slight surface noise

More record memories, I found this record somewhere and bought it. I used to skateboard to Record Outlet, purchase a record with whatever money i stole from my mom's purse or my mom/step fathers coke bottle full of change. It was easier buying a 3 to 5 dollar record with change rather then skate to tower and buy a CD.

I might have found this record called Slight Surface Noise at Record Outlet or bought it off one of the bands I saw. I can't remember honestly, I just remember getting destroyed after putting it on and all my friends wanted to borrow it.

I can't even find any information on the album, can't find any pictures of it. All I know is it's distributed by K records which was one of my favorites along with kill rock stars growing up. I also know that it was recorded by Steve Albini and the drums sound massive as usual. Those were the two reasons I bought the record in the first place.

I honestly keep writing about the records because I have to sit here as I record the songs. Any ways... more coming most likely.

More on slight surface noise. First of all, here is a bandsite:

http://www.worshipguitars.org/bands/ssn.html

pretty informative.

They basically sound like Shellac with unwound and fugazi together. The songs build up to screaming and go from minimalist to abrasive. The album was recorded in 1996, 2 years after Shellac released Action Park. One song is called 'i fucked your mom last night'.

no work, record shopping, writing more music

Digging through my records, I found Mary Timony's Mountains. I remember being one of the very few to see her play this album at the Troubador and I brought my future wife who barely knew me. I was a big fan of Helium growing up, especially the no guitars ep when they went all medieval. I bought the album off her with cash and about a dollar or two in change cause that's all I had. Man, this album will now be on heavy rotation especially the song 'the bell' with it's epic ending. She is definitely a better guitar play then me. I only wish I had her sign it.

Heading off to record outlet in Thousand Oaks, it's still there, and they still have cheap records. I got Saint Vitus Born too late and another album in one double record collection for 10 bucks.

We have a show coming up on January 21st at the airliner through our friends from Earsplitters. More info coming soon.

Twisted Mind of I and Fog Tiger

2 more songs from our soon to be released full length are posted here: www.myspace.com/snakesalivemusic

Twisted Mind of I was more of an experiment that turned into something. It was added late, but not as late as Camden. We recorded the main riff with drums 23 times and I wrote the lyrics as usual just before recording them. Then the guitar line just came to me when we were messing with the song and thinking of throwing it on the album. I threw a capo on the guitar and hit part of the main riff then just messed around trying to make the song sound unique from the other songs on the album. It's also very subtle but i pulled out and put in the guitar cable to the guitar starting and ending that second guitar line, something I think i picked up from Khanate I believe.

The next song is Fog Tiger. The layout of the songs is in the order so far of the full length as it will be released (some songs missing at the moment) but I mainly bring this up because these two songs we believe sound awesome together. The noise ending the Twisted Mind of I into Fog Tiger has a large impact for both songs as it's basically like a wave of fog and a light cutting through it in my opinion. Brian and I drive to work together sometimes and after Thomas brought this song to practice we worked together on the lyrics. This is one of those songs that has so much power that was unknown at first but is now one of the most powerful songs on the album along with Blackbird. The middle part is mostly just brian and i playing around with a e-bow we got him for his birthday and a guitar slide. Fort he album he held the ebow and the guitar was on the ground as i slid the slide up and then down, we tried it twice and he threw both on the album. The last part where we are screaming wasn't fully planned out it just happened where I screamed some of it while Brian screamed other parts of it. We did it almost at the same time, in one take as usual and it came out kind of interesting.

Market This

13DEC09

We are returning to the place we played for the first time. Hopefully we will be able to debut some stuff we've been working on.

cubicle

party goes bad

every day a better standard of living is drilled in our brains

you fail me meets dystopia

barn burner

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Treepp

Treepp is about me venting again. I get completely disgusted when I walk around people, especially in crowded areas and at the time I had been traveling a lot for work. I had been pretty much all over the world in a month and noticed the same pattern everywhere of people wrapped up too much in material things and not noticing all this amazing stuff around them.

Living in Canada and not being in a band for a few months because of it, I had to do something so i started writing all this black metal that i had been delving hard into at the time. I came up with a side project called born at the stake, and had been writing for it. This song originally was going to be for that, but thought it was interesting and would help make the snakes album more full. I like bands like Led Zeppelin and such that have an album full of songs that seem to fit, but draw on various musical styles and that's what i envision Snakes alive to be. We never do the same thing twice, and we already have various EP ideas with some stuff fully written just needing to be worked on that go in different directions much like boris and all their awesome eps that they have released.

This song is basically about the trees just uprooting, cutting off our oxygen and destroying everything mankind has built. Kind of tolkein meets lovecraft. I wrote the basic parts of the song in canada and remember everyone giving me funny looks for the instrumental part before the end heavy part cause the timing was a little odd. Seriously, I'm the worst at playing an idea for people cause it changes all the time and the guys in the band are great at 'fixing' or making the idea work with drums. I was still searching for more and more black metal and thought i had come up with something that sounded like what i was hearing in my head and searching for. I really like the chorus as it's evil but melodic and came out great. The vocals make me light headed, i don't get sick, i don't lose my voice but it's like tapping another part of my brain that i don't use, cause i try and push the vocals in a way that uses the pipes without damaging anything. This basically just means that when i'm stumbling around when we play that's cause i'm pushing hard vocally and it just takes a lot out of me. The vocals come from the belly and reverberate through my head, and i feel like i'm shaking violently when screaming on stage. This song in particular is one of the first i did a few takes on vocally, up till this song everything was done in one vocal take on our first EP and even the full length.

Check out my Wenis!

Happily eating some taco's to look up and see manWitch showing it's junk directed right at your plate. I stared David Yow in the face last night as some guy grabbed his head and licked him slowly up the cheek as he screamed one of the greats off of Goat. Wondering, where's the danger?

white rabbit

2000+ Rebels

What is a rebel?


Rebels used to be these guys with greased hair, modded cars or motorcycles and switch blades. Normal people would be completely terrified to see them zooming up in the rear view mirror. Joe - "uh oh honey, here come some punks." Then they would proceed to pass and pretend to run the squares off the road. Growing up, I thought those were the cool guys. I wasn't born in the 50s, but I have always liked old movies compared to usually what is out at the current time. I still watch classic movies more, even prefer a good old silent over most of the movies released now a days.

Throughout the years since these greasers, rebels have changed to hippies, punks, new wave, grunge, back to punk, whatever. All had it's good and bad ideals that made them edgy.


Lately I think it's all completely confused because meet today's rebel:

What? This guy is a rebel? Fuck yes he's a rebel, this guy has his awesome new luxury sports car suv oversized truck and he has to get to work RIGHT NOW. So you better watch your sorry ass if your driving on the freeway cause this guy will whip around you like the inferior piece of shit that you are. Emails, productivity, phone calls, secretaries to flirt, faxes to make, golf stories to discuss, football games to predict, this guy has no time to spare when he's racing to work talking to his dashboard in some very heated conversation or maybe he's just talking to his wife cause he sure as fuck doesn't do that on the weekend or at night time. Kids? What are those, I got my blue tooth and blackberry/iphone and that's way more important then some kid cause my child hood is completely lost (oh wait, smile for the camera, see i was there for you son).

Is this a rant? Yes, I am in this world, doesn't mean I have to like everything or everyone in it. that's why I scream in a heavy band, I have issues. Also the above picture is a random one I got off google, if this guy is actually a nice guy, then you don't get the point.

I think I'm now more worried about staring one of these guys down then a gangster.

by tom denny

We will be playing some new stuff and our new drummer is awesome so come check us out. Also get the guitar center magazine thing brochure handout sale deal whatever that goes out in the mail and see his interview in it, he doesn't play v-drums i think... he should though...

sorry to have kept you waiting

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DumDum is the Queen

We posted a new song up from our album coming soon on Sentient Recordings.

The song was written when i was in a hotel room in Canada living there finishing a project called DarkSector cut off from my band mates except through various recordings sent through email.

I remember playing that riff in the middle over and over as storm clouds came in by the windows of the hotel. I was mostly just messing around trying to get better at playing and thinking it sounded kind of good. So I wrote the rest of the song around that riff. It wasn't until we practiced it that I whipped out a slide and did the noise section at the end.

I knew the singing had to be handled mostly by Brian. At the time I watched an Elizabeth Bathory documentary and ended up writing about that from her point of view. I was told i should name my band after a lollipop called dumdum so i decided to name the song dumdum is the queen so that the name dumdum could be used somewhere. I didn't realize that many bands had already written songs about Bathory and there was a band named Bathory till after I did that, I knew someone had to have done it before me, but I didn't realize how many otherwise I probably would've changed the lyrics to something more greek. The part after the middle where the noises are coming in and the guitar and screaming are alone is narrative from Bathory's point of view of dying and not having recieved the coins to cross the ferry into the realm of the dead because no one liked her enough to bury her properly. So the journey at the end is basically meant to be her death and abandonment after being so greedy to have killed innocent women to keep her young and beautiful.

The song recorded sounds like how I envisioned it, the ending was crazy cause I didn't have any real clue except a couple parts that I had notes for mostly at the start of the slide part to the end where the song quiets a bit. It's mostly just improve noise making that turned out being even better then I thought it was going to be. The slide part was done in two takes, i didn't try and fix it or redo it, just two takes and Brian mixed them together masterfully.

I've always been way into Brian's singing and like the transitions of the song and how it developed. Thomas's guitar part at the beginning provides the atmosphere that part needed and ryan's drums on the whole song are great. The toms for the last half of the song and the build ups to downs by Ryan are really good helping to visualize the journey the song is meant to take the listener on.

Anyways, enjoy it as much as I do after hearing the work done. More will be given as we put more songs up!

Best,
Josh

welcome to war,

did you bring your A game?

The Cocaine

Here is another show! we go on around 11pm, so come out and watch us play some new songs. If you can't make this show, we have another coming soon at the Viper room on October 5! Flier coming soon for that.

Solar wimp are awesome and can't wait to see the other bands. The cocaine is a place that suggests a very mellow and fun atmosphere, we haven't played there but are looking forward to it as well as playing with our new drummers complete kit (things a monster).

cause my problems, fix my faults

hungry dead don't make good friends

blame on

says the glow of electric jesus

suv parking lot

favorite albums at the moment

first is this video, i can't get enough of it:




blonde redhead - fake can be just as good:
This album is amazing, it has vern from unwound on bass and the textures etc are way good. i've had this cd for so long, and just dug it up, wiped the dust off and haven't been able to put it back on the shelf for a while now.

Buried Inside - Chronoclast - selected essays on time-reckoning and auto-cannibalism

This album has the perfect blend of melody and abbrasiveness. I'm not sure if the singer just completely messed up his throat and can't scream like this anymore (seriously, the new album has some hooks but the vocals were so intense on this album), you can hear the anguish and pain in his voice. Song 5 - Time as Imperalism is my favorite with clean guitar, minimal bass and strings with just this tortured screaming.

Wormsblood - In The Stars

My friend Jay had a double of this, i couldn't be more blown away this year by a black metal band. Also i couldn't post a list of albums i'm listening to without at least one black metal band up there. This album is pretty badly recorded, but it's like all the Les Legions Noire bands i like but done right and way better quality. I didn't even know that this was limited to 333 copies till i tried to find the picture of it. A blend of noise and orchestral black metal like early emporer but really noisy and dirty/experimental way good.

Genghis Tron - Board up the house:

My good friend Ryan bought the first album for me and i was completely blown away, i still think i like that one better as a whole, but this album has a few songs on it that are completely amazing. Weird tempo changes and harsh to pretty atmosphere, my favorite song on this and probably at the moment is Colony Collapse. Harsh at the beginning, then atmospheric in 18 seconds, back into harsh, then atmosphere till the kick in with "right now, each mess were in, puts us in fate's harsh old hands", back to harsh crazy, then the end of this song just gives me goosebumps "You'll come to fear, each day, each night" when that vocal line kicks in i have to stop what i'm doing and pay attention. Then the feast - that song has the best drum part, it's so unnerving and sounds like it's slowing down through the riff, man, that's some awesome right there.

Eric's trip - love tara
I got into the microphones at an old time relijiun show at the smell when it was in north hollywood, i think i was one of the 8 people in the crowd and i even got to record the show after asking that crazy dood in gold short shorts and nothing else, but anyways i bought the microphones album there cause the drummer was playing drums in old time relijiun. I had heard that the microphones just ripped off Eric's trip so after forgetting multiple many times for many years about this info when going to record stores i finally came across this recently and it's pretty good, very interesting recording experiments. Brian said reminds him of thurston moore without the solos and badly recorded, i agree and that's what gives this album a certain charm. There are way cheesy parts but the way it's recorded makes the cheese good sounding in my opinion.

Unwound - New Plastic Ideas
Unwound is still one of my favorite bands since i saw them for challenge for a civilized society tour till the end and beyond. I had this on record and just recently got it on CD and have been mostly listening to this one lately. They are all good though and definitely bring up a lot of memories for me as they are probably one of the bands that has stayed in regular rotation throughout the years.

Converge - You Fail Me
You fail me, that song just helps make me unwind. I get so angry or fed up with things sometimes, and i put on you fail me and it's like the theme song for that anger, it also helps to relinquish said anger making me cope with the pain/frustration I'm feeling at that time remembering that we are all human and all have our faults but it's how we take care of them and get back up to face those faults. The way they all scream you fail yourself at the end, it's like i'm going to complain about how you failed me with the reasons, then explain that it's not just a whiney bitch statement it's because in the end not only am i bummed about it, but you really should be too, you failed yourself and are to damn rapped up in yourself to realize it. Fuck you.

It's Casual - Stop Listening to Bad Music

This is still one of my favorites, the songs on this album are really good and super catchy. The tempo changes are awesome. We in our band are really happy to be asked to play with these guys every time they call. They are a really fun to watch band, full of energy and make you feel like part of the band. I've now seen them play to no one and many people, everytime they put on an amazing show.

Other then that, i put on Kylesa - static tensions, Zoroaster - voice of saturn, torche - in return, BeachBoys - pet sounds, Beatles - yellow submarine.

This is mostly just my favorites right now and has no reflection on the rest of the band.

Josh

What kind of tattoos do you have?

Some stories we have about tattoos
Brians and joshs written by josh
thomas by himself
rob by himself

BRIAN

Spy Tattoo - "Angie and I had a downtime of about 8 months around 99, we went down to San Diego. Went to a tattoo shop called Avalon, which is one of the best tattoo shops according to Jesus. We each wanted a cheesy tattoo to remember. I made her get a typical cheesy cherry tattoo and I chose a spy, it was between that and a wagon wheel in flames. So this spy, he's fucking smoking a cigarette, he looks like a fucking blob now, you can't even tell what it is now and it's probably one of my favorites."

Limozeen - "so, we had been going and getting tattoo's at this place called Obscurities in Santa Barbara. This guy was studying, an apprentice, and wasn't tattooing anyone in the shop. We always talked about Strong Bad while I was getting work done on the pirate map on the back of my leg. So me and this apprentice guy were impersonating Strong bad a lot. Seriously, it was just the worst and quickest decided tattoo ever. So I told the guy, i'll let you do it if you do it for free, and he was like 'ya totally'. It's so sketchy looking. This one is bad, and it's the only one that people see really and it will be the first one i cover up."

Stray cat - "best one, one of my favorites. She got her first tattoo and um i needed to um, impress her cause i wanted to get her back, we had just broken up. We were both listening to a lot of stray cats and Brian Setzer Orchestra. I bought the record and liked the logo along with his guitar playing. So one thing led to another and i was all lame and into Rockabilly stuff and i did it to get Angie back. So i went to this place, i can't even remember the name, and this guy, he started tattooing me and another guy comes into the shop, and when this 'friend' came in, the tattoo artist asked for half the amount of the tattoo at this point, then he went and talked with this 'friend' and came back and said 'hey i'm going into the back and smoking some weed'. This tattoo is the worst quality, it's so deep, the lines are all fucked up, you can't see the colors, it's probably the worst tattoo i have, probably worst then the Limozeen tattoo. If i touch it, it gets all swelled up to this day."

Pirate Map - "ya, um, that one just started, um i was really into pirate stuff. I was into skull and cross bones, stuff like, captain jack rackham and jolly rogers stuff. I just got a tattoo of that on the back of my calf. And then, oh i had an allergic reaction to the ink. I had really bad welts after i had it. They said red ink is one of the best for reactions. So i had a reaction. So ya bro, got that tattoo. So i decided I wanted it to be leg piece. Then i went to that Santa Barbara place, figured out some of the elements and it took a couple sessions but, it's all good."

Morrisey - "it says sing your life, it's a picture of morrisey from the album kill uncle. it's all black line art and his nose looks like a pig nose, it's awful looking. I planned to get it colored in but i never did. I debated for a long time if i should have gotten the pose on the front or the back of the album. Nothing special, but getting his hand tattoo'd was painful cause it was up near the armpit."

D&D Dice - "Angie and I were living in Seattle, we were just deciding to come back. I was playing a lot of Everquest, and what else, oh i was playing a lot of Dungeons and Dragons and i was hanging out at Games and Gizmo's and i was starting to create mini-me's or minatures. There was this guy down at this tattoo place called sarge, and he was really into the military. He did a great job and it was all colorful, maybe cause it was all acrylic ink etc. But, I wasn't stoked on it, this other guy at this place Angie got her tattoo at I started to talk to him, and he said "i would've done something with double damage and scrolls and stuff' and i was really bummed cause this guy was way nicer and wanted to do exactly what i had in mind for it in the first place."

Straight Edge tattoo - "My first tattoo, got it when i was 18, just graduated from highschool. I remember i got it in October, or November. My parents found out about it just before Christmas. My dad and i were bringing the christmas tree in, and I had been super careful not to show it to them. So anyways my pants got soaking wet while bringing in the tree and I took them off. I walked by my mom in my boxers and my mom saw and got super pist. Then I had to talk to my parents about it for a week."

JOSH

Stick Figures - "really into radiohead, and i was into a lot of riot girl music like bikini kill, and many kill rock star bands as well as F.Y.P. who were into all that too. So we went to this place, and I always had this thing where i had to create my own tattoos, like actually draw them before put them on my body otherwise no fucking way, I didn't want some stupid panther ripping through my skin or whatever crap most these guys come up with. So I took the radio head symbol of the two business men shaking hands as inspiration and made it into a boy and a girl shaking hands in a stick figure type drawing that I drew myself. My mom got pist one night, she was drunk and saw, then just started slapping my back where it is and that's about the whole conversation I had about it.

That's not the best part though, the best part was I went to the doctor to check myself out. I was having various problems, and I was young, too young for prostate checks. But he asked to check it out. I thought well shit, I guess I should. anyways, he's about to, my pants are down, and he says, 'oh that's a cute tattoo.'

This was done by Josh, Brian and I are sitting at work. I just started asking him about his tattoos and writing exactly what he was saying, so this came out even better.

ROB

Mayan Hieroglyphic on my upper right arm:

So my ethnic background is half Mexican half Guatemalan. At 19, I decided I wanted to get a tattoo that meant something to me, so like most young Latino's I went with a symbol the represented part of my heritage. I had a choice of Aztec or Maya here (or, my girlfriends name in cursive, or my street address in old english) but ultimately I went w/ Maya. Picked it out of book titled: "The Ancient Maya". Specifically, the symbol for Mayan "heaven" in simple terms.

Since I didn't know were to go, and living in Ventura at the time, I ended up at a place called the Ink House. When I arrived to make an appointment, I noticed that on a shelf at the front, they had t shirts for sale with the "SS" logo printed on the front. Yeah, THAT "SS" logo. You don't have to be a World War 2 historian to know what those letters represent.

When I came back a few hours later for the appointment, the dude who was supposed to do it shows up about 45 minutes late. When he gets there, he has his wife and 2 kids in tow. They bring with them 2 buckets of KFC and proceed to have dinner.

After he finished w/ dinner, he asks what the piece is that I want done, so I go ahead and show it to him. He's like: "What in the fuck is this?" so I explain it to him to which he responds: "Well, hold on to your ass cause I'm gonna give you the biggest Mayan shit ever"

Shortly after he starts tattooing, a pay phone on the wall starts to ring. He answers the phone (w/ his gloves still on) talks on the phone for about 20 minutes. We start up again, the phone rings, this times he's on it for only 10 minutes.

Then, this other dude who works there shows up and sits in a station next to us and starts to read a book called "The Burning Cross" which has a picture on the cover of... well, a burning cross on a front lawn.

Then, an African American kid come in and starts to ask that dude how much it would cost to get something done. He lets him know the price then the kid thanks him and walks out of the shop. After he leaves, the guy starts saying to us that he charges "those" guys at least 50 bucks more, "just be-fucking-cause".

During all of this, the guy who's doing my tattoo goes really deep with the needle (apparently, old school guys used to teach you to go deep into the skin with the needle. the thinking was that the piece would last longer. That's what I was told, anyhow) and after he was done, I was left with something that bordered on the line of scarification. I paid $160 plus $20 tip and on my way home, realized that I left my book there. I did not go back for it.

THOMAS
Kanji (Sun) - My first tattoo right after I turned 18. I was big into Astrology at the time and apparently the sun had a lot of significance with my birthday and some symbolism about being an "individual" or some shit. I had plans to do a giant piece on my leg with the sun and the planets, but I soon lost interest and now I'm left with the word "sun" randomly tattooed on my leg in Japanese. Did I mention I got this done in Simi Valley? Even if I told you I punched a child in the face whilst getting this tattoo, it couldn't get any lamer.

Scorpion - Second tattoo I ever got. Again, Astrology...Scorpio...Scorpion. This pathetic piece of "art" is also courtesy Simi Valley. I laugh every time I look at this tattoo. I can't believe I actually thought this was cool at one point in my life, especially considering it looks like it was drawn up by a 5th grader on methamphetamines. With that said, I'll never cover it up because it reminds me of doing cool/stupid shit with my friends. Ah, to be young and dumb again. Oh, and I think this was the first one my Mom saw too. She asked if it was real and I told her "no". Haha! I'm guessing she knows it's not fake by now.

Koi fish/storm - I started this roughly 10 years ago and never finished it. It's lacking some color, clouds, wind bars, etc. The artist was this awesome rockabilly/punker guy named Martin from Argentina. He was super friendly and cool, but bless his heart he was probably the slowest damn tattoo artist on Earth. Homeboy took like 2 hours to draw a couple lines. But I didn't care because he was so nice and had no ego whatsoever. The only problem is, he moved away one day and I lost contact with him. Last I heard he wasn't tattooing anymore. Anywho, I hope to finish this puppy one day, even though Koi fish are the new Tribal tattoos (yep, I said it!).

Star on my calf - Similar to Brian's story...I had a friend who was learning to tattoo and one night my friends and I went to the shop she was working at in Port Hueneme and we all got free star tattoos in various places. She pressed way too hard and some of the lines are kinda crooked, but it was free so I can't complain.

Koi fish on my leg - Got this on a whim one night when I was like 19...the artist was a friend of a friend and drew it up and banged it out in like an hour flat. It actually looks kinda cool, but I wish I had gotten it done in color instead of black and white. Maybe one day I'll have it colored in.

Stars on my wrist - I started out with 3 small stars on my wrist, 1 for each member of my family (Mom, Dad, Bro). But every time I told someone why I had 3 stars, the response was always "so where's YOUR star". So I went out and got 1 more big red star above the original 3. The tattoo artist was this hippy chick at a shop on Ventura Blvd in Tarzana who did an absolutely horrendous job. Seriously, she would have been more accurate with a jackhammer. Luckily, my boy Martin saved the day and "touched up" the stars so that they wouldn't look like a pile of dog shit. Still, not the greatest tattoos, especially considering they're on my wrist.

Black Flag logo - Band tattoos can be kinda lame. But, for me, Black Flag is more than just a band. Their whole approach to music and art was so unique and against the grain that it really resonated with me unlike anything else. Plus, Greg Ginn's guitar playing is the reason I got into heavy music. Anywho, this one is fading and some of the bars are kinda crooked, but I don't care cuz it means a lot to me. Martin did this one too.

Caleb - Got my son's name on my forearm for Father's Day a couple years ago. Some dude with dreadlocks at Nathan's in the Valley did it. My favorite tattoo.

Heart w/ wings - This one has my wedding date on a scroll around the heart. My wife has the same tattoo (sans wings) on her wrist. Love this one. Pun intended.

cell phone pictures

I hate bluetooths, most people that know me, know I have this thing about having a device in my ear and how I think it's one of the most degrading cultural problems we have unleashed upon ourselves. I see dad's with their families on the weekends 'pinging' their co-workers about bullshit instead of enjoying what they have right in front of them, and I see that all the time. I see people in their car or walking having these amazingly personal and highly emotional battles with their friend/lover/family member through a small device in their ear. There isn't any 'hello's how you doings' anymore, cause people are too self absorbed that they can't acknowledge humans around them.

One thing I do like however, is having this little portable camera that comes with these cell phones now a days to actually give proof of things you see during day to day life including things like the following:

Seriously, this car is awesome, I would be so happy to drive this around, yes it would be a seriously funny joke to me but I would be so happy.

I eat at a lot of Taquerias. I love taco's including Al Pastor especially. I follow this blog called the great taco hunt and the great bandini said this place in the valley was really good for al pastor, best he had. So I went to check it out, and it had a bunch of bull heads everywhere and this art that was awesome, I managed to only get this picture of this ninja doctor riding death, awesome.

Not only do I like the Taquerias but I like the trucks too, this one wasn't soo good, but it was still very impressive with all the neon bling.

Also a thing for heat, this is a habanaro, it was definitely a unique pain for me eating this. Yes I know you ate X heat object that probably makes me sound like a wuss, but this was still quite a unique experience to me. I laid down and just let it engulf my body with heat, eyes watering and a head rush. I like the feeling of eating really hot food that hurts, sorry body.

Way into black metal, I got this CD for 1 dollar, no joke. Had some slots saved on my CD trader card and had a free CD saved, this was used unopened for 8.99 and I had a free CD for 7.99. Best deal to me ever.
This little mantis decided to hang out on my car. I didn't really notice him on the outside of my car on the front windshield near the wipers till I was on the freeway. He hung out for about 5 exits and I decided what the fuck is wrong with me, who cares if I'm late for work. I got off the freeway, into the mountains not far from the freeway exit and let him go after taking a picture of him. He deserved it after hanging on for a few exits. This leads to the next picture.
Seriously, I hate you. This may be some joke caught up in the moment of having just bought your dream car, but I hate you. The reason, I have no tolerance for anyone that glorifies their shitty high speed driving. Maybe this person doesn't drive like a cat in heats tail, but one of my largest issues with our way of life is the constant rush and lack of courtesy. This person, blatantly states their fast car is going to get a ticket cause they drive fast and i'm sure this person does. There aren't any rebels anymore, the greasers and hotrodders of the old are now golf executives. It's more rebellious to drive the speed limit. One of the greatest moments of my working day is driving in my car listening to music. The last thing I want to do is whip around people almost hitting them so I can get to my desk .10 seconds faster and stare at my emails and other work stuff. People are frustrated enough these days, why piss people off cause you think you need to get to work faster then they do.

Random!

Youtube and cheap cameras, sonic youth did stuff like this years ago. money is better spent then hiring a bunch of people to hold mics, lighting setups, therapists, caterers, directors, egos, boob implants (i saw a news cast on some reality star that killed his wife so viciously they had to find out who she was through her boob implant serial numbers), fake police officers, makeup artists that don't have corpse paint and enough bluetooth ear pieces to rebuild the death star.

Brian recorded us in Thomas's parents house while they were away (sorry if we did anything, i think i put a hole in a wood panel on accident one night), rent by hour practice spaces (surprisingly no fleetwood mac/iron maidens/nu-metal bleedthrough) and Brian did vocals on a laptop in our bosses office as well as in his dining room with some effects through garage band. The things you can do in garage band are awesome, brian's cat sounded evil when it meowed with those settings and i tried to convince him to put that in the album. You can even hear Ryan's dog at the end of one of the songs if you listen closely.

I can't wait to see what stories we have for our next album. What recording locations/shenanigans. Anyone have key's to their work that shuts down over the weekend preferably a huge warehouse so we can do some awesome jon bonham style reverb drums? any one want to house us to record our next big adventure? This s/t album that's coming out soon, seriously i put it on regularly and can't believe that's us, 4 guys, that just got together and made music and i mean that in the most man on man action possible. I'm a huge fan of music, i wouldn't listen to it if it didn't mean anything to me or cause me to feel like my huge collection of cd/lps/tapes makes me feel, so that has to mean something?

hey all meet our new drummer Rob talking with brian about D&D and cross dressing. clearly he stands taller then Heddorah:

first post: shows

Hello, for my first post, we just got another show at the viper room October 5th with our favorite LA band It's Casual and 16. That place is kind of weird to play at, you get behind a big curtain and sound check while everyone behind the curtain is oblivious to what is said or done.

I can play really loud through my equipment, and this magic curtain doesn't have any bleed through or maybe it does, i don't know i just find it weird.

Also September 12 we have a show at the Cocaine. I heard it's just a sushi house that puts shows on, but honestly after reading their description: "The Cocaine is not a club or a clique. It’s not a business venture. It’s not a way to become popular. If there’s anything we have come to believe by taking up shelter in a jazz club, it’s that the jazz ethic needs to be reborn in other genres of music. We need musicians to realize that it’s not how many heads you put in the crowd; it’s not how fast you can shred a fretboard; it’s not how many CDs you can sell; it’s not even getting more sets of ears to listen to what you’ve created. What counts is getting on stage and participating in the raw humanity and euphoric catharsis in artistic expression. What counts is getting that expression to connect artists with the audience. " That sold me the instant I read it.

A lot has happened this year, many bad things, too many to count. We move forward with a heavy heart but are excited to finally start seeing some releases. First is the record split with Wire Werewolves which is almost sold out. Next our full length that should come out before the end of the year with some amazing artwork.

Then we have all this new stuff, 2 hours worth of riffs and ideas that we are sorting through and working on. We have a total of three complete songs so far that we are recording and reviewing to find out if we should make any changes etc. I have at least 4 more complete songs, all stuff we can't believe we are working on.

More to come!

Josh