Observations and what not

I spent this weekend with my girlfriend and her family. If you came across this blog somehow and don't know me personally I'll put it out there that I am white as white can be. My girlfriend, on the other hand, is Mexican and Salvadorian, she makes that clear every time I just say she's Mexican. Back to what I was getting at. I spent the entire weekend with my girlfriend and her family. Her dad loves soccer and watches all the games that come on, since they speak primarily Spanish in the house he watches the games in Spanish. While I was watching the game with her father I had no idea what the announcers were saying, what the names of the teams were or anything like that, I just knew that one team had white jerseys and the other team had blue, but since I have an understanding of the sport I still knew what was going on. I wasn't paying to much attention to the game but I was still in awe about this. I just found this to be a beautiful thing, the fact that language, culture, even races didn't matter it was just about the sporting and your team winning the game. I think this is the only, besides "Cops", you can watch in a language you don't know and still understand whats going on....but then again the audio on "Cops" is hilarious so id rather watch that in English.

Screw it, I'm doing a cd review on this post too.
This post I'm reviewing Trenches - The Tide Will Swallow Us Hole. Solid State Records released this cd around a year ago and i've listened to it off and on since I got. This band was formed by Haste the Days former vocalist Jimmy Ryan but don't let that fool you this is no screamo/metalcore band. This cd is more for fans Cult of Luna than Atreyu. This cd is heavy, but not in the Suicide Silence, Whitechapel style buligerent open breakdowns and ridiculous blast beats. This has melodic and ambient guitars that are tuned low enough to make it sound heavy even though the guitars are pretty on top of slow, heavy drums with vocal used more as an instrument than as a tool to keep the listener from realizing the song repeats itself. I hope to see this band around for a long while.

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.