so its been nearly a month since i last updated this
i'm forgetful

shit at JB has been full on
christmas time + retail fucking sucks
but whatever, job is actual easy and fun, just the occasional shithead really

i've been putting off this entry cos i intended it to be just work i've done recently and i've been lazy and putting it off, but it will have some of that plus some other bullshit i feel like writing down

so since the last update i have done this:


for a girls tee


her nightmare tee for the final tour
this might have ended up on a black tee, not sure


for the bt/btbam tour


for the most recent aus tour

there were a few more DN tees and some posters in there but these 4 were my favourites

in 2 weeks i'm heading down to melbourne and to adelaide with Dead Kings on whats now a really broken up and segmented ~tour~ with Shinto. the first lot of dates are the 8th, 9th and 10th and then it doesn't pick up again till the 24th but whatever. it'll be fun.
on the 8th is a show at Next in Melbourne, i've never been and i hear the place is god awful (much like Bang) but i have a soft spot for shitty clubs i can dance in.
I'm mostly siked for these shows because I want people to see Dead Kings. Not just because they're my friends but i honestly get really fucking siked every time i see them and i think they have soo much potential. They've been getting great reactions just from touring bands that come through canberra so it's gonna rule seeing how people like them in other states and shit. I think this is the beginning of a really good thing and I am that fucking siked.

these are the shows except Ire (ex-Mindsnare, Hitlist, Within Blood, Meatlocker etc) are playing the melbourne date on the 10th now and I am so keen to see them.



also recently i've started weights training with Rob and I am so keen. Gonna get massive.

Other than that, today's Christmas and it's been relaxed as fuck. Went to Tupac house and chilled, shot some nerf gun a bit and watched scrubs, ate heaps today and got some cool shit.
Working tomorrow, earning $40 an hour so i'm aight with it even though it's boxing day sales and everyone is gonna be mental.

That's about all
Pretty stoked with life at the moment, whole lot of travelling coming up
good friends
everything rules

also saw The Acacia Strain the other week and they were the heaviest band in existance. All expectations were exceeded.

Peace xo

the past few weeks i've been booking a tour for shinto katana from sydney and dead kings from canberra
this is my first real effort at booking shows outside of canberra and it's been pretty sweet
cam at destroy all lines has been the hugest help and he gives me faith that there are actually some genuinely good people out there
been doing canberra shows for him and DAL for a few months now and any trouble we've hit he's helped us work out solutions and just been generally cool about everything
same goes with booking these tour dates, just been a straight up dude

i'm really excited for these shows

at the moment i'm drawing a picture of a heavily tattooed girl for a deez nuts shirt
it's going to be the girl shirt counterpart to the gonz shirt i did a couple months back
so far i have the girl drawn and a few of her tattoos, tomorrow morning i'm going to finish her arm and all the details and then scan it in and fix it up
i'm real siked on how its going so far

hopefully next week i'll get around to posting some of the work i've done recently
in the meantime, sleep.

rippin

finally i'm the one gettin ripped off hahaha
word is, pilks gave this shirt to all the ghost inside dudes, they went back to the states and have just done a mini tour with death before dishonour
and then this happened..




rulin
hahaha

soldier of fortune

fortune cookie says

"People will believe most anything that is whispered to another."

Hate

My heart is made up of equal parts family, friends, art and music.
There is no place in my heart for a romantic love.
To let in a single person that is capable of everything that it is to be human is to compromise the rest.
I have no need for love of that kind when i have family.
Though they are capable of all the same things, I forgive them for all the beauty they have provided me.

Love for a few, hatred for the rest.

I'm a walking contradiction.
.


Destroy the morality none have known for so long if ever at all
And I would lay down my life to birth a new generation of a righteous culture.
To a people I could proudly love and cherish.
For that's all I've ever asked for and been deprived of.

these two records have been ruling my head lately..



death is such a horrible thing
my deepest condolences go out to all friends and family
and i hope sam is okay
i'm going to go see him tomorrow

xo

in this moment

i'm down with -

mc donalds post mix coke
sitting in bed
tacos
the thought of doing 4 almost back to back tours from january to march
morgans new house
on broken wings
the osborne family
the dope boys
dead kings newish song

i'm not down with -
girls who talk like they're on the internet in real life
5 minute experts
my current hobo beard
bills
summer weather
sick heads talking shit on amy

same as it ever was

Been a while since my last post.
Shit's been busy.

It's 8:12am and I'm sitting on the floor of the lounge room of what has now been dubbed 'Vegan House'.
Morgan, Josh and Gabb recently (recently being 4 days ago) moved into a new place in Lyneham.
It's pretty tight, its right near where I first lived when I moved to canberra as a kid, so its kind of like coming back to my old stomping grounds. I love this area.
Its also right in between Simon's house and Au Lac. Which is just win win really.
I'm down with this house.

Pretty much since my last update I have:
- Earnt and spent a lot of money
- Started a DJing gig at Bar 32
- Drawn some pictures of fat girls
- Cried once
- Celebrated Aaron's birthday
- Dressed in purple
- Freaked about my debt situation
- and danced a lot

So its been up and down really.

The reason I'm on morgan's floor so early in the morning is because I slept here (as did Dave, who is still snoring next to me). The reason for this (sleeping here, not Dave's sinus issues) is because we're going to Sydney today.
In about an hour and a half I'd say, we're leaving to go eat, shop, hang out and see Ruiner.

Ruiner are a band I always manage to forget exactly how much I like them.
Their name is bandied around so often I kind of just shrug them off until I listen to them again and go "wow fuck".
I can't really explain exactly why I like them, but I just do. A lot.
So im pretty excited about tonight.
Also get to catch up with sydney dudes (haven't been to sydney in a long time) as well as a few melbourne and brisbane dudes coming down. It's gonna be one huge love in.

We're coming straight back after the show tonight with the added company of Zaca. Then its work tomorrow and then another Ruiner show.

This week is actually going pretty good, the only downsides have been the weird ranga/blue eye combo bitch in lost that scares me every time she's on screen. The amount of work I've got to do the lack of time to do it in and lastly the feeling that just about every woman around me bar my mother and my sister is either flat out crazy, trying to work everyone around them for their own benefit or just a slut. Shit's rough.
But whatever, single life is ruling.

But that's it for now, Dave's up and I have a bottle of vanilla coke waiting for me (breakfast of champions)

Peace

fonts

been working on this for the past week



it's not finished yet so i ain't posting the whole thing
but fuck it's been killing me.
I'm fucking atrocious at font work (that's why it's taking me so long) but for some reason i agreed to this. It's going a lot better than past experiences however. It needs more work, more swirls, more flow, but slowly it's getting there.

I'm doing a logo and poster for the club night Shakedown at Bar 32 on Saturdays. Pretty much the poster is covered in photos of me and my friends. That's what they get for asking me to do it.
The poster feaures a large photo of Simon Murphy so babes will be all about it. That man is too good looking for words.

More or less I'm posting this because i felt like a break from the script and i'm getting some chronic RSI.

Tomorrow i've got the Amity, A Secret Death, House Vs Hurricane, Rex Banner show and I'm pretty siked. The new Amity CD isn't what I'd usually listen to but it's catchy as hell and I'm also keen to see Adrian Kelly of glory holes all across Sydney fame. The show is an afternoon affair so i'm thinking of smashing a plate of salt and chilli fried soy squid at au lac afterwards.
If you're from canberra and reading this, come to the show, unfortunately it hasn't been promo'd as well as i'd have liked because the posters were sent to the desmond at the venue instead of me and when i asked for them so i could stick them up, he said no and that he had it covered. Lo and behold, I haven't seen a single poster up bar the one stuck up inside the venue.

On a final note, how good is T.I's new single?
Very good, that's how.

national edge day

so todays national edge day
and subsequently, i had a fucking ill day
hung with aaron all day
i recieved a box full of posters for some shows coming up that i'm real siked for
had a wicked nap
and later hung with al, sam, simon, nard and some girls
sam got his dick out like 17 times, he moshed while pissing in the street (piss went everywhere), sang songs and talked with me about how amazing the song 'Hero' is on the new Nas LP

simon disappeared and we never tracked him down again
al and nard disappeared shortly after
we went to 32, drank some coke, decided it was way too fucking hot in there, talked to some babes outside and bailed home
watched scarface with aaron and now it's 4am

slowly life is giving me more days like this and less bullshit and i'm so happy about that
the outside world is full of so much ugliness, pain and disgusting people
but who gives a fuck when i've got these people around me?

life's fucking ill

so much work, so little time
so much life, so little dime

i've been sick for about 2 and a half months straight now
it ain't letting up

today i decided i want a gold tooth
and i hate albury

my boy



that's what it's all about

you should be studyin ya arts, instead of studyin me

past few days have actually been aight. been workin at JB, back in the CD department which is chill as fuck. good work, easy work, good people. rules.

went and saw shipwreck in wollongong on the weekend and it was fucking weird. really good band, really good live show, fucking loudest hardcore band i've ever seen.
but no one seemed to care, it blew my mind when they played probably the hardest intro in modern hardcore (squall) and only 3 people moved. weird fucking crowd.
carpathian killed it though, there's so much bullshit around about this band but i don't care, the new cd rips and the new shit is tight live. lloyds killing it in that band. really enjoy seeing them

cruisin down to albury tomorrow night to catch them there
should be dope

so much work to do at the moment, but that's a good thing i guess.

soon i'm gonna start making steps toward a goal i've set myself, careerwise, that i'm really excited about. i need to go for a government young business grant for about 5 - 10 grand for it, but i have some dope ideas and aaron's gonna be helping me and i think we can come up with something real legit. i don't wanna say what it is yet though because i'm feelin superstitious and i don't want to jynx it but shit is gonna be fucking cream

i wanna buy a camera so i can start taking photos of cool shit i see every day and put it in here
i've been noticing more and more things i like about canberra lately and i wanna document them

today it hit me that supreme clientele is a perfect summer record
i'm runnin it now and it's gonna get a shit load more spins before the year is out

later in the week i'll do an update of work i've done recently
there's a fair bit

out for now
peace

3 posts in one night? what is this?

i want to get away
i'm thinking for a week or 2 over new years
sydney or melbourne
who wants to have me?

seriously get at me if you're keen
i might just couch surf
we'll see

it's never easy... v.02

so an update
venue guy is pulling some "we have a contract stating that if you book through us then we have the right to add youth bands to all bills" bullshit. which is all well and good, good for them
but i never signed a fucking contract

yeah it's sweet he's giving youth bands a go
but i book bigger shows where i want well rounded lineups
i don't want Jimmy fucking Desmond and his 3 friends with ropehair who just discovered how to play fucking prom queen covers in their garage opening package tour shows with 3 fucking internationals
i want to be able to have supports that are actually good, that compliment the fucking bill

this is fucking retarded

i'm so fucking over this town
it is actually fucking impossible to find a venue where someone within it isn't a fucking cunt who finds someway to profit for themselves and fuck up everything i do

i'm going to hit up venue guy and tell him he can't pull this shit, firstly without telling me and secondly without me fucking signing this so called contract
but this will no doubt result in not being able to book there anymore
which means no more all ages venue in canberra

i'm so fucking over this
i hate this fucking place

it's never easy...

i don't quite get why people need to constantly involve themselves in my work when it really isn't very glamourous or that exciting

I book shows. More or less just out of necessity. If someone else wanted to do it then i'd be all for it, but no one else seems keen so i'm happy to do it all.
But if no one else is keen to do it then why do people always try and involve themselves in this and try and take credit for shit that has nothing to do with them? or even sometimes come in and tell particular bands they're playing particular shows when that person doesn't have shit do with anything? they're just fucking my shit up

last year some desmond started telling people he was booking shows that I had booked
and yeah cool, i could care less if he wanted to tell people he was booking parkway drive or some shit
but when he started contacting bands and telling them they were playing my shows, i was off it

and now it's happening again
over the next few months there are a shit load of shows booked
and i've gone through with each touring company and so on and worked out bills for them
we've agreed on particular bands playing particular shows to make sure shit is varied but still flows
now i've found out, my venue guy who i go to to find me venues for these shows, has been telling young bands who are nowhere near ready to play shows of this size, that they're playing my fucking shows
this dude has nothing to do with the bands or the promotion, he's just a venue guy
so why the fuck is he overstepping his bounds and telling some band thats played one show before that they're playing with fucking bleeding through?
it's doing my head in
what the fuck is wrong with people?

in other news, i spent today drawing some babes for the parkway banner and scrims for the sweatfest tour
they're looking hot
now i just have to draw the last few elements and this shit will be hilarious

also, the new antagonist record is just direct arkangel worship and it's fucking incredible

truth and purple

life's weird lately
i had a 3 second long deep-n-meaningful with Sam last week and it cleared things up in my head more than most conversations i have these days
he said "are you just finding it easier to hate everything rather than learn to tolerate it? yeah me too".

i'm getting tattooed on thursday
and as of right now i have $2.87 to my name
not really sure how i'm going to manage it but fingers crossed i work it out

on Saturday, Benben and i were asked to DJ last minute at 32 because Tom was in Sydney
we had no idea what we were doing and pretty much just played pop RnB, Nas, pop punk and Lady Gaga and everyone seemed to dig it
i had way more fun doing it than i usually do there, sitting on the couch playing with my phone all night
i'd be down with doing it again soon

i'm so restless but unkeen to go anywhere at the moment.
i love canberra but hate nearly everyone in it.
i have a shit load of shows booked over the next 4 or so months and i'm really keen for them
but dealing with everyone that goes to them seems like more trouble than i'd like to put into it
crowds have seriously dropped hard in canberra and its way more disheartening than i expected.
last year we were killing it and average crowds were 100+
now we're looking at 40+ if we're lucky
kids don't care, but bitch when nothings on or the venue isn't 3 metres from their house
everyone's fucking lazy and doesn't want to help in looking for new venues and i almost couldn't be fucked doing this anymore
but then again i'll probably change my mind in a few weeks and be siked again
i just need a kick in the face

this entry has been so sporadic

we have a projector and couches and shit set up in the garage at the moment
perfect for summer night movies
watched horton hears a who and iron man tonight
tomorrow i'm gonna watch alpha dog and planet of the apes

in a few weeks Elly's 18th birthday is hapening
the theme is to dress in purple and i'm way more siked than i should be
everyone says i'll look like the grimace and they're probably right
oh well, fuck em

i'm out for now
peace

the poster man

it seems lately all i've been asked to do is posters
poster after poster after poster
its not so bad really, posters can be fun to do
it's just weird

i finished this yesterday
i'm pretty stoked with it
although the best looking thing about it is the Against logo which i didn't do
but oh well



i gotta finish this Red Shore december tour poster now
been having troubles with it but it should turn out alright
won't be able to post it till the tour's announced though

also in 10 days the Confession EP is released and i'll be able to chuck up the CD art for that
i'm pretty stoked with how it came out
and it's being printed on card so it'll come up heaps nice
there's a preview of it on their myspace
www.myspace.com/confessionhc

thats it for now
peace

fuck this city

and everyone in it

Finally started a blog
figured i needed a place to post work i'm doing apart from myspace because i hate that site (despite the fact i'm on it 23/7)

I just got back from a small stint in melbourne
i hung out, ate heaps, went to Sike Your Mind 08 and just pretty much killed it
discovered i can't get away from work even if i'm 7+ hours from home
but i'm always down to help out webyay and trust come tough, even if the idea is from chode and he stole it from that stupid xRainx band hahaha

now i'm home, shit is back to normal
did some shit for Confession today, tried to think of an idea for a tour poster for The Red Shore and *International Band* and now working on ideas for Parkway Drive for their stage banner and scrims for the sweat fest tour

speaking of, i finished the tour poster for that last week
here it is



Pig's idea was to do a pisstake of the Boys Of Summer tour posters, with the tattooed babe chillen on the beach but have it as a fat dude with SWEAT across his guts
i started with that and then thought it'd be funny to do Teeth's edge chest tattoo on this guy and have a clock on his hand
Pig saw that and added to it and so we put on his own skull drop flame 3/4 sleeve and Winno's BBHC armband
I'm pretty siked with the final product, it's not very similar to BOS posters like originally intended but whatever, it gets the joke across

also done some small shit here and there
finishing up all the promo gear for the Confession EP, some shit for Antagonist AD, lined up some work for Carpathian and Shinto and done a bit of work for Deez Nuts

i'll leave it at that for now
next post won't be nearly as long

peace