when the EP is released.

album art

we spent last night going back and forth between album art ideas. Finally its settled and we should have the thing this week. This is the only thing remaining for the EP release.

We are also going to enter a contest next month where voting will be required. I expect the 2 of you that read this to help me out. =)

busy ass weekend

2 shows this weekend.

1st show: Austin

We played well. Travis was there. He admitted our new drummer was better than him. Daniel still didn't talk to him. We sold a few shirts. 5 Things Austin mentioned wanting us to be like a house band for them when they have their events. Might be cool.

Ended up staying up till 5 or so with Mary and Holly. Kicked out of the apartment at 8:00 so Holly's cousin wouldn't come home to a half naked dude she didnt know. I was not happy to get up and drive home. Got home and slept until 2:30. Woke up hungover. I was concerned about my ability to play again. 6:30 Daniel showed up. We began the drive to San Antonio.

2nd Show: San Antonio

Middle slot for 3 bands. We did well but not as well as the night before. We lost some steam energetically. I fucked up one part very badly. I just stopped playing and sung acapella. Still better than the first time we played San Antonio.

We are blown away by the kindness of the people in San Antonio to us. Their compliments afterwards are surreal. We saw a guy there with our shirt on from the last show. Our first actual "fan" if you will. He said he has never bought a shirt from a band before. Nice guy. We took a picture with him. Standing outside afterwards we were just chatting and we ran into another guy. He started talking about what he does. Turns out hes a filmmaker and just made a film with Val Kilmer. I almost called bullshit on the guy but something about him made be beleive it. He talked about his other films and gave me his card.

The cool thing about him was he gave us some honest opinions. He said we reminded him of himself in his early career when he was scraping together a few thousand dollars to make films and just getting started. He said that even though there were a couple rough parts with us he recognized us as having real talent. We told him about the EP and he said that we should drop him a line when its done. Then kind of an offhanded, no promises thing about finding a place for it in a film. Im not even going to say anything about that. We'll just leave it at that.

When 2 rolled around the owner kicked everyone out but us, the staff and a few hot girls. He then attached his ipod to the sound system and we preceded to dance our asses off and drink for free until the sun came up. My band got the most shitfaced plastered I have ever seen them. Daniel could barely stand up and ended up sleeping in his car for awhile. Alex made any excuse to dance on top of things... chairs, the bar and finally a giant speaker that he actually fell off of. I didnt see it but heard about it. I was the sober one by the end of the night and thats not saying much. We ended up sleeping on the floor of Alex's parents. As fun as it was, I realized my body simply cannot sustain prolonged versions of this weekend. But it was a great weekend and I hope we got our names out there a little more.

I have a new perception of San Antonio. The people in particular. We are very fortunate to have this kind of support so close to Austin. Sold a shitload of shirts. After the weekend was said and done we pulled in about 400 for the band account. Not bad. The CD release party is in the works there as well as Austin and I cant wait to get it going. All we need is to get the album art finished and we will be good to go.