Hallway 7: Online Word: June 2008 Archives

New Computer

~~Sunday June 22, 2008~~

So our computer luck has sucked recently. On top of SHIT internet connection (Thanks to the failing of Riverpoint Apartments in Niagara Falls, and Rocket Broadband), we've had two computers decently shit out on us. So we decided to use some wedding money to get a new computer, so today I went to Best Buy and bought a new LAPTOP! I payed $600 for it, but it's marked for $1000. I paid less because it was a floor model. It's a Compaq Presario A900. It has 3g of RAM. Our old computers had 256mb, so it's a great increase. Runs WoW like a dream. I also ran into Seymour and Malinda also in Best Buy buying a computer for their wedding just shortly after ours.

Also, we went to my Aunt Bev and Uncle Tom's 50th anniversary, and ended up winning $50 off of a scratch off lotto ticket. 50 on the 50.

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Old Friends (Again)

~~Saturday June 21, 2008~~

Today I ran in to some more old friends of mine. Again, I was at Wegmans with Meg, and I saw two creepy guys waving at me from a car to next to us. At first, I didn't recognize them, so I just continued talking to Meg. Then, I looked back and saw them still waving. Then I realized it was Ian Horrace and Eric Khan. We go way back. I was in a band back in 2004 called Flux, and we needed a drummer for shows. We auditioned a couple, but didn't really like any of them. John Coleman then said he knew someone, and had him come over one day. It was Ian. We auditioned him and loved him right away, and he was with the band until the bitter end (literally.) At the same time, Ian was singing in a band called The Secret Life of Owls with Eric on bass. After Flux broke up, Ian joined me in Someone You Know, and then Eric and Ian joined me for a show with ex-Flux lead guitarist Alex Ridgel in Xyster. Then, Ian and Eric joined me in recording my album under the name Indrid Cold. But that time, he was on guitar, which he is miraculously better at (that's not to say he's not a good drummer, it's saying that it's a miracle that he could be better at anything than he is on drums.) Ian also played at my flop-of-a-benefit Christmas Eve 2 as we both played acoustic sets.

They are both growing beards! I take it as an homage to me. Lol. They actually look good on them. Neither are red though, but I'm positive it's because neither are as Irish as I am.

All of us in Indrid Cold (Ian, Me, Eric, and Stephen Bender)

Flux (Ian, Dylan Brown, Me, Jim Covert)

Ian and Pat at a Someone You Know Practice

The new blog is still up

Lights out, guerilla radio...Turn that shit up....

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More Epics!!!

Ok, i got some new epic mounts on WoW! BUT THIS TIME THEY ARE MY FLYING! I got the Purple Swift Windrider, as well as the Green Riding Nether Ray. Took me FOREVER to get them, but I did it. Here's some pics.

Swift Purple Windrider, and yes, those are wings from my S3 arena helm.

Green Riding Nether Ray (required Exalted with Sha'tari Skyguard)

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Old Friends

~~Friday June 20, 2008~~

I ran into an old friend today at Wegmans. It was Javee Javier, the old singer from Someone You Know, the Pop-Punk band I played in in 2005. He was working at the Pharmacy, which an old friend of mine, Alex Ridgel from back in the Days of Flux, used to do as well. Javee looked like he's been working out. Lol. Definately buffe up a bit. But it got me thinking: If there was any one band in my history of performing in bands that I would put back together, it would be SYK. I mean, if some magical fish-genie appeared to me one day and said "You can reunite any band you've been in" I can say full-heartedly that it would be SYK. Anyone who knows me knows that Pop-Punk is not my cup of tee, not my forté if you will, but those guys (Pat Becket, Javee Javier, Jordan Jeong, and Ian Horrace) can turn any music into fun. Seriousely I think i can confidently say that it's the only band that I've ever been in that never felt like a job, it felt like pure, unadulterated fun. Ian could probably attest to this seeing as he doesn't like that style of music either (can't really blame him because Green Day's drum lines SUCK.)

I think if i were to pick a favorite song that we did, it would probably be B Song. I also have some old-school pictures of some of the merchandise we had at the time, too. So dig in.