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Buddies
A Mighty Recap
Wow, what a long ass time for a real update. Har har!
First, I got Rawrb question.
Subject: Gamers inquery
I noticed in the booklet that came with your CD a pic of you standing in a Quake 3 Arena background. My question is do you play Quake 3 Arena if so do you play a specific mod? - Ben
How I miss Quake 3. I go all the way back to Doom II, buddy. My first online gaming fun was Duke 3D and the first Quake, which is still my favorite Quake. Rawr.
I haven't hopped online in a while to play. I played some Rocket Arena and CTF for the most part, but my "specialty" was 1 on 1s and team deathmatch. Ahhh.
Let's see... what's been going on with meh.
For starters, we're at about 17,000 CDs sold. Fucking insanity. Hopefully once we get our next song pushed to the radio, it'll go up more. We're also working on getting on a bigger tour and maybe a festival type tour, like Sounds of the Underground or the like.
So we'll see what happens with that. :)
The tour we're on right now has been pure badassery. We love our Indorphine buddies; not only are they really cool fellers, their musical style is so complimentary to our style. Great match.
Most of the shows on the tour have been good, some not so good, but the Florida dates have been exceptional. Nothing like the 4700+ crowd in Minneapolis, but still some great shows.
Speaking of shows, I've got to see a lot of music scenes and local bands from these scenes. Then I think about my own music scene in Phoenix, and it breaks my heart. It's not like they're not capable of having a great scene. They most certainly are. They're just bitter and cynical. Understandably, I guess, but at the same time there are some that need a good smacking around. Some in particular who have been in many bands and have not sold more than 100 CDs.
It's not that they're not talented enough. It's more of a quality control sort of thing. It's more of a originality thing. And most of all, attitude, persistence, and real dedication. I'm not talking about a kinda/sorta thing. If they love their music enough, and being a musician enough, they'll find a way. I just keep seeing laziness and cynical fuckers. Or, worse, yet, fuckers who put their energy into crap they can't really control, like trends, other people, and politics, for example.
Ugh.
Plus they expect for it to happen overnight. Magic record contract = instant success, right?! Sorry... doesn't work that way. Long term success as a band doesn't happen in a week, month, or even a year. It takes time.
Psychostick is almost 7 years old. Yep. things didn't start happening until last year, 2006!
Something to chew on if you want to do the music thing for a living. :)
Anyway. Just had to vent a little.
Personally, I'm doing alright. It's been a lot less, uhh, dumb for me. I started to realize that I put way to much energy into crap that didn't really need it.
I do, though I don't like to admit it, get antsy at times. Antsy, as in, wondering-what-the-future-holds-antsy. It's all about patience. Lucky for me--no, wait. It has nothing to do with luck. I was going to say, "Lucky for me, I've got tons and tons to do to keep me busy to bring that future closer," but I'm here because of the effort and work I put into my band and crap. So yeah, that.
Here's a tip for you guys: Give any girl a 3 week trial before you take any further steps. Test her a little to see how collected she is as a person. Many will disagree with some of the tactics I recommend, but whatever. For example, after about a week or so, get yourself nice and busy and make yourself scarce for a few days. If she freaks out, obviously you have a clinger and someone who'll be high maintenance. If that's your thing... well, whatever.
Let's see... yeah, usually after 3 weeks she'll either a) continue to kick ass because that's how she really is, or b) get tired of being fake and become insane.
Yes!
Or, better yet, watch a couple of cool ones snag a boyfriend at the last minute. Hawr hawr, whatever.
Can't sweat that kind of stuff, or you'll become a dehydrated corpse.
Gonna eat soon. I go. RAWR.
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