10/21/04 04:18 - ID#30434

Bill & Dan are Drunk

Spell check is awesome, anyways, bill wanted me to use the ambersign...or something...it's this symbol &. Anyways...we're are drunk. Saw the yankee's get killed and we were out and decided to hear some new tunes. Well bill's new riff is something out of the ordinary. I like it a lot. I can't wait to make it a full song. I mean it's like watching a child grow, you get to see it at it's first stage and then it becomes an adult, a fully functioning song. In fact we are working on stuff as we write in this journal. Which is the best in artistic drunkness, to multitask. I write while bill "writes". Hopefully you will get to see some semi-finished product soon. I heard Broadway Joe's is asking for bands, we might do it up. So hopefully you will get to see us soon.

Dude, I'm so glad I didn't go to the strip club. Dan and I totally had a blast writing. I've been nursing this riff for like 3 months until it sounded good. Then Dan listened to it and gave me some input. It's great to have a fresh pair of ears to put something into perspective. It also helps to have someone else write with you so it doesn't sound the same as everything else you write. As I type this, Dan is jamming out a great riff but he probably doesn't like it because it's too somber. I like it because it strikes feeling in me. I can't wait to play out. It's lookin like broadway joe's is the place to start it out at. Right down the street. Hopefully Jay is into the idea.

ps. expect a picture of billy really soon

later elmwood

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10/20/04 07:53 - ID#30433

to the COLONIE!!!

I'm working til 9pm on Thursday, but hopefully I can take off a little early. Jay and I didn't write anything, I was braindead. Hopefully, we'll have some music to upload too.

Then off to relieve ourselves of some dollar bills.

The basement needs work and I just dropped a bunch of change on the downstairs bathroom.

billy rolls out so he can replace a array accelerater battery in an HP Proliant server

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10/20/04 12:58 - ID#30432

Things are cruisin'

-dan-

Things are really coming together now. We have a lot to discuss coming up.

Whether or Not to do a demo?
Should we write new songs so we can play longer live?
When to start playing live?
Where to play live?
What needs to be done to the van to get it movin?
Talk to everyone about that thing that we need to talk about?

We also need to finish up things.

Lyrics to like 4 or 5 songs
Gotta put a bridge in one of the songs
Finish up another one
See if we can jam in the one song and do extened band intro's live
Gotta fix up the basement

It's all good, bill and jay are working on some stuff tonight. They felt inspired. I'm at work right now. So much to do. I guees we'll work on everything thursday night. Is there anything I missed??

-dan out-

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10/19/04 12:14 - ID#30431

Thursday

I'm awesome on Thursday night...just broke up with Mary too so I can stay until whenever...haha
I'll call Jay tomorrow night to see whats up.
-Nick

Yeah thursday, I get out of work at 7p

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10/18/04 06:33 - ID#30430

"Music"wagon!!!

There she is baby!!! In all her glory!!!

ps. I'm locked up at work till midnight Monday-Wednesday this week. If everyone is free on Thursday, I'd like to bring the computer downstairs to the first floor kitchen and record practice.

billy returns to the drudgery of everyday life...

See how awesome this thing is, damn gotta thank jay, again, for the big score on this one.

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10/18/04 05:44 - ID#30429

Saturday's Show

Jay,
Click this link...here's the deal for Saturday.

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10/18/04 02:51 - ID#30428

Music, Strippers and Beer an a Sat.

I can honestly say that Saturday was one of the best practices that we have had yet. Dan was a little roughed up because I got him sick (not covering my mouth when I cough...Nasty) so he was'nt really enjoying himself! But he livened up pretty quick when we got to the strip club!! It was there that we discussed our music. Everything from video ideas to good covers were touched on. On top of that we met some beautiful new friends (Those tatoos are so fine!!) and enjoyed a few drinks! I think it might have to become tradition. Hopefully Tuesday we can get together and keep working on the new tunes. They are coming together so fast as usual! I Look forward to playing them for an audience, a tough thing for me to imagine but I think that we are ready to start getting listener feedback. WE'll keep you posted on show dates , and Nick if you read this get a hold of me and let me know about Tuesday.

Later E-Peeps

Yeah I was hella sick, plus not sleeping and that shot on jagermeister didn't help me. I swear those strippers have magical powers because I did feel better, but I think it had more to do with the Bass ale and the girls dancing to pantera, suicidal tendencies, and slipknot.

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10/18/04 04:43 - ID#30427

Fun Times @ 72

Another fun and exciting practice took place Saturday night!
We went over the setlist again and worked on 2 new songs that are coming out amazing...
So we will have 10 songs to play out live for people when we get a show booked.
Dan, Jay, and I went out for a few beverages after practice and saw some lovely ladies swing around on some pole.
We are definately making immaculate progress with every practice and I can't wait to see how things will be in the future.
-Nick

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10/15/04 06:27 - ID#30426

Figured out login

I finally fingered out how to logout and login with my other name! (damn cookies!)
The van is amazing and I'm definately looking forward to playing some shows and traveling around in it.
Practice was awesome last night; we have a tentative show setlist that we went over and it came out really well...
Looking forward to practicing tomorrow after work.
Can't wait to record and play out...hopefully soon!
I'm outtie.
Peace,
-Nick

-dan steps in-

Oh yeah fucking practice was awesome last night. Ripped up the set list, and played a couple tunes for our friend's little brother and his girl, also our friend Al came down and really dug what we were doing.

I'm looking forward to sleeping for an hour before practice today (saturday).

Hopefully billy will pick up his camera so we can get pics of the van up online.

-dan-

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10/11/04 06:52 - ID#30425

It's a big fuckin van!

Billy crawls in:

So I get back from the gym and there are 2 messages on my phone. The first one is Jay "Hey Billy, give me a call when you get this message"

Second one is Jay again:
"Yo, where the f*** are you? Call me back!"

Turns out Jay got himself a free cargo van from work. Good thing I took Friday off, so I could spend the whole day having it towed back to the house. I've never driven so slowly in my life (cuz the tow truck was following me). The driver did a great job backing it into the "parking spot". I tipped him $10 and then headed to Ellicottville for the weekend.

Billy is in pain come Sunday.

Billy is still in pain on Monday.

The phone rings while I'm eating lunch. It's Jay, so I put on speaker phone (cuz i can, and it's fun to do to people). "Billy, what are you doing tonight?"

I say "nothing planned, it's monday. I always leave Mondays opened for practice.

Jay: "Good, cuz we're practicing and drinking."

Billy: "Oh dear god... Have you talked to nick? Is he playing?

Jay: "I'll call him. okay, bye."

Billy "Bye"

I'm gonna try and stay positive, but I'm exhausted. I promise no drama tonight. If i start feeling like shit, I'm gonna say i need a break. It's not you, it's me.

Billy starts to crawl out, takes a quick nap and crawls the rest of the way.

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