H.B. Lives!

Oh my, what a great show last night. First show in H.B. in a long time. Bad thing about this show is that it got busted by the cops. Reasons why this shows was a big one.

Something about this show was amazing. Maybe it was because it was my first H.B. show. Or maybe it was my first time at a garage show. Either way, this show kicked ass. I believe Stuck On Stupid was first band to go on. Guitar started up and one the whole band kicked in, everyone in that tiny garage got pushed towards the closed garage door and it goes nut in there. The first song was like a intro song and it was just fast hardcore punk rock music. Kids are jumping on everyone and there just this circle of running people of all subcultures. And the band itself. It wasn't power violence, but it was fucking damn close. Just something about that band that got my attention. Which is always a good thing.

As the show goes on I when to the store with my friend Matt to get some 40oz. When we get there, one band was away from Terezodu. A band called Hooded Justice was in play. We get back into the garage and the energy has gotten greater. My friend DJ was inside front and center while I just got back and I jumped in the front. The singer of the band jumps on us and we started to carry him. Then after the song, they just heard that the cops are outside the garage. Right after, he said that let keep going. The song starts and he says "Open the garage door!" The band keeps going with the blast of music while the cops shine a light in the garage. Kids hitting each other as well as other kids in the back getting out of the garage. After the song, I get out with my friends and grab my backpack full of 40oz's.

Great night I should say. I just wish shows like this happen more in H.B. Maybe it's should be something I can work on. My friends and I should do something like this. It was just amazing. :)

-Eric

Back In AZ(Dec 2nd-5th) YAY!

Well, it's been about six months since I've been back in AZ and I'm glad that I'm going back to a place I use to call "Home". Well, I take that back. It is my home. Will always be my home. I'm still trying to find my click here in O.C., but I'm almost at my goal on finding it. Which is in the works. Works as in... Making a Difference. I originally wanted to be in a band, but finding one here is hard. It's even harder trying to build one from the ground up. However, I like to say that I'm still trying to find a drummer for the beginning for the band. DJ, John, and myself are still in the looking for one. Oh how we like to start a PowerViolence band.

Got a bit off subject. Well, I'm going to my first home in Eloy. It's going to be great. I get to catch up with all my friends and family. My sister is getting big. She is big, ok? I said it. Haha... My lil sister is still in school. My mom is still doing her thing with work and stuff. They told me that they were in Tucson for Thanksgiving this year. Which is something difference. Every year we go to my Grandparents house to eat a dinner. The past two years, I have spend it with my Mar Mar. Feel kind of bad. First off, should I be celebrating this holiday? The holiday is about genocide, but that was thousands upon thousands of years ago. Is it like I can change it just back to my native people in the US. Plus, now of days, things have clear up. I, myself just can't think of hating what has happen back then. I'm not a hateful person. And why do we only have to be thankful on one day. Honestly, everyday is thanksgiving. I try too be everyday. Especially ever since I moved here. I'm away from family and whatnots. It's been hard that I can't see them like I use to.

It's been lonely, and I've been getting thru it. But eh... work has been dragging me down. I'm working 40 hours, but I'm not full time. I really need a new job. I apply online at all these jobs, but nothing. Whatever happen to going in and making the first impression to the boss? Makes easier paper work on them, but who are they really hiring? However, do the boss(es) really want to see who they are hiring and pay attention to the resume and facts? I don't know, but please just hire me!!!

Well, two more days till Mar Mar and I take off to AZ in my hometown of Eloy. Ahhhh... I can't wait. I can't wait to visit everybody. hopefully I can. I'm up with Mar Mar now. She's sick and helping her get thru this. She says it make her feel better when I'm here close to her. I don't believe her, but what ever that has to be done to make her feel good. I want to make her feel better. So scratch what I said, I do believe. Haha. Hope she feels better sooner than later. I might buy her a Starbucks tomorrow, if she does feel good.

Tomorrow, I release what I'm going to call, Project: O.C. Slackness. This has to work... or else.

-Eric

P.S. I forgot how good, and how much I miss Thrice. I miss these songs. Great shit man!

Missing In "Action!"

"NO!" Says the Braskies in their song "Heart & Soul". My Favorite song from them. And I miss that song. I believe the last time I heard the song was... Well, I thinking in Tucson when we did a show with them at the Living Room. Only a hand full of people showed up. Felt bad that They came all the way down here and played to 10 people. Better than nothing, you know?

It reminds me of them from when the AZ Ska Weekend in April. After Reggie left. It seem to me that all local music died in AZ. Or maybe it's just me. The Braskies are back now, yet. Still seems they are not as flexible as they use to. Feels like I'm doing the same with me here and doing nothing all of a sudden. I keep telling myself that it's just me being too busy with work. But even with that said, I can still do something on the side. Too bored to where I want/need to go to ever show I can, but can't. I'm missing a big part of me when I moved out here. I miss getting out there in playing to myself in a bedroom, or go as far as Flagstaff to play in from of a great number of people. I miss it a lot.

I am trying to get a band together still with my friend DJ in Garden Grove. I feel between him and I we can make a kickass band. I can really feel it. But no luck with a drummer. I am playing bass in a ska punk band with my friend Matt. But No dice on getting together as one to do so.

I just hope when I do get into a band, I haven't lost my musician's skill. :/








-Eric

Only Five Minutes To Write This.....

So, I'm feel like I'm going crazy. Something is missing in my life. Of course I miss my friend and family in AZ. But I feel lazy... Well, not lazy, but very inactive with what I'm not doing. I need to get out more and find something to do. I still want to get this band going to do some shows out here and hopefully out there in AZ. However, I am disable to do anything without a car.

Someone... buy me a car. :P
-Eric

The Motha Fuckin TICS!!!!!!!!!! Missing Tucson Hardecore. :(

Dear Lobby,

It came to me in a dream to clean the mess and build whatever I found. But I feel like I'm bit off more than I can chew. However, I do know their are people that like to have the same ideas like you and I. Sure I didn't say much, but I was just there to hear you talk. So what if you were drunk. I don't give a fuck. That's the way you like to get down. Cool by me. I just feel like people that talk about unity and keeping friends tight are the same people that believe in unity. But there's more than just talking about it and doing something. It's like that punk joke... "How many punks does it take to change a light bulb? 20... 19 to bitch about it and one to do something about it." Let's break that stereotype.

We can start off small. And as for me. I'm not from here. It's very hard to start something, but don't know where to start. I've found a few groups of people that can help me. But writing an article here is not really going to do much. However... look at me. I took a newsletter and I seem to go to all of these places and that's how I found and met some cool people. I have the groups of nonprofits and small organizations. I just need some kind of support. I'm still new here and I like to know everyone to be friends with. And to not be strangers.

So here's my promise to Lobby and everyone else... Someway and somehow. I'll bring it back to it's friendliness in the scene. Why hang out with only a few friends, and not everyone? And it's not even about that. I'd just like to see everyone get along with everyone. I think once everyone is cool with everyone, that we'll be able to hang all out at once.

I'll do my best Lobby and friends....

-Eric

We'll make the difference....

I few thing about me and the way music is to me. I love it. I love it a lot. Sure you must have heard it from a lot of people. But I feel something about me that I can only get out of music.

Before I left AZ, I was in a band called Elron. Ska punk band out of Eloy/P.C. Great band. But for us, nothing was going on in P.C. It was just dry land. I know for a fact that there was a scene here in P.C. When it just came to us, it was like if kids found a dead body and was just poking it with a stick. It was there and did it's thing for a reason. Just couldn't go on anymore right then and there. But now that we had our time in '08 and '09. We have met some great people and saw and heard some great bands. Forty Lashes from Detroit, MI. This Is A Stick Up from NY, La Cachimba from Mexico. Especially when we got to meet a lot of great people in the local scene and bands. All base around the Ave, ECV, Elron, The Braskies, Illegal Citizen, AZK, and Eloy Unified.

Only active bands I know in P.C. are now:
Elron
The Culprits
Salvia Divinorum
Driven By Misfortune

It's all I know for now. And I miss it. There's a lot of people and things I miss. But I feel we can do a lot more with me here in CA now. It seems like they are doing fine in P.C. now. A show was going on last night I from what a lot of bands and people said was it was pretty epic. A lot of Tucson hardcore bands were there. Now that the scene is back in business. We also got the Braskies back. After five long months. They are doing shows now. Ska-Core Halloween is going on at Tacos Locos in Flagstaff. And only big shows goes on there. :)

I feel kind of lost here in the whole differences of scenes and adapting. I don't know who is who and what's going on around me. I like to help out in anyways possible. So, it was a walk for me when I found "We'll Make the Difference" O.C. Hardcore/Punk Newsletter. And I'm glad I did. I found a lot of stuff in just this letter. I contacted them and it was really nice and refreshing to find something close to home. I kept writing back to them and telling my deal on what I'm doing here and what was I doing in AZ. I'm glad to put my foot in a door to some kind of outlet. I felt like I was going no where.

And in the newsletter, I found this cool record shop in Costa Mesa where you can find rare shit. A Charles Bronson record... $40 bucks? Well it's on 19th st. And pretty cool place. I got to meet members of former band Resist and Exist. Such nice people. They were really cool to talk to. I would tell them these cool info and anarchist collective shops in AZ and how active the scene is in AZ. It's nothing big, but it's something, right? As I was leaving they told me that they are going to release a record out soon and asked me if there were any bands interested in doing a release. I had so many bands to list. But I had got it down to a few bands in mind.

Hope I can get more than one band on that comp. But since the newsletter. Hopefully I can help out here like I was helping out in AZ. And of course... help out my home state and P.C.P.

I'll find a way...

Please check out "We'll Make the Difference" OC Hardcore/Punk Newsletter:
wellmakethedifference.com/

AZ KAOS Zine:
azkaos.tumblr.com


-Eric

Almost three months

So it was on July 4th where I moved from the hot lands of Eloy, AZ to a place with a coast, some waves, an education, and a girl. And I'm very comfortable with my decision. I feel like I am a lot close with my girl. And I'm not being literal. I've been living here in a tiny room where I find myself in most of my time. Yet, I'm about a good 5 miles(?) to the beach. And I don't mind the walk. It seems like a fair walk to a cool scenery. A beach where all the cool people go. A bunch of hipsters honestly. But I don't mind. They don't bother me. I don't bother them... sometimes.

Myself have found a cool people and places to hang out at. I met a few of my friends on craigslist. My friend DJ is a cool fellow. He replied to my ad looking for a fresh band(Which still hasn't taken off yet) to start with straight edge influences without actually being sXe. My love for sXe music is great to hear. Much talent and the hardcore sound so much to that core. Reasons why we wanted to make a band such as. Hopefully something comes out of this idea and I can be able to take my friend a the road.

At the moment. I am doing nothing like I was doing in AZ. However. I am working my ass off to save up to move out of this place. Somewhere around the college. Or at least somewhere very close. Either or, you know? Then again... somewhere ok to live. I'm not to picky but just to location to the college. By Jan, I'm planning to get some classes out of the way. I need some of it to keep my head busy. I feel like I''m going crazy being here without my friends and family on the AZ side. I miss them all. Martin, Edgar, Cryssi, and the P.C. area... everyone in Awful Truth, the Braskies, Busted Bearings... And my family of course. My big sis Vero. Hope you and the bun in the oven is all ok. My lil sis Marissa I hope college is treating you well. And my mum. don't worry about me. I'm fine and eating, sleeping, living good. I have a great family here that is taking care of me like you did me.

More from me later. Time for sleep. Nite nite. :)

-Eric