May 31st, 2010 by cgerber
Tis the day of Memorial Day! Where on earth would we be without our warriors and vets? Probably dead actually. You may or may not know, but I have a special love of military. I’m not really sure where it comes from, but I’ve always been a fan of the military people. My Grandfather was in the military, so maybe it stems from that. I have no idea. I’ve even thought many times how if I wasn’t a musician, I would have kind of liked to join the military. I think it’s just in some people’s blood or something. Anyway, today is a good day.
Yesterday me and the TSD crew were invited to this rooftop pool party at the W hotel on Hollywood Blvd. I’m running around all day, I’m checking out this Da Vinci thing at the Ghetty Museum (which was awesome) eating in Chinatown and buying ninja weapons, I’m running all over the entire city! I finally get everything done and head to this party that TSD is on the list for, invited too, etc… Big bald bouncer comes up to me and I’m like “hey, I’m here for the party, name should be on the list”, and without even looking, thinking… breathing, he says “the list is closed”. This party goes till 8 something cause it started at noon, and it’s like 5 when I’m talking to him. Anyway, he was all power trippy as most bouncers are, then tells me “they” (him I think?) wouldn’t even let me in cause I’m not wearing beach attire lol. Hollywood is so lame. LA is awesome, Hollywood is that cheesy fake place everyone on the planet THINKS is LA. That one section of town gives us a really bad name lol. I texted my buddy to come get me into his party, and he tells me he bailed hours ago because it was stupid or something lol. The rest of the TSD crew was all like partying on the beach with a bonfire! lol. I ended up going down the street like 2 miles to a rooftop movie party where we watched 80s movies. Much cooler than the W anyway. Gotta love power tripping rent a cops and bouncers.
I have no idea what I’m doing today. I haven’t called anyone about BBQs or anything. I might just go long boarding around town…. or do nothing. I haven’t decided yet. It does feel a little weird to have no memorial day plan though lol.
Don’t eat too much, save some for the babies, play sports, keep your eye on the ball, don’t use a dull razor when shaving. You too harry chicks.
Chad Gerber
May 29th, 2010 by cgerber
Today I went to the beach for probably too long. I applied sunscreen after laying on the towel for a while, but it was too late. I am now red. I have dark skin in my family believe it or not, so I should have all the red sucked up by tomorrow, but still it looks funny. I didn’t get in the water cause it’s still really cold. The coldest I’ve ever felt here in LA actually. Kind of weird. I did watch dolphins and sea lions float around, and strange children chase each other. It was good. Plus I think someone I was with was stung by a jelly fish! Awesome!
Tomorrow I’m going to check out Da Vinci paintings at the Ghetty then head to Chinatown for some perfection. It’s been a while since I’ve had my favorite Chinese food at Foo Chow, so I’m going to fix that. I was invited to a pool party at the W hotel in Hollywood tomorrow. You know, the ones in the movies where all the celebrities and models lay around the pool but won’t swim and have fun. Yeah that kind of pool party. Not the kind where you’re jumping off diving boards catching things, or playing marko polo and fake drowning little kids. That’s why I’m wearing pants… and maybe a jacket. I hate being that one guy in a pool having fun while everyone else watches me for no other reason than because I’m providing everyone with sideshow entertainment lol. I’m going to hang out with some friends and meet new people. Maybe throw a few people in the pool. I’m not sure yet. But I’m not swimming! Besides, I hate public pools and the fluids bodies leave in them.
I found out that my long lost music mentor friend is coming to visit me in June! A true musical genius who truly gave me a direction to go in. We always keep in touch but I haven’t seen him in like 10 years. I’m pumped.
I feel warm….. and my feet are burnt.
Chad Gerber
May 29th, 2010 by cgerber
Today I’m going to the beach. First I’m going to a seafood spot right across from the beach in Malibu, then I’m going up to Mugu point. I’m not really sure if I’m going to swim today… lay around… sit in the shade.. I don’t know. I’m just going to have to take today 10 minutes at a time. Doesn’t leave much room for planning, but allows me to remain focused on the now lol.
Had fun exploring the Queen Mary in Long Beach yesterday. I’m not sure how many times I’ve been on the thing now, but it’s always so cool. Smells like nursing home in the lower sections. Nursing home and death really. You know… that musty smell. What a cool ship. After that I headed up to Venice Beach to show friends around. Everyone likes to see the super freaks of Venice. Dancers, hecklers, protesters protesting things nobody even knew existed lol. I managed to offended a heckler who accused me of being racist because I wouldn’t stop and be heckled by him lol. Though I’m not remotely racist, I agreed that I was once he accused me, just to throw him off guard lol. It was actually really funny lol.
I bet the beaches are insane today. Memorial weekend and all of that. Speaking of Memorial weekend, the Queen Mary was used in WWII and has all these war pictures. If I could live life a few times, I think I would defiantly join the military. You can travel, start companies, play in bands, do a billion things, but no adventure matches up to a military adventure I bet. Even if there is a bit of risk involved lol.
My mouth is still killing me. This cut isn’t working out for me.
Chad Gerber
May 28th, 2010 by cgerber
I don’t want to bog you down with blogs or anything, but I’m up….. and I hate waking up early. I just slept horrible last night. I couldn’t stop working on this new track while laying in bed. Eyes closed I just kept working through it and it kept me up pretty much all night. Then this morning it was like someone put a strobe light in my face! I realized it was the fan blowing the curtain towards and away from the windows, letting light come in. Drove me nuts. So now I’m awake! I’m burning a DVD for 2012 so he can get some music video stuff dropped off today while I’m in Long Beach.
I’ve had a lot of people asking me about stuff going on in California, and what Californians are up these days. I’ve come to realize that the news must make up a lot of stuff about us, cause 90% of what people outside here ask me about I’ve never even heard of. Apparently nobody here is getting paid to work, businesses are closing up, and we’re all boycotting Arizona. I personally, along with all my friends haven’t heard about any of this, so it’s brand new news to us, about us, from the news elsewhere lol. I love how the media literally shapes majority of the countries opinions, beliefs, and perspectives just by feeding people info. That’s power. Misused power.
I really need to cut my toe nails. Sick.
I’m going to try and upload pics to TweetPhoto today. I don’t do that as much as I should. Did you know we have a twitter account? Go HERE.
Ok, I need some chocolate milk. The store is almost open on the site!
Out.
Chad Gerber
May 28th, 2010 by cgerber
Today turned out to be a pretty interesting day. I don’t think 2012 or I really planned on it but we actually did some work on the next album that won’t be out for a year lol. The music just kind of popped out and felt amazing, so I sent him over some stuff and he got to it. If we have time next week we’ll have to head in and hammer out some details maybe…. but I don’t want to get too ahead of ourselves, we do have a while before we even head into the studio for all these songs. Nothing like bursting at the seams with music that dwarfs the last batch. You will love it.
We talked over some production techniques for the next album too, maybe doing some analog and digital recording, plus of course the ghetto tech we so much love lol. It’s going to be an insane album, but we need to focus on the upcoming tour and the music video stuff. Getting a little ahead of ourselves.
I’m going down to the Queen Mary tomorrow. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a haunted ship that was built after the Titanic sank. Very creepy, and very cool. I’m going spend some time down there, try not to work on anything (impossible) then go chill in Venice with some friends. I’m looking forward to this weekend. I highly doubt I’ll be able to stop writing on this new track though. Sort of a 24/7 problem. I’m hoping I don’t dream about the melody layers tonight.
Did some long boarding today while talking on the phone lol. It’s really relaxing when you combine the 2. I should do more of that. Although if it had been a band call, I wouldn’t have had anything to write down info crap on. I’m still refining the process lol.
Wish me luck, I may just take the Queen Mary out to sea.
Chad Gerber
May 27th, 2010 by cgerber
Some dude is walking across America just because. He says what’s the point of spending your whole life in a cubicle so you can retire and lay around for that last little bit? He had a job in New York, saved some money, then just up and quit. No plans now, just walking across America. Welcome to 2010! The choke hold of “job safety” and other manipulation tactics are falling apart! People used to go on and on about how secure their jobs are, and how they’re safe. Well the recession proved how safe everyone is lol. So now people are starting to entertain the thought that there just might be MORE out there! Maybe we don’t need to work our lives away just so we have cool stuff. Maybe we can actually go on adventures instead of paying for them at theme parks and in movie theaters. Money sustains people for a while, but eventually they get bored with whatever money buys. We’re human. We need adventures, danger, love, passion, not to be cooped up in some dead end job situation where you’re required to give your time forever and ever. Now is the time to feed your passions! The world sort of looks like it’s falling apart anyway, so what are the rest waiting on? If you have passion, follow it. There is no more job safety, there isn’t 100% retirement, that’s a thing of the past. I say do whatever you want now, and let everything work itself out. Just don’t sit in that boring job (if you have a boring job) or “safe” life plan any longer. Of course you still need education. Stopping with that is like not brushing your teeth. You’ll REALLY regret it one day lol. But do all of it while following your passions, not the system that we’ve all been taught to live in. We don’t have to live on credit, home loans, buying things we have no money for. Stop being a slave to the system. Just go. Do what you feel like doing! If there has ever been a time in our history, it’s now. GO!
Chad Gerber
May 26th, 2010 by cgerber
The summer is looking really busy, and not much time here in LA. Just found out from our booker about another show right after tour in either Vegas or here in LA. Sounds like a good show, but I was supposed to head on vacation lol. Maybe I can do both? I don’t know, I’ll have to figure that one out. Can’t complain though, people wanting you to perform and all that, sounds like a good deal to me. :)
I think we might be playing a show next week with our label mate Andrew Ryan again. I don’t know the details, but it’s either a show or a tv show or something. Who knows. I’m just looking forward to hanging out and goofing off lol.
I really need to do some long boarding ASAP. I wanted to go last night but it just didn’t work out. I like long boarding around the beach or Hollywood Blvd. Those are the best places in LA to long board hands down. Mostly because there’s a lot of freaks. Sometimes they yell at you when you go by lol.
Somebody who used to work for the CIA once told me that anything you buy, or enter, or input your information on or for, is never forgotten and all goes to a huge data base at the government. He was saying that if I bought a burger at Wendy’s 30 years ago, it will still be in the system that I bought it. Or socks, oil changes, DVDs, anything that has a receipt he said goes to a data base. It now makes me wonder about EVERYTHING we type online. Like twitter. Will all those little tweets float around in cyber space forever? Will all these retarded blogs be in a data base to be pulled up at some point? I mean, that’s really scary. What if I’m making the human race of 2010 look really stupid for those in 2050? Lets hope they don’t look this one up. It’s just a thought though.
Chad Gerber
May 26th, 2010 by cgerber
My bedroom looks like a TSD clothing store. All the shirts, jackets, dog tags stickers, etc, are all over my shelves. Every time I glance over I feel like I’m hanging out in a warehouse or something. I kind of like it. Maybe I’ll overhaul my room into a warehouse theme with a fork lift. Ok that was stupid, but there really is a lot of stuff on the shelves lol.
Today I went furniture hunting trying to find a table. I need a new table. After stopping at a few places, I ended up at a Good Will (I love thrift stores across the country) and found a really cool motorcycle helmet. It’s all black, and you can’t see in. Now I white helmet that looks like an astronaut, and a black one that looks like Darth Vader! I have another one too, but I don’t use it. Now that I look… my room looks like a warehouse/helmet shop. Awesome.
I can hear the ghetto birds flying around outside tonight. The city has all kinds of fun noises (I sleep better with city noise, no joke) including the LAPD helicopter catching bad guys. It’s always flying, but tonight it actually sounds close lol. I don’t live in a bad neighborhood at all, so it’s a little strange to hear it so close. Watch.. as I’m typing this someone busts in and kills me. The end.
I have this cut in my mouth… did I tell you this already? I have this cut and it hurts! It hurts to talk, laugh, and smile… so I’m finding myself saying dry sarcastic things to people like I tend to do, but since it hurts to smile or laugh, I look like I’m just being a jerk. I need to stop talking to people.
Me and 2012 have been talking and we’re trying to figure out the whole “buying CDs” thing. Like… will people be mad if we have the option for you to buy the CD? It will always be free…. but what if some people want to buy it? I don’t know. We’re just trying to figure stuff out. We can’t give them away at shows because that would cost a TON of money for us. So we HAVE to sell them. Free music is complicated. Keep Spreading Denial so it gets easier! haha
Hugs and kisses, butternuts and chocolate bunnies
Chad Gerber
May 25th, 2010 by cgerber
I just read that more and more people are up and quitting their jobs now. I’m not surprised. I remember when everyone was like “I have a stable job, why would I ever want to quit that?”, then the recession hit and every job in the US was making cuts. Nobody has stability ever. Unless you’re a Doctor… but even then you have to deal with the possibility of getting cut, messing up and getting fired, whatever. So now everyone is quitting. Almost like a mass exodus of people leaving this retarded 9-5 cubicle system that has people living their lives evenings and weekends. Watch everyone become the owners of tackle shops and outdoor sport rental places haha. No idea why I said that.
I guess there was a Jack Johnson concert on the pier last night. Free to whoever. Problem is, this freakish chilly weather is still here. Plus I couldn’t see myself at a Jack Johnson concert… let alone in the cold ocean air. How did his guitar stay in tune? I remember playing by a lake once, outdoors, and my guitar had trouble staying in tune. At least I think it did? Come to think of it I’ve played by a few lakes. One kept distracting me cause boats were pulling up to listen lol. I also remember that after that show, kids were getting autographs and stuff, and this one kid with really dark skin asked for my autograph but brought nothing to get signed. He then held his arm up for me to signed it. Sadly, you couldn’t even see it. I should have had a neon sharpie or something.
Speaking of after shows and stuff, I need to see if we have anything up online yet. Did you check out the store on the site? I think there was a few pics up with the new gear.
K I’m out. I need something to eat.
Chad Gerber
May 24th, 2010 by cgerber
Alright lets just get to it. The music video had had some technical difficulties. The difficulties include:
Fried Hard Drive
Non backwards compatible software
No software to solve no backward compatibility issues lol
Computer being used was too slow to handle new software
Now waiting on new equipment to arrive for director to work
So as you can see in a nutshell, it’s been slightly complicated. I feel bad for Tanya Brown (our director) because she has never experienced so many technical problems around a video before lol. Going into the entire shoot though her computer blew up, so I think some of this ties into that. In the time that she’s been running around trying to get all this rolling, I’ve been able to get a LOT of other work done that would have never happened had we been getting ready for a video release party. So it’s all worked out just right for me, but for everyone else I think they’re all going insane.
I woke up feeling dead today. Sluggish… boring… blank… and I was hoping to remove the feeling with my bowl of cereal, but I’m out of milk! I ate peanuts and chocolate for breakfast.
The Suicide Denial Store is coming together slowly. Right now images are being uploaded and deleted over and over, and some of the items are almost ready to go. You should go check it out! Ignore the pricing cause that’s still in the works, but totally go see what we’ve got!
STORE We don’t sell CDs, but we DO sell cool gear, so don’t you be shy now ;)
Chad Gerber
