Happy Lido Beach Day

Today is Lido Beach Day, it’s the 1 year anniversary of Scott Waldman starting his own band. So we’re celebrating it by giving the band a day.

It’s only been a year, and it’s gone from a hopeful idea to a band playing shows from NYC to LA with an impressive fan base. Honestly, seeing what the fans of this band do never ceases to amaze me. A ton of people wearing Lido Beach shirts, sending in artwork, platsering signs across thier cities to promote, painting thier car to promote a show (that just happened this week.. crazy!), it’s been really really incredible.

This past year they made Absolute Punk.nets top 100 list.

The Lido Beach T-shirt was smartpunk.com’s top selling design in August of 2007.

Lido Beach made Buzznet’s list of the best unsigned bands of 2008.

Some press links:

http://www.revolt-media.com/features/?p=80

http://www.bigsmilemagazine.com/showreview.aspx?SRID=108

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In the past year Lido Beach has played with American Hi-Fi, Bedlight for Blue Eyes, Black Tide, Brighten, The Cab, Cruiserweight, Disguise for a Criminal, Everybody Else, Fire Rocket Red, Goodbye Elliott, Letters Burning, The Malheruex, Matcli, The Morning Light, National Product, No One Goes Home, No Robot, The Perfect Victim, Scarlet Grey, Silent Envy, Sound the Alarm, The Static Jacks, Tokyo Rose, Trikuti, Undergone, Verona Grove, We Shot the Moon, William Tell, and XoVersa.

On a personal note, I’m really proud of Scott for getting this done. After he left The City Drive I had no idea what was going to happen. He started working on this, and to my amazement had it really rolling pretty quickly.  May 23rd was the day Scott left TCD, honestly, I’ll never forget the night he told me he quit. May 23rd.. and LB started May 31st.

Here’s the funny thing, I remember Marc (TCD’s drummer) saying something along the lines that Scott would be back when he got himself figured out.

He figured himself out apparently, but he’s working out better with Lido Beach, Scott seems a lot more in his element working on his own music. I still love TCD’s old album, and I support them, but ever since Scott left I haven’t payed much attention to them.

Scotts an awesome guy and helping him out with this project has been, and will be one of my favorite things to do with my spare time.

The title of this blog is a shout out to Scott. My Oh My, that’s the name of the first song Scott put out, and I still count it as my favorite.

A link to his myspace is on my blogroll, check them out. I love Scott to death, and love this band just as much. MWAH to Scotty, and thanks to anyone who reads this and takes a few minutes to listen to Scott’s music.

 

Update.

Okay, so some of you read my last blog, I know because I got phone calls and messages, thanks for those by the way, I really do appreciate all of that. I’m extremely stressed out. Looking for a house is getting to be intense, so I’m on edge as is. The whole situation with my dad is a little complicated. So, I’m just having a rough night. I’m at a friends house right now, and I’m calmed down quite a bit. I’ve talked to two friends and I feel better, I am just taking some time to chill out and get away from reality for a bit.

So, honestly, thank you to everyone who has sent me messages/called, it realy did help, having friends that care enough to check up on me means a lot. I’ve never had that before. Ever. So that was extremely awesome, having people there when I needed them.

Anyhoo. I had been praying for some guidance and all that jazz. Got an answer for that tonight, which was incredibly tough, but also really revealing. I am sounding very cryptic, I know, but is extremely complicated and the way he answered it is super bizarre, so it’s easier to keep it cryptic, its less confusing. haha. But anyway, it was one of those moments where I can just be humbled by God. I was extremely thankful for the guidance, and I felt really comfortable that I understood what God was telling me. But I’m not a huge fan of it at the moment. It’s one of those things i need time to accept. But I totally trust that God is leding me down the right path to get me where he wants me. I am getting a lot better at excepting Gods will rather than trying to force my own.

I’ll end the blog on a happy note. I have an awesome best friend. I’m at Kelly’s house right now, she offered me a place to stay, and gave some great advice, and now she’s making me laugh. Reading Tiger Beat is probably the funniest thing in the world. “I feel bad for that Jennifer Stone girl, she’s very unfortunate looking.” Laughter really is the best medicine.

I’m done.

I’m beyond tired of it.

 

Tomorrow I’m taking the day to pack my things, and I’m moving.

I’m probably going to end up with my grandparents until July when we move into the new house.

I just can’t inhabit the same house as my father anymore.

Peace.

all these frustrations

Seriously.

I want a house. Why is it such a difficult process??

I’ve been praying about it a lot and I know God has it under control, but from our perspective its a big mess. I want that big picture view finder God has. That would be awesome, because being calm in the chaos would be a lot easier that way.

I called for an interview today, I really need a second job, I’m losing my mind a little bit waiting for things to settle down.

Okay and for real, I can’t handle being in this house right now, my dad is driving my mom and I crazy.

I’m so glad it’s the Coke 600 weekend, because I can distract myself from life, sit on my butt and watch Brian race. And Chase is racing tonight but I’ll be watching UFC so I’ll miss that. I’m sure I’ll hear about it later. Honestly, when I was younger, racing was the only thing that distracted me from life enough to deal with it. I wasn’t a very happy kid. So when I go through rough times, NASCAR is my therapy.

Here’s the thing. Every Coke 600 is usually a giant slap in my face. Brian always has the best car/should win, and something stupid always happens. One year it was a wreck, last year his power steering went out. What? That’s just retarded.

If that happens again I’m going to lose my mind.

See, I’m talking about NASCAR because it’s way better than talking about my life. haha.

Luckily I’ll be seeing some of my friends tonight, watching UFC.. eh, but still, with some really awesome people.

 

**Brian just got the pole. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhkay. Very happy now. I feel better. Now if he could just pull off winning the race tonight, that would be awesome. (I promised Chase I’d cheer for him over Brian when they race together, but I lied, I hope Chase comes in 2nd.)

 

Crazy timing. What a blessing.

So, Karen, Chrissy and I had our eye on this townhouse. It was perfect, so cute, affordable, and we just flat out wanted it bad. We just had to wait and hear back from the lady renting it out.

We we’re supposed to know by Tuesday, being Thursday, we we’re annoyed. We we’re talking about just finding another place if we didn’t hear from her. We knew getting a 4th roomate would be helpful, because then we could just get a house, it’d be the same price but we’d have more space. Chrissy threw out the idea of asking Christy, but we had no idea what her living situation was so it was more just a jokey, wishful idea.

Christy shows up and basically immediately says she has to move out because of some crazy roomate drama stuff.

It worked out pretty perfectly.

The landlady from the townhouse emailed Chrissy tonight and told her she rented it to someone else.

Tomorrows agenda for me and Chrissy is setting up appointments with 4 bedroom places, and visiting as many as we can.

We’re slightly bummed we can’t have the place we originally wanted, but having Christy join in on it actually makes it a lot better. So it’s one of those moments where we just know it’s meant to work out that way. It wasn’t a freak coincidence, it was God interfering to make things work out better for everyone.

Tomorrow will be busy, but Chrissy and I are excited to drive around finding places, we had a blast last time. This time we already know where we’re headed, so it’ll be more organized chaos. Gotta love Craigs List.

 

 

My Musique Artist #8: The Myriad

I bought ‘With Arrows With Poise’ today before I clocked in at work. After waiting 5 months for it, I’m pretty stinkin happy.

I first heard The Myriad at soundcheck before they played with Phil Wickham and David Crowder. Probably the weirdest way I’ve ever come to like a band, but honestly, they caught my ear right off the bat. They’re live show was awesome.

I got pretty addicted to them really fast, they had a CD called ‘Prelude To Arrows’, which was just a few songs from the new record, and a track at the end with songs in the background and the band members talking about the process of making the album. I got that in December and have been waiting for this album ever since.

It lived up to expectations.

You should go buy it.

This song is on it.

 

Wish me luck..

After class I’m heading over to Waterford/Avalon to apply for a second job. Not a huge fan of working 2 jobs, but honestly, I need the money.

So, wish me luck, because I honestly hate the process of applying for jobs.

I’ll be helping Kelly apply for some jobs as well, she’s a little freaked out because she’s never had a job, and never had to apply and she has no clue how to do this stuff. I’m glad I’m able to help her out though, wish i had that kind of help when I started out.

Happy Mothers Day

Happy mothers day to all the moms out there.

I was blessed with an awesome mom, so today it’s just nice to sit back and thank her for all she does, and thank God for giving me someone so wonderful to help me grow up.

Mothers day is once a year but we should really celebrate it 24/7.

 

Go moms.

wackiness

I don’t know how many blogs I’ve written about the crime in my neighborhood, but at this point, it’s too many.

So, todays edition of “what the heck is going on!?” started when I was driving home from work. I am almost home when I see the first cop, she was park with her lights on, her outside of her car 1 block from my street. Figured she was pulling someone over at first, until I saw the other lights. I start to realize these cops are parked on my corner (I live on the corner). Then I see one drive off my street, so I get worried. There were 5 parked on the grass on my yard and our back neighbors. I saw a cop walking with a german shephard, and so I was like ooookay just gonna go straight into the house.

My door was unlocked so I figure they didn’t reverse 911 anyone, but I locked it, obviously. I have no clue what they were doing, they left a few minutes ago. Couldnt have been good. It looked a lot like what they did a few blocks from here when they found that guy stabbed. No news people so I’m guessing it wasnt a big deal, it’s just getting old. Really really old.

The bright side? I am probably going to move to Avalon in July. So, good riddance to po-po parades outside my bedroom window.

Okay, on to better stuff.

Yesterday C3 had the food drop, and it was awesome. There we’re so many people that came out, and so many stories, it was heartbreaking, but it was so nice to know that these boxes we’re going to help these families out. It makes me want to do that kind of stuff everyday, one time just doesn’t cut it, I feel like there are so many more people that need help, and people just have to step up. It was hard when we had to close the gate when we ran out. So early, only 11:11 when we ran out.

I’m trying to focus more on the positive impact we had though, and not those left out. The families we did reach are getting so much out of it, and I love that. So many of them were so appreciative, it made me feel like a jerk for wanting a new car, or a new pair of shoes. I have way more than I need. I started thinknig about one of the Nooma videos, ‘Rich’, everything Rob Bell says in that video has such a large impact on me. I watch it a lot, just to keep myself in check.

After the food drop some of us went to eat at Taco Bell. I think I’ve had enough Taco Bell to last me for a few months now. That was the third time this week I had eaten thier food, it was slightly scary.

Then we went to the pool and Barry found a McDonalds bag in there.. nice.

After that I picked up kelly and helped her try to get a job. Not so sure how that’s all gonna work out. Then went to Millenia with my sister-in-law and Kelly. Saw one of my favorite people, Andrea, at Bloomingdales, and helped Alicia find some work clothes.

Finally off to the movies with some of my favorite people, namely Kelly, Karen, Chrissy, Monica, Matt, Kayleigh, Barry, Christy, John and Adam. We saw “What Happens in Vegas”, for the record, that movie is way funnier than it looks, and according to Kayleigh, I’m like the best friend in the movie (I think her name was Tipper). haha, it was kind of true. We hung out at Barry’s afterwards and watched Wild N’ Out, which is hilarious, Mikey Day all the way. Needless to say I had an awesome awesome Friday.

Now I gotta go get ready for the party at Ambers

I cant wait for Sunday morning, pretty much my favorite time of the week.

 

What a day

It’s been a long one, and I’m tired, but it was cool.

This morning I met up with the C3 ladies at Morning Glories for breakfast. Delicious. Everything there looked ridiculous, I will just have to go back at some point and try everything. It was great getting to spend time with everyone, especially since I don’t get a lot of time with most of them.

Then I went off to VCC to buy a book, and LifeWay to pick up some cards and stuff. That was pretty lame to be honest, I hate shopping.

After that I met up with Chrissy to look at a townhouse in Avalon Park. It was pretty cool, considering the rent, I was happy with it. There are a few more in the same neighborhood we’re going to look at. And we drove around pretty much ALL of Avalon Park looking for ‘For Rent’ signs and writing down numbers. Hopefully we’ll get something good in our price range. I’m really really lookingofrward to moving out. I want the independence, not to mention to get my tattoo done finally. Talking to Brittany this morning made me really look forward to getting it done. Seriously can’t wait to find out more information on different townhouses, I wanna get out there :). Looking around today was fun, tiring, but fun. Oh, and we we’re leaving the townhouse we walked through, and Timber Creek had just been let out, and some kid walked up and got in the car in front of us wearing a Barbaric Grace t-shirt. I thought that was really awesome.

I definitely skipped class today. Don’t care much though, my guess is Nathan will catch me up on whatever I missed.

Last, I went to work, which sucked a lot. Not gonna lie. I was already exhausted and I really didn’t feel like moving the entire freaking fiction section around. Oh, and a spider appeared when I was shelving books. Definitely have archnophobia. Brandon was nice enough to kill it. Yay Brandon, he deserves another cheer (he is pretty much obsessed with me cheerleading). Whatever, I’m not at work any more, so I’m happy.

In other May 7th news, today Josh turned 23. Hooray for Josh. He’s a pretty awesome guy, so happy birthday to Josh.

Alright. I’m done, I need to rest, I have work again tomorrow and I think I’m going somewhere with Alicia tomorrow and I need to be getting ready for Kelly arriving on Friday. Peace out lovlies.