December 2010 Podcast

i made a new podcast. i'm still figuring this thing out, i'm sorry if it's not great sounding, but i can only do with what i got. it will only get better. i discuss dumb shit, and ramble about mostly things that are uninteresting to you. i also play a couple of songs that i'm digging at the moment.
PLUS OUTTAKES!
i hope you enjoy it.

download it here.

1. "A Toast To a Lost War" by Campaign on H1N1. www.itlikestoparty.com
2. "He-Man Woman Haters" by Cowabunga! on the Summer EP. www.myspace.com/cowabungasucks
3. "Conscience, Meet Common Sense" by The Swellers on My Everest. www.theswellers.com
4. "The Last Lie I Told" by Saves The Day on Through Being Cool. www.savestheday.com www.myspace.com/wheresthebandtour
5. "Sticks and Bricks" by A Day To Remember on What Separates Me From You. www.adtr.com
6. "Hurricane Punch The World" by The Bravest Kids on Break It, Fix It, Break It Again. www.myspace.com/thebravestkids
7. "We're All Dead" by We Are The Union on Great Leaps Forward. www.myspace.com/wearetheunion
8. "Believing" by Washington Square Park on Washington Square Park EP. www.myspace.com/washingtonsquarepark

Tulsa 2010

so i got to visit Tulsa for a few weeks. i must say this was the best visit ever. i rekindled with an old flame, and surprised my best friend for his birthday. there was alot of people i got to see and alot of people i didn't get to see, nonetheless, i was constantly out and about. i didn't get to float the river, but it stormed pretty bad that day anyway. i hung out with my dad alot and helped him around the house and took him to his medical appointments. i saw the family i needed to see, and ignored the people that could care less. anyway, i'm turning a new page in my life, and i must say i've never been more excited about anything. i'm leaving the country again (for 6 months), and of course i'll try to write about it as much as possible.
so here's a few pictures from my last night in town.
i'm sure there are alot more pictures floating around just check my facebook.
oh and listen to Man Overboard.

Home for the Holidays

i've been in Tulsa, OK for about a week an a half, with 5 days left. one of my best friends, who i call the HLP greeted me with this bright neon signs which i almost missed since i was tweeting and walking at the same time.
the first night i was in town we went to the The Mercury Lounge, and i got to meet up with alot of my close friends and a certain someone special. later that night, i remember her asking me, "why do you have to be so far away?"

i don't know how to deal with it sometimes. it seems like everytime i come into town, i have a different girl that i talk to. and this most recent interest has definitely been my favorite. she's so great! we started talking while i was in Iraq, and we hung out alot the last time i was in town. but i'm not going to ramble on about how much of a crush i have on this person. we'll save that for a later post.

this is for me to vent on how much it sucks not being able to have a normal relationship. as most of you know, i'm in the military. my particular unit deploys every 6 months for 6-8 months at a time. it's not always Iraq or Afghanistan, most of the time it will be South Asia.

so, the hard part for me about having a long distance relationship is that my last major relationship was a long distance relationship. that was 2 years ago. she is in the military as well. and she deployed overseas, and not too long after, she cheated on me. after her year long deployment, she came back to the US, and we reconciled for a bit. i packed up everything and moved with her to her next duty station. i joined the military not too long after that, and while at basic training i got a letter from her wanting to end things as she couldn't deal with the fact that the dude she cheated on me with just happened to be stationed at the same base. they're married now, and i hope they both work out their insecurity issues.

so after that, i've been here and there, meeting alot of people, and i found myself generally happy in all aspects, but no one to share them with. i have great friends and co-workers, but i just need someone to not necessarily come home to, but a "someone special" to just talk to. either through text messages or whatever. it's hard to meet someone and staying close to that someone knowing that one of us isn't going to be around.

so here's my predicament, i've been telling myself that i absolutely can't trust someone in a long-distance relationship. but she's been in a long distance relationship that didn't end well either. and now here i am really, really, into this girl. and i want to tell her that i am willing to try this thing out. what do i do? i would never cheat, or anything!

i'm sick of coming home and hanging with a chick only to get pushed away because they know i'm leaving in a week or two. so they don't want to get close. and i get my hopes up and crushed. well i don't know. i'm too afraid to bring this up to her, cause i want to enjoy the time that i'm here, and not dwelling over rejection. she'll probably read this cause i'll post it on my twitter.

we'll see what happens. thanks for reading.

man i miss the homies.

i'm pretty lonely these days. i mean my roommate is awesome, but i need some other friends. at the same time though, i love doing things by myself. sometimes when i'm hanging with other people i find my patience wears thin, and nothing is funny or entertaining. i'm just here. you would think that i'm a pretty sociable person.
i need more friends like matt wright who can make anything funny. anything is a joke that we'll remember forever. man. i love that guy.
and my buddy mike hulett, he laughs at all my jokes and retarded comments. wingman of the year. and he takes good pictures. he's got a girlfriend now, so we'll see if he can keep with the asian persuasion.

keith, justry, blake, james, those dudes are the homies. they'll do anything for me.

i miss everyone.

TTWC

i don't really know what to write about.
i've been in iraq since january and i finally get to head back to bragg in 5 weeks. right now, i'm listening to old Day by Day tracks and thinking about my life before i joined the Army and before i got married (and divorced). i admit, it was alot of fun, and i do miss it. i miss playing with James, Six, Jason, & Mike. we had alot of great times. it was the birth of the T-Town Wusscore Scene. a term i dubbed myself. it was us, Wreckless Process, HotRodBob, Fighting Tomorrow, Urban Tribe, Least Koalafied, Congress of A Crow, pretty much all the bands that were practicing at the Storage USA off of I-44 and 145th. we'd practice 3-4 times a week, and usually had a few shows a month at curly's(rip), the cave(rip), diamond billiards, the venue, boston's, pinkeye. those were awesome clubs back then. we did a couple of dfests, some blue whale festival in claremore, a short tour with Tailgunner and The Feds. we even did a reunion show a couple of years after we broke up for our good friend, Brittani's 21st birthday. i feel like an old fart talking about "the good ol' days", even though those years were only 4-5 years ago. after i get out of the Army, i will return to Tulsa, and hopefully will be able to get back together with James and Six and shred again. not for fame but because we'll be in our mid-30s by then and all we want to do is live out our remaining years in Tulsa playing music. in 2007, we planned on getting back together and playing a few more shows before i left for the Army, we even got new press photos taken (i added a few on my flickr). but of course internal conflicts within us halted that idea. but i guess we're all older and hopefully more mature. Six is still playing with HotRodBob and Out of Time. James is finishing up school. Aaron is playing with SpaceStation, Mike is around somewhere, and Jason just retired from playing bass for First Lady Assassins. me, Mike, and James have been playing together since 1999. that's 10 years. we have an idea of what we want to play when i get back. the roots stuff. punk rock. melodies and harmonies. off- tempo time signatures & long bridges. nothing too complicated. simple and to the point. when that does happen, you'll probably have long forgotten who we are. and that's something we are completely OK with.