When time and confusion collide.

First of all, WOOHOO to me I've gotten a 100 views on my blog, which probably are mostly me just rereading my own stuff to see if I say anything really dumb.

Moving on to other things. Josh and I decided to make the trip to Texas for SXSW the week of March 12th. We'll leave Wednesday and go to Sunday just kind of party hopping and checking out music. I was talking to Anthony and he said you really don't even need to buy the $600 music pass you can just party hop and there is free beer and food all weekend, so needless to say Josh and I are kind of just going down there to wing it. We'll probably tag a long with Anthony and Jim (owners of Minty Fresh) a bit. Anthony said he'd show us around a bit. We plan on bringing a ton of our demos and just pass them out to everyone. I started signing up for certain parties that you have to RSVP to, so we'll pass out a lot a the AP magazine one. I don't know, we'll see what happens it should be a lot of fun despite what certain people say...and NO LASSOS will be involved.

There are perks to interning at a record label aside from getting to get into SXSW things by saying I work for Minty Fresh Records. I'm going to a magazine's party tomorrow. I'm not really sure what its for, but Anthony asked me if I wanted to go and its open bar so...you can't really lose. So I'll go possibly just hang out with Anthony; possibly just drink for free.

I've moved out of my indie phase. I'm stuck in a really awkward one; mostly involving Peter, Paul and Mary. Well, in my defense I have to learn this song for a wedding that Josh and I are playing this Saturday. Its kind of funny how since Josh and I are the "musical" ones in the family we get contracted to play weddings a lot. So, I figured in 10 years or so if I haven't made something of myself, I'll just become a wedding singer.

We finally all sat down and talked about living arrangements for the end of the lease. What we are really shooting for now I guess, is a house with myself, Dave, Josh, Rich and Kyle. It will be crazy if it can actually happen, but we'll just have to wait and see.

Lately I've been really thing about what it is exactly I'm doing with my life. I've become so disheartened....disenchanted? with the "music" life. I just don't know what to do about it. My fear is that I continue down this road of getting a music degree and then find that I'll have no where to go because the music industry is over-flowing with the degenerates trying to "make it" in music now, who know what it'll be like in 2 or 3 more years, ya know? And I'm surrounded by all these people that are doing music as a side part of their lives and leading "normal" lives with "normal" jobs and are doing really well for themselves. I supposed my fear spawns from being afraid I'll be 60K in debt and not being able to pay that off because I'll never make enough money to be comfortable.

Which of course leads to the question should I let my life be lead by money? And I shouldn't be and everyone will say that, but the reality of it is that you can't survive in this country without money. It's impossible and I'd love not to have to worry about money like I see my parents doing all the time.

The other thing is lets say, ok yeah I'll make money when I get out of college because there will be jobs, but if I want to make serious money in music I'll have to leave Chicago, unless of course the Chi-town scene explodes soon *waiting....*. And I don't want to leave Chicago that would suck, every other places sucks hard.

I don't know, I'm probably worrying about this way to much. Maybe. I don't know.

So my plan b is to never get a job and keep taking out student loans till I die and then let my kids have to deal with...Yeah solid plan.

What else can we touch on in my boredum?

How about love? Love is a funny thing. I know I've talked about it before and hell I even have the word tattooed on my wrist...so does josh *cough*copy cat*cough*.

I think I'm doing alright without it. It was a little rough there for a bit, I felt lonely, but I think I'm going to make it. Its kind of odd thinking about how long I've been single for. I mean I haven't had an offical "girlfriend" there have been girls I guess, but I've not been in a serious relationship in awhile.

Not saying that everyone can make it without it cause some people need it. Love that is. But there are other people that really deserve it. I know thats a weird thing to say, but some people really do. Although, I think that it can be mistaken for people that are used to having it. You have to be careful cause I've seen that slippery slope of people that are in repetitive relationships with people and they can't see it and they can't hear you either.

Love can be a crappy topic I guess, but its good to not forget about it. Its weird when i talk about it (not to be overly dramatic), but I can kind of feel that empty feeling in the center of my chest. Could just be all the mac and cheese I ate earlier digesting...

Lastly, I forgot how Never Take Friendship Personal was such a good album

Thats it I guess I'm done rambling.

Goodnight.

Chris

Haven't done this in a while.

This is a bryan inspired questionaire that i haven't done in a long time.

Open iTunes (or Windows Media Player, etc) to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrasing it is.

How many songs? 11226

Sort by song title:
First Song: "A"-Cartel
Last Song: "******"-Jets to Brazil

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: "Funkenstein Intro Funky Crime" (0:04) ~ Red Hot Chili Peppers
Longest Song: "The Reckoning (Don't Tread on Me) (21:04) ~ Iced Earth
-all 21 mintures are music thank you hair metal.

Sort by album:
First Album: About A Burning Building - Blindside
Last Album: 9 - Damien Rice

Top Five Most Played Songs:
1: Hero/Heroine - Boys Like Girls
2: Fell In Love Without You -Motion City Soundtrack
3: Sowing Season (Yeah) - Brand New
4: The Pretender - Foo Fighters
5: ........ god damn it... Misery Buisness - Paramore

First song that comes up on Shuffle?
No Need To Argue - The Cranberries

How many songs come up when you search for "sex"? 46

How many songs come up when you search for "death"? 74

How many songs come up when you search for "love"? 402

How many songs come up when you search for "you"? 1444


Alright This was the First one i did.


pen iTunes (or Windows Media Player, etc) to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrasing it is.

How many songs? 4031

Sort by song title:
First Song: ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead "It was there that i saw you."
Last Song: Zwan "Come With Me"

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: The Ataris "Untitled" (00:04)
Longest Song: The Bled "I don't keep with liars" (37:46)

Sort by album:
First Album: ...And Don't Forget to Breathe- A Static Lullabye
Last Album: Good Charlotte- Young and Aspiring

Top Five Most Played Songs:
1: Hotel Correl Essex- The Bled
2: Dirt off Your Shoulders/Lying- Jay-z/Linkin Park
3: Deadbolt- Thrice
4: Barely Breathing- Duncan Shiek
5: Futures- Jimmy Eat World

First song that comes up on Shuffle?
"What would you say"- Dave Matthews Band

How many songs come up when you search for "sex"? 8

How many songs come up when you search for "death"? 40

How many songs come up when you search for "love"? 69

How many songs come up when you search for "you"? 406

Jesus I almost have 3 times as many songs as I did this December 9th, 2005. Well I guess that good considering how long ago that was. hilarious.

Later Boners

I'll annoy you with every waking breath until you decide to wake up.

So I think I'm going to ramble a little bit, I guess. I thought about writing about how many jobs that I've had and what they were entailing because god I've had a lot of jobs and its been a really wide range of those, but it sound pretty boring so I think I'll pass.

Today Josh, Carly, and I went to NIU to join in the counter-protest of the Westboro Baptist church, who was planning on protesting the vigil for the kids shot at NIU. Saying that the shooter was a god send and that they deserved to die. Their basic stance is that the world is condemned by god because of their acceptance of homosexuals and everything bad that happens is gods vengeance against the world accepting gays.

Anyway we went down there and these people never showed and we were told that they are going to be back on Sunday. I'm pretty stoked to be protesting these insane people. Check out some of their radical beliefs at there website....www.godhatesfags.com Yeah you read that the right way thats the name of their website. If you dare check out some of their unbelievable shit.

CDs were pressed, but they didn't turn out very good, so we are going to have to send them back to get them reprinted. Needless to say, we'll have to wait a little bit longer to get famous. But it better happen soon cause i'm getting bored of unfamous life.

Anyway I'm tired i'm going to bed.

Later.

Chris

New Albums....

Recently I've been in a very indie/acoustic mood it' been kind of strange because usually it's just a one or two night stint that I find myself in, but lately it's been all indie-rock all the time.

First I got the new Helio Sequence record, which happened like this. I was on myspace and they were a "featured artist" so I popped onto their myspace and started listening to their single. And i was really digging the intro guitar parts and drum parts and I said to myself "If the singer is what i want his voice to sound like I'll by the record." Sure enough, it did so I hopped onto the Sub Pop site and bought the record. It came last week and actually is a pretty good record. So that might be something for you to check out. Sub Pop is exactly what you want when you feel in the mood for indie. Home to Iron and Wine for those that don't know.

The second record I picked up was the new Nada Surf record. Here's a nostalgic story for you. When I used to work at Peter's Bakery, every Sunday morning when I had to be there at 5 am Colin Remes and I would get food or drink from the corner coffee shop by the train station in Cary. There was a guy that worked there and nearly every time that I saw him he was wearing a Nada Surf shirt. At one point we got into a discussion about bands and he mentioned that he loved Nada Surf and listened to them almost exclusively, but also enjoyed the Ataris. At that point, for whatever reason, I was completely turned off to Nada Surf. Every time this band was ever mentioned I thought of this guy and he was a really weird guy so I never bothered to check them out. 6 years later Dane and Emily get engaged and ask Josh and I to play the song "Your Legs Grow" at their wedding. So that was the first time I ever listened to them and I fell in love with them.

Back to the new record. It's incredible. "Weightless" is an incredible song. You should check it out.

Next album I downloaded was the new City & Colour record "Bring Me Your Love." Guess what? Awesome record. I heard the single "Waiting..." on myspace and watched the video and it's was awesome so I had been waiting for it to pop up on bt. Sure enough it did and boy was it worth the wait.

Lastly, the new Jack Johnson record. Honestly, I really haven't given this much time I really did a one-half payed attention to-listen and that was it, but I think its something I can get behind with a little more attention.

Furthermore, Foo Fighters...I'm back on yet another, Foo Fighters stint and it is glorious, but it hasn't been the crazy rock on In Your Honor (disc 1) or "Pretender"; its been the slow stuff. For example disc 2 of in your honor and the fucking incredible DVD of that tour as well as the slower stuff on Echoes.

Winter is bringing out indie in me, or maybe it's minty fresh considering there we listen to nothing, but indie rock.

Anyway, that does it for albums of the past two weeks. Hopefully metal will come back into play and I can throw new Protest back in the rotation, but I won't get my hopes up.

Going to bed since I have to get up tomorrow. Should be a good weekend looks like going out with Bryan tomorrrow, which may I add has been to long because sometimes I miss my Bwyan...

Also next week is mine and Dave's two month anniversary for not grocery shopping. i think congratulations is in order?

Goodnight all.

Chris

Dinosaurs Eat Everybody Records!

So I've sort of officially/unofficially started Dinosaurs Eat Everybody Records. Yes its named after Dave's website or whatever website development company he has. I don't really know what he's doing, but anyway yeah. I've been talking to Jim and Anthony a lot about it (owners of Minty Fresh Records). So they've been kind of helping me get started, but I think what we are going to do is start with a compilation of unsigned bands in chicago. And I've been thinking about doing a showcase/benefit show for Invisible Children. And call it like "Chicago Comes to Uganda" or something I don't know I'd like something more catchy or something, but I'd like to do it during the summer. I'd like to do it at the Metro. I've got the number for Invisible Children so I could easily get them to endorse it and probably promote it a bit and they suggested trying to get a venue to donate the use for the show. So if the metro doesn't want to donate a whole night, I'd like to charge at the door and have proceeds go to Uganda, but the Metro could take some of the door/ticket sales and probably be happy about that. Then i was thinking have the whole night recorded and have a cd that we sell for Invisible Children again proceeds going to Uganda. And then maybe have all the bands have the merch, but Invisible Children has merch to maybe get them to send a couple of boxes of stuff this way that we could sell at the show.

Anyway the whole point of it being "Dinosaurs Eat Everybody and Invisible Children Presents Chicago Underground Comes to Uganda" or whatever and have that promote the label using the Invisble Children because somehow this organization has assimilated into the "scene." Anyway these are all ideas i had while not being able to sleep last night like every freaking night.

I'm sure there are more to come, but Press Release.

Dinosaurs Eat Everybody Records Signs The American Autumn!

Up and coming Chicago pop-punk label signs first band.

Woohoo!

Talk to you later.