Oh I want that cartel album now! I’ve been listening to the demos on repeat. i guess the new album is supposed to be the best pop punk album of the year. I’m excited. some much good stuff is out now though. new emery is very very strong. I like it alot. :)

I finally got my Andrew McMahon orange wrist band that says "I will fight." so from now on you will see it on my right arm until he is 100% healed from his disease. (Which he will, of course).

Last night I decided to buy a baseball cap. I have a few but nothing I really like. I ordered a plain custom fitted hat. Its plain white in the front and in the back has 'ic3' in light blue. I hope it turns out cool, and not lame. Should be cool… if not I dropped 20 which is just like any other hat. I donno… I wanted something different. I’m sick of wearing hats of sports teams, clothing companies, and stuff like that... I wanted something different. I guess we will find out when I get it next week.

Tomorrow: Brice and I head to Chicago to visit Thomas J, Carolyn, and Kyle! PUMPED!

Take my heart if you like the beat,
Take my lungs if it's hard to breathe, to breathe.

i haven't posted in awhile. where did i leave off... oh warped tour! all i can say is wow. i saw a few of my favorite bands, in particular... the spill canvas, saosin, thrice! all three where SOOOO good. i can't pick which one was the best. i might have to say the spill canvas just because i love them so much. what’s amazing is that they are one band that dress like normal people, express musical lyrics and emotion more than any other band i know, and only about 50 people came over to see them play. it was unbelievable.

guthrie left sunday to see his other grandparents. jordan is still stayin at our house for the rest of the week. today is what.. tuesday. yah. carl will be over tonight. he doesn't work on wednesdays. i should call up nick or sloppy cuz i have less than 2 weeks left living at home. =/ summer went too fast. i guess thats why you gotta enjoy every minute of everyday. Other than that not much is going on. I need to start putting my photography up on the site… maybe tonight I can do a lil of that. The lyrical title for today is from cauterize. I love their new album… but this is just how I feel right now and it from their old album. I feel better to give than receive a lot of the time. And I feel the need to give myself away today for some reason. Maybe I will do something special for my mom… she deserves it. maybe I will clean the whole house. =) I guess it makes me happy to see/make my friends and family happy.

This past weekend my friends and I went to Penn State, where nick goes to school. It was fun. Big campus. I don’t know if I could handle it… really nice though. We went during the craziest weekend at Penn State, Arts Fest. I guess it’s the biggest event of the year, when everyone comes back. We got two parking tickets… there was absolutely no place to park. Other than that, we pretty much just partied with all nicks friends… and went out to a few other places.

The last couple days I haven’t slept much at all. My cousins from Texas are pretty much living at my place for 2 weeks. It’s crazy because we all normally stay up really late, just how we are, every summer when they are in. I’m a night owl anyways but this is insane late every night. But the thing is… I work everyday fulltime and that means zero sleep for dan. Kind of sucks… but when you want to spend time with them this is the best way. Who needs sleep anyways? Umm not me.

I was looking at my calendar and I noticed my summer is almost up. Unbelievable. I have one more weekend at home, and everything else is booked. Here are the big events until school starts back up:

Thursday: Warped Tour
Saturday: Lindsay’s graduation party (maybe Waking Ashland and Gatsby’s concert.)
Next Friday (July 29th): going to Chicago with Brice to visit Tom
Weekend after that (August 6th): Moving my stuff back to school… then heading to Matt’s Vacation house on the lake in Tennessee for a week.
August 15th: Required meeting for work at KU… working the rest of the week.
August 22nd: First day of classes start.

And everyday in-between I will be working, hopefully getting golf in, and just hanging out with my friends before this summer is up. =/ Title for today is from a new emery song… wow I love them. I cannot wait for their new album and to see them at warped tour. :)

Lots to talk about… Believe it or not. Lets see where to start… umm my cousins are in from Texas. Guthrie is my lil homeboy when it comes to music. We are pretty pumped to see a lot of awesome bands on Thursday; warped tour. I’m also taking my brother and my other cousin, Jordan. Should be a good time with good music, of course. Other plans on the agenda… well this weekend nick, ry, and I are taking a road trip to Penn state to see what nick’s life is all about during the year. Road trips with these young guns are nothing below average. Always… always a great time. So I’m definitely looking forward to that.

I got my camera already I won on ebay. I got it for $120 total. Pretty good deal. The camera is in good shape and I’m exited to get a collection of images on my website. Today work was boring as usual. I went to lunch with Ry and his brother, crazy Kyle. We went to the Winking Lizard. I got a burger as usual. It’s nice to go out for lunch every once in awhile… its kind depressing eating a packed lunch in front of a computer screen everyday of the week… and ry keeps things fun. Linda, a friend from Dayton, stopped in work to pick up some software she needed. Always nice to see a familiar UD face every once in awhile. For how much I love home, summer, and old friends; I’m looking forward to this school year. And what’s even better is that my friends from home have cars… that means more visits and more road trips. :) Tomorrow is Friday and I am in a really good mood. Tonight I will probably hang out with ry, c-wood, and maybe nick... i gotta give him a ring.

Oh yah… check out the look section. That is where I’m posting my image galleries. More stuff soon… Keep checking back for the goods. Oh and the title for the post... i'm listening to my favorite the spill canvas song, and thats it.;)

I almost forgot... Tom and I found out this 1337 prog that allows us to play red alert 2 online with the same keys. oh shit this is bad news for everyone else. from now on we don't have lives. so if im online and im not talking... well i'm at war. haha

I can’t believe this weekend is over. Yesterday Brice came up. We went to Ashley’s boyfriend’s, Jeff, 21st birthday party. It was fun. We came back today and just hung out for a lil bit before Brice headed back to Columbus.

Nothing really that new is going on with me. I decided that I want to get my own digital camera… instead of borrowing my dad’s. I want a really good one, but like all things I don’t want to spend money. I really just want one so I can start a portfolio of images for my site. I want something small and that I can carry everywhere easily. I really should spend money and get a really awesome 4-5 MP camera… but I think I am just going to ebay the one Tom has. It is a Canon s110 2 MP digital camera. I can probably get it for around 100 bones. Yah 2 MP doesn’t sound all that great… but for images for my site it will be fine. When my digital imagery 2 class rolls around, I will have to upgrade. But the images the s110 produces are really sharp and good quality images for 2MP. We will see what I can get on ebay.

I keep listening to Jack's Mannequin; the more I listen the more I love it. Every so many days a newer song is leaked from his new album that comes out August 9th. I can’t wait for the whole thing. The new song, I’m Ready; it pretty much has been on repeat, and it is where i got my title. really true in my life... sometimes i wish i could turn off my feelings and my thinking.

i don't know why i’m so down right now. its not like i had a bad day. i just feel really depressed. its not like me at all. i don't get it. i’m counting on tomorrow to be a good day. what’s weird there's absolutely no reason for me to be down. =/ i had a good day at work. i got home and i talked to my best friends bout weekend plans and just the usual. I got a scholarship for $2,000 for some tech thing I applied for before the semester was out. I’m really happy about that, but for some reason im just in the dumpster right now. on the bright side of things… tomorrow is Friday, and im definitely gonna do something with my buds tomorrow and the weekend. Saturday brice is coming up to visit. So that defiantly a plus. My awesome cousins from texas are coming up on Wednesday. They will be here for three weeks. Good stuff. Fuck this! why am I down?!?! Screw it. There is absolutely no reason. *smirking* Life is too short to be down. : ) and it is amazing how music can change the way you feel. This new all-american rejects song just clicked in… Move along, Move along, just to make it through. Well I have to go to bed. I will be thinking positive… and dreaming of my awesome life and how good I have it.

2 hours later: tom completely made my day (or night) what a champ. haha. : )

today is my last day in florida. =/ For how relaxing this vacation as been, i am looking forward to getting home. i wanna see my friends and get back into the groove of things. i’m surprised how much time i spent online while i was here. i thought i wouldn't get to see a website this entire trip. i guess i was wrong. the amount of work i did on my website was remarkable. i think it is my best website yet. there is one thing that i was hoping for this trip... and that was to be a little tanner. i thought for sure two weeks would get me really dark. oh well no biggie. i still got a lot of sun. tomorrow we head home, the 22 hour depressing drive. i am sure it will go well.

If you didn't already know... Andrew McMahon, the lead singer of Something Corporate and Jacks Mannequin, was diagnosed with Leukemia. he is one of my favorite music artists and i am praying for the best... like most fans. when i get home i am going to order an orange remembrance band that says "i will fight" from his song, watch the sky, from absolutepunk.net. they are doing a good deed by supporting him like this. so the next time you see me, i will be wearing it.

First off the list… the spill canvas = absolutely amazing! Be like me and go out and buy their new album, one fell swoop, when it comes out august 9th. You will not be disappointed. Checkout the new songs on their purevolume page! Yes, you guessed it… the title for this post is from one of the new the spill canvas songs called staplegunned, of course.

Like I said in my previous post, that we were going thrift store shopping... well we did today and yesterday. I bought two really nice $2 collared button-down shirts that are label names and probably worth more than 60 dollars each. (brooks brothers and ralph lauren) definitely a good buy. My brother found a really preppy bright pink polo, yellow golf pants, and orange shorts. The dollar he spent was well worth it just for the laughs. I sware the pink polo is something straight from abercrombie and fitch.

Here is my goofball brother, collin, on the golf course posing for j crew. He decided to grow out his facial hair while on vacation. What do you think; amish prep? Yeah definitely. You can checkout a few more photos of him here: 1 2 3. haha.


Other than all this craziness, not much has been going on. I just realized that everyday so far this vacation I have taken a nap. Today was the first day I did not. So I think that’s why I’m more tired than usual right now. Tomorrow we are hitting the links again. I am looking forward to it. :)