watch, feel, love.

this is a video of one of my all time favorite songs from one of my all time favorite bands, Verse. The song is called "Saying Goodbye" and is off their Rebuild album. This is simply one of those songs that hits you right in the gut and never lets up. It is brilliant.<

http://www.youtube.com/v/KHYX24J6kQI&hl

eff my life

The past couple days/past week and a half have been shit, so I perked myself up by ebaying like crazy and buying records at a whiplash inducing pace. The below list are all the records I have bought or am in the process of buying since my last post:

Bought/Won

 - Have Heart  You Can't Go Home Again 7"

 - Crime In Stereo ...Is Dead 1st press LP 

 - Final Fight/Ending In Tragedy Split 7"

 - Broadway Calls s/t on blue

 

Bidding

 - Verse Story of a Free Man grey vinyl 7"

 - Verse Story of a Free Man red vinyl 7"

 - Verse From Anger and Rage white vinyl 1st press 12" 

woooo. Next up is some other Have Heart full lengths and then I need to pay my phone bill. Reality bytes. 

Making Up for Lost Time.

So yet again, more vinyl news to post. Hot Topic finally stepped it up and posted the Bayside Shudder vinyl on their site, turns out its yellow wax, not the green I was expecting but thats the cool thing about vinyl. You can think you know whats up and then BAM! it is totally something different. I just ordered my copy, so now I have every color of the records first pressing. wooooo.

In other news, I saw Living With Lions and The Swellers at their recent show in LA on July 3rd at the Kintting Factory. Very very fun show. The crowd was deader than Michael Jackson (oh shit, yes I did just saw that) but the bands kept up the energy and played an awesome couple of sets. I picked up Living With Lions latest release, Dude Manor 10" on white. Sounds legit, is legit. Since I've been saving every penny for my new Macbook, I have stayed away from the record stores and websites in an attempt to curb my habit of buying every record I lay eyes on, but since I have enough for the Mac now, I celebrated by picking up The Gaslight Anthem's latest EP, Senor and the Queen, on it's latest repress on a clear red 10". I also took advantage of Vinyl Collective's 2 For Tuesday deal with Ninja Gun and Fake Problems. The Ninja Gun LP is Restless Rubes on green wax with a silk screened jacket /200. The Fake Problems album is the newest pressing of It's Great To Be Alive on purple wax. The Fake Problems one will go nicely with the gold copy I have, and there is no better way to get familier with a band like Ninja Gun than on vinyl, so I am looking forward to it arriving soon.

I've also been reading some really good stuff lately, music related of course. Check out this one for starters, "New Brunswick, New Jersey, Goodbye:Bands, Dirty Basements, and the Search for Self" by Ronen Kauffman. It was the most honest and interesting book I've picked up in awhile and everyone who cares even a little bit about hardcore should read this. www.myspace.com/hubcitybook

Updates and more pics soon. For now, enjoy this bad boy.

4th of July

Happy Birthday America! This year I got you something we really needed:

A competent President.

Snaps for Barack Obama and for America finally getting it right.

Massive Update

Hey everybody, a TON has happened since my last post doting on Warped Tour and the death of the pedophile and I thought an update was prudent.

First off, I recieved my Shudder vinyl. I got my Victory exclusive Blue (/200) and my Vinyl Collective copy on red. The record on cd was mixed low, and the vinyl version dosen't really help, but it still sounds good. Nowhere near the great quality of The Walking Wounded however. I have been harassing my local Hot Topic store about their supposed exclusive color, but so far nothing has arrived for their stocks, nor has it been put on their internet site. Oh well, shit happens.

I also managed to get my hot little hands on some other pretty great stuff. I got another unwarped copy of the Tom Gabel 7" Anna Is A Stool Pigeon, I got a silver and green half and half dip of the International Superheroes of Hardcore 7" HPxHC, and I got a new little gem to my collection as well.

I'd been jonesing for this particular slice of heaven for awhile and for a few reasons. I really love white vinyl. I'm not completely sure why, but there is something about the total opposite f the standard black wax that is so cool to me. That and I love New Found Glory to extreme levels (see my very first posts chronically following my attempts to get a copy of their s/t album) and I want every piece of them on vinyl that I can get. This particular 7" is the Listen to Your Friends single, which features the normal version of the song on the A-side and the instrumental version on the B-side. Very cool, and also very good luck in finding this. I was at a store I didn't know carried vinyl and I saw three copies (sealed of course) of this 7" and I was contemplating buying all three to better my chances of getting one pressed on white. I only picked up one, and lo and behold! It was white. Snaps.

The last bit of new vinyl news I have is that I got Glassjaw's revered first album, Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence, on the one time only 10,000 double LP pressing.

Damn thats a mouthful to type.

But it was worth it. That is an era-defining album that set the blueprint for all post-hardcore to follow. Thrice, Thursday, Underoath, and countless others have obviously taken from this format and it shows. Thrice in much subtler ways, but Thursday has blatently listened to EYEWTKAS once or twice. Very good album, sounds great on the old turntable.