W007 V4ld3z!!

This has been a good Spring Break so far. Saturday I hopped on the bus and came home. I wanted to catch the 10am bus, so I set my alarm for 7:00, but I woke up at 8:49, so I settled for the 11am bus. I come home and relax for a few hours, hang out with my mother and my cousin who was in town for the day, then I got dressed to head to Williamsburg to go see Root Valdez. The show was supposed to start at 8:30 and go until 10:00. I left my house at 8, and I figured I'd be a little bit late, but no. I forgot I could take the short route to Williamsburg, which consisted of taking one bus and two trains, but I ended up taking the long route, which consisted of taking 4 trains. I didn't realize that I could've taken the short way until I was three trains and 45 minutes into my trip and had passed by the station I would've entered had I taken the short way. As I see the train station, a moment of "GODDAMMIT!" hits me. I got on the last train I needed to take at 9:00.

I hauled ass from the train station to The Lucky Cat, and made it there at 9:25. I wasn't concentrating on anything other than getting to the show, I didn't even take notice to the peple around me. I was about to walk through the door, but then I heard someone call my name. I turn to see who it is, it was Colin Beauchemin, the lead singer of Brooklyn rock band Aleda. We had never met in person until that point, but we've been in touch online through MySpace and the Ghetto Crush message boards that he'd know me if he saw me. I talked to him for a few minutes, then I went inside to catch the rest of the show. My friend St. Clair who I was gonna meet there got to the show about 10 minutes after I did. I caught about a good half-hour, but they really brought it at the end. especially when they started to jam while Fred the guitarist figured out why his guitar/laptop rig was messing up. After the show Fred and Chris the drummer came up and greeted me. I've met them before, and keep in contact with them online as well. It was good catching up with them. I met quite a few people there and caught up with others. I met RV's newest addition, singer Leslie Graves. She has quite a voice, and very pretty. I almost started blushing while I was talking to her. In addition to meeting Colin, I met Joe McDonald, the drummer from Aleda, Mike Pierce, Eric Wilhelm, and Jody Shelton, bassist, guitarist and lead singer of the Jody Shelton Band, another local music gem. Chris plays drums for that band, and Mike was RV's bassist for the night. I also caught up with another person I met After the show a whole bunch of them were planning to hang out at this bar called the Barcade, and they invited St. Clair and I to join us.

The Barcade is a friggin' amazing place. It's a big kid's paradise. It's a bar and an arcade, full of old school arcade games like Asteroids, Tetris, Arkanoid, Mrs. Pac Man, Super PunchOut, and OutRun, just to name a few. We all bought drinks, hung out, laughed, talked, basically had a great time. There are a lot of good drinks there on tap. I tried Doc's Draft Cider. Very tasty. I wanted to try Magic Hat, but I forgot to give it a try. All in all, Saturday rocked. I got to hear some great music, met a bunch a chill people, hung out with them afterwards, and got some great pictures. I think I'll call it a night. G'nite!

W00tality x 10^5!!!

I'm home (thank GOD), I got to see Root Valdez, I met a whole bunch of cool people, tonight fucking rocked! More to come later in the day....

Three weeks ago yesterday....

[Listening to: Alan Evans - Low Down Low from the album "Let It Ride..."]

I last posted in my blog. Since then I've been depressed, sick, then more depressed. I'm not sure if anyone actually noticed that I was feeling that way, or any sort of way, with the exception of CJ. I started running out of motivation to do much of anything. It was pretty bad. I think it was the fact that the dreaded "What am I gonna do with my life after I graduate" question came up in my head. It began to bother me because I have two possible routes to go, and I'm not sure where I can go with either of them. And it bothered the crap out of me wondering what I'm doing with my life. It all came to a head with me downing half a bottle of Captain Morgan and having a bad night that I don't remember. That was Friday. Saturday turned things around quite a bit. It was one of the first nice days anyone had seen in a long time, and CJ and I knew we couldn't waste it away, so we dragged Christian with us and went exploring through Avon, one town over from us. Driving down just one main road we encountered about 4 or 5 different malls, and they were all really nice. We had reached the end of the road, so we turned back, and on the way back I notice a sign that says "Nature Center." I show CJ, and after getting an OK from Christian we decided to check out this so called nature center. I'm very glad we did. The nature center had a bunch of hiking trails, and we decided to forge ahead and see where it took us. I'm not sure if it was the fresh air, the change of scenery, or the fact that it was the first speck of excercise I've had this year, but the hike cleared my head of a lot of things. I was feeling better about myself and just feeling good overall, a feeling I hadn't felt in a while. So things are looking on the up and up. i still can't wait for Spring Break though. Just a few more days.

In other news, I bought some music software on eBay, and I'm hoping it comes this week before I go on break. It's a bundle of four music editing/composition programs: Propellerhead Reason 3.0, Sonic Foundry Acid Pro 4.0, and Sony's Sound Forge 8, and CD Architect 5. I'm really psyched about it, Reason is very popular and very powerful. It's a lot like FL Studio (aka Fruity Loops), but more powerful and more gangster. I cleared out and backed up a whole bunch of my files so that both my computers will have enough room to accomodate all the awesomeness. I'm patiently awaiting it's arrival.

In I'm going to Hell news, I read this news article and started laughing. I don't feel as bad because CJ read it and he started laughing too. How many of you are going to Hell with me?