what sin

this is 10 minutes of your time you will not regret losing. from the henry rolllins show on ifc, probably one of my favorite musical performances ive ever witnessed. this is what i aspire to be able to do in music...i've got yeaarrsssss ahead of me.

a little update on myself personally. i've been staying at my mom's house in hazelton and working at hawk mountain labs (where i worked when i was younger). it's been great. just doing whatever is asked of me, staying busy and making a little money here and there. ill be heading down to richmond this weekend to move into a new house and catch up with my friends..then back up north for wednesday. been listening to baroness-the red album a ton recently. still makes me feel like im on acid laced mushrooms. haven't gotten to do much lifting but work is pretty physical (have to move 500 pound barrels every morning) (putting up drywall tomorrow on a ceiling)...that's enough for now. oh i got some new technology in my life that i highly recommend. blackberry curve for verizon wireless and this here macbook. really makes things nice and convenient.

tell me what sin replaces love

ive decided that every now and then im gonna post some shoe blogs. i got these air max ones (87s).. good colorway. i got these in 2005 at an outlet somewhere in america on the blacklisted outlet touring days. forest green/brown/navy pink. they are a bit beat but still give me good wear. i own about 50 pairs of sneakers at this point in my life, writing stories about how i got them will be cool for me. last day of tour in lemoyne,pa. my mom is coming today, happy mother's day!

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im gonna title this one "long road to ruin". we are two shows left on completing our 40 some day U.S. tour. its been fun but trying at the same time. we're currently in traffic in nyc on our way to clark nj for a gig. i think its calculated that we have played about 44 or 45 shows in this time. counting radio shows too. im not going home to old fashioned r & r, i have work in pa on tuesday. work will be doing anything needed at hawk mountain labs, an environmental testing facility that my mom and boyfriend own and operate. this includes but is not limited to driving a truck,crushing coal, doing acid tests and mopping floors. i have over 20 grand in student loans from a college education that i do not have so i have to work. typing this from my phone is a pain in the dick. my phone kinda sucks. im gonna get a little more in depth about the tour in the next post. peace

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fuck you tennessee. well not really, but on day 3 of being in johnson city, im ready to leave. our van was completed and now we've been waiting on beans guitar head for over an hour. it was fixed apparently yesterday but is fucked up now. we're all eager to get knee deep in our trek to pittsburgh for tonights show. im actually excited to drive. couldnt sleep much last night, wound up listening to baroness. sonically it was blowing my mind. way more than listening on a stereo. i felt like i was on some weird mushrooms with acid tabs on the insides. i imagine that is what drugs are like? this is a picture of me leaning on a window in the shade, on the corner. kill yourself to live... hi mom i love you.

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this is a promotional sample of the band masta gravity. i picked this up at a guitar store in nashville simply because i could not even believe this picture. this band sounded like 80s dark dance music with lots of "babyyyyy's and ughhhhhhhhh's"...coincidentally enough they got an exclusive deal with roadside records but the album cover remains in our van. we're currently on our way to johnson city,tn. last night we played an interesting gig in charleston,sc. i also have serious trucker arm from yesterdays drive. thats about all for now

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im gonna bite on my man chucky edge's blog.. i bought this shirt yesterday in jacksonville at a fake ass head shop/tattoo parlor. i put it on today and it smells like incense,which im not against. its printed on some kinda american apparel shirt and is from the in your honor grohl era. pretty stoked on that. today we drive 4 hours to south carolina for a gig. one week left on our tour. shits been good. just got a table at olive garden..ftw

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oh and p.s.

check out the new issue of alternative press (on shelves now, cobra starship on the cover). blacklisted has a little review. the picture they used is pretty funny. that would be the weekend of our record release, in the airport, thrashed. read my older post for a good run down of this weekend, then look at that picture. hopefully you laugh. i'm text messaging in this picture..or browsing the internet. george and bean are both out..shawn's dive bombing, and sausage is definitely phoned out. photo by kimpossible. anyways, bought this at barnes and noble today. something to show my kids 20 years from now i guess? 

we have about 8 shows left of tour. i haven't been home since the end of march. what is home anyways ? we've been listening to nirvana (stated below), ryan adams and the cardinals, torche, baroness, mastodon, queens of the stone age, the hope conspiracy, led zeppelin, jesse malin, black sabbath, foo fighters, neutral milk hotel, sepultura, emperor, among loads of other things.

we've been eating: denny's (don't eat the slamburger, how good it looks might sway you, but DONT), today we ate bennigans (nice change of pace, but whatever), IHOP (pretty good), olive garden (breadsticks/salad FTW), peanut butter and jelly 

we've been drinking: arizona: arnold palmer half and half lites. gatorade tiger, gatorade g2 (great low calorie sports drink, sorta like vitamin water), starbucks coffee (tall for bean, tall in a grande for me, soy hot chocolate for sausage), orange vitamin water, water.

we've been sleeping at: super 8 hotels nationwide. some kinda discount shit we have?  maybe ?

i've been playing: a 2005 gibson sg standard through a marshall jcm800 2203 with a marshall jcm800 4x12 with celestion 30s,through an electroharmonix lpb1, holy stain, holy grail. (sponsor me ehx, you fuckers)

i've been wearing: white fruit of the loom sized medium vneck t shirts, levi 501xx shrink to fit jeans (32x34), wore those in the shower, what a trick. cobalt blue authentic vans. hanes boxer briefs, but im about to have to wear these straight briefs that i accidentally bought. make me look like a body builder or superhero or something...everyone feels uncomfortable, which i can understand and relate to.

i've given up on: shaving. (tried to upload a shitty face picture, won't work, i will in the near future)

ive gotten into: flossing (grown ass man shit, teeth/gums feel great, pete appleby would be proud)

i miss: richmond, my honda civic si, my close ones in nyc, my close one in california.

thanks for being here.

best friends forever.

sup jim ?