halloween is coming up...

typical

As any true sports fan would agree, there's nothing positive about your team losing. Getting 4 shots at winning or at least taking the lead in a game, and blowing each of them with THE SAME PLAY CALL...now thats just salting a wound. I spent the first half of the sunday night showdown between the bears and eagles at a dive bar in hazelton called 4th St. One dickhead sitting next to me with a demarcus ware probowl dallas cowboys jersey on, another dickhead with a jerry rice jersey from 89', the biggest dorkass with an eli manning jersey and matching hat, and a few incoherent philly fans who i associated with. i can't lie, i thought that we were gonna pull away from this one at any moment. our defense would completely dominate, with our offense coming out looking flat (with certain exception). but nothing hurt more than the final 8 minutes where we drove 75 yards to be jammed 4 CONSECUTIVE TIMES at the goal line due to some truly stellar play calling from Mr. Andy Reid and co. typical. totally typical. i actually witnessed this happen IRL last year vs. the seahawks, where i sat in the freezing rain gripping my fingers to not fall victim to hypothermia...we blew that one too.

my anger led me to my mom's house to watch the rest of the game in silence knowing that i can't handle others in that type of atmosphere. i smashed the footstool so hard with my fist that i not only woke up the dog, but woke mom up as well who then told me to get it together. i said 'get out of my face'. then i apologized in saying the tiger got out of the cage and i didn't mean that.


my roommate texted me immediately with a "how about dem bears" statement. instead of shooting off a "go fuck yourself", all i could say was "thanks". that summed it up.

is this picture a heart stabber?

this picture is about 2 years old. I had Factory for a few months of my life, and they were both amazing and terrible at the same time. she was sick alot of the time with a very very very sensitive stomach (i spent more on her than i did on me, foodwise), but she also made me happy every single day. when i decided to start touring frequently, i decided that she needed a better home situation. My friends were amazing at taking care of her while i was away, but i felt like a bad father. I talked to a few friends and found her a great home where she could play with another pit, have a loving family and a huge yard to run around like a maniac in. That being said i miss her to this day and wish i was in a different situation in life to have her. I will have another dog when i'm more of a grown up.

MSM BOOKING PRESENTS:

blackberry, you're addicted.

For my entire residency working for an authorized Verizon Wireless dealer, i swore off using a blackberry. always thought they were cool but never thought i needed the extra $30 in my monthly bill. About 4 months ago, i changed my mind when the Curve was released. Is it even worth saying that i am a converted believer ?

Why do i like blackberry, and why does everyone i know also like blackberry? It seems like my BBM contacts have been growing considerably on a daily basis. i'm not complaining. The upsides: google's mobile applications. Having one touch access to 3 of the accounts i have on google is amazing. Full access, including sent mail, starred emails (great for paying bills or reminders), full list of contacts, mobile drafts in no service areas (not too many of those in the usa thanks), and the previously mentioned meandering amongst the 3 accounts at one button touch. blackberry messenger is also an amazing feature that i use daily, connecting media in seconds to any of the contacts in my list. when i returned from my last european trip, i turned my phone on and couldn't pull my head up for approximately 3 hours. It's a blessing and a curse but at least i know that in a seconds time i can be on wikipedia learning about the epiphone elitist series when im sitting at music-go-round in wilkes-barre,pa.

With the way our society is advancing, i'd feel pretty confident in saying that in 2-3 years, 80% of mobile devices purchased will be either blackberry or iPhone. Who knows what these phones will be capable of in that time? It's cool but it's also frightening. My first phone was purchased for me in my senior year of high school . It was the Nokia candy bar phone, where the only option of multimedia was to play snake.

To wrap up my little blackberry rant for the afternoon of Friday, the 26th, i'd like to add that if we are friends and you are using this little heartbeater...send me your pin. We can totally send each other stuff!

it's been a long time since i rock and rolled..

i haven't posted in three months. mostly because i felt like i had nothing to write about, and with a growing amount of cool blogs with a purpose, mine was getting lost in the midst of mediocrity. i returned yesterday from 17 days in europe with rhythm to the madness. some highlights of the tour would include spinkicking under the eiffel tower at midnight, beating up on the local trying to break into the rhythm van, seeing klaas smash microphones in anger, playing dark ball in trier with jared and rashod...amongst other things. tour in europe is a trying time. lots of long drives in a relatively uncomfortable van, language barriers, etc. the positives outweigh the negatives, but it's still tough. america is full of convenience and you never appreciate that until it's gone. i'm home for about 10 days before we get back onto the airplane, this time headed for japan. konichiwa bitches! playing some dates with other american bands, so hopefully that is cool. then it's a full u.s. tour with have heart, ceremony and the european favorites let down. i'm very excited for this tour. it seems like it might be the last one for us for awhile. i read a few books in the last two weeks. slash's autobiography and hammer of the gods (led zeppelin). both of these books made me want to drop everything and just play guitar. i kinda do that already, but i realize that i need to excel beyond my current state of skill. so i'll be practicing my scales and licks nightly.
if you haven't yet, check out rttm at myspace.com/rhythmtothemadness
also, i have started a smaller-ish booking company in richmond called msmbooking, myspace.com/msmbooking.
here's a few pics from tour.