Cycling Trivialities.

I've decided that from now on the titles of my blog posts are going to be whatever song I am listening to or just got done listening to when writing the post. Today's title comes from Jose Gonzalez's song "Cycling Trivialities" of off his 2007 record called "In Our Nature". You should listen to it. The reason I have been listening to him so much as of late is because we used a lot of his music in this short film we made for the Corpus Christi 7 Day Film Festival. We have done this festival for the past 3 years. Each year the film has a significant improvement and we become more confident about our chances of winning with each passing year. This year was no different as we were probably more excited about this film than any of our previous entries. Roman has been directing each film we've made and has done a really great job of stepping up every year to bring something new to the table. This year we had some sweet expensive equipment that we normally wouldn't have as easy access to. We were able to use a $3000 HD camera that produced some great shots. This film as well of the previous two films has more of a thought provoking feel than cheap entertaining thrills. I feel like we were still able to entertain with this film however. It was about a guy named Sal (played by Razzy) and his breakup/aftermath of the breakup with his girlfriend Samantha (Ariel). Sal spends a lot of the film questioning the ideas of relationships, marriage, love, religion and other things associated with couples and their daily lives. The movie had a lot of dialogue, but I think it was appropriately done. The movie also chronicles the relationship of a "happy" couple (Me and this girl Lina). Its a cool juxtaposition. Anyways, here comes the epic fail part. We were supposed to turn in the film on Wednesday at 7:55. We turned it in at 7:5.....wait....wait for it.......7. Yeah, two minutes late. But don't feel bad, it wasn't even actually finished. We had some problems rendering it on the computer. They gave us till the next morning at 9 but said we wouldn't be in the competition but that they would still show our film. That was nice enough of them. I got a copy of the film yesterday on DVD and can say I am pretty happy with the turnout. Romey did a good job again this year. The dude has some serious talent. Hopefully next year we can actually be in the competition. I'll try to post the video online at some point.

It was a really fun time doing this film with everyone and hopefully we can all still hang out at some point. I met some new and cool people (Grigor and Lina)!

Another thing that has been on my mind is thanks to Mike Hale and Virgil of Suburban Home Records. I realized after emailing them two about using Mike's music in our film just how accessible people in the punk community are. I mean, I could never in my life imagine being able to contact someone like Jay Z or the All American Rejects or someone else who has such a huge fan base about letting us use their music in our film. I understand that bigger artists are probably more busy and could care less about what some kids are doing in Corpus. But still it made me feel happy to be part of a community where you can just email someone or message them on myspace and get a response within a day or even an hour. Its cool to know that some people actually check their email and are willing to send some help your way. Even Jose Gonzalez's manager was happy to help and responded quickly. We need more people like them!

Listen to Mike Hale's "Lives Like Mine"
Listen to Jose Gonzalez's "In Our Nature", "Veneer"

The Thrice show that I mentioned in some previous posts is in the full fledged practice stage. We have had a bunch of practices and are moving along at a decent pace. We did realize there were some songs that we had originally planned to play that we will not be able to pull off. However we added new BRUTAL ones that I think we are all excited to play. We had all kind of lost confidence but have since regained it with the new songs sounding a little better than expected for the short time we had been playing them. That show should be July 31st, but more details will be given when we know them/it gets closer to that time.

Strike Anywhere, Polar Bear Club, Crime In Stereo, Ruiner show costs $12 in Austin but a No Harm Done, Golden Age show in Corpus costs $15....can someone explain that to me?

Ehh, I think I'm done with this post. Bye, now.