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so i guess im updating this again. im really bored and dont have anything else to do. if anyone happens to read this, wuts up. haha.
before i turned off my tv for good i was flipping through the channels and i saw a little religious thing. and the guy was saying "you go through phases in life, you plant seeds and then you enjoy what they grow later, then you plant more seeds, and so on." i really think religion is a terrible thing but i think he had a point. i also think that right now im planting seeds, and im really impatient about waiting for things to grow.
i guess im scared of the future. thats been pretty hard for me to admit but its the truth. i got straight a's once a long time ago and ever since then i havnt cared about school. if i had it my way i would leave maryland and live in hawaii or guam or something for the rest of my life. but ive closed the doors to so many opportunitys to live like a good american that my options are to get a shitty job, get a band, or be a bum. its not easy to be a taoist-hippy-pothead-anarchist-musician. "ignorance is bliss."
up and down we spend in all conditions
for many years ive played the fool
i see all these people that grew up with their friends and just played music. i grew up with my friends and played music for a few weeks and then i started to get better and learn all these things about music and they stayed in the same place. i continued playing with them and had some fun playing too but the whole time i wanted something better. i played with some kids for two weeks this past summer, after i finally decided that i couldnt find a better band by complaining about the shitty one i was in. they were worse. the lead songwriter and guitarist had been so brainwashed by the radio and television into believing they were rebellious, while they were still consuming all the propaganda and supporting the "system", that i was just sick. im sorry to those people that read that and think "god damnit another kid bitching about the government". i really am sorry. im also sorry if im coming off as an elitist or an idealistic depressed teenager. but anyways, i ended up recording their band recently for FREE and tortured myself for over a month with the project. after i played with them i posted something on dcska in early september and found a group of guys. at the time i wanted to make original music but was thinking the only way to do it was to sound like the rx bandits, now thats not original is it? so in posting on DCSKA and saying i wanted a progressive SKA/PUNK band i of course ended up with a bunch of guys who wanted to smoke weed and play dub. i liked the bassist, hes awesome, except that he mostly wanted to play reggae. the sax players name was bobby olawobbie, cool. so i quit that band about a week ago, again thinking that eventually things would change and wasting more time with hope and no action. also during that period i jammed a few times with the best bassist and guitarist ive ever known. they were obsessed with john frusciante, a man who plays one style in one band and then his own expression in another. his solo albums are not able to be duplicated live(in my opinion its not a real record). i dont know. it just didnt click. they were older too, maybe it could be great music, but it would never be as great as it would be if we were all good friends.
then i jammed with ryan.
i read a story about how blink started, when mark and tom met and they had so much in common and wanted the same things in music and it was like "musical soul mates." i dont think were THAT perfect but its definatly close enough. we just had a vibe going and it was awesome.
i just want it to work. i just want us to be able to work together and find other people like us with the same talents. i want it to be perfect, but in a taoist kind of way. and i want it to do whatever it could do very soon because im impatient and scared of the future. i want my life to be making music i love with people i love. i really hope it all works out.
over spring break in florida and the past couple of days ive been having the craziest meditations, and i was only high for one of them. one of the coolest things i got out of it was why i cant like the mars volta or tool as music as bandits.
i guess that the three super progressive bands i know of are equal because they are all original. but tool and the mars volta are kind of math rock, and thats awesome when bands can do that, its hard i know, but it doesnt groove. the bandits are able to throw in time changes and key changes and all this technicle crap and poetic lyrics in songs with unusual forms and still make you dance throughout the whole thing. but i still havnt heard everything tool and the mars volta has to offer, so this is still just an opinion. but hey, heres why i think theyre awesome.
theyre six regular guys are super talented. they recorded the resignation LIVE only overdubbing the horns, vocals, and percussion. the quality is so good and its so natural and beautiful. i love how the lyrics are all emotional and poetic no matter what hes singing about. and i think theyre singing about some pretty important stuff, other than girls and such. i love how the guitars are dualing each other all the time. gak(drums) and joe(bass) groove in such an original way, finding something new out of a cliche melody or chord structure. steve and sheets(horns/vocals) write awesome horn lines that arent cliche to ska or reggae. and theyre vocals and matts vocals and so wonderful its like bob marley and the i threes have inhabited their bodys. the music is different from everything else and you always dance to it.
yea i just love it. im sorry to those of you who have been unfortunate enough to hear me ramble about them before, but you all need to hear this stuff just like i need to hear the mars volta or tool. theyre all equal(i suppose haha). hey this my journal i write what i want.
also in all of these crazy revelations ive had alot of thought about val, that hasnt happenend in a long time. lets just say its about the same as its always been.
oi.
and im so lonely after breaking up with leah, even though its probably for the best. here ill post these lyrics from a bandits jam:
we wanna burn when we start
so lets pretend we know who we are
we wanna love from the beginning of it all
lets pretend we know who we are
and heres a story ive been told
as you finally grow old
you never love someone like you did first
so tonight im drinking myself to sleep
because without you my darling i am nothing
heres a story ive been told....
and theres a verse they used to do before the resignation era: "she said she never trusted anybody, and all the scars that paint her flesh still bear me name"
meh
sorry i didnt do an ljcut, im old school bitches. :)
whatever. maybe ill update more often. comment if youve read all the way through this. cause i would like the attention haha.
peace.
before i turned off my tv for good i was flipping through the channels and i saw a little religious thing. and the guy was saying "you go through phases in life, you plant seeds and then you enjoy what they grow later, then you plant more seeds, and so on." i really think religion is a terrible thing but i think he had a point. i also think that right now im planting seeds, and im really impatient about waiting for things to grow.
i guess im scared of the future. thats been pretty hard for me to admit but its the truth. i got straight a's once a long time ago and ever since then i havnt cared about school. if i had it my way i would leave maryland and live in hawaii or guam or something for the rest of my life. but ive closed the doors to so many opportunitys to live like a good american that my options are to get a shitty job, get a band, or be a bum. its not easy to be a taoist-hippy-pothead-anarchist-musician. "ignorance is bliss."
up and down we spend in all conditions
for many years ive played the fool
i see all these people that grew up with their friends and just played music. i grew up with my friends and played music for a few weeks and then i started to get better and learn all these things about music and they stayed in the same place. i continued playing with them and had some fun playing too but the whole time i wanted something better. i played with some kids for two weeks this past summer, after i finally decided that i couldnt find a better band by complaining about the shitty one i was in. they were worse. the lead songwriter and guitarist had been so brainwashed by the radio and television into believing they were rebellious, while they were still consuming all the propaganda and supporting the "system", that i was just sick. im sorry to those people that read that and think "god damnit another kid bitching about the government". i really am sorry. im also sorry if im coming off as an elitist or an idealistic depressed teenager. but anyways, i ended up recording their band recently for FREE and tortured myself for over a month with the project. after i played with them i posted something on dcska in early september and found a group of guys. at the time i wanted to make original music but was thinking the only way to do it was to sound like the rx bandits, now thats not original is it? so in posting on DCSKA and saying i wanted a progressive SKA/PUNK band i of course ended up with a bunch of guys who wanted to smoke weed and play dub. i liked the bassist, hes awesome, except that he mostly wanted to play reggae. the sax players name was bobby olawobbie, cool. so i quit that band about a week ago, again thinking that eventually things would change and wasting more time with hope and no action. also during that period i jammed a few times with the best bassist and guitarist ive ever known. they were obsessed with john frusciante, a man who plays one style in one band and then his own expression in another. his solo albums are not able to be duplicated live(in my opinion its not a real record). i dont know. it just didnt click. they were older too, maybe it could be great music, but it would never be as great as it would be if we were all good friends.
then i jammed with ryan.
i read a story about how blink started, when mark and tom met and they had so much in common and wanted the same things in music and it was like "musical soul mates." i dont think were THAT perfect but its definatly close enough. we just had a vibe going and it was awesome.
i just want it to work. i just want us to be able to work together and find other people like us with the same talents. i want it to be perfect, but in a taoist kind of way. and i want it to do whatever it could do very soon because im impatient and scared of the future. i want my life to be making music i love with people i love. i really hope it all works out.
over spring break in florida and the past couple of days ive been having the craziest meditations, and i was only high for one of them. one of the coolest things i got out of it was why i cant like the mars volta or tool as music as bandits.
i guess that the three super progressive bands i know of are equal because they are all original. but tool and the mars volta are kind of math rock, and thats awesome when bands can do that, its hard i know, but it doesnt groove. the bandits are able to throw in time changes and key changes and all this technicle crap and poetic lyrics in songs with unusual forms and still make you dance throughout the whole thing. but i still havnt heard everything tool and the mars volta has to offer, so this is still just an opinion. but hey, heres why i think theyre awesome.
theyre six regular guys are super talented. they recorded the resignation LIVE only overdubbing the horns, vocals, and percussion. the quality is so good and its so natural and beautiful. i love how the lyrics are all emotional and poetic no matter what hes singing about. and i think theyre singing about some pretty important stuff, other than girls and such. i love how the guitars are dualing each other all the time. gak(drums) and joe(bass) groove in such an original way, finding something new out of a cliche melody or chord structure. steve and sheets(horns/vocals) write awesome horn lines that arent cliche to ska or reggae. and theyre vocals and matts vocals and so wonderful its like bob marley and the i threes have inhabited their bodys. the music is different from everything else and you always dance to it.
yea i just love it. im sorry to those of you who have been unfortunate enough to hear me ramble about them before, but you all need to hear this stuff just like i need to hear the mars volta or tool. theyre all equal(i suppose haha). hey this my journal i write what i want.
also in all of these crazy revelations ive had alot of thought about val, that hasnt happenend in a long time. lets just say its about the same as its always been.
oi.
and im so lonely after breaking up with leah, even though its probably for the best. here ill post these lyrics from a bandits jam:
we wanna burn when we start
so lets pretend we know who we are
we wanna love from the beginning of it all
lets pretend we know who we are
and heres a story ive been told
as you finally grow old
you never love someone like you did first
so tonight im drinking myself to sleep
because without you my darling i am nothing
heres a story ive been told....
and theres a verse they used to do before the resignation era: "she said she never trusted anybody, and all the scars that paint her flesh still bear me name"
meh
sorry i didnt do an ljcut, im old school bitches. :)
whatever. maybe ill update more often. comment if youve read all the way through this. cause i would like the attention haha.
peace.