The Things Our Eyes Can't See

Well May is here and summer is that much closer. Some of my friends are getting out of school this week and the rest in the upcoming weeks so I'm sure things will start to pick up around town. The only thing that is going to be tough is staying focused on the things I need to get done at the end of this school year with all my friends coming around but at the same time I'm sure it will be cool.

Yesterday, The Sound of Animals Fighting released their dvd entitled We Must Become The Change We Want To See. The band did a three show tour in San Diego, LA, and Las Vegas and has said that these shows will be there only live shows ever. So if you are a fan of TSOAF or RX Bandits, Circa Survive, Finch, or Chiodos, or experimental music in general I would definately recommend picking up this DVD. I've posted a few clips from the DVD just so you can check it out and decide for yourself if it's worth picking up.

Matthew Kelly of The Autumns performing The Heretic


Act II: All Is Ash or The Light Shining Through It


I also picked up the book Rant which is Chuck Palahniuk's newest novel. If you don't know who Chuck Palahniuk is, he is the author of Fight Club as well as other popular novels including Choke and Invisable Monsters. The novel is written as an oral history and is comprised of several interviews with differant characters in a similar fashion to the way in which Capote was written.

"A high school rebel who always wins (and a childood murderer?), Rant Casey escapes from his small hometown of Middleton for the big city. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On appointed nights participants recognize one another by such designated car markings as "Just Married" toothpaste graffiti and then stalk and crash into each other. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. Their collected anecdotes explore the possibility that his saliva caused a silent urban plague of rabies and that he found a way to escape the prison house of linear time..." - taken from the inside jacket of the Novel.