the search begins...

so i was flipping thru the pink clash book today again and came across something i hadn't seen before. apparently mick jones dated this chick ellen foley for a while in the early 80s. she was the girl who sang with meatloaf on 'paradise by the dashboard light' with meatloaf. anyway, mick produced her 1981 album spirit of st louis and i guess him and joe wrote most of it, and they and paul even played on a lot of it. the book even referred to it as "practically a proper clash album without joe singing.". just when i think i have everything, haha. so be on the lookout, vinyl ppl. i need this!!!

back

mini-tour went well. worked with some great people. hopefully will get to work with them again sometime. it was a nice change from van to bus. i'm spoiled now. speaking of spoiled, now that i actually have some money, i am trying hard not to spend it. gonna try to limit it to some new clothes, and i might have already pre-ordered punch-out for wii... maybe. but i couldn't help it. oh and i am in desperate need of an epic night out. i feel like it's been ages. philly you are being put on warning. this weekend... yeaaaa. ny, you are next.

but the touring bug is def back. gonna make some calls this week. fingers crossed.

so frustrated... no longer

hey so i AM goin on tour tomorrow. wooohooo. got the call tonight. off to connecticut in the am... rescheduling ny and south philly adventures... and i'll have some money next week. score!

bamboozle

so after partying way too hard thurs night at alk3 (bon came down and we decided to act like we were 16??), i woke up early fri to see no doubt on the today show. a few minutes later i got a call to work bamboozle. this wasn't confirmed til about 12 hrs later, so i found myself on a train to hoboken to stay with losie at 11pm. after maybe 3 hrs of sleep on the floor, we were off to the meadowlands. got to work with some cool people and make some decent money. i had decided to skip going this year because the lineup wasn't particularly great, but i was really bummed about missing the get up kids reunion, since i've heard mixed things on whether they plan on touring or just hitting up the festivals. so i took my saturday 'dinner break' (they didn't feed us and we had to shell out $ for shitty festival food) during tguk. amazing! the little neon-wearing kids went into hiding or wandered to a side stagte or something for a glorious 40 minutes and the set was amazing. i wasn't really dying to see anyone else that i hadn't just seen (new found, syg). once the side stages closed down we could really hear the headliners tho so i got to hear third eye blind (fuck yea), face to face, tbs (still terrible. i have never ever gotten the appeal of that band - sorry chrissy) and NO DOUBT. amazing.

highlights included:

- waking up at 5:30am saturday to losie blasting motley crue as i tried not to murder him
- seeing a bunch of people i love. i must have texted "merch booth by the ferris wheel" 20 times
- being called a fucking bitch only one time! sorry but you can't return a hoodie you've been wearing in the rain all day
- watching all the guys hit on girls and then wondering if they were 18 or not.
- as stated, THE GET UP KIDS. amazing.
- some kid getting all his bottom teeth knocked out during face to face. he was in such shock, he just wanders up, goes "how bad is it?" and opens his mouth as blood pours out. i hope he is ok.
- watching everyone wander up after gwar. gross.
- being right next to the dunk the clown. this was the clown that was on oz fest for 10 years. he was incredibly awful. every time a black person walked by, he would say "aren't you at the wrong show?" and play 50 cent. indians, jews, gays.. no one was safe. he kept playing the barney the dinosaur theme song and it took me til midway thru sunday to realize it was because everyone was wearing purple hoodies ala cobra starship. i was not sad to say goodbye to him.
- the girl from disney channel, demi lavato, HAS. A. VOICE. goddamn.
- number of girls that lost their flip flips and requested plastic bags as makeshift shoes: 4. if you are gonna wear flip flips to a 12 hr festival, in the RAIN, don't go anywhere near anything resembling a "pit". just a thought.
- whatever "hollywood undead"is, they need to go away and never, ever return.
- seeing exactly one hot dude (not in a band) who looked of legal drinking age. sigh.
- bringing a stereo on sunday and blasting gaslight to drown out the clown.
- being a little bit less broke now.

up soon: merch faq/dos and don'ts. it's a long time comin.

lay perfectly still... this won't hurt

MRI was not so bad... got to listen to the phils the whole time, and what a sick game. it was hard to lie completely still during those grand slams. i think my ankle will be radioactive soon...apparently there's a small fracture tho. they might wanna cast me. fuck my life. gotta live it up for now tho. decided to go to the phillies game tomorrow with phil (hold on to the'told you so's for now). pumped for alk3 on thurs, apparently it's gonna be a bigggggg reunion. also ppl are last minute trying to talk me into bamboozle. i'm not really feeling it tho.

BUT can we talk about the cops arresting all those bands at the bamboozle road show at the tla last night?? those youtube vids are crazy. is anyone really surprised at the cops tho?? i've been dealing with that shit comin out of the tla for 10+ years. and i once came THISCLOSE to being arrested for handing out flyers for y100 there once. seriously! fuck those guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AbzUspUWQg&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Lu7Lu5Dlk&feature=player_embedded

owwwwwwwwwwwwww

anthony raneri posted this saying it was a cool tattoo. now i guess the idea is cool (love that self titled logo) but the actual execution is horrible and the one underneath probably just cancels it out anyway.



in other news i almost lost a finger today. ok it was not that bad BUT.. you know when you hurt yourself and for the first few seconds you're not sure how bad it is? i was totally scared to look. almost went to the hospital for stitches but decided against it. but since i'm allergic to neosporin and i can't remember when i last had a tetnus shot i might go get it looked at because i have insurance for a few more weeks. gotta bleed that shit dry.

and in the good daughter category, i'm taking my mom to xpn tomorrow to see kevin bacon's band. my mom looooves him, she met him when he filmed a movie in the northeast a few years ago. he used to come to bbs alot too. lucky for my mom the yrock studio connects to the dressing rooms, haaaaa.

so pissed i got screwed out of seeing save the day/alkaline tomorrow. may go to ny sat to see i am the avalanche at ak. and if i stay in philly tomorrow there's always the ataris at the khyber... ponder that for a second!!!!

AND WHAT IS THE STORY WITH THIS BLINK VIDEO???!!!??

you've got a friend in pennsylvania

interesting story

so i went to new found last weekend with chrissy. hung out in the balcony bar during bayside and met these 2 dudes. seemingly cool dudes, did the whole drinks and chit chat thing for a good while, from right after syg until at least midway through bayside. we were even talking about hanging out with them after. THEN the one dude said something more than minorly homophobic. i made some passing comment like "oh lovely, dude" to which he responds "whatever. i hate fucking fags" and keeps it goin from there. ohh ummm, chrissy it's time for a cigarette break?? sure let's go... the best part was he couldn't figure out why i was so turned off. i told him i had a gay brother and at that point he apologized for "offending" me. i don't have a gay brother -- i don't have a brother -- but should i need an excuse to be offended? i have a hard time keeping my opinions to myself sober but after a few drinks, forget it. i have zero fucking tolerance for homophobes, racists and the like. figures - cool, nice-looking dudes that wanna take us out and they like new found?? must be some flaw. at least i found it fast. chrissy and i enjoyed our drinks inside the troc bar after that.

speaking of being drunk, for some reason i thought it was a really good idea to drop 35$ on a goddamn pullover hoodie at the end of the night. ohh you take visa, here you go. i dunno what the merch split at the troc is but they have house venders so it's probably high (i know, i KNOW, but i always looked the other way and fudged the numbers. damn the man.) at least the hoodie is a spectacular shade of purple.
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