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

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