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i wish i could go back in time and then just live there
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[18 Nov 2008|05:33am] |
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i'm graduating next quarter
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[27 Jun 2008|07:04am] |
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how come all of my fucking friends get to meet type o and i don't?
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| R.I.P. |
[21 Jan 2008|03:44am] |
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tacomasauce.com
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| tour so far... |
[29 Nov 2007|05:19am] |
OWEN HART 24 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
12/14 - Bellingham, WA @ Humboldt St w/Strength To Endure, Pianomover
12/15 - Seattle, WA @ Dog City w/Greyskull 2000, Dead Stare, Sojourner, Gag Reflex
12/16 - Tacoma, WA @ The Viaduct w/Sojourner, Dead Stare
12/20 - Olympia, WA @ Evergreen State College w/Ancient Head
12/21 - Portland, OR (either Pink House or Brutal Fight's last show)
12/22 - Reno, NV @ Ft Ryland
12/23 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Light Books w/Railspike
12/24 - drive
12/25 - Dallas, TX xmas at Vinnie Paul's bar
12/26 - New Orleans, LA @ Dragon's Den w/Thou
12/27 - Baton Rouge, LA @ Government St w/Thou
12/28 - Houston, TX @ Southmore House w/Die Young, Kill the Client, Tolar, PLF, Dissent, Humanicide
12/29 - need show (Amarillo, Dallas/Ft Worth, San Antonio, El Paso, etc)
12/30 - Albuquerque, NM @ La Casa
12/31 - Tucson, AZ @ Gnarwhal House w/Hour Of The Wolf, Alarm, George Moshington, Run With The Hunted, Mammoth Grinder, Slut Sister, Left For Dead (rockabilly one), Fake Out
01/01 - Tijuana, MX @ TBA
01/02 - San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe w/Graf Orlock, Dangers, Maladie, Ghostlimb
01/03 - Irvine, CA @ Hellfish Warehouse w/Graf Orlock, Dangers, Ghostlimb
01/04 - Redwood City, CA @ Oddstad Gallery w/Graf Orlock, Dangers,Ghostlimb
01/05 - Oakland, CA @ 924 Gilman w/7 Generations, Wait in Vain, Graf Orlock, Dangers, Ghostlimb
01/06 - Redding, CA @ TBA
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[20 Jun 2007|09:16pm] |
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i'm going to kill my computer
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[24 Mar 2007|12:32pm] |
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hi
i'll tell you what happened yesterday
western brass had rehearsal
then in the middle of it
WE WENT TO D HALL
amazing indeed
i had pasta, hash brown cake things, and like 40 pieces of pita bread with hummus
for free
then finished rehearsal
came home
slept for like 15 hours
played at graduation
and here we are
listening to csn
thinking about what to do
probably clean room
get new desk up here
maybe go ride around
practice
cd shopping
we shall see
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[12 Nov 2006|03:18pm] |
"The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are."
-L. Frank Baum (author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
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[12 Sep 2006|01:26am] |
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earlier today me and my dad were walking up top and this police car speeds by real fast up the street and we're like that's pretty fast for a neighborhood. then this evening both my dad and next door neighbor and probably others randomly get tickets on their cars for expired tabs ($171 fine). so then me and my stepmom are talking about it like man there must be something going on around here (again) and then like ten minutes ago three police cars go speeding up the street with lights on and crap. when i rode the bus home from downtown on saturday there were kids talking about tec 9s and stuff like for real. tacoma is getting crazy man.
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[09 Sep 2006|08:27am] |
it's 8:30am and i am in wwu computer lab. there are two other people in here. this morning was scary i woke up at 3:30 and a few minutes later hear this loud bang downstairs and go to investigate to find back door open. i am only person home so i am like what the hell but i think the bang was the newspaper being delivered and the door came open from the wind as sometimes you think you shut it but you really don't which is probably what i did.
the earliest i can leave this hellhole is 10:30am then after about 5 hours of bus i will be home until 17th. good. bye.
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[24 Aug 2006|06:51pm] |
Jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson dies
By JEFF WILSON, Associated Press Writer
VENTURA, Calif. - Jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, known for his soaring high notes and for his recording of "Gonna Fly Now," a hit version of the theme from the "Rocky" movies, has died. He was 78.
Ferguson, who lived in nearby Ojai, died Wednesday night at Community Memorial Hospital of kidney and liver failure due to an abdominal infection, friend and manager Steve Schankman said Thursday.
Ferguson's four daughters, Kim, Lisa, Corby and Wilder, and other family members were at his side when he died, he said.
"Someone just said, `Gabriel, move over to second trumpet,'" Schankman said from his St. Louis office. "He was the last of the greats. That era is closed. There is no Kenton, no Basie, no Ellington, and now, no Ferguson."
Born into a musical family in Montreal, Ferguson began playing the piano and violin at age 4, took up the trumpet at 9 and soloed with the Canadian Broadcasting Company Orchestra at 11, then quit school at 15 to pursue a career in music.
The next year he was leading his own dance band, the first of a number of big bands and smaller ensembles he eventually fronted in a career that produced more than 60 albums and three Grammy nominations.
Ferguson, also a much admired teacher, became identified with ear-piercing power and dizzying high notes that he was still able to play with precision. He was named Down Beat magazine's "trumpeter of the year" three times.
"My instrument is a thing of pleasure, and I play it only because I enjoy it," he once said. "The most important thing is doing what feels right for me."
The trumpeter — who stood just 5 feet 9 — credited yoga with enabling him to harness the full capacity of his lungs and routinely hit a double-high-C.
"He will be remembered for his soaring high notes, he'll be remembered as Stan Kenton's lead trumpet player and he'll be remembered for movie soundtracks like `The Ten Commandments,'" Schankman said. "But what they should remember him for is his work as an educator.
"He played for students, visiting high schools, to raise money for instruments and music programs. And he left them with an inspiring remark."
As with many esteemed jazz players, mainstream success largely eluded Ferguson. But he scored a Top-10 hit with his cover of "Gonna Fly Now," and the single spawned a gold album and a Grammy nomination in 1978.
"I knew it was going to be a hit," he once said of the Bill Conti composition. "
Sylvester Stallone was in the studio when we recorded it," punching a speed bag to the rhythm of the song.
"If you listen very close to the original recording, you can hear in the mix the sound of him hitting the small bag," Ferguson said.
Ferguson moved to the U.S. at age 20, playing in big bands — including Jimmy Dorsey's — and performing solo in New York City cafes. He then joined Stan Kenton's orchestra, where his shrieking, upper-register trumpet formed the backbone of the group's extensive brass section.
In 1956 he formed the first of several 13-piece orchestras known for the crisp vigor of their horns. They helped launch the careers of such jazz notables as Chick Corea, Chuck Mangione, Bob James, Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul.
As the popularity of jazz declined in the 1960s, Ferguson was forced to scale down his big band, touring less frequently and favoring a smaller sextet instead.
He moved his family to India, where he absorbed Eastern music and philosophy, then to England. He later moved back to the U.S., settling in California.
But he returned almost yearly to India.
"I go to teach, but I always end up learning more," he said.
In the late `60s and `70s, he created a musical niche by rearranging pop and rock songs — "MacArthur Park" and the Beatles' "Hey Jude," for example — for big bands.
Meanwhile, "Conquistador," the album that included "Gonna Fly Now," reached No. 22 on Billboard's charts and helped rekindle the public's interest in big bands.
Born in Montreal on May 4, 1928, Ferguson said his most important musical influences were Louis Armstrong and his mother, a violinist with the Ottawa Symphony and later a school administrator.
He remembered being about 9 when he fell in love with the horn.
"I went to a church in Montreal, sort of like a Sunday school get-together," and had a chance to put a cornet to his lips, he told the St. Cloud (Minn.) Times in 2003.
"It was my first time playing the instrument," Ferguson said. "My parents were really surprised when I said, `I have got to get me one of these.'
"I remember having the feeling after I played it that the trumpet was the instrument for me."
Schankman said a memorial service will be held later in St. Louis.
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[13 Aug 2006|12:20pm] |
some things have been fun others have not
the other night driving down the freeway all this steam started coming out of the floor of the bus and we thought taiga was on fire
i think everything is fixed now
last day of sink with cali today
LA shopping and riverside show tomorrow
socal sux
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