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Well damn its been a long time since I've updated this thing and seriously I have no clue where to begin. Well about 2 weeks ago I went to Myrtle Beach, SC with my family and jaci and my brother's friend shawn. It was a hell of alot of fun, we rode go-carts, saw shows, and went to the beach every day. That was another great thing is that the beach was right outside of our window so we just would walk downstairs and we were at the beach. We also saw this really great show with people impersonating famous singers like Cher, Elvis, Garth Brooks, and Janet Jackson. The 2 best though were Rod Stewert and the Blues Brothers. Rod was sang some good shit, he did Maggie Mae which I really wanted to hear and he also kicked soccer balls into the audience, it was great! Me and Jaci were singing all the words and I laughed at my brother for singing all the Elvis songs, it was hilarious. I miss the beach I wanna go back!
For the past few weeks since my last update I've been having a ton of fun. I've been going to parties like almost every night. As of recent my nights have been fueled by nothing but alcohol and drugs. Its been alot of fun, I don't want my vacation to end..
Well last night upsincefriday played at the Pontiac Grille. It was pretty much the usual show but we played pretty badly in our opinion, everyone else said we were great. But how we ended our set was great. Damian got so fed up with his guitar that he smashed it into a million peices the thing looks awsome, I wanna frame it, then I proceeded to kick his amp over and then we didn't even finish the song we just started smashing all of our shit. I jumped into my amp then Anthony knocked some of his stuff then I grapped his entire drum set and flipped it off the drum riser. It was quite a sight. Then the sound guy came up and yelled at us for how expensive the microphones are, I laughed even though the guy could of killed me. After that Damian sulked at the destruction of his guitar and then proceeded to get really drunk. That was probably the highlight of the night..well besides Anthony's mom getting drunk and having to have Carla and Cliff basically carry her to the car, that was funny too. So Damian got quite drunk and as we would leave he would yell out the window at people and walk into people, it was sooo hilarious. After that we went and got more beer and drank ourselves stupid. It was actually a really fun night.
As for this week I don't have much going on. I really wanna get coldplay tickets. I have tickets to the vines show which should be pretty cool to see. I also start school this week which sucks but I'm sure will be fun. well bye
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| T-H-E H-I-V-E-S |
[15 Jun 2002|02:57am] |
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I just returned from seeing the Hives at transit tonite. The place was soo unbelievably packed. They totally over sold the show, we were shoulder to shoulder with everyone and people kept trying to walk back and forth which blewwww. The Hives were so awsome though, even though they only played for a short time, they were great and soooooooooo cocky too. I thought that was great about them, Pelle the singer at the close of the show was like "Philadelphia we love you, but not as much as you love us", what a great line, I was laughin my ass off when he said that. I just wish there weren't so many lame ass people there though, you could tell that it was just losers who came to the show just to come cause they're considered the "cool band" with all the write-ups they've been getting in the philly inquire and all kinds of magazines and stuff. I was so glad I got to see them, hopefully I'll get to see them again in a better place that can hold as many people who come to the show.
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[12 Jun 2002|10:24am] |
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So I'm kinda hungover today, I think I should really eat. Well anyway I finished my semester yesterday with a final in art history, I think I did pretty well, I'm sooo happy to be done school now but it sucks cause its only a 3 week break and then its right back to school again. Not to cool with that.
Well Sunday night me, Jaci, Rina, and Jay went to the Ritz to see the Roman Coppala movie CQ. The movie was very good, I remember reading something about it before hand but totally forgot that it was his movie, good choice by Jaci I must say. The movie was very good and Schwartzman is in it and his character is quite funny.
Friday night I'm going to see The Hives with Jaci, but apparently theres going to be lots of people I know so I think that'll make it extra fun. Sunday I'm going to see Doves and Elbow at the TLA with Jaci, that should be alotta fun as well.
In another week I'm going down to Myrtle Beach,SC with Jaci and my family, I'm really looking forward to that, I always love going to the beach and since I've never been there before I'm more interested in going and plus I just want to go on a vacation after having to be stuck in school and work for so long...
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[07 Jun 2002|01:06pm] |
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Last night was my show at the Grape Street Pub. It was an awwwsommee show. It was probably one of the best shows we've played it was really cool to play there and there were actually some people there to watch us. The sound was really amazing and they had all these lights and the sound guy was like working them along to our music, I wish I had a video camera cause it looked really awsome. So we played our usual set and closed with Double Pussy hahaha ohh maann, we'll never escape playing that hehe. So while we're playing the song I jumped off the drums and smacked my head into a mirror ball that was hanging on the ceiling,which was funny and after the song we destroyed the stage, we turned the amps over threw our guitars around and turned the drums over..it was awsome! I wish the place was packed but oh well, our show was still alotta fun..
Now I gotta finish my video game box for class thats due Monday, ugh nottt looking forward to doing it.
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| OAS-US |
[31 May 2002|02:02pm] |
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Well yesterday Oasis tickets went on-sale for their show in Philly at the Tower Theater in August. So Jaci got up early for the presale she ended up getting us tickets on the floor in the 3rd ROW!!!!!!!!! I'm soooo excited, we're gonna be sooo freakin close to the band its gonna be so awsome, I've only gotten to see Oasis once and I was sorta far away, but now I'm gonna be all close its gonna be a great show, I can't wait!!! GO JACI,I love you hun, thank you soo much!
Well Wednesday night was supposed to be upsincefriday's show at Dave and Buster's so it ended up us not being able to play due to overbooking. Which sucked, cause we were looking forward to playing there. So we decide to walk down to South St. to look for a show so we go up to the Pontiac Grille because they normally have an open mic that night. So we go up and we're informed they don't have open mics anymore, so we tell them our dilemma and they tell us that they can help us out and put us on the bill for the night. We were soooo stoked, but alittle pissed cause we were trying like crazy to play there a few months ago and they wouldn't give us the time of day but whatever..So we have lots of time to kill before our 1am slot time! So we walk down to the TLA where the Queens of the Stone Age are playing with Dave Grohl on drums!!! So we hung around and just as we were about to go on Dave Grohl comes walking out and everyone of course mobbed him but we got to say some things to him like "hi" and shit and invited him to our show in which he replied with a look of confusion and said he had to go get on the bus and eat his ice cream..So we played pretty good, to a room of about 8 people hehe..We had this bum come up to us after-wards and tell us we could be the next "John Hall and Darryl Oates" hahaha i laughed hard at that one, not only did he screw the names up but comparing us to Hall and Oates is just fuckin funny in its own way...The show was a fun one, we'll have to play there again..well I'm outta here, I taped the Late Nite with Carson show, so I gotta see if I can hear myself my friend Pat said that he could hear me and Chaz haha...
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so i today i reluctantly went to nyc to see remy zero play on carson daly's stupid show..chris kattan was the other guest, hes not very funny..i had an ok time, i did alot of walking and standing around..i spent the day being hot and sweaty..i feel really sick and i spent way too much money today..the show will be on thursday night at 1:30am, i yelled alot in it, and you'll probably be able to hear me..so if you hear alot of weird yelling, its me..uhhh..i don't have much else to write, i'm not feeling well..you can always ask me questions about it in the comments section if i'm being to vague..
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So tonite is the beginning of a fun next few days..So Tuesday night Jaci slept over which was great then yesterday we went to South Street to get our tickets for the hives at transit. I'm syked for that show, its gonna be so much funnn..the hives, mooney suzuki, and djing brit-pop all night!!!!! The past few days I've had band practice and we've narrowed down our choice for the 80s song we're going to cover tomorrow night. I'll let everyone know later..So tonite me, Jaci, and a friend of her's are going to see the promise ring at the TLA. Its going to be a fun show! I'm excited. Well off to get ready for work. Everyone go to St.James Church tomorrow and see us and alot of other great bands play!
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[20 May 2002|12:06pm] |
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So my weekend was basically me being top nerd..why you ask? Because I saw Star Wars- Attack of the Clones TWICE! Yes I saw it both Friday night and Saturday night...friday I saw it with Chaz, Pony John, and Dan and Saturday with the always lovely Jaci, Anthony, Carla, and Pony boy once more...I liked the movie, I thought it was a hell of alot better than episode one. The action was really good and the special effects were amazing. My only complaints were that it dragged at points and some of the subplot were kinda lame (meaning the Anakin/Natalie Portman love story) but all in all I give it 3 and 3 quarter stars, and a good recommend to see it..but don't make the mistake I did and see it at 1am, cause the movie is quite long...
Well now I'm in school and I wanna get outta here, cause I'm sooooo tired. All I really have to do is some work on my video game box and thats it. I did my Oasis poster last night and my teacher liked it alot! I was so glad, cause shes pretty critical so her saying she liked it relieved me cause now I don't have to do much work to finish it. This week is going to be alotta fun cause I'm going to see the Promise Ring on Thursday w. Jaci, Friday is Chazapalooza so I'll get to see everyone's band as well as have everyone see us, and then Saturday is the BIG party at Jackie's house...sooo theres some nice things to look forward to...well so long for now..
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hi..well yesterday I started my day off by going down to the Chop Shop with Jaci to get my haircut. I got it cut short this time its really choppy and messy now, sorta punky lookin. I like it alot though..Then we went back home and Jaci bleached her hair, it looks very cute. Then me and Jaci took her little dog Oliver to New Hope. It was so nice, we walked around and went into stores and walked the dog around. We tried to eat at some outdoor cafe and they wouldn't let us bring the dog on the patio!? Whats up with that!? Lame! Oh well we finally found a pizza place to eat at and we ate outside with the dog, it was cute...So then we went home and I ended up hangin with Carla, Cliff, Blackmore, and Carla's friend Kate..we ended up picking Jay up from work at one point and we headed to the movie theater to try and see Star Wars which was a biggg mistake. Needless to say we didn't get in cause it was totally sold out but seeing the large amount of geeks was plenty of a show for me, there were guys dressed in cloaks having light saber fights..oh soo sad..but we waited around until Damian, Chaz, Brian, and Da Duc with his girlfriend came out and informed us it wasn't very good..soo I didn't miss much although I'm still gonna go see it.
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So yesterday was registration day at school and fiiinnally for the first time I got the classes I needed at the times I wanted to take them so heres what I got for this summer..
Art History II- Tuesday's 12:30-4:30pm
Typeography as Design- Wednesday's 12:30-4:30pm
Promotional Graphics- Thursday's 8am-12pm
World Literature- Thursday's 12:30-4:30-pm
So theres my classes, I can't believe I'm almost done my semester! I can't wait cause then I have a nice 3 week break hahaha..
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i've haven't this bad in a long long time. its like a combination between nervousness, nasuea, dry mouth, and just shaking like you've been in the freezer for a half hour. i can't feel as bad as i do right now. if ever i needed my girlfriend to hold me its right this second. i feel like i'm trapped in a john cusack movie right at the one scene of the movie where hes really at his low point. i really hate feeling this way, maybe i should just stop...i'm being overdramatic i guess but i still just feel like shit..maybe i need sleep..why do things like this have to happen?
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| nyc trip..spiderman..blooooddd |
[08 May 2002|11:05am] |
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So this is kinda late, but whatever! So I went and saw Spiderman on sunday night with Jaci and lemme tell you it was fuckin great!!! I was not disapointed in the least bit! So I suggest EVERYONE to go see it.
Yesterday I had my class trip to NYC to visit the Metropolitan Musuem of Art. Its been the 2nd time I've been there in the past month or so. I was boooredd the entire time mainly cause I saw pretty much everything I wanted to see the last time I was there and I had noo one to hang out with. So I basically walked around by myself allll day. But I did get to go on the roof and see some really cool sculptures like a giant garden shovel and saftey pin, it was really neat and it had a great view of the city. So after that I walked around and looked at more art until I stumbled upon some cool thing in the Egyptian part of the museum in which it was like the way the temples were and it had like water around it and the whole room was windows so I found a nice place to sit down and eventually laid down and fell asleep. heheh So after awhile and some over priced food I made my way outside to wait for the bus. So the stupid bus ended up being an hour late and to top it off only 1 bus showed! not 2!! So everyone gets on the bus and me and few other people were forced to stand, so the bus driver was like "I can't let you guys stand so if I can't get ahold of the other bus, you guys are getting dropped off at the Greyhound station." So at this point I'm shitting myself because I'm totally broke and also just pissed off. So everyone on the bus is threatening to hang the bus driver until he rights the shit. So he smokes an enormously long cigarette and gets ahold of the bus driver, in which he tells him to wait where hes at cause we're coming and all the people standing are switching to the other bus. So after fighting downtown New York traffic we make it to the bus and I get a nice comfortable seat on the bus by myself in which I fell asleep...it was a nice ending...
So I just got blood work done. Don't do it next time your doctor tries to make you..
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| welcome to the show... |
[04 May 2002|03:04pm] |
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So last nights show at Doc's was AWWWWSSOOMMMEE. I never felt more happy to be in a band then I did last night, it was a great sign that things are really headed in the right direction for us. So things kicked off with our buddy Abe the Rockstar doing a 30 min set of some great and funny songs he closed the set with the extremely funny song about how he wants to chop up his girlfriend so he can always have a part of her with you, apply entitled Peices of You. Then we came on and put on a real high energy show, Damian jumped off of all kinds of stuff he fell into the drums and we knocked everything over. We basically took it as just another show and that people basically could careless about us, booyyy were we wrong. When we got off stage everyone was talking to us about our band asking us when our next show is, and when can we get a cd?? How great we were and all this stuff. Our heads swelled big time lemme tell ya. Then a band called mercury radio theater came on and they were INCREDIBLE! They wore Space outfits and played surf rock, everyone jaw dropped when they started playing. They had all kinds of theatrics with samples and lights it was great. Then came nine diigt # and I didn't stick around much to watch them by that time my head hurt from too much music and the fact I didn't eat much during the day. So I hung in the parking lot for a bit until I can never stop you came on. They were great guys by the way, very nice and courtious to us and we had some nice conversations with the guys, hopefully we can play more with them. So yea they were good, reminded me of like early REM with Lou Barlow on vocals. Little things here and there were shakey about them but it was their first show so...those things happen. But all in all I had a blast last night and it made me so happy that people are actually caring about my band...
Well tonite me and Jaci and maybe other people I dunno are going to see Spiderman. I'm sooooo looking forward to this movie and I heard its really good, so that makes me want to see it more...well time for food..goodbye
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Hey so my band is nominated for best new band by origivation magazine. So anyone who reads this should email origivation@aol.com put vote in the subject heading and tell them you want upsincefriday to win for best new band. Thanks! Also we're playing this friday May 3rd so anyone in the Philadelphia area should come to Doc Watson's and check us out the show starts at 8pm and not only are we playing but ABE THE ROCKSTAR is as well! see ya
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| beautiful garbage.... |
[27 Apr 2002|08:51pm] |
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So last night me, Jaci, and Chaz went to see Garbage at the Electric Factory. So the night starts with us heading down, with no tickets mind you, with the intention were A. getting in free or B. getting in very cheap. Well me and Chaz has grown to get some really good connections in Philly when it comes to clubs and stuff so we always manage to get into any show for free or cheap some how by either knowing people or the bands or something. So we go down walking up and down the line saying "Hey anyone got a free or cheap ticket?" in which a guy replies "Oh yea, I got an extra ticket" Chaz replies "Oh yea? how much?"..guy says "10 bucks"..SOLD!. Ticket number 1 down, 2 more to go...so we walk back up the line saying our free or cheap ticket and a guy goes "Hey heres a ticket for you, free". Rockin! We have 2 tickets now, we're walking around and some guys like "I got an extra, I'll give it to you for $30" we polietly say no and that we don't have that money so a few mins later the guy says again "I have an extra ticket here". I tell the guy nahh cause I don't have enough money and I don't wanna stick the guy outta money cause I don't mess with fans of the band cause its uncool so the guy goes "Give me $10", so I say "sure!"
So into the show we go and the opening band is some band called Abandoned Pools, I have to say that this band totally sucked, they were like the calling but worse and they did a cover of a Bjork song, which I thought was lame cause a band that shitty shouldn't even be allowed to listen to Bjork let alone cover one of her songs. So anyway they finally end and we make our way toward the front of the crowd and Garbage finally comes on!!! They open up with Push it and do alot of their songs and for the most part alotta version 2.0 and beautiful garbage for the first half of the set. Then all of a sudden Shirley goes "We tried this in New York the other night and it didn't go so well but we'll play it" and it was Girl Don't Come, which is a freakin awsome song and one I haven't heard in a long time! So they're playing it and at one part its Shirley singing and Butch doing drums, but Butch forgot to do the drums so Shirley got thrown off and shes like "Hey! Wheres the drums???" and Butch is like "OH!" and starts going and Shirley starts laughing her ass off and barely remember the rest of the words...it was great! So they play through the rest of the set doing great ones like Vow and they come back on and Shirley does a song and dedicates it to Left Eye from TLC, I yelled real loud. Shirley also talked about making out with Ed from Live, I was like "uhhh...ok, nooooo good!!" So while all this is going on Chaz gets me into a kick of imitating a Pearl Jam bootleg he has in which some stupid ass guy is like "YEAAAAAAHHHHHHH.......EDDDIIEEEEEE". I thought it was hilarious, so Garbage ended up closing with Only happy when it rains, which was great. So all in all the show was awsome! I was so glad I went and I had a great time...well see yaaa!!!
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My god, I'm on the brink of suicide. I have this catelog to do for urban outfitters and I'm having a large amount of trouble with it. My computer will fuck up or the prints will come out like shit, and I have no money to get it printed anywhere. So I think I'm going to just scrap it today and finish it up this week. I'm like almost done but its so frustrating that I can't continue today...
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Well yesterday Jaci calls me at 10am and says shes coming over. So she came over and we basically laid around and slept till like 1 o'clock. Then we headed out to go shopping. First Jaci had me check her oil, so we did that and then put some oil in the car and then headed off to the Cherry Hill Mall. We walked around alittle bit went into some stores, I mostly went into alotta girls store cause you know when you shop with a girl your always going to get dragged into them type of stores. So Jaci ended up getting some pants and I walked out with nothing. So we decided to head over to a great little thrift store to get some good shit. So we get there and notice the car is smoking, I'm thinking "What the hell is going on??" and then look at the front of the car and see there is oil all over the car. So in my mind I'm freaking out cause I'm afraid something is really wrong with the car. So we pop open in the hood and notice that we didn't put the oil cap on, so I give myself a huge slap in the forehead out of stupidity. So we head in and I ended up getting 3 shirts, 2 button down shirts and 1 blue soccer shirt, all for $2!!!!!! So after that we head on over to the Big K and put 3 qts of oil into the car and headed home. As were going home the car starts making this knocking noise and we're like "what the hell is that?" So we make it home and Jaci's dad checks out the car and puts 3 more qts of oil in the car, and still the car is making noise. So today Jaci took the car to the mechanics to be checked out and we're still waiting for a response back. I feel like such an asshole ya know cause I'm sucha moron I didn't pay attention to what I was doing...So now she might have to get a new car if it can't be fixed but the car was pretty old (12yrs) but still it sucks shes gonna have to get a new car all on a count of stupidity...
p.s. I hate my fucking computer, it always freezes at the worst times!!
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| SMASHING PUMPKINS!!!! |
[09 Apr 2002|02:45pm] |
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 I went and bought the Smashing Pumpkins 1991-2000 DVD, its reaaaalllyyy fn' good. Its chock full of good videos and commentary, outtakes, live shit!! It kicks ass!! Theres a live part of them doing Geek USA and I'm just totally blown away at how fucking loud and kick ass they were...Thats something I totally strive for with my band to be as loud as the Pumpkins..I'm so excited to get this and I got it for $14!!! I bought it at this music store around my neighborhood and my family knows the owner so he hooks me up with discounts and stuff..Its great!!!
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| weeeeekend update! |
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 Well heres a picture of my new haircut, which I said I was going to post like almost a week ago haha. Well my weekend was fun! Friday night me and Jaci went and saw Panic Room. I was kinda stoked to see it because the guy who directed this also directed Fight Club and Seven, two movies I really like. So my verdict on it is, the movie is very good, I definately recommend it. Jordan Catelano was in it with corn rows hahaha...Saturday I basically sat in and didn't do much all day basically slept all day. Which I enjoyed because I always can use some good sleep...Last night I hung with everyone..we went to the diner, went to our friend Jess's house down in South Philly and I bought a cheesesteak at Geno's which really has to be equally one of the best and worst things I've eaten..like the cheesesteak is quite good BUT its sooo disgustingly messy and so gross for me...so that was my weekend more aless..well today i decided to skip my first class cause I was really late so I figured to just stay home but I have to go to my class at 12:30 even though I'm really tired...
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