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.

august 19th

So I've never written a blog before but I'm always up to try something new. I guess I'll just start this off with talking about me, let the reader learn something. In the words of the band Ruiner "I'm just a hardcore kid from a shitty town no different than any of you." granted you might not be a hardcore kid, might live in a great town, or both. Regardless of what music you like or where you live it's just a poetic way of saying I'm nothing special.
I never went to college, I didn't try in high school, I didn't come from money, I've gotten to this point in my life because of my own choices and hard work.
I'm 21, my passion is in different types of film making, photography and music. All of those things have brought me either jobs i love or the chance to travel with bands. Before I turned 19 I had already met CEO's of companies, gone on business trips and travel around with a few of my friends bands. Needless to say I am happy with my life.
This blog has no point, it will probably mostly be just random reviews about albums and movies or just random stories from hanging out with my freinds.
So to start off that trend and habit I want to send you off with this recomendation; Jonny Craig - A Dream is a Question You Don't Know How to Answer. Check it out it was released yesterday on Rise Records. Jonny Craig is the former singer of band Dance Gavin Dance and current singer of Emorosa. Surprisingly unlike most other solo album this one doesnt sound like the band he's in, its not crappy electro beats he made on his laptop in the van on tour and its not just simple hipster-acoustic emo. You can really tell he put time, effort and heart into this record. I have had it a little over an hour and this is my second time listeng to it. I might redo my review on this record after a few more listens but I can already tell this isn't going to get off my iPod anytime soon.