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The king crushing a fans fries after a steal and layup.
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Been busy the last week or so preparing for the LSAT. Now that it’s out of the way, this thing will be getting a bit more love.
In the meantime, here is a quick +/- update of the last two weeks.
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FRIENDS
finishing the LSAT
America
tailgating in America
being allowed back over the border
Blacklisted’s new LP
Devotion’s new LP
fitness
upcoming zine features
new songs
seeing Brand New and CIS
work
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having to wait a month to find out my LSAT score
border guards
Ive been wrestling with the idea of starting a zine for the past couple of months, and always ended up putting off making a decision one way or another.
Well enough fence-sitting, I decided to take on the project, and tonight I completed the first interview, which features Mark Palm.
Mark was the lead singer of Canadian hardcore legends Go It Alone, and he has a new project Devotion which (from what I’ve heard so far), is awesome.
I’ll (hopefully) be completing the rest of the features throughout the next couple of months to have the yet untitled zine available in the early spring.
Stay tuned for more info.
New Band. New Jams.
I’ve been talking about putting together a side project for what seems like forever. Well, as of last night this pipe dream has started to become a reality.
Keep your ear to the street. More info to come.
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…I can sit in a field in the sun.
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I saw this film earlier this week at a screening for the Ancaster Film Festival.
In terms of content, it didn’t teach me much more than what I already knew about the food industry, but it was a necessary reminder of many of the unfortunate and disturbing facts about the food we eat on a daily basis.
It was also the push I was looking for to give vegetarianism a fighting chance; an idea I have been toying with for the past couple of weeks.
The trailer as well as some other interesting information is available on the Food Inc website.
The recording for In Time’s new LP is almost complete.
Due to variety of circumstances, namely scheduling, the recording process for the LP has been stretched out over the last 7 or 8 months, but it is now in its final stages.
Ed and the rest of the guys in the band have been kind enough to have me into the studio a couple of times in the last month, once with Jesse when he was in to record guest vocals on one of the LP tracks, and again today to lend a voice for gang vocals.
Over that time I have been lucky enough to hear about 95% of their new record and what I have heard has certainly exceeded my expectations.
Hopefully this LP helps to turn some heads when it drops, because Die Trying, what I believe to be the magnum opus of the record, is seriously one of the best hardcore songs I have heard in the past couple of years.
Aside from getting to hang out and get a first listen at the new songs, I have also learned the benefit in trying to sing “overtop of the pencil”, and that it somehow helps to keep a bottle of maple syrup handy when recording.
The as yet untitled record should be out on vinyl LP format early 2010.
The Truth Will Reveal Itself is now available through Revhq.com
It feels good to finally have this record readily available and accessible to anyone with an internet connection.
As inconsequential as it may seem, having a 7” available through Revhq.com has been a major goal of mine as soon as RAH decided to progress beyond writing a demo, so it is definitely rewarding to have been a part of record that has made its way onto Rev.
Below is what REV had to say about it.
RAH continue to prove the strength of the Toronto, Canada hardcore scene, bringing this debut 7″ featuring eight songs worth of somewhat mid-tempo, no-frills hardcore punk that never shorts on anger or moshability, for fans of Rival Mob and Outbreak.
A big thank you is in order to Greg and Mike at LABELED for helping to make this record happen.
