| 2006... year in review |
[20 Dec 2006|09:23pm] |
so somewhere along the way, i stopped writing in this thing.... and its been another crazy year, and it seems like something big happened every two months...
January i went to Las Vegas and then took a road trip to Michigan and Canada... and also started smoking... which is where things really started to get better...
spent February trying to get registered for college at Kaplan University, taking online classes...
in March i started college... that lasted for a month or two... not for me...
apparently i also became a big fan of ...
but anyway... so april i spent dropping out of college and importing cd's into my itunes...
in may i got an ipod for my birthday... well i split the money with my parents... anywho, i have to say that my ipod is the best purchase that i ever recall making, with the exception of the money i spent to record at big blue meenie... for years i stopped really listening to music, which was such a huge part of my life, but once i got my ipod i was able to listen to everything all over again...
so i spent may and june just smoking and listening to music and relaxing and saving money... at the end of june i went to florida with my family, which is a rarity... good times though...
everything was going great through july and most of august, until i got robbed on august 19th... had to quit my job, had no income to pay my bills, my student loans bills started coming in, and was just really miserable for awhile...
i spent september unsuccessfully looking for a job that i was interested in...
by october i was back at montegrillo's but i only work on sat. and sun. afternoons... and i started working at shoprite on the night crew... by the end of october, my dad and i both quit shoprite... and i also found out that i have tmj... went to the dentist, wore some funny wax thing for a few weeks... long story short, it would cost me $3,000 to "maybe" fix it... and i'm not going back in credit card debt to "maybe" fix my jaw...
i spent november trying to get a band together... so me, kev, jay, mike, and rick started jamming, trying to get one song done at a time and record... going slow so far, but hopefully there will be great things to come next year...
and that brings me to december... next week i will officially be out of credit card debt, finally... and after that i will have about $3,000 to pay off on my student loans and then i will be partially free from this soulless money hungry culture i happened to be born into... and the real shocker of the year is that i fell in love, which is something that... well... just does not happen to me... and i'm still falling and i have a strange feeling that not many people will be happy for me, but that's okay, i understand...
i've gone through a lot again this year and i've changed a lot and in a way i feel like i've come full circle and i feel like i did when i was little, but with a better understanding and sympathy for people. this time last year i had just finished playing shows and making music for a long time and was still out partying all the time and i'm sure a lot of people would like to have that person back, but i wouldn't... that stuff was fun in that time and place, but that's not me right now, maybe someday in the future, maybe not... where i'm at now is that i'd rather have a tight circle of people around me that i can trust and depend on, i'd rather spend time with my family, i'd rather make music with my friends and not worry about how many friends we can get on myspace or worrying about getting signed, i'd rather catch up on old times with my long lost twin lol, i'd rather smoke and laugh and talk about life and create and appreciate what and who i have... the nights of drunk driving and hangover mornings and hangers-on and fairweather friends and drama and trash talking and endless self-promotion just does not seem appealing to me anymore and has not for almost 2 years... it's a been there, done that feeling... i just feel like i let so many people into my life that i wound up losing and forgetting a large part of myself and i could only find it by blocking most people out... but i feel good where i'm at now... insane, of course... but good
i wish everyone happiness in the year ahead... have happy and safe holidays if i don't talk to you otherwise...
Peace, Love, and Armadillo Eyeballs,
Jeff
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| it's been so long, never dreamed you'd return |
[13 Dec 2006|02:04pm] |
its december, i haven't updated since march.
college only lasted a month or two before i wanted to hang myself. so i stopped going and i am now kicking myself in the ass for even trying because i am now saddled with student loan payments.
after that, life was great until the middle of august. if you were not aware, i was robbed at gunpoint while i was delivering. so my family gave me a bunch of shit and made me quit montegrillo's after 6 years. that didn't work out too well, so i went back, but now i only work sat and sun afternoons. meanwhile i also got a job working the night shift at shoprite in october, it was alright until a bunch of drama went down and my dad quit one night and then i quit. so right now i'm only working about 15-20 hours a week generally, but its paying the bills and i almost have my credit cards all paid off. also during the time i was working at shoprite, i started getting pain in my jaw every time i opened my mouth. it got progressively worse so i went to the dentist and eventually got sent to a specialist for tmj... unfortunately, after spending several hundred dollars on bullshit, the specialist informed me that it would cost about $3,000 to get xrays done and have a device fitted to my teeth... so it looks like i'm just gonna have to live with the pain until i get health insurance.
i'm trying to get a job at the post office. i take the postal battery exam in january. hopefully i do really well and get a job as quick as possible so i can get health benefits and take care of my ribs and my jaw.
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in music news, i've been trying to start a new band, but its been really tough because our schedules are so different and we only get to play for about 2 hours every week and a half. actually all 5 of us haven't even played together yet. but we work on stuff at my house once or twice a week too.
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its the christmas season, which is the only holiday i look forward to. and the eagles are still in the playoff hunt. my christmas shopping is done. the smashing pumpkins are recording a new album. so i'm in a fairly good mood for a change.
happy holidays
Peace, Love, and twins,
Jeff
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| My Life To You |
[28 Mar 2006|03:29am] |
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So yes, to the 5 people who still read this useless drivel, i have... an UPDATE!
in the short form:
i went back to college. i started last wednesday. i go to Kaplan University www.kaplan.edu ... i take all of my classes online. right now i have 2 classes. they meet for 1 hour a week in a chatroom type thing. mon. 1pm. tue. 8pm. semesters are 10 weeks. it's fucking incredible so far. my cousin jimmy told me about it. he goes there too. i'm going for an associates in business administration/accounting and then a bachelors in business/accounting or business/finance. i have a lot of plans for the future, but i really don't feel like going into detail about them right now.
however, i've made a goal as far as getting out of credit card debt. i'm shooting for september. that gives me about 20 weeks to pay off $5,500, which i believe comes out to about $275 a week. which reminds me that i need to go to cingular and have my minutes cut in half because my white boy ass does not talk on the phone for 900 fucking minutes a month. if i did, i'd be gay... or rich... or both.
i'm also trying to get my lazy ass back in shape. i can safely say that i haven't been in shape since probably senior year of high school. i'm debating signing up for the gym again, but i really don't think i'll go. instead i'm hoping to play a lot more basketball when i get a chance because A. i still get to hang out with my friends B. it'll help me get in shape C. i used to be good at basketball D. it's a lot cheaper than going out to bars and stuff.
speaking of going out... on april 5th, i'm going to see the yeah yeah yeahs with sailor shawn and my cousin jamie (duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh), then on april 22nd, me and kmcg are going to see the Strokes at the Borgata in AC and we're getting a motel and staying overnight (ooh lala!). our goal is to have the motel room turn green by the time we leave. also looking forward to the harrah's buffet while we're down there. then on may 27th, i'm going to see Pearl Jam with a whole fuckload of people probably. Props to the Greek kid for getting the tickets.
WARNING: Brat moment up ahead.... so i really want to get an ipod, but i want the biggest ipod so i can fit as many songs as possible... however i don't have $400 sitting around and i'm not putting shit on my credit card. my birthday is coming up in may, but i don't want to ask my parents to spend that much on me... i'm thinking about asking them to do half, but even then i don't think i can put aside $200 by then either. oh the worries of the middle class.
so me, kev, rick, and mike started jamming again at mike's mom's house... well we jammed once, but i found it to be very cathartic. i'd like to be able to do that once a week, even if its just for fun, but schedules are a motherfucker.
as far as my solo nymphoelf shit, i have a new CD ready, but i really don't even feel like putting it out and i'm not writing anymore and to be honest i really don't miss it all that much. i only remember how to play a few of my songs anyway.
i've also noticed that i have a much more regimented schedule than i've had in a long time.
Sunday: work 11-10:30 then homework from 11:30-2
Monday: class from 1-2 then work from 5-10:30 then maybe basketball from 11:30-2am maybe
Tuesday: homework and errands and shit during the day, class from 8-9pm, and poker from 11-2am
Wednesday: work from 5-10:30 then either homework or basketball after work
Thursday: work from 5-10:30 then either homework or bowling or strip club or whatever
Friday: band practice from 7-10:30 or something like that
Saturday: Dodgeball eventually at either 3 or 5pm until it gets dark and then homework after that all night
it doesn't seem like a lot, but i've literally had nothing that i had to do for a long time. of course i still know how to party and i won't be missing any birthdays and whatnot, but yeah wooooooooooooooooooooooo
on a side note: i bought the matisyahu cd 'youth' and its easily one of my favorite albums of all time already. makes me wish i spent the fucking $50 on ebay for the tickets to his show.
in closing, please don't be pissed if i'm not around as much or w/e
Peace, Love, and Take Airborne every 3 hours (it works!)
Jeff
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| January 2006 |
[30 Jan 2006|10:50pm] |
1 month
2 countries
3 trips
4 dvd's worth of video
5 people from jersey to michigan
6 people from michigan to jersey / 6 different states
7 forty amanda's plane left for michigan
8 mile road
9 thousand pictures that i need to upload and caption
10 dollars for a shot and a dance at cheetah's in canada
11 is my lucky number and pyro and paul's birthday
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26 letters in the alphabet for the sign game
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70 dollars for the dream seat with 2 girls for pyro
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235 dollars i put down on black in roullette... and i won!
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1,000,000 wishes to do it all again
there must be 50 ways to leave your lover
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| No Regrets |
[30 Jan 2006|10:32pm] |
So tomorrow is the last day of January... rang in the new year at Andy's house... went to las vegas with Pat, Andy, and Andy's family for 5 days... took a road trip with shawn, dom, greg, and jay to michigan where we picked up amanda, then drove to canada for a couple nights, then drove back to michigan, then we kidnapped amanda and took her back to jersey with us... went to aiden's 4th birthday party which happened to be austin's 1st birthday party which also happened to be misty's birthday as well (they don't have the same birthday but pretty close)... managed to get trashed for about 10 consecutive days... went with greg and amanda to new york because she had to fly back to michigan asap (i think it had something to do with the annual F.U.C.K. convention and she had to be there since she is the president)... i have hours of video footage to upload and dvd's to make... i'm a couple thousand dollars more in debt... my head is spinning, i'm out of control and i'm loving every minute of it... i'm hoping to go somewhere for spring break in march, right now arizona or michigan are possibilities... i'm still thinking about going to california in april... over the summer i may be going on a road trip with dom and some people and i hear Las Vegas is another possibility this summer as well... of course i don't have the money to do all this shit, but the new motto for the year is 'you only live once', so living is what i intend to do.
in the everyday news market... i've been taking airborne religiously so that i dont get sick... so far it has worked, just about everybody i went to vegas with and everybody that went to canada has been sick... as far as my debt goes, if i put away $300 a week it'll take me til august to get out of debt, but that is unlikely cuz that would assume that i'm not gonna be spending anything on my credit cards until august... also, if i wake up an hour earlier each month then by september i'll be waking up around 9am, just in time to go back to school?... still not sure yet if that's what i want to do, i've been thinking about journalism, but i change my mind a lot... i really still have no idea what the hell i'm doing with my life, but i think i may finally have turned another corner toward permanent apathy because i'm really not worried about it anymore... i have no girlfriend, i have no band, i deliver pizza, i'm in a lot of debt, but i'd have to say that i'm really really happy right now for no particular reason and isn't that really what should matter?
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| soundtrack to vegas |
[07 Jan 2006|05:51am] |
so i'm leaving for my 3rd trip to las vegas in exactly 24 hours. i'm pretty much done packing and i've just finished picking out what cd's to bring. This is not an easy task... those who have seen my cd collection will know this... Anyway, i was only able to narrow it down to 62 cd's, but i'll probably cut it down to about 57. These aren't particularly my 62 favorite CD's, some aren't included due to scratches (Pink Floyd :-( ), some i'm just not in the mood for (Beatles, Killers, E-Town, White Stripes etc.).
(in no particular order)
1. The Strokes - Room On Fire
2. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
3. The Strokes - Juicebox (single)
4. The Strokes - The Strokes
5. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
6. The Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
7. The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/the machines of god
8. The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina II/friends and enemies of modern music
9. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
10. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
11. My Morning Jacket - Z
12. Mazzy Star - Among My Swan
13. Ace of Base - Greatest Hits
14. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend
15. Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
16. New Order - (the best of)
17. New Order - Get Ready
18. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
19. The Postal Service - Give Up
20. The Smashing Pumpkins - {Rotten Apples} The Greatest Hits
21. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness: Dawn to Dusk
22. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness: Twilight to Starlight
23. The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
24. Simon & Garfunkel - The Best of
25. Shudder to Think - First Love, Last Rites Soundtrack
26. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
27. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
28. Remy Zero - Villa Elaine
29. R.E.M. - Around the Sun
30. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
31. The Raveonettes - Pretty in Black
32. The Raveonettes - Chain Gang of Love
33. Radiohead - OK Computer xxxxxxxxxx
34. Radiohead - Kid A
35. Radiohead - Amnesiac
36. Queens of the Stone Age - R
37. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
38. John Lennon - Lennon Legend
39. Elton John - Greatest Hits Disc 1
40. Elton John - Greatest Hits Disc 2xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
41. Journey - The Essential Journey Disc 1
42. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
43. Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales
44. Billy Joel - The Essential Billy Joel Disc 1
45. Billy Joel - The Essential Billy Joel Disc 2
46. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
47. Grand Theft Auto Vice City Soundtrack Disc 3: Fernando
48. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
49. Everclear - Sparkle and Fade
50. Bob Dylan - The Essential Bob Dylan Disc 1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
51. Bob Dylan - The Essential Bob Dylan Disc 2
52. Billy Corgan - TheFutureEmbrace
53. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
54. Blur - Blurxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
55. Beck - Sea Change
56. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
57. Mirror Theory - The Difference
58. Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea
59. Brian Wilson - Smile
60. Kanye West - Late Registration
61. Weezer - Pinkerton
62. Weezer - the green album
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| christmas gifts |
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just a list of what i got this christmas...
Sony Mini-DVD Video Camera with the ever so important insurance
Tripod and carrying case for the camera
a tiny little music box guitar with stand
magnet of a little guitar for my fridge
Polar Express for Playstation 2
Nightmare Before Christmas mug
finally got Mandi's Fender hat after a year and a half haha
Slot Machine Liquor Dispenser
Corpse Bride Poster
Peter Pan hat haha
Caramel Chex Mix
Nightmare Before Christmas t-shirt
hat and gloves
Kahlua flavored chocolates
Books: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
In Search of Captain Zero by A.C. Weisbecker
Welcome To Las Vegas neon sign
Shampoo
Old Spice deodorant
keychain with my name on it lol
gray Pennsauken hoodie
Axe deodorant, body spray, and shower gel
winter socks
undershirts
a fuckload of adidas socks
a few thermal shirts and some other clothes from old navy
hoodie from old navy
Adidas track jacket and pants
Adidas hat
overall i'd have to say it was one of the best christmas' in a long time. first one without my grandpop though, wish he was still here. last week was 6 months since he passed. but having the kids around helped a lot cuz christmas is really for the kids. but i'll write more when i get a chance. right now i have to put away all the stuff i got.
hope everyone had a merry christmas.
Peace, Love, and hot chocolate,
Jeff
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| Hellllllloooooooooooo Livejournal |
[14 Dec 2005|02:00am] |
well its been an awfully long time since i've updated anything in here with substance. anyway, for those who don't know/care, i played my final show on Saturday at the Fieldhouse. people keep asking why and honestly i'm just tired of playing shows, i'm tired of being a walking billboard for myself or whatever band i'm in, i'm tired of feeling like a salesman, i'm tired of the music 'scene'... right now i have no desire to even pick up my guitar or anything.
i won't say i'm done forever because i know its possible that i could miss it in a few months or years or whatever, but right now... i'm done.
as far as mirror theory goes, everything is up in the air. if mike, kevin, or rick want to jam, i'm down, but right now i feel as though everyone has their lives set up pretty well without mirror theory, so i'm comfortable with walking away from it. Kuch was already let go and he's got his girl and he's back in school and working and all that. Rick got married and has a beautiful baby boy and a good full-time job. Mike has his girl and a steady job with benefits now and an apartment 45 minutes away. And Kevin recently just got a great fucking full-time job making mad loot.
After we kicked Kuch out, the four of us still jammed about once a week and made some of the best music i've ever heard. Then Rick wasn't able to show up so much. Then we had a lot of singers that wanted to try out, but the way our schedule's were things ended up pretty fucked and me, Kevin, and Mike were playing once a week or once every couple weeks. And something came up here and there and we haven't played in over a month i think now.
I think just everyone's lives have changed so much in the past years obviously, and the wheels just aren't turning anymore. It's funny, our album was almost called 'The Difference A Year Makes', but we all didnt agree on it so it was shortened to 'The Difference', but goddamn... the difference a year makes. shit.
I've been getting the feeling that another chapter of my life is kind of ending. Which just means another one is beginning, hopefully. Since January 2003 i've been playing music pretty much nonstop.
January 2003- started jamming with Jay, kevin, and Jose...around March or May we picked up Justin. Got the practice spot in June. Kuch joined in July, kicked Jose out the same month and August 2003 we played our first show as New Beginning. Around October of 2003, i started writing solo songs for what would turn into Nymphoelf and New Beginning broke up on Dec. 31, 2003. THen in January 2004 i started focusing on more solo material and at the end of January i played my first solo show as Nymphoelf. Around April, New Beginning got back together, only to break up a few weeks later. So in May 2004, me, Kuch, and Shawn the bass player in New Beginning, ended up continuing under the name ...And We Will Rise. This is where Fall Preview and Set This House Ablaze came from. That ended about a month later. So i kept writing solo material and released 4 solo EP's (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter) and in July of 2004, me and Kuch started playing open mic nights at Connie Mac's. Pretty soon Kevin came back and Shawn was going to come back but never fully did. We picked up drummer Mikey in August. Chose the name Mirror Theory. Recorded Fall Preview in September of 2004. Started playing shows, got Rick in November on bass. Recorded our debut album in January. Played lots of shows. I continued to write solo material. Mirror Theory played our last show in July 2005 i think and i released 2 more solo EP's and played more solo shows after my arm healed. And that brings me to now. I think it's been a pretty good nonstop run. New Beginning only released 3 songs, but we wrote well over 20. ...And We Will Rise wrote about 4 or 5. Mirror Theory only released 9 songs, but we wrote about 15-20. And i released over 40 solo songs, but i wrote probably about 50. So that's about 90+ songs that i had a hand in writing in the last 3 years, plus another 20 covers that i or we did. one day i'll try to actually list them all.
but where does this leave me right now?
i was in college from jan. 2001 until june. 2003 when i stopped going to rutgers. If i pass Public Speaking i get an associates degree in Education. if i pass Spanish II i get an associates degree in Liberal Arts. But in my opinion, associates degrees arent' shit... especially when u have no interest in either major and have no idea what you want to do. I just wish there was something legitimate that I could put all my passion into like i did with music, that might actually help me in the long run.
one thing i know that i need is to get some fucking health insurance. i've been doing a little better fighting my anxiety. i joke around about it a lot, but sometimes it drives me nuts. secondly, my ribs are still really fucked. i was taking christmas lights down at the practice spot in mid august when i fell off a table and landed on it and fucked up my ribs. Everyone said i just bruised them and this and that, but 4 months later they still bother me a lot. I can't really lay on my left side when i sleep and i can't sit in certain positions for very long without it hurting. And thirdly (at the risk of sounding like a hypochondriac), my knees also hurt pretty much hurt all the time (insert joke about sucking too much dick here), i'm not sure if this is from abusing them onstage or sitting in the same position for too long (driving all night and playing madden all night), but they do bother me a lot. Bottom line though, is that i need to get in better health. I'm sure drinking doesn't help at all, but i know how to keep that in moderation if i really want to. I just haven't wanted to haha.
As far as girls go, some of you might recall my NBC campaign. Well i think it might be time to bring it back. I've been doing the asshole/player thing for awhile now and its getting old. But things won't change overnight, and i'm going to Las Vegas in January, so yeah.
But i have to admit, in a rare show of vulnerability, that i'm kind of scared. I'm scared that i've dug myself into a huge fucking hole and i won't be able to get out. I'm just so used to doing what i do, which is essentially nothing, and i really don't like being out and about during the day when the rest of the world is. Oh, Inverted World (<-- for all you shins fans out there)
In lighter events, during my Christmas shopping, i splurged and bought myself 3 new cd's
System of A Down - Hypnotize
Enya - Amarantine
Kanye West - Late Registration
i haven't listened to Enya yet. The System of A Down Cd is alright, didn't really pay too much attention to it yet. But i listened to the Kanye CD and i'm listening to it again right now and i must say i think it's fucking incredible. I've been getting into more and more hip-hop lately for some reason.
I've also got almost all my Christmas shopping done. I only have to shop for my mom now, but it's tough lol.
Anyway, it's almost 3am, so i'm gonna end this shit.
If i don't update this before then, i would like to wish everyone a happy holiday, whichever it may be.
Peace, Love, and New Beginning,
Jeff
xoxo
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| A brief recap...more to come later |
[26 Aug 2005|08:16pm] |
Sun. = flew to houston... cotton candy ice cream (not as good as friendly's)... kev first class on the way from houston to vegas... million dollar baby (cut off before the very end)... george the bus driver... 1 room sunday night... me and brian played red dead revolver in hotel... me and andy had to sleep on floor... used penguin cd holder as my pillow... glad a brought hoodie... best sleep i had all week... dirty ass bathroom... diarrhea begins...
Mon. = checked into our other rooms... me and andy in one room... kev and bri in one room... and shawn in one room... ate lunch... drank... me and gonzo left to take a walk... fuck milk, got beer? shirt... catholic church with weddings and korean bbq... shawn, andy, and brian had buffet while me and kev waited... shawn got sick afterwards... he went to sleep at 9pm and slept for 12 hours... the rest of us went to circus circus... got our ass handed to us by a bunch of little asian girls in a bunch of carnival games... i won 2 little bears in some fishing game... andy won a turtle, which he named Wayne Newton, but i call him Newton... andy also won fuzzy dice in a skeeball game after almost getting ripped off... lots of walters walking around... on the way back to hotel andy played slots trying to win a mustang... he didn't win it... walked down the strip and found mud wrestling at the Frontier... :-)... hot chick from Jersey ended up winning... brian got splashed with mud... andy got a muddy high five... walked to the wynn... very high class and expensive... like walking into willy wonka movie (the first one)... huge waterfall outside... me and gonzo made plans to jump in water and hide under bridge... huge spaceship looking thing across the street... turns out its called 'the cloud' and its just an expensive piece of art... crap... walked to strip club called the sapphire... biggest gentleman's club in the world... on the way we were harassed by crazy taxi drivers... one tried to sell us weed, then proceeded to try to get us to sell weed for him... $30 cover charge... i sat in front of bass speaker... very loud, bad idea when you have diarrhea... 1 girl did the best pole dance i've ever seen... there was an annoying mexican dude... and a loud obnoxious black girl... and a few annoying white dudes... glad to see that assholes come in all colors... left and went back to hotel
Tue. = went to lunch... diarrhea was in full swing... after lunch we took the cat bus down the strip... horrible, way too crowded... got off and went to the luxor... me and brian ended up going on some dracula's castle ride and it was horrible... and there was some weird local kid operating the ride... his sister was born in voorhees... saw this awesome thing where they take ur picture and turn it into a holographic thing... too expensive though... started walking back down the strip... stopped at tropicana tried to win a car but ended up getting some free coupons and stuff... a black guy stopped me on the street and handed me a cd and asked me to listen to his music... then tried selling me the cd... he wanted $10... i gave him $5... his name is Yohighness or some shit... he's from Los Angeles... haven't listened to the cd yet... so we walked to the aladdin to find out that the buffet was almost $30... so only shawn wanted to go, he was kinda disappointed until he saw the line of 100 people waiting to get in... so we left and got back on the cat bus... all of us except brian went to eat at the buffet... then i took a nap because i was sick... woke up and we took a taxi to coyote ugly at new york, new york... kevin and shawn didn't have to pay a cover for some reason... the bouncer checked my id and then quizzed me... kevin had 2 drunk girls on his lap... then they fell on the floor and got kicked out... all the girls were hot as fuck of course... we did shots for brian's birthday... the coyote ugly girl onstage called me a sexy bitch and gave me a free shot... i went outside for a minute with kevin cuz he thought he was gonna puke... while we were gone, andy got in an argument with a coyote ugly girl cuz he was yelling for girls to show their tits... lots of crazy drunken activity ensued for the rest of our time there... kevin puked in a trashcan and wanted to fight some dudes... brian ended up walking down the strip... shawn kev and andy took a taxi back to the hotel... i ran down the strip looking for brian... i ran into some black guy trying to sell me passes to some clubs... i was out of breath so i bullshitted for a few minutes then kept running... brian called me and told me he was on a bus (liar!) so i picked up the bus at Aladdin... i made it back to the hotel... kev was trashed and shawn and andy were about to go to bed... brian showed up a few minutes after me after he walked the 4 miles from new york new york... we went into the westward ho and had a beer... saw a big guy who looked like a large version of a bone thug... he moved chairs... brian liked it... so after our beer, we went back to the room and fucked with kevin cuz he was trasheeeeed... then while walking to my room brian puked a bunch of times
Wed. = i woke up and played red dead revolver for a while... actually made some progress... took a shower and went to kev and brian's room... we got video of brian throwing up in the toilet... priceless... i laid down while they ate lunch... wednesday afternoon is sort of a blur to me... i did some souvenir shopping... then me brian and andy walked to the bungy place but it was closed, so we took a taxi down to the stratosphere... we got our picture taken and it looks pretty cool... made it up to the top and went on the rides... really fucking high up... made the casino's look like toys... saw a girl with really pretty eyes... they had this swing ride that hangs you off the side of the building, then rotates so that you are facing straight down looking at the ground.... good shit... me and brian took some little devil pictures before we left... then me and andy spent a while in the gift shop... then we took a taxi back to the hotel... we chilled for a while... ended up in the riviera, they were all playing games, andy was gambling somewhere... me and brian ended up in the aqua massage, some coffin shaped thing where you lay down and basically get a massage from these aqua jet things... very relaxing... and we all bought these head massager things... after that i think we headed back to the hotel... i wanted to go back to coyote ugly, but brian and shawn didn't want to and andy kinda wanted to do something we hadn't done yet... the rest of us contemplated getting hookers to our room... in the end we decided to try to find a good club... shawn stayed at the hotel... we first went to syncity, but it looked gay... then we went to tangerine at treasure island and the line was a mile long and i think they had a dress code... so we decided to take a taxi to Hard Rock and if that sucked we'd just go back to Coyote Ugly... on the way, we were talking to our taxi driver about where the good places to go are and he mentioned the club paradise strip club... then he said he could get us in for free... so we said fuckin a and he gave us $120 cash and told us that he'd get the money from someone he knows there later... pretty fuckin sweet cuz the cover was $30 a person... so we get in there and i'm gonna edit much of what happened for now, but combined we spent almost $1,000... andy got a dozen lapdances... there was a magician in the bathroom... 2 strippers tried to run brian for $500 each... kevin got about 7 or 8 dances... then he got sick so him and brian left... i ended up leaving around 5:30 am with a stripper from chicago who is on a permanent road trip... waffles... i bought andy a lap dance as i was leaving, so he closed the place around 6am... then him and brian went back to sapphire but they said it was pretty dead around 6:30am... i went to denny's with the road stripper and got back to the hotel around 8am
Thurs. = had to get up around 10am to check out... we had to go back to one room... we ended up eating lunch at the riviera... then me and brian went swimming, while the others went gift shopping... we found them shopping, but then me and brian went down the strip to new york, new york.... we went on the rollercoater there which was awesome... then we headed to tropicana to pick up our free deck of cards... we went in the las vegas casino history museum, which i thought was pretty neat... and it was free... we had a coupon for some food there so we ate... then we headed to espn zone to get a shot glass for andy... stopped by the adidas store and sent kevin an e-card... ended up taking a taxi back towards the hotel... we stopped at a gift shop and i bought t-shirts... then we made a return to the catholic church of weddings and korean bbq only to have the memory full on the camera... went back to the hotel, then me kev and brian went gift shopping... and before we knew it, it was time to leave... george picked us up at exactly 9pm... at the airport we watched a slideshow of all the pics from kevs camera that he uploaded to his laptop... the flight from vegas to cleveland was long and annoying, but i think i slept a little bit...
Fri. = we were in cleveland around 7am... me and kev almost took a later flight home in exchange for $300 towards our next flight but we didn't... the plane from cleveland to philly was very tiny (1 seat aisle then 2 seats), i was pretty nervous... it was a short flight and we made it to philly safely and kevs mom picked up him and brian... andy's cousin nick picked up me andy and shawn... so we went to jimmy's lunch truck which is owned by andy's parents and we ate some food... pat met us there and we bullshitted for a little... then i came home and talked to my mom and my brother and went to sleep....
stay tuned for the more detailed in depth story version with correspondence from the other 4 guys, in the near future... also there will be around 400 pictures up eventually....
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[03 Aug 2005|10:34am] |
it was christmas eve 2004. i went to my grandpop's with my mom, my brother rob and his wife, and my niece and my nephew. my grandpop had been sick on and off for years, but this year was especially bad and he hadn't left his house for a long time. anyway, we gave him his gifts like we always did, quirky things that he wanted like a box of fig newtons or laundry detergent, things like that. and he gave me and my brother our gifts, which we probably bought ourselves with money that my grandpop gave my mom to shop for us, but my mom always just gave us the money and we went and bought stuff and gave it to her and she gave it to my grandpop and he'd wrap it. maybe he knew, maybe he didn't, so we always acted surprised. then he gave the kids their gifts. aiden wanted to go because he was hungry. and then he gave my mom her gift. usually he gives my parents like a $500 or $1000 check in addition to their other gifts, but this year i'm not sure if he did that or not, but he gave my mom his car keys and told her the car was hers. my mom started crying and i started crying and rob and misty started crying. and i know we all knew that we were crying for the same reason. not because it was some extravagent gift. not because it was such a nice thing to do. but because it meant that my grandpop knew and was admitting that he was never going to drive again... and i think it was that exact moment that i realized that my grandpop was dying. on christmas ever 2004. he passed away june 18th, 2005. he would've turned 88 this past saturday, july 30th.
something that most people dont know about me is that he wasn't my biological grandfather. my mom was born on august 9th, 1953, her parents died on christmas eve 1953. she was adopted by her cousin, whom she considered her mother.
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| willy wonka squirrels aka drunk at 5am |
[01 Aug 2005|05:02am] |
pixie0dust87: those squirrels were amazing
ny MP ho elf: best squirrel performance i've seen since christmas vacation
ny MP ho elf: both movies must be in the squirrel hall of fame
ny MP ho elf: but i haven't been able to locate it
pixie0dust87: we could go on a hunt for it
ny MP ho elf: ive been trying for years
ny MP ho elf: they are sneaky little fucks
ny MP ho elf: try to catch one, impossible, thats why zoos dont even have them
ny MP ho elf: except for those flying squirrels
pixie0dust87: yea i was talking about how i want a pet squirrel today
ny MP ho elf: and they only got caught cuz they think they are sly fucks and fly through the air, but when they fly they get the fuck tazered out of them
pixie0dust87: my friend mike had squirrels in his basement so my dad gave him these trap things they werent for squirrels they were for some otehr animal but they caught the squirrels in these traps
pixie0dust87: we might be able to do it that way
ny MP ho elf: now thats just cruel
pixie0dust87: but i doubt wed be able to get it out of the cage without it getting away
ny MP ho elf: and you wont find the squirrel hall of fame that way anyway
ny MP ho elf: squirrels wont talk
pixie0dust87: no it just holds them in there and then you can let it out
pixie0dust87: why not?
ny MP ho elf: cuz they are that fucking good
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| i'm back |
[27 Jul 2005|04:34am] |
i finally got my internet hooked up at home. and what did i do for the first few hours of internetness?
well i made a myspace page for my music of course
www.myspace.com/nymphoelfmusic
so if anyone happens to still read this... add me
i'll be posting new songs shortly, well that's if my arm gets better and i can record them.
Peace, Love, and bats in the desert,
Jeff
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| Come see my band pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee |
[18 Jul 2005|02:23am] |
Hey bitches... i haven't had the internet for the past month or so, and i still don't, i just use my friends computers...
anyway, so my band mirror theory is in the jerseyshows.com battle of the bands and its down to the semi-finals. started out with 200 bands, it's down to 14.
the show is this sunday, july 24th at the starland ballroom in sayreville, nj. tickets are $10. we go on around 8:30, but we're taking a bus up there, so if you wanna go, you won't even have to drive. :)
an additional note: this might be your last chance to see mirror theory in action for quite some time. we've decided to take a much needed long break. so if we lose this show, it'll be the last one for awhile. if we advance to the finals, then that show will be our last for awhile. either way its gonna be a great fuckin show and it'd mean a lot to me if you fucks came out.
Peace, Love, and call or text 856-906-3761 if you'd like to buy a ticket,
Jeff
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| Mirror Theory all ages show tonight |
[03 Jul 2005|12:53pm] |
My band, mirror theory, is playing an all ages show tonight at the PYAA Field House in Pennsauken, NJ
show starts around 6pm
we go on around 7pm
we're playing with Fell Far Behind, Landmine, and Reignition.
Peace, Love, and Low-Rise Panties,
Jeff
ps. coming soon... new music from Nymphoelf
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| Last minute show change |
[30 Jun 2005|03:23pm] |
so my band, mirror theory, was supposed to play a show tonight at the Old English Pub with Fell Far Behind.
however, the show has been moved down the street to Sacca's which is located on the corner of Westfield Ave. and Cove Rd. in Pennsauken, NJ
no cover
show starts at 10pm.
sorry for the inconvenience
peace, love, and good jesus it's hot,
jeff
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| Mirror Theory needs YOU! |
[29 Jun 2005|03:36pm] |
I'm still on hiatus, but I thought i'd pop in to say that my band, mirror theory, will be playing a show tomorrow night (Thurs, June 30th) at the Old English Pub on Westfield Ave. in Pennsauken, NJ.
We'll be playing with our good friends, Fell Far Behind.
Show starts at 10pm. we go on around 11:30.
21+ to enter.
No cover charge.
Also, we have an all ages show coming up this Sunday, July 3rd at the PYAA Field House in Pennsauken, NJ with Fell Far Behind, Reignition, and Landmine. Show starts at 6pm.
Then we have another all ages show at the PYAA Field House Sunday, July 10th with In Envy, Red Tuesday, Inside Dies, and One's Severed Heart.
....but the real news is that we advanced to the 4th Round Semi Finals of the Jerseyshows Battle of the Bands. It started with 200 bands and it's down to 14 and we really need to sell tickets and bring people to the show. The show is at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ on Sunday, July 24th. Tickets are $10. We go on around 8:30pm and we're bringing a bus up there for anyone who needs a ride and we're going to try to film some footage on the bus for an upcoming video, so please try to come out. We really need the support. and this show is ALL AGES!
That's it for now. Hopefully i'll see you sometime this week, either tomorrow night or Sunday.
If you'd like to buy a ticket for the 24th, either call or text me on my cell phone and let me know because i won't really be on a computer any time soon. 856-906-3761
Peace, Love, Sandwiches and Fear,
Jeffrey
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[20 Jun 2005|02:29am] |
i'm gonna make this short.
my grandpop died on saturday night.
you won't see or hear from me for awhile.
peace, love, and blue notes,
jeff
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[17 Jun 2005|03:51pm] |
i've been incredible busy lately.
moving my stuff back home.
cleaning up my old room back home.
playing shows.
promoting shows.
got my cell phone back.
i need ur number and ur friends numbers.
bunch of shows coming up.
and a mirror theory store soon.
going to las vegas with sailor, james, brian, andy, and kevin from sun. aug 21st til aug. 25th. it will be incredible.
my computer is still at my apartment so i don't really get the chance to go online.
but it's a refreshing change.
i'm getting used to not having technology.
and i think i like it.
that is all for now.
peace, love, and the moody blues,
jeff
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[06 Jun 2005|06:15pm] |
so my cell phone was destroyed on rt 73 yesterday.
i have no phone for the next few days.
we advanced to the third round of the battle of the bands
:)
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[02 Jun 2005|02:21am] |
So it's 2:30 am and i'm having a panic attack for absolutely no reason at all.
i tried going to bed about an hour ago cuz i was tired.
and now i'm shaky and feel like crying.
and i'm sitting here wearing big goofy looking headphones even though there's no music playing through them.
maybe i'm pregnant...
anywho, while i had the time i figured i'd catch up on this old thing.
so for those who do not know, i'm moving back to my mom's house in jersey already because i need to save some money and pay off my debts, plus i'm never actually in philly anyway except to pay my bills and shower occasionally.
speaking of my debts, i owe just over $6,000 now on my credit cards. I'm hoping to have that down at least $1,000 a month when i move back home, which means i would theoretically be out of debt by the end of the year. However, no one can really predict what is going to happen by then, so who knows.
I still haven't gotten the chance to see my brother's new house, which makes me want to smack the people who tell me i never hang out with them. I think it's been almost 2 months since he bought it and i still haven't been there. I also wanted to take my dad to see the new Star Wars, but i only have 2 days off now, Sunday and Tuesday, and he works all day and night tuesday, and my parents have my nephews on sunday afternoon and then he works sunday night, so it looks like that won't happen and that makes me sad.
Also, I've been trying to get my brother to hang out with some of his old friends, but that hasn't really worked out either. He spent all of last week making a homemade tattoo gun to sell to guys at his methadone clinic, but i think the most disturbing part of that is that my parents don't find anything abnormal about that.
I also haven't had the balls to visit my grandpop cuz it just makes me really sad. I saw him a couple weeks ago and since then my mom says that he's now completely deaf. My mom has pretty much been singlehandedly taking care of him for a long time now and i really don't know how she's done it. It just reminds me of what a piece of shit i am because i say that i really care, and i think i do, but actions speak louder than words, and god knows i haven't done a fucking thing.
I'm beginning to feel like i need to hit some sort of reset button on my life. But i have no idea which direction i want to go in. I know i definitely don't want to go back to college. I know i definitely don't want a monday through friday 9-5 job, or any full time job, but somewhere along the line, i'm sure i'll eventually have to at least get a second part time job. I'm also assuming that my days at Montegrillos might be coming to an end because I just had to buy another car and i'm hoping to get at least a year out of it and if it lasts a year i'll deliver in it until its dead, but it'll be the last car i deliver in. I had to get rid of the Cougar cuz it was just completely fucked, so i bought Andy's 1990 Chevy Caprice. I'm on my 5th piece of shit car in 5 years, and i cant get a nice car with that job cuz i'd just beat the fuck out of it and its just a shitty cycle. It really sucks though cuz i love my job and not many people get to say that.
Also it seems like September is the month where everything is gonna change for just about everyone. Besides the usual seniors going away to college and all that, a lot of people are gonna be getting actual real life jobs and other people are gonna be going back to college, and Rick and Sam will be having the baby in October. The most selfish part of me wants to be sad about it all, but i think i've matured a little in that area because i'm really just genuinely happy for everyone and to see everyone doing so well.
But i've made a lot of new friends the past couple years and thanks to myspace i've gotten in touch with a few old friends as well, so that's cool.
I think I might need to start taking road trips by myself again like i used to. But i gotta get a good radio in my car first haha.
Peace, Love, and I've Got Chocolate Pudding in My Underpants,
Jeffrey
xoxo
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