Ummm.....

Well, I know it's been a while since my last post. I can't say that I've really been too busy, but you know, being married and having a ten month old who has discovered how to crawl faster then the Flash can take up a bit up of your time. :P

There's not really anything new happening on the home front, just sitting in my living room with the family and watching 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.' It makes me think of my own movies that I'm currently working on. It's been a while since I have really sat down and focused on them and I really need to. I'm pretty proud of the progress that I've made on one of them so far but I hate that damn writer's block! hehehe. One day I'll get it all figured out. It's all just a work in progress at the moment, but hey, I guess you have to begin somewhere, right?

Lately I've also been feeling very nostalgic. I can't really explain why, but it does have something do with Coheed and Cambria. Whenever I really get to thinking about their music or shows that I've been too, it makes me think of the good times that I've spent with friends attending those concerts or the times that I've met the members from the band. I was watching the Neverender documentary the other day and it made me think back to the time that I saw them at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas last summer. I went with a good group of friends and the day of the show we waited all day, literally, by the pool, watching them practice and get the stage set up for the show that night. We talked to Mic quite a bit that day and that was the fourth or fifth time that I had met him. He remembered us as 'The Cake Guys' (we gave Claudio a birthday cake a few months before when we saw their accoustic show in SLC while they were on tour with Linkin Park). He told us that he enjoyed the cake! lol. Chris talked to us for about an hour and half or so, he was cracking jokes and his girlfriend, Jo, was so impressed by the group of guys that were sitting poolside, all wearing black Coheed shirts in the sweltering Vegas heat, waiting all those hours for their favorite band to perform. We also met Wes, the keyboardist that travels with Coheed on tour, and I have to say he is an incredible guy. He just sat there and hung out with us for about 2 hours. Wes was telling us about how he got started playing with Coheed and how he really enjoys the group and how they brought him in and treated him like family pretty much right from the get go. He invited us to come back to the bus afterwards and said that he'll give us some of his own solo material and he'd see what he could do about us meeting Claudio (he was attending San Diego Comic Con that day, promoting Kill-Audio and Evil Ink). The show was intense, probably the most intense Coheed show that I've ever been too, and so far that's 10 and counting. It actually got so crazy that I had an asthma attack and had to see the on site paramedics and get hooked up to an oxygen tank. I missed most of the show and I really felt bummed out. I love seeing this band play. There is no one else like them, that can play with the passion, the intensity, and the skill that they have. Furthermore, they really do love their fans. I do wish that they were coming to Utah sometime this year. I know that they really aren't doing any headlining tours this year, and I know that they are kind of taking a break, by being openers for other bands or performing at a few major festivals, but damn! I don't have any money to travel to other states at the moment and I just hope that they will find a band that they can tour with who will roll through Utah.

Anyway, I guess I'm done with my rant. Until next time.....