arizona livin'

i guess i haven't really written about phoenix since we've been here. let's see, where to start? well, we're getting a lot done out here. since we're living together and with tim as well, we really can't escape getting work done. writing the songs for this ep was really stressful, but we settled upon five really good ones in my opinion. we started recording with matt grabe two days ago, and after today's session all of the drums are complete. grabe's a really cool guy; he definitely does some stuff a little different, but he has a vision and everything has a purpose. i can't wait to hear these songs finished, i think they are head and shoulders better than any of our previous work, not to mention they are definitely way catchier. living at the office is kind of a pain; there is no tv, and we have to bring in and out our sleeping "gear" every day so as not to clutter working areas. but it's free, so i really can't complain. i'm definitely missing home. not just the idea of home, but all the little things about home, including my friends. tomorrow we hop back on the last two days of warped tour; i'm excited to see all of the new friends we made again. around the office we've been listening to a steady diet of a wide range of artists. miniature tigers and back ted-n-ted are two modern art artists that we've all really gotten into, they are awesome. taylor swift has been getting a good amount of spins, as have the new rocket to the moon and brighten cd's. new brighten really blows me away, it is freakin' awesome. that's all i got for now. hmmmm...

the dark knight

lovers in japan

finally in phoenix

warped tour is finally over for the goodnight anthem. we are now in phoenix, at our manager tim's office, which is actually a house, so this is where we will be living for a while. there is no tv here, i am absolutely devastated. i always have sportscenter on in the background, and its going to be weird not having that for a while. should be good times though, we're going to be getting a lot of work done. band camp, as tim is calling it. we're about to go grocery shopping, gonna be getting some pb and j and other tasty treats. we're also gonna try and pick up the newest issue of substream magazine. there is an article about us in it, so that will be exciting to see. there is lots of cool maine memorabilia hanging around the offices...it's going to be a good motivator/reminder of what can happen if we work hard. time to get to gettin, hopefully the taylor swift cd is done downloading by the time i'm done typing this. til' next time.

warped tour volume 2

boy, so much has happened since the last time i updated y'all ( i picked up that little number in the south). i'll try and remember everything since then. florida was, well, to be honest, miserable. it thunderstormed at least once a day, if not more. it was hot, sweaty, humid, and sticky. we did get to go to the bbq after st. petersburg though and that was a tooon of fun. met and hung out with lots of cool peeps. then we had a day off in atlanta and stayed with one of kurt's friends named morgan. very stereotypically southernly hospitable. yeah, i just made that up. deal with it. anyway, next day was warped in atlanta, which was hot, and it rained again at the end of the day. next day was cincinatti. can you guess what the weather was? YEAH, RAIN. AGAIN. THAT MADE IT EVERY DAY OF WARPED THAT IT RAINED. AWESOME! but yeah, i got to watch underoath with a clear view, and it was freakin' incredible. aaron gillespie absolutely killed it. like, jeezy beezy! next day was milwaukee. our tent was inside. which was great cuz it was nice and cool. it rained that day, too, btw. watched the maine close the day at 8:15, their crowd was nuts. much props to them, they are a very tight live band and the nicest dudes, too. today was detroit, at comerica park (where the tigers play), which was really awesome/beautiful. i tried to convince terry, the security guard sitting on the first base line, to let me run the bases and swing for the fences, but he wasn't having it. he must not have my rookie card yet...so now i'm in a hotel room watching wedding crashers. tired as hell. in other, unrelated news, i turn 21 in exactly two weeks. i'll be in arizona at the time, and will definitely be missing my friends at home, but i have a feeling it will be a fun time regardless. until next time, one love.

-max, aka m, aka doctor lobster, aka doc-lob

a picture of me dancing in the rain in atlanta. i don't remember wearing that suit, however...

warped tourrrrr

well, we're about a week into warped tour, and it's pretty much everything i thought it would be. so much to talk about. the official tour anthem is "do you know" by enrique iglesias (stop judging me). it's rained almost half the days. i hate rain. we've met a ton of really cool people. ryan from this century is really nice, super chill. we're primarily working with him for the majority of the tour. veto, the maine's merch guy, is the man; hanging with him all day has been entertaining for sure. the maine guys are all really down to earth, that's always cool to see. and the jac vanek tent has been next to us most of the days, they're real nice, hooked us up with tons of free stuff. so yeah, i haven't met too many uncool people. i haven't gotten to watch many bands though. i've seen the maine a few times, some of all time low, some of underoath, a bit of a day to remember haha. their crowds are probably the biggest of the tour, i had no idea they were so huge. i've watched innerpartysystem almost every day, they are INSANE. they should be playing arenas. i've also watched/heard gallows quite a few times. let's just say their singer has strong opinions on life and isn't afraid to share them. always entertaining. so yeah, we're about to head to florida and it should be totally hot and sweaty. we watched the temptations movie in our hotel last night. soooo long. interesting, but the unintentional comedy is off the charts. we decided that every character was played by wayne brady. amazing what you can do with cgi these days... so yeah, i'll try to write more whenever we get internet again.

some changes coming to the music scene. some good, some bad. i wish they could all be good, but i guess it can't work like that. if anything, though, history has shown this will work itself out for the better. hopefully this isn't the exception to that rule.

ps. many thanks to all of my well-wishers out there....