65/70
Last night's practice was mental therapy a.k.a. fuggin' awesome. It's really cool to actually be able to see and hear the improvement the three of us have made from just a year ago. The new jams are gonna be sweet when they're done.
We might play at the palladium on the 17th, but the more I look into this show, the less cool it seems.....it's essentially asking $450 from people to play 20 minutes at the palladium. I bet I'd have more fun playing an hour in a backyard............actually I would have more fun doing that.
Not much else to say tonight because I want to shoot myself after finishing a paper for my american pop music class. Only 5 more days to go then finals then DONE WITH RIC FOREVER!!!
take a picture on 08/08/08 at 8:08 GMT which is actually like 8:08pm EST on august 7th but it's cool.
summer's gonna rawk. I hope the plain white snake milk tour is still goin' down cause that will be the best week of the summer if it does.
Yeah, I'm done. Pork.
Cheers.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Almost home.
60/70
My friends are the best. Just two more weeks, and maybe a couple days straight of sleeping, and I will be back to normal again. My decisions lately have been rash. My behavior has been even worse. I have said at least one thing each day for the past week that I would love to take back. I am blaming everything on end-of-semester stress.
To my friends: Please don't hesitate to slug me in the mouth when I act like an idiot. I'll love you for it, and I'll probably end up a better, more aware person because of it.
I am still stoked for the future.
Cheers.
www.worldwidemoment.com
My friends are the best. Just two more weeks, and maybe a couple days straight of sleeping, and I will be back to normal again. My decisions lately have been rash. My behavior has been even worse. I have said at least one thing each day for the past week that I would love to take back. I am blaming everything on end-of-semester stress.
To my friends: Please don't hesitate to slug me in the mouth when I act like an idiot. I'll love you for it, and I'll probably end up a better, more aware person because of it.
I am still stoked for the future.
Cheers.
www.worldwidemoment.com
Thursday, April 17, 2008
STRESSED OUT!!!
Ok. Deep breath and count to 10.
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...ok. As I've mentioned before, I'm transferring out of Rhode Island College and will be attending New England Institute of Technology next year majoring in Audio/Video Production. That's awesome. What isn't awesome is the cost of tuition for this school. $64,000 for four years worth of school. Now that number will go down a tad because of course transfers and diagnostic exams that I hope to ace to decrease the number of classes. I'm expected to provide an estimated $18,000 which I think is reasonable. If I save 50% annually, I can do it. I may have to work full time during school, but I will be able to do it. Student loans will cut that down too, granted I have to pay those back. Thing is, I have NO money. I have an ailing vehicle that needs a brake-job. I would LOVE to get that done NOW, but I have NO money. So as soon as I'm out of school for the summer, I am going to begin saving. 100 bux a week for 180 weeks. That seems like it will take forever to do, but I am determined to do it. My future and the stability of my future depends on it.
Hey Zach: welcome to real life.
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...ok. As I've mentioned before, I'm transferring out of Rhode Island College and will be attending New England Institute of Technology next year majoring in Audio/Video Production. That's awesome. What isn't awesome is the cost of tuition for this school. $64,000 for four years worth of school. Now that number will go down a tad because of course transfers and diagnostic exams that I hope to ace to decrease the number of classes. I'm expected to provide an estimated $18,000 which I think is reasonable. If I save 50% annually, I can do it. I may have to work full time during school, but I will be able to do it. Student loans will cut that down too, granted I have to pay those back. Thing is, I have NO money. I have an ailing vehicle that needs a brake-job. I would LOVE to get that done NOW, but I have NO money. So as soon as I'm out of school for the summer, I am going to begin saving. 100 bux a week for 180 weeks. That seems like it will take forever to do, but I am determined to do it. My future and the stability of my future depends on it.
Hey Zach: welcome to real life.
Monday, April 14, 2008
good day.
55/70
You know it's a good day when the following events take place.
-Drive up to Dunkin' Donuts drive thru
-Order food (in my case, a bagel and hot chocolate (not a coffee person))
-Pay for food...with a $20
-Receive change... $4.80something would be like $15.20something in change...I got like $25 bux back in change.
Now the moral nice genuine human being in me would have gone back and told the disgruntled woman working in the drive thru that she gave me the wrong amount of money and she would be short some money in her drawer. I've been through that myself.
Nope. I'm poor. Money = mine.
I went to the Red Sox game last Thursday, and let me tell you this: watching Papelbon come out of the bullpen and the crowd's reaction to this is worth the price of admission itself. Here's what goes down:
-Pap warms up in bullpen. People sitting in the first few rows behind the pen watch greatness at work.
-Tavarez gets pulled from game, Papelbon comes out of the pen to the tune of "Wild Thing." Crowd isn't enthused, but applause is present.
-Papelbon gets introduced. Dropkick Murphys is heard at like 120db throughout Fenway Park. The crowd doesn't cheer....the CROWD GOES FUCKIN' CRAZY.
-Papelbon gets out of an 8th inning jam. Crowd continues to go fuckin' crazy.
My band is playing at the BVT battle of the bands on Friday. This is funny because none of my bandmates ever went to BVT, nor are any of us in high school. I also don't get why it's called a battle of the bands, because there's no "battle." Band sets up, plays 4-5 tunes, and so on and so forth. I'm looking forward to it because I expect a packed house and the fact that our style is VASTLY different from any of the other performers. It'll be interesting to see the reaction from people who are seeing us play for the first time.
RIC still sux. I'm meeting with an admissions officer from New England Tech on Thursday. I really hope things pan out for me in this direction. I took a tour of the school. They have 13 ProTools HD systems, 2 of the big digidesign console/control surfaces, a full-out television studio with top notch editing gear, a computer lab full of Macs, a radio station, and all sorts of other stuff that made me wish I had started my education there instead of at RIC, but life goes on I guess.
That's all I have for now.
Cheers.
You know it's a good day when the following events take place.
-Drive up to Dunkin' Donuts drive thru
-Order food (in my case, a bagel and hot chocolate (not a coffee person))
-Pay for food...with a $20
-Receive change... $4.80something would be like $15.20something in change...I got like $25 bux back in change.
Now the moral nice genuine human being in me would have gone back and told the disgruntled woman working in the drive thru that she gave me the wrong amount of money and she would be short some money in her drawer. I've been through that myself.
Nope. I'm poor. Money = mine.
I went to the Red Sox game last Thursday, and let me tell you this: watching Papelbon come out of the bullpen and the crowd's reaction to this is worth the price of admission itself. Here's what goes down:
-Pap warms up in bullpen. People sitting in the first few rows behind the pen watch greatness at work.
-Tavarez gets pulled from game, Papelbon comes out of the pen to the tune of "Wild Thing." Crowd isn't enthused, but applause is present.
-Papelbon gets introduced. Dropkick Murphys is heard at like 120db throughout Fenway Park. The crowd doesn't cheer....the CROWD GOES FUCKIN' CRAZY.
-Papelbon gets out of an 8th inning jam. Crowd continues to go fuckin' crazy.
My band is playing at the BVT battle of the bands on Friday. This is funny because none of my bandmates ever went to BVT, nor are any of us in high school. I also don't get why it's called a battle of the bands, because there's no "battle." Band sets up, plays 4-5 tunes, and so on and so forth. I'm looking forward to it because I expect a packed house and the fact that our style is VASTLY different from any of the other performers. It'll be interesting to see the reaction from people who are seeing us play for the first time.
RIC still sux. I'm meeting with an admissions officer from New England Tech on Thursday. I really hope things pan out for me in this direction. I took a tour of the school. They have 13 ProTools HD systems, 2 of the big digidesign console/control surfaces, a full-out television studio with top notch editing gear, a computer lab full of Macs, a radio station, and all sorts of other stuff that made me wish I had started my education there instead of at RIC, but life goes on I guess.
That's all I have for now.
Cheers.
Monday, April 7, 2008
My Story
Music 2004 - Present
It was my freshman year of high school when I started to play music with other people outside of school. The first band I was ever in was a punk/ska band called "The Pajama Theory." It consisted of myself, Andy Leighton, and Sean Gendron in the horn section; Corey Fyfe, Sam Verla, and Mike Verla rounded out the rest of the band. We played a total of two shows. The next band I was in was called From Scratch, and it was with Jayce, Mike Graham, and Zach, and it consisted of repeatedly playing "A Favor House Atlantic" by Coheed, and various Blink 182 songs. Dan Croteau and Kyle Levassuer were present at a couple of rehearsals. A recording of Dan Croteau and lead vocals still exists on tape somewhere. I was playing guitar at the time. That band formed and reformed again numerous times throughout the next four years. Later on in 2004, Jayce and I were at a one time rehearsal with Tony Langone, Jon Beaudreau, and Matt Chamberlain. I was lead vocals/screams. That band lasted only one night. There were two days in 2004 that I remember quite vividly: 6/19/04 there was a party at the Levasseurs and I played dodgeball and watched people breathe fire. 6/23/04 was my birthday, the last day of school, and I got in trouble because I went to Franklin with K-dogg, Greek, and Bishop. We went to Taco Bell for dinner and browsed around Strawberries. I bought this CD by this band MAE called "Destination: Beautiful" I popped in K-doggs car, listened to it and was like "wow this CD blows." I put it away after, but then that night, I walked from my dad's to my mom's with my walkman listening to "embers and envelopes" and the rest is history. In 2005, I was in the school's drama club where the play we worked on consisted of a rape victim and a rock band. The members of that rock band (called THE HAWKS) were Tony, myself, Jon, Rebecca Hammer and Kelly Rice. Around that time, I was in a band with Tony, Jon, and Jon's older brother Dave called Artemis. We wrote Uxbridge's biggest screamo hit for that year and performed it at the Talent Show. After the talent show, I left Artemis in favor of a reggae/funk/pop band with Jesse Coutu on drums, Fyfe on bass, MikeVerla, and Kelly Rice. We named the band Hammerton after our music teacher. We had moderate success, most notably in the Attleboro area where we played at the now defunct Jarrod's Place like 12 times or so. We played a couple of other clubs in the area as well and recorded a few tunes. When school started the next year in the fall of '05, I was involved with that, and the other band that kept forming and reforming. It was in a Gov't class with Mr. Paradise I was in with Muscle and Wop that we decided to do something for the upcoming talent show. We decided on a Guns N' Roses tribute because at the time, all of us were dead set on the fact taht Wop sounded like Axl Rose. So for the entire month of October and into November, I would find myself in the basement of Jayce's grandparents playing bass for "Welcome to the Jungle" "Sweet Child O Mine" "Knockin on HEavens Door" and "Night Train." There were practices that we'd play our set in front of 10-15 people crammed into that basement and those were some fun times. The actual show in November was unforgettable. The crowd and costumes made it one hell of an experience. The rest of that year was spent with Hammerton, and playing a bunch of cover tunes with my bros. I graduated from high school in 2006, but still managed to play tunes with my friends. That continued at the Uxbridge Talent show in the fall of 2006 when we covered a tune by Jimmy Eat World, and I forget the other songs. We attempted to continue to make music with myself, Jayce, Wop, and Muscle, but with Muscle going to school in Boston, that made things difficult and for some reason, writing material was way too hard. Everyone went on a month hiatus after New Year's Eve '07. At the very end of January 2007, I was asked by Jayce if I wanted to go over to his house to listen to some recordings that he and Wop had recorded on a cheap tape player. I liked what I heard. A couple hours later, "The Brownfag sessions" were recorded on tape and Foreverless was born. We played like 5 shows under that name and a year later we released our first EP "Rock Forever" and changed the name to THIS IS FOR GLORY.
It was my freshman year of high school when I started to play music with other people outside of school. The first band I was ever in was a punk/ska band called "The Pajama Theory." It consisted of myself, Andy Leighton, and Sean Gendron in the horn section; Corey Fyfe, Sam Verla, and Mike Verla rounded out the rest of the band. We played a total of two shows. The next band I was in was called From Scratch, and it was with Jayce, Mike Graham, and Zach, and it consisted of repeatedly playing "A Favor House Atlantic" by Coheed, and various Blink 182 songs. Dan Croteau and Kyle Levassuer were present at a couple of rehearsals. A recording of Dan Croteau and lead vocals still exists on tape somewhere. I was playing guitar at the time. That band formed and reformed again numerous times throughout the next four years. Later on in 2004, Jayce and I were at a one time rehearsal with Tony Langone, Jon Beaudreau, and Matt Chamberlain. I was lead vocals/screams. That band lasted only one night. There were two days in 2004 that I remember quite vividly: 6/19/04 there was a party at the Levasseurs and I played dodgeball and watched people breathe fire. 6/23/04 was my birthday, the last day of school, and I got in trouble because I went to Franklin with K-dogg, Greek, and Bishop. We went to Taco Bell for dinner and browsed around Strawberries. I bought this CD by this band MAE called "Destination: Beautiful" I popped in K-doggs car, listened to it and was like "wow this CD blows." I put it away after, but then that night, I walked from my dad's to my mom's with my walkman listening to "embers and envelopes" and the rest is history. In 2005, I was in the school's drama club where the play we worked on consisted of a rape victim and a rock band. The members of that rock band (called THE HAWKS) were Tony, myself, Jon, Rebecca Hammer and Kelly Rice. Around that time, I was in a band with Tony, Jon, and Jon's older brother Dave called Artemis. We wrote Uxbridge's biggest screamo hit for that year and performed it at the Talent Show. After the talent show, I left Artemis in favor of a reggae/funk/pop band with Jesse Coutu on drums, Fyfe on bass, MikeVerla, and Kelly Rice. We named the band Hammerton after our music teacher. We had moderate success, most notably in the Attleboro area where we played at the now defunct Jarrod's Place like 12 times or so. We played a couple of other clubs in the area as well and recorded a few tunes. When school started the next year in the fall of '05, I was involved with that, and the other band that kept forming and reforming. It was in a Gov't class with Mr. Paradise I was in with Muscle and Wop that we decided to do something for the upcoming talent show. We decided on a Guns N' Roses tribute because at the time, all of us were dead set on the fact taht Wop sounded like Axl Rose. So for the entire month of October and into November, I would find myself in the basement of Jayce's grandparents playing bass for "Welcome to the Jungle" "Sweet Child O Mine" "Knockin on HEavens Door" and "Night Train." There were practices that we'd play our set in front of 10-15 people crammed into that basement and those were some fun times. The actual show in November was unforgettable. The crowd and costumes made it one hell of an experience. The rest of that year was spent with Hammerton, and playing a bunch of cover tunes with my bros. I graduated from high school in 2006, but still managed to play tunes with my friends. That continued at the Uxbridge Talent show in the fall of 2006 when we covered a tune by Jimmy Eat World, and I forget the other songs. We attempted to continue to make music with myself, Jayce, Wop, and Muscle, but with Muscle going to school in Boston, that made things difficult and for some reason, writing material was way too hard. Everyone went on a month hiatus after New Year's Eve '07. At the very end of January 2007, I was asked by Jayce if I wanted to go over to his house to listen to some recordings that he and Wop had recorded on a cheap tape player. I liked what I heard. A couple hours later, "The Brownfag sessions" were recorded on tape and Foreverless was born. We played like 5 shows under that name and a year later we released our first EP "Rock Forever" and changed the name to THIS IS FOR GLORY.
crapping out at the finish line
50/70
My band practiced for the first time in nearly 3 weeks last night, and to my and Jayce's suprise, Zach showed up with a lot less hair on his head than the last time we had seen him. It was shocking. The practice went well taking into consideration that the songs we play well, we're playing at our next show...so no worries? (4/18 @ BVT, BE THERE!!!). I am going to an open house tomorrow evening at New England Tech, where I expect to continue my education, majoring in Digital Recording Arts. I get to learn how to use ProTools, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and all of the little gadgets and software that are the industry standards in their respective fields. With this in mind, I'm finding myself just wanting to drop out of RIC immediately because these past two years have ended up being the biggest waste of time, and I haven't gotten a single thing out of it that will be useful to me in the future (except some transfer credits). The job situation has subsided a little bit in the past week. I'm giving this dude two months to show everyone that he's not a douche before I do decide to find another job. And the good news now is that my car insurance went down a lot! Like $50 less a month! That's awesome considering gas prices and that I'm barely making enough money as it is to fill up my stomach and my car every week. I guess that's all I can really contribute to this "blog" as of now. So until next time...
Cheers.
My band practiced for the first time in nearly 3 weeks last night, and to my and Jayce's suprise, Zach showed up with a lot less hair on his head than the last time we had seen him. It was shocking. The practice went well taking into consideration that the songs we play well, we're playing at our next show...so no worries? (4/18 @ BVT, BE THERE!!!). I am going to an open house tomorrow evening at New England Tech, where I expect to continue my education, majoring in Digital Recording Arts. I get to learn how to use ProTools, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and all of the little gadgets and software that are the industry standards in their respective fields. With this in mind, I'm finding myself just wanting to drop out of RIC immediately because these past two years have ended up being the biggest waste of time, and I haven't gotten a single thing out of it that will be useful to me in the future (except some transfer credits). The job situation has subsided a little bit in the past week. I'm giving this dude two months to show everyone that he's not a douche before I do decide to find another job. And the good news now is that my car insurance went down a lot! Like $50 less a month! That's awesome considering gas prices and that I'm barely making enough money as it is to fill up my stomach and my car every week. I guess that's all I can really contribute to this "blog" as of now. So until next time...
Cheers.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
a couple weeks later...
I'm proud of the final result. The entire thing. That right there is the project that I've most invested my time in. Hours upon hours of tracking, mixes, frustration, and that's what came out of it and I couldn't be happier. Please buy one at a show if you feel so inclined.
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