Letter to Jake about playing music
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Posted July 25, 2009 at 11:58 pm by Severed Head
I think maybe we should just start booking gigs here in Phoenix. I will find some that you and I can both make in terms of dates. If we get booked, I’ll really quickly record some shit and send it to you, and we’ll basically jam some songs off of that at the show since we won’t really have time to rehearse.
Just to get the ball rolling and play some fun shows. What do you think?
Posted July 19, 2008 at 9:38 pm by Crumb Bandit
that was a good book by the way. You guys might enjoy that one, if you were the sort I was in high school, (albeit drugs, perchance). Got any for me?
Now More Hawaii: Maui Vacation Blogfest Episode 3
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Posted July 16, 2008 at 6:57 am by Severed Head
SECOND DAY CONTINUED. Um. We ate dinner at a really nice, expensive restaurant. Easily $100 a plate. And there were 9 of us. Yeah. Anyway, it was my stepdad’s birthday… I think I had some scallops and shrimp dish and holy fuck was it good.
As you might notice, I am writing at 6-7 in the morning. THIS IS NOT AN ERROR. I woke up at around 4, unable to get back to sleep, having gone to bed at approximately 1 (much later than I had originally wanted, too!)… I did sleep for 14 hours the night before, though. And the night before that, you ask? 0 hours. Before that, I went to bed at about 3 AM+ Phoenix time (midnight in Hawaii). SO AS YOU CAN SEE, MY SLEEP SCHEDULE IS PRETTY FUCKED UP RIGHT NOW…. Ugh.
THIRD DAY. Went snorkling for the second time, this time from a boat! It was pretty cool… Except that I almost threw up again. We went to ____ (Hawaiian name, hard to remember/pronounce) Crater. There were some totally cute babes there, but I guess I am bad at approaching them? It was around this time that it really started to sink in that it sucks being young and horny and single? And not ballsy enough to have anonymous sex? Also, it doesn’t help to vacation in a romantic getaway area during this period of my life??
ANYWAY. it was Mai Tai night, so I had a little bit to drink, with the aide of my parents. At dinner that night, my mom was very intent on my helping to clean up afterward. I’m fine with doing it, but I just felt like shit. I ate too much and was a bit dehydrated, I think. But anyway. My mom was really intent on helping out and being sure to thank the shit out of everyone throughout the whole trip. That got annoying fast. “Tell Dave thank you!” as I was about to. Like… It makes it seem less sincere coming from me if I say it after she tells me to out loud in front of the person, don’t you think? It is also demeaning to the point that I feel like a goddamn child!
FOURTH DAY. Didn’t do a damn thing all day! Jessie introduced me to the wonderful world that is Blockles. I would encourage all of our readers (Jake (before, I used to joke about this, but now I think the two of us may literally be the only ones that read it, due to recent events)) to sign up… It’s not a painful process and it’s a fun game. If anyone wants to add me, my name is Harisn on there. It stands for “He’s always rocking into sexalicious noise”!
We went to a Luau, which was pretty cool, and tried these fucking awesome drinks… I FOUND IT! I found the website for it. It is called the “Jackson Chameleon” and it is “made with Sierra Mist and Honeydew Melon Syrup”! WOO.
At some point, on one of these days, I bought one of those things you put… stuff on… When you’re cooking. It starts with a T. I always forget what it’s called, but then remember 5 minutes later. We’ll see if that happens.
Also at the Luau, we were standing in line to get in, and I was wearing shorts mind you (the whole vacation!! (I never wear shorts because I feel weird in them(I also wore only light-colored shirts(Again, I feel weird in them… I never have as much confidence))) and this kid drops this glass in front of me and IT EXPLODES!!! Anyway, the glass shrapnel flew straight into my leg and cut it. It was gross.
It was also around then that I noticed I was started to grow a unibrow and my confidence and self image dropped even lower.
BUT. I met this cute girl named Beth. And her sister Sarah. They were 19 and 12, respectively. Beth might’ve had implants. But she was funny, charming, good looking, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, she had a good head on her shoulders. Not into drugs or self destruction and that kind of shit. After talking for about an hour and a half at the hot tub, we went our separate ways. She’s in Maui until August, and she said we’d totally see each other at the pool later, but we never did. I saw her one time the next day, but she was with her parents, and I felt awkward approaching her in that situation.
I’m kind of mad at myself for not just talking to her anyway, because it really sucked not having anyone to talk to most of the time in Hawaii. It was rather lonely. I don’t think I said this before, but I was the only one without a partner of some sort. That is, of the people I was in Hawaii with, there were 3 married couples and a pair of sisters. I was the odd one out. And it seemed that we got along really well! Oh well. A lot of the downtime during my vacation (and I must say, a good 90% of it was downtime!) was spent being bummed about not being able to talk to/approach girls and how I felt so isolated from the rest of the world and how I missed my friends and blah blah blah.
What day are we on? FIFTH DAY. Right? Yes. Went to another beach, supposedly THE nicest one in the world (you may recall earlier that we went to the second nicest beach)… It was all right. Not so crowded. My stepdad ran into someone he knew in the parking lot, oddly enough. THIS time I brought my iPod. It was nice, but I ended up getting sunburnt. From here on, I learned to bring my iPod for the downtime where I had nothing else to do. I didn’t even bother trying snorkeling anymore after my last 2 experiences. I finished the Dr. Drew and Adam book, and started up on Kurt Vonnegut’s Happy Birthday, Wanda June, which was just a terrific read!… I am reading his stuff chronologically (see my list of things to do before I die… WHICH I UPDATED A FEW DAYS AGO BY THE WAY! A LOT!!!), but I screwed up on this one. I think I read somewhere that it was written in 1960, when, in fact, it was written in 1970. Ah well. I will just re-read it when the time comes around. It is a play, and a damn good one at that.
SIXTH DAY. …Finished the Vonnegut play…. Hung out all day… Not a lot to do, really.
SEVENTH DAY. Our last day!… My counting seems off. But anyway, we went to the volcano… I don’t remember which one. It hasn’t been active for like 400 years, but it was really cool. It was mostly driving there, so, again, more iPod-listening… And THEN we waited at the airport and blah blah blah came home. This was a red eye flight though, which means it was over night. It was one of the most torturous experiences I could’ve imagined. I just COULD NOT SLEEP. Much like now! I literally got like no sleep on the flight. At most, maybe a few minutes of really light sleep, but it was horrible. Confined to a tiny little seat for 6 hours trying to sleep… The kid behind me was such a pain in the ass too and kept hitting my chair somehow, and I would’ve said something were his dad not such a freaking dick too! Yelling at kids for opening windows and the like. I mean, I understand not wanting kids to do that, but he did it in the most dickish way possible.
I have to go to work in an hour. I’ve been programming a lot of the day, trying to get this stupid Earthbound theme to work, but alas, it doesn’t want to work. I will try again sometime in the near future, but I don’t want to waste another day. Today was supposed to be focused on taking my car to the shop to get the window fixed, but I guess it needed a new motor that had to be found and ordered. There was only one left at their “source”, and, with labor, it would’ve cost me $347. So I told him I’d think about it/wait. But I DID get to eat at my favorite restaurant, Tokyo Express, which is nearby there…. Other than that, I’d say this day (3 hours of sleep, probably somewhere around 4 hours of programming with very little progress, not getting my car fixed or getting much nearer to it getting fixed) is going to go down in the books as a FAILURE.
Posted October 23, 2007 at 10:16 pm by Crumb Bandit
I am basically paying 7 grand to be on the U of A drumline this year. I am out of state tuition as of now, and I currently have no major. Yea, It is worth it, but only cause my parents are paying for it. I would rather have been in a drum corps, but my work ethic proves me otherwise.
Anyway, we talked about musicality, which in case you didn’t already know, is VERY difficult in the marching medium. It is easy to just play double forte the whole song, but add in a forte piano crescendo and it is like lifting fifty pounds with your wrists.
Once you start to understand what kind of musical phrase you want, you don’t have to worry about accuracy and technicality as much, because it starts to come naturally.
This is what kind of metal band you will see out of my hands if I am ever in one. Not one just of distortion, screaming and booze-blood.
If you happen to know of a band that already sounds like what I am thinking of, let me know.
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Posted October 18, 2007 at 11:44 pm by Severed Head
I am getting this all from this source
AGAINST Internet Neutrality!? What the fuck, Ron! The internet which has supported you so!?
No “Immigration Citizenship Path for Illegals”? Lame!
AGAINST gun background checks!? Why the fuck does everyone hate these so much! What could the situation possibly be that someone needs a gun so fucking bad! I mean, I understand the right to bear arms is in the constitution, but not every stupid ass hole out there should be able to have a gun!
AGAINST abortion? Fuck that! We don’t need more dumbasses having kids, goddammit!
AGAINST embryonic stem cells?!? Come on!! What possible negative effects could there be other than some stupid fucking embryo dying? (Side note: I think it’s kind of funny/ironic/something that conservatives accuse liberals of being “bleeding hearts”, but the conservatives are the ones so worried about embryos (not even really human considering the definition defines it as starting from the fertilization (it could be just some sperm and some egg cells and that’s it! how is that a human life!))))))
Screw Ron Paul! He is not as cool as I once thought he was!
I do like that he is one of the few against the Patriot Act, but while I do agree with this for philosophical reasons, for all practical reasons, I’m probably not going to be wiretapped and it’s not really something I have to really worry about that much. It doesn’t take away any of my rights other than that of privacy, which, I think, is to me, not quite as important as the idea that there are no background checks for guns or the right to have an abortion or net neutrality (I mean what the fuck!!) or progress in science!
Edit:
He’s also against a minimum wage increase!? In what crazy fucking world do you live in where 6.75 is even close to being enough to make a living!? I mean I know you don’t want your precious corporations losing a tiny bit of money so people can live comfortably, but that’s fucked up!
And against universal healthcare? Fuck that!
Fuck you, old post. This is more important
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Posted September 27, 2007 at 11:21 pm by Severed Head
Dethklok on tour. Enough said. Couldn’t imagine anything greater. This may require that I follow the band on tour for at least like… 10 stops. Whether or not they come here, I HAVE to see them.
Have to.
Cannot emphasize this enough.
Dethklok. On motherfucking tour.
I'm the conjuror of demons, I'm the father of your death
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Posted September 27, 2007 at 10:38 pm by Severed Head
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Posted September 4, 2007 at 10:45 am by Severed Head
Well, I am not one for believing in conspiracies, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to bend over and take this from the government:
Airport harassment-I read most of the comments on this and it’s just ridiculous what they are putting everyday people through with no explanation whatsoever. This IS basically a police state, and I should hope that it doesn’t get any worse than that, but when we have no rights whatsoever left, what the fuck can we do?
Wiretapping-This isn’t quite as bad as the other one, and I did find an article explaining that the TSA can only catch about 5% of all cell phones, and search for whatever key words they want. And I had also read that their system isn’t really all that reliable and crashes somewhat frequently. But the fact that nobody says anything when this kind of shit happens really scares me. And the fact that they are constantly improving their technology and that eventually it might be available to local police just seems terribly wrong.
CAPPS II-What ACLU has to say
Various TSA bullshit
Truly scary and fucked up
COMING SOON: THE BIBLE 2: NOW MORE FUN EDITION
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Posted July 21, 2007 at 8:34 pm by Severed Head
The highly anticipated sequel to The Bible 1 is coming to you soon, with more pictures, more sexual innuendo, more robots, more lasers, more explosions, more zombies, more propaganda, and NOW. MORE. FUN. MOTHERFUCKER! Including the Book of Harrison and the Book of Metal!
If you would like to write a book for the new bible, go ahead and write one and send it in to me/post it here/sprarypaint it on the side of a building. It doesn’t have to be canon with what any of the other books, but it also doesn’t have to be as contradictory as The Bible 1.
This is going to be an ongoing project which changes over time, again, much like The Bible 1.
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Posted June 29, 2007 at 6:06 am by Severed Head
Sorry this took so long to get up. I made it like a month ago.