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December 28, 2008

Happy Holidays - What Did You Get?

Sunday, December 28, 2008

I want to see what everyone got for their Holiday of Choice.

I got a new guitar case for my baby 12 string. A hardshell, which is nice. I also got a new Acoustic/Electric 4 string bass from my parents.

The inlaws got me a fire pit which I tested out as soon as I got home. Also, a bunch of DvDs including the Three Days Grace live DvD. And a new MP3 player. A Samsung S3. It's a lot like an iPod Nano, but it's not an iPod (I REFUSE to own an iPod). Here's some pics of my stuff.

My updated set of guitars. From Left to Right:
6 String Indiana Madison Acoustic/Electric Guitar
4 String Acoustic/Electric Bass
12 String Fender Acoustic/Electric
Epiphone SG
Rogue 5 String Bass

 

Here's a picture of my new Fire Pit from Meg's parents.

 

Here's a picture of my MP3 player

 

 

Lot's of cool stuff.

 

 

 

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November 24, 2008

High School Flashback

Monday, November 24, 2008

I just watched one of the newest episodes of South park called the Ungroundable, and it flashed me back to my old days in high school.

The episode talks about how there's true goths, then there's vamp kids that are temporary goths. In the end, they blame the entire thing on Hot Topic. It was pretty damn funny. But there's a speech in it that reminded me of back in the days with An, Rensmay, Reed, Garlow, and all of those guys. Here's a transcription of the speech.

Fellow students, over the past week there's been a lot of confusions so we have asked for this assembly to clarify the difference between goth kids and vampire kids. Let us make it abundantly clear; If you hate life, truely hate the sun, and need to smoke and drink coffee, you are goth. If, however, you like dressing in black cause it's fun, enjoy puting sparkles on your cheeks and following the occult while avoiding things that are bad for your health, then you are most likely a douchebag vampire want-to-be boner. Because anybody who thinks they are actually a vampire is freaking retarded.
((Crowd Cheers))
And fuck all of you.
 

This speech was absolutely hilarious. it reminded me of back in the day when everyone would go to Denny's or IHOP to chill once the mall closed, but I was always too cool to go. lol. Back in my first band: Eturnal Knights with Scott Lochow on bass, Garlow on guitar, Reed on drums, and me singing and playing guitar.

I want everyone to share a story of back in the day (if, that is, they can remember one.)

 

I'll start it off:

 

I remember one night Reed and Garlow picked me up to head to Wegmans. We went there, grabbed some stuff, and hopped in the car for a joy ride. I remember BLASTING Heretic Anthem when Garlow put this fucked up mask on and stuck his head out the window to scare the shit out of an old lady.

 

 

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October 06, 2008

Meg's New Haircut

Monday, October 6, 2008

Meg got a new haircut for her birthday. It looks good, but it's a lot shorter than it has been in the past year or so. It'll take some getting used to, but she can't look bad.

 

 

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June 21, 2008

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.

 

Indrid Cold

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

Ian and I in Flux

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

Ian and Pat

Ian and Pat at a Someone You Know Practice

 

The new blog is still up

 

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

June 20, 2008

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.

SYK Hat

SYK Hat

SYK Shirt Front SYK Shirt Back

SYK Shirt

 

Here's the band

 The band

 

And obviousely, my blog is back up. I re-installed the software to my server.

 

 

 

 I can keep a rhythm with no metronome, no metronome, no metronome....

I can lead a nation with a microphone, a microphone, a microphone.....