imma tear your place up

kyle and i went down to our old stomping grounds last night to watch dillinger escape plan tear the oasis a part. i counted three light fixtures slammed, swung, or broke in some way, within the first couple of songs the vocalist was bleeding from a gash on his forehead and a good sized hole was punched in the ceiling. this is dillinger escape plan. they're known for this. and watching bands like that remind me that i've got a lot to do on stage to even come close to the bar that they, and bands like them (the chariot may beat them), have set. my torn acl is nothing because these guys do this almost every night. at one point the vocalist...

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missing music and the constant loss of self confidence

this blog's title could've been called "serious blog #1" i guess but the current one is pretty accurate as well. so i haven't been in a band since january and i hate it. it was the right decision to leave dig ur grave, it wasn't the type of band i wanted to be in and the only reason i agreed to play was because i could still play in a band with hef. he quit and then i quit. conrad meant well but i didn't feel like i had any creative input, all my parts were already written for me. plus with me being all the way in charleston, they couldn't play the amount of shows they wanted so it was all for the best. here in chucktown, we've got bear hugger. absolutely love the music but we can not find a drummer. i thought we might've had one a couple of weeks ago but the rest of the guys weren't...

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i hate you, microsoft

so i'm sitting here at work and obviously shouldn't be blogging buuuuutttt windows decided to crap out on me so here i am, waiting on my files to transfer over so i can rebuild the box (thank you Ubuntu live cd!). Transfering my main bulk of files is going to take about an hour and I can't do anything work related so this is what I'm going to do, rant. WTF Microsoft?!? I apply one of your "security updates" and now I can't get into my box? What sense does that make? I figured out the problem, for whatever reason it decided to change the registry setting for the WinLogon key to point to my VMWare .dll logon file as opposed to the actual MS logon file....you're a shit company so I hope eventually you die by the wayside. I think this is the last straw for me and Microsoft, when I get home...

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