my Rocky post

i'm about half way through watching all of the Rocky films, and i can't wait to see who the villians are in the last two, cause at this point they have honestly been getting better and better

Rocky 1

Apollo Creed = eh

Rocky 2

Apollo Creed = eh x2 (it's the same fucking guy)

Rocky 3

Clubber Lang = pretty nasty

Rocky 4

Ivan Drago = fucking crazy

i'm about 10 seconds into the final fight between Rocky and Ivan and I'm only assuming Rocky wins, but I can not wait to see who the villians are in Rocky 5 and Rocky 6 'Balboa'.

Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

"...not in a good way"

okay so last monday night i watched Exit Through The Gift Shop and it was great. I've even watched it a few times since then. after that i picked lauren up from work, dropped her off at home and went back home and went to bed.
tuesday i had truck at cvs. it wasn't to bad. i think i was there for about 12 hours that day. after work i went over to laurens and hung out there. don't really remember details actually. oh well.
wenesday i didnt have truck for the first time in like FOREVER.i know i spent the morning hanging out with lauren for a bit then went home and hung out at home for most of the day. alter that night i went to ikea to meet this lady who made earrings for lauren that i was giving to her for christmas. then i went back home and got pretty drunk and hung out with blackbeard, yosco, o, redbeard, murphy, scotty and a couple other people. lauren came over eventually and hung out too.
thursday i woke up and had a interview at 2. hung out at my house before that. then drove up to it. it ended up being a scam. after it i went home and packed my shit up. alex came over and picked me up and drove me home. got home around 5 thirty. then took a shower and ate dinner with my family for the first time in a long time. after that i went out and bought some booze and then went to dunkin donutes with some people and then me and jenni went to cayces house and hung out there for a hot minute then i went home and went to bed.
friday i woke up and was blown off by jenni so i waited around for marc and we went to borders and i got a book for my dad and we ran into tom cladek and talked to him for awhile then marc took me home. i showered and drove to laurens house for christmas eve dinner there. alot of her family was there and it wa a lot of fun. ate very well. hung out there pretty late, i think until like 1 and then drove home. i stayed up pretty late that night and finished watching Rocky 2 finally. it was really great. i get so into it when i watch those movies.
saturday was christmas. i was the lastest i woke up on christmas ever. went downstairs and opened presents with my family. i got seven seasons of the simpsons on dvd, some clothes and $250, so ya know, a good holiday. after that i watched Horton Hears A Who with my dad. then i went and picked up lauren at her house and we went to my sisters house in brick. spent most of christmas day there playing with my nieces and nephews. after we were tired of that we went back to laurens house, bridget came with us and then took my moms car back home and me and lauren drove back to philly. when we got back we exchanged gifts at her house. she got me Aziz Ansari tickets at carnegie hall and she blew up a poster i made for a show at terrordome and framed it, so pretty much the best gifts ever. after that we started watching ETTGS but we got tired and started falling asleep in the middle and went to bed.
so sunday i woke up at laurens and walked home pretty early. it was snowing pretty bad all day long. i was bored for most of the day. i watched Rocky 3 and ordered pizza and sat around for most of the day. i shovled the sidewalk at one point. eventually danillie and tony came over and hung out. then zack jp kiko and andy came over, and arik a little after that. we all sat around and watched Party Down and ate pizza, a lot more pizza was ordered that night, and left at my house, which i am sitll eating. eventually lauren came over and hung. thene veryone started to leave around 1 and me and lauren went to bed,
yesterday i woke up at my house with lauren. we got dressed and walked to her house to eat. we ate laftovers from christmas and finished watching ETTGS and then watched some more Party Down, showered and then walked back to me house and ate leftover pizza and then left to walk to the show. what a shitty walk in the wind, especially carrying all the mic stands. got there early. greek favoruteis were there waiting. then ape up! showed up, then the other bands. it was a fun show, but not very profitable. greeks played first, but i didnt watch them. then ape up played and i watched most of there set. then boys and sex played and i missed there set to collect some money and play video games. then peter the piano eater played last and was really great but i only saw one or two songs really. i'm just really really burnt out on live music these days. after the show we piled 9 people into a car (i was in the trunk with the singer of ape up! and and a bunch of sleds and my snow shovel) and drove to 11th and wharton and started watching Predator 2 but then me lauren and daniele went back to there house and hung out with mary and dan, which was great cause i hadn't seen dan in a few days or mary in forever. mary/dan gave me a anice scarf for xmas too which was unexpected and nice. i went to bed pretty early after that.
today i woke up and went to some mexican place with lauren and ape up and got burritos. it was cool hanging out with them again. after that me and lauren walked back to her house, where i found out the HFTH show was canceled so it left me with nothing to do tonight. so i walked home, hungout with all my roommates for a bit and then drove lauren to work and here i am.

The Sainte Catherines - Headliners Don't Load (But They Kill Cops)

pretty good week

so last monday i hung out with lauren in the morning and did a bunch of nothing for awhile. eventually i sucked it up and rode the worst ride of the season so far, and rode up to brians for dinner and hung out with him and alex, dale, lindsay, cayce and jim. we ate some pasta and then just hung out in brians room for awhile. eventually i rode back home in the terrible terrible cold. watched some tv and went to bed.
tuesday i woke up and got hoagies with nick and then watched a bunch of 30 rock with nick and andy/ then took the subway over to west philly and went to perrys house. hung out there for awhile and played with his cat. then we packed up the car and went and picked up jeff in fishtown and went to the subburbs for the show. everyone was really good. bearhug (paramedic) played first and were really good. better then paramedic even. after them lighten up played and were really great too. all the new songs were awesome, and so was the gorilla biscuits cover. then sidekicks played and were awesome. like legit great. played a few new songs that were all very awesome. then spraynard ended the show and were spraynard. good set but very short. after that perry drove me home and i ate and then rode over to laurens house to go to sleep. wednesday i worked truck and it was truck. god i hate that job. after that i went home and rested for a hot minute. then luther me tony and lauren went to brooklyn for a show. got there in pretty good time. luther played first. were ya know, luther. then timeshares played and were really great. they get better everytime i see them play. then the sidekicks played again and were so incredibly great. they played all the songs that i love that they didnt play the night before, including small, and the island, but didn't play looking.then the crappy ghost robot ninja band played last but i slept through there entire set. all in all brooklyn was great. got an entire pizza and saw some friends. it did suck cause it ended up being dans last show with the band. we drove home that night and i slept the entire way home.
thursday i am not sure what i did during most of the day. i know that night i went to the diner with lauren and danielle and met nick greg andy phil and his girlfriend. had a pretty good time there. then me and lauren went to her house and watched What We Do Is Secret, which was absolutely great. so stoked on the whole thing and the bronx as black flag ruled. went to bed after that.
friday was the house boat show. not sure what i did earlier in the day but i know i went with nick andy and phil to the luther practice space and helped them get there stuff for the show. on the way back it was brought to my attention that the house didnt have a pa for the show. so i scrambled around to find a pa.

finally was able to borrow the one at the banana stand. but when we got it to the show space we discovered it did not work correctly. perry had to call someone to bring another one. i came very close to having a panic attack/heart attack that night. eventually everything ended up going great. luther played first, then omar then dry feet. i didnt watch any of the opening bands at all really. i was busy collecting money and making sure the cats that lived at the house wouldn't get out (not so much fun). finally got to watch house boat though. they were great. they played a bunch of new stuff but it was just great to finally see them live. after the show i got to talk to mikey erg for like a very long time and he told me 1."he recognized me from lots of shows and seeing me arund the country" 2. why the ergs! really don't play shows and 3. that he felt "honored" and "stoked" that he got to play the terrordome. so all in all, a VERY good night. after everything was wrapped up me and lauren walked to my house and went to bed.

saturday morning we had to wake up early and go to richmond. we left around eleven in the morning. made really good time getting down there. went to jeff riddles horse farm first. was so great to see him and dookie kong. we hung out there for awhile, drank some beer and i generally pissed off a bunch of horses. after that we took jeff and went to this dumb bro bar called the starlite. ate expensive bad food and drank expensive shitty beer and got the phone number from out slutty waitress. then we went to the show and it was all around just a terrible terrible show. this si your life played first and were pretty tight but just a hardcore band. then some other touring band played and were pretty terrible. like very very bad. i only watched it to avoid the cold outside, cause we weren't allowed in the house. terrible show. then luther played to a much smaller crowd then the first two bands did. then hold tight played and were tight was well but still just a hardcoreish band and sounded like a good lifetime rip off.  after that we packed up pretty quickly and drove jeff back to his farm and then we made a very long and tiresome/crappy ride home back to philly. got home around 5 thirty am and went straight to bed.  slept pretty late sunday. after that i went over to laurens and watched tv with her and danielle and then we went over to ava house for leo's birthday. had a lot of fun there and got very drunk. probably to drunk. went home around 3 am. today i slept until about noon. hung out with lauren for awhile and then came home. i then hung out with dan for awhile and watched 30 Rock with him for awhile, well until he fell asleep, which he is still doing right next to me. lets see how this holiday season goes.



Lighten Up! - Same Shirt, Different Day

2010

the top records of 2010 in my opinion

1. None More Black - Icons
2. The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits
3. Everyone Everywhere - Everyone Everywhere
4. Carpenter - Sea To Sky
5. Spraynard - Cut And Paste
6. The Measure [sa] - Notes
7. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
8. Black Wine - Black Wine
9. Iron Chic - Not Like This
10. Bars Of Gold - Of Gold
11. RVIVR - RVIVR
12. The Dopamines - Expect The Worse
13. Off With Their Heads - In Desolation
14. The Extra Lens - Undercard
15. Screaming Females - Castle Talk

and the top EPs/Demos

1. The Holy Mess - Benefit Sesh
2. Paper Lanterns - Demo
3. Highlites - Thanks For Coming Out
4. Glocca Morra/The Greek Favourites - Songs In The Key of  Ayyyyyyyy
5. Big Soda - Paper Route
6. Lavis Blake - In Tandem
7. P.S. Eliot - Living In Squalor
8. Big Eyes - Demo
9. Luther - In Through The Nose Out Through The Mouth
10. The Great Explainer - The Way Things Swell

a mix

to sum up everything good that came out this year.

1. Carpenter - Mean Things
2. Iron Chic - Cutesy Monster Man
3. None More Black - Iron Mouth Act
4. Jeff Riddle - Me And My Liver
5. Lighten Up - Same Shirt, Different Day
6. Paper Lanterns - Alaska
7. RVIVR - Cold In Your Bones
8. The Menzingers - Home Outgrown
9. Spraynard - Stickin' Together Is What Good Waffles Do
10. Black Wine - Chateua Of Ghosts
11. The Dopamines - Dick Simmons
12. Everyone Everywhere - Tiny Planet
13. The Measure [sa] - Be Yours
14. Highlites - Empty Bed Syndrome
15. Timeshares - Woke Up In Grappler School
16. Superchunk - Digging For Something
17. Big Soda - I Know You
18. The Holy Mess - Goodbye 3713
19. Bars Of Gold -Heaven Has A Heater
20. Luther - Aztec Tomb (demo)
21. Captain, Were Sinking - Foster Brothers
22. Big Eyes - Prefer To Be Alone
23. Static Radio - Last Year (demo)
24. Bad Banana - Stand Next To Me (demo)
25. Glocca Morra - Bedford Avenue

if you want a copy email me and i can try to get it to you.



Jan3rd EDIT i had to take the songs by The Sidekicks and Angry Serfs off cause they came out in 2009. my bad.

ugh

i hate when i wait and have to update on over  a week of stuff.

i don't remember this thursday. oh well.

friday i worked at cvs. after work i got home and showered and got dressed and went to pennington NJ with Luther and greg for a show. the show, honestly, was not that good. but it was better then doing nothing i guess. ended up getting very drunk and inventing a weird accent with greg (that took me a day or two to shake). after the show i realized i left my phone at the house and basically got back to philly, went to laurens, slept a few hours then woke up very early to meet the kid who lived there and get it back, then drove straight back to philly and went back to bed. it was so early that lauren didnt even know i had left really. but doing that sorta put the rest of my day in a funk. i went home at some point and just sorta napped and sat around for most of the day. saturday night i know i went over to laurens and hung out there for a bit with her and danielle as they watched some harry potter movie. eventually danielle left and then mary and dan came home and we all watched The Fantastic Mr Fox, which was so good that i watched it a second time immediately after. then went to bed at laurens house.

sunday i went home in the morning. downbound city was recording in my basement again. i just sat around and ate and watched king of the hill for most of the day. then eventually got my shit together and went over to laurens and we went to the lanes for the Ergs!/Hunchback reunion show. it was pretty good. definitely not as good as the break up shows. less energetic and the sets were the same for the day and night show, even though i didnt go to the day show. the only really good parts about these shows was that i knew so many more people there then at the last shows, and that lauren was there with me. i also lost my shoe the third song in and then cut my foot. but other then that it was fun. got free beer thanks to mikey, and the ergs covered the clash and closed with 'pool pass'. after the show i drove us home and lauren slept for some of the ride home.

monday i had off from work again. it was a very unproductive day. woke up at laurens and rode home pretty early. and i'm pretty sure i never really left my couch all day. that night i went out and just rode around by myself and got food and then went home and watched Spies Like Us by myself and then went to bed.
tuesday i had off from work. i think i just sat around for most of the day and watched tv and movies. i honestly don't remember what i did for the most part this day. i probably just watched king of the hill and 30 rock. i think i also watched a movie.
wenesday i had truck. got to work at 6thirty. the truck itself didn't take long. but after it was done i stuck around to milk as many hours as i could out of it. i ended up staying 12 hours and not taking a break. after work i went home and fell asleep for a bit. then eventually went over to laurens and slept there.
thursday i rode home and got a call to come into work to close but i couldn't because of the show i booked that night. so i went in from 3 to 6. it was an east shift to say the least. after work i rode home, ate some food and then went over to the show. the show was good. good turnout, everyone who played was good. connor opened it, did a saves the day cover. then trunks and tales played and did a promise ring cover. then zack schwartz played and did a tigers jaw cover and a elliot smith cover. then redbeard played and basically only did highlites songs. then pj played and was really great. then steveo finished it off, did a verve pipe cover. lots of covers that night. after the show was pretty much wrapped up i got my shit and left. went home and finished watching Mallrats with dan and lauren. then went to bed.
friday morning i watched the Runaways. it was ok. during that i was called into work. got to work at 3 and closed, so i was there until midnight. it was a pretty boring night, and i got pretty bummed out about missing out on everything going on that night. after work i went home and tried watching a movie but fell asleep. woke up later and then rode over to laurens and slept there.
yesterday we all woke up and then danielle mary dan lauren and i drove up the punk rock flea market. got in for free wich was nice. it was very overwhelming. but it was good to see lots of people. ran into perry, sean g, gay, guy, deanna, zia, josh and some other people. got a descendents button, a vitamin x poster, a subhumanz poster, and a gbh t shirt. after that we drove home and basically just hung low at laurens house. its sweet that danielle lives there now. eventually lauren had to leave to go to work, so me and dan came home and made dinner and watched some king of the hill and then both fell asleep. eventually nick phil and greg came over and hung out for a bit. then everyone left so i went over to zacks house for the show. caught one song by monument, and then saw everyone everywhere, who were good as always. hung out for a bit after the show but eventually left and came home. downloaded a bunch of music and then road over in the rain to laurens and went to bed.
today we woke up feeling not so great and just kinda layed around and watched tv until i came home. now here i am watching tv and doing this and feeling sick.

Die Antwoord - Evil Boy

i don't watch

the show Madmen, but check this out....

i clean up pretty well if it was the 40s, and if i was a cartoon....



Hold Tight! - Our Pets' Heads Are Falling Off