"go out and get your own life, and live it your way..."

back! from the wedding!

so lets do the rundown of predictions. what an awesome weekend. it was a beautiful ceremony, scottie and kristin looked great, everything was amazing, and the open bar from 5 until 11:30 helped to fuel a whole lotta fun. lets re-cap:

prediction #1: not so good. travis didn't get really drunk. but i think he had a really good time. he, i, and flowers basically hung out the whole time. which included at 2:00am trip to the sketchiest Denny's I've ever seen in my life the first night. which included this security guard manning the "hostess" post, who had 2 lazy eyes, a limp in his walk, and sounded like he had no idea what "English" was. I'd say he was about 55 years old, nasty grey beard, weathered face, etc. basically a drug addict with a uniform. so yeah, that was awesome. but it was awesome to see travis, and i had a great time. just like old college days. i even tricked him into eating some scrapple sunday morning. i ordered it because i had never had it before, and took a bite. and flowers and t-nuts looked at me and were like "how is it", so i kinda smiled, nodded my head in approval, and was like "travis, you gotta get in on this." so he takes a bite and immediately his facial expression is one of "what the fuck?" and he goes "dude, this is horrible" and i said "i know. its the worst fucking shit i've ever had in my life." oh man, that was awesome.

prediction #2: this didn't really pan out either. nick didn't get super drunk (his girlfriend AND ex-girlfriend were there, which was amusing to watch), and he certainly didn't kiss any dudes that i saw. damn it. it was great to see nick though. still funny as hell, and still does the "giaimo shuffle" on the dance floor. good times.

prediction #3: so, this kinda happened. scottie didn't try to take any chair i was sitting in, but there was a LOT of talk about it from the ex-WOMB (wake frisbee) guys. so at the reception i went up and sat in his chair up on stage (i guess it was kind of like a throne). and then scott came over and was like "what the?" and we fake-wrestled for about half-a-second before he realized there was cake waiting for him at his seat. so then he took a bite of his cake, and i got my congratulatory high-fives and "that was hilarious" comments from all post-wake players. that is the stuff of legends.... or really lame incidents that happened during college of which i'm not too proud. although i guess looking back and laughing about a situation is better than looking back and being pissed and/or embarrassed. so i'll give me a 1/2 on this prediction

prediction #4: ok, so this prediction was the lay-up. kobe! anyone who knows siler KNEW he was going to get way too drunk. which culminated with him falling on the dance floor and spilling beer all over everything. and then him getting up (with help) and walking around with his shirt untucked, disheveled looking, never to be seen again. that was awesome. and him telling me 4 or 5 times how much he misses me and how i should move to charlotte. gotta love scott siler.

so, at least a 1.5 out of 4 is good. ok, maybe not. so i suck at predictions. but it was an awesome weekend. what i DIDNT predict is that one of my buddies (name not to be mentioned so he doesn't get in trouble) made out with his first asian. (lock it up). and i called all the moves from about a minute or two before they happened. and it was broken up before anything really happened by their drunk roommate walking in eating fritos. and i also didn't call having a slutty blond (3rd girl in the room with the asian and the drunk eating fritos) compliment me on my "perfect nook" (which is apparently the area between your shoulder and chest where a girl lies her head, presumably after sex), and then ask me if i could get us a room so we could "do this." to which i replied, "wow. well, that is forward. forward is good." and then i turned her down, at which point she got pissed. hmmm. let me think about that. i am not drunk enough to make you good looking enough for me to sleep with, and the only thing i want to go home from this wedding with are memories, not mouth herpes and an itchy crotch. oh well. so, no sex for me. the dry spell continues. but also no STDs! so i'd say thats a win for me.

man, we gotta do this more often. what an awesome time. good stories, good memories, and great to see the wake crew again.

"go on and lose it, go on and lose it all"

"fast and slow, here we go, on a big chair..."

im about to head to a wedding for one of my college roommates and a guy i played 3 years of college ultimate with (he kinda quit his last year), and im pretty psyched. im going to see basically all of my old college friends. which, of course, lends itself to all kinds of mischief and debaucheries. so what im going to do is predict (here) what's going to go down. and then we'll recap and see what actually DOES happen. and-ah-here we go:

prediction #1: travis "t-nuts" greer gets really drunk. he's got a baby on the way with his wife (yeah, i know. people are getting married and having kids... and im still playing ultimate and video games? nice. nice work, michael). so he's going to want to break out a little, especially since he just finished med school and is now doing his residency. what's that? med school? so that means in a few years he'll be making more money that i'll ever dream about. another high five michael. way to use that wake forest diploma. back to prediction #1. t-nuts gets really drunk and then ends up naked in bed with 2 people. but that will most likely be myself and flowers, since we're all staying in the same room.

prediction #2: nick giaimo gets really drunk and starts kissing dudes. nick was known for his man-love when he had a bit of the sauce, and i imagine that having not seen mike flowers for so long is really, really going to bring this out of him. good thing i'm bringing my camera.

prediction #3: scott abbott (the guy who's getting married) tries to take whatever chair im sitting in at the wedding, and we fight over it. just like freshman year. and also senior year. and im sure a few other years too. i really wanted to get scottie a folding chair for his present, but i already have a gift. oh well. that would be funny.

prediction #4: scott siler gets really drunk (i see a trend here) and does something hilarious. this is a given. well, depending on circumstances. but i'll say this is a lock. maybe hides underneath something. that happened before.

ok, so here we go. lets do this thing. i'll follow up later (not that anyone cares) to see what actually DOES happen.

"we don't know where we're going, on a big chair"

"welcome in, welcome in, a shame about the weather..."

im tired. i should go to bed.

i started recording. i think its going ok. when i say i'm hitting the tip of the ice-shelf, what i mean is that there is so much shit in logic that i would need a year of intense training just to get to maybe 5% of the stuff. which is good and bad. because i have these ideas that i know will be awesome if i hear them, but to get to them will be impossible. so i know what i want, just not how to get it. mirroring life a bit, eh? looks like the joke's on me. zing?

anyways, i'm hoping to post a new song soon. up, online. somewhere. myspace maybe. goddamn kids and their computers. so we'll see. i'll give it a week or two. but seriously, its going to suck. so, don't get any hopes up.

"welcome in, welcome in, you're welcome."

"im on the brink of disaster, staring down the consequences"

there are 3 new albums coming out that i'm super psyched for. and yes, nate, you totally know all 3 of them.

im going to give you (and by you i mean the 'nobody' that reads this crap. it just makes me feel good to address the posts this way) the run-down on what im psyched for about these albums. this is secondary to the fact that i need new music BAD. well, not that bad. just burned the new travis from nate, and thats an awesome album. as tall as lions is a pretty good album. and im getting into a few albums that i have that have just been sitting around (newest switchfoot, newerish brand new, newtastic keane, newesque landon pigg). and yes, landon pigg is an unfortunate name. quite possibly the worst name ever, aside from "shithead" pronounced "shi-theed". but i digress...

jimmy eat world - chase this light (middle of september 2007) so, the thing that pisses me off about this is that they don't have any new songs up anywhere. i mean, come on jimmy. give us a little taste. but i still can't wait for this. my hope: take the direction from (songs) futures, 23, kill, polaris. so basically, 23 is one of the greatest songs jimmy eat world has ever written. its up there with 'for me this is heaven' and 'cautioners'. and if they can use that direction, which was kind of backtracking to their "clarity" days in style, to push forward down that road, i feel like this new album could be fucking ridiculous. stop trying to be all 'hard'. yeah, you love the heavy guitars, and most of those songs come across totally kickass live. but you guys are better with harmonies, pianos, and 30 melodic lines running all over the place.

cartel - cartel. (8/21/2007) they have a single "lose it" on their myspace page, and i've been listening to this thing non-stop, only switching over to mae's myspace page to listen to their two songs off their new album. this song is short, but its good. real good. a little more "pop single" than their last album. not that they are getting away from their sound, because its still pretty pop-punk/emo, but i'd say its a little more up-beat than their last album. which is good. its got some pretty sweet mixing choices with background vocals kinda in and out and the sound breaking down and building up where you wouldn't normally expect it. which i am hoping means that the writing has matured a little but kept the core talent these guys have. i'm going to predict they are HUGE this year. not that they aren't already. ok, they're pretty fucking huge. however, i have a feeling they'll be MTV's new poster-children of the emo scene now that joel madden (you know, i don't even know the name of his band, to the point that i have to google it right now...good charlotte. goddamn it) got nicole richie pregnant and the time of a new found glory and simple plan/hoobastank/etc is over. so yeah, these guys should be huge. and they are awesome. and im not 100% convinced on whether them being MTV's poster children is a good or bad thing. good for them because being famous will help them $$-wise. but it may also make them shitty in the long run. so hopefully they don't get too huge. hmmm... maybe i hope this album doesn't go big. shit.

mae - singularity. (8/14/2007) so i am obsessed with "brink of disaster" as you can tell from these lyrics for the title and end of the post. that song is fucking awesome. if i could have written 1 song ever in my lifetime, it would totally be 'for me this is heaven'. or maybe 'evaporated' by ben folds. however, this song is still awesome. and the other song they have up on their myspace page from the album (sometimes i can't make it on my own, or something like that) is pretty awesome as well. i didn't love it the first time i heard it. i liked it. was like "ok, i know you're pushing in a direction, and this is an alright direction to go. just keep it 'mae', mae." but that song grows on you, definiately. so i'm pretty pumped that this album is going to be a keeper. and by keeper i mean in my playlist for the next year or two. and i'm going to see them live with one of my newest favorite bands, as tall as lions. unreal live. opened for copeland and they were sick. so i'm psyched for that.

so thats the rundown. buy these albums if you are reading this and you're not someone who i talk to about this shit all the time. and then save some money for my 'album' whenever we're done with it. or even start it, for that matter. and then we've got to get 11 songs written. which, if you know me, will never happen. what? what's that? is that the sound of depression backing the dump-truck in? nice. time to go cry. but only until these albums come out.

"to break hard would be better, tonight i'll do what it takes to fail"