Do Not Cower from the Music Power

R.I.P.

2009-03-07T19:52:27Z

Clara was put down this morning :(

About time I switched to Web 2.0

2009-03-02T10:04:03Z

I'm moving my life to web 2.0. I now have a twitter account and I'm in the process of setting up a real blog http://twitter.com/keeprockalive88.

More to come later.

I suggest everyone switch to wordpress and twitter :)

Guess who...

2008-12-10T14:12:44Z

IS THE NEW GENERAL MANAGER OF WSOE!!!

W00t.

I don't dream anymore, or maybe I forget to.

2008-11-09T15:17:13Z

My life has been crazy these past few weeks. This weekend (thursday, friday, saturday) I made the trip to durham every night for TROIKA music fest. It was awesome and WSOE was sponsoring. A lot of people took Choose Local Music stickers, which was awesome.

I was pretty much beat after thursday night because I was rocking out to Red Collar hard core into the early morning. It was a fantastic show and I think I almost died a few times.

The rest of the festival was awesome, especially cause the music scene here feels so much like family.

Hopefully Jay (red collar), DJ Stevo (88.1 WKNC), Kyle Miller (Troika organizer & churchkey records owner) and I will be able to meet next weekend to help get Choose Local Music going a bit more. I have some pretty cool goals for it and Jay and I know a radio promoter, Patric (the guy that almost got me a steven wilson interview and who got me the photo pass for the PT show in Baltimore) in Jersey who knows people who owe him favors. We're going to try to make this a national movement to go local. I'm pumped.

Classes are somewhat enjoyable, except for financial accounting where I want to stab a pencil through my eye.

I think that's all I can think of for what I'm up to.

Word.

There goes my Money

2008-10-25T22:37:31Z

I just spent WAY too much money on vinyl. But i'm so okay with that.

Tomorrow FREEE SHOWWWW

2008-10-18T00:17:28Z

For those of you not doing anything tomorrow, you should come to a free show at Duke Coffeehouse. It includes Lost in the Trees (14 piece orchestra folk band) and The Beast, a socially conscious and intelligent hip hop band with UNC Jazz trained musicians.

It's free. If you want to go I have no problems picking you up. And again it's free. It goes from 2pm-7pm. There are more bands and there's free stuff to grab and do.

You just lost

2008-10-12T20:50:12Z

the game

Musings On How Music Made Me Who I Am:

2008-10-06T00:34:41Z

Music has shown me the meaning of life,

Living, breathing, thinking and feeling.

Frank Zappa taught me about the world,

the meaning of religion, politics, how people work

and how to laugh at all of life's flaws.

Jeff Tweedy taught me about the reality of life,

how the everydayman gets through the week, and

how to find poetry and beauty in everything.

Steven Wilson showed me irony, organization,

and how to feel everything and nothing at the same time.

Mark Lanegan revealed beauty in sadness and anger.

Grunge showed me that it was okay to be uncomfortable

with how society is run.

Punk re-enforced the unease, inspiring me to act.

Bob Dylan inspired me to start a revolution.

Tom Waits taught me about beauty and the beast.

Josh Ritter taught me about words and music.

Mainstream rap revealed an ignored racism, sending us backwards,

Helping me to appreciate TRUE hip-hop promoting equality.

Classical trained me in the art of thought and meditation,

While Jazz helped me to think on my feet and become spontaneous.

Being in a band taught me how to have fun,

But LOCAL Music showed me what it's like to be a part of something,

Local music is family away from home.

Everyone

2008-09-26T19:09:37Z

Come see Bombadil with me tomorrow! It will be a great show, I promise!!!! They're playing with holy Ghost Tent Revival and the Proclivities. It'll be great. Get tix now and they're only 9 bucks.

Come! It'll be amazing.

Wow... Haven't posted in a while...

2008-08-22T15:17:44Z

Yeah so the biggest news is probably that we got a puppy.

Meet Puck:

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm164/keeprockalive88/Puck/DSC_0357.jpg

He's a silly Doberman/Shepherd/Coonhound mix. 3 months old, mischief and full of spunk.

I've been at Elon for a while, even though classes don't start until SEPTEMBER 2nd!! WTF?!?!?

The radio station is sounding a lot better now that I changed up the clock and added a crap ton of local music, yay. My next task is reworking the Jazz clock because the jazz that's been playing hasn't been updated since 2005 (x_X).

I don't really know if I have anything else to say... Other than Wilco was awesome. I don't think I'll be going to many shows this semester (Opeth included :( ).

Also, I'm really looking forward to seeing Tropic Thunder, Hamlet 2 and Burn After Reading. They look hilarious. I still can't get over how awesome Hellboy 2 & The Dark Knight were... Mummy 3 was slightly disappointing, but what did I expect? It was campy and funny and lame, but isn't that the point? I feel like if Rachel Weis was in it, it would've been much better. The special effects were pimptastic though.

Anyways, I'm done.

Peace.

Yeah.

2008-08-09T04:14:02Z

I love Wilco.

Hmm...

2008-07-26T23:23:34Z

Posting from the beach. Yeah. Last night was the last night of my career at Georgina's. It's done, over. They don't really need me anymore and I don't want to waste my time driving back from Elon to work when I don't feel needed. The next time I would have worked would have been August 15th, and that would have been my last day. I figured, screw it, I'll just stay in Elon and hang out w/ Brittany.

I've been working at WSOE a lot, changing up the automation format. It sounds much better now, because I'm awesome (thats why).

And that's really all I have to post about.

That and The Dark Knight was amazing and I've been obsessed w/ 3 TV shows: Get Smart (original of course!), The Mighty Boosh (god English humor is the best) and the Adventures of Brisco County Jr (IMO the best thing Bruce Campbell EVER did.

Peace.

So(peth)...

2008-07-09T03:19:11Z

Who's gonna go see Opeth with me at the Lincoln October 24th?

So tomorrow I return...

2008-05-20T01:35:38Z

My final exam was today. That's it. Done. Finito! I think I did well sans my enviro lab which I hope I got a C in...

To relax, I made Brittany watch the Mummy movies because she hadn't seen them & to prepare for the new movie!! (WHICH LOOKS AWESOME!!!!)

Anyways. It was a good year. Busy as freakin hell... but good. I start working at Georgina's June 2nd the day after the final Spotlight Effect concert.

So, I'll be home, not working until June 2nd for those of you around and wanting to do something.

I will however be going to graduation on the 24th, but other than that I'll be free.

I'll probably be going to the radio station at least once a week so I can update and make the station awesome, etc.

Whatever. After a long while, I return home!!!!!!!!!

Soulja Boy PSA

2008-05-01T17:23:20Z

I had to do a video project for my digital media class, and so I decided to do a PSA warning people about the stupidity of Soulja Boy:

My schedule (since people are doing that now)

2008-04-30T13:54:24Z

May 2nd - Maybe Obama, Arcade Fire & Superchunk if I can get a ride or another ticket.
May 3rd - Elawn Fest!!! It's free and you should ALLLLLL come because of the 7 awesome bands I got to play :D
May 9th - RADIOHEAD!
May 19th - Last Day Of exams! (rar)
May 24th - Graduation/Last Spotlight Effect Show @ Elon
May 30th - Last Spotlight Effect show @ Zakk's Coffee House
June 1st - Last Spotlight Effect Show EVER big blow out w/ Expire and some other band Eric booked for the Luna Bean :(
June 2nd - Start working again YAY MONEY
June 13th - Zappa Plays Zappa
August 8th - WILCO!

Here's thanks...

2008-02-21T05:35:45Z

To those of you that came out to the lunar eclipse Spotlight Effect show. You guys rock.

HELLLLLL YESSSSSSSSSS

2008-02-16T15:39:33Z

I'M GOING TO RADIOHEADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

WOOOOHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yup... still hate Valentines day

2008-02-14T22:34:20Z

It's been a year and I still hate Valentines day.

You should tell someone you love them every day of the year and be with them as much as you can.

I'm running on very little sleep... The radio station hates me... The tower keeps going down and it doesn't help when it randomly SNOWS!!!! wtf.

Spotlight Effect's Album is FINISHED!!!!

2008-01-15T14:59:24Z

YAY!

We finally finished Paper Fists and Paper Tigers. Let me know if anyone is interested in a copy.

Better than the 2nd one

2007-12-30T16:34:25Z

David Blaine #3

Since everyone's doing it:

2007-12-26T14:35:20Z

What I be rollin' in:

CD Haul:
New Artica - How the Brain Works Sick
Mark Lanegan - Field Songs
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
Frank Zappa - Tinseltown Rebellion
Frank Zappa - Trance-Fusion
Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free
Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is
Frank Zappa - Bongo Fury
Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere
Frank Zappa - Sleep Dirt

DVD Haul:
Evil Dead 1&1
Bubba Ho-Tep
Serenity (Collectors edition)

Book Haul:
The Real Frank Zappa Book
Make Love* *The Bruce Campbell Way
Zombie Survival Guide
World War Z
The Art & Writing of WFMU-FM

Shirts:
"Z" is for Zappa
"First Rock Concert" (Cave man holding a torch to a rock that says "stones")
"Zombie Bait"

Other:
Candy
Super portable iPod speaker & headphones
Super portable/durable external harddrive

Update on Zappa collection progress: 36 of 75+ albums. I'm going to the store today so that number might increase.

To those who are Interested

2007-12-23T14:51:05Z

Haha. I woke up at 4:30 this morning to Spiff's insistent IMing. He had been mixing Trade Off for about 6 hours straight and needed some unbiased feedback. The begining needs work, but it's almost done. He also has I'd Rather and Homeless finished!! YAY! TCETM and Amazing are on their way to being done. So... hopefully the new album, Paper Fists and Paper Tigers, will be out by the end of January, and hopefully most of the songs will have been finished by the end of break. Matt has some ideas that we want to work with when we get back, and we want to write a song incorperating Max's fingerstyling techniques on the acoustic guitar. So... we're getting there!! YAY!

This album is going to be amazing.

So

2007-12-07T19:47:25Z

I just met w/ the new general manager... next year is going to freaking ROCk for WSOE. We're both very excited.

Results

2007-12-07T03:00:35Z

Well... It was a tough choice for media board apparently, but I am not a changed man. I'll have to wait another year to be General manager.