bittersweet

So tuesday night was pretty fun and was a learning experience. i kinda said some things to people that they didnt need to know, felt real shitty about it, felt a little better about it, now feel somewhere in between about it. Either way, i got to stay in a realllllly nice hotel in the city. Angels & Kings was hoppin on a tuesday night, so awesome. I also saw Tyler Rann who i bump into occasionally. Its always good to see him and talk about man jewelry. I was in the city again today and walked into a furniture store and bought 2 chairs and an end table for my living room. I have to explain the table briefly, its a glass top table, but the stand for it is like drum hardware. I guess if you know what drum hardware looks like you can imagine it in your head. Only part that sucked was that i had to carry 2 chairs 6 blocks in the 94 degree heat to my car.
I got the routing for our tour with The Academy and its sooooo long. I was really happy to see that the days im playing NJ/NY happen to fall on my anniversary with Lauren. Basically the best coincidence ever. Hopefully somewhere in that tour we will play our first late night talk show. I only really wanna do Conan.... who knows.
Saturday is my brothers engagement party and its gonna be off the chain. Looking forward to grilled peaches with vanilla bean ice cream. Its gonna be a real outdoor ripper. Also, on monday Lauren and I leave for Austin. Ive heard its going to be quite stormy most of the time, im hoping for a few normal days.

oh, i cut my hair....

we had our second practice today, which was also our second to last practice at our space. i think we drained every ounce of creativity out of that room after this record. now it just feels stifling and depressing. we're coming up with a lot of good ideas for our live show. im pretty excited because im going to start singing backups with anthony.i never felt confident enough to do it, but i do now. and its necessary so i just need to step up to the plate. we made our set for the maxwells show and it is all about jersey.
im pretty stoked because i finally remembered to take a guitar home today so i can actually play while im bored at home all day long. oh yea i saw 2 fox(es)? today. ive never seen one before like 2 days ago and then all of the sudden ive seen 4!!
just finished watching"good night and good luck". wow was that boring. cant wait to give that 1 star on my netflix rating. also cant wait to see lola tomorrow, and shawn and marys new apartment in madison on saturday. thats all for now.

Master (master, master)

So i got the mastered CD, which to everyone else basically means the final CD, today from Ben. its soooooo goood. jesus christo! so yea we practiced a bunch of new songs for sunday and decided we're gonna move our practice space to anthonys garage. weeeee! were gonna be a garage band. its gonna be soo much better, we talked about how to fix it up and make it like a kewl practice space. maybe we'll have a show there one day for lucky ppl. i gotta go back to my car and finish listening to the album and th B-sides as well. later sk8r

proud parent

So now is the time where things start happening with our new record. we just posted "williamsburg" on our myspace page. im not sure if im emotionally ready for ppl to start hearing the new record. i know its very different, but i think when youre in the band youre so detached from what you actually are. i just hope people realize that we are trying to grow with them. also, this record basically took everything out of us and we have been working on it since late novemeber, with little break. also, "end of the world" is coming out soon on the transformers soundtrack, it will also be on the record.
Ive already begun to field some questions where people are asking why we would write a song about williamsburg, Virginia. Haha. Definitely NOT about Virginia. Its weird because we've never written a song thats so specific like this, i dont think people understand this side of us. I dunno, the record is very varied, more so than our other records. oh yea come to our little show in Hoboken this sunday June 24. should be interesting.

New Jersey Revolution

so my dad was telling me about this arena football team that plays in our town and said they were playing, i was like yeeeea nice. so we went and its like the super d00per minor leagues of arena football which is, well, pathetic. but it was fun and the players family and friends were way into it. we had the best seats in the house. woohoo! here are a few pics, as you can see it was a packed house on the visitors team section.
best part of the whole game was the guy they had sing the national anthem stopped TWICE because he forgot the lyrics or something. amazing. most embarrased ive ever felt for someone, yet i couldnt stop laughing.
the floors in my living room got done today so i cant walk on them. this means i have to go outside and thru the garage to get into my bathroom which is superflous (wrong use of word but i felt like it would fit)

ps. heres a picture of me playing football in california.

plans

looks like i got a busy couple o weeks comin up. shootinga newwww video in LA sometime in the next 2 wks, my brothers engagement party and a trip tooooooo......... AUSTIN with lola. phew. pretty busy after sitting on my ass for what feels like most of the summer.

pictures/record/NBA

so i want to put pictures up.but i want to know what people want to see. my bed, tv, dog, toilet, shoes??? what? in other news im pretty psyched because we've been getting our mixes for the new record and except for some minor things its pretty awesome. really insane to hear everything come together. on another note, im kinda sad because lauren and i have been following the NBA finals and we wanted Cleveland to win, but they got swept by the spurs. SAY-LA-VEE (after writing this i felt like putting the above picture up. i dunno why.)

bedroom/cereal

my room sometimes feels like my bunk in the bus, very dark. i dont know what time to get up cuz when i think its like 6am, its really noon. yea. i just helpedmy dad move a couch into the garage because we're getting a new, bright red one today. i need to go buy cereal now.

first new blog

i am in the middle of a slumber party where i am eating graham crackers under the covers of my bed. today was fun. i have netflix now and lauren and i watched THE FOUNTAIN. if you see it please please please watch the extra features to see how they made all that shit, its really a joke. my dad bought me a candle which is awesome, its caramel apple. i had to get a new one because my favorite candle which is hazelnut creme is slowly dying because i use it the most.
for those of you who dont know i moved recently. from south orange to morristown. i live in a house again. yay. i just got my own refrigerator which doesnt have much but some drinks and like mayo, ketchup, salad dressing and mustard. it also has a few slices of turkey which is leftover from 2 sandwiches ive made myself in the past few days. ive been trying to play a lot of basketball and tennis this summer. maybe ill join a b-ball league but then i was thinking about it and i would play against like older dudes who definitely weigh like 50 lbs more than me and i would probably just get hurt or something. i can definitely light up some 3-pointers though, thats for sure. thats all for now. im gonna try to write in this thing a lot. bye for now.