Head or Tails? Yes or No?

Lately, musically, I've been listening to a lot of different bands and different types of music. Here is a quick little recap for everyone.

1. Isel & Glaciers leaked 3 song demo.
Okay, to start off about Isles and Glaciers It's a scene kids wet dream. Lead vocals are taken care of by Craig Owens (ex-Chiodos/ Cinematic Sunrise/ The Sounds of Animals Fighting) and Johnny Craig (ex-Dance Gavin Dance/ Emarosa), guitar is taken care of by Vic Fuentes (Pierce the Vail), Nick Martin (Underminded), and Brian Southall (The Recieving End of Sirens), Matt Goddard (Chiodos) plays bass and last Vic's brother Mike Fuentes(Pierce the Veil) is on drums. One of the things that I love about this band is that both Nick and Vic are the vocalist of their main bands and this gets utilized and doesn't get looked over, Craig and Johnny obviously sing the moth but Vic does a good amount of singing and Nick does most of the screaming. Probably my favorite part about this band is that it doesn't sound like Chiodos or TREOS or any other band that they play in, you can hear the influence it in but you can't put on any of the three songs and go "This is an emarosa song that got thrown away." I definitely you try to find the torrent for this and download it ASAP.

2. nevershoutnever! - the Summer Ep.
Christopher Drew makes music for the pure fact that he loves making music and he loves making people happy. This kid came storming onto the scene out of no where and just took over. Every song on this EP is completely different from the last, different vibe, different influence, different everything. The wierdest part about this ep is how he closed it with a dark, depressing song about how he regrets losing his virginity. Hands down my favorite song on the ep is Simple Enough, it sounds(and probably was) just recorded as a demo and at the last minute was like "Put Simple Enough on the EP too." It has this cool lo-fi I just demoed this song in my parents basement kind of vibe with the piano and vocals sounding distant and having a slight echo. Every song on the EP is right where it needs to be.

3. This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain
This is hands down one of the most relaxing albums to listen to. I'm listening to it as I write this review and I can't really think of how to describe it other than relaxing. I was making out with Jenn last week while listening to this album, we would kiss the entire song and whenever one song would end we would stop and talk until the next song picked up. If you stressed out this is definitely an album to pick up and put on.

This week has been weird, Jenn has been in Texas visiting family and my parents are in Hawaii with my Aunt and Uncle. I never have the house to myself, Jenn being out of state has nothing to do with that having the house to myself, but I've just taken this week to sit at home and relax. I haven't got to sit at home by myself and just relax since I moved home in June.

I actually got out during the daytime and took some pictures today. There was a few I really liked that I put up on flickr. This one I liked but it didn't make the flickr cut.

Your Hand In Mine

I broke my collar bone on Friday. It is hands down the most inconvenient thing on the planet. It takes me so long and a great deal of pain to get dressed. I got stuck in a windbreaker for 15 minutes the other night. It sucks. On a positive note the vicodin makes me dominate at scrabble.

Despite the whole breaking my collar bone thing, my friday was really nice. Because of that I spent the entire day with Jenn. A lot of it was spent in Urgent Care waiting rooms but it was nice to just sit there with her. We didn't get to eat until around 530 that day so after that the day went a lot better for Jenn, she was starting to get cranky. After that we dropped off my prescription and got my car and dropped it off at my house. She got to meet my mom, which was unexpected, and they got along great, my mom was even cracking jokes and kind of making fun of her for babying me. My parents already like her better than my last girlfriend, which is a great thing, especially because my dad hasn't even met her yet.

After we dropped my car off we went back to her house and just sat on her bed and talked the rest of the night, she showed me old pictures and stuff from high school and junior high. We listened to This Will Destroy You and Explosions In The Sky she really liked them, which makes me happy. It was just nice to bond with her, I really like that we are open about everything.

I know in past relationships I always have trouble being 100% me, there is always a part of me that I hide for some reason but with this one I can say is I am not hiding any part of me. Jenn is the first girl I've been like this with in a long time. Her and I are a lot alike with things and that helps so much. I've never dating someone like me and it's so much better.