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Well end of the year
Lets see...um doctors still dont know whats wrong with me
ummm me and misty are fine
ummmmmmmmmmmmm nothing new is going on..
ehhh New Years looks like its gonna be a bummer. Mainly because it seems now that allllllllllll of my friends minus Ronald Bulla, Misty, and supposedly now Andrew Bulla, alllll drink.
I find this kinda sad. I mean i'm still pretty accepting, but it makes me sick when someone that like i used to talk to and that we used to talk about how we hated all that stuff...is now being quoted saying how much they want to get drunk on new years and stuff.
But you wanna know what the worst part is? Like Take Friend A for example (this is no one in particular persay, but its gonna happen). I could talk to them a while back and they'd be accepting me saying how i hated all of this stuff. They'd agree and tell me how they hated it too. They thought i was cool because of it. Now that they're in love with the shit...if i said the same thing as i did back when we used to talk...i'd be considered an asshole and they wouldn't want to talk to me. Why? all because of a fuckin liquid? ridiculous!
soo on wednesday night i went to this party for Paul Rizzo's 18th birthday and his sister's 16th birthday. and i wasn't gonna be an ass to anyone, and i was gonna be accepting to anything that went on. There was no drinking or anything at the party (minus some of nicole rizzo's friends who like dissappeared) but for the most part there was nothing. However, I felt like every single person i talked to had a story about a party the night before at some girls house where everyone was fuckin trashed. I kept nice to everyone and shared their excitement in their stories. But deep down it was sickening. Stories of regretting doing stuff with opposite sex, drunken girls getting taken advantage off, just the usually randomly stupid stories. And that's alllllllll everyone fuckin talked about. they acted as if they've never gone anywhere else in their life. I believe Ronald invited me to this party, but i said no because i was hanging out with Misty...thank god for misty and me hanging out with her. Good old ron kept his cool. because he is cool.
ugh i know i sound i'm always complaining...i dont mean too, but its just sad. Its like all of your friends losing the meaning of how to just have fun. i could be more accepting if they just casually drank...but no, just like almost every teen in america...its allllllll about gettin wasted.
eh i'm pretty much giving up hope. eventually i'm just gonna become some bad guy for some reason and they'll alll stop talking to me. im trying my best to just be accepting and nice to everyone, but deep down it saddens me. so i write about it here!
so for xmas i got a recording studio and a keyboard mainly, and then just stuff like cds tshirts and video games. I think now with the recording studio...me and ron are gonna start a side project (since he's in Veneva and all) and just make like interesting music. I dunno, i'm not talking like hardcore or punk or anything, but more influences like Neutral Milk Hotel, True if Destroyed, Amateur Party, Denali, maybe some influences in Mogwai and Explosions in the sky....you know....happier lighter stuff. who knows what'll come out. but it should be pretty hot.
well happy new years...im gonna go play video games
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welll the rest of the blood test results didn't show any clear signs that i had lymphoma. but its not 100% ruled out.
so tomorrow i get Dye injected into me and i get a CAT scan! wooooooooooooo
but i get to see Paint it Black again!!! YAYYYYYYYY Third time this year.
its amazing to think that the first time i saw them, i went with pat and abe. And that seems like it was agessss ago, when in reality it was March of this year.
Its crazy how much stuff has happened in 9 months! just ridiculous
but speakin of good shows, i believe i never wrote about my day in philly in november.
so Veneva is playing this show at the Troc. its like this big Next Big thing battle of the bands contest that goes on allllll day. well despite some immature people, the show was very fun. and the trip to philly in Paul's SUV was awesome. anyway around 8 like everyone left, but me ron and paul rizzo. we went to see Illumina (which consists of mainly Summer Music Programs counselors), Lemuria or somethin, and True if Destroyed. Well Illumina's usual drummer, Pete Angevine, was in Europe on tour..sooooo to fill in was the ONE, the ONLY, the LEGEND, Jeffery Ziga (of #1 Super Happy Time Fun Band [ my band at summer music programs] fame) who is also in True if Destroyed. Anywhooooooooo so Illumina plays a nice short set, but it was so fun to watch like all these different instruments at one time, and it was pretty energizing but chill a the same time. It was amazing. we took a break and went outside to get some air. We talked to the one chick (jen? i think it is) from Illumina outside about how philly stinks (smell wise). we shortly return to the show. Then Lemuria comes up. They are this trio from Buffalo, NY. Its like a dude drummer...dude bassist...and a chick guitarist. and it was just like intense, not overly distorted punk music with a chick singer...i loved every second of it. well then True if Destroyed comes up. Its their last show ever, so its like this big deal. and they've got roses and shit all over the instruments. This was my first time actually hearing a lot of their stuff. and like WOW....holy poo. most amazing set i've ever experienced. they just went nuts. and it was this like upbeat, DC style, fugazi influenced, jsut amazing music. Put Ziga on drums in any band and it's amazing. then they had two guitarists that were just insane, a bassist who was funny, and a girl that sang and played keyboards every now and then. they just tore it up completely. it was such a bummer that it was my first and last time seeing them. that set just blew us all away.
i felt the need to share that.
and the need to once again prove that Jeff Ziga is the man.
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whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
hello children.
No i am not dead yet.
to explain my current status:
all the way back to the day before Turkey day, i was hanging out at Misty's house and we weren't really doing anything. just watching the Veneva Troc show with her friend elaine or sitting at a computer. But for some reason my body just ached like all hell. I tried to take some bayer for body aches thinkin it'd just go away and i'd be fine. Well it didn't, so i drove home with the heat like blowtorch blazing hot because it made me feel better.
Well i get home and my mom and dad are all flipping out because i "didn't come home right away" they gave me some meds and i went to bed. I stayed home for Turkey day and i had developed a really sore throat. and it was becoming hard to swallow anything. i attempted eating Thanksgiving Dinner with my mom...didn't really work
well things were gettin worse and we noticed i started developing sores on my tongue and like white crap on it so around sunday my parents brought me to the ER. they gave me Amoxacyllin (however ya spell that), Percoset, and hardcore strength motrin for my fevers.
They weren't really helping that much. Percoset made me like numb, but i wasn't getting better. I couldn't swallow, talk, anything. I just layed there drooling into a towel watching tv. i kept throwing up too. So i went to my regular doctor. He said that the motrin and percoset are upsetting my stomach because i have no food in me. so he prescribes me a new Anti-biotic, and gives me this gel crap to numb my mouth so i can swallow.
Well for a lil while the only way i could drink anything would be if i numbed my mouth with that gel...then swallowed a percoset. Then i could finally drink stuff. The problem was that i was becoming really dehydrated and i was losing weight (the lowest i got to was 115) i lost 15 pounds. and my parents were gettin worried because they were goin back and forth on whether or not i should go back to the ER to get connected to an IV so i wouldn't die from dehydration. but im' hardcore and i made it.
Finally my regular doctor thinks he figured out what i have. he says that i have Thrush. and prescribes an Anti-fungal pill thingy.
Well i looked up Thrush and what it basically is, is a yeast infection of the mouth tongue and throat. Only babies and old people usually get it because you only get thrush when your immune system is like shot or jsut really really low. So its very very rare for a 17 year old male to get it.
sooo of course this raises concerns about what lowered my immune system this low. so they did a blood test.
the thrush has cleared up and i'm (for the most part) completely fine.
the blood test results were supposed to come in on monday. So we went to the doctor and he said all the results weren't in. He had a lot of data from basic test, but the serious tests weren't done yet.
He ruled out HIV and diabetes. (my parents thought i was Type 1 Diabetic and thats what did it)
So i'm all relieved but at the same time, he's still not saying what i have. the doctor then started explaining that certain levels of things in my blood were kinda high. He said that they could just be high because i was sick. But then he put out another possibility of what i have that lowered my immune system. He said that another cause of the high amount of some globin (not hemoglobin, i know what that is), that it could possibily be Lymphoma.
That worries me. because my rents are always complaining about how my lymphnodes are like popping outa my neck and crap. They never ever leave me alone about it. so cancer of the lymphnodes seems kinda right. but we dont find this out until all the results are in. Now i thought he said he'd call on monday (yesterday) or tuesday (today)....but we've received no call.
if the rest of the results come in, and there is nothing.....then i have to scedule a chest x-ray and a CAT scan to see whats wrong with me and what lowered my immune system
oh well nothing to worry about i guess. We'll just see what happens as the days go by.
woo hooooooo
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soooooo
things are pretty good.
I went to rhode island this past weekend....providence sucks....rhode island school of design sucks...the whole new england area sucks....so the trip sucked
however some good has come out. Despite the dissapproval of a bunch of people (friends and enemies) i am now going out with Misty. despite the "haters" we're really happy together and not letting anything others say or do bother us.
today, Ron wanted me to come to Veneva practice. Matt Campbell was M.I.A. so i played bass. It was fun.
tomorrow i have a job interview......for hot topic...yea yea yea i know...shut up...I need money. badly
welp that's about it.
I really miss my old naz friends. Becky, Nancy, Kat, Mull, Blair, Jessie, Staci, and so on. i also miss Rain. they're all big bad college girls now.....and i haven't talked to any of em in forever
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Well, for those of you trying to find out how i'm doing via Livejournal, you'd probably think i'm dead. But i assure you that i am not!
well lets see....Things to talk about:
-a continuation from the last post
-How Close i've become with the Bulla family and the friends involved
-Tony Farro (R.I.P. 1986-2005)
-Halloween Weekend '05 (becoming very close with Paul Rizzo's house)
-Veneva
-the love life? i guess you could say
-school
-And future things
Well in the last post i left all of you with the story of camping out in Paul Rizzo's SUV with Andrew, Misty, and Elaine. Well supposedly Dominque's mom didn't go to sleep till like 6 in the morning. And she saw us get out of the car. big controversy. I felt like i should take the blame considering i was the oldest and i should have "taken more responsibility". However, no one really said anything to me. Dominque's mom was mad. but eventually got over it. Misty's rents didn't want her hanging out with me and andrew for a lil bit. That ended. Momma Woo was kinda dissappointed. Overall they all got over it and no one really cares anymore.
Recently i've been noticing how much i like being friends with veneva and that whole sorta 'crew' i guess you could say. Mainly because everyone is like one big close knit family. Its really hard to explain but for example Mrs. Bulla is just like a second mom. Everyone is treated like family and you get this sense of just overall acceptance. With some of the kids and parents it's like the familys have known each other since the kids were in kindergarten and the Veneva members have been together for a while now. And it kinda makes me sad that i kinda got into it in my last year of high school. Because it feels great that they all accept and treat me the same as any other person in the group. The Bulla household has just become like a 2nd home to me. The last time i had something like that was with Pat, and i've missed it.
I'm not sure many of you knew Tony Farro but i'll just give a quick summary on how i know him. Tony and my brother Eddie were in the same grade and in the early years of like kindergarten and such Eddie and Tony were friends. They eventually kinda grew apart, however, they basically did the same things, went to the same schools, etc. Tony had a younger brother named Devin. Devin is my age and in my grade. I met him in kindergarten and had been close friends with him for a long time. When we got to high school me and devin kinda distanced however just in the fashion of Tony and Eddie, all four of us played in the same sports leagues, went to the same schools, lived in the same neighborhood for some time. And finally our parents were always very close. So me my dad and my mom were sitting eating dinner when we got the call. I answered it and gave it to my mom, and we were just eating and my mom just started histerically crying. It was a scary moment because i had thought one of my grandmothers had died or something. The Viewing and Funeral was really an experience. i saw a lot of kids from St.Andrews, and basically every reason why i left ghost, at the viewing. seeing old friends was weird. The Funeral was really sad just because looking around seeing people you've known for atleast most of my lifetime upset and crying and stuff, and the entire senior class from Ghost was there, and it was an intense time. It's really frightening because i cannot put myself in Devin's shoes at all. It was scary when he was giving the Eulogy and talking about how him and his brother were just becoming close and how Devin went to Tony's college and Tony acted like he was just one of the guys and not a younger brother and for once Tony was concerned with what Devin wanted to do and such. This story was really sad because that could have as easily been me up there talking about Eddie and visiting him at Carnegie Mellon. But i cannot even imagine to know how devin feels about that. Sad Ending
oh boy. Halloween weekend. It all started on Friday night, hanging out with Veneva and then picking up Andrew from his after Play party (he was a part of the Naz play). so we all ended up at TGI Fridays on street rd. and it was fun. All sorts of friends of mine were there, and we were all having fun. Then we went back to Rizzo's house to stay the night. Roll Call: Andrew, Myself, Ron Bulla, Paul Rizzo, and me and Andrew's friends Sammi, Nicole [paul's younger sister], and theresa. Well at first it seemed everyone minus me and ron were gonna be drinking. Which it sucks being the only kids who dont do that stuff...especially when after me and ron sat by paul's house waiting for him to return home. Everyone gets out paul's car and the first thing we see is paul taking a swig of vodka. Ron just kinda went to me and was "god i didn't think they'd start already" and Paul must have heard ron say something but Paul lashes back and goes "IF YOU GUYS ARE GONNA BE ASSHOLES THEN DONT COME IN MY FUCKING HOUSE"......Ironically when they were pouring drinks, Rizzo declined and said he didn't feel like drinking tonight...i love irony. Well me and ron went upstairs to play PS2 while the kids had their "fun" (yes, ironically there were three 17 year olds, and three 15 year olds....and the three 15 year olds were the ones drinking, shows something about our society if you ask me) anywho after some intense games of MLB Slugfest....Andrew comes and was pretty smashed. Sammi only had a lil bit and she basically sober. Nicole eventually just like passed out on the couch and i think so did Theresa. Anywhoo....Andrew was acting ridiculously. Rubbing himself on people. and saying stuff like "3 minutes till i'm sober...ask me anything! and i'll answer it truthfully"...in that night came the now famous saying of andrew "WHAT TIME IS IT!?"- andrew...." um 3:16 am" - me...."HOLY POOP I THOUGHT IT WAS 12 O'TEN!" -andrew and then some stuff happened at night and yea. That was friday night. Saturday night and Sunday night were both also spent at Rizzo's humble aboad. all great times. but then Halloween the day was pretty lame. all of me and Andrew's plans fell apart. Then we went over Dominque's house and she straightened my hair (i talk about that later). Then me and woo got bored so we left and went to Alyssa Marino's house to hang out with a bunch of Naz girls.....(hehehe and so i'm hanging out with a new bunch of naz girls) So Overall that was a crazy weekend
so recently i've still been at all of the Veneva shows taking pictures and video taping and the like. It's been pretty fun. They've gotten on my nerves a couple times but i think that's natural considering i've been spending every waking day with atleast one member of that band. Good group of guys to say the least
Well now for everyone's favorite topic that has to do with my life. i feel like everytime i talk to someone after not talking to them for a while...they always ask "sooo....any girls?" or something of the sort. I guess that spectrum of my life has been a rollercoaster lately. It started at UArts with May. Things were great until we had to leave. I still talk to May for a good amount...however i haven't seen her since we left UArts...with that fact we equally decided that a relationship wasn't working at all. As much as it hurt me to do it, i kinda had to. then i kinda started gettin close with my friend Sammi. things were movin pretty quickly but overall, i didn't feel any connection with her...if that makes any sense. However, there is now a new girl that i've been becoming extremely close with and that i really dig. I'm sure any of you who read this journal, or know me well probably saw this coming from a mile away, but yes the girl is my friend Misty. Of course, with any girl i really feel a connection with there is always some kinda problem with it. I'm not gonna go into what the problem was...but it's pretty been solved. but with me and misty it was like, we both had a thing for each other, but kept it hidden because of certain circumstances and only really recently have we come out about feelings. so yea its pretty fuckin rad if you ask me
School is so lame. All my classes are crap. I dont do anything. My english/religion teacher is a cock and a fake and has been getting on my nerves. I talk to Abe more and more....things are pretty much how they used to be with me abe minus the fact of us hanging out. pretty ironically cool if you ask me. Me and Pat still kinda just have a civilness between us. i still get free lunch. on November 2nd, i went into school with my hair straightened. What a hoopla that caused. it kinda sucked because when i got it straightened...i didn't like it at all. but then like the next day (all saints day) i was actually really digging it. I mean all my life i've wanted straight hair. starting from when i was like 3 and i used to pretend to be ripping out my hair because i hated curly hair and i hated having old ladies come up and pull it because they thought it was cute. and finally i had what i wanted...my hair straight. I got used to it on all saints day...and was really happy with it. Then on november 2nd when i went into school, the overall reaction was that no one liked it. My good friends all told me it looked weird, and everyone else basically didn't say anything but it was more of a "oh dont want to hurt his feelings" type. i dunno.
Well this weekend i'm goin to Rhode Island to visit the Rhode Island School of Design. That should be pretty interesting. If me and andrew get our act together, we're gonna record a cd of covers (mainly xmas songs) its gonna be hot.
welp that's it for now. Hope that got people caught up or something
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Hello hello everyone.
I guess the reason i haven't been writing is because i have nothing to complain about.
and i still dont.
Things are great.
School's laidback, I've found new "best friends" (i'll explain that in a bit), Pat and Abe are back to being friendly with me and to tell ya the truth i've been talking to abe a lot, and overall things aren't that bad.
as far as this best friends thing goes, i decided i didn't want to get really attached to any friends after the pat and abe debacle. All i want is those like couple of people that no matter what will hang out with you and that you have lots of amazing times with. I just didn't want to get tooooo into friendships just to leave after this year. but i've found what i wanted. I think it's a good feeling knowing that when i leave for college, i'm gonna be missed by atleast some people. I dunno, it sounds kinda selfish, but i hate to think that no one at home missed me at all. It would make me have no reason to return home, and that's sad.
These new really good friends, if you are wondering, are the Bulla brothers, Paul Rizzo, Matt Campbell (which those people make up Veneva), and a girl named Misty. I've found myself also becoming really close to the Durso twins again. And of course Raechel Raymond and Pat W will always be there.
There is definitely an awesome aspect to the Bulla Brothers. One goes to Ghost, one goes to Egan...which has a great balance in my life because i went to both of those schools so i can relate to so much. Ron is like a voice of conscience and also a great person to talk to about music. I've really missed having someone to just talk about music with and find new bands with and such. and hes a good person to be nostalgic about the little few good aspects of ghost with. Then you have Andrew (actually he'd prefer Andy, but whatever) . Andrew is more that best friend type. He's the kid i'm gonna be driving countless hours with, getting into all sorts of lil adventures of trouble, fun, and just stupid shit. Yea he's a sophomore and i think he's only 15, but due to height and the fact that he hangs out with more people older than him than his age, he's really hard to tell he's any bit younger. Every now and then you can, but nothing too bad. I just like makin cracks and him and his friends his age about being young. it's also kinda funny that people think we look alike. Even my own mom said we look like brothers. Misty has been a friend of Andrew's since like they were born basically. She's a very sarcastic, kinda odd, but awesome person, who has an awesome name. She's really fun to hang out with.
Last night was pretty crazy. The original plan was to do a whole "this person is sleeping over another person's house and that person is sleeping over another person's house" deal so that we created a whole loop in which we could all just stay out as late as we wanted and camp out in Newtown. Illegal. yes. Childish. yes. AMAZINGLY AWESOME IDEA!. hell yea. However, due to ron's loud voice, Momma Woo (Bulla's mother) found out. That plus the fact that a lot of people couldn't make it, we decided to cancel. However our friend Dominque said we could all camp out in her backyard. Very good makeshift plan. So here is a quick highlight wrap-up of my day yesterday:
-Go to school
-drive the Twins and Andrew home
-Visit my friend sarah and hang out with her
-get nikki and go to andrews house
-go to Dominque's house and pick up her and her sister Jackie
-go down to Yardley and tell parents that i'm camping out at Dominque's house, grab guitar, little hugs (the drink), and the like
-then we go to pick up Misty and her friend Elaine. Now if you have been doing the math, you will have noticed that Me, Andrew, Nikki, Dominque, Jackie, Misty, and Elaine, are all present in my car. 7 people in a 5 seater 2 door car. (kinda funny considering when my mom was asking who this dominque girl was and blah blah one of things i said was "Mom, it's not gonna be like Me and Andrew and like craploads of girls) the car got very cramped because A. my trunk was full of shit. B. We still needed more stuff. So this led to very packed car...but a very fun car.
-We then meet up with Paul Rizzo. All of us go to newtown...finally two cars...so it was Rizzo, Dominque and Jackie in Rizzo's car. Nikki misty elaine andy and i.
-after a little of newtown, drop off Nikki at Bulla's house then i dropped off Misty and Elaine to pick up stuff for sleeping
-we go back to newtown, hang out at a playground, and that's where our first problem came up. Originally Misty and Elaine weren't allowed to camp out with us. Then they were. Dominque's mom didn't know and said that Misty and Elaine could hang out till late, but couldn't spend the night. Me and Andrew obviously wanted none of this. We were gonna hang out with misty and elaine no matter what
-so we go back to Dominque's. We build a fire, play kelly clarkson songs and sang. I met Gary, one of the most fucked up but hilarious kids i've ever met (ironically, in this small world ness he's good friends with CJ)
-Dom's mom drove misty and elaine to elaines house (down the street) and eventually everyone went to sleep. Me and Woo however, Pretended we were gonna go to sleep in the tent. Then met up with misty and Elaine
-We all crowded into Paul's SUV and after like hours going by trying to get comfortable and people making funny jokes and elaine not shutting up, we fell asleep for like 30 minutes
-I woke up because misty was rolling around then in her sleep put her arm around me, then like 3 seconds after that she woke up. Then everyone scrambled lookin for their clothes. (ok that sounded really bad, just to make some clarification,I was in just my boxers, misty a lil tank top and her underwear, Andrew in a hoodie and his boxers, and elaine had all her clothes on....just so you know, you didn't think we all ....you know....had a 4 way in Rizzo's Suv or anything.)
- we woke up really early. Misty and Elaine left. Me and woo went to one of the tents in the backyard. Paul passed out in the family room of Dominque's house. Dom and Jackie were forced to sleep in their rooms by their mom (some camp out eh?) so me and andrew run through the cold back into the tent to fall asleep again. We gathered whatever blankets we could find and slept next to each other to keep warm...awwwww.
- i then dont know what happened. I remember goin to sleep, and the next thing i remember is taking the tent down. I dont remember waking up. Damn $20 worth of every type of fuckin Energy Drinks
-Andrew and I then returned to his house...where we fell asleep watching Jimmy Neutron
what a day.
i'll post a couple pictures from the other day, i'll have more pictures soon
Me, Andrew, Misty....in target
We were having a crazy game of pididdle in my car. Me and Woo (misty in the back hiding from the camera)
hehhehehehehe this was taken from the same game of piddidle with Woo and Misty pictured above.... woo and misty are gonna kill me for posting this picture....i really dont care.....And yes, what your thinking is correct.
awwww Nikki and Andrew
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So i was lookin on Punkhardcore.com today and i saw the soundtrack for the upcoming Tony Hawk video game.
The game is awesome.
The music usually is pretty damn good (for example the first Tony Hawk Underground had Paint it Black)
Well they get this genius idea to have new bands cover old bands...
HORRID IDEA
01. Senses Fail - "Institutionalized" (Suicidal Tendencies)
02. Taking Back Sunday - "Suburban Home / I Like Food" (The Descendents)
03. Thrice - "Seeing Red / Screaming At A Wall" (Minor Threat)
04. My Chemical Romance - "Astro Zombies" (Misfits)
05. Saves The Day - "Sonic Reducer" (Dead Boys)
06. Dropkick Murphys - "Who Is Who" (Adolescents)
07. Emanuel - "Search and Destroy" (The Stooges)
08. The Bled - "House of Suffering" (Bad Brains)
09. Fall Out Boy - "Start Today" (Gorilla Biscuits)
10. Alkaline Trio - "Wash Away" (TSOL)
11. Thursday - "Ever Fallen In Love" (Buzzcocks)
12. From Autumn To Ashes - "Let's Have A War" (Fear)
13. Hot Snakes - "Time To Escape" (Government Issue)
14. Rise Against - "Fix Me" (Black Flag)</span>
Senes Fail doing Suicidal Tendenicies?
THRICE DOING MINOR THREAT!?
FALL OUT BOY DOING FUCKING GORILLA BISCUITS!?
FATA doing fear?
are they fuckin retarded?
they only one that seems normal is Alk 3 doing TSOL.
Dropkick might do a good job with Adolescents....keyword MIGHT
sorry to be such a music snob, but this pisses me off...esepcially Fall out boy doing Gorilla Biscuits
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I feel bad for Veneva (a band full of good friends of mine).
It seems like something always is wrong when they are about to play. So far i've seen or heard all these from shows
- Matt jumps off the bass drum and falls on the ground at a battle of the bands
-Veneva plays Naz battle of band...during the first song, they blow a fuse and all the mics go out
-Playin in their backyard, one of their guitarists leaves for texas that day for some reason, then while spinning his bass around his body, Matt somehow drops it and slams into the ground.
-They were supposed to play some "fun" show with a lot bands, only to show up and find its in a crack house in Elkins Park
-They go to play sacred grounds, and when its time for them...the cops end the show
-Today they pack all their stuff into cars and go to West Philly to play a coffee house, only to get there to find there isn't any room and have to re-do their whole set acoustically outside (but it actually turned it very nice)
Today was pretty entertaining. My first time driving in Philadelphia that wasn't NE Philly. my parents didn't know I was driving there, they thought i was gettin a ride. There is a lot about my driving my parents dont know, but that's a different story.
So I'm following Paul Rizzo all over the place from Croydon, to NE Philly, to West Philly. and i almost died a lot of times. The only two memebers of Veneva that drive, Paul and Matt, are impossible to follow. Matt just speeds off and you lose him, and Rizzo gets confused. So after cutting off a lot of people and almost missing exits, we finally get into the city. Now i'm sure everyone has had the speech from their parents that "one wrong turn and you could be a horrible area and blah blah" I always looked at that like "Yes, there are bad areas...but one turn isn't gonna change from really nice area to really horrible area."
well i experienced that today. Following rizzo, he takes one astray turn and we went from this decent, bensalem looking type area to practically a ghetto of West Philadelphia. I was driving in a lady bug suit...with a pink tie wrapped around my head....that really didn't help. suddenly Ron bulla, also present in my car, says "roll up your windows and lock your door" and kinda shuttered in my passenger seat. out of nowhere we take one more turn, and bam...we see a comforting sight-as racist as this may sound- white people and drexel university.
So we finally reach our destination, 45th and Chesnut, Kaffa Crossing coffee house. Within in like 2 seconds of being there, some 10 year old black kid runs up to kaffa crossing, picks up a chair, and throws it at the window. The window didn't break, but the kid suddenly ran away as fast as he could. 5 seconds after that, a friend of ours, Joe, walks up and goes "Some 10 yr old black kid just pulled a knife on me and demanded a dollar"
ahhhh.West Philadelphia pride.
However, all in all, the show went really well. It was very nice and i think ron sang the best i ever heard him sing. However, one thing kinda upsetted me. At both Sacred grounds, and kaffa crossing, not one Naz girl showed up. The girls that support the band and are their best friends.
I'm not trying to sound like an ass, but seriously i didn't see one at either of the shows.
Oh yea and anyone wondering about what happened at Sacred grounds.
during the Jon Fredrick band (second to last band playing), some kids started a fight, the fight moved outside and supposedly some big brawl between like a couple fuckheads and Sacred Grounds staff erupted, cops were called, show was called off, and it looks like sacred grounds might be finished for good.
and in some rather better news. Me and Andy Bulla have decided to form an acoustic cover band, and are hoping to have the lovely Alyssa Marino join us. I dunno if it'll continue as a cover band, who knows, but i'm kinda excited because already me and woo's cover of "since U been gone" has been amazing. We actually a video of it i'm hoping to post up here...it's kinda funny, dont expect anything like really really award winning. But it's funny.
so that about wraps up this weekend.
so long
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so school looks like it's gonna be pretty good.
Classes seem alright.
Teachers seem alright.
i still see raechel every morning
Me and Pat talk like normal people.
um yea that's about it
oh yea i might end up gettin free lunch all year...that's pretty rad
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| Well it's that time again... |
[03 Sep 2005|10:48pm] |
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SUMMER RECAP!
the time in which i make a ridicuously long entry with pictures and words and awesomness!!! And if you have a problem it...fuck off
...well not all of that...but we'll see how it is.
Highlights (and lowlights?) of summer 2005 :
-Sadly didn't hang out with neither Abe or Pat once
-Went back to my old habits of not sleeping and watching The N till wee hours of the night
-Hung out with Cj a lot more
-Talked to Cat
-My dad finally letting me spend the money i saved up from workin at AM Delights (and it quickly going away)
-Had a girlfriend for a lil bit, lost Jim as a friend, thus depleting all my good guy friends
-UArts Pre-college program
-Sadly came home
-House and Car were vandalized
-People bitched at me
-Became better friends with the dudes in Veneva
-Hung out with the one they call "Woo" a lot more
-Pittsburgh with Eddie
-Coming back and doing nothing!
-Talked to Pat and Abe
So yea this summer was pretty lame. It was awkward not being able to just walk over to Pat's and chill out and drink a sobe and talk about bands and video games. I really took those days for advantage. i still wish things could have ended a better way, but i think in times of anger and tension, we all acted strange.
somewhat better days
I went back to stayin up till like 5-6 am just sitting there, on the computer, watching The-N on tv. I'm such a sucker for teen dramas...and Daria.
I wont lie to ya...I'm obsessed with this fuckin show....i'm a loser, i know
Thanks to obtaining my license...i was up in bensalem a lot. i hung out with and became better friends with Cj. We jammed a lot, and it was cool
in the earlier parts of summer, me and cat broke our silence and decided to meet at starbucks. We sat and talked through everything, it was really nice.
this was a fun day..
So since i was nearing my stay at University of the Arts, and still hadn't found another job, my dad told me that i could have my Atm Card for taking money out of my account because i was gonna need a lot for supplies and such. I went through that money really quickly.......hehehe oops
I went out with Jo for a lil while. Jim started being ridiculous , but we're not gonna go into that. Me and Jo couldn't believe how jim was acting, until i broke up with Jo, then she went right back and started acting like Jim with him.
These two used to be cool...
time for a fun topic!
UARTS PRE-COLLEGE WOOT WOOT
hehehe it's like Where's Waldo? but Where's Charlie? (at the end of the entry i'll show ya where i am...bonus points if you can guess who's in front of me)
anyway. UArts was absolutely amazing. I met some awesome people including:
May
and
Jonas
Definitely the best part of the summer.
I came home to complete crap. My house and car were vandalized ( i still stand by my accusations even stronger than i did before). Ex-girlfriend was being a bitch. that really sucked
however i became better friends with the "veneva boys" as staci altomari would put it. I've hung out with them quite a lot and everytime it's been a lot of fun. Especially with Andy Woo, because well...he's the shit.
I then went to Pittsburgh, hung out at my brother's frat.....got to see Nancy and Mull one last time before i dont see them for a long time. That was a fun time. I flew in an airplane by myself for the first time...so i guess that's an experience.
I came back to find myself completely bored with nothing to do. So i continued hanging out with Veneva and their crew. I finally made contact with Abe and Pat and things went well for the most part...that was exciting
so that's about it for now.
So long peoples
oh and in that big picture with all the people....i'm all the way over to the right
if you guess who's infront of me with their back towards the camera...you get a cookie
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I just want to ask a simple question to everyone:
If anyone received a phone call tonight saying something about "i'm outside your house" in a scary voice. Could you please contact to me. It happened to a couple friends of mine, and we know who it is, but we just wanted to know if anyone else got called.
thank you
anyway...ummm lets see what is new in my life...
I've been hanging out with Andrew "woo" bulla a lot...he's my boy. We went to Naz today...it was funny. Nothing better than girls in funny jumpers who didn't do their hair or make up getting frightened by the sight of guys (amazingly good looking guys at that).
Musically i've been listening to a lot of rap/hip-hop. Ironic huh? Me and Woo love Black Eyed Peas...and i've been listening to a lot of Hierogylphics/Deltron 3030/Del tha Funkee Homosapien.....Del is in Deltron 3030 and Hieroglyphics....he's definitely one of the best rap or hip hop or whatever you want to call it Artists i've ever heard. I just found that he was the one who rapped in that annoyingly catchy first single by the Gorillaz called "Clint Eastwood".
that's all for now
later kids
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| Finally. Some closure |
[31 Aug 2005|09:28pm] |
So at the end of this shitty ass summer, filled with broke-ness, speeding tickets, lossage of best friends, and more, i finally have something to good to look on
I've talked online to both Abe and Pat.
the conversation with Abe was kinda blah...just a hey whats up and kinda talkin about whats been up.
and i was really surprised with the conversation with pat. We got both our viewpoints out, and we understood each other. I'm not going into detail because the conversaton was between me and him, but i will say it ended on a good note
thats all for now
bye bye
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| i hate cops and women drivers |
[30 Aug 2005|06:55pm] |
So i'm driving down Oxford Valley rd, and in front of me is this stupid ass woman driving like a fuckin nut....she had her left turn signal on, when there was no left turn, and she was kinda swerving in between the turning lane and the right lane...(we were in the left lane)....i had no idea what she was doing, i assumed she was drunk.....so my instinct is to pull into the right lane and speed up to get past her.....as i'm goin into the right lane, she started swerving into the right lane and i thought she was gonna pull in front of me so i hit my acceleration pedal like all hell and go around her as fast as i can.
next thing i know, a cop behind me...lights and siren on. I wasn't sure if it was for me or the fuckin crazy ass woman....the woman suddenly saw the cop and like turned into an office center to like dissappear.....i turned into the same office center because it was the only way to get over out the road (i still thought the cop was after her)...so i went through this drive through atm and parked...and the cop followed me the whole fuckin way.
$160 ticket...62 mph in a 40 zone
$1000's gone because it voids my one discount on insurance
can't get my senior license next may
because i'm 17 and my dad owns the car...my dad has to call the officer.
all because of a stupid fuckin woman not knowing what the fuck she was doing
my dad laughs and says "I didn't think you'd make it this long, i thought you'd get one a long time ago"
i love how much my parents think of me
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| Happy Birthday to me |
[26 Aug 2005|08:44pm] |
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so my birthday started out pretty ok. It started out with a game of beer pong last night at midnight. No, i did not drink...i just threw the balls into the cups...the other guys drank for me. I really started to notice one of the reasons drinking pisses me off. I'm starting to find that it's more of the attitude and immaturity of kids my age or older about drinkin, than the actual drinking. Like i think the fact that kids my age are all obsessed and all they talk about is drinking and drinking is awesome, and then kids my age and older have myspace pictures of them with a bottle of something...and it really comes to prove that they drink for one main reason...to be cool. and that's what pisses me off. Yea my brother and the frat boys drink. But it's not something special...they aren't obsessed..they aren't trying to look cool...they do it because they do.
anyway. Then steph called me at like 12:03 to wish me a happy birthday, it was really nice and i enjoyed it. Then today i got a bunch of texts from people saying happy birthday, unfortunatly...due to getting the new phone and not having any numbers..i had no idea who they were. so if you texted me...sorry if all i said was like "thank you!!!" i have no idea who you are. i know that sounds really rude, and i'm really really grateful that you sent the texts, i just dont have your number programmed yet....hopefully that will fix when i get my old phone back (some woman found it) and get all my numbers back.
but so far the best birthday surprise was May finally called me. She had been trouble reaching me as me reaching her. But finallly i got to talk to her again. that really made my day and i was just sooooooooo happy.
so my bro took me out to dinner, that was nice, awesome food.
so my birthday so far has been good....welp time for the frat party
stay tuned for episode #2 : Straight-Edge-man goes to amsterdam! (joke)
oh yea and i also hung out with Mull, nancy, and nancy's bf brad....they are still awesome...its just kinda weird that now they're college kids...oh well...i missed them
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Hello hello again people who probably have better things to do than to read this.
im sitting around with nothing to do and im really bored.
i dont really have much to say. however i was wondering if anyone wants to hang out for my birthday. Im not gonna be having any type of party thing, just hang out with people. So if anyone's interested, just tell me...we'll figure something out.
oh yea, my dad's pretty pissed that i havent done much work and such so i have a feel after i hang out with people for my birthday, my small and boring social life will be taken away...so if you really want to hang out with me that bad ( i dont know why you would ) you might want to do it soon.
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| Time for the Charlie irony hour |
[24 Aug 2005|10:45pm] |
So get this. I'm in pittsburgh right now, in a frat house...with my brother, his good friend stefan, and two girls that are very friendly (especially which each other) all that have been drinking.
And here i am. Sittin on my brother's laptop, listening to the Newtown Adventure Squad's version of Pudding
oh and it gets better!
My birthday is friday
and since it's my birthday, and its one of the frat brother's 21st birthday today, anddddd everyone will finally be moved in...guess what that means!?
Giant frat party!
...so the irony now flys, Me, charlie, one who does not drink, who is very not frat style, having a birthday frat party...this should be interesting
much love from pittsburgh,
charlie
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time for an update.
today i hung out with the awesome Victoria
pictured here:
she lives in doylestown, so i drove there for the first time. and i absolutely love Doylestown. It's like newtown's bigger brother. It looks and feels exactly like newtown and parts of yardley..but like upgraded. I wish i knew about that place back in the day.
so tomorrow i leave with my brother to pittsburgh. I'm gone until saturday.not that any of you really care, but yea.
oh yea, the 26th is my b-day...go me
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| HOLY CRAP story time |
[20 Aug 2005|02:43pm] |
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so last night i got 0 hours of sleep. I kinda just kept myself busy and 12 am became 2 am..then became 4 am...and before i knew it...i'm sittin in my room and it's bright as day outside. so at like 12 i decide to go visit my good friend Shannon at the yardley ice house.
1st story (the bad story):
So i decide i'm goin to go Eckerd before the ice house. Just to get an energy drink because i'm half dead. so there are two employees workin at the registers. Some dude...and Pat. I ended up in pat's line. There were about 4 people (2 in the one line...me and another guy in the other). and the dude in front of me pays for his stuff and walks away. I walk towards the counter to pay for my stuff when pat turns to the other eckerd employee and goes "i'll be back" and just walks away. So much for everyone saying Pat doesn't irrationally hate anyone and would be kind.
so this puts a damper on my day....but it got a shitload better!!!!
2nd Story:
So i'm at yardley ice house when my friend shannon asks if i can go get her a pretzel at Wawa. I agree. she gives me money...i head out
The slurpee machine look might appetizing so i decided i'd snag a small slurpee. So i'm standin there at the slurpee machine..wearing the same exact thing i was wearin yesterday, smelling like crap because i haven't showered and i'm dirty...when the dude next to me goes "Nice shirt". First i looked at my shirt and saw i was wearin my paint it black shirt that i always wear....and then i looked at the guy who said "nice shirt"
and thats when my jaw dropped.
Standing there getting a soda at Yardley wawa was Mike McDermott, drummer of the Bouncing Souls.
i was so utterly shocked i kinda started shaking a lil bit. Me and him started talking and i asked him what he was doing in yardley, and he explained that his dad lives here and such, then we talked about paint it black and i mentioned Andy and he was like "you know andy pants?! i hung out with him yesterday" so we continued talking about Lifetime reunion with loved ones and B.Souls in asbury tomorrow and such
but wow. i can't believe that just happened. that really just made my whole week.
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i saw pat today.
i was coming out of the camera shop.
he was walking by.
we looked at each other.
i froze.
he looked away.
i looked away.
the end.
why do i have such a problem saying anything to him
(and yes i meant to make this sound like a cheesy chick flick...i need my kicks somehow)
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[14 Aug 2005|04:49pm] |
so now that Jim knows that i accuse him for what happened at my house, and i've been having talks with jim about the issue. Jo called me and tried to do something, i dunno what it was, it was like first saying she didn't do it, then getting mad at me because i broke up with her, then her saying i deserve the vandalizing, because i broke up with her...blah blah blah, if anything, it made me believe more that they did it.
but whatever. Look i still strongly believe it was them. but just to let the public know they're side of the story, that they didn't do it. just so they dont continue to call me with pointless shit like Jo did.
Yea i know this shit doens't seem like a big deal. Fine, some flour on my front step. But it's very lame and immature, and in most cases, people don't stop. They just keep goin if they know they can get away with it. THat's why i want to find out who did it. Its lame and immature and whoever is doing it, needs to be caught.
personally, i know nobody else who would do it. these aren't little playful pranks, the people obviously have a problem with me, and know me very well (ie, knowing where my window is and that it's the window to my room and hitting it dead on, even with a wooden fence around it. they know my car, house, phone number, everything). there are only a select few that know all of that, and have a problem with me. and before anymore people suggest it...no, i do not think it's pat or abe at all. Pat's better than this crap. Abe wouldn't waste his time.
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