To Peeps Who Follow Me on Here:

To the few friends who follow me on here, if any of you aren't going to the beach on June 11th, you're invited to come check out my band Basement Dweller, we're playing at my friends house that night. Just lemme know if you're interested and I'll hook you up with an address!

If every day of summer could be like yesterday I'd be really happy.

Woke up late, after having an actually decent night's sleep. Showered, had some lunch with my mom, and just chilled around the house till about 3:30ish. At about that time, I picked up my buddy Ricardo and we rolled downtown to go to the river with my good friends James and Morris. Even though it was pretty overcast and there was a huge overpopulation of annoying redneck types (not to judge, but I'm being completely honest, that's just how it was) down there, it was still super fun. We swam around for awhile and rode the currents for awhile, which was cool (and got yelled at by cops, apparently you need a lifejacket to swim more than five feet out when the river's high? Whatever). After awhile, it started getting a little darker, so we started to head back to the city itself. We hit up good ole Panda Veg for the vegan buffet, and saw some friends in there which was cool, then decided to just make it a fat day and got Coldstone after. Hell yes.
After eating to the point of discomfort, we went and hung out on James's porch to digest, and just talked for awhile which is always nice. Afterwards, me and Morris jammed and wrote a few new songs for our band Basement Dweller, which I was super excited about. I headed home after that, and met up with Kim to watch "A Clockwork Orange" and just hang out, which was really nice as always.

Awesome.

Past Few Days (Condensed)

Definitely been a really busy past few days!

My big ole head singing along

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Sunday: Cook Out. Basement Dweller loudness/friend hangs for a bit. River (kinda a fail due to flooding but whateva, still cool). Warehouse hangs before the show. Dead End Path/Title Fight craziness. Kim crowd surfing. Sing alongs. Legit one of the best days of the summer so far.

Monday: Gaming all morning and chillin' by my lonesome, then scooped up Ace and Ricardo. Hanging at Hold it Down tattoo shop all day, talking about porn and fights and tattoos and other cool dude stuff with the people there. Bonfire later on with smores and Jackass. Definitely a good day and night.

Tuesday: River with Kim and Liz. Adventuring. Waterfalls. Walking over beaver dams. Being caught in thunderstorms. Burritos. "Nap" time. Bike rides. Downtown chillin' then Liz's place chillin'.

Wednesday: Hangin' at Kim's. Olive Garden with the madre. Deep Run Park with the girlfriend then Short Pump. Some alone time, then a quick late night hangout. Good day and night as always.

I need to figure out a way to stop being a disappointment to myself.

Why I'm Stoked on This Summer

-Music. Sooo excited for my music possibilities this summer, real talk. I've just been asked to take over playing lead guitar for the band American Ruins, which I'm super happy about. It's gonna be awesome being a part of a band that's signed to an independent label (sinkswimpress.com, check it out), that already has an established fan base in Richmond, that's going to actually be active, and that some of my best friends are already in. Also my project band with my good buddy Morris, Basement Dweller, is starting to shape up a lot, so that'll be sick once it gets off the ground. Just gotta save up for an amp stack...sigh.

-My girlfriend. Pretty self explanatory. She's freaking awesome, still can't believe that she's willing to deal with all my nonsense, for almost a whole year now!

-My (relatively) new friend group. While a lot of the kids I hang out with went to Freeman, I wasn't that great of friends with them before college, and I've met a ton of awesome new people since going to VCU that I've been hanging with. I'm really happy that I finally have a super tight group to be with and to get into crazy shenanigans with. I count myself very fortunate to have them.

-Downtown in general. Late nights walking around the streets and down alleys amongst the tall buildings. River hangs. Diving off of things. Belle Isle. Running around Jackson Ward. Hardcore shows. I love my city.

:)

You know what pisses me off? People complaining/downplaying the death of Osama Bin Laden. Alright, first we need to divide the categories of people pissing me off into two groups. We've got the Debby Downers, who are all like "Well, this won't do anything for the overall war effort. He was just a figurehead/just one person, it doesn't matter." Really? Considering he was one of the main architects of a terrorist attack that took out a whole bunch of people on US soil, who's to say he couldn't plan something of that magnitude again? Shit, even if it doesn't help in the greater scheme of things, we killed someone who took the lives of thousands of innocent people, including Muslims, all under the idea that he was doing it and following his own religion. That brings me to my next group of people, those who are like "Well we shouldn't celebrate the death of anyone." You know what? Yeah we should. Get off your moral high horse and come back to reality. Why would you not celebrate the death of a murderer/terrorist/brainwasher/religious criminal? It did no one any favor to have someone like that walking the earth. This has nothing to do with patriotism, just acceptance of logic.

Also, 'merica.