I stood up and screamed...

Sometimes, I just really wanna stop playing guitar. I'm not going anywhere. I'm not learning anything new. I honestly am not motivated to learn anything new. Plus playing along to CD's and silence is amusing only for so long. Playing by myself leads to me learning more acoustic-y songs that you can sing along to. Then I realize I can't sing either and it all just goes to shit and I complain about it on my blog.

But I won't stop. I've wasted too much money and time that I could've spent studying and stuff to turn back now.

Hello.

Will you take me to Coachella?

-Allan

Severed Arm

I just watched "Slumdog Millionaire". It was okay. I didn't like the ending in the least bit. It was too "perfect". Maybe you haven't seen it so I won't ruin it for you. Then again, I probably already have.

-Allan

No sir, you don't understand...

There's this song on the Silent Hill 3 soundtrack called "End of Small Sanctuary". I feel very blank (for a lack of any better word) when I listen to it. It just brings out a lot of things in my head that cancel each other out. I don't think I can quite explain it to another person since I'm pretty sure they will never know exactly what I'm talking about. Sure, you probably have your own version of this, but that's not gonna do. I don't know. The way the song is arranged (and there are maybe a handful of other songs out there that are arranged kinda like this) just makes me stop. I can't explain this.

Not that there's any reason to.

I'm like the guy who gets shot and then wins the lottery. A bad thing followed by a great thing. In some weird alternate universe, those two would cancel out and the gunshot wound and money would disappear and I would return to the state I was before. In our less alternate and very real universe, that wound would still be there and all that money doesn't really fix shit. I still would've gotten shot. There's still a chance I might die. You get what I'm saying? That's exactly how my life is. I get shot every minute and win the lottery every other. Can YOU live like this?

"Well duh. I would be filthy rich and could pay for super fancy hospitals and stuffs so it's all good."

You dummy. That's not what I was getting at.

A birdy told me I could score a free set of EMG pick-ups to put on Lo'. That would save me about $200+. But I can barely play guitar so I really don't see a point in doing all this.

-Allan

Chemical Chemical Chemical Badger

I'm a past out priest in an AA meeting.

Jared Leto said that fans of 30 Seconds to Mars are awesome because they realize how important the band was to him and that it was everything for him. What? Minus the fact you rake in shitloads of money from being an actor? I think you'll live should your mediocre band fail.

Poo.

Is there really any point in complaining about modern, popular music? It's gone to shit and nothing's really gonna save it. We should just embrace it like the deformed, in-bred child you keep in your basement so none of your friends or neighbors have to see it. So let them pretend like what they're doing saves lives. Let them pretend to be deep and thought-provoking. Let them pretend to be women.

So like....why can't I write songs? Even jokingly. I can't put words together to form a passable song. Even when I remove everything that tells me to try to be deep and just go for cliche. I can't even do cliche. This is Chuck Norris's way of telling me that I don't have a future in anything music-related.

Thank you for listening.

-Allan

I'm bluffing

Mindy White has her own music account on myspace. It has two very low-fi, shit quality recordings that are awesome. I wonder if she sends em out to people who want em since myspace no longer allows for the free downloading stuff? No, I'm not obsessed. You're just not catching onto this fad. =/ I listen to girly music. Shut up.

Apparently Lo' kicks ass and I totally got a kick ass deal (or so people have told me today). Then again, the economy is still pretty shit so people are just trying to sell stuff. Doesn't matter if they make like a tiny bit. As long as they are selling. So maybe I could've gotten her for $500. Maybe.

I'm slowly getting Footloose down. A few more rehearsals and I should be set the BS my way through most of it.

I'm too impatient to be in music.

-Allan

I woke up near the sea

Here's a video for you. Aren't you excited?

Lydia - I Woke Up Near The Sea
Uploaded by UniversalMusicGroup

Now do you see why you should like Lydia? Mindy White. That's the only reason.

-Allan

The Actress

New band for you to pretend to love.

Dear and The Headlights. Think the Strokes, but mellower. And indier. And probably better lyric-wise. Less garage too.

Question of your day:

Why does Chiodos play everything in dropped D? Jason Hale, mix it up a bit man.

Not that I really like having to re-tune the guitar to something weird every other song. Maybe that's why they invented those robot guitars. What happens when the stuff craps out on you? Can you manually tune those? Isn't a robot guitar just a step closer to a robot take-over? What if they become too smart and start slipping subliminal messages into the songs you are playing? Why the fuck do I care?

So this post is gonna be more on the music side then I guess. No personal blah blah here. Just my horrible opinions on what's good in the music "scene".

Let me plug some more crap.

March 11th. There is an insane show going on at Bottom of the Hill (cause no other venue exists in my mind). I most definitely can't go since it's in the middle of the week, but I might as well tell you about it because it's pretty fucking amazing. Rx Bandits! TERA MELOS! MUSIC! WOOO!!! ALL ON THE SAME NIGHT!!!! Go see it if you can. Both bands put up really great live shows. You're more than likely to have a few faces torn off in the process too.

Umm, umm....UMM!!!!!!!

-Allan