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May 13, 2008 Got the CDs yesterday from Discmakers and they look awesome!!!! I can't wait to start selling these things. I've been doing so much work with Solstis Records today and yesterday to get these CDs to the radio stations, & magazines it's just not fun, but it needs to get done! In an earlier posting I wrote that gas prices were $3.24 March 28, it’s now May 13 and it’s $3.70. WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!?!?!? It went up $.50 cents in 2 months!!!! Who the hell can afford driving? I imagine people not even working anymore because their pay check goes right into gas to get to their job and back home, why work? I know we need to work to pay the bills, but what the hell is going on with gas prices? |
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March 28, 2008 Evelyn left for Arizona to see her sister, mom, & step dad, and left me to take care of the kid and the dog. That’s not the ridiculous part. Evelyn’s been slowly showing me how to do more of the Webskinz business side like billing, and server side stuff, it’s just another thing I have to do… I knew this stuff was hard and time consuming, but it’s worth it because it’s been opening up more time for Evelyn to do her thing and I think she’s not as cranky as before. Other ridiculous stuff; Now that we’ve rerecorded some of my vocals, and remix the CD it sounds great, we had it remastered and it sounds even better! I went over too Timmy’s house to make sure everything was done with the CD artwork, and I finally sent it off this morning to Duplication house. Putting together our CD release Party in Orlando, and other shows in other cities to sell our CDs. Trying to make time to redesign the myspace page, and our website to reflect the new CD release in between all of the Webskinz work is challenging to say the least. It's been a busy few months, I haven’t even had time to watch TV or a movie, which is really pissing me off! OK, so maybe I have been able to watch a few movies, but I didn't get to enjoy them beucase it's rush and watch it, now work. I guess it sounds worse than it is, most people would bitch at me because at least I’m working and enjoying my kind of work and actually making money when this whole world is in recession, gas prices were $2.70 at the beginning of the year and now it’s $3.24, that’s $.54 cents... I’m glad Evelyn chose to buy the Honda Civic; it’s great with gas mileage! I’ve been driving down to West Palm Beach to jam with the guys every other weekend for a year now and we’ve saved a little money on gas. I didn’t even have time to take a picture for this blog. |
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January 1, 2008
So the next day we headed to Boone and met up with Evelyn’s mom and step dad (Nana & Sam). They were oddly enough staying about 5 minutes away from our hotel in a cabin with Evelyn’s cousins. So we headed over and had dinner with them and they told us how much fun they had skiing Appalachian Mountain.
Next day we headed to Savannah GA again on the way home to have lunch, we ate at B&D Burger, it was pretty good. Then Evelyn wanted to drive around the place where we had the good ghost tour, then we proceeded home. We had our own X-Mas night and opened presents. It was a great little vacation, I got to ski and that did it for me! I know my old friend Mark will be pissed after reading this because I didn’t stop by and say hi, but we were 3 hours away from his house at the closest and we were on a limited time schedule, so sorry Mark for not stopping by, BUT when my band starts touring we’ll be stopping by.
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November 9, 2007
At home, Evelyn and I went to our 20th year high school Reunion in October. We stayed with a classmate that we hardly knew but by the end of the week we became great friends. We had an awesome time at the reunion; meeting people we never talked to in high school (most of the close friends I had in school didn’t show up which really sucked). I also drove around my old hometown of Poughkeepsie NY and took pictures of my old house and things. The cooler weather and the beautiful October leaves of Halloween brought back awesome memories. Living in Florida is hot and getting away for a week for some cooler weather rocked!! Evelyn’s Ford Focus was having problem after problem after 6 years, she drives that damn car constantly! I'm very proud of her, she spent 3 whole days looking at different cars and driving them and finally ended up buying exactly what she wanted in the first place, a Honda Civic 2007, and she got a great price!! It IS a great car, I find a few flaws as usual, the seats are rock hard, there’s no legroom, and although it rides smoooooth it rides like a sports car and you can FEEL EVERY bump in the road. |
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This X-Mas we decided to hit the road and Ski in Boone NC. On the way we stopped in Savannah GA and we did a Ghost Tour called the 
They next day Evelyn wanted to ski Appalachian mountain and I actually enjoyed skiing there, the snow was good for skiing and I THINK I helped Evelyn ski better. For all you advanced skiers out their, stay away from this mountain it’s for beginners and the mountain is probably a quarter the height of Sugar. After that we headed over to the cabin again for an X-Mas Eve dinner with the relatives. Jason (Vanessa’s husband) cooked Lamb, and I’ve never eaten it before, but apparently he knows how to cook, and it was awesome!!!
The next day we got up late, and made our way over to Sugar Mountain. Evelyn was tired from all the skiing the other day, but I was raren to go, so I skied a half-day and Evelyn and Justin went ice-skating there. They waited patiently for me to finish my day of skiing, which was awesome by the way! It started off a bit icy, but the sun came out and I skied the side of the slopes and enjoyed my day listening to Rush “Moving Pictures”, and a 1985 bootleg of Metallica Live in England. I think I also listened to Ozzy’s “Bark At The Moon” too, damn I love the old stuff, they don’t make it like that anymore.
After a second day of skiing I was pooped, and Evelyn drove us to Ashville. I don’t remember this night too well. I think we ate with Nana & Sam for breakfast, then we went for a tour at the 
We took off for Charleston and did another Ghost Tour, this one SUCKED! I guess it’s all in the way the guide tells stories, and Charleston had REALLY lame stories so I guess it wasn’t all the guide’s fault.
The next day when we got home from vacation I headed down to West Palm Beach with Perry to record a Live album for the A&R reps that have liked our CD we recorded but thought the vocals were too low in the mix. So good news is they like us and are giving us a second chance to hear a live recording, bad news is we have to go back into the studio and remix the album with vocals louder and redo a few vocal parts that I can actually sing better now that we’ve played live for the past 6 months.
Other bad news for DMD lovers, we won’t be able to put out the live recording because it’s only for industry people.
Life is CONSUMED by playing gigs every weekend or writing new songs, my business has been very busy, and I haven’t had time until today to update my site. My band has hooked up with a new manager and she is already kicking ass!!! We’ve seen what she can do and she already putting those things into our band. We have a renewed vigor and we’re going to show it at our gigs. This past week I’ve have been heavily working on our promo packs’ look so we can start throwing them around.
