well, here we are in raleigh, nc recouping after a fantastically fun and rainy evening in richmond, va. it was so good to be back in my hometown for a show after a good 5 years of regretfully skipping it on the map. if you were there, thanks for coming. it was great to see you. we hope you'll come back next time.
well, we have 2 more shows on this tour with chiodos, hit the lights and person L. then it's time to write some new songs. this time we hope to bang on more pots, pans, dresser drawers and oil drums. we'll see what happens.
well, it's time to eat a whole meal of food. later peeps.
So hello, i am sitting on the bus in allentown pa and tropical storm hannah is dropping buckets of rain on us. Its Tony's bday and he is bummed because he is trying to watch football but our sat tv is down due to the rain. so tomorrow we are shooting a video for fell in love with you on a beach in long island we are hoping for some stormy weather. i know thats weird but it is what we are hopping for.
so i know it has been forever since i had blogged, so here is what i have been up to, i just spent our last break between warped tour in the studio with this band called the mathaletes from chicago. they are very new but i think people will dig there stuff so keep an eye out for it. beyond that jsut been hangin at home walking my dog (fia) and getting ready to start seriously working on a new mcs record this fall. i am really stoked about getting into the studio and making another record.
the only other important news in my life is that it is my one year anniversary on monday with my wonderful wife jill.
hope all is well out there in the world i will talk to you soon..
joshua
It's a blog, mofo! We have all been out of the blogging habit, I apologize. I feel like I rarely have anything too exciting to tell you about. This isn't really any different, but I am sitting at home doing nothing right now, so I figured I would do it just to do it.
We have been home from Warped Tour for almost 2 weeks now, and it's almost time to head back out. Time flies. What have I been up to since I have been home you might ask? Well...not too damn much. I have just been relaxing, hanging with friends, seeing movies, and playing way too much Madden. I can't explain to you how stoked I am for football season to start. People have a bleak outlook for my Bears, but I am hoping for the best...
I saw Tropic Thunder last night. Holy ridiculousness! It was a pretty good time, and a surprisingly hilarious performance by Tom Cruise. Yes, Tom Cruise was pretty damn funny, you read that right. I have seen a lot of movies this summer, I more or less enjoyed most of them, Hellboy 2 was the only letdown for me. The first one was so great, and the second one just let me down. It LOOKED great, but lacked everything else. I know it's what everyone is saying, but the best movie of the summer for me was The Dark Knight. If you haven't seen it, shame on you! In honor of Batman...
Todays celebrity birthday, the man who ruined the old Batman series, Joel Schumaker is 69.
well, a great tour is over and i'm on my way home.. and by "on my way home" i mean sleeping in the JFK terminal until my rebooked flight takes off tomorrow morning. my flight was cancelled due to "weather" and the only hotel options nearby are days inn and comfort inn. those morons are asking for $200 a night. sure, i'm a guy with pockets as deep as the atlantic (ha... ha? sigh..), but i'm protesting on principle. those rooms are crap and not worth near that amount. so i decided to hang out here for 11 hours. i had dinner at "mex and the city" (yes, an incredibly clever and side-splittingly hilarious mash-up of mexican food and the show that we all know and hate starring the one and only kim cattrall) where i consumed quite possibly the world's worst burrito. it had a full chicken bone in it. i'm pretty sure that wasn't on the menu. then i sat and listening to some tunes and then hung out with some other misfortunate strangers at the bar and watched the NBA finals. nice, lakers! keep it up. give us 7 games! now i'm sleeping on this bench next to this group of high school theatre kids and the family with 14 kids under the age of 6 (yeah, i tried doing the math. it didn't work out for me either). hey, at least a nice airline employee just offered me a blanket. now i'm in that weird i'm-too-hot-with-the-blanket-on-but-too-cold-with-the-blanket-off zone where normally i'd be sleeping sockless and bring one full leg outside of the blanket to compensate, but it's an airport, so i can't really violate the "no shirt no shoes no service" policy. hmmm.. a dilemma. hopefully i'll make it thru this alive.
i hate weather and the aviation industry. thanks for listening.
ps. fat kid, if you happen to be reading this and you jump up and down on my bench again, i WILL end you. good night.
If i was intelligent and knew how to post links, i would do that. But, I am not, so I won't.
I have been majorly slacking on the blogging I know, but I was asked to do a blog for moderndrummer.com, so head on over there if you care!
