Vacation

WOW!!!

vacation was out of control this year. I barely had any, but made the most of it. On back to back to back weekends I went to Austin, Red Rocks and Wakarusa. So much has happened since then, I barely remember any of it because of last weekend, which was my first official weekend by the pool all day. And that was exactly what I need because my brain had been spinning OUT of control since I went to Austin to visit my friends.

Jager and Raj came down from NYC, a couple friends from Dallas made the trip down. And what a riot it was. With playoff basketball, college graduation, and a group of about 10 friends there was nothing but drunken good times to be had. There are about 'X' amount of bars on 6th street in Austin and while with jager and raj we probably went to 'X -1.' The one we left out was the gay bar, haha. Seriously though we would walk in to a bar order a shot, look around, decide there were no cute girls and leave. We repeated this move until we were so blacked out we could barely walk anymore and decided dancing was probably a better way to talk to girls.

After barely surving that wknd and having liz drive me all the way back to dallas as I slept, I knew what was in store for me 13hr road trip to Red Rocks. WHAT!?!?! you may be asking yourself. That right, my roomate Travis and I killed it!!! With a little help from a friend. Left thursday after work got in Friday morning CRASHED! woke up fri afternoon to see some beautiful landscape at Red Rocks park and get our selves situated for Sat night, which is why we did that crazy drive. BISCO INFERNO baby!!! What you know about White Chicks and Gang signs?!?! That shit was hot!!! Still gives me goose bumps. Anywho, Disco Biscuits KILLED it. They played a new song by Manger and dropped all their WHOMPS!!!

Not only was the music amazing, but they had some dancers on stage in all fluarescent clothing and was quite amazing to the eye. Music from 5pm -2:30am. Pure FIRE, pure greatness, PURA VIDA to the max!!! I'll tell you what though driving 13hours back the next day was not FIRE, haha.

On to my last trip out to Wakarusa, a measly 5hour drive. Got to see Pretty Lights drop some PHAT beats. My DJ buddy got me into them a while back, and I have not been able to stop. 'Hot Like Sauce' is simply amazing, and he just never stops with the hard hitting bass bombs. Found a new group called 'BoomBox' similar to Ghostland, and they were good fun. Unfortunately one of the groups I was really excited to see STS9 only brought the fire for one of their two sets. was sadly disspointed on their Sat night set. No bass, no fire, no love... would have rather seen just about anything else instead of them at the time. I honestly think i would have enjoyed my cousins ballet to the tune of some heavy metal or something. I dont know, I just guess they were going for a different vibe that night unfortunately for me.

Anywho, I survived 3wknds of pure craziness and now its time to get back to work, where when my sales rep goes out of town she expects me to do work on sat for her. are you serious!?!?! do I look like a monkey? F that!!!

ool time!!!!

(notice: above is not a spelling error, I try and keep my pool pee free thank you very much)

Musical Journey

This weekend began possibly the most intense run of music in my life, and I cannot be more excited as the days get closer and closer. I went out with some friends on my soccer team Saturday night to go check out a band I have heard much about, but never seen, the Spazmatics. They are an 80's cover band and dress like they are fresh out of the movie 'Revenge of the Nerds.' Took a few drinks, but soon I was jumpin around and bustin a sweet move or five on the dancefloor, while the Spazmatics rocked out to all sorts of tunes. From here we go to Austin on May 23rd for Memorila Day weekend. I have a friend driving in from Cali and two flying in from NYC. All four of us went to American together and are gonna take Austin by storm. There isnt anything planned, but no doubt there will be some live music in my face at some point, as we all love it!!!

The weekend after that I am going to Red Rocks, which is apparently one of the most magnificent venues in the world, or atleast the states to see live music. On top of that I am getting to see one of my favorites in the Disco Biscuits along with Lotus, The New Deal, Paul Oakenfold, and more. It has been a while since I have been to an outdoor concert and much longer since I have been to a show with so much hype built up before it. The band itself is hyping up the Red Rocks show as one of the THROW DOWNS of the summer. It is called Bisco Inferno, so enough said!

The following weekend comes Wakarusa where its all about the camping and roughing it. Shoudl be a blast. Get to meet all sorts of new friends, see awesome music that until that moment you had no idea existed and best of all, do what ever the hell you want!!! I have never been to Waka, just to Bonarroo, they are similar so I feel prepared. This year though Waka is in Ozark, Ak, where it is apparently beautiful and so much nature. This I am not ready for, but really pumped to experience.

What I am hoping to accomplish is to actually become a vision of my past. I have been having a lot time to think to myself finally I think it is time for me to move on. Not exactly sure how, but that what the time out on the road is for, talking to and making new friends and best of all just becoming one with yourself and acknowledging that for what it is. There is so much I want to do with my self, but often feel tied down... its a terrible feeling... lets hope together that I can break the bands that restrict me over these next weeks, and I will keep you posted on how all that goes

one!

Band/Group of the week

So I recently got into a new group/band called 'Pretty Lights.' They are sweetness. Now that I think of it I can't really remember... o wait ya i do. I was jammin out at my buddy's apt, where he has a sweet DJ set up. Including a synth, a beat pad, and a sweet program he bought on his laptop (that is the same that STS9 uses). We were doing our own thing, well really he was doing all the work, I just threw down on the beat pad and synth a little. Which, was honestly some of the best chill fun i've had in a while. I really hope it works out and we can bust out his set pool side... would it not be awsome to have a live DJ poolside? i think so. :)
So we're going through some sweet music with tons of WhooOOoomMMps, i.e. Ratatat, STS9, Bassnectar, etc. and eventually he's like damn this group Pretty Lights is coming to Dallas you should peep them. O and yes he said it EXACTLY like that. So what the hell, listen.grooveshark.com has showed me the greatness of a lot of new music so there I go again. Searching for Pretty Lights, artist, play... bam! The whomps start. Dont know what it is, but i can just play it over and over again... maybe its because in a way i am tired of my 'old' music. Who knows, the human is a complicated person right? or is that just the female?
Who doesnt love some whomps in their music right? so I took him up and went to the show with him and a bunch of his buddies. I havnt been to a soley electronic/rave type show in AGES!!! but I manned up went with them and i believe starting around 10 the first DJ starting busting out the WHHHOooooooMMMMPSSS and the dance started. O not to mention I was wearing shutter shades, ya i'm that guy. 1am or 2 rolls around, who's keepin track, and the next DJ comes on with some techno that I just could not handle after dancing for 3hours straight. So what is there to do on Sat night in dallas after 1 or 2, go back to your friends apt and rage till 9AM! So thats what I did. A group of 10 of us or so went back and did everything from kitchen bowling, to watching the BAD ASS thunderstoms going on in the city and watching the sun come up. Ya i was dead sun, but whatever, not like i get anything done on sundays anyways. Well enough of my journey.

Pretty Lights
My favorite song right now is 'Hot Like Sauce' tons of whomps! get in there guys!!

Ghostridin the Whip

Saturday afternoon I went over to my friends apt. and after messing around with making beats on his laptop, synth and beat pad set up we started to tire and mess around on youtube. Of course, just recently I had heard of a phenomenon called "Ghost Riding." So with my curiosity piqued we had a youtube session and came across a couple instant classics.

Please observe exhibit a: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBPJTK1YBvs
exhibit b: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXl3Pdxrn-k&feature=related

Later that evening at dinner of course I had to mention ALL the videos I saw and my friends would probably say it was in the 20's, haha. And... of course i opened my loud mouth and started saying how I would/could do it and yada yada. By the end of dinner it was the moment of truth and of course there is no way I could back out.. So i ghost rided the whip!!!

Please enjoy yours truly making an ass out of himself :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QcO_IOsIIg