Just one week left until my family comes out to get me and take me home for the summer and to say that I am excited is quite an understatement. I mean, it's been great here, a great year, but I want to get home and just get everything in my life straightened out and spend time with all my family and friends that I love. It's been a tough past week getting bad news about a sick family member but all of my friends have been there to keep me going so that's great. I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone and getting myself into shape, as well as recording some music with Gregory, because that's going to be a good time too. I've taken some steps into getting myself back in shape, working out and running daily, eatting good, and a huge step is that I've stopped drinking heavily which is really hard when you go to a top 5 party school, but it's all about will power, and instead of going out drinking, I've played my guitar, so I am writing a good amount of songs which I look forward to working on with Greg and recording as well. Playing music with Greg is just one of those things in life that's always been there. Me and him have been playing music since our sophomore year in high school which is now been 5 years already. I don't really know where the time goes, but I'm glad we still maintain the friendship and play music together. It feels like home when I go over there with my guitar and whoop it out and we jam together, it's just what we do.

Ok, enough with the sappy shit...I've been working on my top 100 favorite songs of all time and it is really really hard. It's a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. Lately, I've been reading the autobiography of Anthony Kiedis entitled "Scar Tissue" and it is amazing. For those who actually read this but don't know who Anthony Kiedis is, he is the lead singer of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers. To say his life was normal, that could not be more wrong. He's been everywhere and done everything, played music all over the world, drugs, women, all that shit. He is now one of the most down-to-earth people and very intelligent. He actually went to UCLA but left to persue his music career. And while I have been listening to them, they have so many great meaningful songs that mean more to him than anyone else. He's lost his best friend to drugs and that was when he decided to clean up and get off drugs and stop drinking. His story is really inspiring.

I got off topic, back to my 100 favorite songs...I'm still working on it, and I think that I finally got a top 10 but I am really not sure, so I am only going to put the top 5 on here -
1 - Blink-182 - Emo
2 - Taking Back Sunday - Your Own Disaster
3 - New Found Glory - Sucker
4 - Senses Fail - Let It Enfold You
5 - Blink-182 - Not Now

Obviously Blink-182 holds the number 1 spot as they are my favorite band of all time. So I realized that an easy way to figure out my top 100 songs is to make a huge list of songs I like and just go by process of elimination. It is really hard and I'm sure that Blink-182 will occupy about 25 of those spots, haha, but it should actually be fun to do.

Today when I was playing guitar, I broke a pick because I was rocking so hard, and that's actually a good feeling to just see a piece of a pick go flying (as long as it doesn't hit me in the eye) to know that the music is there and means that much that I was playing so much. The song I broke it during was "Everlong" by the Foo Fighters which is definitely a rocker. But that's all that's really been new in the past couple of days with me since I've written in here last and I'm actually making an effort to write in here when shit happens so I remember it and I'm not just reviewing new C.D.'s and shit. So, until next time...

Ok, I haven't been on here in forever because my computer crashed and I forgot my password so I had to go through that whole process. And still nothing new is going on. Summer is coming so soon and even though I'm still going to be going to school and working, I'm looking forward to it. I'll have money in my pocket and I'll be having good times with good friends. So I've been learning some new songs as well as writing my own. Right now, I think I have like 5 or 6 songs completely done and ready to record (recording will also be done this summer with Gregory). Me and Gregory also have another project that we are going to be starting. Since over the years since we've known each other, we've videotaped a ton of shit from cruising around to playing band shows to just doing stupid shit. This summer we are going to put together all of the footage and put it on a DVD so we have it to keep and have the memories so we can watch it whenever we want to and it's going to be absolutely awesome. Me and him are also going to write a few songs together and hopefully collaborate on each others songs so that should be a great time. I'm sure we'll have a great time doing all of this shit.

I forgot about my list of my 100 favorite songs of all time, I realized that it is really really hard to try and figure all of them out, haha. So I was recently asked for my top 10 favorite bands of all time and that is also hard. But as of now, this is how the list is looking -
1 - Blink-182/Boxcar Racer/(+44)/Angels & Airwaves
2 - Taking Back Sunday
3 - New Found Glory
4 - Motion City Soundtrack
5 - The Early November/I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business
6 - Senses Fail
7 - Brand New
8 - Dashboard Confessional
9 - My Chemical Romance
10 - Foo Fighters

That's how it looks right now. I'm sure it would change rapidly, but as of now, that's what it is. There were some bands that are close calls, but that's what I got. This summer, I'm hopefully going to be on here more writing about my recording process, school, work, and a bunch of other bullshit that no one really cares about except for me. I'm going to try and figure out my 100 favorite songs but it's going to be quite hard I'm sure. As those close to me know, there's not many songs that I will listen to beginning to end because I get bored and switch to a next song and shit like that, that's just how I am, I am not big into repetition, I like shit to change a little bit. I say that but the majority of the songs I've written are probably repetitive too, haha. But here's a list of songs that I've learned lately on the guitar -
Brand New - Soco Amaretto Lime
The Early November - Come Back
Foo Fighters - Times Like These & Everlong

I have been watching the Foo Fighters live DVD lately so I've been addicted to trying and learn more of their songs and I'm working hard on learning The Best Of You acoustically lately. It's a tough one but I'm working hard on it. Usually, I check with Lauren to see what she thinks of my latest song choices because she hears a lot of them that I play haha. And just for her, I'm trying to learn the harmonica part that Adam Lazarra plays when he plays Divine Intervention live. I've got the guitar and lyrics down to the entire song, but I know absolutely nothing about the harmonica, so I'm working on it. I'm sure she'll enjoy it (ILY Lauren!). And that's pretty much all I've been up to lately. I get to pick my classes for next semester on Thursday so that should be pure excitement, haha. Until next time...