Reside in my mind; Resonate In My Eyes

Alright, so I've been pretty busy lately. I recently decided that I'm going to be going to California this month so I'll be leaving on Tuesday. Because of this unexpected trip I've been working pretty hard so I can have some money while I'm there. Also, since I'll be gone for a good part of the summer I've been doing my best to catch up with those that I'll be missing while I'm gone. Unfortunately, it seems like there's never enough time for those that you care so much about. It feels like even though summer's end is still a ways off, that school is right around the corner and the friends that are going away to school will be gone until November. So to those people who I'll be missing, you know who you are, if it were up to me we'd spend every day together and you will always be in my mind.

On the bright side, my job has allowed me to meet several cool people over the last week alone. I mean, I got to go CD shopping with Hawthorne Heights at Best Buy. I'm still waiting to get ahold of the new Receiving End Of Sirens cd, The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi, but I'll let everyone know when I do. It's really the only CD due to be released this summer that I'm anticipating. Also, The Dear Hunter will be returning to the Webster on 8/29 with Boys Night Out and Scary Kids Scaring Kids so if you can go to that show I would recommend it, The Dear Hunter is an amazing band to see live. Here is a link to a video of TREOS performing a song off of their new album. The song is titled Smoke And Mirrors.

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

This Ain't A Surfin Movie

So, it's been a while since I've taken the time to really write anything on here. I guess most of the people that really know me assumed I had found something better to do or something like that and had just forgotten about keeping this going. Well, nope. Anyways, I haven't written anything because I really haven't had much going on. Summer is going well, nothing too crazy has happened but it has been a good time. I haven't really gotten to hang out with all the people I'd like to but I've had good times with the people I have been with. Brettt and Pat had visited for a while which was a pretty good time, hopefully I'll get out to Cali soon enough to party with them again. But yea, I really don't know what else to say. I've spent my days just being lazy and listening to music and hanging out so I dont' have any good stories to tell. Maybe a few more will come as the next few days go by.

Our Days Are Based On Fantasy...

Well in the past few days I was able to acquire the new Circa Survive, My American Heart, Minus The Bear, and Dear Hunter cds, and all four are definately worth picking up. An early start to what appears to be a great summer of music. Some notable tracks off each cd include:

Circa Survive - On Letting Go : In The Morning And Amazing, The Greatest Lie, Travel Hymn

My American Heart - Hiding Inside This Horrible Weather: Boys! Grab Your Guns, The Shake, Fantasy

Minus The Bear - Planet of Ice: Burying Luck, Knights, Double Vision Quest

Dear Hunter - The Meaning Of, And All Things Regarding, Ms. Leading - Red Hands, Where The Road Parts

The Final Four in Baltimore was a good weekend where Johns Hopkins was able to win the championship after beating Deleware and Duke. Other than that not too much new things have gone on so I don't really have much to say.

Lax Season Is Ending

This weekend brought college lacrosse one week closer to it's end. Over the weekend Division 2 and Division 3 played their semi finals games. In the Division 2 semi-finals, Lemoyne beat Limestone 8-5 to put their record at 14 wins a 2 losses, Mercyhurst beat NYIT 13-10. Mercyhurst and defending champions Lemoyne will now play for the Championship on Sunday in Baltimore, MD. The Division 3 semi-finals consisted of undefeated Salisbury beating Gettysburg 9-6 to advance to the championship to play against defending champions Cortland State who made it back to the finals by beating Wesleyan 9-8.

As far as Division 1 lacrosse is concerned, the highly favored Duke was able to bring their team to the Final Four by beating Providence in the opening round and UNC in the quarterfinals. Cornell, who is the only Division 1 team to go undefeated throughout the season, advanced to the Final Four with wins over Towson and Albany. Johns Hopkins University was rated #3 overall going into the playoffs and was able to advance to the Final Four by narrowly beating Notre Dame and then with a victory over Georgetown. The final, and most unexpected team to make the Final Four is University of Deleware. Lead by midfielder Alex Smith, unranked University of Deleware upset #2 Virginia in the opening round and UMBC in the quarterfinals. This is the first time that the Blue Hens have ever made the Final Four for Division 1 lacrosse.

As you can see, the playoffs this year have been exciting and have lead to an unexpected Final Four. Sometime next week I'll have pictures up of this Memorial Day weekend's festivities.

Also, here's a video I stumbled across recently that features highlights of the Tufts Lacrosse team and is shot in a style that made me think of Friday Night Lights but with lacrosse. This video will definately entertain any lacrosse fan whether you like Tufts or not simply by the quality it was done with. It takes a while to load but is definately worth it.

So This Is The Difference Between Living And Not Living

Live Minus The Bear concert. Your Welcome.

Cause You Can't Be Caught Red Handed If You're Not Red Handed

Well I've pretty much finished school and summer has come. And what better way to start start summer off than by being terribly sick. I spent Wednesday in my room with a 103* fever and have spent the rest of the week trying to recover while still trying to enjoy the weather and all that. Oh well, what can ya do. Over Memorial Day weekend I'll be going to Baltimore for the lacrosse final four so I'm getting ready for that and I've been just getting ready for the end of the high school lacrosse season. After that I may be heading out to California although I haven't really put any action into those plans.

Within the past few weeks I've gone and seen The Dear Hunter (Casey from TREOS's new band) and TREOS play without Casey and I must say that while I was concerned TREOS might suffer from the lack of Casey they continued to impress me by putting on a great show. They played two new songs and both sounded pretty good but it's hard to get a feel for a new song by a band like TREOS live. Their new album, The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi will be released I believe August 10th, but that may not be a correct date. The Dear Hunter also put on a great show, however they were opening for Say Anything and Saves The Day and their set time was pretty limited so only a few songs were heard. Fortunately, they will be headlining at The Webster Underground in a few weeks. I was able to hear a few final versions of some tracks off their new cd, The Meaning Of, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading, and they sounded really impressive. That cd releases May 22 and they will be playing a free acoustic set and signing cds at 7 pm at Best Buy at the Greendale Mall in Worcester, MA.

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.