You ever seen the movies and TV shows where the main character has a clingy ex-girlfriend that never gets the picture? You ever taken a second to think what on earth is going through her head? Why would a person want to stick around when they’re continually told to leave and that nothing will ever exist between them again? Why does the girl cling and somehow convince herself that the ex boyfriend will change and he he’ll want to come back around and be together? She’ll use all the “good times they had” as a reason to hang on to a dead carcass of a relationship. I’ve had friends that have had this sort of thing happen, but it has always amazed me at the insecurity of a human who can’t muster up the dignity to pick themselves up and move on. Is their future so scary that they can’t let go of the past “good” memories they created with someone who doesn’t want them? I mean wow…. “if I could only get back to 1985, I would have won state” lol. I was watching Wayne’s World the other day and he had this clingy ex girlfriend that just didn’t get it. Everyone kind of pitied her and was scared of her thickheadedness towards the situation. Just made me think, what on earth makes a person do that? It’s either fear or total delusion.
Went to the gym late tonight to burn off some energy thinking that would calm the night away into a nice drifty sleep but I was wrong. After running about 4 miles I went over to the studio to sign some papers and hang with friends, then came home to watch Snatch. I love that movie. Makes me want to be a gangster. Not a gang banger, but a real gangster. Actually on. That life looks kind of stressful and short, so never mind. I figured I should say hello before I go to bed now. Tomorrow I’m going to go play video games at Activision again. It’s just so much fun! Other than that I need to talk to the director of the music video Tanya and see where we’re at with things. Got some pics from the All Souls Tattoo place today which is cool and helps her get things all figured out or something. I’ll post something below. Good night Suicide Children and behave!
I really need to start sending these webisodes out for editing and stuff. They just take way too long for me seeing as how I’m not a video guy. Someone in Houston might take it over, but I’ve just been too busy to send off footage. I don’t know, I need to think of something soon, this is getting insane.
Been writing up some band proposal stuff for agencies today and going over props from our creative director Cory. I’m really pumped at all the stuff ahead. I sometimes forget all the stuff ahead cause I’m so focused on what we’re doing now, which is a music video, but in the coming months/years things are going to get REALLY cool. We’re going to be involved with hosting some snowboard and skate competitions around the US and perform at them on the last night and stuff, film it all, post it all, do party concerts all over the place. It’s going to be fun. That’s what a bunch of these meetings have been about. Our site keeps getting updated like daily, and of course I’ve been pumping out blogs like crazy. I don’t even like blogs. They’re much easier to type though, and usually pretty fun. I can say whatever I want and nobody can stop me! Kind of scary.
Finally meeting with JD of 7 Lightning Bolt this week about the new clothing line coming out. I was supposed to go to Mexican Monday at his house tonight for tacos lol, but I have too much to do. I still need to get into the studio to sign some paperwork, and go over the video concept stuff with the director. Oh yeah, her name is Tanya Brown if you were curious. She does great work and this new video with us shall be her masterpiece! Did I mention we have all our locations now? Looks like we’ll be shooting in some machine shop, the rehearsal studios at Exposition Studios, and All Souls Tattoo in San Pedro. We’ll have other on location type stuff, but those locations are for heavy shooting and sweaty wrestling.
Today would defiantly be one of those days where if I had a boat I would drift off into the ocean. The open seas seem like the greatest adventure to me. Stumbling upon little islands that are too small and unimportant to be inhabited, but maybe hide some mysteries from other sea travelers over the years. Fishing for food every day and filtering water, or collecting water… or storing it? How do you store water? Plastic containers? Wood ones maybe…. but yeah, the open seas! I would make sure to take a laptop, solar panels, and a sat phone for uplink so I would still blog. Actually that kind of sucks. If you’re on the open seas one should probably cut off all communication…. Maybe messages in bottles?
There’s a cartoon called the Misadventures of Flap Jack about this kid that wants to be a pirate. What’s crazy is the cartoon’s creator was inspired to do the cartoon from an adventure as a kid. I guess at like 10 years old he took his father’s boat out into the ocean and drifted a day or 2 before being caught or finding his way back or something. He wanted a mega adventure but instead got a 2 day adventure lol. That’s where the “misadventures” in the title comes from. Can you imagine being like 10 and just heading out into the open sea? Alone? That would be awesome.
I think I’m supposed to go with ChadM today to get some things on Melrose, then I’m invited to someone’s house for dinner but not sure I can make it. TSD Management is meeting with more firms today going over this whole free music revolution thing. I’m supposed to talk more about what it is, but I don’t know if you care to know details… Do you? In short, if you burn our music and pass it on, that’s what REALLY helps us, email our website links, that REALLY helps us, subscribe to our YouTube Channel, get your local radio to play our music, use our music at your parties, ANYTHING that gets people talking is how we do this free music thing. Feel free to pirate our music on file share networks, and or burn CDs and put them wherever. We’ll handle the big corporate business guys, but we need fans to spread the word by whatever means possible. We’ve been talking to a ton of people as of late, we have an entire TSD team working around the clock on a million different things. We have lawyers, labels, consultants, creative directors, musicians, and designers all working to change how things are done, but YOUR word of mouth, pirating, link emailing, radio playing etc.. is the biggest thing we need. Are you with us!?!? Arrrggh!!!….. sorry, pirate.
I didn’t mean to but I sort of got wrapped up a bit in the Oscars. I know, it’s lame, but it just happened. Mainly best score roped me in, then I couldn’t pull away. The Oscars were actually really funny cause Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin hosted and they’re funny together. Other than that, same boring crap with lots of talking and ego stroking. No wonder Johnny Depp openly hates the Oscars and never goes unless nominated.
Tomorrow is a new week. My brain is pretty fried from the 13 hour long Oscars, so I don’t even know yet what’s going on this week. I need to talk with some of the production crew peeps about the video cause I think we just pushed back the shoot till April. We just need more time. That way I can get a couple sleeves of tattoos, piece my face, and have a baby in time for it.
Just got word a friend of mine is giving me a wetsuit, so surfing is on this summer! Iv’e been putting it off for YEARS, but now I’m just going to get going on it. Screw the sharks. I look forward to fighting a shark and being the first person to drown one. Plus just walking around in the wetsuit will make me look more legit on some level I spose lol. I need food.
I just got out of the shower, shaved, and am ready to tackle the Oscar parties. Or party, still haven’t decided on what’s going on. I mean, there’s one we are attending first, but I don’t know how long it lasts. I don’t even know how long the Oscar’s last. Hold on, I’m getting a text from Cory……and done.
Last night I had a dream I was driving a tour bus around New York and tried to get turned around on one of those skinny streets that barely fits 2 cars. It was horrible. I was stuck nose first in a skinny street, and the street behind me was incredibly busy. Not to mention some of the people in my dream were enemies and not who I would have liked to be with me at such a stressful time lol. The bus was cool though. I think it was a vegetable bus that runs on the fry oil. I was so happy with the bus in the dream that I’m going to look into one for the band. See, something good did come from the dream. Maybe.
This one is kind of a shorty cause I need to take the dog out and squeeze some poop out of her so she doesn’t poop on the freakin carpet again.
Yes, some cities go crazy for The Oscar’s, and Los Angeles being the place where it all started and is held goes crazy. Personally I find them extremely boring, but still more exciting than the Superbowl, so I’m looking forward to going to some Oscar parties tomorrow and into the night. Maybe. Just like the Superbowl not everyone actually watches what’s going on, but depending on who you’re watching them with around here, you’re most likely going to know someone who’s got a family member or co-worker up for an award, so that makes it a little more interesting for me. Either way it’s good food and an excuse to hang out with friends. Yes I “have my picks”, but don’t really care to share them cause I’m not a die hard. In fact I find most actors are extremely weird…. which is why they can be fun to hang out with haha. Me, ChadM (2012 arrives later this week I think), Cory, and some other friends are all going to chill down by the ocean and watch the Oscars, then probably head out late once things start poppin. Playing it by ear though, so who knows, I may end up right back at home in my PJs playing video games lol.
It’s been raining all day which has been nice. Always feels like a different country in LA when it rains. Today while driving I was pretending I was in the Jurassic Park scene where the fat guy is driving through the rain and ends up getting eaten by the tar spitting dino. I usually default to that scene when it rains. The thing that really bothers me is that my dog won’t go to the bathroom when it rains! I let her out, she stands in the rain looking at me like I’m being cruel, then walks right back in. She’s such a snob.
Now here’s a video that always makes me laugh really really hard and for whatever reason it popped into my head and I wanted to share it with you.
Been lost in a mind vortex for the past 2 weeks trying to get my bearings about me. The crew it agitated at my attempts to keep them busy with games of Sorry and Monopoly. I hate Monopoly. The ship is failing, leaking, and my first mate ChadM is leaving for the future only to be replaced with his 2012 version. I hope he provides the knowledge we need to survive. Other pirates circle our ship daily as we drift about in the sea. Mocking us, throwing their leftovers at us… it’s humiliating. We will press on though. Our pirate ship dog Dixie is in good spirits, rationing her bones and refining her swordsmanship. We shall use her to great detail in the battles to come. We received word via pigeon yesterday that love making music man Andrew Ryan may be boarding our ship to shoot a music video in the coming weeks. We look forward to his skills and rugged good looks. Though he may not be a skilled swordsman like our pirate dog, he can swoon the crew and end this Sorry/Monopoly madness! My spirits are in order, I have xbox 360 in my cabin and don’t let the other crew members play it for fear of their grubby fingers ruining the controllers. Most notably our navigator Cory Grabow and his cheeto covered hands. I can always tell where he’s been because everything has his cheesy fingerprints all over it. Note to self: pick up box of wet naps at next port.
Nights are cold and somewhat rainy. ChadM has promised me he will send blankets from the future, and winning lottery tickets. I look forward to his time swap with 2012 and the money he will bring me. Our cook is awful and never makes eye contact when serving the food. I think he has an attitude problem, or is blind. I’m not sure how to find out because either way it requires eye contact. Does make a mean burrito though. Birds nest is in order. We have a female pirate named “Sparky” who defiantly has OCD and likes to mock the other pirates from above. I find she has a serious obsession with cleaning and order. It’s actually quite annoying, but keeps the other pirates from hating me as much. A few times she has brought her 2 children on board, mocked them in front of the crew, then sent them home on a dingy. Truly a ruthless new addition to the crew.
Our other latest crew member “Tank” is also an interesting addition. Along with Sparky, Tank is also female. Middle aged, walks with a limp and smokes a lot. A few nights ago she has actually barged into my quarters while I was going to the bathroom. I told her to leave immediately, whereupon she stood for another 3 minutes staring at me blankly. May need to have the ship doctor take a look at her.
Keep a stout heart and a sturdy girdle. We shall press on through this current danger with a retarded crew and plenty of misguided passion.
I’m excited cause a friend of mine from 2012 is returning to the band. See, ChadM is actually from 2012, well the 2012 version anyway. He’s a time traveler. I just got word tonight that he’s returning and the current ChadM is taking on his time traveling duties, so they’re swapping. 2012 Chad is a bit crazier, meaner, beastier, and more versed in the ways of time culture. He doesn’t know limits or rules very well, but that’s what makes him so much fun. Last time I saw him was through a photo he sent back from 2012 of him on a spaceship. ChadM has been doing a great job of holding down the fort and all, and will be missed, but 2012 is him, just from the future. I hope you’re following. I think he gets here sometime this week, just in time for the new music video! He’s a lot wiser than most of us as far as what’s to come, seeing as how he’s from the future. If you don’t believe me, I’ll include a photo of him below. If you’re fond of ChadM don’t be too sad. He’s been wanting a chance to time travel for some time now anyway. In fact, this right now is how 2012 came to be in the first place. ChadM won’t be back any time soon, but 2012 will keep you busy enough I’m sure. So yeah, I’m stoked! His pic is below from the future sent back to now of one of his space adventures. Give a warm welcome to 2012! (sorry the pic is bad, sending pics back in time is easier through TV signals, so it’s off the tv)
Today seems like the perfect day to go to Disneyland. I’m craving Disneyland more and more these past couple months. I want to eat at the Blue Bayou in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, and somehow get into club 33. I should just get JD’s pass and go in since we look a lot alike, and I’ve done it before lol.
You know that saying “Talk is cheap”? Have you ever broke that down and applied it to people in your life? I’ve usually just passed that saying through one ear and out the other cause I’ve never taken the time to apply it to anything in my life before. I recently did, filtering through a couple times to make sure I’m not just.. a talker. Does that make sense? I mean… talk is cheap, people can say whatever they want about whatever, but until they actually DO SOMETHING, it’s nothing more than talk. I think that’s pretty much what it means. I’m pretty sure my talk isn’t cheap cause I don’t typically tell people want I can do and never do it. At least I don’t think so anyway… I started filtering through people I know who their “talk is cheap”… worth nothing. I have a few. That’s totally cool I guess, just means their words aren’t worth much to me. What’s annoying is when they find out you don’t value their words and they get upset at you cause they think you should. They think that respect it deserved, not earned. I don’t know… I just think this stuff is pretty simple. If you can’t back up what you say, then don’t say it. Or at the very least don’t be offended if everyone writes off your words as cheap. Talk is cheap. Just been a very prevalent phrase past few weeks.
