after 3 1/2 days in new york...

i have...

- been recognized and greeted by Jared Leto
- been hit on at least once (female)
- started three (3) new songs
- finished zero (0) songs
- been hit on at least once (male)
- ridden the subway thirteen (13) times, not including transfers
- taken two (2) cabs
- eaten two (2) falafels
- ridden on a plane with Chingy (rap star)
- ridden on a plane with one (1) aspiring science fiction novelist
- eaten one (1) chocolate cupcake from Magnolia Bakery (every bit as good as they say)
and,
- seen one (1) Broadway play (The Producers)

more to come soon. =)

so rad

today i met someone whos actual california license plate reads...

ready...

SO RAD


that is so.... rad!

snakes on a blog (shits in a theater)

just saw snakes on a plane. maybe you (YOU) like these type of cheesy thriller movies; i guess i don't. one of the worst things i have ever seen. =)

in one week i'll be here...

wooo!!!

post warped, still warped.

i left on a plane the day of the warped tour in cleveland. it was our last show. the runner for NOFX gave me a ride to the airport; i was picked up and the next morning went camping. straight from 60-day sweat-fest to 3-family social rumble was one of the worst decisions i have ever made. =) i was anxious, completely exhausted and afraid, and i went home early with my mom. since then, i have rested quite a bit, which is nice, but i can barely even get in the right mind for writing songs. so i have been demoing them for our band. no, you can't hear the demos =) they are terrible and onlky for the purposes of rough rough sketching so everyone can hear what's in my head.

this is a boting blog, but is a little more like what people generally blog about, and why they do: to get stuff out of their heads. kind of like the demos. out of my head. so then i guess it is full circle.

i started a podcast -- if you want to subscribe, go here:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=181770572

still resting, and excited about going to manhattan for 6 days,
daniel

FIRST PODCAST!!!

Well friends, I have done it. I have begun my life as a podcaster. I think this job fits well... For my first podcast, I wanted to start off easy, and definitely avoid any legal complications. Therefore, I started with a relatively short one, about 25 minutes, just 7 songs. Testing the waters. All bands that I know personally, so hopefully no one will get too mad at me for broadcasting their music. Some of these bands contain very close friends, while others I've only spent time with once or twice; some are in between those poles. But all 7 songs are awesome, and I hope you like them. Here is the tracklisting of Episode 1 of "Beards Are Attractive To Women.":

1. The Sounds - Seven Days A Week (great Swedish dance-pop, met them on Warped Tour)
2. Against Me! - Don't Lose Touch (also from Warped, amazing dudes, my favorite song of theirs)
3. Satisfaction - Nothing, Oh Nothing (singer/songwriter Michael Rosas produced the first couple Sherwood releases, engineered the Summer EP, and is a phenomenal musician, as are the rest of his band -- UNSIGNED)
4. Waking Ashland - Telescopes (two of my best friends in the world, this is from their latest EP)
5. Hot Vegas - Struck Down (young Atlanta band with great potential -- UNSIGNED)
6. Watashi Wa - 10 Years In Separating States (have known Seth, the singer/writer, for many many years; this is his old band but I love the song; new band is called Lakes and they are on the Militia Group now)
7. Surrogate - Upsidedown Pictures (singer/writer Chris Keene played keys in Sherwood for a short time a while back, then in Number One Gun; this is his new project, I think it's coming out on Tooth & Nail Records, and I think Chris Armstrong, our old guitarist/current muse has something to do with it... such a beautiful song. When I first showed it to my friend Thaddeus, he made me repeat it multiple times and demanded I give him a copy)

If you don't know how to podcast, just download iTunes (or you may already have it), and I am sure there is some sort of tutorial there. Or just search it on Google... Right now you can just download the file from my podcast directory, here:

Beards... File Directory

Don't worry about downloading the ads, just download "episode1.m4p" or whatever. Soon it should publish via iTunes, and then you can just subscribe, and anytime I post a new podcast, your computer will more or less automatically download it, and then you can stick it on your iPod or just listen in iTunes. Enjoy =) Let me know what you think; I have an email address for the podcast:

byebyebeardy@gmail.com

with much technological excitement,
dan

warped tour is almost over.

a few thoughts...

i love the sounds
i have enjoyed hanging with nofx, and even made it into one of their press releases (regarding the underoath controversy).
i have never had a smellier body (since mid-puberty).
i have never traveled to more cities and seen so few actually cool places and things.
i have never seen more parking lots.
i was frustrated that most days i was awakened by very loud knocking on the RV around 7am, demanding i re-park the vehicle, after i we were told to park it right where we sit.
i feel that hanging out with people like the members of nofx, the bouncing souls, against me, etc. has significantly helped me to find my vocation as a person and a person of faith.
and lastly,

i have learned that any time where i am covered in gold bond powder, exhausted and/or sweaty, suffering from lack of true sleep and worrying about whether or not we are running out of Youth Medium t-shirts, the last thing i want to do is write a blog.

so i'll be back soon, friends. i'll be back soon...

dan