not the golfer

TRASH CITY

2012-01-19T22:00:00.000-08:00

this post will make no sense because i've already posted about this ep everywhere else but i felt like i should update this blog again, and this is the easiest thing to do it with.

we recorded a four song ep and called it trash city. you can hear it here.

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i don't know why it's called trash city. it's random. the picture is a graffiti'd man on capp st that i would pass every time i walked to work. we took a picture of it at night, hank printed it out, i scribbled "trash city" on top with a pastel crayon, and scanned it on hank's computer.

this ep marks the first time i've ever recorded something with lemon party and not felt it sounded like complete shit, so that's something.

although i'm pretty sure i'll turn on it in a couple days.

oh yea, we also went on a tour. it was awesome. met a lot of cool people, made some good buds.

and now i'm leaving. i don't know what will happen to lemon party. trash city could be the last thing.

it's kind of bittersweet - the best things that have happened to the band have all happened in the last couple months, but most of the impetus for those things happening was the whole "i'm leaving soon, let's just do these things to say we did them."

i also just used "happen" or a form of that word three times in one sentence. i know. no, i'm not going to edit it. yes, i know it'd be fixed if i spent like one more minute on it instead of writing about how i'm not going to do anything about it then i won't come off as stupid and stubborn. but no. whaddyagonnado

here are some awesome gifs of when we played in portland.

might post some more tour stuff later.

i forgot

2011-12-05T02:41:00.001-08:00

i wrote a blog entry on my phone when i was stuck at the airport, but my phone downloaded some weird updates (without my permission, what is this skynet bullshit) rendering me unable to write any entries on blogspot from my phone anymore. but i was stuck at the airport for like four hours so i typed (swyped, actually) a blog post in the form of an e-mail and sent it to myself.

then i got home and forgot about it. so i'm copying and pasting that shit onto here right now. now. NOW. now.

i'm at lax. my flights been delayed. again. i was supposed to board at 3:30pm, takeoff at 4. i got here at like 2, took about 20 minutes to get to my gate. but apparently the conditions back at san francisco are too foggy and dangerous, so the flight was delayed an hour. then another hour. then a bunch of half hours. whatever i dont care though. yesterday i downloaded like ten podcasts and theyre all at least an hour long so ive just been listening to those.

people sure are pissed about these delays though. they just announced that the flight would be pushed back another 45 min, and this man sitting across from me just threw his hands in the air and went "are you kidding me?" really dramatically. except i think he's alone so now he's looking around to see if anyone noticed him say that and commiserate with him. and you know what, people are. they're so mad. i feel like there's going to be a lynch mob at gate 36 soon.

you know what's funny, everyone's reacting as if the airline is lying to them. "BULLSHIT I BET THERE ISN'T ANY FOG AT ALL LET'S JUST GO ALREADY"

like why would they lie about that?

like i feel if things were up to the passengers, we'd board the plane and take off even if it meant we're going to die in the air. dangerous flying conditions take a backseat to just not wanting to be delayed anymore. death is preferable to waiting.

if the next announcement was "sorry folks but the flight's going to be delayed another hour because the wings fell off," people would shout "WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT PLANES CAN FLY WITHOUT WINGS THEY'RE PROBABLY DECORATIVE ANYWAY WE'RE GETTING ON THIS PLANE AND TAKING OFF RIGHT NOW"'

at least i know the girl next to me is happy we're not taking off soon, because she just came back to the gate with some burger king. alright i'm about to run out of batteries.

end.

epilogue

we ended up leaving at about seven by the way.

rip jacob belated

2011-11-15T22:41:00.001-08:00

well. he's not dead. but. good as, really.

just kidding.

but not really

i do this too much.

anyways, surely an end to an era.

and i have a feeling a lot of posts will be belated, so i'm going to stop saying it.

phone pictures from jacob's last couple days in town. fuck hawaii.

cameras are really good at taking pictures these days.

lemon party show at chrome on thursday. not related. plug.

i can hear video games being played. leaving.

happy halloween belated

2011-11-01T19:55:00.000-07:00

what up

happy belated halloween. lemon party played at our friend travis' birthday party. i was a creepy old man. hank was pacman. evan was a member of insane clown posse. it was fun. i messed up like once. evan messed up a bunch though. weakest link alert.

zombie questions.

2011-10-28T00:19:00.001-07:00

over the past two days i've been watching a lot of the walking dead, the zombie show on amc.

i have some zombie questions. i haven't read any of those "guide to everything you want to know about zombies" books, so maybe the answers to all these questions are in there.

also, i'm only talking about zombies that are on the show, so my questions are based off of the expository dialogue that the show provided.

ok so in the show, it's established by the doctor that the zombies are essentially sacks of meat that are just acting on basic, instinctual, primal instincts. yea, so it makes sense that they want to eat things. but also wouldn't they, like, rape things? isn't sex like a basic id animal impulse that drives behavior almost as much as the need to eat? even if they didn't have enough blood circulation running through their bodies to produce erections, i feel like there'd be a lot of humping at least in the zombie apocalypse.

there's this awesome scene in the first episode of the second season in which rick and darryl open up a zombie's stomach to make sure it wasn't eating someone they're looking for. which brings me to my other question, do zombies shit? of course they do. they have to. they gorge themselves! but i doubt they still have stomach digestive acids or anything. so they eat people, but don't possess anything resembling a proper way of breaking down food anymore. they should totally start incorporating digestive traits in zombies movies, it'd make them so much scarier! yea it's frightening to see a bunch of zombies lumbering your way, but now add the fact that as it's coming towards you, there's undigested meat oozing out of its ass. running down their pant legs.

you know how in the show, sometimes the survivors cover themselves with blood or zombie guts so the hungry zombies mistake them as other zombies? imagine if they now had to smear zombie shit on themselves. haha.

i've missed some of the early episodes, but as far as i can tell, the show doesn't really address how the outbreak got so bad. now i'm assuming the zombies on the show aren't zombies in the classic sense, as in the already dead started popping out of their graves and started roaming the earth (but that's bullshit too, because i'm pretty sure when you die, they don't bury a hole and then just throw you in it. you're basically entombed in your casket, and even that can be surrounded by a cement perimeter. if you were six feet under, and turned into a zombie, you wouldn't be able to get out).

so that's ruled out. so these zombies used to be alive people, and then became zombies. now in every zombie movie, it's a given that once you're bitten, you turn into a zombie. but you also see in zombie movies that the zombies actually full on devour people. as in, often, they don't even leave behind enough of the body to turn into a zombie. the amount of people who get bitten in the arm or some shit, then run away to escape, and THEN turn into a zombie later when no one's trying to eat them anymore has got to be miniscule compared to the amount of people who are just eaten. zombies don't have taste buds, it's not like they bite somebody once and then are like "i don't like how this one tastes, peace out" and then bounce. how did there get to be so many random zombies just roaming around?

these all probably have really easy answers. was just wondering.

hi.

bye.

lemon party

2011-07-28T09:38:00.000-07:00

Im starting to think I'm only gonna update this blog from my phone. Right now I'm sitting at an empty table inside the restaurant I work at. I was asked to come two hours earlier to help out with a huge catering order. It got cancelled at the last second. I ain't mad though.

ugh, I'm working thirty hours over the next three days. Then lemon party will play at brainwash sunday night. It will be jacobs last show as lemon partys drummer. After brainwash, the band will become a trio, with evan begrudgingly moving to bass and hank eagerly picking up jacobs drum sticks. it will be weird and sad playing without him, But hes leaving in november, and we all agreed it makes little sense to play and learn new songs if we're gonna have to ditch them in two months.

But yea, thats the plan. I dont know if the new lineup will work. Jacobs primal pounding will be missed, as will hanks supreme bass playing and evan adding a second guitar to the mix. The post divorce lemon party songs will be way different, for sure. So the soon to be leaner lemon party is gonna head into a real honest to goodness recording studio in mid september to record about three new songs, so we have til then to see if we can do this as a trio.

So yea, thats whats going on with that. Sad, nervous, wistful, anxious, hopeful weeks ahead.

Or who knows, maybe it'll just be the same old shit.

Everythings gonna be all right

2011-07-27T12:52:00.000-07:00

Im writing this on my phone from an airport right now! How sweet is that? Pretty sweet, is what I think.

Theres a dude wearing a yellow polo and army cargo shorts next to me blasting some coldplay. It sounds like their new single I think its called every drop is a waterfall or something. I think hes british. I think he sucks.

That song sucks too, because the very first line is a variation on a lyrical pet peeve of mine, which is that "i put my records on and and everything is ok" bullshit. It just irks me. It always comes off as a calculated attempt to set that band up as a group that makes the kind of transcendant music theyre singing about you know? Like theyre trying to get the listener to project that sentiment onto their band. Like the singer of coldplay is saying "i put my records on I turn the music up by my favorite band...kind of like what you do with your favorite band! Coldplay! Right?"

Another thing I dont like is when a line ends in the word "tonight." Thats pretty terrible. The most recent one I can think of is the train song hey soul sister.

Another one is whenever anyone uses "all right." Whether its a pleading "i just want someone to tell me ill be alright" or an angry "nothing is all right" or a hopeful "im gonna be all right" or a positive "ive been doing alright," it always sucks. I dont even like it in no woman no cry, just to show I'm not being fickle about it.

Oh I'm boarding now

oh come on

2011-07-25T01:47:00.001-07:00

here we go. fresh start.

i feel like the wordpress was pressuring me into creating long posts that i was really just confusing with substance. blogspots don't seem as...official, for lack of a better word.

the hope is this blog will make me more upfront about calling a spade a spade as far as shitty posts go. if a post seems half baked and not completely thought out, it's because it isn't! no more hiding behind a black/red layout and correctly capitalized words. see, i'm not even bothering to use capitalization here, that's how low key i am about this shit!

point being, i feel like having this will let me pop in, say whatever, and peace out without feeling like i have to write like a 700 word entry. theoretically, at least. but then again, i've created this blog out of boredom late at night while on vacation in los angeles, so things are less than promising already.