It's Gonna Get Worse Before It Gets Better

Dear Piebald: Thanks for making some of the best music ever. I know I tend to go through phases where I think a lot of different bands are absolutely unbelievable and then soon after move on to the next one. But, I feel like it's different with Piebald. When you're bumming hard, there is a Piebald song to make you come to your senses and realize it's not as bad as you think. When you are super stoked on life, there is a Piebald song that will only bring you to a higher level of happiness. Every song on "We Are The Only Friends We Have", is somehow uplifting and beautiful in it's own awesome way. I played a bunch of Piebald on the radio show today because I really want people to understand how absolutely awesome they are. After the Piebald, I kicked people in the face with some Have Heart and Defeater. And while those bands may not put you in the happiest of moods, they sure will make you feel like you're ready to take on the world and destroy human souls.

This has been an odd week. One moment I felt like everything in life was going good, and in a matter of days, I realized that things were NOT going good. I don't want this to come off as a blog where I just talk about my shitty life problems, but for a few seconds that's what you'll have to deal with. And don't worry, the mood will change in a few short paragraphs. So, I'm a diabetic (genetically predisposed). I have this problem though. I really like sugar. You see the dilemma, huh? Well I am supposed to find a doctor up here soon so I can have someone monitor my blood sugar levels. Last time I was in Corpus and they checked it, it was bad. I'm starting to realize that this may actually have an effect on my life. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. "You're just now figuring this out?" Well, yeah, I guess I am. It's hard to live somewhere without your parents telling you to take your medication and all that good stuff. Sure, I can be responsible on my own, but it's just that much harder.

Our band is about to play a show with two legitimate touring bands and we are in no way ready. We have songs and we can play them well, but the problem is that we just don't have enough original songs. Honestly, the people at this show most likely are not going to recognize that most of our songs are covers because they probably haven't heard the bands we are covering. But its still no fun to play that many covers and only have a couple of original songs. We need to sit down and write more songs. Plain and simple. Everyone has such a tight schedule and is so busy all of the time that it makes it so hard to coordinate practices. Hopefully things will slow down and we wil have more time to all get together and start working on some new stuff.

School is harder than I thought. When people used to ask me how school was going, I'd usually respond with the typical "Not too bad, pretty smoothly". THIS IS A LIE. School is hard. Classes are getting difficult. For example I have NO IDEA what we are doing in my finance class and that is supposed to be my major. Something about investing or money or something, right? Who knows. I sure don't. I had a test in management that I thought was going to be waaay easy. Turns out it was the lowest grade I got out of all my first round of tests. The question of whether I'm fit for the business world becomes more and more important to me each day. I don't know if I have that cut throat competition attitude that it seems everyone else in the business school possesses.

Some other things happened that that really bummed me out, but that's not important and I'm tired of this dumb, sappy, unawesome mood. So let's all get stoked on the fact that at the end of this month me and Joe are going to FEST. Its quite possible and even likley that this means nothing to anyone else. But to us, this means we can die happy. If I never go to another show in my life, but I get to go to FEST at least once, I could honeslty probably live with that. I mean I would prefer that such a stipulation would never be put into effect, but if it was, I could deal. Fest is an extravaganza of punk music that takes place yearly in downtown Gainesville, Florida. It happens on Halloween weekend and is apparently the best time some people have in their lives. Three days of pure music, friendship and destruction. A chaotic time indeed, but a very enjoyable time as well. We will be staying at the official Fest hotel with some friends that we worked with over the summer who are playing the festival itself. I am probably more excited for this than anything that has happenned over the last few years of my life. Maybe even ever.

New Swellers album is absolutely fantastic. Every song has that epic moment that makes you realize why they are suddenly getting recognized. Sure, everyone had their doubts about their signing with Fueled By Ramen. I was most definitley one of those people. However, I must say, that I was absolutely impressed with the new record Ups and Downsizing. Some songs are poppy while others sound like they could be songs by A Wilhelm Scream. It's quite the mix of songs stylistically. Me and all my friends talk about how it sucks that they are touring with Paramore and stuff, but in the end I think we are all pretty happy for them and what's in their near future.

Moral of this unnecessarily long and drawn out story is that if you ever find yourself in a rut of some sort, pop in some Piebald and realize that as long as you're alive and have friends around you, things can't really be all that bad. If you want to feel like a hardass, throw in that Have Heart. And if you wanna bum yourself out hard, toss in some Mike Hale. I'm not sure how this is the moral of the story seeing as how majority of what I talked about was unrelated to this. But whatever, I have nothing to prove to you. You're reading MY blog. I'm kidding, come back, don't leave. Please stay....thanks. In other news, I realized I have a weird fascination with Taylor Swift.

Phew, you made it through another post! Congratulate yourself for being alive and well and not having ripped your hair out. It's quite the feat. Till next time, have a wonderful and awesome life.

Oh, and Zombieland was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. No joke, this film will destroy all expectations. If you are into being awesome and doing awesome things, check it out.

Bye, now.