bunch of nothing lately

another huge update. last sunday i woke up and went to popeyes with arik and lauren. then me and arik went to his house then west philly to go to upenns hospital to see if we could find any medical tests for money. no dice. then we went to the bike church so i could get new handle bars, but it was closed. then we went to west philly arcade and played the T2 game for about an hour. then i went and got pictures developed and i went home for most of the night. not sure what i did at the end of the night.
monday i worked in the morning. after work i went home and cleaned up and showered and ate and whatnot. then i had a bunch of people over to drink and hang out including all roommates, danielle, vinny, greg, arik, zack, joe, tony, kiko, andy, jordan and there may of been some others but i can't remember really. dave fontaine came into the city too and hung out with everyone and me. we all got pretty drunk. eventually everyone left and me and dave went to melrose diner and got food then went back to my house and went to bed.
tuesday morning we went to el rey and got cheese hoagies and then went back to my house and watched Beer League, which was not that good. dave left after that and I didn't do much more after that. I watched some king of the hill and hung out with nick and phil and andy and amanda. lauren came over for a little bit and ate dinner at my house. i tried to go to bed early cause of my early shift on wenesday, but couldn't sleep. I ended up watching Planet Of The Apes.
wenesday i woke up at 4 and went to work. got out around 1 and went back to sleep for a few hours. after that i got up and did some laundry and hung out at my house for a little bit before i left philly to go home. got home around 8. dave fontaine came by for a little bit to get his charger. then i left and went to Rahway to pick up chris from the train station then we went to mikes and hung out. it was so good to see them. i haven't seen mike or caitlin or madeline in over a year. madeline was already asleep but i got to see a bunch of pictures and man has she grown. hung out there almost all night. went to sonic around 3 and waited in line forever but it was so worth it. after that we went back to mikes hung out some more and then i drove home around 5 am.
thursday was thanksgiving. i slept in pretty late. went driving around. didn't do much else. it was a very uneventful day. family came over. it was good seeing neices and nephews. ate what i could and fell asleep. woke up later and started watching tv. megan and dave came back with the kids and lauren came over and met them, which was nice. they left and i watched GrownUps with my mom, bridget and lauren. then after that i watched all of season two of Bored To Death, which was awesome. then i went to bed.

woke up friday morning still in jersey and  watched a few episodes of Eastbound And Down with lauren then left and went back to philly. i walked home from laurens and took a nap, watched some tv and ate dinner. then went over to the show i booked at Zacks house. pretty good show. everyone was super nice. everyone was on time. made about a hundred bucks. spraynard opened the show. then the touring bands played. both were very good. annabel played for a long time. everyone everywhere played last. played a short set. everything ran very well. stoked to be booking more shows at this house in the future. i stuck around and hung out for awhile then went home and met lauren at my house and went to sleep.
saturday i woke up hung out at my house for most of the day. ate pizza that day and played a bunch of pokemon stadium. it included nick andy phil and greg. arik and dan came over eventually. later on it ended up being a bunch of friends hanging out at the house playing video games. randomly my sister meghan was in town and came by after her dinner. lauren came over to and we all hung out for a bit.

after they left me lauren danny and greg walked over to steveo's for the 'opening' of his bar at his house. hung out, got really drunk and had a really good night. after awhile me and lauren walked home and went to bed. i bet we tried to watch a movie but we totally fell asleep.
sunday we woke up at my house. lauren went home and i hung out at home. we went out to dinner with her parents and aunt and uncle and grandparents at a fancy restaurant in center city. was sorta bummed i didn't go to the matt skiba/brendan kelly show at the note cause the show apparently ruled and everyone got to go back to bam margeras house afterwards and party. i went to laurens house and slept there that night.
monday i went home and watched Friday by myself and ate a hoagie. eventually steveo came over and watched a bunch of king of the hill with me. i went to the post office and got a package i ordered awhile ago. then came home and hung out for awhile. eventually i went over to zack/jp/tims house to do an interview for tims anthropology project/a doct about philadlephia house shows for kiko and andy. it was very professional. the most professional i've ever done actually. after that i went over to menzingers house and got very drunk with them and tony and jeff meyers and phil batiato. discussed great trilogies. only came up with Back To The Future and Toy Story. goddamn. went to laurens and slept there that night.
tuesday i had off again. i woke up and drove lauren to school. then came home, watched some koth, then met danille tom leo augusta and dj at royal tavern for lunch. then met everyone at ava house and helped daniele move a bunch of her stuff to laurens then me her and augusta went to forman mills and wal mart in super south philly for awhile. then i dropped everyone off and went home. watched some MORE koth then met lauren danille augusta dj spenser arik vinny and josh at fox and the hound for pint night. ran into dale there and two dudes who knew me as the "guy who pulled his balls out at the lanes a week ago". me and lauren walked back to my house for fath and then hung out with andy for a bit and went to bed.
today i worked the truck at cvs, milked my shift as long as possible then came home. watched How High with andy, but fell asleep. did some random work, then made myself dinner and watched Casino. and now here i am about to leave to go over to laurens. man i'm tired from doing a whole bunch of nothing lately.


Superchunk - Precision Auto

big update

friday i worked and then after work went home and got pizza with andy and amanda came over and ate some.we watched Parks And Recreations and then greg came over and played around with my Mako and fell in love with it. then they left for the housewarming party and PatO/Nick/Pete Pies house. a little later i went to laurens and we rode up to the party together. the party was nuts. there were TONS of people there, it was actually over crowded. but all in all it was a very crazy party, i passed out two times. me and lauren left around 2 and went to south street to get pizza but bailed on that and went to wawa and stole sandwhichs and went to her house and went to bed. 
saturday i woke up pretty hungover and went to work at 2. had a very boring lame day at work, and to my dislike at the end of my shift my boss came in and told me she had to let me go, which sucked. after that i met lauren at royal tavern and got some dinner. then we went to her house and attempted to watched episdoe of East Bound and Down for like the tenth time. i believe we did finish it this night. 

sunday i woke up at laurens and went home pretty soon after that. hung out during the ruinings practice and did some laundry and cleaned up a bit. then went to new harmony for sunday buffet with dan mary and lauren. then we came back and drank whiskey and basically tortured marys cat.

 monday i had off from work and i believe i just stayed in for pretty much the entire day? damn i don't remember. i know i wathced a bunch of Parks and Recreations, and I know nick came home pretty late and we played pokemon stadium. and i stayed up very late downloading music and eventually watched Planet of The Apes and passed out.

 tuesday i had off from work AGAIN. i believe i just staying in for the most part. i cleaned my room and finally unpacked that last box next to my bed and organized my records and washed my sheets and made my bed. i even finally made that package and sent it to my sister and went to the bank just to check up on my money and stuff. then got cheese hoagies and jenni came over and we hung out, andy was involved here and there. me and jenni played some pokemon stadium and watched Barton Fink (one of my favorite films, and my favorite Coen Brothers film). she eventually left and went home and I just went to bed.

wenesday I woke up incredibly early for work. after work i showered and then helped pack up the van for Luthers second show, which was at the lanes. then nick andy and i rode down in andys truck. got there very early and i got to walk around the backstage area and behind the bowling pins and stuff, which was very cool cause i had been coming to the lanes since i was in highschool. mikey lawrence was there, who is a great dude, and he got me in for free and got me three drink tokens, which were the downfall of my night, cause nick and andy both ended up not drinking as well and giving me there tokens, which resulted in me drinking 9 whiskey/coke drinks, going into the ocean, pulling my pants down in the lanes and conving big mike to drive me to flemington. anyway Luther was ok, we had free 'tshirts' for them, which was basically me writing luther on duct tape and putting on the shirt people had on. Banquets and Timeshares played somewhere after that but I was all over the place at this point and don't really remember watching them play. i do remember watching big mike play solo, which was cool, and i can't wait to get him out to philly to do a show. after that though i convinced big mike to drive me to flemington cause i thought that would be a good idea, which was not. ended up only having one dollar to give him (oof), then had to break into a window in the kitchen to get in, then ended up emptying all my pockets in the kitchen and taking off all of my clothes in the kitchen as sort of a warning to my parents that i was there. then went to bed. they woke up very confused why my door was open and why the dogs were barking then saw my pile of stuff (which was basically, almost all of my wet clothes, a water bottle, a bunch of drink tokens, buttons, a rubber bat toy, a dvd of They Saved Hitlers Brain, a strip of photo booth pictures, a disposable camera and other things). 

so thursday i woke up very hung over and confused,  and also mad cause i had to putt all of my clothes in the dryer before i went out. eventually i got up and out and went to marc critellis house and hung out for a bit there then we went and got bagels and went to the resevoir. then i dropped him off at home and met my mom at her job and went and got pizza with her. after that i visited dave fontaine at his job and caught up with him and then went back to my moms house and waited for alex to come pick me up and drive me back to philly. i got home at like 5 and then just felt in a funk for the rest of the day. didn't go to a pretty sweet show a block away from my house even. just made some dinner and stayed in. lauren came over eventually and we ordered a pizza and watched saturday night live, and then she had to leave to go to a midnight showing of harry potter. so i stayed in and finished season two of Parks and Recreations, man do i hope they make a second season of that show.

 friday i woke up and went straight to work. got home around 5, showered and watched the new Office with andy. then went over to laurens and ate tacos and drank vodka with her dan and mary. after that I went over to the show i booked. pete and tim were there already when i got there, and we watched king of the hill videos on youtube, check it out cause it's funny. then more people began showing up. glad the posters were actually made this time, but i sat at the table all night and didn't sell any, and only like two people even took them for free. oh well, just a poor investment. the show went well though, asides from it just being friends there who didn't want to pay me. Ceasefire were first and were good as always, then Great Explainer played. after that SteveHitMike played and it was awesome to see them finally, and it especially ruled to hear 'Me and My Liver' full band. then The Ruining played and I watched from the stairs behind then band with steveo and greg. they were good, i honestly only really knew the songs because they had been practicing in my basement for the last month. after that lauren didn't feel to swell so we basically just left and went to her house and went to bed. it's funny cause i was the one who ended up throwing up all night. i blame the vodka One Win Choice gave me.

 yesterday i woke up pretty late after being sick all night. me and lauren went to black and brew for reakfast. then we went to my house and hung out with steve hit mike for a bit then eventually went up to my room and watched Planet Terror, and suprisingly she stayed awake for the entire thing and enjoyed it. after that we watched some Saturday Night Live downstairs and then Hoarders. then suprisingly to my I found out there was no room for me to come to trenton for the last Ruining show. I was pretty bummed about that, but whatever. i made some dinner for myself and watched an episode of 30 Rock and then went over to zacks house for the show. Watertowers were pretty good. Greek Favourites were tuned down  so they sounded metaly. Choke Up were pretty heavy and people were enjoying them. honestly though the only band i watcheded entirely was Captain Were Sinking, even though they played the only who songs i know first, but they did close with Linoleum cover. also, people were losing there SHIT during capt, it was nuts. after the bands i hung out for a few more hours and partied. around1 i went home and watched more 30 Rock waiting for lauren to get out of work and come over. 

The Cardinal Sin - Eye Opener

days off....

today i;

slept in.
showered.
went to the bank/popeyes/fernadez
then watched

i enjoy days off from work.

since Fest

so since I've been back from fest I haven't done so much. was feeling pretty sick for a few days. tuesday i just hung out around my house. watched MacGruber with andy at some point. eventually i went over to laurens to hang out with her and ended up sleeping there. wenesday i went back to work at cvs. felt like crap all day long. after work i had to walk my bike home from west philly cause i had a flat, that sucked. then i napped and then ended updoing something.... i can't remember last wenesday. thursday i know i worked and then after work took the subway home and then took another nap. then was going to go to a party at ava house but got a blow out and just walked home and then walked to laurens and hung out with her and mary and dan and then went to bed. friday i worked at cvs aaaagain. took the subway to work cause my bike was still down. after work lauren picked me up from work and drove me to performance to buy new tubes. then we went to her house and took a nap. then i walked home and hung out there. bunch of people came over, including phil, tom, greg, greg, danielle, vinny and maybe some other and all of my roommates. we drank..a lot, and watched king of the hill and just hung out. andy nick dan and phil recorded Luther demos all night. i waited up real late for lauren to come over and sleep over. saturday i woke up and me and lauren watched Get Him To The Greek, which was pretty good. after that she went home and I went to work at the coffee shop. danielle and greg b came and visited me at work for like 4 hours. I burned ALL of the Luther demos at work that day and wrote on everyone one and stuffed them all in there sleves with inserts. took me awhile but worth it (they look like crap). after work i went home then to dads haus for the show. missed the first band, but got there in time for Luthers first show. they were okay. i've heard them play like 17 times already. after them Timeshares and Great Explainer played but I didn't watch them really. i walked to a store to get beer with greg b mary and adrian. ended up getting way to drunk. after the show i went to J&Js pizza with amanda mary and augusta. put my two extra pizza slices in my jacket pockets, rode home a different way then the people I was with (which led them to believe i was in an accident), got home, forgot to get andy pizza, apologized, asked him to buy me a pie from dominos, told lauren to come over when she was out of work, went upstairs, locked me door and passed out with pizza in my pockets. sunday i woke up to a mess downstairs and connor greg k and mattvan still down there watching Waynes World 2. eventually lauren came over and her, dan mary andy and amanda and i and greg k walked to melrose diner fo breakfast, which ended up being some sort of a shitshow where me and greg spent the entire breakfast trying to make andy sick. after that we went back to my house watched some of the Office then i went to work at the coffee shop again. Lauren came and suprise visited me for a little bit and before i left to go home arik came by and hung out for a little bit. after work i went home, got laurens car and drove up to the fire to see The Measure [sa]. it was a terribly attended show. fid said mid set that when they "normally play in philadelphia it's right in front of dennis breaking his glasses". that was probably one of my more favorite 'shoutouts' ever. Omar and Worn In Red played too and were both pretty good. after the show i hung out there with patO for a bit and ate pizza. eventually drove back to laurens and slept there. yesterday (monday) i walked home in the morning and just hung out at home all day. watched a lot of Parks and Recreations and made a picture on my computer to print out and hang up in the house (which i did).   eventually nick dan and phil came home and we drank and played golden eye. eventually andy came home and I took the Luther band photos for them when there photographer bailed. we did it in nicks shower. they came out bad, but they used them. after that we all watched the premiere of Conan, which was fanfuckingtastic. after that we watched Russel Brand stand up comedy which ended up being pretty ok then i sorta passed out on the couch and then went up to bed. today I had off again and wasn't sure what to do with my day. so I began to watch The Brady Bunch Movie then i was called to cover a shift at the coffee shop, said yes, finished my movie then went to performance to buy new tires since i kept gettng flats and then rode to work after hanging out with lauren for awhile. while at work young jok came by and fixed my laptop then later on reuben and arik and one of his roommates came by and hung out for awhile. and here I am now. wonder what life is going to be like the rest of this week

Luther - There's Always Money In The Banana Stand

Fest 9

okay, lauren, annie, augusta, mike schwartz and myself left for fest thursday morning. got there pretty quickly. Only stopped for gas and like at a waffle house and JR's and south of the border. i drove all of south caroline and georgia and then slept through florida and woke up in Gainesville at 3 am. we got a room, the girls went to sleep and me and mike drank in the parking lot. ran into capt in the lot and some other kids. eventually went to bed and woke up a few hours later. renued the room and went and go bagels at a bad bagel place. that was the begining of just non stop run ins with people i know from all over the country. such a great weekend (i'll probably end up saying that a bunch in this entry). then we went to registration, waited in line, got our passes, got a bunch of koozies, got some vinyl, swam in the holiday in pool, watched the No BS Brass Band and Larry and His Flask and just got to hang with a ton of great people.

so i basically tweeted everything i was doing so i would remember it, or be able to read it all when it was all said and done. cause even at the pool party at like 2pm, i was pretty trashed. also, best party of fest 9 was maybe getting to hang out with Jeff Riddle a fucking ton too, and JR as Russel Tate. okay, the first band i saw was Stolen Parts at Jeffs Deli, then Carpenter played and were fucking awesome, and everyone was really into it and it ruled very hard. After that was done me and Lauren sprinted to spin cycle to see Big Soda, who were really good but the crowd was weird and people were pushing to much and hurting girls and two dudes got kicked out. Then went to common grounds to see Static Radio, who played in drag. Did a bunch of stage dives and only saw half there set again. Left early with Lauren and Nick R. to go see Bars Of Gold at 1982, who were fucking amazing, and people were losing there shit over them, it was like a religious experience. After that me and Lauren met up with Great Explainer dudes and Carpenter dudes at 8 Seconds to see Kylesa who were also awesome, but that place was huge. After that me and Lauren Jeff and Tony went to the civic center to see Mikey Erg acoustic, we tried to convince Pat O to come but he didnt and ended up getting kicked out of fest instead. But Mikey Erg was great. Did a TON of Ergs! covers and even did a Pysched To Die cover. People were circle pitting to an acoustic show, it was nuts. After that we went to Rum Runners and saw some of Heavy Petty with JR, which was pretty lame, and then ended up going back to 8 Seconds to see High On Fire, who fucking ruled. After that we all ended up walking back to the hotel (which sucked!), but somehow we all got split up, and i ended up walking back with JR Greg K and Dayna from Carpenter. the last two were both very drunk and stumbling into traffic, which made the two mile walk very unfun, and that plus coming home to a bunch of people in my hotel room was not fun. but eventually i said fuck it and just drank and hung out at the hotel all night.

went to bed incredibly late. the next day we got pizza at leonardos and then couldn't get into common grounds to see Iron Chic so we went to 1982 to see Big Eyes who were sort of a let down. After that we went to 8 Seconds to hang out, Paul Baribeau was playing, didn't care too much except Mike Erg sang 'Only Babies Cry' with him. After him me and Lauren watched Good Luck over Algernon Cadwalader cause she had never seen GL before. they were really really tight and people were going nuts during there set, but they didnt play the cover. After that we went to the Venue and saw Banner Pilot. then came back to 8 Seconds, saw like one song of Defiance Ohio, then saw The Measure [sa], who didnt have a huge turnout but those who were there were psyched. After that me and Lauren went back over to the Venue and saw Teenage Bottlerocket, who were very good and very tight. Then Lauren rushed me over to 1982 to see The Max Levine Ensemble, who were really good, I'm just not all that into there new material, oh well. After them we stuck around and watched Captain, Were Sinking. People were going nuts during there set. I had no idea Capt were so big. They also covered 'Going To Georgia'. After that me and Lauren went over to the civic media center to Theo Grizol, thinking we were going to see acoustic Nana Grizol songs, but it ended up being acoustic Defiance Ohio songs. That sucked very hard so we left and went to the Venue to catch the second half of Paint It Black, and it was definitely worth it. Kissed Josh on stage mid break down and I leap frogged Dan Yemin. Afterwards Lauren called Josh out on cutting the line for pizza at 5 Star. After that the drunken quest for house shows began. We ended up at one where Glocca Morra was suppose to play but the cops came and it was shut down. Then me Danielle Jordyn and Pete went to another house to end up seeing Comadre and Punch play a split set in a tiny tiny living room. Punch did all covers including Minor Threat, Infest, Kid Dynamite and others. After that we left right before the cops came and went to the Holiday Inn for the lobby shows. Dan and Jordyn fucked me over and didnt get me in so I kicked in an emergency exit door and then took a dump in the out of order womans room before Bobby gave some british kid a picture of Young Jok at prom and drew a cow on the back and wrote "you moooooooove me" on the back as Capt merch. didnt see anyone play the lobby show, except some random dude did a hot water music cover and an alk3 cover. Apparently i had JUST missed Broadway Calls and Fake Problems, huge bummer. then we took a cab back to the hotel, drank a bunch of whiskey, walked to a Days Inn and saw a few acoustic songs from Attica! Attica! and PJ Bond, then we brought the show out into the parking lot and AA and PJ played some more and Jeff Riddle and SteveO played some songs too. Then we went to Steak and Shake where JR successfully got everyone in the restauraunt to chant "I SUCK MY DADS DICK". That was a pretty appropriate ending to that night. Hit the hay around 8 am. We were all woken up by room service at 10 being told if we were out by 11 we would be charged another night. So we woke up, packed up out shit and drove into town. Didnt go to the No Idea records bbq AGAIN cause the line was way to long. Took a few hours to catch up on life that morning. Got pizza and went to Tonys hotel room at the Holiday Inn and showered and napped then hit the town. Went straight to the Venue to see Fake Problems who played all of there earliest material (and only stuff i like) for the first time in awhile and for the last time ever, including songs that never made it to official releases. They also covered 'Wild Wild West' which was awesome. Wasn't planning on drinking that day but The Menzingers got me a backstage pass that included unlimited free beer, so obviously i drank, a lot. after Fake Problems i hung out at the Menzos merch table and sold some shit, then watched The Copyrights, who were fucking awesome. They played my favorite song, Planet Earth Nineteen Ninety Four, and i sorta lost my shit for a hot second. After that I watched Lemuria from the side stage. Recieved ALOT of half joking angry texts from friends in the crowd who saw me side stage and were mad at me. Whatever, totaly worth it in the end. After Lemuria The Menzingers played and it was absolutely nuts. They hit the first note of 'I Was Born' and the crowd errupted and it looked like KoRn at woodstock. I was actually a little afraid to stage dive at first, which sucked cause when I did stagedive I lost my shoe. I watched the rest of the set from sidestage, but during the last song SteveO jumped off a stack and then everyone went nuts, i jumped again, then they brought like the entire crowd onto the stage. It was crazy. After them we all left and went accross the street and saw Glocca Morra at sping cycle, but I ended up only watching one song then going outside at talking to Mark Bronz and Kate fom Cheeky about shows and making fun on the Ergs!. After that i rushed back over to the Venue to see Bomb The Music Industry! who were absolutely nuts. at one point they covered 'Why Bother' by Weezer and Mikey Erg sang, and then they played 'I Don't Love You Anymore' and Franz Nicolay played piano for it. It was absolutely nuts. After that I found Lauren and brought her back stage where some dude from Canada talked to me about how much pull in the drug world he has in Canada and then offered me blow. Then me and Lauren watched Municipal Waste from side stage and it was crazy. They threw everything on stage into the audience. After that we walked to the Holiday Inn, met up with Nick and PatO and took a cab back to the hotel. Lauren and I got a room by ourselves and went to bed without any more partying. Woke up at like 9 and started driving home. Traded Annie for Leo from Capt and made pretty great time getting home which ruled except for the cold weather. And well, that was fest 9. An absolutely amazing weekend and I can not fucking wait for fest 10 which is obviously going to be nuts.

Pat O said it best: "Fest is like Christmas except better because your shitty cousins arent there but beer is"

Dear Landlord - High Fives