NOVEMBER - 2002



What?? An update?? You bet your stupid face.
Anyway, I don't feel like typing a shit load, so I'll just come out with it.
Five Points Up broke up finally. Chris backed out, then Paul did, then I did. Chris then called me right after I got offline and said he wants to hook up with me. I agreed. Then, Sean had said he wanted to drum for us before we even asked him. So basically what happend, was Paul the bass player, was pretty much kicked out I guess. Chris said that with Paul around, he felt like he was wasiting time, cause we weren't going anywhere. Too much drama and tention. Yes, I do agree, sometimes it was hard to bring new music to Paul.. but even Paul agreed, that we don't see eye to eye musically. But then when it came time to say goodbye, he got super upset, cussed me out, and I haven't talked to him since. So, yeah, now it's Chris, Sean, and I. We first were calling ourselfs "Paradigm 21" but Sean then came up with "Persuation Outline" which sounds pretty cool. I'm not too thrilled about what type of music I'm bringing in, but we're slowly working stuff out.

So that's that. I finally got hired at Pacific Sunwear, and my first day is tomorrow. The thing is, is that my days there, are pretty scattered, so I decided to hold 2 jobs. Del Taco, and Pacific Sunwear. I do plan on making my stay at Pacific worth while, and plan to make that my official part time job, so I can tell all of the other Del Taco fucks to go fuck off.

On Saturday, I went to the Box Car Racer signing. The first person at the table was Travis (Drummer for Blink 182, and Box Car Racer) He was super nice, and very conversational. He signed the CD, and then I asked him if he would sign the Famous sticker that's on my guitar's pickgaurd. He said "of course". I told him he's the best drummer, and I think he's awesome. He said, "Awh thanks for the support" He asked if I was going to the show, but I told him the tickets were sold out, and he for some reason, said "what?" as if he couldn't believe it. I then told him I think he has a really nice house. (I dont know why I said it, but it's true.) Next up with the 2nd guitarist. I don't know his name. He asked how I was, I had him sign the CD. Next up, with THEE man, Tom DeLonge (Guitarist for Blink 182, and Box Car Racer) Once I got up to him, I was pretty speechless. After he signed the CD, I gave him my pickgaurd and told him I admired him. I then said, "I dont know if Im allowed to give you this" as I reached and pulled out a Demo CD of mine that only had 2 songs on it. He took it, and told me "no way I'll take it" The look on his face, and sound of his voice seemed to be real. He took it, I shook hands with him, told me to contact me if he could, he noded, and that was it. I was really happy I went, because now Travis, signed "TRAV LA" on my sticker, and Tom signed "TD BCR" on my guitar. Yippy!

I now own Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. Bad ass game. Of course, the only person I've played with, and started a career with is, yes, Bam Margera. It's so cool.. once you go threw the different skaters, once you land on Bam, he stands there, and after 5 to 10 seconds, he punches himself. He (as well as all of the others) says things in his haggard voice. Things like "I wanna do a triple kickflip, come on!" or "I punch myself in the face and you won't pick me?" or "You finally pushed the button, jerk!"
The levels in the game are pretty big, and you can get lost once you skate around in a new level. The gameplay is different from all of the other games. For example, in 1, 2, and 3, you are given a list of tasks to complete in a certain time limit. In this one, there is no time limit, and you get to skate around all you want in levels, go up to people (who sometimes are pro skaters) and talk to them. It's THEM who give you tasks to do in certain time limits. The tasks are pretty cool too. For example, in the college level, the professor will say, "Lets see if you can even spell. Go around and collect all of the letters and spell out skate... if you can!" And you have like, 2 minutes to do it. On Saturday night, I played for 8 hours straight, only to beat 3 levels (College, San Fransico, and Alcatraz (which was the hardest one)). Last night, I played for a good 2 hours, and beat the next level (Hubba Park, I think it's called. Good level) Yeah, great game, I'll stop yackin now.

That's pretty much it now. I'll update in another week or so, maybe before that. Thanks for reading!

  • Monday, November 11th, 2002
    11:00 PM


Howdy. Sometimes updating seems hard to do sometimes. I actually thought about giving up on this website, because I feel like it's worthless, but eh. Anyway.. let's see.. so Five Points Up has a 2nd show, this Saturday around 7 or 7:30PM. For those of you who can make it, that'd be cool. You need tickets, so you should probably talk to me about getting them. All you gotta do is email me (heartagram18@hotmail.com) telling me you want them, and we'll personally drive them to you. The tickets go for $5.

So yeah, I applied at Pacific Sunwear in the mall. The guy who interviewed me (Jason) was real cool, and I hope that I get the job. I called him today, to remind him who I was, and to see if he's gotten anything done on my application. He told me he's lazy, but that he'll get to it sometime this week, and give me a call. So, that should be cool. I hope.
This weekend was nothing too special. After the interview on Friday, band practice was suppost to take place, but, didn't because Sean the drummer didn't show up. He was at his house I guess getting high with people he knew. Chris, Paul, and I all agreed that that was the last time Sean would flake us, and that we should start looking for a new drummer. So, after this show on Saturday, we're gunna drop Sean. We're most likely gunna be on a break for awhile, until we find the next drummer (if it all). So far, we have a guy who's 25, but he works from the morning until 6pm, but that would leave no time for practices. We need someone who's probably still in school, but who has the day open after, or someone who's out of school, and has shit to do during the evening. So, I hope we can find someone, cause I'd be bummed out if Five Points Up gets put on hold forever.

I saw The Ring last night. It was a movie that had be sort of jumpy, but the end was pretty weak, so, for those who haven't seen it, don't expect an out-of-this-world movie. It was still okay though.

Today, the band practiced from 4:30 to about 7:30. Our fingers were so sore for playing so long, but it was a well deserved practice. We sounded okay, but still we need a lot of work, but we sound pretty good for a band that's been together for longer then a month.

Tomorrow is pay day, and I figure I'm not gunna get much, so, it all goes in the bank. I don't plan on buying anything, so hopefully I can keep it in the bank for a good 2 weeks, then I could save up the next check. Yeah yeah, crap. Anyway, that's it. Not too much is going on. Ehh..

  • Saturday, November 2nd, 2002
    2:55 AM


Hello (to the .. most likely 1 or 2 people reading this)
I hope your Halloween was a bit better then mine was. On Halloween night, I was down in Van Nuys. We (as in Sabrina, her mom, her mom's b/f and the new baby) took Shannon (Sabrina's sister) Trick or Treating. I wasn't feeling good, so it was pretty crappy in the beginning. Besides being hit in the mouth, things turned out better. I was able to kick pumpkins faces in, rode in a shopping cart while being pushed into shit. The 3 main hightlights of Halloween night for me was as follows:
#3: Stealing a pumpkin off a wall, and smashing it.
#2: Being sneaky, and stealing another pumpkin while tryin' to keep hidden from the owner, which ended in me being successful at not only stealing the pumpkin, but smashing the fuck out of it as well.
#1:Pushing Sabrina's Mom's boyfriend (Justin) in a shopping cart pretty fast, and into curb, which sent him straight into a bush. He fucking flew! Well, he did it to me first, which caused my shoe to fly off (Damn Adio's!) and causing me to land pretty damn hard on the dirt, jackin' up my back (which is still really sore still) After that, I slept over at Sabrina's, and was taken home in the morning.

I had like 2 hours to go before I had to leave for work. I decided to visit Bam Margera's website to check up on what's new with him (since he only emails me like once a month). There's a section on his page called, "12 CD's You Must Own" the only cd's I can remember are cKy's new cd (GOOD!), HIM (HER), Atrocity, (which I've been wanting to hear Atrocity for years, but their CD's are in Europe and no one puts them on Kazaa), Cradle of Filth, Bloodhound Gang, Hardcore Superstar, Weeping Willows, and a few others. I remember around 10th grade I was into speed/heavy/death metal. It was also then I got like 5 Fails and a D. I then started to listen to the lighter stuff again, and then at the peak of my pop punkness, I graduated with like 5 A's and a B, but the whole gothic/wear all black metal like image stuck with me. (not as hard as it was before I pretty much became who I am now.) Weird, cause now I've been getting back into the Death Metal music (on the side of my pop punkness) .. which leaves me to wonder what's gunna happen now.

Anyway, so I downloaded a crap load of Cradle of Filth (pretty fuckin' good) and then headed to work. As soon as I got there, a friend of mine who can't speak English very well was explaining his whole Halloween night to me. Basically, he was piss drunk, and was lucky enough to get his hand put on some girls ass. He was telling me how crazy California is, because there was like, half naked girls at this club he was at. Him, telling me, that California is crazy? As if I haven't lived here for 18+ years.
While at work, I was stuck in turbo negro mode. I was bagging food, taking orders, and cleaning up super quick. It was a pretty shallow day for being a Friday. Usually it's busy. Things were going well until ... Someone snitched on me, about me drinking milkshakes on my 10 minute break. Now, I think I told everyone already that the manager at my job (Del Taco) doesn't like me at all. He's got a big ego, walks away from me when Im talking to him, and acts like an ass. Anyway, he basically told me if my name comes up in anything again, it will be my last day there. *Shrug* I'd be poor for awhile, but eventually I'd get a new job sometime soon. It's not like I love working at Del Fucko anyway.

So yeah, work was pretty much over before I knew it. I was able to hang around Marissa and some of her friends after my shift. We headed over to Savon, and then Albertson's where we (mostly I) started throwing everything into a shopping cart. Of course, no one bought anything, which now that I think about it... why did we go there? Anyway, so I came home, just to end up going back to Savon with Sabrina.

So, here I am now, 3:14AM, still downloading Cradle of Filth (sounds like like Dimmu Borgir and ... sort of like Kovenant) and updating. This weekend, I plan to get a haircut, then take Sabrina to see "The Ring" and then buy new guitar strings I guess. Let's see.. today is Saturday, so I bet there will be band practice today (which the band is going pretty well.. check out our updates at Five Points Up . TK
Uhmm, I'll let you in on a little secret (even though it's not one) but we have another official show, November 16th. The doors open at 6PM, and I think we may (MAY) be going on around.. 8PM or so. We've got a few new songs, which are good, so anyone that can make it to Burbank, would get about a million hellos and hugs from me. I know SOME PEOPLE like VANESSA can't make it, even though she did last show, and that's fine I guess. She's a homo anyway. Well, she's still rad as fuck, but still a homo.

That's about it. You guys can still sign the guestbook you know.. just so I know people are actually visiting my site. Even though I have a counter, I always forget what it was at the last time I check. *Shakes head* Anyway... I'll be throwing up the band's demo here soon, so keep an eye out. Thanks.. and hope everyone has a good weekend!