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| So what the heck. Here's an update on my life.
Right now I am in Wichita, KS at our lovely friend Adam's house. We are staying here for the night then off to Kansas City, MO tomorrow. This has been a rather odd tour to say the least. Some nights have been off the chain, and other nights we have played for 5 kids. No complaints though, I'm out "living the dream", if you will... haha.
I just got off the phone a few minutes ago with the Nevertheless dudes and I was informed that I fly out to Nashville on the day after thanksgiving. I believe it's an 8 AM flight, so hopefully I can sleep the whole way. I don't mind flying, but it's not one of my favorite things. So if all goes as planned, I will be able to meet up with them on time and we will head off to Oklahoma for Day 1 of the PUNK THE HALLS tour with Stellar Kart, Eleventyseven, and Manafest. It should be a pretty big deal, I'm excited. UNFORTUNATELY, I am not going out to play drums for Nevertheless. I am actually going to be guitar/drum teching as well as video blogging and a few road management responsibilities. It should be good experience, and a fantastic opportunity to get my foot in the door with some of the biggest acts in the christian music industry. The Nevertheless guys have truely opened a huge door for me, and I am so grateful.
So there it is... my quick update. I know a lot of my friends have been asking about the Nevertheless thing as well as The Tide tour, yadda yadda, and now you know! Life is good. I do, however, miss my girlfriend and my bed very very much. I will be home from November 7th to November 22nd, so if you want to hang... call me up. Love love love.
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| i want to know when it became so hard for people to just simply be kind to one another. this tour has made me realize a lot of things already... but mainly i have come to realize that people are rude. inside the four walls of our van i have encountered so much hate over the past five days and then we play shows and i encounter numerous amounts of kids who would rather beat the shit out of eachother then hug eachother. jesus says we need to love our enemies and kill them with kindness.. im starting to se how little of an effect that truely has. we live in hell. | | |
| Here's whats up. The Tide is having a CD release show TOMORROW at Skelletones in Grand Rapids. I know after that sentance most of you are just going to click the back button and be on your way, but for those of you who read this far... hear me out. I don't want to go into much detail, but The Tide needs you guys now more than ever. It's been one crazy week of personal crap.. it's been an emotional rollercoaster in all of our lives. So all I really have to say is that we would love it if you would all come out, hang with us, let us play some songs for you. You don't even have to buy the new record.. hell, sneak in the back door if you want. But whatever you do, find a way to come out and have a good evening with us. I personally, would love to see all of my friends at this show... i mean ALL of you. Muskegon kids, Fenn. boys, WBR dudes.. Dusty, Dlove, and the whole Kzoo crew, definately all of my friends in the Grand Rapids area... Kara Schadel, don't act like im not talking to you. Grand Haven folks better be in attendance.. drewby, mike penguin. Anyone who has been there from the start in this crazy musical life of mine, I want you there. We have spent the past 8 months making this record a reality, and I just want my friends there to celebrate it with me. Love love love.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH (TOMORROW)
THE TIDE w. Farewell Flight
+Locals
@ Skelletones (Division St., Grand Rapids)
Doors @ 7:00 / $7 to get in
Like I said, I could care less if you buy a record.. but for those who would like on, we will have a limited number of hard copies available.. that were hand made and packaged by Steve. It should be a very intimate night with lots of old friends, I hope you'll join us.
Nicholas
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| It is possible to believe in something, and still not live up to it. | | |
| i'll just sum tonight up in bullet points.
-Thank you to everyone who came out to the show tonight, it was really fun to have an intimate, goofy, fun show like that. It really just felt like we were jamming at the practice space. I had such a fun time.
-I apologize to those of you who were upset with me tonight. I don't know what it is that I always seem to do to make waves with certain people. But I'm sorry, really I am. Forgive me for not spending 110% of my evening talking with you. This statement is not meant to sound self-centered, but when we play Holland, I pretty much know everyone in the room and/or I am the one who asked them to come. I love and appreciate you all, but there is only so much of me to go around. Once again, i'm not trying to sound conceted, that's the only way I really know how to put it. I love everyone and I don't want people to be mad at me, but not only were A LOT of people there to support me tonight, I was also having a very terrible night. I haden't eaten today, and I have been having a hard time staying on a normal diet since the last couple weeks of tour, and I really am starting to feel it mess with me.
-I'm very discontent with everything in my life right now.
-I want a record deal. Now.
-I want to tour the country 300 days a year. Now.
-I want to be ridiculously strong in my faith. Now.
-I want to have a partner in life. Now.
I'm sick of working at everything and feeling like I am getting nowhere. "That's life, I guess."
Goodnight.
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