meh hehehe

So instead of keeping my sappy post, I'll re-direct you to my facebook, to check out the Saturday night photo album, because while drunk Cade at 5 in the morning was feeling somber, up until that point everything else was AWESOME!

flickr crazy

Buying this camera is probably the best thing i've bought in a while. I feel that I can give you a far better vision of how things are looking to me. I'm not trained by any means, but I know how to make a basic composition look ok enough to put me right back to when I was there, in that spot, taking the photo. While I'm no professional, it looks alright to me. I've started a flickr account that you can follow for more pictures. Between there and this blog, I hope you get to come along for the ride with me, because I miss my friends, I hope you miss me too, and that this can bring us together in a sense. Speaking of friends...



Danielle and Jenn got to come be the first overnight guests at the house, and having those two here was a slice of home that I needed...(J-boys jason, jeff, jerrick, leo,etc you're next in getting out here and saying hi) Karaoke was great, as I'll show you, and just the drinking that happens when they are around...every time gets me so so so drunk, and every time we hang out its a riot! They, too, are in talks of coming here soonish so lets hope this happens.



The Elbo Room show is coming up soon...in case you are around San Francisco on the 29th of March.
I leave you with more pictures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/indiedrummer23/

new camera

So instead of boring you with my talking and nonsense, I'll just show you some photos I took today/last night

kinks in the plan

So it turns out that it takes about a month to start feeling homesick. This is what I'm choosing to believe the source of my funk is coming from. I said I wanted to know what the feeling is like, and now, it's time to deal with it. I'm trying to figure out ways around it, excessive drumming, smoking, going on walks. I suppose the real solution to my funk will be getting a job. Honestly this is the other thing i'm needing to focus on. I've done a little bit, and now I'm just waiting. Wait wait wait wait wait. Wait some more, I'm tired of waiting, but seeing as how I have no control I will try to not let it get to me.
I bought a new camera today. I know this goes against the not having a job and saving money thing, but mine was broken in the wreck, and I want to take pictures so I can document this the way I want to. It was a good buy.
Wrestling at the Cow Palace is this Sunday and I get to see Edge, The Undertaker, Rey Mysetrio, Chris Jericho, CM Punk, this is great! Not to mention that Danielle and Jenn are coming to visit, this week is looking up.
Rival Parties is in the middle of recording our LP. I'm anxious to see how it turns out. I worked on like 4-5 songs today and while I think some of them are good tracks, I may need to re-do some, I guess I'll just have to listen again. (my short attention span is very apparent when it comes to having listen to my drum tracks over and over and over again.
I know this blog is very scatterbrained, I guess the art (if you can call my writing that) is imitating life.

Busy Bee

While it may suck not writing in this as much as I would like, the good news is, the reason I'm not writing is because I'm busy. Here are some of the highlights though...

We have heat, and we have internet, most of the things are out of boxes, and we have played our first show in town and it went very well. I'm still browsing for a job, but not as persistently as I should probably. I'm still not too worried. Mostly my stories all have to deal with what else I've done.

I met this girl named Jenn, and after talking to her once, I was enamored. Not so much in a sexual I want to date you way, but more in an, I want to know more about you because you are just so damn interesting, and have lived a life kind of way. The thing I like about Jenn is that she knows who she is, doesn't change it around anyone, she is completely honest, and we have enough common ground to be friends but see certain things in WAY different light, and it just makes things interesting for me. She is crazy, but in an awesome way. I think I may have finally found a perfect girl situation. There is no pressure to have a relationship, and we can just talk and talk and talk. Thumbs up in my book (hobo thumbs up in Amy's)

We have another show at the Retox lounge tonight and I hope we play as well as we did Thursday. I got way nervous before the show Thursday, like almost un-healthy amounts of nervous. I was putting way too much pressure on myself, but in the end it turned out great, besides I don't think I have ever not been nervous before playing, and when the day comes that I'm not, I may have to re-evaluate things. For now I'll take it as a good sign.

I've finally got to experience the San Francisco rain, and compared to the snow, people out here have nothing to complain about. Yes it is annoying to walk through, but once I get an umbrella (ella ella eh) it'll be all peaches. I'm racking my brain for more to say, but it isn't happening right now, so I'll leave before rambling begins.

here it is...

I know it's been a little bit of time, but not having internet will do that to you. I'm realizing that I can't possibly put EVERYTHING I want to in the blog, and time is short on this one, but I'll fill you in on the important things...

We have a house and are no longer bums!!!!

Yes we have a quaint in-law house on 21st and Geary. We've been unpacking and getting things set up, including the gas to heat our home. One problem with that is they aren't coming for another week, so we get live in frosty territory for a few a little while longer. I'm just happy to have a house where I can play drums (between the hours of 10am and 6pm...seriously...it's in the lease) but that is still 8 hours. Next on my to do list is find a job.

The parties have been fantastic here, and the people just as amazing. Wednesday night Dillon and I met up with his old friend Caroline and we met her roommates, had a dance party in the house, and then took off for a burlesque show for beer week. Things were NUTS that night, it was defiantly a trip. I didn't go to bed until 6 in the morning, and ended up getting an even more extreme haircut on the sides. I would post pictures but I'm feeling lazy now.

Saturday night we went back to the SUB gallery, (where I finally got to see Alex's slideshow call "Red" which was very powerful, top notch job he, and all of the guys at the SUB have done) I did some more mingling (I saw one of the more attractive girls I had seen here, and with the help of liquid courage talked to and got her number...thank you alcohol!!!)

Yesterday I went to the Valentines Day Pillow Fight were more then 1000 people showed up pillows in hand and went to town. I battled for about a half a hour before I was too wiped out but again just something that couldn't happen back in Wyoming without some huge disruption or someone getting hurt. It just shows that people have such a badly conceived notion about people in California and simply put they aren't all stuck up dicks. The people here are so nice and welcoming and while yes I'm sure someone can say they have had bad experiences here with people, I just haven't yet and I'm happy to say that.

There will be more updates at some point but for now I'm going to finish this delicious grilled cheese...

Recent news

So here I sit again at the Best Western on 9th. We are trying really hard to get an amazing 2br mini-house on 21st and Geary and while it is coming together, it still happens to be taking sweet time, so we will shack up here again. Its not that I mind the hotel, its more that I just want to be done with the move fully and get to the job situation. I have applied at a retail starbucks, but haven't heard back yet.
This is taking longer then I thought, but I'm trying to keep positive, what we have lacked of the home/job front, we've made up for in the networking and getting band things together, speaking of the band...









We are now called Rival Parties, and we have three shows lined up, so thats rad! I'm excited to play drums again, I've been yearning for it. This will probably be the longest time I have gone with out drumming for 3 or 4 years, not kidding either. I'm feeling withdrawals and this may be why you see an over-energetic guy air drumming around the streets. At this point I'm sure people are thinking what a bum I am, but when you are a legit bum (which I do not condone for excessive amounts of time, but def try it once) I will take full advantage of it.
I went to the beach again this time alone and this time with pictures to prove I went there.






It still is just so impressive to me, and it's the ultimate feeling in the world to taunt the ocean...playing games seeing how far you can run out in the sand before the water comes to get you...I know endless hours of fun will be spent. I finally get the 90s after being at the beach too. For real. The whole music video vibe of 90s California bands that I hated, I still hate the music, I still hate the bands, but I get where they were coming from now and thats cool.
I will get around to the rest of Saturday night soon... but you can check out http://www.thesecretalley.com if you browse the pictures will will see just how cool this space is.
Thursday we should know or Friday weather or not we have the house, until then I'll keep warm by my parabolic heater in room 59...