I Miss Home.

I should be in San Diego right now.

I'm in Northampton, MA for the summer. Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been moving in to my friend's apt for summer and dealing with summer session @ UMass.

MA, it should be noted, is currently trying to kill me with it's fucking batshit insane notions of "weather".

Bane is up/has been up but I've been too busy to post it. Search youtube for mercyhouse and bane for links to the full video and everything.

Tragedy and Blowback videos will be up when I get a steady internet connection. I'm sorry, it's not my fault this time around.

Did I mention that i miss home?

Anyways I'm hiding from the heat at Northampton's Forbes Library. And let me tell you... JESUS CHRIST EVERYONE WHO WORKS HERE IS GORGEOUS. Women and men, young and old.

Plus I totally have a crush on whoever helped to make the bitchin' comic collection they got going.

Air conditioning + comics = love.

Goin' Out West

Going home again, flight delayed at Chicago though (checking engine? You can bet your ass that I'm listening to Tom Waits all the way down if the plane falls through the sky).

Friends still living in San Diego: Will be there until the 23rd, hit me up and let's rage.

One billion and ten.

"I'm literally 5 years old" - Example one billion and ten

Goddamnit I am so stupid sometimes.

Full Ripshit and Aerosols tomorrow, I've been recuperating from hell week and now i think mike got me sick. Damnit.

"You make nothing out of something."

I neglected to update my own website. I've been busy. If you're on vlv or amherstpunk.com (if you are from west mass, why haven't you registered?! Stop lurking!) you've probably seen most of these. I'm posting chronologically, oldest to new. Nothing witty to say, just going to post the links to all the videos then go to bed. I'll use this to whine about growing up tomorrow probably.

P.S. If you don't see a link to the full video it means it's not there yet. Be patient, I have 2 tests and 2 papers coming up and I've uploaded about 15 gigs in 2 weeks. I don't have the time or bandwidth right now. If you are somehow able to freeze time Groundhog Day style then for god sakes do it.

Cruel Hand @ The Mercy House on 2.08.08
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Relics @ UNH on 2.14.08 Full Video
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Furnace @ UNH on 2.14.08 Full Video
^ I need to clean my room and find this tape. Shut up. I know I'm an idiot.

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Acid Reflux @ The Ratscellar on 2.16.08 Full Video
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Wasted Time @ The Ratscellar on 2.16.08 Full Video
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Social Circkle @ The Ratscellar on 2.16.08 Full Video
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Direct Control @ The Ratscellar on 2.16.08 Full Video
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Blacklisted @ The Mercy House on 2.22.08 Full Video
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Terror @ The Mercy House on 2.22.08 Full Video
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Ripshit @ The Red Barn (Hampshire College) on 2.24.08
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Failures @ The Red Barn (Hampshire College) on 2.24.08
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The Conversions @ The Red Barn (Hampshire College) on 2.24.08
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Aerosols @ The Red Barn (Hampshire College) on 2.24.08
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Up and runnin'

The board/calendar has been up for only a few days but damned if we didn't hit the ground running.

So far:
- Wrote a guide to the 5 college area (still working on it, so help out!)
- Added a Chat Room
- FILLED the calendar
- Had one of the hampshire show dudes join ('sup Jeff) to keep us updated on their generally hard to find shows.

We need:
- More registered users! Join in!
- To complete the guide! Help!
- To constantly keep the calendar updated!

200 active users by the end of April. Make it happen.

Homieville

West Mass/Amherst kids:
mega-fucking-homieville.net is live

The domain is just temporary until amherstpunk.com is finished registering in a day or two.

Leave comment/feedback/criticism in this thread or just check out the calendar (you don't have to register to view the calendar)

Hope you enjoy?

Update: amherstpunk.com now works

Holy crap!

Some of my videos at archive.org have over 1k downloads. I'm averaging about 1k unique users per month.

What the hell? I thought I was talking to my self/small groups of friends most of the time. There are a hell lot of you lurkers and I've written some straight stupid shit (most of it is me complaining about growing up + wanting to be a kid again).

I suppose i should apologize at this point. So uh, sorry?

West Mass Kids Stay tuned in the next few days, there may or may not be a tasty treat coming...

And by tasty treat I mean I'm having eric install a message board on mega-fucking-homieville.net that will focus on Amherst Punk primarily, West Mass secondary complete with a little calendar and stuff. It'll be your one stop shop for punk round-these-parts.

Hopefully it'll help bolster the little community we have building, if it turns into a stupid mess of drama and shit talk, I'm shutting it down.

There may also be the fact that eric isn't able to install the board to norman's server (who i've been leeching on, also the reason sometimes ilovescifi sends you to sensitivetolight) and then you'll want to forget everything I just said.

Right.

Huge fuck you to the Cashin Hall UMass Amherst RA on duty at midnight on 1/27/08 who refuses to check me in even though I'm an out of state student who only could manage to get in at midnight (CA is 3,000 miles away you dumb fuck) and was fucking lazy enough to suggest I "go to a hotel."

Are you serious?

All it takes is for you to walk down stairs, sign a paper and give me a key. You were clearly wide awake and watching TV on your fucking fat ass.

You are officially the piece of shit for 2008. Congrats.

Update: Bonnie is the best fucking person in the goddamn world. RA of the year for 2008.

Bane @ The Che Cafe on 1.19.09

Bane @ The Che Cafe on 1.19.09
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Full is uploading. I'm sick but I'll ramble later.

Update: Full is up, still sick, kinda jet lag, why am i awake? Will ramble later.

Update #2 on 1/27/08: Layover in ATL. Ramble time...
- Bane show was a nice mix of older hardcore dudes and young new kids, awesome.
- Video is a bit shakey, sorry about that. The side stage was packed and i tried my best to stay out of everyones way, but that generally consisted holding my camera above my head with hands outstretched...
- Video is black and white because the shots of the crowd would have be totally dark so i used night vision, opted for blown-out contrast in place of shadows.
- Please respect your venues, be it the Che Cafe in San Diego or Mercy House in Amherst or whatever. Kids being pieces of shit and giving attitude when I suggest using some goddamn common sense = mega bummout. The Bane show didn't spur this comment, a Mercy House show did.
- Try not to hang off the rafters dudes. The Che is old, you're heavy...
- Volunteer! Help clean/pick up trash/plates/whatever! It helps a lot and is totally appreciated.
- Which speaking of, my hands smelled like garlic that night because i was chopping it in the kitchen, sorry if you stood near me and had to deal with that.
- Wish i could've filmed other bands esp. outbreak and trash talk, was doing winter session homework until 8:30 pm. Damn.

Back

Actually I've been back, but I lost the video that Shipwreck was on so uh....

Yeahhhh.

Winter session has been killing me, I NEED and "A" and I keep on falling short... story of my life.

Bane up within a day or two, going to bed now though. Maybe a taiwan report if I have enough time to write one before school.

Oh and one last thing, I've been using skype a lot to talk with family in taiwan, so that's another way to contact me you know, besides listing everywhere I live online, my AIM screen name, my e-mail, a meebo chat widget... I own the internet.