Well. I just got back from the european tour with my band. So I have been checking online to see new bands, or to find webpages of bands that we played with over in Europe. At the same time, I don't know if most of you know I am a sucker for South American hardcore. And one of my favorite bands from South America is El Eterno Enemigo from Argentina. So the news is that El Eterno Enemigo has called it quits. So they are not a band anymore, and that bums me out a lot.
Anyway, I hope the guys start new projects!
Friday, August 29, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Hamburg Airport
So, it's been my home for the last day and a half, and now it's about to close yet once again. But this time we'll just wait like 6 hours instead of 30!
Be home in 24 hours, so I am stoked.
Everything went well.
Got some CD's old and new so, once I get back, I am going to do some reviews, and post some links for websites and interviews and all that.
So, later.
Be home in 24 hours, so I am stoked.
Everything went well.
Got some CD's old and new so, once I get back, I am going to do some reviews, and post some links for websites and interviews and all that.
So, later.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Mannheim
So, I slept. Woke up to the kids Larping, and lighting arrows on fire, and shooting them with crossbows. They were fake arrows, but they did light them on fire. Anyway, we had a good breakfast, we went to a music shop, to the supermarket, and now we're in the city hanging out since it's our last off day on tour. Three more shows then it's time to go home.
But I want to post this for W-lo.
At the show, there was this awesome anarchist distro. But I was looking between all the records, and I saw a cool 4 Walls Falling Euro press record, and I wanted to get a book, but it was all in german. But then all of a sudden, Bill, bassist from my band goes, "Kike, check this out!" When I look at him, he's holding a Sepultura's Arise record on vinyl. Looked pretty old, so I went and asked the dude that ran the place about it. He said, "Yes, that's an original Brazilian pressing from 1991." Anyway, I HAD to get it. So I did. And then I took a picture of me wearing my Arise Shirt, with the Arise record, and the biggest smile you can ever imagine! Since then, the only thing playing in my iPod is that record.
But I want to post this for W-lo.
At the show, there was this awesome anarchist distro. But I was looking between all the records, and I saw a cool 4 Walls Falling Euro press record, and I wanted to get a book, but it was all in german. But then all of a sudden, Bill, bassist from my band goes, "Kike, check this out!" When I look at him, he's holding a Sepultura's Arise record on vinyl. Looked pretty old, so I went and asked the dude that ran the place about it. He said, "Yes, that's an original Brazilian pressing from 1991." Anyway, I HAD to get it. So I did. And then I took a picture of me wearing my Arise Shirt, with the Arise record, and the biggest smile you can ever imagine! Since then, the only thing playing in my iPod is that record.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Poland, Germany, Austria, Germany
I have not been able to post at all. No way to find internet anywhere.
Well, we went to Poland and it was weird. I was probably the only person in the whole country that wasn't white. But It was OK, the people were nice. We played this huge show in like a huge venue and all that. We were good but we shouldn't have headlined, because Make It Count is a way bigger band, and Sean was still sort of sick. I signed autographs to polish girls and gave away drumsticks to girls. It was funny.
Second show was amazing, at this kid's house in the only nice city in Poland that actually had a highway system. The one of the best shows of tour. We partied hard at the house afterwards. Slept and came back to Germany. We had a show at Stuttgart in Germany where we met the dudes in Masterpiece, which we pretty much join to tour for like 4 days. Great dudes. We played an alright show, sold merch which was good for a sort of alright show.
After that we headed to Salzburg, Austria. That was an amazing show, but Salzburg was like different from what I expected. I thought it was gonna be like super big city, but pretty much looks like San Sebastian in PR, obviously bigger so that it had a tranvia train, but had cool buildings.
We didnt play a show in Vienna, so I wasnt that bummed, because we had a day off in Berthesgaden, which is the place where Hitler used to live when he controlled Germany. We were literally tourists for a day. And I got to live for 1 1/2 days the life of the Alps. We went cliff jumping, and damn, that was a high jump, and even colder water, the coldest water I have ever jumped in. But I got used to it quick. I saw a duck and took a picture of it. Had awesome Bavarian home made food, and it was delicious. There was snow in the Alps and it was the summer. I thought I lost my passport, but i found out it was on my backpack all along.
By the way, before Austria, right after Stuttgart, we went to Munich and I slept at Basti's house, Got the pair of sneakers I had planned, and it was awesome. Saw the English Gardens and all that. Beautiful city. The only bummer that I didn't get to see the Alianz Arena (home of Bayern Munich).
Now we are in Mannheim, I am at the venue, we just played, and all the bands are gonna sleep here, so we're partying. Free internet, from a computer with a keyboard I know how to use.
Mom, I am ok, not sick. Just didn't have internet.
W-lo nice choco honeys in Mannheim. plus I saw some of those K1X brand shoes, and the Rick Apodaca signature.
La Parka. pictures when I get back
Ema. stop being emo.
love.
Well, we went to Poland and it was weird. I was probably the only person in the whole country that wasn't white. But It was OK, the people were nice. We played this huge show in like a huge venue and all that. We were good but we shouldn't have headlined, because Make It Count is a way bigger band, and Sean was still sort of sick. I signed autographs to polish girls and gave away drumsticks to girls. It was funny.
Second show was amazing, at this kid's house in the only nice city in Poland that actually had a highway system. The one of the best shows of tour. We partied hard at the house afterwards. Slept and came back to Germany. We had a show at Stuttgart in Germany where we met the dudes in Masterpiece, which we pretty much join to tour for like 4 days. Great dudes. We played an alright show, sold merch which was good for a sort of alright show.
After that we headed to Salzburg, Austria. That was an amazing show, but Salzburg was like different from what I expected. I thought it was gonna be like super big city, but pretty much looks like San Sebastian in PR, obviously bigger so that it had a tranvia train, but had cool buildings.
We didnt play a show in Vienna, so I wasnt that bummed, because we had a day off in Berthesgaden, which is the place where Hitler used to live when he controlled Germany. We were literally tourists for a day. And I got to live for 1 1/2 days the life of the Alps. We went cliff jumping, and damn, that was a high jump, and even colder water, the coldest water I have ever jumped in. But I got used to it quick. I saw a duck and took a picture of it. Had awesome Bavarian home made food, and it was delicious. There was snow in the Alps and it was the summer. I thought I lost my passport, but i found out it was on my backpack all along.
By the way, before Austria, right after Stuttgart, we went to Munich and I slept at Basti's house, Got the pair of sneakers I had planned, and it was awesome. Saw the English Gardens and all that. Beautiful city. The only bummer that I didn't get to see the Alianz Arena (home of Bayern Munich).
Now we are in Mannheim, I am at the venue, we just played, and all the bands are gonna sleep here, so we're partying. Free internet, from a computer with a keyboard I know how to use.
Mom, I am ok, not sick. Just didn't have internet.
W-lo nice choco honeys in Mannheim. plus I saw some of those K1X brand shoes, and the Rick Apodaca signature.
La Parka. pictures when I get back
Ema. stop being emo.
love.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Berlin
So we left Sweden finally. And we're back in Germany, once again. I thought we were going to Poland today, but i guess we have 2 days in Germany before Poland. Anyway, the show tonight got cancelled, but we managed to hop on this other show with really really bad metal bands, one from Germany, one from Australia.
We're only going to play a couple songs because Sean's super sick with a very high fever. The typical one day fever, at least we hope. So Chris is going to sing tonight instead of Sean. Really hope Sean feels better later. We told him we'll just do the same thing tomorrow, to let him rest.
Anyway, Berlin is pretty much another New York City, but they speak german here.
For my friend xHectorx who keeps asking for pictures. You have to remember I am posting from internet cafe's, not from my own computer, so I don't have a way of uploading the pictures for now. Don't worry, I'll post them.
Also, the dude with which we stayed in Malmö last night had a Millencolin demo. I took a picture of it. He also had a 59 Times The Pain demo, but I forgot to take a picture of that.
I heard Bernie Mac died, and it was a bummer, another good comedian that dies this year. So yea, nothing really interesting in between last night and today, apart that in Berlin dogs are really well behaved.
To W-lo. No choco sweet swedish girls. But I did see a couple of choco-licious german girls.
Actually one cool thing I saw was that there was a windmill farm in the middle of the sea near Copenhagen, that was in Denmark when we were on our way to the Ferry.
I'll keep updating whenever I get a chance.
We're only going to play a couple songs because Sean's super sick with a very high fever. The typical one day fever, at least we hope. So Chris is going to sing tonight instead of Sean. Really hope Sean feels better later. We told him we'll just do the same thing tomorrow, to let him rest.
Anyway, Berlin is pretty much another New York City, but they speak german here.
For my friend xHectorx who keeps asking for pictures. You have to remember I am posting from internet cafe's, not from my own computer, so I don't have a way of uploading the pictures for now. Don't worry, I'll post them.
Also, the dude with which we stayed in Malmö last night had a Millencolin demo. I took a picture of it. He also had a 59 Times The Pain demo, but I forgot to take a picture of that.
I heard Bernie Mac died, and it was a bummer, another good comedian that dies this year. So yea, nothing really interesting in between last night and today, apart that in Berlin dogs are really well behaved.
To W-lo. No choco sweet swedish girls. But I did see a couple of choco-licious german girls.
Actually one cool thing I saw was that there was a windmill farm in the middle of the sea near Copenhagen, that was in Denmark when we were on our way to the Ferry.
I'll keep updating whenever I get a chance.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Last Night in Sweden
We just played our second show in Sweden. It went alright, because I saw this really cute girl with nice kicks (sneakers). We talked about sneakers and it was cool because she was the drummer for the first band. Let me add that there are literally no ugly girls in Sweden. Well. Maybe one or two, but that's about it.
The first show we played here was probably the best show I have ever played in my life with any of my bands. Beat the set we played at This Is For You Fest in Florida, and beat Edge Day. Kids were jumping everywhere, singing along, and went bezerk when we played the Refused song. We had the best time ever here. For the next tour we are definitely playing in Sweden again, if not, I am literally thinking about moving here. It's just amazing. By the way we drove in the highway E 20. It's the one from the Millencolin song.
We are in Malmö, Sweden (see that I used the local spelling of the city). This is Zlatan Ibrahimvic's hometown. I got a Sweden National Hockey team scarf and I love it. Anyway, tomorrow we go to Poland for like 3 more days, so we are leaving really early. I have to go because the battery is dying and I wanna post this!
The first show we played here was probably the best show I have ever played in my life with any of my bands. Beat the set we played at This Is For You Fest in Florida, and beat Edge Day. Kids were jumping everywhere, singing along, and went bezerk when we played the Refused song. We had the best time ever here. For the next tour we are definitely playing in Sweden again, if not, I am literally thinking about moving here. It's just amazing. By the way we drove in the highway E 20. It's the one from the Millencolin song.
We are in Malmö, Sweden (see that I used the local spelling of the city). This is Zlatan Ibrahimvic's hometown. I got a Sweden National Hockey team scarf and I love it. Anyway, tomorrow we go to Poland for like 3 more days, so we are leaving really early. I have to go because the battery is dying and I wanna post this!
Monday, August 11, 2008
Sweden
So after the show in Osnabruck we stayed over in the city, but then we left for Hamburg again. We met up with Monique and her sister, and we hung out in the city for a while. Forgot to say, the show in Osnabruck went awesome, and I totally found out Slapshot has not broken up. The owner of the place told me they played there like 2 weeks ago. Anyways, the place was amazing, had a sweet skatepark, and the food they gave us wasn't as good as the one on the second Belgium show, but was good.
Well, anyway, when we went to hamburg, it was weird, because we were walking on the street and all this girls just standing there, and they were hookers. Like to be honest you couldn't tell which girl was a hooker and who wasn't. I ate some KFC, I don't even eat KFC back home, but I needed chicken.
Since the Denmark show got cancelled, and that's why we went to Hamburg instead of Denmark, we had a long drive to Sweden. We were deciding wether to take the ferry or just drive through Denmark and the bridges. We went for the second option. So it was pretty much an overnight drive. The only thing I remember is that we stopped at this gas station somewhere in Denmark and i bought some chocolate milk in a bottle, and it was probably the best thing i have ever had. After that I don't remember a lot, because this was around 4 in the morning. And I tried to sleep right after we went through a bridge near Scandinavia, with me playing some black metal to get in the Scandinavian mood.
I wake up, and we're already in Sweden, which I was bummed out because I wanted to see Copenhagen. But we played some Millencolin. We got to the city we're playing early in the morning and it's like a ghost town. But very beautiful, right next to the ocean and all that, very quiet. I saw 2 black people, so I felt i wasn't the only minority in this area. Everyone is really tall and blonde, but yea. We are playing one more show in Sweden tomorrow, then the next day is back to Germany, this time by ferry.
We're at this nerd place that's a gaming place and kids playing like World Of Warcraft. But they don't use Euros in Sweden even though it'd part of the European Union. The keyboards actually are the most similar to the USA ones, except ont lil' thing here and there, but I can type really easy. Just look at the characters that we dont have that they have: ÄäÖöÅ夣.
Well I want to see around the city a little bit, before I play the show.
Well, anyway, when we went to hamburg, it was weird, because we were walking on the street and all this girls just standing there, and they were hookers. Like to be honest you couldn't tell which girl was a hooker and who wasn't. I ate some KFC, I don't even eat KFC back home, but I needed chicken.
Since the Denmark show got cancelled, and that's why we went to Hamburg instead of Denmark, we had a long drive to Sweden. We were deciding wether to take the ferry or just drive through Denmark and the bridges. We went for the second option. So it was pretty much an overnight drive. The only thing I remember is that we stopped at this gas station somewhere in Denmark and i bought some chocolate milk in a bottle, and it was probably the best thing i have ever had. After that I don't remember a lot, because this was around 4 in the morning. And I tried to sleep right after we went through a bridge near Scandinavia, with me playing some black metal to get in the Scandinavian mood.
I wake up, and we're already in Sweden, which I was bummed out because I wanted to see Copenhagen. But we played some Millencolin. We got to the city we're playing early in the morning and it's like a ghost town. But very beautiful, right next to the ocean and all that, very quiet. I saw 2 black people, so I felt i wasn't the only minority in this area. Everyone is really tall and blonde, but yea. We are playing one more show in Sweden tomorrow, then the next day is back to Germany, this time by ferry.
We're at this nerd place that's a gaming place and kids playing like World Of Warcraft. But they don't use Euros in Sweden even though it'd part of the European Union. The keyboards actually are the most similar to the USA ones, except ont lil' thing here and there, but I can type really easy. Just look at the characters that we dont have that they have: ÄäÖöÅ夣.
Well I want to see around the city a little bit, before I play the show.
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