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Except for my new Record (as in vinyl) player, every gift I got this christmas from my extended family can fit in one pocket. I am not upset about it, hell I love gift cards, I just find it dang funny. But let's forget about that, let's get down to the brass tax. LOVE SONGS who fuckin needs them anymore. I mean nobody is writing anything new. We have rock guys saying the girl is a bitch, or they are in love, or they ruined everything and want her back. We have chicks calling us guys assholes for ruining their lives. We have Rap stars talking about straight up sex and fuck that whole love thing. We have R&B singers who cant string anything original together all and last but not least we have country singers just creeping us out. Now I am not saying I am exempt from writing bad love songs, hell I have written more than my share but seriously what the crap is going on! You know what is ruining it? All this god damn, half ass emo. Some executive at a record label heard We...

Seriously, I haven't updated this page in forever, and you know what? I dont care. Seriously for the last month I have been thinking my BS-ing is ridiculous and I dont care if you people care. I am reading books and have all these new opinions but I dont feel like sharing them right now. If you really care email me and maybe I will update this page this weekend with more rubbish. Right now I am gonna go watch some Holiday fun. Have a good one. PS I am in a great mood, I just dont want to update this page in this point in time.

Whats up, Not much here. I am just chillin out rockin the intranet. You know what I love most about having a job now? It's the idea that I can stroll around the net looking at musical gear and think about things I want and now that I have a job I can actually purchase these things. Infact a few things I am considering buying include a moog, some new pickups for one of my guitars and just random this and thats for recording purposes. So I am listening to North To Alaska, I don't understand why these guys broke up. They released this EP called "Everything right now" and I think it rocked. Needed some compression on the vocals, some remixing, and what not but I dug it. Quality rock n roll. Hey remember that test I mentioned? The Eut, the test I needed to pass to stay in the Journalism program here at ISU? Well I didnt pass it. Yeah, that was my last allowable attempt and you need a C to pass, I got a C-. That shit sucks. So tomorrow I am meeting with my advisor and i...

So tomorrow I will find out if I pass the test that allows me to be my major, Journalism. I took this test on grammar. I know what you're all thinking! There is no way I passed that test because there is way too many mistakes on this webpage. You know what man! You're probably right. I am shaking in my boots. I dont know what I'll change my major to if I didn't pass... We'll see, and I'll let you know.

I admit it, I was one of those people who said Kill Bill was going to suck horrible ass. I am totally taking that back. After seeing the movie I must say, that movie kicked so much ass it's hard to describe it. I dont want to give anything away but the filming and portrayol (SP?) of the story was just awesome. The entire movie is just a roller coaster ride. When the movie ends you look at your watch and say "IT'S BEEN TWO HOURS!" But seriously the action is true to life, the blood and guts is quality B Movie stuff and the storyline/script is Tarantino at it's best. One of my favorite things about his movies is how they all that vibe of Characters from the 70s who are magically living in modern times. The colors, the dialogue, the movement, it's all so entirely retro. If you dont like blood, guts, and violence you atleast have to see this movie for the sheer cinematic brillance that it is. I can't say enough good things about this film. But I dont want t...

The heat is on, 10.06.2k3 So I watched Back to the Future two this week and I notice some things that just didnt work. Okay you remember when Doc tells Marty that if you take the time machine and go into the past and change something it alters the future and you will never return to the same future? Well Old Biff from the future with floating cars stells the time machine and goes back to 1958 to give himself the sports almanac. Now I am not a crazy mad scientist but if went back in time and gave himself the almanac he shouldnt have been able to return to the future from where he stole the time machine return it to Marty because that future wouldnt exist anymore, infact the time machine shouldnt even exist because after Biff changed the future with giving his youngself the almanac Doc gets thrown into an insane asylum before the time machine was even invented making it a time/space paradox... SO THIS MOVIE IS (For lack of searching for a better word) FUCKED! You cant change the past a...

So I turned 21 earlier this week and it's kind of wierd. I go into a restraunt and the wine list actually applies to me... even though I dont like wine. It just reminds me of church. gross stuff. Today Eight Miles Out started recording a demo in my basement on my gear. The drums sound pretty drank if I dont mind saying so myself. I have some ideas for these demos. Maybe after 8MO and TLS record all of our new demos we can do a split together of like 3 songs per band and sell it at shows. I havent told anyone in the bands about this idea but I think it could rock. Do you? In other news, Our first show after a summer long hiatus is going to be at the Mshop with 38th Parallel and The Lifestyle. It should be pretty sweet. We'll have tshirts for sale at that show. The first official 8MO tshirts! WAH NA NA!!!! That is awesome Lastly I got a new phone. I had my old one replaced last night for free and today it started fucking up again so I took back in and just said fuck that model ...

Has anyone heard this new Thursday song? It's going to be the single from War All The Time . I totally dig it. It's different from Full Collapse and that is perfectly fine with me. Bands that work out new sounds and challenge their listeners are some of my favorite bands. Dont get me wrong, Full Collapse was a great album, but man did it spawn a freaking army of copy cats. This song is almost a ballad. I totally dig it. Alright I'm going to bed.

Pardon my Blasphomy (sp?) but Big Willy Style is a complete wanna be dumbass. He is a stupid no talent ass clown. I KNOW! I KNOW! I promised I would never use the term "no talent ass clown" ever again but this movie requires that term and only that term. Have you seen Bad Boys 2 ? Shame on you man. That movie was so awful it should have been a cartoon. Nothing in that movie was Realistic. I call my buddy Ben in the early evening to say hey, how's kicks. He invites me and chels to see Bad Boys 2 with him. I dont know why I accepted, but I did. The movie is filled with unnecessary effects, horribly impossible and impractical fighting/car chase sequences (This must be the summer of car chase sequences: Matrix highway scene, T3 big funking truck chase, The Italian Job with the minis and now BB2). The part that really make your milk turn is the ending where they 10 or so police agents infiltrate Cuba and take down a huge drug lord and the entire Cuban army. Shut up. This m...

Before I say anything take note the Rx Bandits new album, " Resignation " comes out tomorrow. It will rock your ass into your socks. in other news I am going home to New York on the 2nd of August and wont be back in Ames till the 18th. But while in New YOrk I am gonna hit up the warped tour in the city and here are the bands I want to see: Suicide Machines Face To Face Thrice Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Rancid Less Than Jake Poison the Well Brand New Blood Brothers Coheed and Cambria The Toasters Big D and the Kids table Yep doesnt that look awesome? hell yes! and incase you havent listened to one or two of those bands I highly recommend each. Except for Poison the Well, BRand new, and Thrice. I am only seeing them again because previous viewings were less than brillant. if you catch my drift. lates.

So incase you didnt know I spent my Junior and first half of senior year of high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan. At the time I made it out to be the worst place on earth just because I didnt want to live but I made a lot of cool friends. anyway the reason I am bringin this up is because I checked out my buddy Kevin LEBLAH "the triple nipple wonder boy" (I just came up with that right now, but it works cause he has a third nipple.) and in his away message was some commentary I really dug. So just to get the idea out there farther I thought I would put it up my webpage. "Auto response from Kevy1231: Society has a way of beating itself into corners of what is supposedly appropriate and necessary. We all grew up believing that we'd never become followers, but most of us inevitably reach the point of wanting to experiment and feel accepted. What's more is that people pretend as if they came up with these ideas of experimentation on their own. Most people really a...

Okay first rule, Chill out. So they made a new Terminator movie, that doesnt mean that it's going to suck. I mean face it, you went into this movie thinking "I have seen the other movies and love them" hell some of you may even be like me, Terminator 2 was the first rated R movie that I have ever seen. See this movie was exactly what it promised, a movie with explosions, robots, talk of the future and dialogue about fate vs. destiny. How can people say no plot? I mean the movie has plenty of plot John Connor has turned into a loaner and no one knows where to locate him and so the terminators from the future send a new terminator back in time to kill all of his commanding officers instead of him. Of course, by luck the terminator finds him and the rest of a movie is John Connor running from a super terminator while trying to shut down skynet. Hello! Add in a few catch phrase, a lot of explosions, and an over forty Austrian Superstar and you have yourself the next Termin...

I promise I will start updating this page more often as soon as I get done with my French class. That class ends on Friday! WAHOO!! You know it's funny because in High School I hated foreign language but now I like it a lot. I really want to go back to France and try out my new skills. I may even take more French this semester. Who knows. Alright I am gonna quick write a review of the Rx Bandits show and then get back to helping Chris record a new song. Word diggity.

The Italian Job I just saw the Italian job it was not surprisingly kind of boring and blah. Norton and Wahlberg use the same acting tricks they use in every other movie they are in and it really made the movie drag on. If you're going into this movie expecting oceans eleven watch out because there quite a bit more emotional involvement then George Clooney's slick flick. My grade for that movie: C- Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry met Loyd So I know what you're thinking "How could they have made this movie without Jim Carrey?" And there is a good explanation for that. He said he would only do it for 23 million bucks and the movie cost 23 million dollars to make. He would have doubled the budget. So yeah... that wasnt gonna happen. This movie was surprisely fresh and original. They did reuse some jokes from the first movie and thank god they didn't make a big point of showing them off or I would have walked out. The main actors impressed me thoroughly they play...

Incase you peoples dont know FenixTx broke up but the main members have started two new bands. I am probably the only person who dug Fenix TX that visits this page but trust me if you hated Fenix Tx you're gonna like one of the two new bands. Anyways here are the Bands: chChCH HaHaHaThis is Devon and Adams (drummer, bass player of Fenix Tx. respectively)new band, definitely a wack name, no one is debating that but this band seems pretty cool. I really dig their webpage also. The sad thing is they dont have any complete songs on the web right now. (that I can find) all I have heard is a clip from a song on their webpage. As far as I can tell they are a rather experimental punk/indie/maybe a tinge of hardcore band. I think you'll dig em. Denver HarborThis is Will (Fenix Tx lead singer) now if you hated Fenix Tx because of their Pop sound well than you'll probably hate Denver Harbor. Their webpage isnt on the net yet but they do have mp3s on mp3.com. Maybe you'll like thes...

So I dont know if you have ever seen Magnolia but this is the second time I have seen it. It was pretty damn cool. The thing I liked most about it is I put the closed captions on at different points in the movie because I wasnt sure if people were talking and if it was supposed to be coherant and I found a lot of cool shit that way. It's a really good movie. I encourage you to watch it. Tom Cruise is one of those actors that I dont really like but he can sometimes pull out a sweet movie or two every now and then. His acting in this movie impressed the hell out of me. Now that I come to think of it, yesterday was a big Tom Cruise day because I finished the second half of Minority Report and went to do something else, turned on the tube for a brief while and Risky Business was on and then at night I watched Magnolia...hmmm... interesting In other news I was surfing the web and wound up at PReacher Gone To texas.com and found that htey have finally put my pics of them at Robs Birfday ...

So we discussed this Agnostic, Clarence Daryl, in class today. We discussed how he thinks the Bible and Chritian beliefs are wrong. And we discussed it pretty thoroughly. I was sitting and arguing the non christian side of the argument because the only vocal people in class, not surprising, was the christian people. I may not be the most scholarly person when it comes to the ins and outs of the bible but I know it isn't a sound document. People have in the past pointed out to me contradictions and miracles that are just faulty. I do however have faith. That's what Christianity is about. Faith in God, right? I have faith because I believe I have met God. Not in the biblical sense that he came to me in the night surrounded in flames and told me what to do with my life but I met God in a bookstore. Stop laughing Here's the story. I was 13 and we were visiting my relatives in Chicago. When we go to visit my relatives we almost always do the same thing, go shopping. My family in...

Have you seen my book? I lost my copy of Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. I had just past the middle of the book when i fricking lose it. Dang it man and I really have to poop. That was my thing ya know? I would go to the bathroom and read me up some Vonnegut. Damn it. This almost discouraging my either reading or pooping ever again. I have been reading a lot of books in the past 2 years. I read all of Chuck Palahniuk's books (the guy who wrote fight club) I read a lot of books by and about Henry Rollins and I plan on reading I know why the caged bird sings and High Fidelity but now I dont want to read ever again. How cruel, I am half way to the end, just at the part where the book starts getting juicy and WHOMP! I lose the book. IT'S CRUEL I SAY!! CRUEL AS HECK! I know what you're saying "Pat go rent it from the library, it's only a 5 minute walk away" Man I have to poop now and I dont care to poop unless I have my book. I guess I could start reading High F...

Last night I woke up at 3 in a severe panic. I havent done that since Junior year of high school. The worst part about that one was I was visiting a friends house and I woke up on his couch in his basement and was up for an hour and a half in a state of shock. What comprises these panic attacks are as follows: First I wake up in what must be R.E.M. state of sleep and my eyes are just jacked. I cant control them very well, they dont focus much and they just kind of jump in and out of color (it's fucking wierd.) Second I get up and I'm dizzy as shit and my heart is pumping not extremely fast but very heavily. (When got these panic attacks as a kid I remember waking my parents up in the middle of the night to me crying in agony because my heart just felt like a sledge hammer inside my chest.) And finally I just keep thinking of the most illogical things that I can't stop. I wont go into detail about this because to anyone besides me it makes me sound like a looney toon and an ...

Seriously I just watched it again for the billionth time. I love this movie beyond belief. It's one of those movies that makes you cry every time you see it. And every time you see it a scene you havent thought about much before grabs you and makes you think. If you havent seen this movie I really suggest it. I dont have much else to say because it is almost one in the morning and i am tired. Alright internet buddies I never see, I love you all and goodnight.

I swear to god if I ever meet Adam Sandler I will strangle him to death. 4.10.2k3 Have you guys seen Anger Management? OH my lord it was horrible. The worst movie I have ever seen. I dont know how Adam Sandler could restore my faith in him after putting out such a pile of horse shit. I hope everyone involved with this movie dies in a terrible plane crash that dives straight into a tarpit deep enough that we will never find their corpses. Listen to me man, Anger Management was so bad I now need FUCKING ANGER MANAGEMENT! Okay the plot was so being normal cartoony happy go lucky sandler crap. It was impossibly awful and inexplicably cheesy. I cant put into words the anger I feel. There were practically no redeeming qualities in this movie. Rudoplh Jualiani was in this movie and I fucking hate that. Not only is that moron a lucky schmuck that no one liked till 9/11 he's a terrible actor. What a freaking awful movie. There were so many Cameos I want to kill myself. Bobby Knight, He...

Today is Vieshea battle of the bands. We aren't playing but I dont care because we played last year and it was awesome fun. I can already tell it's gonna be a great day. I went to my first class and it was cancelled. Definitely a sweet thing. We're gonna rock at the battle of the bands for a while but tonight it's about Jim Brewer. I love that guy. I hope he is jacked up tonight and crazy. I mean what's the point if he isn't? right? Okay so I have the new Alkaline Trio album "Good Mourning" a month prior to it's release and at first I didnt dig it but now I love it. Derek pushes this band at an awesome pace. He is so much better than Mike felumlee. I can't wait to see them in Chicago I am sure my balls will fall off and my heart will explode at the show. I hope they play a longer set than 45 minutes like they usually do. COME ON GUYS I CAN HANDLE IT! I think I will put a couple of their new songs on the main page, one of Matt's and one of...

So incase you havent heard Iowa City is finally switching over. As of August all bars in Iowa City will be 21+. Just like Ames. Hopefully that town will become a little more sane and drunks will not be as annoying. I hate drunk people. I dont mind people who drink but I do hate it when people drink with the intent of getting drunk. What the fuck is the point? Dont tell "It's Fun" because that's one lame ass excuse. I can think of a million things that are more fun then getting drunk. I have a friend who said to a drinker once "I dont need Alcohol to have a good time." and they blew up at him. I think he was completely right for saying that. I mean fuck you dont need alcohol to have a good time and if you can't think of anything else besides sitting around, drinking, and remembering other times you got drunk well than that is sad and I feel sorry for you. Alcohol is truly a stupid stupid thing and people who feel the need to use it just to change the way ...

So last night at about 12.30 AM I am driving west on I 80 when all of sudden my car starts to randomly jump a foot to the left or right. I at first blame it on the wind but when it happens repeated I start freaking out. Naturally I pull my vehicle over at the first stop and look over the vehicle. All wheels are fine, so I start up my car and get driving again. Immediately my car starts making a grinding noise in the back left wheel, THE VERY SAME WHEEL IT LOOK TIRES PLUS 5 DAYS TO FIX LESS THAN A WEEK AGO!. Now of course you dont feel safe when your car is dancing on the highway and you have a loud grinding noise so I pulled off the highway at Altoona and started driving down hubble trying to get to a safer part of town. I make it to a Quiktrip over by University Blvd. My tire is so funking loud right now I think it's about to pop off at any moment. by this time it is 1AM and I am stranded in DSM. I call my parents in NYC, who call AAA. First they hook me up with a Tow truck driver...

So Spring break has started out mega shitty. I went down to Des Moines yesterday to hang out with my buddy Pierce and get my car fixed. First I took my car to tires plus to have them fix the grinding sound in my back left tire and I told them the story of driving on it for a couples after I slid into a curb in a snow storm. They said alright told me what was probably wrong and they could fix it by 5, they'd call me in a couple hours. Cool I walk to Borders, meet up with Pierce we hang out, talk and go back to check on my car. The Tires Plus guys say that my Barrings are melted and my tires are balled to all hell. So I say cool fix it please, they say it will be done by 730. That's fine we'll get dinner and hang We go and meet up with Wilcox, get some Famous Daves (which I havent had in a while) and just tlak up school and their new girlfriends. It was pretty cool to talk to Wilcox and Pierce, I never see either of them and they seem to be pretty happy right now in life. A...

Well that's it fellas, my computer has finally bought the farm. It's gone loco beyond my control. I can still use it but the covers are screwed up, it doesnt like certain webpages and it's just gone straight to hell. We had some good times but damn it those times have come and gone. Time to burn off my files that I want to keep and send the rest of it packing. Yep you know what that means, this spring break...I am gonna have to...REFORMAT!!! It's sad but I'll live some how. But seriously man I have something like 12 gigs of shit I want to keep. So this burning process is probably gonnna take me most of the night. I am expecting a total of... five hours in the computer lab tonight... I am not excited. I will tell you how it went after I have burned the last file.

So I decided to come up to the computer and print my summary for English before tomorrow morning incase I forget to print it off while I am half awake. I just wrote a new song for the Evil Geniuses and I have never written a song for the evil gs all the way through. I hope they dig. The real reason for this rant is to say...I have been reading this awesome book about the underground scene in the 80s called Our Band Could Be Your Life . If you haven't picked this book up and you're at my page I advise you do so. This book is amazing. It talks about all the big underground acts of the 80s and how they got signed, toured, recorded, and all sorts of shit. I dont know how to do it now and they did it 20 years ago with little to no publicity at all. I have already read about Sonic Youth, Fugazi, The Replacements, and The Minutemen. I am currently reading about Black Flag even though I said I was gonna wait till I read about the other bands in the book before I touched Black Flag. I...

So I didnt tell you but I have this idea for a dvd of the scene. I figure I have a shit load of video of local bands why not consolidate it and package it with interviews and all that fun BS. Here's the info I had in my AIM profile "Okay so here's whats up: I am gonna make a dvd and use live footage from the following bands: DWS, 8MO, EATF, DOFH, Senator Kelly, Evil Gs, Duck and Cover, Preacher GOne to Texas, Roger Mexico, Ten Grand, Horseshoe Spatulas, Argos, Poison Control, North to Alaska and any other bands I see before I finish the DVD. It's going to include a picture collage, interviews with people about the big 5 scenes. Emo, Indie, Hardcore, Ska, Punk and I am gonna interview people about fallout/Botan/bizzarn, ZZZ, 515crew and what not. let me know if you can help." I think with any luck it could turn out to be a really sweet thing.

Dinner in Friley, 1.29.3. So we were at dinner and I was explaining the demon from hell guy (those who know, know...if you want to know, ask)to my buds at dinner and we got to thinking how sweet it would be to scream like a demon and I figured they have to be able to scream in 7 or more octaves so I demonstrated. Chris pointed out that I didnt scream in 7 octaves, "You didnt even scream in 1 octave!" I agreed but wouldn't relent that screaming in several octaves would be sweet. I also extended my idea to think that they probably were also screaming in octaves the human ear can't hear so I demonstrated, I leaned over to Chris and made a screaming face without making a sound. Then I said demon screams must be in such low octaves we can't hear that either. So I demonstrated again with making an "OH" face. If you picture this all in your head it seems pretty funny. (Sidenote)Mr. Burns: We need a place to hide out... Homer: We can hideout at my place I h...