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"fix your face" mixtape and Coachella performances are fuckin off the hook. can't stop jammin. i wish i could play like that dude.

BLITZ BLINTZ

new things:

-Checking out wedding gear, ideas and prices. Exciting, but not rushing.

-One more month til' me lady moves here

-Working hard cutting trees and clearing brush

-Enjoying the weather, except today (thunder, lightning, rain...better than snow though)

-EXAM week coming up. Gotta kick it! Can i Kick it? yes you can...gotta stay on top

-TERROR is still on top.

-Saw V!FTS two weekends in a row, and love them for it. 

-Had some serious music talk last night with Kyle, Aaron, Ryan and Dave. I miss those warm summer nights when everyone is down to hang, and talking about shit they really care about and are involved in.

-Got new tattoos...the sleeve will be finished by mid May.

-May 9th w/ FIO and Today I Wait @ The Legion Hall. GO

-May 24th w/ Tall Ships, brothers, All Hype, Damages, Under Anchor and The Effort, plus LOTS more @ The mixtape in Grand Rapids. Brians first show with us, and our CD release. GO.

this summer is shaping up to be an epic WIN. i gotta get through this week first...the only thing thats stands between me and freedom. 

peace.

JH

Spring time?

i'll keep it to a list:

-Sick of missing her. all. the. time.

-Show on the 24th went off with no problems. what a night. wish i could feel like that all the time. Next up, Shai Hulud, april 27th.

-Playing lots. HV's still got game. TIGER is making tremendous strides forward. New slogan = Shut the Fuck up and Play FAST! thanks joe.

-Work is good. 11:30pm to 8am shifts are killers sometimes

-starting another job on the 6th

-TIGER has big show on the 16th; Macs bar in E. Lansing w/ Thrashin, and BRAINDEAD

-HV's comeback show is on that following saturday, the 18th w/ Victor!FixTheSun. stoked.

playlist:

Mastodon "Remission"

H20 "nothing to prove"

7a7p "jhazmynes lullaby"

Trapped Under Ice "Stay cold" Ep

Impending Doom "nailed. dead. risen"

Have Heart "the things we carry & Songs to scream..."

Death Cab "plans and Narrow Stairs"

all over the place. i know. i like it that way. 

peace. jh

St Patricks Day Doom

we are riding our bikes into town tonight to film people getting out of hand and fighting at bars. it'll be great fun to observe the ex-college frat boy and/or ex-sorority sisters reliving the glory days in there natural environment. 

Lance- if you read this, you should come. 

A complete review of the night coming tomorrow. we are making our maps, and schedules now.

peace.

jh

3-09-09 plays

playlist:

Music Related:

misc. things:

-Ordering cases for TIGER cd tonight via conference call.

-Utorrent rules; Death Cab discography, Kings Of Leon Discography, Andrew WK "I Get Wet" and Bloc Party discography.

-Transatlanticism is an awesome album. Not awesome like Architects awesome, but in a cool, calm, melancholic, poetic awesome way.

-Playing bass in Kevorkian Circuit for a show. hmmmm, itll be fun. i never said it would be good...

-Kyle and Aaron are going to baltimore to see Paint It Black, Propagandhi, and Ruiner. Josh is jealous.

shaping up to be an exciting week.

TO shave my head, or NOT to shave my head? the juries out.

one love. Josh 

UPDATE

LIFE UPDATE:

-jessica should live here now

-she's doing excellent in her lead teaching. no surprise.

-band got signed. CD coming out soon

-Wolf Whistle is the shit

-MI weather is wearing me thin. -2' days suck.

-Put a lot of miles on my car in Feb, but for good reasons.

-i have no money. hopefully that changes soon.

-a few big shows coming up this month

-school is going well. boring and lame though. nothing new.

-playing pool and getting good. Won a game of cutthroat last night, plus 3 games of 8ball.

-arm tats will be finished soon.

-watching programs on neglected kids in Romania is a real eye opener

-www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com

-scotts really sick, therefor, we are all a little bit sick.

-getting back into the core. new bands have been renewing my faith in it.

thats all.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

peace.

Grand Slam Weekend!

A few tough days of school to get through before i dive head first into hardcore mania, starting thursday night. Thrashin in the Streets is reuniting in E. Lansing at Snyder Phillips hall on MSU campus. There are other bands playing too, but i don't really care much. 

After the show, Dave and I are staying at Jessica's place and will hang in E.L. all day before heading to Mt. Pleasant for our show with UNDER ANCHOR, DAMAGES, TALL SHIPS, and TODAY I WAIT! super solid line up. very very excited. After that show, we will return to TC and sleep.

 Long day saturday. Im putting on the show at the Legion Hall with all the bands above, minus TODAY I WAIT, which is a bummer, but our boys in Fight It Out will be there, and it will be rowday. I will be getting the PA set up that day, food cooking, and making sure bands are where they need to be when they need to be, you know. Usual show stuff. I get very excited about doing it, but feel like i can kind of be an asshole sometimes, like if something isn't done the way i would have done it, i get upset, or if something isn't done and needs to be, i'll just fucking do it myself. I don't know if its a good trait or not, but it happens. Shit always goes down as planned, though. 

We got a few shows in the works right now for spring:

HAVE HEART-TRAPPED UNDER ICE-POLAR BEAR CLUB = Mar 24th

SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY-MISERY INDEX = end of april sometime (in the works)

ANOTHER BREATH-VICTIMS (sweden) = May 31st (in the works)

so i'm psyched on those. 

Im going to be conducting interviews with some of the band members we will be playing with this weekend, and posting them on the net. Just some funny questions and thoughts on the state of hardcore in MI as well as the rest of the country. 

I should be either A) Flyering for the show right now, or B) studying for a test i have thursday. i Choose studying. seeeeeee yuh

1-29-09

In east lansing today. Jessica is teaching so im cruising the internet, and making videos on iMovie. My newest  is called "Joe teaches Declan guitar" and can now be viewed on youtube. I took some of the footage i shot when we stayed at Joe's before the Tim and Eric show live. did i mention that was fucking unreal?

So i got tuned into a few new blogs thanks to lance. NYC Bike Snob is first up. SOOO fun to read. This guy has great things to say about bike culture of all sorts. At the end of his latest quiz, there is a real good quote from someone special...go take the quiz and see if you can figure it out.

Next, is Trouts and Trees. This is also very funny. Its all about TC and the people who live there. A gossip site, i guess. Check out the Josh Lentz story about him hitting 7-11 with a car (not his own). The picture is great, too. Being a fan of Microsoft Paint, i can tell whoever digitally edited that photo knew what they were doing. props.

OTHER GOOD THINGS:

-Star wars trilogy

-Kings of Leon (still)

-Thrashin REUNION SHOW feb 19th

-TIGER SHOWS! psyched to play again.

-Graphics design class is still fun, even though my iPod got jacked.

-Dropkick Murphy's live on St. Patty's day CD

-Propagandhi

-Tim and Eric

-The Office-new episodes are right on!

fuck the super bowl! have a nice day. --JH

STAY COLD

This is how im dressed right now @ 10:24am. its cold in here.

Our heat got shut off last night. were not sure if the pilot light went out, or there was confusion on getting the account turned over into our name when we moved in. Either way, i awoke at 8am and it 50 degrees in the house. First thing we did was get Scotts lizard hooked up with a heater and heating lamp. we didnt want it to die. THEN we called the  power company, and all that jazz. We think there is something wrong with the furnace and not the power/gas company. Repair man is on the way.

Going to Grand Rapids tonight for a show and to hang with friends. really excited about. check yuh later.

Malls

 i went to the mall today with Scott. He was going to get his hair cut. its really long. no dice on it, so we did a lap, and besides running into an old friend and talking to him about doing giant downhill races on shortboards, it was the worst. Slum dudes and sloozes just walking around. Quite a few single moms, as well as dads, and then the couples that are just way to young to have children in the first place. Very disheartening. 

Anyways, it was the low point of my day. Came back and listened to The Banner on the stereo system and felt better. Cooked lunch and watched some Entourage. 

Afterwards, Declan, Scott and I took our neighbors dog (a boston terrier named Joey) for a walk at the State Hospital. Sooo much fun. we found a building under construction that had this thin layer of ice over the entire cement floor. We played on it for like an hour. The dog was the funniest though; he was sliding around uncontrollably. 

Going to Kyle's tonight to watch the office and talk. adios.

A hoodie worth a thousand words

                     

Maybe not a thousand words, but three important ones. My girlfriend, Jessica, got me this sweatshirt for christmas and it rules! the nicest feeling and fitting hood i own. I feel like this year, i really need to make things happen. In my studies, and in the music community, but i haven't thought through to much yet, so more on that later.

Living with Declan will be a real good experience i think. he's an enabler. He is always doing something and running around. Its the mentality i need to adopt this semester. In order to visit and keep up with Jessica, maintain my studies at school, booking and playing shows, there is no room for fucking around, except for when i'm hanging out doing one of the above activities. That's my idea of having a good time. I read lance's blog, and he talked today about how his idea of a good time is not drinking his nights away, and that he needs to find more creative ways to spend his free time. Although i am not vegan, i too am straight edge, and would take going to the book store, or dinner at serenity with 4 or 5 friends over hanging at a bar with like 30 friends ANY DAY. Ive learned the value of good conversation, because, lets face it, its hard to come by these days. Luckily, i have friends that provide hours and hours of interesting conversation that we can all connect on. I really dig it. 

Well today i will be going to Sun Radius music to film Declan doing his traditional Japanese drumming. It will go into an ever growing series on Youtube under xjoshholtonx (my file). you can see him do things like jump off roofs, play board games, make star wars movies, and rap! So check it out. there are other movies on there too, but Declan seems to be a popular past time for many people to check out, so ill continue the series as long as he keeps doing weird and cool shit. 

Thats it for now. Still watching Entourage, and reading the Living Biblically book. 

SO this is the new year

New year. New blog postings. Im going to keep up on it this time.

Me, Declan and Scottie have moved into a new house and its already way fun. Also, ive been making short films of random stuff ive been filming and putting them on youtube. Check out xjoshholtonx in the search and watch'em. 

Ive been back off the ship for nearly a month and half now. Strange. It feels like it never happened. I prefer it that way before going back to school. two summers ago, i sailed the great lakes from May 31 to August 8th, and had 2 weeks before school started. It was real hard for me to go from the ship, straight to sitting and listening to some boring guy talk about all this shit i just did. So, having a month off gave me a chance to calm down, get settled, and hang. Im ready to start again.

Upcoming Events:

-Show this friday in Grand Rapids that dave wants to go to. Might tag along. Under Anchor is playing. super bonus.

-Chases band playing a Battle saturday at 3pm

-Vegan party w/ Lance and Mckaig saturday night. Film = JFK

-Watching lots of Entourage

-Reading "A Year of Living Biblically: one mans quest to follow the bible as closely as possible"

hilarious read.

-Scott and I going downstate to visit our better halves-January 16th

-Tim and Eric Live tour on January 25th

PLAYLIST:

Trapped Under Ice - Stay Cold EP

Trash Talk - s/t (wicked)

The Faceless - planetary duality

Kings of Leon - only by the night

Swamp Thing - the youth is sick

MLIW - Midnight in America

White Stripes - Icky Thump

Paint it Black - New Lexicon