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Metal for the 21st century 7-7-07

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:57:37 -0700

In case you missed the last bulletin... Hello my dear friends, I am writing to you very sleep deprived. Today is 07-07-07 the day of God, which is the day since 06-06-06 that we decided to name 777 as national UnderOATH day (God's favorite band probably) (http://www.myspace.com/nationalunderoathday Today I hope is a day where you will play UnderOath at home, at the workplace, or at a block party at your street. If your guardians don't like it then take a machete and cut off their ears only jk-ing guys, and if you think your boss doesn't like it then call in sick or quit...I know I will because UnderOath has given me wondrous times since Act of Depression to Define The Great Line (produced by a founding member of the blue man group and killswitch engadge) and everywhere in between. Tell all your friends; plus what band is good enough to have a whole day to themselves----NOT THAT LAME BAND RUSH THAT'S FOR SURE! Well I advise you buy tickets to warped tour and see them this summer as I have last summer (where I caught someone's bloody lip piercing in the mosh pit) or buy all of their albums or at least the newest dvd entitled 777, which I believe is released today. If you can't afford $285 for one of the 1000 only copies of Cries of the Past don't take it off limewire because stealing good music is a crime, you should instead bootleg shitty Rush albums and sell them to stupid Rush fans like Max Smiley. UnderOath has been able to tour 250-300 shows a year, sell 350,000 copies of They're Only Chasing Safety without tv or radio support--and only 20,000 of these were sold at religious music stores--which means everyone loves them. Not only become the highest selling Christian band since 1997 but the highest selling metal band too. Their latest Album Define The Great Line sold 98,000 copies it's opening week, which got it #2 on the billboard charts, #1 on the Christian charts, and #1 on the metal and rock charts--that means it placed higher than Hawthorne Heights, Taking Back Sunday, Death Cab for Cutie, Atreyu, Oasis, and many other great albums from your favorite bands even Rush's latest album. Their first two albums aren't made anymore and have a limited supply left, but they were released when Aaron Gillepsie, the drummer, was only 16--they are now only 23 and have released 5 albums, 3 dvds, and been on warped tour and taste of chaos main stage many times. They are all straight edge and raised 75 grand for orphans in two hours (something Rush couldn't do). They are the first Tooth and Nail artist to go "gold" beating out the juliana theory and reliant k. Their latest album DTGL has reached 500,000...something the latest rush album hasn't achieved yet. For all you emo's out there My Chemical Romance borrowed their shirts and got food from UO when they started out. Their purevolume account, http://www.purevolume.com/underoath has close to 10 million plays, probably even more on myspace and for their old stuff http://www.purevolume.com/underoathformerband some other religious hxc bands you might enjoy: He is Legend This Runs Through (Spencer's old band) Sullivan (Spencer's brothers band) Haste the Day Demon Hunter Fleexthexseen Martyr's Prayer (Tim's brothers band) Paramore (hot lead singer) The Devil Wears Prada (definitely pwns drop dead gorgeous) Switchfoot The Almost (Aaron's latest project) Maylene and the Sons of Disaster (Dallas Taylor is awesome) Jesus Wept Flogging Molly or anything on Tooth and Nail like Anberlin NOFX still rules even though they make fun of UO I stumbled upon a what seemed to be a well done underoath countdown day site where a lot of people went to and checked back often and when it finally got here the biggest prank in america unfolded--the user posted pictures of shit eaters...urgh damn we all got pwnd--I was uber excited about UO day and I got f--ing shit eating pictures. That's just wrong, but still to all the fans happy 7-7-07, it only comes once a millenium. myspace secret show:

Lhotkapalooza

Sat, 05 May 2007 04:30:22 -0700

I attended Lhotkapalooza: Battle of the Bands, hosted by our music teacher Mr. Dale Lhotka. It didn't seem like many people turned out at the doors at 7:00, but I would say a pretty intense 200 people showed up (including middle schoolers). I showed up to support my four good friends in the band Shaken Not Stirred--because I wanted to see my friend Max :) play guitar and Quinn sing and play drums just like UnderOath or Atreyu, and three other friends in Two Weeks Notice. Well I got my friend Chris to tag along with me then we met up with another fellow mosher/headbanger Justin and Kristen. A bunch of my other friends went, but they mostly just watched because they're not as hardcore. In my last blog I talked about moshing with a group of people I didn't know very well--so I saw them her too and moshed with them during lunch today, and also at the show. It was really fun, we had another HUGE dance train led by my friend Hans; in fact the train actually encircled the dance floor and back room, so the people in the middle where trapped. My previous math teacher, Mr. Wellman, for some odd reason decided to attend dressed as a girl wearing a blue dress hahahaha--he and Mr. Lhotka, dressed as a clown, contributed to a gigantic head bang circle in the middle of the dance floor as Ethan's band played a Coheed and Cambria song...he was actually pretty good at shredding. TWN (formed within 2 weeks of the event lol...Dekland didn't even now the names of some of the songs) played two Misfits songs--one of them being Halloween, The Casualties' Unknown Soldier, a Bloodhound Gang song, and one other songs. SNS played a Beatles song, Johnny Cash, The Cars, and two other covers--also Quinn gave me a shout out. When my friends in the band were not playing they went and moshed/head banged with us; yup all great times. During the last hour of Lhotkapalooza Mr. Wellman and Mr. Lhotka along with Mr. W (Polish name I can't spell--who also goes to my church and chaperoned After Prom) played "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister. I would say in all 50 people where really really hardcore, and the rest were semi, hippie, or ska--yes many styles were there. Jordan, guitarist of TWN, and I went crowd surfing--he nearly fell. Everyone pretty much expected our local legendary band Trigger to win because they have an amazing vocalist who can shred, drummer with personality (was in my Spanish class last year), great bassist, great guitarist (great friend), just all around amazing, their stage show was amazing--They covered "Sweet Child of Mine" by Guns and Roses, "Living On A Prayer" by Bon Jovi, and a Megadeath song among others. When they played nearly everyone went really hardcore. Even with all that SNS won, beating the five other bands, and did an amazing encore at around 10:15 P.M. when people were tired and went home; I think they played He-Man and The Masters of the Universe--at that point like 15 of us did that Chris Pontious Party Boy thing to our vice principal again--I think we're gonna start a tradition. Well it was a lot of fun--all great times especially since it only cost 5 dollars--the same price Mr. Wellman paid to see Fugazi back in the day--Some 1,000 dollars were raised for the school music department, but I'm sleepy, sweaty, my neck hurts, and yeah I'm gonna head to bed. http://www.purevolume.com/shaken_not_stirred (I'm the honorary first fan and comment)

I'm Content

Thu, 03 May 2007 01:00:21 -0700

In my last blog I talked about upcoming the Junior class presidential elections. When I started my freshman year I was a total megalomaniac, who didn't care about people's feelings, and thought it was easy to win them over and get a good mark on my college resume, so I ran for president even though I didn't know many people. I started my campaign one month before the elections and rallied hard, I had a few of my really popular friends rally too. One of the requirements to run is to write a paragraph on why you want to run or a statement of your goals along with ten signatures. I barely knew 20-30 people in my school at that time, so I thought it would be hard, but at the end I had some 80 signatures. There was this one girl, who I didn't know--but later became friends with, tell me she would be dropping out because a bunch of her friends were voting for me, so at that point I was really stoked. Then I wrote one of my most sincere and honest speeches based on my believes on change inspired by my heroes like Ghandi and Kennedy. On election day I was up against two girls, who had a lot of friends, were really nice, and involved in a lot of school sports and activities, but somehow I won...yup I got a lot of complements on my speech, even from the candidates. This is important to me because it brought me a bunch of confidence (my grades soared and I joined a bunch of extracurriculars) and met a bunch of cool people, which made me feel better about society. That year was fun because we earned a bunch of money from a great dance we spent hours upon hours planning called the Spring Fling along with participating in the Christmas Tree decoration competition. I was re-elected, well actually unopposed, even though it seems like we didn't do as much as last year, we earned a higher income so it was great, we held another big dance, After Prom, as well as help out with the Christmas Tree decoration thing and help out with a community play and Prom cleanup. So the past two years have been important to me because I learned the basic lesson, the world doesn't revolve around me, and learned to care about other people. So my former vice president ran for president and won:) <---wait wtf is there a smiley you ask, well she is a person with great character, optimism, and prior experience, so I feel safe passing the torch on to her; even though a lot of money still needs to be raised...yup got a bunch of complements on my speech again:) a bunch of people (close election) still support me (like they were taking it personal, like they were sad/mad I didn't win...I was like whoa she needs our support to get things done, give her a chance), and I tell them it's okay because I have more free time to plunge deeper into insane:):( I'm also happy because I have A LOT of free time now, so that I can not eat ham sandwiches, take long naps, watch tv hahahaha, take up a hobby like film making, write, devout more time to guitar, set bonfire parties at the beach...don't tell anyone, read...nah, homework...nah, study for my long overdue driver's permit...nah, play WoW...possibly, set up games of ultimate frisby, knit sweaters...hahahaha jk, learn the bagpipes lol (ever since I saw that Flatfoot 56 video I always wanted to), and most importantly hangout with the people I CARE about (yes amazing, I know no more desire to enslave the world like a neocon). I will still do my part to help those in need whenever I can and take positions in many extracurriculars like Teen Court, and even help the freshman with their Spring Fling because I still want to help out with the hosting of one dance a year not including PROM and plus we resurrected SF so I want it to be a tradition, but that's in like a year so I'll be inactive...it's like working and yet being relaxed. Well I'm gonna hang with my friends, which is about 80% of the people I meet--the others either don't know me well or hate me hahahaha, actually my friends tell me I'm weird because I say and do random stuff to them when I meet them, like criticizing them on point (in a funny jerk way, not to offend them) or like in the school library the other day I did that stupid starburst berries and cream dance to some random chick in the library hahahaha. Well anyway my main point is that if there is something you want (in my case for the wrong reasons at first) go for it, sometimes you don't know how far it will take you. Yeah I have so much free time, that's why I care to write this, to tell you how much time I have hahahahah, it's like infinity now...wtf...why am I still typing?...:):(:):(:):(:) <---ooo mood swinger..........

After Prom

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:53:09 -0700

So midnight was after prom, and a lot more people showed up than I expected, which was good since my other class officers and some adults worked hard for two weeks to set it all up. I was so stoked and scared when they announced that the sophomore class would be hosting after prom. Well after two weeks of setting up everything, we had our class treasurer be the awesomest DJ ever, and everything from decorations, food, door prizes, candy, the bowling downstairs was awesome. Nothing really went wrong...just perfect, a lot of my friends went...well one of my friends had a book report due tuesday...unless he was just playing world of warcraft. The whole point of after prom is for us to be together and find fun in things other than drugs or sex. I really was surprised by how many people showed up and stayed until it ended at 4 a.m. Last year my former officers helped to set up a Spring Fling dance and that was awesome, even for a freshman hosted dance, mainly because the decorations were the best ever. I'm gonna run for class president of the junior class tomorrow, and I have to deliver a speech in front of every junior. Only one other person is running against me, my vice president of when I was a freshman:) and she has a lot of friends and is really nice, but so many people have been telling me how awesome I am and it gives me confort lol:) yup a lot different from last year when no one ran against me or when I was a freshman and no one knew me--good times:) I want to hold a big dance every year until I graduate:) o yes and at after prom I head banged with a bunch people I barely know, but it seemed we were friends for a while. Also started a dance train, conversed about beer and Mardi Gras with my friend's math teacher who also goes to my church, participated in can-can line, helped people try to devour a 42-47 foot subway sandwhich, and like 10 of us at the same time did that Chris Pontious Party Boy dance to our assistant principal and random hot girls on the dance floor; it was hilarious everyone cleared the middle and was watching and saying wtf and the people trapped were trying to get out of the massive party boy dance circle hahahahaaha, they liked it so it was all good, o yeah and at least I got a sweatband and had some cake. I had to stay a little for clean up, but I got to keep one of the lantern decorations. The school gave us money to buy door prizes for people and we gave away a couple ipods, a Wii, and video games (hmm grand theft auto III at a school event), as well as some of the prizes local business donated. Everyone wanted the Wii and this one guy in my math class won it:) I wanted to to set up an area where people could play guitar hero; reminds of of when my friends brother was explaining the game to a history teacher, who teaches in this giant mini theatre like room with a huge screen and is considered one of the coolest teachers ever (as in everyone wants to be his cadet teacher). He was like why don't you bring it in, and the class got to play it on the really huge screen:) O yes and I also found out that by Friday I must hand in my petition to run for an office position in Teen Court, but a lot of my friends (all 60 some in the program) could be running for something, and a handful of them are really committed, but whatever I'm gonna try for vice president of the board because the president does all the talking and the secretary does all the notes, so the vice president sits there in the meeting and it still looks good on your college resume:) Wish good things to happen for me and you:) Count the smileys instead of reporting me to the grammar nazis:)

Really old blog from my PureVolume page, O yeah and I edited it on 4-22-07 with stuff I'm doing this summer:)

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:44:47 -0700

Delayed at the airport again (going back to my island), so I'll tell you of my warped adventure. We changed our warped tour date to San Fransisco which was better because it would be more cool than San Diego. It was awesome I got to see The Fully Down, HelloGoodBye (Main Stage), Thursday (Main Stage), The Pink Spiders, Underoath (Main Stage), The Academy Is... (Hurley), Aiden (Hurley), Every Time I Die (Hurley), Scary Kids Scaring Kids (Smartpunk), Damone (Myspace Tent), Chiodos (Smartpunk), Rise Against (Main Stage), and the lead singer from the Greeley Estates (Hurley) staged dived on me and some dude near the barrier. I participated in a mosh pit at least 7 times--also learned the hardcore dance thing, and I got a bunch of awesome merch including autographs from Aiden (Victory Records Tent), but I was cut off when going to the Underoath signing an missed the Paramore (Super Soaker Tent Signing...Hayley is freaking a goddess.), The Academy Is..., Senses Fail, Saosin, Escape The Fate signings and missed up to the end of the Anti-Flag (Main Stage) set, and the entire I Am Ghost set, but I did get surrounded and crushed by girls on all sides at the HelloGoodBye set (also the Academy Is...) to start the morning. People were groping half naked crowd surfing chicks and knocking a bunch of people down in the mosh pit, but it was still a seriously awesome time though. The Best Summer Ever, well not really Bad Religion is playing next year! Thursday set was the first I went to and it was just freakin awesome. Saw them on Bastards of Young on Fuse. Well, I'm going to download all of their songs for free because they said we should. I saw a bunch of guys leave this one area laughing and I heard emo music coming from the main stage so I took a peek at who it was and it was HelloGoodbye; My older step sister brought us there because she is emo, so anyway I wanted to move up to the front and halfway through I realized that I was surrounded by chicks on all sides. I figured Thursday, Underoath, and Anti-Flag were taking the stage next, so I might as well have a good spot. At the Underoath set some guy was moshing next to me and another dude ripped his lip piercing out and I caught it in my hand! I saw a kid in a stroller with a green mohawk and families and old people and environmental activists, it was weird o yeah and I saw a dominatrix in full out leather with whips and stuff. They had a Playstation tent and I pwned at Guitar Hero. I felt a bit sad because of so many of the busy people running booths who were asking for tips. Some girl running the water and Gatorade stand asked for a dollar tip from my step sister and her boyfriend, John. Just couldn't say no. They gave a bunch of free stuff away though so it evens out. My step sister and John went to Taste of Chaos a few months ago, so jealous, but summer's almost here and I'm heading to Australia:) ttywifli (talk to you when I feel like it)

D-Day

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:31:03 -0700

Last year my friends and I started a tradition:) Our school's health division puts on this fundraiser and awareness month for Diabetes with a walk (or race) on the last day, and on the first annual walk last year my friends and I walked and ate a bag of chips on the way and I won a pair of giant star glasses, so we christened it Diabetes Fest 06. This year I jogged with a friend of a friend, and when we reached the halfway point I had a conversation with him, but didn't even know his name!! hahahaha and I forgot it too:) I had lost my name tag on the way back to the school and he somehow had two so he came in 47th and 48th place (and we let a bunch of people pass us too). A friend was gonna come in on his tricycle shirtless with I survived Diabetes Fest 07 on his chest hahahaha, but looking forward to next year because we have this plan where we would hide a friends car at a checkpoint and bring it out and play hardcore mosh music, like bury your dead, and ghost ride all the way:) We even adapted a mascot--Diabetes monster. I was talking to this with a teacher (really cool guy, who likes Fugazi and stuff) and he said we should change Diabetes Fest because we're not suppose to be festive about it, so he suggested D-Day or DIABETES awareness FEST <---with the awareness part in fine print hahahaha. Next year I should put up a count down ticker:) Well yeah there you go...now go count all my smiley's and don't tell the grammar nazis. no more ham sandwhich:( omhg im soooo sad I'm gonna hide in a corner and slash my wrists and listen to My Chemical Romance jk jk how about My Cock is Rubber <----now there's really cool band name.

First Blog Ever <---not really:)

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:29:08 -0700

Today is absolutely amazing! It is March 17th, 2007--Saint Patricks day yay (be sure to go look at my groups and find the food one, and they will have an irish recipe...yum) also I hear it's the anniversary of the invasion on Iraq and the march to the pentagon. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17655224/), the twenty-fifth anniversary of the web smiley (http://tech.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4214964&page=2) Along with the past there are important things taking place in the now (Palestinian unity government takes office): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11457520/ future--well I helped out for an hour at a bake sale to raise money for a program I'm in called teen court, which handles juvenile court cases with teen attorneys. It was fun, we held it outside of Wal-mart (even though I don't appreciate some of their practices: http://walmartwatch.com/ and http://boycottwalmart.meetup.com/ I thank them for letting us do this) also just as a reminder tax day is in one month...how fun. www.freedomtofascism.com/ and freedomtofascism.com/blog/afftfblog.html (or watch the entire movie free on youtube and read about Ed and Elaine Brown's court hearing.) or if your not gonna take it that far--http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/CutYourTaxes/10bigDeductionsTooManyPeopleMiss.aspx and http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/TaxShelters/TheUltimateTaxShelterYourOwnBusiness.aspx happy living peoples:):):)---support your local indie pub this St. Patrick's day, or just be straight edge and join the straight edge group here on Virb, which I can be found in. Srry grammar nazi's for the mistakes, don't send the virb mafia to kill me. much LOVE, Octavio (my Spanish name for my Spanish II class)