this past week and uh, music

What Happened this week:

Monday: Hung out with Chris, ate at Krystal and drove to Stone Mountain. Played a lot of Rock Band and played a game of NHL 07 that if it ever happened in real life people would talk about for years.

Tuesday: Parents left for Virginia. I went to school for the day and left pretty blazed. Got home remained blazed, hung out with Cole and Devere. CD came in the mail, Jack Ingram. Damn good musician, for some reason they consider him to be in the country genre, seems to be genreless to me. It just sounds like music, honestly. Good music at that.

Wednesday: Got blazed again, housekeepers came and cleaned up the house. Andrew came over later, we filmed an artist-to-artist interview on my camera. haven't uploaded it on the computer yet so idk if it worked. The Heroin Diaries book came in the mail, started reading away.

Thursday: Got blazed yet again. Didn't bother going to school, didn't feel like it. Missed a test in Government that I was clueless was even going to happen. Will probably bite me in the ass but for some reason I just don't care. Meatball came over we hung out and made a shitload of food: Brownies, Hot Pockets, and fuck I can't even remember lol.

Friday: Woke up to a very nice wake n' bake. Kept me fucked up all day, for some reason I make better decisions stoned then I do sober. Examples: Started going to church, made that decision stoned (never went stoned though). Actually started trying to accomplish more, stoned. Dating Caitlin: sober. nuff said. Went to the movies later on in the day with Meatball, Jesse and Jessica. Saw Prom Night, it was decent. Then later on saw about 10 other people that I had either never met or just hadn't seen in ages. Got home at 10:30, parents still weren't back. They had left VA at 7am so yea it was rather odd. Ended up getting home at like 1am I think.

Saturday: Woke up early, drove to Duluth and couldn't figure out where the YDG meeting was supposed to be. I ended up just hanging around there til like 2 or 3. Parents noticed an empty can of corn in the fridge and bitched at me about it. I didn't put it there, why would I make corn in the first place, put it in tuna salad and then put the empty can in the fridge? Either way, I was the one in trouble and confronted about it. Knew that would happen anyway, so I don't even care. Probably brought it upon myself in some fucked up way anyway, right? They didn't care so much about it being in there, just more upset that I didn't know why it was in there. Kelley called later on and I talked to her for awhile too. Then I got a myspace message from Whiskey seeing if I wanted to jam out. I was supposed to go and listen to Meatball's band practice, but they were supposed to start at like 1 and it was already 4:30 so idk, I just didn't go. Several other people called, wanting to hang out around here, I just didn't bother answering, 9 times out of 10 if I'm not at home they want to know why and shit and it gets really annoying. Must I really tell people why I'm going where I am? Besides my parents of course, and most of the time I don't even want to tell them. I'm usually not doing anything wrong, I just LOVE my privacy.

Anyway, I went to Whiskey's and stayed the night there. Got to jam with all of the Listprice members that was great, we played 2 of their songs, 2 of mine that lacked bass or drum parts but Joe and Zak did great improv for it, then just jammed out playing some Bush, Foo Fighters, Hendrix, and other stuff. Then we got pretty bored so we drove around Social Circle. After Joe left we ended up driving to Covington to go to a coffee house that always has music. They weren't open so we ended up just coming to my house at like 10 for a hour and getting my laptop and acoustic, talked to my mom for awhile too, I think it got her mind off me lying earlier in the day too so that was good. Watched Saturday Night Live when we got back to Social Circle, had one of the funniest skits I've seen in a long time. They were playing "Amie" by Pure Prairie League and the commentary went something like.

1:You know who this song reminds me of?
2:Amy?
1:No, Susan
3:Oh yea man, did you get up the courage to ask her out?
1:Yea man I did, I got stonewalled though
4:Stonewalled? how?
1:Well she said that she couldn't date me because I was a pedophile. And I was like "Woah, pedophile? That's a big word for a 10 year old!"
*they all sing the chorus to Amie* (Amie, what you wanna do? I think I could stay with you for awhile maybe longer if I do)
1:Then her mom broke up with me.

After that I went to bed turned my laptop on put in the Heroin Diaries soundtrack and went to sleep.

Sunday: Woke up and laid in the bed til like 10:30. Watched a lot of Kessen 2 being played, I'm the master of that game lol. We all ended up going up to Monroe and eating at McDonald's. It's connected to a gas station. I'm almost certain more people go there for the $1 food rather than the $3.50 a gallon gas. We left after a certain someone (not me) pretty much stunk up the entire restaurant, it was hysterical. We also jammed out some as well, mostly playing Goo Goo Dolls, I now know how to play Sympathy so I'm happy :) , talk about a song that can get you laid haha. Came back home, I think this is the first night in a week that the entire family is falling asleep under the same roof, lol. Has it's good and bad things, sometimes really ugly. I'm actually feeling really sick though, its just a really bad headache though.

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Most importantly though, the 5 albums I just haven't stopped listening to this past week.

1. Rise Against - Siren Songs of the Counterculture
2. Theory of a Deadman - Gasoline
3. Eve 6 - It's all in Your Head
4. Sixx AM - Heroin Diaries
5. Jack Ingram - Electric

The Rise Against and Eve 6 albums really portray a lot of what I am feeling right now. Especially Rise Against though: "Paper Wings", "Life Less Frightening", "Swing Life Away", "Give it All", shit the whole album does. Eve 6 I just have a lot of songs I like, "Think Twice" does describe how I used to be, not really that way anymore, learned not to care so much. "At Least We're Breathing" definitely comes to mind when I look at me now. "Arch Drive Goodbye" is another good song as well.

I just love the uniqueness that Rise Against and Eve 6 have. I mean Eve 6 has that kind of college-vibe to them, and they have like this unique style of bridges I have rarely ever heard used by any other band, I can't describe it really, it's like almost raggae with distortion? You'd have to hear it to know what I'm talking about. Oh, Everclear does it too, but it is still nowhere close to how Eve 6 does it, I mean the only real similarities are the repetitiveness, but like I can't see Everclear doing it like Eve 6 does it and vice-versa. It's just like you hear it and you know "Oh, that is Eve 6"

Then Rise Against, at least in Siren Songs from the Counterculture, there's just that absolutely perfect mix of hardcore and punk. It's like a mix between the 2, but listening to it you can't just be like they're hardcore or they're punk. I dunno, if you haven't heard those 2 bands you should definitely check them out. I have yet to find a person who hasn't liked Rise Against.

Ok well I've been rambling for like 5 paragraphs about music, better just end this now before I'm up til 6am writing more views on it haha.