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This is amazing. It makes me want a Xbox 360 even more.

Self-indulgence is the rule (selfish motherfucker)

Two for one doller, 16 OZ. IBC Cream Soda from the dollar store. Amazing. Oh and the weather is changing already, well sorta. It was about 70 degrees in the bed room when I got home last night after the show (I'll get to that later). All the dirt patches around the house are filled with ant hills. And the birds are back (singing their hearts out).
Now the show. Yesterday at about 5:30 Keith, I and two other souls drove to Muncie, Indiana. It was a three hour drive. And the show started at eight so lets just say we were a little late. We got their right as Convicted started. I was one of 10 people there that got into this band. It was my second time seeing them and I was pretty excited. They played four songs and in my opinion were awesome. After that I picked up a copy of their 7" (on Organized Crime Records). It's out of 30 with a One Life Crew rip off cover (so I'm siked). After that Blacklisted played. Once again they were awesome. I think I thought they had become a crappy band because of me seeing them one time at Bernies, but that place makes a lot of good bands sound bad (And it had been 3 years since I had seen them before that). And after the show we stopped at Taco Bell, 3 gas stations and a Lions Den that had a it's on group of christians hating on it. We stopped on the way in and the way out and made fun of them. But I think the dude running the lions den was almost as funny.

Tomorrow is my first day working at Sams Club. I will be under the employment of Wal-Mart Inc. And will work nights. This will eventually lead to me having money again. But will also make the amount of shows I will be able to go to will be very slim. I will be a making appearance at Youngblood Fest. Possibly at Modern Life Is War and at Surroundings (both in Louisville).

Now A look to the future of this blog and what it holds. Many of the old standards and some new faves. Old - Some dailys, some semi show reviews and random pictures that I take or find. New - Reviews of records, tapes and even merch. And most likely even more stuff I haven't even thought of yet.

Weed Steeler in the news (throw back two)

I was just listing to the 4 tracks Weed Steeler has up on their myspace(Over and over again). And I remembered they two were featured in the Alive magizine. Now this was way back on September 20th, 2007. Oh yeah here is the link... MMMMM NAME DROP.

"They make their girlfriends hold their jackets."

My new kingdom

Louisville, Kentucky aka The 'Ville is my new home. This post has been some weeks in the making and I'm still having trouble thinking of things to say. I have yet to go to a show since I have moved down here, but the few I went to before I relocated had a very different feel then the Columbus shows I was used too. Kids are a lot younger, prolly 16-19. So not very tattooed and old like Ohio shows. And also from what I understand this is a city of sell outs. But I guess almost anywhere is like that.





I am continuing collections. Not as much records (at least non ebay scores) mostly because the record stores here are overpriced and only get boring records. But I keep having amazing tape finds, from Gang Starr to Rancid and from Anthrax to TSOL. I have over 200 tapes in that collection right now. My toy collection is growing very quickly. Ultra Pop, A pretty neat store here is helping that collection grow by the week. I have some of the little "Dunny" figures And a Blank "Munny" that will soon become a skinhead If I can get the courage up to mark on it. But my main focus in that collection is are these Donuts by artist Heidi Kenney distributed by Kidrobot. And on the game front I am only looking for Conkers Bad Fur Day for Nintendo 64.



Now the reason I moved down here my girlfriend. Well we have had our ups and downs but for the past two weeks things have been amazing. I went in one day and hung out with her at work (a preschool/day-care) and it was a lot of fun. And just being able to lay in bed with her or go out and get some chips and salsa is what I have been missing. And the only thing that is not perfect about this whole thing is I don't have a job again. Yep thats right once again I'm a jobless loser. A have applied at atleast 10 different places with only one panning out so far as even an interview (Wednesday at Bestbuy) . But I guess Target is "going to" call me back tomorrow. And I'm calling back Samsclub, Express, Cheesecake Factory and Qdoba sometime tomorrow. I just need a job right now.

Also I will be updating this more often. A big sorry goes out to Peter for slacking so much.

Cold World in the news (throw back)

I was reading through a blog called Hardcore Shirt and saw a link to an article in the Columbus Alive paper from July 19th, 2007. This made me nerd up for a second... I had forgotten about this. Of course I'm pictured in this, I am a living legend.

Reflect

On Wednesday 01/09/08 Columbus, Ohio's own 80's hardcore throwback (think Dag Nasty/Rights Of Spring) played at the LOD (Legion Of Doom) with Screaming Females (who to me are very boring and played far too long of a set). I stood upstairs until Reflect played because I'm that guy I guess that came to see the one hardcore band playing a house punk show (or maybe sometimes I just have good musical taste). Its been quite a while since I've seen Reflect live, and their singer Rob has only become a better front man. With his head not centimeters from the ceiling of the basement he jumps and throw himself all over the stage. I've not seen many better bands play at the LOD especially local bands and it boggles my mind why a label hasn't picked these dudes up. Im sure a lot are looking for bands that can tour out and Reflect dudes can't do too much of that (some people have real jobs, who'da thunk it), but other then that, the band is on point. I can see this late 80's sound on the comeback. And with bands like Right Idea And Reflect hailing from Ohio maybe we can get some of the limelight again.

A few pictures from that show.

Let Down

Last saturday (01/05/08) Jakob, Anthony, Alex and I drove up to Cleveland (The Tower) to see Let Down, Braindead, Right Idea, Mad Minds and two bands Lukas was booking at the trap house but had jumped on the Tower show, Shut It Down and Fare Thee Well (these two bands opened). I didn't pay much attention to Shut it down until they covered Brand New, and then after that they didn't jump out at me as anything that spectacular. I missed Fare Thee Well as Jakob and I went down the road a bit to get something to drink. Braindead played next they were pretty good and afterwards when I went to buy a 7" they had left (Kinda sucked, reminded me of Desperate Measures ala 2004 at Play Fast Or Die). After that Right Idea Played, they blew me away. I really think this band is gonna get huge. After that Mad Minds played they were really good also, Judge cover people going crazy. Lastly Letdown played, they were pretty good I didn't watch the whole set because I was in the other room holding the door as fireworks were thrown into the room where the bands were playing. Fireworks were going off pretty much the whole show. But not until later were mortars and other bigger fireworks going off. In some ways I think people went a little too far but no one got hurt (more than little boo boos) so all and all it was fun. I might have missed a few bands that played, it was kinda like band after band in the middle.


I took a few pictures at the show most did not come out because all the smoke. One came out amazing though (that is Alex in the front there).



Afterwards we all met up at a Denny's in Medina. Of the people with us sixteen of eighteen were straight edge. I found this to be rather funny. We had a lot of fun, I ate yummy food and before we left this picture was taken of us all together (the guy in the light blue and the lady jumped in because they played a big part in our food fun that night).

Harms Way

Harms Way is a straight hardcore band hailing from Chicago, Illinois. As of right now they have put out a Demo and a 7" EP titled Imprisoned on Organized Crime/Tooth Decay Records. They have played in Columbus once before at the Legion Of Doom but this time it was a lot easier to go off for them and enjoy the show. Not to say you have to mosh or go crazy when a band plays but when a band like this plays I'm surprised anyone can stand still. I wish I could have had a video camera at this show, people were going bonkers.



Raw Sewage and One Foot In The Grave didnt play the show. Juice Tyme was awesome. If you get a chance check them out.

Pictures from Harms Way At the first show at the Trap House (AKA Chris-Tucker's garage). These pictures were taken with a disposable camera (shit is raw, son) on 01/02/08.

The Boundless Light Of A New Day Dawning

This is the first post in my blog. My name is Nathan. I am not sure what I am gonna end up doing with this blog but I will start off by posting a few pictures from the past few days. Ill post again later with more pictures, some from a trip I took to Chicago with some friends a few weeks ago and the others from Let Down at The Tower (in Cleveland, America) Saturday night (1/5/08).

Myself on the phone. I was in fact cradling my Hatebreed LP.


This is the month of December plus 5 days of January (waiting on some things in the mail).