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…talking about my mate who jumped off the speakers at the scala show the other night. I been told to give him a telling off…but ah. Boys will be boys eh? Soooooo…Hello! I have been away doing stuff, I wanted to write but I been a bit busy shitting my pants about doing these fricking arena shows. I hoped I would take it all in my stride, but nope. weird dreams started happening again days before I left for Europe. Its always the same, dreams of playing shows and not knowing any of the songs, or playing on a stage that is so big I can’t see the rest of the boys…or going up to my gear to find it all smashed up. Now I apologise if I am taking the mystic away for some of you that I don’t get a little nervous. But, these were our biggest headline shows to date and I, personally, can never be prepared enough. I do have to say, that everyone else in the band does take it in their stride, and have the confidence and prowess to rise to the occasion, it takes me a little longer.
But….the shows went really well and I was well stoked after Wembley that there were no…how can I say…real disasters.
Did a few shows after which were a little less stressful and more about just fun and playing and getting drunk…and flew back to LA yesterday. Good Times!
Was in the dressing room after the Wembley show and there was a really nice atmosphere and I had one of those moments where you stop and take it all in. It reminded me of something from an old metallica video, and something an old friend of mine once told me popped into my head “these are the good old days”. I have never forgotten that. Its like taking a snap shot. I know not to try to hold onto these moments as they pass, but I shall not forget them. Everything comes to an end, I know, but I want to try to fill my cup with memories that help my walk my path, and not ones that poison me and drag me down, and lose direction…..
Pretence alert! ALERT! ALERT! ha. didn’t know where I was going with that anyhow. so, yes.
Most people I meet accuse me of over thinking. It’s not like I have a daily allowance of thoughts and “…opps, shit I’ve just gone over my limit…better stop thinking now”. I, personally, would prefer to over think something than be ignorant to it. True, when you waste time thinking when you should be acting, or spend too much time thinking about unimportant things. I get it…I’m not dumb.
….and turn (completely off subject again), ironic that if my second paragraph were lyrics to a song they may be considered as..”oooh deep and ooooh moving” but in context of a blog…they just read as pretentious. Just an observation.
I do feel a little all thunked out right now, so I’ll leave you with this………..

HOW GOOD WERE THE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA END OF SERIES 3 EPISODES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

SPOILER WARNING! SPOILER WARNING!

..and yes it did need to be shouted. For all those who are in the know….wow, Lee Adama, here’s to you! for those that don’t….plug in, download and start watching! MEGA LOLZ!!!!!!
out.

Charted in the UK Singles Chart at #34.

You kids did not buy enough singles. Slap your wrists right now!

(Although, it did go #1 on the Rock Singles chart, and #15 on the Physical Sales chart…but those are not the ones that gets played live on the radio or get all the press though…)

HMV 150 Oxford Street, London – Monday 23rd April – 6.00pm

Access to the event will be restricted. 400 wristbands will be given out from the store on the day of the event from 9.00am on a “first come first served” basis, one per person only, while stocks last.

Just announced

26th April – The Scala, Kings Cross, London

Tickets here.

The guys are in this months Rocksound UK, and will be in Kerrang next week.

There’s a competition on AbsolutePunk.net for UK Residents, to win tickets to the upcoming Arena tour, and go to a meet and greet. Click here, you need to register on the site to enter, but thats free and everything. Good luck!

6 years old as of yesterday.
Be collecting it’s pension soon…

Some of the guys will be on Gonzo (MTV2 UK) this Friday, between 7pm – 9pm.

The 4am Forever single covers & tracklistings have been annouced and are as follows:
CD Single

a) 4 AM (album version)
b) Every song

Vinyl 1

a) 4 AM (album version)
b) Never Know (Demo)

Vinyl 2

a) 4 AM (album version)
b) Etched B-side

And lastly, to anyone who lives in San Diego: Mike is DJing at the Beauty Bar TONIGHT, so get your butts there.

keep ‘em peeled………………….i really gotta go out and drink tonight

…for taking the time to bother reading this, and for your comments. I guess Lee hasn’t quite got round to setting his blog up. I am about trying to make time to do things rather than looking or trying to find time. I also think its cool when I see bands that I enjoy, put a little effort into communicating with the people that give them the chance to be in a band in the first place, and in all fairness, its no skin off my nose to type a few lines everynow and again right? I’d love to know what James Hetfield is up to these days and where his head is at, for instance. Not that I consider myself on a par with James Hetfield..Hell No…but the comments you guys wrote all pretty much say how cool you think it is that I’m writing, so Ima keep on writing.
And on that note, I’ve run outta things to say…..haha. No not really, for anyone who knows me, I can talk the ass off of a donkey. Talking of ass…I stuck to my words in my last blog…and did actually get my ass handed to me in the water today. Mikey shit out of surfing today (kidding bro!) so I went it alone. It was grey and a little cold, and to start I had a ball, but it got bigger and I got shitter and took a handful of hammering before sulking back to shore and to my bed. Man, for as much as I love doing it…I suck. guess its true about teaching old dogs new tricks. Mike on the other hand is c c c crazy. For what he lacks in ability, he makes up for with balls. The dudes a deathwish surfer…and regularly has runnings with other surfers in the water. The number of times I have seen mikey smash into some guy, or gal, or take out an entire family with his board… he’s just plain mental. I love that about him. The rest of the guys in the band get pissy when mike and I pipe on about surfing. Labelling us as “surfer bum chums” and what not. Fuck ‘em. Jealous they are. Haha.
We, pack up the studio in a few days, our work in San Diego is done my friends. We’ve done some great songs, and for the first time, had fun doing them. They’ll probably change alot between now and putting them down on record, but if we made a record of what we have done at this point, I would be stoked. It feels and sounds way more like how we want to be seen and heard. Lets hope we manage to keep that attitude right through the process. Anyhooooo…I got shit to do, and people to see so loves ya and leaves ya. Be good to each other. Look after yourselves, its a dangerous world out there. (i don’t quite know where I’m going with this…always found it hard to put the phone down and say bye.)…and….oh..fuck it.

*revised extention – No no no, dont get me wrong, its not that mike is better than me, we are both pretty shit (shit is a relative term), Its just he’s crazier than I. Which at times works to his advantage and other times…boy oh boy…its painful to watch the trouble he puts himself into…haha. Plus when I said “what he lacks in ability..he was hurt that I was suggesting he didnt have any. He can surf. In fact for the length of time we been at it, we are RAD! I meant it as a compliment to the size of his balls. ha.
I can’t believe I am actually writing this shit out..haha. Can you tell I’ve had a few beers!! Off out now, Mikes DJing down at the Beauty Bar in San Diego…come along if you can, we’ll all be there tearing up the dance floor. OUT.

I’m alive. I’ve been gone quite a while I know. But that’s because I got all weird about writing blogs on the lostprophets web-site. I almost felt like I had to censor my opinions just incase they were taken as the opinion of the whole band. And such as I am not my brothers keeper, I don’t wish them to be held responsible for my own ideas/opinions/insights/theories/artyfarty nonsense (which I must add, I am very capable of boring even the most polite and patient people with).
So, all in all, I am way more comfortable with this and hopefully, if I manage to pull my head from my own arse from time to time I will write something here. Not in the hope that anyone cares for what I think, nor because I have an agenda of any sort, simply because I can. And since everyone else is doing it, why the hell not. Its quite narcissistic in a sense, a way of putting yourself out there for someone in the secrecy and privacy of their room to see. Thats my take on it….a sort of “hey! check me out..I’m important aren’t I!…aren’t I?” Sad and ironic in a way, that nowadays people crave acceptance and attention from the solitude of a lonely room. They pull up a single chair and log on to see if anyone cares to want to know or hear them. Me…until now, I have tried to do all of that in the tangible world, but Tao can only lead me so far…and when the rest of the dudes (as I shall call them) are permanently logged in and logged on around me…well, I just follow suit.

…..and that is why I like this blog thingy as a link…haha. What a bunch of old pretentious bollocks…and thats ok though…. right? I mean I can write and say what the fuck I want. And It just falls back on me. That’s pretty nifty.
SO, whats new in the life of me..the rapper from loztprofitz…um, well..I have been having some nice weekends away from the garage doing my own thing, mostly trying to get a bit of surf in, and riding my scooter up and down the coast. I went on my second rally yesterday with a bunch of scooterists from the Westside Scooter Club (that’s the one I am in) and The Reflections society from up Hollywood way. We joined forces and did a run up along the Sunset strip all the way to the sea. It was a fairly big bunch of us and a few brave dudes, holding traffic so we could go along without stopping at lights etc. A fun day was had by all.
In the weekdays before going to the garage to write, Mike and I have been trying to get a few hours in the sea. The water is still a bit cold but getting warmer, and the San Diego waves are way better than up north…sorry, but its true. The days we have been out, we’ve had a ball and touch wood, so far no major injuries or runnings with local gangs..if that kinda shit still goes on…you can tell I’ve been geeking out on the whole Z-boys. I’m stoked (yeah..I said stoked..so what?) cos my short (slightly shorter) boarding is progressing slowly (very slowly). I did a few carves (by carves I mean turns..and by few I mean one) the other morning for the first time, and somewhere in my head a penny dropped and I thing I figures something out. All I have to do now is figure out what that thing is and how to use it.. voila!
Shit…I’m going on and on again. Have to get up in a few hours to have my ass handed to me by the ocean so best I get some rest. Hopefully, I’ll try and write again tomorrow or the next, but…..what is it they say…don’t hold your breath..whoever YOU happen to be.
Oh, yeah, if you are gonna comment, be nice, I’m new to this, cut me some slack, also don’t take this or me too seriously..as its just a bit of fun. I don’t wanna get into any pointless runnings with people, and get all hot headed and start ranting (like some people I know), basically if you don’t like what I have to say or don’t really agree… save that thought, log it, come say hi to me next time you see me in the street and we’ll have it out…in the appropriate manner. until then see if you can suck it up and be all positive and polite like how your parents would like you to be. good. Ta ra x