September 2nd, 2010 by cgerber

I went to The Expendables last night and it was awesome! Way better than I thought it would be. I could go on and on about it, but I don’t want to on here lol. Lets just say it’s refreshing to watch a guy movie where the dudes aren’t all dramatic and weepy like most movies make us anymore.
Have a meeting today but I’m really distracted. There’s been some changes in team lineups lately and I’m trying not to get worried about it. The more people involved in something, the quicker it moves, but the more complicated it gets. That part makes me want to quit and open up some kind of tiny shop somewhere and sell trinkets or something. Maybe be a butcher? Stupid part is if I actually ever did that, I would go insane 5 months later and have to start over again. Unless I just sailed around the world… I wouldn’t really have a choice lol.
I don’t know for sure yet what I’m doing for this weekend. I think going out of town, but there’s some details that are still up in the air. Like the fact that all the campsites are full. Awesome. I wouldn’t mind maybe just renting a room at one of those incredibly creepy roadside hotels! The ones that say “color tv” on the sign lol. Yeah I don’t know. I’m a bit indifferent as of late.
I just read another oil rig blew up down south. What is going on!?
Chad Gerber

September 1st, 2010 by cgerber

Here I am, neck kinked against the wall as I try to type this. I have no idea what the weather is like out, although I can assume it’s 75 as usual. I wouldn’t mind a hurricane though. Or a tornado….. maybe hail! I’m not really sure why I’m talking about the weather.
Yesterday was sort of miserable. I felt like every text and email I got was from the wrong people, and the right ones never replied lol. Last night 2012 and Amelia came by and we met about the LA show coming up and a Nashville show next year. We went over things and took care of stuff, then ended up playing video games. Feeling a bit disconnected last couple days. Like I’m on auto pilot and forgot where the switch is.
Tonight I’m going to grab some sushi and hit a comedy show at my favorite secret spot. All kinds of big name pros go to this place right along side horrible newbies. It’s cool.
I’m skipping town this weekend I think. I might go camping yet again. I’m finding it a perfect escape cause not all that many people go camping. Anything to avoid a BBQ. I think everyone does a BBQ every year, which is fine, but I don’t want to do one this year!
I better get moving. I’m slipping into a coma.
Chad Gerber

August 30th, 2010 by cgerber

Yesterday I met up with Red Eye near downtown to do some inner city stuff with people. We took over a laundry facility and did people’s laundry, fed them food, and put people in dryers. Literally. It was kind of weird, but nobody got hurt.
I’m up yet again today cause I MUST get this DMV nightmare over with. If a cop were to pull me over right now I would be in a huge mess.
Last night some friends wanted to me come to San Diego and hang out but the DMV killed my plans. Me and the DMV are not getting along right now.
Did you watch the 2 part documentary on the tour? It was in the last blog. You should check it out. 2012 made it.
Well since I’ve been back it’s the same ole thing again. Nobody returns my emails who needs to, so I end up having to track them down with large thugs and break their legs. Not my favorite form of communication, but some people just don’t get things done lol.
Half of what I’m saying in this blog I don’t know what I’m saying.
I had weird dreams about hunting buffalo with a bow and arrow, and weight rooms and music stores in Flying J truck stops last night.
Chad Gerber

August 29th, 2010 by cgerber

Though it was a long and difficult battle the last day, I have just about defeated the ever annoying “new hard drive file transfer”! Got a 2 terabyte HD from Fry’s yesterday cause my 500Gig was full. I’ve been moving files around ever since. I really hate this little task. In the middle of it last night I went to Yogurt land and the beach. It was a little chilly but I liked it.
Today I’m doing laundry for strangers inner city style. The underwear part of this thing is a little hazy for me.
I dreamt about banans all night because I have so many in the kitchen and I can’t eat them fast enough. They are literally causing me a tiny bit of stress lol.
I need to talk to Tanya Brown (video director of I’m Sorry LA) cause I think she saw a UFO last night! Actually a few people around LA were talking about weird lights and stuff so that’s kind of exciting. Of course I saw nothing. This ins’t the first time lights have been seen flying around LA of course. In fact in WWII the only time the US opened fire on anything from the mainland was in San Pedro on a weird flying machine lol. Look it up! San Pedro UFO WWII. I saw it on the history channel. Pretty weird. My friend saw one in the same area years ago too. I want one.
Now that texting is as common as scratching ones self, I get a lot of texts from friends looking for friends. “hey is so and so with you? if so, tell him I’m ready”. I don’t know if I should feel important or stupid. I’m trying to make it a good thing.
I totally forgot to post the new tour doc vids on here! You need to watch these! 2012 made the doc!
Chad Gerber

August 27th, 2010 by cgerber

Last night I was going to eat snacks and watch a movie with someone but I ended up going to the Red Eye offices to drop in and see some friends since I’ve been gone a while. I gave Lambo a souvenir from Yellowstone Park and turkey tapped Ben in the nuts cause it was his birthday. It was a good time. I caught up with Justin, Lambo, Ben, Sarah B. about her deformed knee, and met a knew guy from Australia. It was fun. After we headed to the grocery store to get some milk for cookies and it happened again… I was mistaken for that dude from Fall Out Boy! I’m standing in the line and I can see this guy looking at a tabloid to my left, I see he stops on a page with that guy Pete Wentz walking his baby with his wife, and I knew the guy was going to look at me since this wasn’t the first time. Sure enough the dude starts to look up towards me, I slowly try to turn away and then comes over to me with the magazine and asks if it’s me! I tell him no, I laugh, then go back to standing in line. He’s still looking at me! Me, then the pic, then me, then the pic, then talking to his friend. He may have been just comparing the pic to me, but from experience in this whole Pete Wentz/Chad Gerber saga, I’m pretty sure he thought I was lying to him. I got my milk and left quickly. I don’t look like Pete Wentz! And why is this dude even in magazines? Neither him or his wife do anything! This is just another reason why I might shave my head into a mohawk, or do something weird to it. I mean.. I’ve been mistaken for Pete Wentz at red carpet events too! You would think the picture people would know the difference between the 2 of us?! Oh well, it’s always worth a good laugh.
Tonight we’re watching the tour doc and will probably end up playing some xbox live. Pretty chill day really. I still don’t know what’s going on with charity fundraiser stuff but I’m hoping to know ASAP lol.
Gotta go
Chad Gerber

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August 26th, 2010 by cgerber

It’s the little things in life. I re-hooked up xbox live again and now can blow people’s brains out in Red Dead Redemption online! If you don’t know what game that is… there is no hope for you. I’m pretty excited about it. I haven’t had a whole lot of time to play games, but I’m hoping to squeeze some playing in this fall and all that.
I have to go to the DMV here in LA today. It’s probably a little worse than going to the dentist because no matter what papers or vehicles you bring, after waiting in line for hours, you always get to the front and they require something you don’t have. THEN you go get your papers or whatever, and return to wait in line another 2 hours just to hand the papers over. Not to mention the second they open up their computer there always like “hmmm….. you have several fees for blah blah blah”. Not looking forward to it. I am looking forward to going to Fry’s where I’m going to get a new external HD for album stuff. :)
This is possibly the nerdiest blog ever.
Going to have a screening party tomorrow night for the mini doc that 2012 made. I never knew he was so talented in video stuff. Makes me wish he would do more lol.
I still haven’t taken my amp in to get fixed which is kind of sad. It’s just dead in a box :( Poor Rivera.
Chad Gerber

August 25th, 2010 by cgerber

I have had this unexplainable growing urge to move into the Redwood forest recently. For real. As you well know I LOVE Los Angeles, more than words can express… but I keep finding myself thinking about the Redwood forests lol. It’s a little annoying really. I’ve even picked the location I want to look at. The problem is, I can never live in a little town because I don’t handle boredom well at all, and I HATE TV. So what do I do in small town when everything closes at night right around the time I’m waking up? A little bit of a problem I think. Anyway, I thought the whole thing was kind of strange and I felt like sharing.
This might be the longest I’ve gone without shaving. I don’t know how guys do it, I hate facial hair. I want to laser it away.
I don’t feel like talking about band stuff today. I think it’s stressing me out… all this pre-album build up, charity shows and Haiti stuff. What sucks is that I need to get a bunch of stuff done but I don’t feel like it lol. Post vacation issues I assume. I’m taking baby steps.
I’m going to go. I at least can get things rolling with a bowl of cereal.
Chad Gerber

August 23rd, 2010 by cgerber

It feels good to be home. That stretch was a little over a month, a lot of fun, but I’m glad to be home. The place is full of equipment and luggage cause I got in at like 8AM after driving all night. I was too beat to clean everything up so the place looks like a Guitar Center. I jumped in bed and slept for a while then woke up to get started on the fall work basically. Found out 2012 has the tour doc almost finished… excited and scared about that lol. I’m about to head to a studio to check into some gear and details for the next album. There isn’t remotely enough time to do everything that needs to get done! I know it will, but it’s going to be crazy.
I need to go grocery shopping. There’s no food here.
I should make a checklist of everything that needs to get done this week. I haven’t even talked to 2012 since I got back…. then again Iv’e been back a half a day I guess. Oh yeah, Xia Ma (from the tour) is going to work on some remixes of “I’m Sorry LA” and “Phone Number” so I need to get him those. Why am I even typing this right now? I need to go.
Welcome home me!
Chad Gerber

August 20th, 2010 by cgerber

This has been a long summer. Good, but long. The tour as you know went awesome and was a total blast, which then lead directly into my vacation while 2012 headed back to LA. I did some creepy backwoods camping in spider infested murder cabins in the mountains of Montana, ran from a grizzly bear in Wyoming (for real), rode motorcycles, 4 wheelers, ate WAY too much food,  and even squeezed in a dirty carnival. Now I’m in Arizona and yet again going camping. What’s odd about this is it must look like I looooove camping. I don’t. I do enjoy it, but it just so happens that this summer is a campy summer I guess. I’m really looking forward to getting home though. The new album is burning a hole in my brain, and we have to get ready for Haiti. There’s a billion things that need to get done, and I haven’t really gotten started on anything since I’ve been in the wildernesses of the United States lol.
2012 informs me a tour doc vid should be done sometime next week. I haven’t really seen much footage of anything from the tour so I’m excited to see it. I’m guessing we’ll probably not be heading back out on a TOUR tour till next summer, but it all depends on this new album. We have a lot of work and details to get figured out. The joys of the creative process! :) We work incredibly fast though, so getting the album together won’t take long.
I need some sleep before I’m back out of wifi range again.
Chad Gerber

August 11th, 2010 by cgerber

I know I wouldn’t if I could, for fear of repeating or making mistakes over, but I wish I could erase memories from my mind. Today was a day full of forgettable memories that made me wish I was on my boat drifting away at sea. I’m on vacation but find when I’m doing nothing, my mind drifts into old memories and things I don’t want it drifting into. If I slow down for a second my mind turns on the re-runs and makes me watch old episodes of my life. I hate it. Makes me want to end the vacation early and get swamped. Idol minds right? And what’s with the planets obsession with money anyway? I’m pretty sure we idolize money and what it can or can’t do as much as lady Ga ga or politics. I’m in a cage. I’m going to a movie tomorrow in which I’m going to leave my cage.
I’m dreaming in nightmares as always. Last night someone I loved had a deadly snake crawling in their clothes. I ran to get help but never found my way back to them. In my dream world I still don’t know if they are alive. I was swimming among snakes and whales in a man made aquarium. Just an uncomfortable dream all around.
The band is already getting tour withdrawals. Life is so slow and predictable off the road…. even when it’s not lol. Though things may be busy and stressful, the road provides that adventurous stress that gets the blood flowing. Musicians are always jumping between greener pastures….. if that makes any sense lol.
Well… I’m sitting outside listening to sprinklers and watching lightning in the distance. Other than the light of my laptop I’m in a weird bubble of darkness outside. Kind of creepy/weird/comforting.
Ok, I’m going back to my vacation now. Thought I would just throw up a drama note for you haha
Chad Gerber