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Thursday, December 01, 2005

strain

I just got done listening to Hey Mercedes for a couple of hours. It amazes me that they weren't more popular. Out of all the bands I listen to, I feel like they had the most potential. They melded 2 guitars together perfectly, Damon was a phenomenal drummer... It makes you think of what would happen had they not broken up. Would they have gone the route that City on Film has gone (yes, I have pondered this before in my ramblings, and I'm doing it again - so shut the fuck up and deal with it!)... Would they have released a new album that rocked so hard you couldn't even think about another album that rocked so hard? Would one of the members have quit and been replaced by someone from another popular band? Who knows... It makes me think about the life span of a band. They lasted about 4-5 years, recorded 35 original songs (approx.) and toured all over the place. Still seems like they could have done more...

Anyway, enough of that junk... here's why I haven't been blogging as much lately:

Life sucks, and then you live it. I'm exhausted people. I had Thanksgiving weekend to deal with, and then this week turned out to be quite busy for me. Between the 2 essays I had to complete for class, the light that I had to get done for 3D design class and the varied Christmas crap I've been dealing with, I'm just so stretched to my limit, and I'm hoping that I can finally relax this weekend, if not just for a bit.

Here's a quick top 10 of my favorite drummers:

Mike Felumlee, Damon Atkinson, Dave Grohl, Jimmy Chamberlain, Abe Cunningham, Matt Cameron, Dave Kruson, Joe Daniels, Dale Crover and Ben Lythberg.

In terms of guitar players... I don't know - Slash is in there someplace, though - THAT I can guarantee you...

In terms of bass players... Nikki Sixx is in there someplace. As is Les Claypool (yea, that's right!)

In terms of singers... Chris Cornell and Kurt Cobain fit, of course. Darryl Taberski and Rob Fusco. Matthew Caws and Kevin Devine. Ben Gibbard and Matt Skiba (I know, even this one surprised me - but only from the early years... I don't know what kinda drugs he's taken to sound the way he does now... ugh).

Those are all I can think of for the moment - perhaps more later, we'll see. I'm amazed going through those singers that I like so many from such different musical backgrounds. Pop, hardcore, emo, pop-punk... craziness, but they all had a place on my CD rack at some point, and left some kind of impression on me, so it can't be all bad.

So yea. I'm burnt out. I don't even have anything to really talk about today. This is what happens when you focus your life on school and work. I do have to make a self portrait in my 3D class, so perhaps I'll do something where I'm so busy that I've isolated myself from my friends, and feel kind of boring and uninteresting in the process... I don't know. I have an idea of something like that with artist figures and string. I'm hoping the teacher thinks it will be a cool idea, cause my brain is just too fried to think of anything else.

Thanksgiving this year was interesting. As I get older and older, I can't help but feel that the family is growing further and further apart. It's like these holidays don't mean anything anymore. Everyone's fighting, or no one wants to deal with it. I remember back when all I wanted to do was open hundreds of dollars worth of gifts with my name on them, and in return, I'd give out maybe $100 worth of stuff... I made out like a bandit most Christmas's! But now I spend and spend and get spent on about the same amount. That's not fair! When did Christmas become about everyone, and not just ME!?!?! I'm staging a protest...

Could work blow my goddamn ass any more than it already does? I don't think it's possible...

posted by grey as mike @ 2:11 PM

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