This Sunday (Dec 5th) at 12:30, I will be having my senior Jazz recital. The show will be running about an hour. It will take place in the Max Shepard recital hall in College hall. I will be playing with a full band:

Jacob Katz - Guitar
Mike McCarthy - Bass
Chris walker - Drums
Ben Newsom - Sax
Kurt "thumbs" Thum - Piano

I would love to see you

Turkey day has prompted me to change my eating habits. When you're a bachelor, every night is takeout night. This needs to stop. No more fried food (fries, burgers, chicken wings), no more fast food, and no more endless snacking on junk food (chips, candy bars, and whatever else is in the vending machines). I need to think of things to cook at ( Read more... )

lj drama on Newpaltzjunkies has reached an all time high. I'm exasperated every time I look at my friends page and see moronic posts from internet clowns. Some say the answer is to ban the offending personalities. I would endorse this solution but, it's a little to heavy handed. I can't stand all those super snobby rating communities and I would ( Read more... )

My little brother Jesse came up by himself for the first time on saturday. It was awesome I've been trying to get him to come to NP for the longest time. Under the guise of "visiting potential colleges" (he's a H.S. senior)my parents let him come up. He couldn' have picked a better weekend, my house was having a keg party. There were at least 75 ( Read more... )

My journal is called Diary of a Madman because that is one of my favorite Ozzy songs!

My subtitle is ...I don't have one ...I should think up something clever.

My friends page is called ...what's a friends page anyway?

My username is Ian_Shane because after you read my journal you might ask yourself, "is he insane ( Read more... )

Man, I fucking hate school. There's no way to rationalize it otherwise. I can't wait until the day when I don't have to listen to some corny old guy/girl, who loves the sound of their own voice, lecture to me about a subject that I have little interest in and was forced to take to "fill a requirement." I'm speaking specifically of my Human ( Read more... )

So my band is nearly complete. Today I aked my friend Kurt to play piano. We were in the same ensemble last year and bonded over a phat blunt (or two or three), so I know that we're on the same page. Along with Mike McCarthy on Bass and Chris on the drums I'm gonna have a pretty fierce recital. They're gonna make me sound awesome, even if I suck!

Ok, let me clear some things up. God willing, I will graduate from SUNY New Paltz on December 20th. I will be moving back home (NYC) in January. I will have to live there for two months while the band and I plan our move to L.A. If all goes as planned I will fly out there in February and crash at either my friend Evin's house or my aunt's house, ( Read more... )

I'm in the city for the weekend. Just doing band stuff. I can't believe I'm going to have to move back in with my family for a while. I hope that it's only for a short time, because I know that my parents will drive me nuts in a matter of hours. It seems foolish to give up my friends and life up at New Platz, but I'm confident that I'm making the ( Read more... )

I can't even describe how bumed out I am. Four more years of bullshit. The only way to numb the rage and dispair is to get wasted. I'm going out tonight anyone else?