josh

once every six months

2008-03-06T09:15:48Z

hey there

who remembers playlist wednesdays?

pet cemetery

2007-07-31T01:06:44Z

lets just say for a minute that you have had a cat for a while, and every day he comes in from the dry exterior of the tucson desert to enjoy a fresh can of chicken-gravy-tuna-almost-clear-if-it-werent-for-the-pieces-of-processed-meat cat food. lets then also assume that your parents with whom you reside (because its more fun to spend money on clerks special edition dvd box sets than rent) have left for a week. lets also surmise that on the eve of the third day this feline has relinquished the afore mentioned activity. could one then hypothesize that the cat will be deceased when my, i mean the anonymous' persons parents get back to their dwelling?

also, what should one then do with a dead cat. stick it in the outside cooler till the family is back to give it a proper burial service?

im trying to look important so pete wont take the laptop back

2006-05-02T03:23:12Z

ive been keeping a tour journal this time. a co-worker gave it to me with the instructions "you better write in this" abbrasively commanding the cover. so naturally, i have. in the process, ive developed a longing for someone to respond to my entries.

without any more explination, i would like t announce my return to livejournal.

...

unless of course, my computer is still without internet when i get home.

which brings me to my next point. chris coco or trevor, i would appreciate it if one of the two of you would give an attempt to deciferring this riddle for me. its recieving a signal, but not connecting. if you want to, go ahead and go to my room and turn the old dinosaur on and see what you can do.

so now with respect to all good sci-fi films, ill leave you all on edge. because the continuation of this trend is now a question... will i indeed return?

what if they drink to escape the dissapointment of their oldest son?

2005-11-05T08:08:38Z

im becoming bitter and quickly loosing trust in most humans. this really isnt the direction i wanted to go in life.

if part of growing up is loosing your youthful idealism, and submitting to the inefficient social structure, than my whole personality would have to change for me to be "fully grown". this is something ive never wanted. instead, i want to stay the studded belt wearing karl marx quotting teenager i was after only a year or so of embracing punk rock.

but right now, i feel completely brought down by society. the struggles ive faced have put me in a situation where money has burdened friendships. capitalism at its most insidious moment.

and there is a bitter taste of distrust in my mouth.... with after effects left only by females.

none of this is what i ever wanted.

the medium is the message

2005-10-24T07:50:12Z

my expiramentation in simplicity, though recently has seen less impact in my daily routtine, has proven fairly succesful. for exapmle, since ive moved out, ive had to cook for myself. the first couple weeks, i did the whole "fast food is my diet" thing, and while i did eat alot less, food was only a necessity, and not something i thought very enjoyable. i decided, since i worked at a resaraunt and knew a little about cooking, id start to make my own food. the reasons were because the amount of drive-thru pasta joints are insuffecient, and not my anti-corporate self counter culture... not to say that that is gone or something.

after weeks, and fine tuning my cooking skills, i enjoy the entire process. even to the point where i would like to start growing some of the ingredients on my own.

the point is, when i embrace a needed activity as an opportunity to cherish, as opposed to an unfortunate obligation, the product is better, and my over all mood is more pleasant.

id like to incorporate this into more of my life... but nothing on this earth will make me enjoy the telephone.

...or grocery stores, there are just too many people.

wet car tires speeding past my broadway facing window

2005-10-18T03:32:35Z

get ready for the rain posts

im sorry i didnt mean to rain on your parade

2005-10-12T07:25:24Z

in the near to eventual future, i will get an external hard drive and take pictures of my house for anyone who still has me added to see.

alarm, the louder heavier band i play in, is having its second show thursday night. hopefully some of you can come and well rock out together.

i bought new guitar today... and have become a tool of corporate brand names.

but it sounds pretty freakin sweet!

rivers is insane

2005-09-12T22:41:05Z

so i finally get to a computer and myspace isnt working...

wonderful.

its unfortunate how much i realy on that site, but right now my this device is nearly useless to me. id like to try to find some bands, or even better, fint the site of this one band tobias that has members of bleeding kansas that sounds unimaginably like the impossibles. the problem arises with the lack of myspace. i dont know the bands label, so looking for them through that wont work.

im gonna go get my haircut.

almost mexico

2005-09-02T20:17:29Z

im coming home tomorrow, after the show we play tonight in el paso texas...

this tour has been a blast and im dissapointed its coming to an end. but at the same time i miss everyone so much and cant wait to get back to my home... and my roomates. although, im sure theyre dreading the fact that my obnoxiously nasal voice will once again take over those peaceful halls.

we play skrappys tomorrow night and i hope everyone can go. itd be awesome to see everyone one and we all want to brobecks, our touring comrades, to feel welcome.

until then...

nobody likes you forever

2005-08-28T06:22:42Z

tour day two:

i freaking hate high altitudes
my face feels like its at war with itself, because when i get up this high everything in my already-much-too-tiny sinus cavities gets clogged.

also, my phone doesnt work in wyoming. well, evanston for sure, but i dont have much faith in it working in laramie either. so this is all any of you will get from me... not that anyone cares too much, but i know there are roomates/friends/family members that are minorly curious... no?

oh well

besides my bodies tendency to be a bottom dweller, tour has been a blast. the two shows have been amazing, and in a couple days we meet back up with the brobecks, a band we played with last night that were supperb.

yeah, this tour has been a nice escape/release.

thats it for now... untill we find another computer, or untill i get home and get the energy to actually go to the ILC...

but ian doesnt like the high g

2005-08-17T06:55:33Z

so...

i live on my own now

i dont as of yet have a computer, which means this one im using at the studio is my only interaction with the world i once dwelled so often.

my house is pretty cool. my roomates are cool. i play music all the time. my friends are cool. katherine likes my pasta. thats cool. tgk is recording again and it sounds really freakin... cool. im starting to make more at my job. alarm is turning out cool. the first cool house show thats cool is friday.

basically, right now my life is really cool.

petie just walked up to me and said:

"no way!... you found a computer... you must be the happiest guy in the world"

you scream, i crash, we grind

2005-08-10T00:17:22Z

that house kills you...
my sovtek sounds like

like

like a punch in the face with hand full of explosives.
and tonight it finally meets its sibling

and alarm is going to suprise alot of people

it sounds like a musical war.. and your ears are they enemy.

remember that time when we talked abour memories?

2005-08-07T06:25:40Z

i really really really hope this all works out...

na·ive or na·ïve Audio pronunciation of "naive" ( P ) (n-v, nä-) also na·if or na·ïf (n-f, nä)
adj.

1. Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially:
1. Simple and guileless; artless: a child with a naive charm.
2. Unsuspecting or credulous: “Students, often bright but naive, bet and lose substantial sums of money on sporting events” (Tim Layden).
2. Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment: “this extravagance of metaphors, with its naive bombast” (H.L. Mencken).

bring out some tuna!

2005-07-30T08:20:20Z

i cant fall asleep...

why?

i cant lie down because my stomach hurts from the ice cream when i do.

without a boom

2005-07-21T07:28:56Z

my monitor died in one of the electrical storms.
so i havent been on in a while

jeremy, if you wanna jam sometime, i think i gave you my cell number... if not i sent it to the blues myspace

youre off my game show

2005-07-18T07:58:12Z

following evanston wyoming, we drove to provo utah.

that one is just goofy

just creepy

just... haircut

sam eagon doing our sound. he did so much at that venue, the other bands thought he worked there.

so, in provo we arrived, and typical pre-show stuff happened. the first band went on, which was a slightly over weight jock type guy that didnt know how to tune his guitar. he brought 6 people in, played about 10 songs, and told really lame stories about them in between... and these werent even lame anecdotes, they were... what the songs were written about.

he finished, and the crowd that he brought stayed until the first scream of the next band, and realized this wasnt a group of kids who liked dave mathews, so they left as well.

and now there were three touring bands plaing to... three touring bands. but it became one of the most fun shows on the tour. everyone played well, goofed off, and made so many jokes at the expense of the local guy he would have probably hit someone had he still been there.

we then finished the show with the last band convering op ivy.

also notable is the fact that physically this was the coolest venue ever.

but back on track, the show ended and all the bands became instant friends. so we went to dennys!

i expect by the end of the month every person in that phot has eachother added on myspace. good luck to everyone in preston and easton legacy.

then we made the drive to grand junction colorado, where we had the best turn out all tour. we played a good set and sold alot of merch. some kid told us we changed his life... in so many words.

but sam eagon fell asleep on the floor.

and after that we headed home.
jake took all the show photography

i think ill end this story with a very self explanitory picture.

its not hot in california, but everywhere else?

2005-07-16T22:26:44Z

so, to continue. we left california with a fifteen hour drive to provo utah... which we would later add another hour to go to evanston wyoming.

this is when the van needs a rest, after becoming exceedingly hot.

this is us trying to figure out what to do, while the van is still hot.

this is ian taking pictures... bahwitaba the bang the bang diggy diggy?

this is the pair of idiots burning ants... and hopping in joy.... and nearly getting left behind.

a rest stop just outside of vegas, with an infestation of moths and grasshoppers.

yep, hes moshing them...

we met landon at his house... with an awesome dog.

awesome dog.

the kid in the green shirt is landon, who is helping us set up to play his back yard.

and finally a candid picture of sound tech sam eagon.

wyoming was the turning point in the tour... turning around the lameness of california, and bringing us into the friendly atmoshpere of the areas inside of the coastland states.

are you all boys?

2005-07-16T20:03:20Z

here is round two of tour photos:

every time we did anything, it was a rigourous task of using the trailer.

this was probably taken before our second california show, in pomona. the show was with desert city soundtrakc and settlefish, two bands we all love and had played with our last night in tucson. it seems that the show was very well promoted, when it was still at its original venue, the tiki room. but when we got there they moved it to the vault, where nobody came because they either didnt know, or werent allowed because it was an 18 and older venue. this was all news to us upon arrival.

so the show sucked, and we had to play with one of the crappy bands from the previus show in little tokyo. the two deep elm bands didnt even finish setting up before calling it quits.

then we fooled around on the beach our last night in california.

smear the queer

or not

sam abate built a mountain

then he stood on top of it.

sam eagon built scully

then we blew up her face

thats sam saying goodbye to california

mosh it off

2005-07-16T08:22:44Z

today we, the people who went on the summer tgk tour, got home to tuscon today at about 10am.
and i can now show the whole story

sam and jake skating down the street in the neighborhood we stayed in when we were in california.we stayed at this ladies house in dana point, which apparently was the near orange county, only a more upscale version.

i fell asleep playing guitar

sam on the computer, which coincidentally was in my room, so i couldnt ever sleep.

jake jumped off the roof, as you can see.

before tour sam got a nasty sunburn

the first night we were there we played a venue in little tokyo called the cocaine. it turned out to be way lame. none of the kids stuck around to even give us a chance, the room sounded terrible, and we had to sit through a horrible sass band, and another typical sounding band. but we met this one kid from texas, and played with his band, secret handsake. they are very good and in the same style as the postal service.

we went to the grossest beach ever

jake, sam and i waited at the car while ian petie and sam eagon stared at the gross "lake beach" for forever

then we went to a real beach

tough guy walk

jake beach moshing

more mosh

ill do the rest some other time, but im tired of this already

these fifteen minuites are when im me

2005-07-13T07:03:36Z

today i met a very very cool kid... landon.

he put on a show that easily made this trip one of the most memorable experiences ive had. thus giving me high hopes for the rest of tour now, considering it no longer takes place in california, a state so terribly terribly obsessed with itself.

youre a madman

2005-07-11T08:11:06Z

today was another off day, spent mostly relaxing. but the night was spent at the beach.

the spin move was genius

2005-07-10T21:29:30Z

im hogging the computer for the first time this tour.

i lied

yesterday was a bit more relaxed

the quest for pepsi... or a top shelf

2005-07-09T09:21:06Z

i just finished a near hour discussion about bathrooms with sam eagon and jake...

and its one of the most in depth conversations ive had thus far... nice

we went to the beach today, and youll most definitely hear about it... later.

hollywood, though filled with arrogant jerks, is infinitely better than little tokyo

2005-07-08T08:54:06Z

jake went through the lady were staying ats houses book collection in the computer room, and we found a writer that was completely insane... so jake and i are assiduous towards his work.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/4169/wuggly1.html

thats the entire story.

here

haha teaser!

more to come

going for a walk

2005-07-04T22:27:47Z

i started bringing my camera around with me again.

i walked around 4th ave for a while

i found a fire hydrant

i found a mangled up trash can

i found an address

i found a band playing

then later on i found a dog... not downtown though

i wonder what ill find on tour?