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| Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 | | 2:03 pm |
2009 In Movies
I'm a movie whore. I love going out to the movies. Even in this day and age of high-def home theaters and surround sound systems and torrents and illegal downloads, nothing compares to actually going out to the movie theater and getting an extremely oversized and overpriced bucket of popcorn, an equally large carbonated soda beverage, sitting in the uncomfortable theater seat, sticking to the floor from the mystery substance beneath my feet, and leaning back and taking in the entire experience. ( Read more... ) | | Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 | | 6:59 pm |
Heading to Portland, OR to see Sara this weekend and to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving with her. I'm excited. Not only do I get to have a delicious turkey dinner and see Portland for the first time, but I get to hang out with Sara for a few days. Yay! | | Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 | | 11:11 am |
33rd Time's The Charm
I had a pretty good Birthday, despite a pretty rocky start. Heather and I had a HUGE fight on Thursday night wherein we basically broke up for a few hours/overnight. We talked more on Friday and somewhat patched things up. Things aren't perfect and everything is not smoothed over or anything, but we're not broken up and are going to ride this a little longer and see where it takes us. Spent a majority of the day on Saturday, the 19th, in Hemlock with the family and that's always a good time. To make it better, though, many family members from Kentucky were in town and I got to see my Aunts and Uncles that I don't get to see that often. We did the parade for Sawdust Day, then went home to hang out there and had a pretty amazing dinner of BBQ and all the fixins. We sat around the bon fire for a few hours drinking and talking and playing silly games and just laughing and having a good time. That was great. I left Hemlock a little after 11 and me and Heather and our friend Laura went to White's Bar for a few drinks before we headed home for a few more drinks with Pooder and friends. My actual Birthday day was pretty uneventful. Heather and I basically sat around the house all day doing much of nothing. Was nice to just relax like that. Around 10:30, she and I headed back to White's where we were met by friends and where I got pretty sloshed as my friend Chris got me a "Stop Light". A "Stop Light" consists of three shots taken back to back to back - Lime Vodka, Tequila, and Hot Damn. Ugh. He did that to me last year on my Birthday too, and we all know how last year ended up. ;) After a little over an hour at White's, we headed to another bar - The Scottish Inn - because I was really hungry and wanted one of their delicious sandwiches. Unfortunately, when we go there, the kitchen was closed, so no sandwich for me. There's not much else I really remember from being at the Scottish cuz that's when the Stop Light really kicked in. No idea how long we were there or anything we may have talked about, but we left there and headed to Taco Bell and then to Chris's place to eat up before we went home. I took yesterday off from work and again, we did much of nothing. We went out to see the movie The Informant, which was decent but not amazing, then we came home and got Chinese takeout and watched TV. And that was my Birthday weekend. :) | | Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 | | 2:13 pm |
It's my 33rd birthday on Sunday. Big whoop. No plans to go anywhere or do anything. I love celebrating other people's birthdays, but mine has never been a big deal. My family has never really done much of anything for birthdays. Last time I remember having a party was when I was 11 or something. It's just never been a thing. But I like to treat other people's birthday's like a big thing. Guess nobody's ever made a big deal of mine, so neither have I. I did have a hell of a time on my last birthday, from what I remember. But that was more because we had a show that night and my birthday was used as an excuse for the show. Then people bought me way too many shots and I got so drunk I don't remember much of anything. I was apparently on a breast grabbing spree that nobody seemed to care about. I guess ladies were perfectly ok with me grabbing at them, and some even offered themselves up to be groped. Too bad I don't remember any of that. I haven't drank that much since that night. I don't think I ever want to drink that much again. It's not a good feeling to wake up and not really remember anything and be told stories of things you did with no recollection. Some people laugh at themselves when it happens to them. Not me. I was kind of upset with myself for it. Needless to say, there will not be a repeat of that this year. | | Monday, August 17th, 2009 | | 4:07 pm |
Go see District 9. Best movie I've seen this year. Hell, best movie I've seen since The Dark Knight. So good. | | Monday, August 10th, 2009 | | 4:38 pm |
Tour was amazing!! We saw lots of great cities and did not play one bad show out of the bunch. We got so many pictures and so much video, it's going to take us a few days to go through them all, but once we do, you'll see exactly how much fun we had. Here are my personal highlights: Warped Tour in Detroit - Always fun to play at such a huge festival/event. Sold lots of merch and signed many autographs Later that night at a venue called New York New York in Detroit we played with a crazy ass band called the Walkin Talkin Toxins. A bunch of crazy old school punk rockers who put on a hell of a show "Coke Head Dave" - Owner of the venue we played in Boston. That guy was crazy! Then Stroebel got completely wasted and got kicked out of the bar. We got lots of video of this New York City was amazing. We saw some cool stuff, but didn't have a lot of time to see everything we wanted. Saw the Statue of Liberty off in the distance, some NYC Street Dance Performers, and had some amazing Chinese Food in Chinatown Brooklyn, NY the next night was the best show - as far as our overall performance goes - the whole tour. The venue was a shitty little hole in the wall place in a not-so-good part of Brooklyn, but we brought it and killed it. It was a great show. Then, AFTER the show at 3am, we traveled to Times Square to take some band pics right in the middle. It was fun/surreal being there at 3am on a Wednesday night, because there was hardly anybody around and no traffic. We were literally in the street taking pics. Wait til you see them. They're awesome! On both Tuesday and Wednesday, we stayed with Shar's cousin who lives right on the beach on the Jersey Shore. It was an amazing house and an amazing view of the ocean. And it was nice to be able to just drive an hour and then be "home" and relax all day. Thursday we saw Philadelphia, had an authentic Philly CheeseSteak Sandwich, and saw some Philly landmarks - including getting to run up the "Rocky Steps". The view of the city from the top of those steps was amazing! Friday was Washington, DC where we made the trek around to all the various touristy landmarks, including the Washington Memorial, the Roosevelt Memorial Garden, the Lincoln Memorial/Reflection Pool, and the White House. Again, lots of great band pics taken in the city, and it was cool to be in a place with such history. Saturday was a LONG day of driving from DC all the way over to Cincinnati, but we tore it up with Buckra that night. Probably had the best crowd of the entire tour, including the White's Bar crowd for our kickoff show. Then we all got a little drunk and loved each other. It was a great end to the tour, and probably my favorite night of the entire trip. Even after all the little bursts of drama along the way, after sticking it out in closed-in/cramped quarters in the van for 10 days, after playing 11 shows in 10 days, we brought it all full circle and played an awesome show, and still loved each other at the end of it all. It was a great night. So, sorry, no sex or drugs, but plenty of rock and roll. We got over 15 hours of video footage and over 3000 pictures were taken, so, like I said, it will be awhile before we're able to surf through it all and get it posted, but when we do, you won't be disappointed. | | Thursday, July 30th, 2009 | | 3:33 pm |
Canoe trip was awesome. I've been a crazy bastard for the last few days preparing for our upcoming 10 Day Tour, so I haven't been able to upload any pictures or anything from it yet. I'll get around to it eventually, I'm sure. In the meantime, we found out TUESDAY that The BC was selected to play on the Ernie Ball Stage at the Detroit Warped Tour! I put TUESDAY in all caps because the Warped Tour is TOMORROW! They gave us three days notice for this! Luckily our tour has is in Detroit tomorrow night anyway, so we don't have to cancel anything to play it. We're super excited. Two years in a row at Warped Tour for us, now. And this year in Detroit and at Comerica Park! The Ernie Ball Stage is basically the biggest of the small/side stages, so we're pretty stoked. So we have a show later tonight at White's here in Saginaw, then have to get up at 8am tomorrow morning to get to Comerica by 10am to play Warped sometime mid-afternoon, then we head to a Detroit sub-city and a place called NYNY for our show later that night. 3 shows in 24 hours. Pretty crazy. Then we hit the road for 8 more shows in the following 8 days. 11 shows in 10 days! I hope we don't murder each other. AND, on top of ALL THAT, if you're interested and our tour isn't coming through to your town, or if it is and you're just gonna ignore us when we're there and not come see us, you can check out a live radio performance smack dab in the middle of our trip. We will be performing live on East Stroudsburg (PA) University's radio station, 90.3 WESS, this Sunday (8/2) several times between 4 and 7pm! When we're not performing on air, we'll be interviewed and in-studio for the entire 3 hour time slot. Since I doubt any of you are within the 15-30 mile listening radius of the station, you can hear all the action and ridiculousness at www.esu.edu/wess. We'll be 5 days deep in to the show come Sunday, plus we'll be coming off of our stop at the Detroit Warped Tour, so we'll be amped up and crazy and will be having all sorts of fun. If for nothing else, tune in to see if all of us are still alive after living in a van in close proximity to each other for several days! Again, that's www.esu.edu/wess on Sunday afternoon, 8/2, LIVE from 4pm-7pm EST. Tune in and chat with us to let us know what you think! | | Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 | | 4:04 pm |
This weekend is the 10th annual Nothelfer Family Canoe Trip Camping Weekend. Woot! It's in Pittsburgh this year. The first year it's not been in Michigan. My cousin lives in Pittsburgh and is putting it on this year, so to their neck of the woods we go. My brother Marty is driving down from Ishpeming (blessyou) today and will be staying at my house tonight. Then my other brother Mike is coming over early in the morning and we're scheduled to be hitting the road at 7am. It'll be me and Marty and Mike and Heather all driving there in my "new" van, along with Gerty of course. Should be a fun trip down, and an awesome weekend. You know I look forward to this every year. This is going to be some fun. | | Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 | | 4:44 pm |
Haven't updated in awhile. Remember a few weeks back where I said I punched a door and hurt my wrist pretty badly? Yeah, well, it still hurts a lot so I'm pretty certain something in there is broken. I have full use of all my fingers, but I cannot bend my wrist fully up or down without a lot of pain. I'm still rocking out on tamborine, tho. I'm a pro and am working through the pain! :) I haven't had the time and definitely don't have the money to get it fixed or looked at, but I need to do that eventually. Don't wanna end up with some permanent damage in there or anything. And I'm not sure if I ever mentioned how our Cool Bus completely died on me, but it did. However, a great friend and fan of the band up and straight out GAVE us a full size GMC van. Amazing! It's in really good shape, too! Usually when somebody GIVES you a vehicle, it's on it's last legs and ready to die, but this thing is in awesome shape. I got it checked out and, outside of a few minor things like a small oil and transmission leak, it got a full clean bill of health. I've been driving it around the last few days, and it drives really smoothly and I see no real problems with it at all. There are a few minor things like the radio doesn't work and there's some internal electrical things and the backup lights don't work, but nothing that will affect the overall performance or reliability of the vehicle, and that's all that really matters. | | Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | | 12:13 pm |
Anybody know where to get a cheap, small, enclosed trailer? We need one to haul our band equipment around now that we don't have the Cool Bus, but the smallest I'm able to find is 4x6 at a price of around $1500. All we'll be hauling is drums, amps, and maybe PA speakers from time to time, so I don't need 6 feet of space, and $1500 is way more than I want to spend. Ideas? | | Friday, June 26th, 2009 | | 1:24 pm |
| | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | | 11:07 am |
You should go to this  | | Friday, June 19th, 2009 | | 1:44 pm |
| | Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | | 11:35 am |
Bad couple of days. Things keep piling up. When it rains it pours, right? Last week, I got upset and ended up punching a door. I'm an idiot, I know. Anyway, when I did so, I'm pretty sure my thumb was tucked under my fingers and that ended up doing some pretty bad damage to my wrist tendon near my thumb. I can move all my fingers and move my thumb fine and I have limited movement in my wrist, so I don't think it's broken. But when I move my wrist from side to side, it fucken hurts. And it hurts just sitting there doing nothing, like now. A lot. It's either a severe sprain or a minor hairline fracture. And I don't have the money to get it looked at. Which brings me to my next point. We have our tour planned for August. The bus has had problems with the brakes for a long time. Basically, it hasn't actually HAD brakes for months. I got my tax return and figured I could use that to get the bus fixed, so I took it in. I get an estimate of $2200 to fix what needs to be fixed - brakes, shocks, exhaust. I skip the exhaust work and just do the brakes and shocks, but that still comes to $1500. Way more than I was ready to pay, but it had to be done. On top of that, my car has been overheating so THAT needed to be fixed too. I took that to a mechanic and had to drive the bus for a day while the car was being fixed. While driving the bus, I start hearing a slight clicking noise coming from the engine. I think maybe it needs oil because it is low and it's been awhile since I got an oil change. I put a quart of oil in and keep going. The clicking gets louder and worse and gets to the point where I lose horse power and the bus will not accelerate. This seems to be a major engine issue, right after I dumped $1500 in to it for brakes and shocks. And the exhaust still needs to be fixed, too. The "good news" is that my car "only" cost $300 to get fixed and that's now running fine. But now I have a couple thousand dollars that needs to be put in to the bus to get it back in running shape, and I just don't have that money. The Cool Bus may be dead. And on top of it all, I have a broken wrist that I need to get fixed as well, which also will likely be a huge medical expense. Money is dumb. So is work. Can I run far far away somewhere and never be heard from again? | | Friday, May 29th, 2009 | | 12:53 pm |
| | Friday, May 22nd, 2009 | | 12:31 pm |
Sweet Relief
Really excited about this weekend. Finally get a chance to be away for a few days and relax. We're heading to Cincinnati tonight to play a show with the fantabulous Buckra. It's their lead singer's "bachelor party" tonight, and he specifically requested US to go play this show with them. That's so awesome to me. I love this band and those guys so much, and it's awesome to know they like us just as much. Anyway, it's his bachelor party show, so it should be packed and be a hell of a time. Then, after the show, the rest of the band will be heading back home tomorrow while me and Heather stay down there the whole weekend. There's a big food and music festival happening all weekend in Cincinnati - Taste of Cincinnati - and that looks like it will be really fun. It's free, there's tons of bands, and tons of food vendors selling cheap food. That's a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon, if you ask me. On Sunday is Dylan's wedding, and we're going to be crashing the reception. We weren't officially invited, but they know we'll be there and we are welcome, so it's not exactly "crashing" it. That will be a good time, too. It will be really really nice to get away from Saginaw and from the band and just spend a few days with my girl. I desperately need this weekend and hope it's going to be as fun as I think it will be | | Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 | | 11:07 am |
Pics
Did another band photo shoot this past Sunday with my talented lady behind the lens. We stumbled across this awesome burned out old building on the other side of town and it was perfect and we got some great shots. Check 'em out | | Friday, May 15th, 2009 | | 10:17 am |
We're in the midst of a triple shot of shows. Played the first one last night at Rubble's in Mt. Pleasant, tonight we're at White's in Saginaw, then we hit up The Ritz in Detroit tomorrow. Unfortunately, I have to work today, so after getting home at 3am last night/this morning after the show, I had to drag my butt up and come to work. Then, after working all day, I gotta pack up all our sound equipment and head up to White's for the show there. Fortunately, I can sleep in tomorrow and rest up. | | Thursday, May 7th, 2009 | | 12:26 pm |
| | Monday, May 4th, 2009 | | 6:35 pm |
We find out tonight if we're on the Warped Tour again this year or not. Keep your fingers crossed for us! |
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