I got my bass wednesday. I like it, gun metal blue is a pretty rad color, and the pearloid pickguard suits it nicely. Oh, and it sounds good too. Dang it, somebody I don't know just logged into messenger, and for some reason whenever that happens, my computer decides to make a high pitched whine that make me want to die. I wish nobody would ever log in again, that would fix my problem. I wish I had a capo. Well, I guess I do have a capo, it's just sitting in Minneapolis. Too bad for me. We practiced for rock service today, that was a good time that would've been better with a drummer. It'll be better sunday. I would appreciate it if everyone who reads this (I'm talking as though people I don't know read this business) would come to 924 N 11th St for the Rock Service at 7:00 pm sunday the 13th of October. Thank you. I've been working on a new song that nobody will probably ever get to hear... The thing that seperates this one from the rest of my songs is that it doesn't suck. Dang it! Somebody logged on again. I wish they'd stop that. Well, looks like I'm done typing random unrelated thoughts, have a nice night.

Well, the verdict is in. Shepherd is one of the best bands ever, and I stand by my beliefs that Ronnie Martin rules all. Stop by his site and enjoy the mp3. In other news, my bass didn't come today, because my payment was declined in the first place... You'd think if Musician's Friend could handle sending me 3 emails telling me about how my order worked out fine, they could've manged to let me in on that little tidbit. Oh well, it'll be here on thursday or friday when I'm at work I'm sure. I'm enjoying a good dose of Denison Witmer right now, do yourself a favor and listen to his songs, then buy his cds, and go to his shows. That way he'll get popular, and I'll be able to find tabs for songs other than Stations. See, everybody wins there. My list of songs has doubled since last time, if you thought the other ones were sad, watch out for this batch.

Leave You Better
Get By
The Endless Storm
As I Wish It Was
The Longest Day
The Day You Went Home
It Was Nice Being Your Friend
Standing Here In Black And White
Tired Today
A Personal Favor
Everyone, Everyone
Long Walk To Your House
Two Ways To Go
Cry If You Have To
Surprise Me
No Reason Not To
Drowning In Apathy
Happy Going Nowhere
Read The Words I Didn't Write *Working on this*
Together We Make Sense
A Nostalgic Time Of Year
The Happiest Day Of Your Life
Lonely In Every Way
Walk With You
Something We Can Do Without

Yeah, when you spend all your time sitting around the house doing nothing, it's hard to avoid getting emo'd out. I've been trying to write more songs lately, but I don't seem to be getting any better at playing guitar, or writing songs for that matter, so that sucks. I am getting better at playing bass I think though, so that's good. *Serious messege ahead* I've been thinking lately (and talking to my peeps) about holding things against people. What advantage does it bring? No advantage, that's what. All it really does is keep you from the person, and from The Lord as well. The only reason not to fix things is because you're a coward really. Of course, this is all easier than done, but thankfully it's possible. So good luck (Me). *End serious messege* On a brighter note, I enjoyed a pile of boneless buffalo wings, which were some of the spiciest things ever, and I when you combine that with 3 tall Shirly Temples, that makes for an unpleasant feeling. Ok, so I guess it wasn't that much brighter, but the wings were awesome. Ok, I'm going to go to bed now, because I'm freaking tired. G'night.

This excites me to the point of giddyness.
"Update on Ronnie Martin's side band "Shepherd".
The hotly anticipated debut album for Ronnie's new side project, Shepherd, which was recorded last February, has been passed over by Tooth and Nail Records, who originally intended to release it this year. The album, which was recorded and mixed by indie rock mainstay Chris Colbert and also featured Frank Lenz on drums, has been put into limbo at this point in time. The finished record, which was produced by Ronnie, who also played all the guitars and basslines, represented a radical departure from the pure synthesizer sound of Joy Electric. Considered by Ronnie as some of the "best songs he has ever written", the album features painfully stripped down production with very minimal guitar lines to go with the beautiful and melancholy songwriting. Decisions are being made as to where to go with the project at this time. A self release is a possible option. Stay tuned for more information."

These are the words of Conrad. They are the truth. "You wanna hear a terrible name for a song? 'Sk8er Boi'." Now that that's taken care of, I'd like to share something with you. Often times when I am working, I will hear someone say something over the walkie-talkie about a "Tanner". When this happens I think to myself "Who is Tanner?", and I contemplate this for a few moments with a puzzled expresion on my face until I realize that it's my buddy Maddog! Then I smile, knowing that I have a buddy named Maddog, even though people sometimes get confused and call him "Tanner".

The return of rock.
That's what I experienced last night, and let me tell you, it was glorius! Rising Action and Love are having a heated battle right now for my most anticipated cd of the year, and it's close, but Rising Action is getting a bit of a lead after last night. It's sunday, and here I am, getting all emo'd (made-up word courtesy of me) out again. You'd think I'd learn. Oh well, maybe I'll just go to Wal-Mart now.

Go and read Adam's blog for some encouragement. It was for me anyway. It IS kinda hard to be serious reading something out of a tuxedo though... I think it's good to be serious sometimes... Not all the time, not even most of the time for that matter, but every now and then it's a good thing, otherwise you lose touch. Anyway, I got the new Blindside cd today, and I like it way better than I thought I would. There's not very much screaming, and when there is, it's not usually too bad, and the lyrics are great. It also got me thinking... I think that for me personally, I should listen to a bit more christian music. Now, I'm not saying that secular music is bad at all. The thing with alot of secular music is, it's depressing. Christian music can be depressing too, but there's always a messege of hope too. I just know that for me, I really absorb music, so if I listen to alot of Dashboard or something, I get bummed out, and we all know the hilarity that ensues when I get bummed out. When I listen to things like Fine China, or Blindside (The only christian cds I've gotten lately), they usually make me think and stuff, as opposed to just bumming me out. Anyway, that's something that I have to do, I don't know if you do or not, but it could help, who knows. Ok, there's my dose of seriousness, have a nice day.

I was just eating some Butterfinger BB's, and I wasn't really enjoying them. Sitting here eating them I was thinking to myself "These sure are crunchy, they're almost crunchy to the point of not being good. They hurt my teeth", but then I got to the last 3, and when I ate one, it was all soft and wonderful. Then I had another, and it was even better! I then thought to myself "I really shouldn't take my chances eating that last one, I know I'll be disapointed because there's no way any Butterfinger BB could be as good as that last one". What did I do you ask? I ate it like the idiot I am, and it sucked. Bad.

I'd like to extend a big "thank you" to everyone in the world who's always doing things for my sake, it really means alot, especially when people who don't even know me do things for my sake. Thank you all.

Whew, I fixed it. Thanks Destroy!

Yikes, something in my blog has been screwed up. Help me Destroyer!

Holy monkies that sucks. I had a big blog typed up last night, and the internet quit working. Now my wonderful blog that contained all the answers to life is gone. Sucks to be humankind.

It's a good thing I'm a christian, otherwise I'd probably be questioning the exsistence of good in the universe right now... There is no reason in the whole world that Eminem should've beat The White Stripes for video of the year in the MTV awards. Actually, if I wasn't a christian, I'd probably like Eminem. No, now that I think about it, I didn't like him then either.

"What's new on The Pistol front?"

That's what people ask me (When I say people I of course mean nobody). I respond to them by saying things like "I really enjoy Howie Day, I got his compact disc for the low low price of 8 bucks!", I also might respond by saying "I'm saving my money to buy a new bass, since I won't be able to play the church's bass for much longer". They then reply by saying "How are you going to buy a bass when you're spending all you money on Howie Day and Coldplay? I respond to that question by punching them in the face.

One thing people (I) should learn is that things don't always work out just the way you'd like, even if it seems like it would be wrong for them not to work out that way. When things like this happen, people (I) always have to blame something or someone, even if there's nothing to blame. That's another thing, there isn't always something to blame, sometimes things just don't work. Also, sometimes the blame is your own, and this is what people (I) accept the least. I'm not trying to sound smart, this was just something I was thinking about.

Here's an updated list of songs

My Every Battle
Don't Tell Me What I Want To Hear *I think I'll write this next*
My Quiet Life
Don't Stop Until You Win
Quit And Die
November 12th
You Should Have Called
Sundays Are Boring
You're Already Gone (And I Miss You) *Done*
The Lonely Road
Movies Make Me Sad
You're Welcome Here
Sometimes Things Are Bad
I Should Forgive You
Slow Days
Gazing At Fire (And Thinking Of You)
I Didn't Mean To Ruin Things

There ya go, you can try to figure out what they are about, and post your guesses on the messege board if you have nothing better to do.

School starts tomorrow, how much does that suck? Let me tell you, it sucks alot, that's how much. Somebody needs to invite some sort of ethernet port that goes into our hand, or arm or something, that way we can just download knowledge while we sleep, that would rule.

I enjoy things that are cheap, like half price appetizers, and free pop. On that note, Jordan Culver is the best server in the whole wide world.

I might go to a festival in SD next weekend, that is if I can get someone to switch saturday with me... Pray that I can, otherwise there's gonna be trouble.

Maddog is playing guitar a few feet away from me, and Air John has a small mountain of change. Air John just did something with the phone, and I yelled at him like I was really mad, when in reality, I wasn't. It was funny.

I finished writing "You're Already Gone (And I Miss You)" which you may recognize from a few blogs back. The musical part isn't too bad, the stuff Maddog does is good, but unfortunately lyricly, it sucks. Oh well, maybe I'll ge better at writing songs, maybe not. Who cares, it's something to do. If I ever make a decent song, I'll record it and throw it on here for fun.

Hey, I just remembered something that rules... I got Dave Mirra 2 for my Gamecube at Target (where I am currently employed by the way) for the low low price of $14.30, good times I tell ya, good times.

Sometimes I listen to too much emo, and get all sad, especially on sundays, when I don't have anything to do, and I'm bored and tired. Hilarity then insues, as I mope about the house feeling sorry for myself and running into door frames because I don't have the heart to avoid them, and the I get so bored that there's nothing else to do but sleep, and when I wake up I feel like the whole world went by me while I was asleep and I get upset. I'm weird like that, but it's pretty funny to think about.

I really like to play Max Payne. It's a very enjoyable game.

I got Aliens vs. Predetor 2 for the low low price of $10 at Target too, that was a few days ago though.

I've been going to work on writing "You're Already Gone (And I Miss You)", with the aid of Maddog. I might change the name to something like "I Shouldn't Be Concerned With You" though, either that, or I'll just make a songs for each title.

Oh, I almost forgot!
Song Formula:
1. Think of cool title.
2. Apply meaning to title
3. Apply chords to meaning.
4. Apply (crappy) words to chords.
5. Apply rock to chords.
That's how I write songs. Try it sometime.

I hope you liked my completly random thoughts. It's fun to write them down, try it sometime.

The following qoute is one of the funniest things I have ever read in my entire life, get ready. Ok, here it comes. "If a 30-second piece of media can make an individual want to tear his eyes out with a rusty melon scooper, there must be something fundamentally wrong with it." There. You can thank Maddog for that one.

These may or may not become songs at some point in my life:

My Every Battle
Don't Tell Me What I Want To Hear
My Quiet Life
Don't Stop Until You Win
Quit And Die
November 12th
You Should Have Called
Sundays Are Boring
You're Already Gone (And I Miss You)
The Lonely Road
Movies Make Me Sad

Well, there ya go, that's probably the deepest thing I've posted on here, have fun with it (and don't rip me off, jerk.)