MUSIC:

The Acacia Strain - Continent
Carpathian - Isolation
The Faceless - Planetary Duality
Meshuggah - obZen
Nochaa - Tortured To Death
Salt The Wound - Carnal Repercussions
Shwayze - Shwayze
You Me At Six - Take Off Your Colours

SOME OTHER MENTIONS:

The Red Shore - Unconsecrated
Aborted - Strychnine .213
Behemoth - Ezkaton
Beneath the Massacre - Dystopia
Burning the Masses - Mind Control


MOVIES:

Righteous Kill
Rise Of The Footsoldier
Tropic Thunder
Pineapple Express
Feast II
In Bruges
Gone Baby Gone



GAMES:

Fallout 3
Call Of Duty 5
Left 4 Dead
Guitar Hero: World Tour
Halo 3


It was a good year in many aspects , except I probably did waste alot of my year partying, spending money that I didn't need to spend. I lost some good friends to death and just to other pointless shit, but I also gained some good ones.


THINGS I DIDN'T/WONT GET DONE IN 2008

Get My Feet Tattooed (due to lack of money)
Get My Minitruck (due to same thing haha )
Travel
Say Goodbye To some close friends that passed
Pick up my 50inch TV
Go see For The Fallen Dreams


THINGS I DID GET UP TO IN 2008!

Partied way too much
Broke some bones
Got septum pierced out of boredom
Drank way to many Energy Drinks
Made some good new friends
Lost most of my points on my license ( 1 left )
Started my own booking/promotion company
Made some $$$ but spent them all

I will write a whole lot more on this shortly, got fucking customers at work!

All the bands I've seen live so far, in no order.

Bomb the Music Industry! (twice!)
The Ergs!
Lemuria
Whole Wheat Bread
Big D and the Kids Table
Brain Failure
Fear Nuttin Band
Katy Perry
OreSkaBand a.k.a オレスカバンド
Pennywise
Awful Waffle
Cheeky
Streetlight Manifesto
Shwayze
Reel Big Fish
The A.K.A.s (ARE EVERYWHERE!) a.k.a The A.K.A.s
Against Me!
Westbound Train
The Forthrights
Bridge And Tunnel
The Bronx
The Aggrolites
The Saint Alvia Cartel
Bring Me the Horizon
The Devil Wears Prada
Tsunami Rising
The Swellers
Ludo
Beat Union
The Flaming Tsunamis
Wrong Answer
Last Martyrs of a Lost Cause
The Best of the Worst

BANDS I'M SEEING LIVE SOON
Bomb the Music Industry! (again!)
The Toasters
Mustard Plug
Big D and the Kids Table (again!)
The Pietasters
Hub City Stompers
Flatfoot 56
Exact Change
SKSC
Awful Waffle (again!)
Explosive Sheep

edit -> so I noticed that most of these have the first 50 songs so I'm adding some more..

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line or two from the first 50 songs that play
Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 4: List the bands so your journal will show up in bands profiles with connections.

Using Google to find lyrics is cheating!

1. Oh hot damn this is my jam keep me partying till the A.M.
2. A strangled smile fell from your face it kills me that i hurt you this way
3. The hour has begun your eyes have now opened
4. Lets star out by starting over what did I expect
5. Silence is stuck in my head stuck on repeat
6. I could hear it in her voice telling me to make the choice
7. I have, I have you breathing down my neck
8. You'll be fine tomorrow the sun will rise again
9. I'll start this broken heart I'll fix it up so it will work again
10. When your only friends are hotel rooms hands are distant lullabies
11. Oh well imagine as I'm pasing the pews in a church corridor
12. There was a time when our dreams felt so real just out of reach not too far to feel
13. I can't escape this hell so many times I've tried
14. With eyes closed tightly I march so blindly
15. Memories consume like opening the wound
16. I wonder if you know how they live in Tokyo (hai!)
17. Where is the moment we needed the most? you kick up the leaves and the magic is lost
18. Last day of the rest of my life I wish I would've known
19. Need more friends with wings all the angels I know put concrete in my veins
20. And I'd give up forever to touch you cause I know that you feel me somehow
21. I hope the ring you gave to her turns her finger green
22. This is fun ladies and gentlemen, put our hands together for the astonishing
23. Boy, no matter what we go through you step up I'll step up too
24. I'm sick of all this waiting and people telling me what I should be
25. What you see is what you get don't ya know fishing for the answer with a line and sinker
26. There is nothing special about me I am just a lil star
27. I thought I knew all it took to bother you every word I said was true that you'll see
28. The gal dem schillaci sean da paul so me give it to so me give to so me give it to to all girls
29. Never understood how she could, mean so little to so many
30. Too alarming now to talk about take your pictures down and shake it out
31. When you were here before couldn't look you in the eye
32. You never go your always here
33. Now I stared at you from across the room
34. I'm a terrible person I'm a terrible person
35. Water grey through the windows
36. Some kind of light at the end
37. I hear the wind across the plain a sound so strong that calls my name
38. You might've seen her on every cover of every magazine but can't nobody get her but me
39. My father came from Japan in 1905 he was 15 when he immigrated from Japan
40. She was staring out the window of their SUV complaning, saying I can't wait to turn 18
41. I'm staring at the glass in front of me is it half empty of our wins or have I ruined all you've given me?
42. Theres a lady whos sure all that glitters is gold
43. In the moonlight your face it glows
44. And I love this rap game mainly cause it's cool to add a little spice to the life you've been through
45. Baby will you be my corona and lime and I will be your main squeeze
46. You 're always looking back running from the past you're always sweating me about the next big heart attack
47. Cast off the crutch that kills the pain the red flag waving never meant the same
48. There are just too many times that people
49. I don't wanna be adored don't wanna be first in line
50. When we were young the future was so bright the old neighborhood was so alive

Anberlin
Atreyu
Audio Adrenaline
Billy Talent (x1) (x3)
Blue October
Bryan Adams
Chris Brown
Collective Soul
Daniel Powter
Flo Rida
Foo Fighters (x2)
Fort Minor (x1)(x1)
Goo Goo Dolls
Hoobastank (x2)
Jacks Mannequin
Keane
Kelis
Kelly Clarkson
Led Zeppelin
Lifehouse
Linkin Park (x3) (x1)
Matchbook Romance
Motion City Soundtrack
OneRepublic
Panic! At the Disco
P.O.D.
Radiohead
Red
Rooney
Samantha Jade
Sean Paul
Secondhand Serenade (x2)
Shwayze
Simple Plan
State Of Shock
Sum 41
The Offspring
Three Days Grace
Teriyaki Boyz
Trace Adkins

01. Ryan Adams
02. Portugal. The Man
03. Modest Mouse
04. Bright Eyes
05. Dear and the Headlights
06. Circa Survive
07. Arctic Monkeys
08. Ben Kweller
09. Anberlin
10. Be Your Own Pet
11. Radiohead
12. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
13. Jonas Brothers
14. Why?
15. Tera Melos
16. Against Me!
17. Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
18. Minus the Bear
19. The Format
20. As Cities Burn
21. Strata
22. Shwayze
23. Tegan and Sara
24. Good Old War
25. Hot Hot Heat
26. Family Force 5
27. Boards of Canada
28. Wilco
29. Brand New
30. Elliott Smith


1. How did you get into 29?
Back in 7th grade when I was real obsessed with Taking Back Sunday, I read about them on some forum.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Think I Wanna Die

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
all 3
8)

4. What is your favorite song by 5?
Sweet Talk, Hallelujah or Mother Make Me Golden. Although I'm really diggin' the new album. So that'll probably change fairly soon.

5. What is your favorite song by 15?
Melody 7

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Not really, but the fact that they've been my favorite band for about 4 years makes me pretty happy.

7. What is your favorite song by 10?
Girls on TV

8. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
um I don't really have one, but talking to one of my teachers about him was pretty cool.

9. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Almost all of them. They're my feel good band <:

10. How many times have you seen 26 live?
4- in a month and a half it'll be 6.
they're one of my favorite live bands.

11. What was the first song you ever heard by 23?
The First, pretty fitting- actually.

12. What is your favorite album by 11?
The Bends (:

13. Who is your favorite member of 1?
lololol um Ryan Adams?

14. Have you ever seen 14 live?
nope):

15. What is a good memory involving 27?
One of the best bands to listen to while fucked up. End discussion.

16. What is your favorite song by 16?
aw shit. That's really hard, I don't really have one.

17. What is your favorite album by 18?
Highly Refined Pirates

18. What is your favorite song by 21?
Daylight In The City or Hot/Cold (Darling Don't)

19. What was the first song you ever heard by 25?
Oh, Goddamnit

20. What is your favorite album by 2?
It's Complicated Being a Wizard

21. What is your favorite song by 3?
): there couldn't be a harder question.
right now- Doin' the Cockroach...
I feel like I just did injustice to so many amazing songs.

22. What is your favorite song by 8?
Wasted and Ready

23. How many times have you seen 17 live?
0

24. What is the worst song by 12?
Can't think of one, honestly.

25. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
uuuh whatever the first song is on A Ghost Is Born.
I don't care enough to look it up, but I bought the album cause I heard good stuff 'bout Jeff... and liked it a lot.

26. What is your favorite album by 7?
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

27. What is your favorite song by 24?
Weak Man,
oh man- I could listen to it all day. And the fact that Anthony Green is in it makes it so much better.

28. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
almost every single one of them.

29. What is your favorite album by 4?
Digital Ash In A Digital Urn

30. How many albums do you own by 20?
Two, and the EP that came with the preorders of Come Now Sleep.
I have all their old EPs downloaded though... so, uh, 7?

50 questions about my top 50

1.How did you get into no.29?
Envy on the Coast
I saw them live with The Almost and they really impressed me.


2. What's the first song you ever heard by no.22?
Cursive
The Great Decay, i think. on the emo game actually, ha ha

3. Whats your favorite lyric by no.33?
Death Cab for Cutie
"the glove compartment isn't accurately named
and everybody knows it"

4. How did you get into no.49?
Third Eye Blind
heard them on the radio, in like 4th grade-ish, a friend had the cd and let me borrow. napster was also raging, so i downloaded a lot of the first album. kept going from there.

5. How many albums by no.13 do you own?
Ben Folds
well, define own...
it could either be zero or 3.

6. What is your favorite song by no.50?
The Early November
Rest Of My Life, or maybe Baby Blue.

7. Is there a song by no.39 that makes you sad?
Bloc Party
Blue Light, Like Eating Glass. In their own ways.

8. What is your favorite song by no.15?
Minus the Bear
Knights

9. What is your favorite song by no.5?
Ryan Adams
fucking Enemy Fire

10. Is there a song by no.6 that makes you happy?
The Strokes
a lot of them, really. but especially stuff like Is This It, The Modern Age, Barely Legal

11. What is the worst song by no.40?
Gym Class Heroes
hate the shit out of Clothes Off

12. What is your favorite song by no.10?
The Eastern Sea
there's one that they play at shows that i love. don't know the title.
otherwise, gotta love The Snow

13. What is a good memory you have involving no.30?
Taking Back Sunday
hanging out with Jimmy and Maggie and the like. it was when i first learned about shit that wasn't on the radio.

14. What is your favorite song by no.38?
Keane
We Might as Well Be Strangers
oooooh

15. Is there a song by no.19 that makes you happy?
Underoath
not exactly.

16. Is there a song by no.25 that makes you sad?
The Mars Volta
nope, not much emotional attachment to the mars volta. just like their shit.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
The Polyphonic Spree
Light and Day
i think that's everybody's, whether they know it or not

18. What's your favorite lyric by no.11?
Josephine Collective

(Crack My Heart

"will you be my darling?
i have become the cold floor lately
with how much i lay in wait
and i'm the white car in the wake
of your endless mourning
so tell me who's afraid of change?"

19. Who is a favorite member of no.1?
Kings of Leon
ol Jared Followill. he can write some basslines.

20. Is there a song by no.14 that makes you happy?
Coldplay
Yellow, Sparks, Yes!

21. What is a good memory involving no.27?
The Fall of Troy
ripping up F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. on guitar hero

22. What is your favorite song by no.16?
Broken Social Scene
7/4 (Shoreline)
i'm just now realizing that 7/4 is the count of the song hahaha how awesome

23. What is the first song you ever heard by no.47?
Cassino
New Jerusalem

24. What is your favorite album by no.18?
Saosin
the new self-titled one i guess
its all they have besides EPs and shit

25. What is your favorite song by no.21?
Saves the Day
i think Get Fucked Up is super hooky and awesome

26. What is the first song you ever heard by no.26?
Motion City Soundtrack
Modern Chemistry i think...can't really say for sure.

27. What is your favorite album by no.3?
Boys Night Out
wow. very hard to say. i kind of think Make Yourself Sick gets it though.

28. What is you favorite song by no.2?
Say Anything
fuck.
Belt, The Writhing South, Passing Slowly, Through a Vector, Chia-Like I Shall Grow, Yellow Cat (Slash) Red Cat.
sorry.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by no.32?
By the End of Tonight
Setting Sail in April

30. What is you favorite song by no.8?
Pinback
Concrete Seconds

31. How many times have you seen no.17 live?
The Polyphonic Spree
zero

32. Is there a song by no.44 that makes you happy?
Beck
the whole Sea Change record is pretty happy.

33. How did you get into no.12?
Brand New
don't remember. just kind of did hahaha.

34. What is the worst song by no.45?
Modest Mouse
Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset

35. What was the first song you ever heard by no.34?
mewithoutYou
January 1979

36. What was the first song you ever heard by no.48?
The Matches
either Chain Me Free or Sick Little Suicide

37. How many times have you seen no.42 live?
Phantom Planet

38. What is you favorite song by no.36?
Albert Hammond, Jr.
Holiday

39. What was the first song you ever heard by no.28?
Jaco Pastorius
don't even know. something my dad showed me a long time ago and i inevitably ignored it. i'd like to think it was something classic like Portrait of Tracy and i just didn't realize how awesome it was.

40. What is you favorite album by no.7?
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business
i think they only have one out right now. so. there you go.

41. Is there a song by no.31 that makes you happy?
Bayside
A Long December
its a cover, okay, but still some awesome shit.

42. What is your favorite album by no.41?
Weezer
Weezer (the blue album)

43. What is your favorite song by no.24?
Portugal. The Man
Stables and Chairs

44. What is a good memory you have involving no.46?
Piano Vines
recording our EP with David. seeing them play at super happy fun land. etc.

45. What is your favorite song by no.35?
Foo Fighters
Live-In Skin

46. Is there a song by no.9 that makes you happy?
Maps & Atlases
Every Place Is A House

47. What is your favorite album by no.4?
Shwayze
Shwayze

48. Who is your favorite member of no.37?
Panic at the Disco
i dunno. they all seem kind of lame and goofy. lead singer isn't half bad though. at least they got rid of the exclamation point.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by no.43?
The Shins
Caring Is Creepy, or maybe New Slang. can't really remember.

50. What is your favorite song by no.20?
Every Time I Die
Guitarred and Feathered
check out the bassline

EEK!
I'm getting my Pre-Rock Am Ring Excitement, Jesus.
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I've always liked The Used, but I actually listened to the entire In Love and Death album in Zoi's car...it's stunning.
Another Zoi's car listen is Shwayze, anthing Shwayze. :D

Paramore Song of the Day: My Hero
yes, the Foo Fighters Cover.

Use Your Ears for This

in ages(IMO). To start it off, Erykah Badu released a new album, her first album since Worldwide Underground which came out in '04. The Roots came out with Rising Down, which has quickly become one of my favorite albums ever. N*E*R*D released Seeing Sounds which is a BANGER. I saw Alicia Keys LIVE! (I've been waiting to see her live since she came out). I'm about to see Mary J. Blige live. A Tribe Called Quest is doin' RTB. John Legend is about to release a new album. Common is about to release an album. Monica and Brandy are coming back. Maxwell is about to come back. Lauryn Hill MIGHT be coming back. There have been sooo many good albums and new artists this year (Jazmine Sullivan, Keri Hilson, Janelle Monáe, J*Davey and Santogold are my new favorites). Solange surprised us ALL with her new album Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams. Michelle Williams' album is really good too. And isn't Bee comin' out with an album in November? C'mon, Kelendria...

NOW, all I need is Chrisette Michele, Goapele, India.Arie, Teedra Moses, Corinne Bailey Rae,and Heather Headley to release some new material. Goapele & Teedra have already teased me with their new songs, but I'm being a greedy bastard. I want more! =)

Out of all of these new artists though, I canNOT get into Shwayze. I just can't. It won't happen.

**and new Kanye West and Jay-Z?! WHAT?!**

Since May my taste in music has changed drastically, even more so since the start of the year. I went from rock and metal to electronica and indie hip hop... and the Jonas Brothers. My favorite band is in fact no longer Avenged Sevenfold, it's Cobra Starship now. My top ten list right now consists of Cobra Starship, Jonas Brothers, We The Kings, 3Oh!3, Shwayze, The Cab, a new unsigned band called lets get it, Mayday Parade, Augustana, and Forever the Sickest Kids.


I've gone softcore. I'm seriously okay with that, too.