March 12th, 2010 by cgerber

Sleep on the ship has been terrible for the crew as of late. Something seems to be in the salty air keeping the crew awake and grouchy. Sparky has been leading the crew in exorcise on the top deck but refuses to teach her secretes to me. I recently took a visit to our doctor for a checkup on my bad sleeping and she gave me a cookie. She kind of reminds me of an Avatar with her taller build… lean features.. and long tail… big ears.

Other than bad sleep crew seems to be in an unstable condition of frustration, happiness, and annoyingness. Tank demands to attend every one of Sparky’s new work out sessions in order to intimidate her into turning over her bird nest position. Tank hates being kept in the bowels of the ship and is getting restless. I’ve been having the debatably blind cook take her out for daily swims but now the cook is missing and the ship really isn’t that big. In the meantime Mario World Mark is making egg sandwiches till we can double back and look for the possibly blind cook. We’re having trouble keeping him off the Wii as well.

We should be hitting land soon. The crew doesn’t know but I have buried treasure we’ll be looking for at the next stop. If there’s enough buried treasure I’ll take the crew out for some California Pizza Kitchen.

Chad Gerber

March 11th, 2010 by cgerber

Well the music video is coming along nicely. Have a list of things I need to track down which is kind of fun. I always associate lists and errands with Grand Theft Auto for some reason lol. I need to find an old muscle car for a desert scene, and I think my boy Steve may have a 65 impala we can use. Still waiting to find out for sure though. I’ve always wanted to do a cliche desert road scene for a music video! Should be fun, and luckily it won’t be mad hot cause it’s still springish. Is it still spring? I don’t know. But yeah, been on the phone and doing emails about all of that and looking into the new clothing/energy drinks for the band. Next week we have 6 meetings lined up with large companies on behalf of the band, so exciting stuff. Of course I’ll be back to my typical meeting thoughts that I posted on an earlier blog lol. Need to stay entertained!

Going to head back to Activision tonight to play more of this game they’re getting ready to release. Having a load of fun playing it! I love telling them what sucks about the game only to find it fixed the next day! I wish all video games were like this lol.

Going to meet with a clothing designer tomorrow about the clothing line and to see if it’s something we REALLY even want to tackle just yet. Seems kind of typical for bands to do clothes, and since we usually do everything backwards or weird, we need to decide if a clothing line is a fit. Personally I would rather get the energy drink stuff rolling cause it just seems cooler. But stats, financial consulting, and all that other business crap is needed first.

Chad Gerber

March 11th, 2010 by cgerber

I’m thinking I went to bed stressed last night because I dreamt of soldiers killing farm animals in people’s homes and leaving chopped off arms by the TV in large piles. It was a very long night of odd dreams. At one point everywhere I went some stranger would want to hold my hand. Everywhere I went was a new stranger who would come up and hold my hand. Talk about uncomfortable. I saw my parents and I think they lived in a tiny house in the UK, and at one point I was alone in a dark pub with a ghost floating around the dance floor. Probably stress of the cabbage I ate before bed lol. Either way I woke up incredibly late today for no reason!

Have a couple events coming up that TSD is invited to, but I haven’t been feeling all that social as of late. Neither has ChadM/2012 I think. I don’t know. ChadM officially leaves soon so it’s been fun seeing 2012 come and go as they prepare for their time swap.

I need to try and fix my gas cap on the motorcycle today before I get stranded again and bust off my key. I also need to check in with TSD team and see what’s poppin.

Chad Gerber

March 11th, 2010 by cgerber

Got on my bike after playing some video games again at Activision tonight and the thing was running all stupid. Every time I gave it gas it would die! I finally got it going enough that I could sort of ride it, but I had to have it all revved up constantly to keep it from dying. I pulled over a bunch of times thinking I was out of gas and needed to switch to the reserve tank but that wasn’t it. After riding and pulling over constantly on my way to the freeway it sort of stopped being all weird. As I accelerated onto the freeway it started to die again so I had to punch it hard to keep it going! As I’m hauling down the freeway so my bike won’t die I hit a harmless dip that lifts me from my bike while simultaneously a massive wind gust hits me from the side, for a moment I was positive I was going down as my bike was leaning sideways going into a nonexistent lane next to me. A bunch of lanes were coming together at that point, so it would have probably been the worst place to go down! I pulled myself back down onto the bike and got tight to it and took the very next exist. The bike was still trying to die and I was just trying to get somewhere out of the way. I got to a gas station and went to pop the gas cap off when I remembered it’s all corroded and almost impossible to open. After 10 min and almost breaking my key off in it several times I got the cap off. I had a hunch that once again another crappy gas company sold me watered down gas and I was right. Pisses me off so bad when this happens cause I always forget what’s happening, and 99% of the time it’s some greedy gas company trying to squeeze money out of someone. Do they realize that when they do this, motorcycle riders could actually die? I can’t remember what stupid gas station it was either, so I’ll probably end up going to it again! Nice to know the closest call I’ve had on my bike possibly ever was a direct result to an oil company not selling pure gasoline in their pumps. Thank you greed. My motorcycle is back to normal since I added gas but I need to fix the gas cap before I break a key off in it lol.

Having a blast playing this new game that won’t be out for a while. Wish I could go on about it but they made me sign my life away. In fact the last couple times I was there they had security scanning me with the wand thing and everything. Video games are top secret I guess!

Chad Gerber

March 10th, 2010 by cgerber

That was a horrible night. I just wouldn’t get tired last night and was up till like 5:30AM or something. Seriously killed my wake up process, now I need to catch up lol. Since I wasn’t tired I ended up watching a ton of youtube videos and looking on awkwardfamilyphotos.com and stuffwhitepeoplelike.com. I had plenty of laughs, but just couldn’t get tired. When I finally did fall asleep I think I had dreams of drag racing my Mother on the beach in muscle cars lol.

Did I tell you I got a wet suit? If I did, sorry, I’m still groggy right now. Cory (from the team) got some gear and with it came an extra wet suit, so now I have no choice but to get back out into the ocean and fight sharks! I’m pumped. I want to try it on in the shower right now. I’m pretty sure it means I can swim to the bottom of the ocean now too.

Just got a bunch of clothing design stuff in an email. Some new directions as far as logos go which is pretty cool. I’m more interested in the Dark Military line that should be coming out soon. A lot of military gear that’s like black and grey. Not that we don’t have enough going on right now lol. I still need to get that treatment from the director in regards to the new video. Thanks for the reminder.

Well since my day is up and running now, I should get up and running now.

Chad Gerber

March 9th, 2010 by cgerber

I guess Jaime Foxx had a CD release party tonight here in LA. I thought about going but I don’t even like the guy. I used to find him funny, but now he kind of gets on my nerves. Plus I didn’t feel like squeezing up against a bunch of strangers all night lol. I didn’t get done playing video games at Activision till like 9:30 anyway, so I was over it. Had a blast playing the game though! I’m hoping I can get a copy before it’s released.

So the team’s got all kinds of meetings lined up this week and next in regards to the big festival tour and the free in-store stuff. Luckily we don’t have to go. I’ve gone in the past to some and it’s kind of funny. Dudes sitting around in suits and nice haircuts talking biz while I do an amazing job of looking focused. If only they could get into my head and see the twisted things I’m really thinking during meetings. Here’s how it goes.

Conference Room. Creative Director Cory in a nice suit next to me with papers and binders in front of him. Across sits the other people wearing their suits and ties. Then me, hoody, hat, directions on my hand, knee bouncing under the table.These are the things that flash through my head while they all go over logistics:

1. I should stand up and do a war scream right into the wall behind them for 10 seconds then sit down without saying a word or cracking a smile

2. I should just grab a pile of papers in front of me and go off about how I won’t support their black magic operations and not one person offered me a sand which

3. stare into the side of Cory’s face while he sits next to me

4. lay my head down on the table and moan like I’m sick

5. Slap the guy talking

6. Quietly stand up and walk out while they’re talking directly to me

7. Mimic everything they say including mannerisms

8. stab the main guy on the top of his hand with a pencil and wait for a reaction

9. slowly pull their papers away from them while pretending I don’t know that they can see what I’m doing

10. Turn to Cory and say “Let’s Kill em” and wait for their response while never cracking a smile

11. Roll a quarter across the table to the guy sitting farthest from me while keeping my eyes focused on the guy speaking

12. Say something that makes no sense like “My Mother says you have the best deals on used cars”

13. Kick the guy across from me in the shin

14. Fake having a seizure

15. Vomit blood all over the table and follow up with “I don’t feel so good”

16. Take a piece of art off the wall and cradle it like a stuffed animal

17. Bring a stuffed animal and make them all address him like he’s real

18. Bring ChadM and have him sit on my lap the whole time while never addressing that it’s weird

19. Blow a booger on the stack of papers in front of me, then look up, smile, and simply go “eh?”

20. Hold a pen up like it’s  a puppet participating in the meeting. Sometimes making it whisper in my ear

21. Make a puppet out of my hand and have it mouth whatever I’m saying then look at me for approval

22. Grab the main dude and say “Who do you think you are!?” “Is this a game to you?”

23. Karate chop Cory in the adams apple and tell everyone “It’s ok, I know karate”

24. Jump up, run across the room and face plant into the wall, fall on the floor and remain their the remainder of the meeting

25. Take off my clothes

26. fall asleep in my chair

27. Imagine a giant tank rolling in through the wall squishing everyone then transforming into a transformer and tell me it’s time to save the world

28. Stand on the table and bop everyone on the head with a baseball bat

29. Pretend to be a malfunctioning robot and say “Lu-bra-kent” over and over

30. Wear sunglasses and look straight ahead the entire time

Chad Gerber

March 9th, 2010 by cgerber

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.

Chad Gerber

March 9th, 2010 by cgerber

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!

Chad Gerber

March 8th, 2010 by cgerber

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.

OMG I’m so sick of importing all this footage!!!

Chad Gerber

March 8th, 2010 by cgerber

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.

Spread Denial!

Chad Gerber