Friday, December 28, 2007 @8:44 AM
HOLY SHITBALLS!all of you lovely people must've thought i'd forgotten about this blog...
well guess what?!
i haven't!
it's been 5 months!!!!
5 MONTHS!boy do i have a lot to catch you up on!
so let's cut to it, here goes!
first off, if my blog seems a little lacking in the archives, it's because i deleted all those gay emo posts from when bean and i had separated for a few months... and that's the first order of business! yeah, we've been back together for a long time actually, our little small town hearts reunited at the drive-in in shiner watching the crappiest movie ever, disturbia haha! how romantic are we.
so what else, i bade farewell to my teenage years on july 6th, i don't feel any different still but it is funny how i forget a majority of the time someone asks me my age and i say 19 on impulse. as august came around, bean got herself a job working at tornado tee's in shiner. cool job. cool boss. and around that time we registered for our classes.
bleh... classes.
i didn't last long this time. first, i find that my guitar classes have been pulled in order to "cut back" which ruined the whole idea of why i was going to college. then i find that the 2 music classes i DO have... i'm sharing them with the worst 2 people from my previous courses... yeah, college classes, 3 students... it sucked royally. and then all the basics, philosophy, brit. lit., and psychology. philosophy was dropped so fast because it was an ITV class. i did those in high school and the instructor was at the college. and this time, of all places, my instructor was broadcasting from gonzales, had no idea how to work the damn thing, didn't speak up, and in general, just sucked.
eventually, i just dropped all of my classes this semester. it really ruined the experience for me. i wasn't having fun learning anymore. and like i said, with no guitar classes, what was the point really.
good riddance victoria college.
so what else.
before school started, bean and i made our move from apartment 902 to an efficiency building in 413.
i didn't want to leave this complex. it's nice. and i like it lots. of course our little home is much smaller, but much more cozy =]
this past summer also started my extensive role on xbox live. i played non-stop on halo 2 for months, then this past september, with the release of halo 3, i'm pretty sure i played all night the day it came out and still pwn plenty of n00bs to this day!
october rolls around:
things at work are getting a bit hectic with the loss of our store manager but j.v. takes over and maintains the store wonderfully. however, the main event of october came with derek's first homecoming from marine training! he came back, scatchy voiced and all. it's clear to see he has an appreciation for everything on the earth right now. it's awesome, i'm proud of him. though i still don't quite agree with the thought that my own country is training him how to kill, i tend to look at it from a different perspective. he's training to go out and fight for MY freedom. it truly is the best gift anyone can give, willingly nonetheless. thanks derek! we're always rootin' for you!
what else! ashton turned 21 in october i know as well! holla!
halloween was quite fun, bean and i, jay and holly and chris and renae all got together and trick-or-treat-ed throughout random neighborhoods and then hit up denny's for a late night snack. it was sweeeeeet.
november arrives!
with the news flying around town like wildfire, work becomes stressful as everyone and their mom is coming in for misfits tickets! yeah i thought it too, the misfits. in our lame ass town. needless to say the show was awesome. the luchadores got to open up on the outside stage. the highlight of that night however was when our poor holly got knocked out in the pit as a random crowd-surfer's boot found her head. as we rushed her outside to get her air, all was hectic in our little family as some were wanting to get her to the hospital, while she was trying to come to so she could meet her heroes. finally, with efforts of everyone with us, she got to see them all! and even took home jerry's water bottle! what an evening that was.
speaking of the luchadores though! at the beginning of november, we played the bodog battle of the bands in austin! playing on marshall half stacks is insanely amazing.
with the conclusion of that night, we advanced to the next round and made lots of fans and friends. once we got home, we threw a big benefit show for our fans. money went to producing the first round of luchadore t-shirts! and even more went to our plan to get as many people in next round's show for free. this was because each band was given 100 tickets each to sell. we ended up raising enough money to give away half of our tickets!
finally december:
first off, the luchadores go into the next round. we rocked the stage with our new material and all of our friends are there. people are digging it, people we don't know are raising their fists and shouting with us! it's awesome. the night ends and the luchadores do not advance =[
HOWEVER, now we got to work, for each band that did not make the cut this time around, they were all placed in a wildcard voting slot. so for 7 days we gathered up troops, went public with newspaper articles, radio broadcasts and so on and got the whole town plus more to vote for us and we end up winning the votes! so in february, we go to dallas as the austin wildcard!
the big news for me this month however was the introduction of our new family member, LOUIE! on december 1st on our way to santanna's wedding, bean and i adopted us a new full bred miniature dachshund! in a nutshell, he's crazy. he only pees and poops on MY side of the bed. he chews on everything, including my face. and his kill word is "banana". i love him. = ]
and now here we are, present day. another christmas comes and goes. i get some purdy cool shits this year. including plenty of cash, a new keyboard piano, a GOOD capo for my guitar, super mario galaxy a friggen sweet dachshund puzzle that's in the shape of the dog itself and with the money i got, i finally got my own digital camcorder! the day after christmas, my beanhead turned 21 and can finally buy, drive with and drink her alcohol legally! w00t!
boy... what a year it's been. don't get me wrong, there was a lot more stuff that happened, just hard to remember all of it. and now within 3 days comes a new year, and a new year's resolution... wish me luck as i take on the hardest one i made for myself but the best in my opinion: NO fast food. NO sodas. yup. i'm ready. helloooooooooooooooooooo 2008!
that's all for now folks! thanks for reading! happy holidays! happy new year! we're gonna party at the apartment on new year's if you'd like to come! and now for some more of this year's highlights:
concerts:
against me!
two gallants
streetlight manifesto
rise against
the misfits
warped tour
movies:
harry potter and the order of the phoenix
reign over me
300
once
august rush
projects:
acoustic shows start up but don't last too long and i make my debut with some solo stuff.
plans for the upcoming year:
punkfest with ar-15
flogging molly
bodog semi-regional finals in dallas
wwe raw in austin
nofx
dropkick murphys
warped tour
it's gonna be a good year this next one, i can feel it.
