THE NEW FURY

I haven't updated this in a while, mainly because I was focusing on finishing school and getting some other stuff out of the way. It was weird that I was somehow busy the past few weeks. Well anyways, I'll break things down for everyone:

School- Finished strong, passed english, graduate on Thursday. The whole situation has given me a very indifferent feeling. The past 4 years I've been yearning for this day to come, and now that it has, I wonder what the fuck I was waiting for. Maybe if I had a plan other than to just "work and hang out" I'd feel better about my future but for right now I can't help but be apprehensive. But on the other hand, it does feel fucking great to be out of high school!

Tattoos- I am getting inked again tomorrow by my friend Ryan, who is also doing an apprenticeship like EMS and doing free tattoos. I will be getting this on my left thigh:

If you read 2 or 3 posts ago, you know I also planned on getting the Comeback Kid tattoo. That idea is still a plan and I've been talking to Suga Bear about it. It's just still a matter of money/the lack there of.

Music- Guts + Glory's last show is less than a week away. People keep asking me how I feel about it, and to be completely honest, I couldn't be more excited. It's nothing against the band or the members, but I feel like we had a good ride and that the engine had run out of fuel, so to speak.

I'm excited about the new band and to be able to a part of something from the beginning. I had a lot of different ideas for how I am going to write lyrically with the new project, but pretty much scrapped everything. All I can tell you is that I am going to really dig deep and get extremely personal with my songwriting. I really want to pour my heart out for this, so that's what I am going to do.

Job- Don't have one yet. FUCK.

Life- I figure now is a good time to get my shit straight and start living the way I want to live. It's not that I wasn't before, but I felt a lot of things were holding me down or back. Now that I'm out of school and am at that "new chapter" in life, I feel like I have a fresh page and I'm reading to start writing the best chapter yet. I got off to a bad start, but that's neither here nor there. I made a mistake, but I will always reap what I sow. Aside from that, I have a lot of goals I set for this summer including:
- QUIT SMOKING (for the 4th fucking time)
- Get in shape (mainly just running, hopefully to replace smoking as a stress reliever)
- Read a few books (any recommendations?)
- Work on writing short stories
- Get the new band completely up and running
I don't feel like any of these are out of reach. The first one will be the hardest and need the most focus. But I need to, and I want to.

That's about it for rght now. This past week my really good friends in Sleep Serapis, Sleep were in Edinboro for a few days and it was great hanging out with them. I love those dudes so much and I really hope to see their hard work pay of for them in the future. We went to Niagara Falls after their Buffalo show on Tuesday, so I'll leave you with 2 photos of that.

Stay you.

Niagara Falls at midnight


Red lights shone on the Falls or rape smoke? Your call.


Song of the day: "Sons and Daughters" by Verse
"Sometimes stepping out of line and walking away from all you know is the hardest thing to leave behind.
A new life defined, now we can defy the greedy men with the greenest of minds.
We never wanted to be seen as a commodity.
I refuse to be an object of a vision that blinds me.
Aggression.
I gotta break the mold.
Aggression.
Never let them take control.
Aggression.
Hands in shackles, minds confined to a cage.
Aggression.
I won’t stop until I’ve broken every chain."