Tour

Three days into tour and it's defiantly a great tour so far. The first two shows have been sick, including last night's sold out show, tonight looks like it will be sold out, only one band has played and it is already super packed. Houston Calls sounds real good too, Dan and Jay are great replacements and great dudes. Super easy dudes to get along with and seem like great dudes in general. We've been doing well with money to which is a big plus. If the tour continues this way, which all signs point to it will, this will be a really great time.
It's an early show today so that means cocktails at 3:30. 1 Pabst and 1 Vodka Tonic = $7.00 which isn't that bad, hopefully drink tickets come soon, or I will be indulging in the 24 bottle case of miller lite I bought from Jarrett for 10 dollars.

One of the best highlights so far was when we left we hit the toll booth. For our lovely 15 passenger van and trailer the toll was $16.00, Tom being the dazzling individual that he is talked the pseudo Michael Strahan (google him) into charging us $6.00

This is going to be an excellent two months, I might get my knuckles tattooed. Fuck it.

Time to drink my lovely mostly vodka and minimal tonic and eat a slice of pizza!

After seeing Valencia soundcheck, I'm stoked for this tour.

sitting at the venue

First day of tour, we are in Farmingdale NY. It's to close to NJ to really feel like tour I can't wait to get farther away. The tour is about 2 months long, which is a long time but it should be great. Ideally I would like to be gone 10 months out of the year, I'm trying to figure everything out now.
I can't wait to see faces I haven't seen in a while, crossing my fingers that Keith comes out in Maryland.

I've had the worst headache for the past 3 days, it's like a permanent hangover. I want a nice cold Diet Green Tea Ice Tea and a slice of pizza pie. Help.

I used to think you were really hot, then I realized you're just a mature version of trailer trash.

Things I need to find by Wednesday:
Passport
Backpack containing digital camera and video camera
iPod

How the fuck did I lose those things...

When I do laundry and take it out of the washer machine, I smell every other 3rd piece of clothing I pull out. Is that weird, I do it to every 3rd piece not like just once, each time.

oh hey

100th post, take a gander at heaven

most expensive pee ever

I had to go pee and the bar was to crowded, I went to alley in NYC, Nick B was my lookout..

$153.09 later I realized Nick B is a horrible lookout.

Every so often I lose sight of who I am and what's important to me. I can see it in some photos, like what the fuck was I doing. I know the instances where I lose my mind and go crazy and once I regain it, the world is mine. I feel pretty good right now, I've rediscovered myself and what is important. Thanks friends.

my 4:35am drunk annoyed rant

So my night started out fairly well, drinks in Gillette at the lovely Bartons Bar establishment, had a drink or two there while waiting for Brent and John to get out of band practice. When it was time to leave I drove to Morristown where it was time to indulge in the amazingness of dollar beers. Had a good amount of cost effective drinks there with Brent and his beau while waiting for John to arrive. John let us know that he was showering so he would show up in a bit, so we went to another bar to have some more drinks. In true John fashion he showed up at the bar at 1:35ish while last call was happening. So we did some shots fast to make everything all good. Brent's beau said she had some vodka and gin so we should go and drink there. We left and stopped to purchase some diet colas to mix with the speak-easy's that we were about to have. When we went there John's fun time arrived, and that's when my rant will begin...
We follow her back to her friends place where they are all drinking so it would be good for everyone to have cocktails and a gay old time. Upon arriving there, on the television there is Mtv's celebratory concert for Obama on. Two of the really "badass", "gnarly", "too cool for school" dudes decided to start going into rants about "Let's all cheer for a nigger", "Yea all these white people in the audience are excited for the nigger", blah blah...Ok fine I hate George Bush and I will call him a redneck, so I guess in some fucked up way I will excuse someone for calling Obama a "nigger". You know what you are an idiot for using that word to describe the guy, but everyone uses bad words/stereotype words to describe the person they hate. Fine it is idiotic and foolish but I will ignore it. Granted you are setting everyone back years and years by needing to say nigger to describe a black person you hate, but so be it fine.
Their next step is to stand up and start saluting the t.v. in a sieg heil, hail hitler hand gesture...you know the one where you hit your chest and then stick your hand straight out. I'm sorry how is he Hitler? Are you that ignorant and that much of a piece of shit that you are hailing your president as Hitler. He hasn't even been in office for a full day, and hasn't fucked anything up and you are already comparing him to one of if not the worst dictators in all of history, and can I ask why.. it is because he is black. Straight up, you can be republican but you will not be hailing him as Hitler unless you are a racist piece of shit. YOU ARE WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD...
I still sat there slowly getting more and more mad, then comments started coming out, which are just ridiculous and I have no need to repeat. After enough of these I start getting way to annoyed and the alcohol making me have a lose tongue made me start to voice back a little bit. The one man, lets call him Larry the Cable Guy, decided that I am ignorant. After me telling him how the economy is a pendulum and will go from amazingness to recession and then back again, which is true., you will never have an amazing economy forever it will always go high and then go down and back up again...he decided to explain to me that I am a moron and do not know what I am talking about. Now hold on for a second, I may not be the smartest man in the world, but I have been to a great High school and a good College, I got scholarships to every college I applied to, I was a slacker but somehow always managed good grades. How the fuck am I a moron, I'm saying a fact based on valid knowledge but it is completely wrong. Maybe if I hadn't gone to school (like him), lived in my parents basement (like him), work at Burger King (like him), I would be much more knowledgeable. Whatever if it's one thing I know for sure is that you can't argue with ignorance, they will never be wrong and you will never be right. So kudos to you Larry the Cable Guy, you did it, your smarts from making Whopper Jr's and making sure the Chicken Tenders are hot made you understand our government, politics, economics, and the world in large....
Now they are having artists perform songs in celebration of having a complete breath of fresh air in the office, and guess who is playing Fall Out Boy. Now comes the yelling at the t.v. the death threats and all that shit from these really awesome dudes. This band is full of faggots, they are sell outs, they don't know what they are talking about etc. After the hailing of "Hitler Obama" I am mad but now the things they are saying about music is starting to really get me. Fall Out Boy are sellouts? They are? I didn't know that. Why are they sell outs cause they are one of the biggest bands on the planet right now, I never heard them say anything anywhere saying that they wanted to stay a really small band the rest of their lives and travel in a van. Are they sellouts because they wrote an album you didn't like. Sorry that Patrick Stump, their singer, has a great voice and can sing in variation and now they have budget where they can take the time and write those songs. Hey guess what, Fall Out Boy till play VFW halls between their albums, oh wait you mean they sell out Madison Square Garden but still play venues that hold 150 kids because they like that...well they are fucking huge sell outs how dare they. Oh did you know that before their most recent album came out they were playing venues about the size of Irving Plaza and the tickets were $10 each, and that was because they wanted to play that sized venues and wanted to keep tickets cheap. Well fuck them that is selling out. Why are you so upset, cause your shitty local band is still struggling to get basement shows. People make are for themselves, but alot of them want others to enjoy it to, I'm sorry that Fall Out Boy took the chance to have people enjoy it and succeed. Dude Green Day was so much better before Dookie came out. Shut the fuck up, most of the people who say that didn't even like Green Day until they heard of them through Dookie. Guess what one of the definitions of sell out is, it is a person who compromises his or her personal values, integrity, talent, or the like, for money or personal advancement. Did you know Pete Wentz (your fave person of Fall out boy), was big into hardcore/punk and did you know they had a thing in Chicago like the NJ Scene where he would discuss those types of bands, and did you realize that when he was big he made a label and signed a band called Lifetime to that label. If you don't know who Lifetime is and dare to give me that more punk than thou attitutde, fuck off and look up who they are. So this guy who loved hardcore/punk bands gets big and signs a legendary band of that scene, well if that isn't the definition of a sell out I don't know what is...

Oh hey guess what this punk band called The Clash put out their first album in England on a label called CBS, and in America it was released by a label called Epic...Great punk band right? Releasing an album on a major. Guess they are sell outs too.
You white trash ignorant fool, you people are what is wrong with society. Keep holding your breath for a new Toby Keith record, I heard Walmart needs some new door greeters, you can work there and then get a discount on those Dickies, gotta be punk rock right?

I'm in a funk, a bad funk. There's these storm clouds over my head that just won't clear up. Alot of things are changing, for better or for worse we shall see. I have all these ideas in my head but am to scared to cash in on them. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but my mind is wasting me away. I have more friends then I could ever ask for, but it's getting hard to remain peppy. Some of my friends recently have taken big hits in their lives, it's difficult to cheer them up because words only go so far. I know they will get stronger through all of this, they are good people and things will work out for them. I am not a good person though, things will not work out. I've got a book of memories but memories can only make me sane for so long. What am I doing? What's happening. I'm staying true to what I believe in, but I think I am believing in all the wrong things.

is this bitch serious?

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bad idea...

I can't stand this.
I love you.

2008 TOP LISTS

It's January 1, 2009, so this is what made 2008 badass (in my humble(I'm still better than you)opinion)..

Music

1. Butch Walker - Sycamore Meadows
2. Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony
3. The Banner - Fraility
4. The Living End - White Noise
5. Bayside - Shudder
6. Secret Lives of the Freemasons - Weekend Warriors
7.Atmoshphere - When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold
8. Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Separation
9. Houston Calls - The End of An Error ;)
10. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
11. The Gaslight Anthem - The 59 Sound
12. Emmure - The Respect Issue
13. Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season
14. A Static Lullaby - Rattlesnake
15. Randy Newman - Harps and Angels
16. Smoking Popes - Stay Down
17. Flogging Molly - Float
18. Tom Gabel - Heart Burns

Albums for 2009 that will make my life:
1. AFI
2. Third Eye Blind
3. Green Day
4. Trophy Scars
5. Most Precious Blood
6. Saves the Day
7. Thursday.
8. Every Time I Die
9. Bruce Springsteen
10.Bouncing Souls (one song a month for a year)

Movies:
1. The Dark Knight
2. Cloverfield
3. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
4. Pineapple Express.
5. Indiana Jones (it was bad but indiana jones is just to cool
6. Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanimo Bay
7. Role Models
8. i forget other movies.

Television Shows
1. Dexter
2. The Office
3. True Blood
4. Family Guy
5. The Simpsons

Books
1. A Wolf at the Table - Augusten Burroughs
2. I am not myself these days - Josh Kilmer-purcell
3. A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut
4. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
5. Slash - Slash

Top Things from 2008
1. On stage for The Bouncing Souls at Bamboozle
2. Graduating College
3. On stage for Thrice
4. In n Out
5. The UK, cheese and onion sandwiches
6. Josh, Tom, Jose, Jarrett, and Okie
7. Having sex while Eric was trying to with the other girl in next bed
8. Ruining Your Life
9. Tiger Woods on Gamecube
10. Having Josh tell me that I can substitute meat for beans at Taco Bell