Life, Love, No Regrets

Two shows booked, flyers coming soon. One more in the process. Oh and I started a new tattoo yesterday.

Today In The Mail: Yesterday In The Mail Vol. 2

After work yesterday I found the new Pulling Teeth LP "Paranoid Delusions|Paradise Illusions" waiting for me on my bed. I knew this was going to look good, but not this good. This has to be one of the neatest looking records I have in my collection. The art to begin with is amazing but the holographic cover takes this version to another level. If you get the chance to pick up this record, Do it. This band with every release jumps leaps and bounds.



A close up of the record.



Pulling Teeth - Paranoid Delusions|Paradise Illusions (Paranoid Delusions Version) (Hologram Cover) (Out Of 333) (A389 Records)

Justice Replaced By Revenge

Last night I went to see Ruiner, Ringworm and Agnostic Front. It was the best time I have seen Ruiner play so far (This was my fifth time seeing them). Ringworm fucking killed it and the only shirt I got at the show was for them (See below). And Agnostic Front played a great set, even though security was being very lame. They opened up with The Eliminator and and I felt like I was at Posi Numbers 2004 again... Its shows like last night that remind me how much I love hardcore.

Today In The Mail: All Hail The Kingpin

The other day I picked up all three of the Leeway full lengths on tape for $8.25 (with shipping). Born To Expire is one of my favorite hardcore records of all time. And Desperate Measures and Adult Crash are very very underrated records in their own right.



Leeway - Born To Expire (Profile Records)
Leeway - Desperate Measures (Profile Records)
Leeway - Adult Crash (Futurist Records)

(Those are Cassette Tapes not bootleg DVDs ha.)

Today In The Mail: Holy Terror Kind Of Day 3.0

Two packages came today the first was my Compact Disc version of the new Pulling Teeth album Paranoid Delusions|Paradise Illusions came. As I was one of the first 300 people to order it I got a copy of the newest edition to the Witches Sabbath 7" series. Of this series I am only missing the first one (that was also put out by Deathwish Inc). The second package was from Hellfish Family and is another Integrity shirt, I think this makes four ha. Can not wait to wear it.



Integrity - Free Charlie (Brown) (XL)
Pulling Teeth - Paranoid Delusions|Paradise Illusions (Deathwish Inc Records) (CD)
Pulling Teeth - Witches Sabbath V (Out Of 300) (Deathwish Inc Records)

More Pictures From The New York/Vermont Trip

Can't wait for next month to go upstate again (twice).

One Justice


Hopefully The Back Of A One Justice Shirt With Lyrics Around It Ha


Born To Expire


Born To Expire Again


Pat And Paul


Chris And I

Pictures From Cleveland 10/12/08

Just a few pictures from Have Heart, Ceremony, Blacklisted, Let Down And Convicted show from last year. Mad Minds also played, band rules. I just got the camera developed ha.

Convicted



Mad Minds



Mad Minds with Spyder jumping on everyone


Blacklisted

Today In The Mail: You Cost What You're Worth

Today I woke up to at almost 2:00 PM somehow. My plan was to update my blog twice in a row and then spend the rest of the day with my Girlfriend (looking for a cat and taking a cute walk). But a third blog has popped into the equation. When I woke up I saw this package waiting for me and my Mom handed me an envelope. Inside of it was a check for $56.99 from a class action lawsuit against the Airbourne Corporation. Awesome because I have so many trips coming up (three to New York, two to Cleveland, one to Chicago) in the next two months. The package is one I've been waiting on for almost two months, my Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence (Double LP) and a long out of print Painkiller Records release for a band called Wound Up (Ex Punch In The Face and Unit Pride). Today rules.


Wound Up - S/T (Painkiller Records)
Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence (Roadrunner Records)

First Of Many Trips This Year

The New York/Vermont trip was great fun, and a great bonding (and friendship building) excursion. This trip was Paul, Ben And I (And the Vermont portion had the added bonus of Mike and Nick). Both the trip their and the trip home were long and late. We came up Auburn, New York for one show and ended up getting to go to three shows. The Show we came up for was to benefit show for my dudes dude (who I got to meet in Vermont).

Here is the flyer (Unit 731 canceled, and Knuckle Dragger jumped on).


Some solid Edgemen put us up for our New York three night stay. They would be Chris, Nick And Sean. One of them (Sean) had a collection of all the Animorphs Books.


On Friday we went to Syracuse and saw two shows. The first show was Knuckle Dragger And Born To Expire (Both bands are great check them out). It had the added surprise of Undergang. Band is weird but I'm into this kinda shit so I was siked to be able to catch some of their set. Then we hustled over to a small bar and I got to see Unholy. This band is fucking awesome, can not wait to see them with Earth Crisis in May. The next day after A trip to a huge mall in Syracuse, was the show and the reason I came on this trip (other then to just get out of Ohio). One Justice opened up the show and were great. They played one of their songs and the rest of the set were Sacred Pledge songs. This was mostly done as an homage to the singer of Sacred Pledge (who the benefit was for). Knuckle Dragger were great again. Backtrack played another amazing set (Best dudes, Best band). Their weekend tour mates Incendiary also were great. Better live then recorded I think. Born To Expire blew me away, I hope this band gets big. The last band that played were called Path To Misery, they are from Pittsburgh. Not my cup of tea but I can see why people were into it. After the show we drove straight to Vermont. This portion of the trip was a lot of chillaxin and watching movies. I did eat two Little Caesars pizza's in ten hours. That was cool. On the drive home I actually started using my camera ha...

So here are some pictures from that.

On the way home we stopped at...




Mike did a lot of these two things on the trip...



Ben, Paul And I


This is how Paul sleeps...


And this is a picture of the sky ha...


I will have more pictures from it as soon as I can get my disposable camera developed (and other pictures).

PS. Though it was a really fun trip, it was hard being away from my girlfriend for so long. Hopefully we will be able to get a trip going of our own this summer and take lots of cute pics on it.

Today In The Mail: It Felt Like It Would Never Come

Today my Roses Never Fade 7"/T-Shirt bundle finally came, FUCK. So happy to have it, but sadly I can't throw it on till I get back. Yes get back, today I leave on a 5 day trip to New York and Vermont. This will lead to fun updates when I get back I'm sure. Also today came Victory Style One (Cassette), Integrity - Cat Skull (Banner), And Perspective Fanzine (With Compilation CD). Today rules.


Roses Never Fade - The Man They Wanted To Hang (Out Of 100) (Rock Vegas Records)
Roses Never Fade - The Man They Wanted To Hang (Black) (XL)
Perspective Fanzine #1
Victory Style (Cassette)

Not pictured
Integrity - Cat Skull (Banner) (4' x 4') (Out Of 500)

See you guys on the other side.

I am 23

This is the beginning of the best year of my life.

Most Likely The Best Show I've Done

I didn't make a post about this show. I did not want to make a post about how disappointed In the Columbus hardcore scene I am/was because this show tanked. But fuck it by far it did not. This was my first show at the Legion Of Doom. And I am excited to be doing another one there in May. DFTS DFTS. Check out www.myspace.com/whereitends (great band, great dudes). I'll post up the flyer just cause it rules just like the show did.

Flyer by Bteen Productions.

Today In The Mail: Testing Testing

This came yesterday but it came when I was running out the door so this post was delayed till today. As soon as I saw the envelope I knew what it was (My Vegas/Moutheater Test Press). It came all the way from Belgium only eight days after I won it. Thrown in with the record were some stickers, a Sledgehammer record and a Vegas embroidered patch. I hope to win more records from the man himself, everything about this transaction is perfect.


Vegas/Moutheater (Test Press) (Out Of 10) (Thrashed Records)
Sledgehammer - Your Arsonist (Gold) (Specimen 32 Records)
And bonus HT goodies

Today In The Mail: I Wouldn't Know Where To Begin

Today I woke to have two packages thrown on top of me. One (the Lp) was a from Interpunk, and all the 7"s were from a order I made at Painkiller Records. As the title says... plus I am very tired and don't feel like going depth why everyone should own "Something To Write Home About" or that Mentally Challenged 7". Enjoy the pretty pictures though.


The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About (Purple) (Out Of 2000) (Doghouse Records)
Underdog - Live From Asbury Lanes (Self Released)
Restless Youth - State Of Confusion (Red) (Out Of 285) (Painkiller Records)
Look Alive - Both Feet On The Ground (Off White "Yellow" Transition Color) (Lockin Out Records)
Mentally Challenged - Doctors, Lawyers, Cops And Priests (No Label Records)
Hatred Surge - Isolated Human (Out Of 150) (Painkiller Records)


Gatefold of "Something To Write Home About"

And I Wonder

Best Valentines day ever. Oh to be in love.

Friday The Thirteenth

13 dollar, 13th anniversary, 13 tattoo on Friday the thirteenth. Thrill Vulture Tattoo, Westerville, Ohio.

Today In The Mail: Every Answer

Today was a great day, I woke up and was whisked away to Cracker Barrel for a great breakfast. Then the girlfriend and I went back to her place and cuddled for a hours and hours before we went to the mall and then got a dinner. Perfection fallows us, every day with her is the best day of my life. But I'm missing the true point of this post, the mail. As I was dropped off at my house I found a package waiting for on my bed. It held my first (received) piece of Dead Swans merch. The package also held 4 copies of the new New Found Glory single. The packaging for it is great, and three of them came with posters (with the package also came a cool H2O/Dropkick Murphys tour poster and a Defeater poster). Oh and did I mention I ordered this three days ago.... shipping like that is insane.


Dead Swans - Photocopied Repeater (Black) (XL)
New Found Glory - Listen To Your Friends (Clear) (Friends Press)(Bridge Nine Records)
New Found Glory - Listen To Your Friends (Red) (Bridge Nine Records)
New Found Glory - Listen To Your Friends (Blue) (Bridge Nine Records)
New Found Glory - Listen To Your Friends (Translucent White) (Hot Topic Version) (Bridge Nine Records)

Today In The Mail: A Great Way To Start The Week

I got out of work a bit early, and it was made even better by the fact I found two packages waiting for me. Both of these contained records I have been hearing of other people getting for a week now. The first one I opened was my Swamp Thing - In Shame Pre-Order. I saw this band last year and they opened up with a great Unbroken cover (Absentee Debate to be more specific), and the rest of the set were fucking great. Band rules. The second package was the long overdue Brick - S/T 7". I was so impatient waiting for this record I bought the tour version at the show in January. They really impressed me the first time they played here and were even better the second. The are featured on the new Reaper Records compilation 7" most def a band to keep your ears on. (The package also contained a zine and a two trail stickers).


Brick - S/T (Brown Silk Screened B-Side) (Out Of 100) (Panic Records)
Swamp Thing - In Shame (Stamped Labels) (Out Of 100) (6131 Records)
At Both Ends #7
Trail Stickers

We've Got Too Much Heart - Cave 9

Cave 9 is a D.I.Y. entity in Birmingham, Alabama. It's the kind of venue bands talk about loving playing. A place where people who care made a home for so many different scenes and they made sure they all could coexist. The only non-corporately owned, Non bar, totally all ages venue where some huge hardcore superstar act (Terror and Agnostic Front just off the top of my head) or other bigger band would play on their tour. I used to date a girl who lived down there, I have a handful of friends in (or from) the area who attend shows there and it is the farthest away from home I have ever seen shows. The place holds a part of heart and what was going on with it was always something I kept my ear to the ground about. I'm not sure of its status right now but either way this is an important thing to watch (I'm reposting this on my blog from Jimmy's). Places like this are important, the things that happen inside them are important. It shouldn't just be a memory.

Part 1



Part 2

Today In The Mail: Kobe Bryand Lifestyle

The Mind Eraser portion of this post came yesterday, I was just too lazy to post it up. The record took forever to come, even though it was a pre-order. I got the most rare color but I was just sick of waiting for it (RevHQ and online distros were selling this, I even saw a copy on Ebay). I guess its not that bad because about a week ago I found the mp3s up for download. Band is not slipping one bit. But the actual "Today In The Mail" portion is Rotting Out - This Is Just A Life 7". This is one of my favorite "new" bands. I say "new" because the A side of the record is their 2007 Demo. The B side is five other songs, not sure when they were recorded but two of them are covers. The first is "La Girl" origionaly by The Adolescents and the second is "I Love Living In The City" originally by Fear. I fucking love this record. I need to find the mp3s so I can jam more then just their five song demo in my far. For a free D/L of the demo click here. Also be on the look out for their 6131 Records debute 7" in the spring. Oh and I'm going to a show tonight with Peter, Eric and Jakob so I might post about that later.

Rotting Out - This Is Just A Life (Red) (World Won't Listen Records)
Mind Eraser - The Prodigal Son Brings Death (Orange) (Out Of 200) (Youngblood Records)
Youngblood Records Sticker