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The Hanks – PHX (March 4th)

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I’m not sure what to write about today. My mind seems to be in a blank. Nothing bad has happened, I’m just at a loss of thought right now.

I’m currently awaiting a phone call from a good friend of mine because we are supposed to go out and grab a bite to eat.

Oh I guess that’s something I can write about.

I’m trying to eat better right now. I’m also trying to get into working out so I can have a rocking body by the time my company cruise comes in a little under 7 months. I think 7 months is ample time to get into shape. Of course I have to actually commit for seven months.

So that’s pretty much what I’ve been up to today. I worked 8 hours. Now I’m sitting around thinking about working out. Have I worked out yet? Nope. But trust me I’m thinking all about it…

In fact, somehow this post has given me a little bit of motivation. I think I’m going to go out and buy a yoga mat tonight. Not for yoga. But because I can use the mat to do workouts on. Trying to do sit ups on hardwood floor is not very comfortable.

Hopefully I update tomorrow with a little bit of workout progress.

Today’s song is “PHX” by The Hanks.

I’m super stoked about today’s band The Hanks. Almost no one in the fucking world has heard of them. I had to dive around the internet to even get a lick of their music which I used to listen to a lot.

I was able to purchase their first album off of Amazon for 1penny. Sweet deal! I was also able to purchase their last album off of iTunes for like 5 bucks. Acceptable. But to actually stream their songs from like youtube? Impossible. Besides this one song of course.

Luckily this is an awesome song so I’m okay with that.

Favorite lyrics from the song –

“Dry whatever tears you have to cry, my lonely friend
Shimmering and brilliant, life spins by,
And some things stay and some things end”

Seriously give this band a listen. They should’ve been huge.

Four Fists – MMMMMHMMMMM (March 3rd)

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I hate it when I get back logged on blog posts. Every day I don’t post just adds to posts I need to make the next day. Then I don’t want to post because I have to post so much. It’s a vicious cycle. Yet I managed today.

Today I am in a very good mood, which is why it has become easier to do four posts.

You see last night I went all the way with the girl I’ve been talking to. It was actually a pretty interesting day just in general, but the night culminated with sex. I don’t mean to be so brash about it, but that’s what happened.

It’s kind of funny actually, we were watching a movie at her place and I fell asleep. I woke up about twenty minutes later and I don’t really know what came over me. My primal instincts kicked in and I gave her a little nibble on the ear, that settled it.

I won’t lie though there was some awkwardness involved, we tried to keep quiet because all of her roommates were home. And I think it just always is awkward the first time you have sex with someone. Unless you’re super drunk so you just don’t care. We were not drunk at all.

I have to say this has given me quite the confidence boost. I think I’m going to be a different person this weekend when I go out. I mean, I might not even go out this weekend, but if I do…I’m going to be more outgoing for sure.

Anyways, moving on to the music, today I have somewhat of a treat for myself, and for you as well. Today I present “Mmmmmhmmmmm” by Four Fists.

I did not even know this existed. If you look back at my post history you will see that my first ever post was Astronautalis. I’ve also posted about P.O.S before. Fours Fists however is a collaboration between the two! And it is a damn good collaboration.

What I discovered however was that they released two songs in 2013. Then we’ve gotten nothing but radio silence since.

As a special treat here is the second song they released, and it is a fucking awesome song I might mention.

The back and fourth between Astronautalis and P.O.S is so sick, I wish they would release some more stuff.

Enjoy these two songs and I’ll be back tomorrow to bring another one.

 

The Academy Is… – Skeptics and True Believers (February 27th)

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Wake up in the morning and make a blog post. Today’s going to be a good day! Well except that I start work at 12:30 and will probably be working until all hours of the night. But, on the bright side I’ve got a cute date tomorrow.

The girl that I am investing most of my time into and I are going to a theme park tomorrow. Like the way I classified her? We aren’t boyfriend and girlfriend. And while I don’t know if we are “exclusively” dating each other, I would assume we are. However, if something were to come up I might be inclined to stray since we haven’t made anything official yet.

Let me tell you one of the coolest things about this girl though.

We like the same music!

This is actually a pretty big deal. All of the girls I’ve ever dated have not listened to the same music as me. One of them eventually warmed up to my music and we went to a bunch of concerts. That was cool. But to have someone just enjoy the same music that you do right off the bat? That’s hard to come by these days. Especially since I listen to a lot of music that no one has ever heard of.

The good thing is she doesn’t necessarily have to know of the bands that I do, I just know that if I play some music shes never heard of she will enjoy it. That’s the coolest thing.

Today’s song is “Skeptics and True Believers” by The Academy Is…

This is another one of those older songs that just sits with me well. This was the song that turned me on to The Academy Is… and rightfully so, as it’s a grade A jam.

my favorite lyrics from this song are probably just the chorus-

“Would you believe me if I said I didn’t need you,
’cause I wouldn’t believe you if you said the same to me.
And near death, last breath, and barely hanging on.
Would you believe me if I said I didn’t need you?”

Keep jamming and have a great day!

Wake Owl – You’ll Never Go (February 13th)

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Oh no, Valentine’s day is tomorrow. Do I have a Valentine? Nope. But that’s alright. My plan is to get my mother something nice, and not worry about other women in my life!

So I’m laying around in bed and a Brighthouse cable commercial comes on. It’s a commercial so I’m not really paying attention to it, however, I could hear a song in the background that I’d never heard before. Not only had I never heard the song, but I was definitely grooving to it.

I mean, a cable commercial of all things. Kind of a random place to find some new music, but I guess stranger things have happened.

Like, many apple product commercials feature music that people stumble upon and enjoy. But a cable commercial? It’s just strange to me.

Anyway the song I heard was “You’ll Never Go” by Wake Owl.

I’ve never heard of this band. I’ve also not even listened to any of their other music. I will say that they have a similar sound to The Mowgli’s, or to pick a more mainstream band, Mumford and Sons. Although it’s strange, I’m not really a Mumford fan.

My favorite lyrics from the song are actually just the chorus.

“Who are we to, say we never had it good.
We had every good, thing like love.
They say that you, forgot your heart where you would.

Oh never go, never go.”

I hope that I’ve enlightened you to a brand new band. May we see them grow in popularity.
 

Magic Man – Paris (December 7th)

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Here we go with post #2 for the night. I hope I can get some much needed sleep after this. I have another long work day tomorrow. From 8AM until 10PM fuck me right?

Okay so back to time traveling. On December 7th what did I do? Oh yeah I remember.

It was pretty much a boring day. I slept in because of my previous two long ass days of work. And then I worked from 2PM to 10PM at the pharmacy. I was still pretty tired when I got home so I didn’t make a post.

Let’s just jump straight into the music instead of talking about my boring Sunday.

Today’s second song is “Paris” by Magic Man.

The music video is “meh”

The song is great. Let me know what you think.

 

I The Mighty – Dancing On A Tightrope (November 18th)

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I thought I would write up an earlier post today since I am going to be out until around 11PM tonight.

I have a friend who is just living through life at the minimum. What I mean by this is that he is “just trying to survive” as he would put it. We both graduated from the same college, with the same degree, but if an outsider were to look at what both of us were doing, they would see that I am currently trying to use my degree to find a job in my field. While he…well he isn’t doing much of anything.

Don’t get me wrong I am not perfect, I don’t have a full-time job, but I do currently work three part time jobs, two of which are directly linked to my degree. He however is working a remedial job in a mall. Whenever I try to probe him about looking for something more in our field he always says the same thing “I’m just trying to survive”. I get it, but I didn’t say just up and quit your job. What I mean is he should not get comfortable where he is, you can still look for other opportunities while you work.

It seems selfish that I think he should get out there and do something with his life, but I really just want the best for him. I even had him talk to my boss at the radio station I work at to get a job, but he is kind of dragging his feet doing the paperwork for that. I mean, the job is literally staring him in the face but he doesn’t want to take the opportunity.

The message I want to convey here is to take chances, take opportunities when they present themselves. Hell I just applied for a writing job for an online site doing album reviews, I probably won’t get it, but why would I not at least put my name out there?

Moving on to the music, today’s song is “Dancing On A Tightrope” by I The Mighty.

This song comes off of their 2012 ep. It has some heavy metal roots in the music, which is different from anything I’ve posted so far. I like to believe my music tastes span a broad spectrum of a specific pallet. Mostly rock, but different styles of rock.

I had actually started this blog post with a different song by this band. Then this song happened to play after I had typed out everything before this paragraph.

I realized I needed to change the song of today because this song just fit so perfectly as to what I’m feeling when it comes to my friend.

Enjoy it. And hey, take a risk today. I will too.

 

Art Decade – Western Sunrise (November 6th)

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Have you ever woken up and just thought to yourself “Everything is going to be just fine…”?

Today I did just that. I awake in one breath and could just feel it in my bones, everything was going to work itself out. I cleaned up a bit around the house, listened to some tunes and then I grabbed lunch with a couple of close friends to catch up on what has been going on since the last time we spoke.

Our conversation became quite winded, and we managed to lose track of time somewhere along the way. We didn’t mind however, the talk was enjoyable and much needed. That was when I realized how much better it feels to be out and about participating in life. For the past week I’ve been sheltering myself behind closed doors because I thought being along would give me time to plan what to do next.

I was wrong, being alone drained me of energy. Going out made me feel rejuvenated. After seeing my friends I spoke with one of my bosses about possibly moving on to do bigger things, I’m now in the works of getting a promotion, amazing what a little bit of confidence can do for you.

Today’s song is Western Sunrise by Art Decade.

This song is fast paced, with some positive energy which is exactly how I’m feeling today.

I want to point out that I really think talking with some friends about life and whatever makes you happy can make all the difference. I’m sure there is someone reading this who thinks “Well I don’t have any friends”. Well just know that there is always someone willing to talk to you, I am one of those people and would gladly talk to anyone about anything if they gave me the time.

My personal email address is Denniswalker221@gmail.com shoot me an email if you feel you need someone to talk to, I never leave my phone so unless I’m working I’m available.