my friend joe gave me a great comp today at work, that totally made all the stupid bullshit of my co workers total lameness and bullshit drama total negated. It totally made me remember that i love bands like the angelic upstarts and the u.k. subs...like really they're fucking awesome. Especially in the band that I play in now. I hadn't heard some ( Read more... )

From time to time I will rant about bands I like or really love. G.W. Sok has stepped down from being the singer of The Ex. A position he had held for 29 years. The Ex is one of the most important bands in current punk rock/indie community. They're from amsterdam, and they gonna be going on their 30th anniversary tour in march. to know and ( Read more... )

I do believe I am more busy now than I have ever been in my life. I like it. I am still the same person I've always been. i have two jobs, two bands, and i still am doing wilmot now on occaision and booking a tour, and I spend as much time as possible with important people to me. I drink heavily and forget some big parts of nights, but overall I ( Read more... )

Had White Problems practice today...spent 45 minutes to an hour playing the same part in one song to test out the recording shit we were using to get the levels right so that it wouldn't clip and sound like shit. Ended up eventually getting it right after me getting very fucking frustrated with the whole situation. However we ended up recording all ( Read more... )

This is gonna try to be as much of an articulate essay on what i'm doing with my wilmot tour this summer as can be while drinking whiskey at 4 in the morning and listening to the cramps ( Read more... )

I'm Brian rogers. I drink a lot. I like my friends a lot. I was in chicago this weekend and hung out with some old friends, zuhair abdulla and carrie rubinas and I made a new friend cole mason. I like telling funnies and I like being smart. I also like drinking. I spent about 6-7 hours drinking with z before we made it to cole and carrie's house. I ( Read more... )

One of my favorite people is back in town. He was gone for a bit. Mike Skorcz of John the Savage was on tour for a couple weeks, and before that for a while both him and I were very busy/obligated with a lot of shit. I spent many hours of today with him...riding the bus, going to work at cactus club, drinking at cactus club, walking to the bay view ( Read more... )

as of yesterday I'm 26 years old. I had more or less all i wanted from life a couple weeks ago with the final freight weekend, and I'm pretty high on life from the spill over of all that. i'm a busy motherfucker. I stopped in to cactus on wednesday night a bit before midnight to get free shots from chris, and he was generous enough to let me ( Read more... )

I'm a smart person. There was a man who i really enjoyed a lot of the shit he said when I was in college. a man named leo buscaglia. a lot of the shit he said was very over the top, and sensationalized. but the one idea that truly stuck with me, was in his book "love" which was more or less the idea of a college class for the entire semester they ( Read more... )

I'm busy these days. I work two jobs. I have a new band, and soon enough I'm gonna start practicing with another new band. I played the first show with wilmot proviso in close to a year on wednesday. I played with some vety old friends, sinaloa from boston who i like a lot as people, and had been very supportive of wilmot over the years. There was ( Read more... )