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The Darkness Grows as All Light Dies
Sunday, June 28, 2009 @ 2:36 PM
Hello world!!
As I write this, we are all very comfortably out of the sweltering Tennessee heat at the house of our favorite teenaged band, The Summers! Anyone that knows me knows that I complain. A lot! Especially about the weather. Well as bad as it sometimes gets in El Cajon in the summer let me tell you, it ain't got nothing on Yuma and Dallas and Memphis! Hell, when we were driving to Sonic after the show in Dallas we saw one of those signs on banks that have the time and temperature on it and guess what it was? (keep in mind that this was at about 23:15 or so . . . ) 95 degrees!! Is that not just insane?! So all those times I've complained about San Diego weather, well, I had no clue. Al Gore might be right about the whole global warming thing after all :P Hahahaha! You know what else he might be right about? ManBearPig. Look kids, ManBearPig just might find you and eat your soul. Like Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
I'm sure you all know that Michael Jackson died so I don't need to say anything more about that because I'm sure other people have already said more heartfelt and eloquent things anyway.
Let's talk about the tour, shall we? I've already gone over my distaste for the weather. How about the shows? Well those have been pretty BA I must say! Especially Safford AZ. Those kids never ever let us down. Not that the other places on the tour have let us down of course. We have enough love for everyone. Like hippies. Except that we shower. Sometimes. Even though Friday night in Dallas was pretty empty, there were a couple good hardcore awesome people there so we busted out the new song for them. Aren't you jealous? And then Cody nearly passed out after that show from heat exhaustion. Earlier today, Julio decided to work out in the Summer's garage where its nice and hot and then he almost passed out. Silly boys. They need to take a page from my book and learn how to lie down in an air conditioned room when they have the chance! Not to say that I haven't nearly passed out on stage before. Like the time I played a show back in high school with a fever of 104 (I had to sit down during one song so that I wouldn't die) or that time in Phoenix in '05 when I nearly passed out after we were done. Rock n Roll!
As for my personal time well, I finally got around to having myself a little photographic adventure. Good ol' Texas always brings out my love of long exposure shots of lights and the sky. I'm still reading my latest book, Fall of Thanes by Brian Ruckley, part 3 of 3 of the Godless World Trilogy. I've been playing Star Ocean: First Depature on the ol' PSP. Watched a lot of Friends and listened to a lot of Taking Back Sunday, Thrice, Opeth, and the new Moneen on the ol' iPod. I downloaded Hellraiser and Event Horizon to watch sometime in the couple days on the ol' laptop. All the other boys wanna see Transformers 2 but they can count me out. I don't think I'd go even if someone paid my ticket. But, then again, I'm a hater. Old and jaded hater.
I miss my rat babies . . . Chie. Yukiko. Isara. I miss my Mickey boy. I miss comic Wednesdays. Otherwise I'm good to go yo! Let's just sell a lot of records, make a lot of money, get a tour bus with a big rat cage in it and connections at DC and Marvel to get comics delivered to me at venues. Sound like a plan? Ok lets do it.
See ya on the road!!
Patrick
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The Blackest Night Falls From the Skies
Sunday, June 21, 2009 @ 8:36 PM
Greetings world!
I must apologize for being a day late again on my silly weekly blog. Whats my excuse this week you ask? I spent a good portion of yesterday half asleep and nauseous. Oh well! I'm better enough now that I can kick out the jams. Err, I mean, kick out a blog. Whatever.
I need to fold my laundry and pack. For tour. Ya know, tour? Yeah, we're leaving Tuesday morning. It should be fun. I mean, the weather in the rest of the country won't be the best for a sun hater like myself but what can ya do? Aside from the blistering heat of the Southwest and the humidity of the Midwest and South, well, it should be a lovely time! Summer tours usually end up being the most fun for some reason. Kids are out of school and aching for some good entertianment. Until Harry Potter comes out in July I think a Pensive show is just about the best bet for entertainment enjoyment per dollar spent. The set list for tour (for those of you curious) will contain a few unexpected little twists that we hope you might like. We figure we'll mix it up a tiny bit just to keep you on your toes.
For those of you interested, we will indeed be playing a show tomorrow in SD at our usual stomping ground of Channel 1225. Its gonna be tons of fun and we'll be debuting a brand new, never before heard by anyone not in Pensive, Penisve song! Its true, I finished the lyrics finally. I know, silly me takes forever to write lyrics but I can't help it, its not easy for me. I had to sequester myself at B&N in order to get in the proper lyric writing mood. That Santee B&N is a magical place ya know. Its also where I wrote the lyrics for Live Fast and Lost Inside Your Heart. Let's just see if this new as of yet untitled song can live up to such lofty expectations . . . What's it about? Damned if I know! Except it certain instances, I really like to leave that all up to you. Its about whatever you want it to be about. I love direct lyrics that you can tell what they're about (see: Senses Fail) but I just can't pull that lyric style off. I try and then before I know it I'm throwing in all these abstract phrases so eh, I just go with the flow and let the muses direct my pen. So if you wanna hear the song and take a stab at deciphering the lyrics and their meaning, show up at Channel 1225 tomorrow cause you probably won't hear it again for a long long time.
One final note about the new song. Don't let it trick you into thinking that its indicitive of the rest of the songs we're writing. Far from it. It is quite easily the most old school Pensive song we've written which is why we picked it to play live first. Its energetic and upbeat and all that good stuff. But its only one side of the mystery known as Pensive. You should know that well enough now considering if you've listened to Artifacts, its not just 9 more songs that sound like Live Fast. Well, expect that division to grow even wider and wider as we progress through our musical journey. Variety is the spice of life they say. Just wait till you get a listen to the creepy 70's song or the Spanish Thrice song with the Opeth outro or the straight up pop of the pop song!!!
Speaking of Thrice . . . they are indeed gonna save this year of music! Beggars, their new cd is set for a sometime in October release and I'm excited. I'm practically jumping for joy. I loved the Alchemy Index more than most but I feel they're much stronger when they keep their different elements together as opposed to seperate. Though, since they seperated them and explored and strengthened them all, I'm sure when they bring them all back together they'll end up with gold [a nice subtle refernce to alchemy there for ya!]. Moneen has a new EP that just came out and I ordered the vinyl so I can barely wait for it arrive even though I shall be on tour when it does . . . Its true, I obsessively collect vinyls. I just love them! Screw going digital, you'll get my vinyls when you pry them from my cold dead hands!!! [not to say that I don't love my iPod to death but music can't just be 1s and 0s, its just not right] And speaking of new music since this seems to be the new music paragraph *high fives* for Taking Back Sunday for kicking ass and releasing an awesome new cd! Don't take this the wrong way cause I loves me my old school TBS like nobody's business but they evolved like they needed to. I don't think I could be happier with their new sound. Hell, ever since I got it about a week ago, I've had a song from it stuck in my head constantly and its usually a different song each day . . . Now thats what I call impressive!!!
So I think I shall wrap this up cause I do seriously need to go fold my laundry and pack. I will of course try to stay as regular with my blogs as I can but you can understand if I miss it by a couple days, right? And I know I've been commenting a lot of you a lot lately so don't be mad if that kind of slides away on tour since most of our time is spent driving through empty countryside. We're gonna miss all you SD kids but we can't wait to see all the rest of you!
Jack Sawyer
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The Line Between Life and Death
Sunday, June 14, 2009 @ 3:14 PM
Bonjour!
We've gone over this before but no, I don't speak French. Thats about the extent of it right there. Oh, and I know how to *say* [not spell sadly] "I'm a little girl" in French. Chris taught me. He thought it was an appropriate phrase for me to learn. Moving along . . . Do you ever wake up with a song stuck in your head? I do. A lot. One time I woke up with a couples lines from "American Pie" stuck in my head, mainly the line that goes "singing this'll be the day that I die." Not a fun line to wake up to. I didn't die that day though. That was a Warped Tour day actually. In . . . '04 was it? I think so. Anyway, there is a point to this story, don't worry, I'm getting there. Well, I woke up with a song stuck in my head today and its just as random as that. Its "My Happy Ending" by Avril Lavigne. Yeah, I know, thats what I said too! How does that happen? I went to bed listening to Russain Circles and woke up with Avril Lavigne. But hey, there ain't nothing wrong with Avril. Hey, don't take that tone with me! If I wanna like cheesy pop music sometimes, I'm free to! Grrr!!! Anyway, I don't think I've heard that song anytime recently. I guess my mind just pulled up its Avril Lavigne file and selected a song to entertain itself with while I slept. And then decided to hit the "repeat" button. Oh silly brain!
So anyway, where was I? Hmm, I don't seem to have anything to talk about today. Ok, blog over! Or maybe not. Let's do some band talking action now. We'll save the fun geeky stuff for later in the blog. So yeah, this is supposed to be a band blog so let's talk about good ol' Pensive for a bit. For those of you that were at the Jeremy Graduation show, you're already well aware that I promised to have lyrics for a new song by the 22nd. Have I started them yet? Nope! But its on my list of things to do today! I have been actually listening to the little demo recording we have of it over and over for a while though. I might at least have some ideas for a couple lines and maybe even an overall theme but I don't know if it really fits the music. Thats always something I struggle with. I always have a tendency to want to write very esotertic and nonsensical faux poetic lyrics that tend toward the darker edge of things. Not necessarily very fitting for the music that sometimes write [though, score for the Patrick side, we have a couple rather dark and intriguing new songs and I didn't write them, Julio did! How odd is that?]. It kind of worked in Live Fast but I don't want to just repeat that kind of thing. I like to write about life and death a lot it seems. I don't want to fall into that trap though of writing the same songs over and over again. So we'll see if I can deversify a little bit.
Other than writing songs and lyrics and recording demos in our silly little studio, the number one thing on our plate is our 2 upcoming SD shows and the tour that will follow them. How crazy is this: in the month of June, we'll have played in SD 4 times!!! Its not overkill is it? Don't worry, you won't have to put up with having a Pensive show for a couple months after the 22nd ; ) Till September actually. Anyway though, since you've had so many chances to see us lately we'll be changing up the set list a bit at the next few shows so that ya'll don't get bored. So we'll be busting out a few of the lesser played songs and even old one or 2 and perhaps even a suprise. We'll see. We're still deciding. Speaking of old songs, how many of you actually have Something About the Stars??? Wanna know something funny? You know in Spiderman 3 when they're at the restaurant and Peter's gonna propose? The best scene of the movie since it features Bruce Campbell? Yeah, that one. The font for the name of the restaurant behind Mr. Campbell is the same font we used for Something About the Stars! How randomly awesome is that?! Speaking of Spiderman, if anyone is a huge fan you should let me know cause I have something you might want . . .
This coming Wednesday is gonna be last comic day before we leave for a month. Thats sort of sad, don't you think? I'm gonna have a lot of comics waiting for me when I get home!!! My lovely comics shop, Comics 'n Stuff, has a lovely system where you can tell them which books you want and the pull them and save them for you so they really will be there waiting for me! Oh, and that whole week when we get back is gonna be a pretty freakin' epic week in the life of Patrick. I'll get my month worth of missed comics, the Watchmen and Coraline Blu Rays come out the day before we got home, and the day after we get home, Comic Con starts!!! See? Pretty awesome, huh? Speaking of Coraline, did you see it? If not, well, you really really need to! Its not quite Nightmare Before Christmas (what is?!) but it absolutely pwns the hell out of Corpse Bride! Ya know, there have been some pretty awesome movies this year. Coraline, Watchmen, Star Trek, Terminator, UP. Probably others I can't think of. Good start to the year movie studios. What about music? Two Tongues, NFG (eh), Thursday (eh), Silverstein. Anything else? I dunno. Thrice is recording right now. Well, actually, according to their blog, their in the mixing phase so technically they're done recording. I hope that means it'll be out before the end of the year. Maybe Moneen will finally release their follow up to The Red Tree . . . This year needs to be saved!
Did I talk about Batman yet? No. I didn't. Can't go a week without a Batman reference! Pretty much every week now we get a new Batman comic with all the new series they have. Batman & Robin is the flagship as far as I'm concerned but of course Batman was well done. Considering they've been publishing that book for damn near 700 issues now they can't let it suck. Red Robin on the other hand wasn't that great in my eyes. I don't like comics that have less than awesome art. And I like my comics to be kind of more on the wordy side. But thats just my tastes I'm sure. This coming week we've got Batman: Streets of Gotham from our good friend Paul Dini. Don't know who that is? Thats a shame. He's a big part of the 90's animated series and has since written his fair share of Batman comics as well as even been a story editor and executive producer on LOST. What more could you want? Hahaha! Ugh, if I could write just a single issue of a Batman comic and then write an episode of LOST I think my life would be complete. Ok, not really. I'm sure I could come up with all sorts of dream things. Like write a song with Billy Corgan? Have Yoshitaka Amano design a tattoo for me! Anyway, sorry, got a little side tracked there . . . Yeah, so Mr. Dini's book should be good. The week after, we have another Paul Dini book [Gotham City Sirens which is about our favorite bad girls, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman!] and of course, the one that started it all, Detective Comics! [staring Batwoman this time around with a backup story at the end of each issue about her former lover, The Question]. I'm excited. As you can tell from this gigantic paragraph about Batman comics!
Can we squeeze in one more geeky paragraph? Please? I'll make it short, I promise! So last night I finally had some free time on my hands and I used that to watch Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete. It was wonderful. There was so much stuff added in! I loved it!! I mean come on, you all know how I feel about FFVII. Hell, I even drove up to LA back in April of '06 for the one and only theatrical showing of it in English. Tetsuya Nomura walked right past me. I could have reached out and touched him! I loved it back then and I love it even more now. The additional footage is very welcome. Yes, I was sad that they changed a couple lines here and there but it was so minor its not really even worth mentioning. It got me thinking last night about how much those characters are so important to me, how they feel like people I almost know. I know, I know, hold your horses, I couldn't say anything more pathetic and nerdy than that but well, thats just too bad cause I said it! I don't know if I can call them my favorite cast of characters ever though since they face some pretty tough competition from Roland and his gang, Chandler and the rest of the Friends, and Locke and all the LOST cast . . . If I was forced to rank them, well, the best I could do would be give FFVII and the Dark Tower characters a tie for first and the Friends and LOST characters a tie for second. And yes, this is the kind of thing I think about in my free time.
And we're done for this week. Oh, I finished Persona 3 after having started it way back in last September. Go me! I'm sure you couldn't care less about my 3 vs 4 comparisons so I'll skip them. I've rambled too much. See you all next week!
Roland Deschain
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Wake Up, You're Alive
Sunday, June 7, 2009 @ 10:03 PM
Hello everyone.
Don't you just hate it when you've written pretty much an entire blog and due to your own stupidity click "open" instead of "open in a new tab" and lose everything? Yeah, it sucks, doesn't it? Oh well. Such is life. Let's move along and write something better. Shall we? We shall!
Normally, when this happens to me (as it has happened before for numerous other errors of judgement on my part) I'm always faced with the dilema of do I start fresh or attempt to recreate my previous masterpiece. I'm thinking this time around I might just go a different route. Blaze some new territory a bit yeah? Yeah. Let's rock!
Naturally, I assume quite a few of you that are reading this right now were indeed at our show last night. Yes? Yes. Let's see a show of hands please. Raise your hand if you were there . . . Ok, let's see, yes, yes, ok, yeah, hey you, no seriously, raise your hand . . . Ok, yeah, see, I told ya, quite a few. For those you that didn't raise your hand, well, either you're just too shy to raise your hand when your at your computer for fear of people looking at you oddly or you weren't actually there. For those you not there, let's just say you missed one hell of a show! The whole thing was just fantastic! A wonderful line up of amazing bands. All of whom rocked socks off of everyone! Each and everyone of those bands totally deserve your support so go add them up! (Neon, Sky Harbor, The Color of Glass, Yttrium, and Vogue in the Movement)
As for Pensive, well, I never like to comment on our performance mainly seeing as how I can't exactly be an unbiased opinion. Let's just say that it wasn't bad. I can also say that it was tons and tons of fun! As you probably know, it was the Jeremy Show. Cause Jeremy grauated. We came out in all of our graduation robes and then tore into a pretty beastly version of Pomp & Circumstance [aka the graduation march]. The normal Pensive action then took place but we switched up on everyone a bit later on in the set. Instead of rocking Taylor Swift like we've been known to do lately we kicked it old school with a little Ray Charles action! [which I must admit was all sorts of fun! I mean come on, I don't get very many chances to bust out a minor pentatonic solo in your average Pensive set, now do I?] Not quite sure which (if any!) cover we might do going forward but time will tell.
We were gonna surprise everyone last night and play a new song but silly Patrick wasn't able to finish the lyrics on time so therefore it'll have to wait till our next Channel 1225 show. June 22nd. Yes, we do have new songs we've been working on. However, I don't like writing lyrics right away. Why? I dunno, it just doesn't feel right. So I wait till its the last thing to be done. Also since lyrics depend on the vocal melody which is always subject to change, its hard to write lyrics constantly for a song that doesn't have a 100% set melody. Anyway, point being, don't miss the June 22nd show.
Time to move on from the show. Last week was E3. As I mentioned in the last blog. I don't know if any of you really followed in at all but I did. Religously. What did I think of it? I could not have been more disappointed overall. I really don't think I could have been. Really really. < rant >The big announcements from Sony and Microsoft? Motion controls. There's a reason I don't own a Wii. Ok, there's several actually but that's beside the point. Sony also thought they could make waves with the announcement of Final Fantasy XIV. I couldn't care less. Why? Cause its another MMO! Sure, there's a big market out there for them but it just feels so redundant. We'll see if they can make worth my time but my expectations are rock bottom low. At least the new English trailer for FFXIII was amazing and got me way more excited about that one than I was before! My number one announcement though? Easy. Hands down. No contest. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for PSP. Sequel to Snake Eater about the establishment of Outer Heaven staring the original Snake? Sign me up!!! Oh, and Left for Dead 2 already?! Damn you Valve, where's freakin' HL2:Episode 3?!?!< /rant >
Speaking of video games, I decided to party like it was 1994 and bust out a little Super Metroid. It is such a fantastic game! I would be beyond pumped if they announced an HD remake of it. Not 3D, no polygons, just gorgeous HD sprites. Sadly, it won't happen for a long time if ever. Well, I'm sure it'll never happen since Nintendo is more than happy to just pump old school games exactly as they are through the Wii store and earn tons of money. Also why it won't happen? Cause Nintendo doesn't believe in HD gaming. Thats right. The Wii is not HD capable. Sure, it can display in widescreen but so can DVDs and trust me, DVDs are no Blu-Rays . . . Thats a perfect example actually! People complain about games being remade but sometimes I think its appropriate. Sometimes its not like a moving getting remade (like Dawn of the Dead for example [though for my money, I enjoy Zack Snyder's version better!!]), it could be more like wanting to see that movie you've got on VHS on Blu-Ray instead. Ya know? Cause let's be honest, those SNES games that looked great on TVs back in the 90's look pretty bad on HD screens now a days. Though, early PS1 games aged worse. Thats beside the point. I'll stop talking about video games now. I promise.
I think I should wrap this up. I got carried away. I'm sorry. One last thing though. Do you like Star Wars? If you answered yes then you need to see Fanboys. Its out on DVD now. See it. You can thank me later.
Adios!
Darth Patrick
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I Knew the Silence of the World
Saturday, May 30, 2009 @ 11:40 PM
Hello my friends and welcome! Welcome to this week's wonderous installment of Patrick's Weekly Blog!
So, what's on the agenda this week? Well my friends, I have several things that I could talk about. I made notes every time during the week I thought of something I might want to talk about. We'll see if maybe that might be of use in creating a more organized and coherrent blog. Though, naturally, not much about me is coherrent so it might all just be a lost cause. I mean, isn't part of the charm of these blogs their unpredictability? Well, not entirely unpredictable considering that Batman seems to get a mention in everyone . . . And oh don't worry, I do indeed have something to say about Batman again this week. Should I just hop straight to that and get it out of the way? Yeah, let's do it! You might read the first sentence of the next paragraph and wonder what it has to do with Batman but just bare with me, ok?
So, those of you that have been playing along at home probably already saw the video on our page of Bionic Commando featuring the loveliness that is We're All Insane. Yes? Pretty sweet, huh? Just like last week with Live Fast and InFamous (which I still want to get so bad!). Made by the same guys over at Machinima.com. Sadly, that's the last video though. For now. I was thinking though that they could make my life one step closer to complete if when the new Batman: Arkham Asylum game comes out in August they made a video for it featuring another of our songs! I was thinking The Words You Say would be perfect, don't you? What could be better than Pensive and Batman?! Nothing!!! So anyway, who knows if that would even happen but I can dream, right? Either way, whether they do a video of it with us or not, I can't wait for that game. I'm already past the border and I've been hanging out in ObsessionLand for a while now. The more I hear and see, the more I can't wait . . .
Just a quick note. I simply must say how much I love The Smashing Pumpkins. I'm listening to Mellon Collie right now and it just hits me how incredible this cd is. I mean, any cd that I consider my favorite cd ever better be pretty incredible though, huh?
This may not be a big deal to anyone reading this but a couple weeks ago, our play count on our MySpace player passed 500,000. That was pretty freakin' cool. Well, pretty soon, maybe even tomorrow or the next day, we're gonna hit our 10,000th comment! So, anyone reading this should post a comment on our profile cause how sweet would it be to be our 10,000th comment? Wait. That doesn't sound egotistical does it? I sure hope not. Let's just put it this way, I love numbers. They fascinate me. I like to make paterns of numbers. Hell, I get excited if I leave a comment on someone's page that has a cool number. I'm just weird like that maybe. Anyway, yeah. Go you guys for being awesome!!
Gosh, I already had a big paragraph about video games, should I really have another? No. I don't think so. I'll keep it short. E3 starts on Monday. Don't know what that is? Its essentially the biggest gaming confrence of the year where everyone always likes to make their big announcements. Here's hoping we get a release date for FFXIII finally! If you're interested in following the confrence and the announcements, I suggest 1up.com.
Eh, I made a few other notes but I think I'll let them slide. They're just silly stories or rambles. I guess I'll give you one little story. A long long long time ago, I used to work at a Lego kiosk in the mall. Far from the best job, it completely sucked. You couldn't sit, you couldn't eat or drink, and I worked mornings and there were days were I didn't have a single customer so I stood there for 4 hours straight. One day, I was so bored that I started sing Saints and Sailors by Dashboard over and over in my head. I think I went through it at least 20 times before I lost count . . . Its a good song though at least! Good times, good times.
Well, I think that does it for this week. Next week's blog will probably be a day late considering we've got our big show next Saturday and that'll probably be an all day event so don't get worried if there isn't one right away. Then again, its already almost Sunday anyway and is in fact Sunday on the shores of the Atlantic . . . Anyway. Yeah. See you next week!
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Two Sides to Every Story
Sunday, May 24, 2009 @ 12:34 AM
Two Sides to Every Story
Hello world!
Spiders are the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom. Did you know that?
Things have been odd lately. As we accelerate towards the speed of light, time has dialated. The world around us zooms by as we crawl. Almost like time travel. So much going on at once, its almost as if I can't give everything the love and care they need.
So here's a fun fact. There's this game, its called inFamous. I played a demo of it the other night and I must admit it was all sorts of fun! What does this have to do with anything? Well, on one hand, you'd be forgiven for thinking that there's no real point beyond me mentioning a video game since, well, I do it all the time but this time there is in fact a reason! In case you hadn't already seen it on our page, there's a sweet little montage of footage from the game mixed with our very own Live Fast!! How freakin' awesome is that?! Now if only our song was actually in the game . . . Perhaps the sequel! Oh, and if any of you out there have rather sharp ears, you might notice that the song has a bit sharper, clearer sonic quality than before. Why is that? I'm not sure if I'm ready to tell you. I might have to get express permission from the rest of the band. Hmmm. Let's just leave it be for now and maybe you can just chill for a bit with the knowledge that Live Fast sounds super awesome!
Polar bears are the fiercest killers in the animal kingdom. Did you know that?
What are these random quotes about fierce killers? Do yourself a favor and buy "An Evening with Kevin Smith." You can thank me another time. Mr. Smith certainly does love his vulgar expressions though but damn can he tell a story!
Speaking of time travel, I found myself contemplating its complexities again today. Naturally, its all theoretical but still, I can't help myself sometimes. Did you know that before I decided to travel down the path of musical enlightment, I was set on a career in physics. Not counting my Kurt Cobain books, I have more books about astronomy and physics than I do about music. Though, of course, I have more Stephen King books than anything else. I watched IT the other night. I laughed a lot. Its a very funny movie. Sometimes, its supposed be but not most of the time. The book is beyond amazing though. Easily one of his better books. Its a monster of a book [my hardcover clocks in at over 1100 pages] but its so totally worth it.
Saw Terminator today. Hence the thoughts of time travel again. Though, this is the first in the series not to have a plot that hinges on time travel. Anyway, its way freakin' cool so you should see it. See Star Trek first if you haven't though since there is in fact time travel in that movie. Then go see Terminator. Bruce Wayne is a very convincing John Conner.
I'm such a scatter brain tonight. My thoughts just won't align properly into coherrent sentances. For this, I am truly sorry. Even R2-D2 has his off days. Just go watch Empire. C-3PO says that R2 makes mistakes.
I promise I'll talk about more interesting stuff next week, you just wait and see!!! Oh, and since we can't go through a whole blog, its worth noting that unless they're really trying to pull a fast one on us, Dick Grayson has indeed taken on the role of Batman. So my prediction has right. And it looks like Damian Wayne will indeed be filling the role of Robin, just like I predicted but its hard to tell for sure. They just wanna keep delaying the reveal as long as possible to keep people buying. How shameless can they get?
As Porky Pig might say . . . That's all folks! [you can just imagine the stutter]
Solid Snake
P.S. MGS5?!?!? Let's hope so.
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Stay Frosty People! Hudson, Run a Bypass!!
Sunday, May 17, 2009 @ 1:18 AM
Hello hello!
Ya know, I rarely, if ever, come into these blogs knowing what I'm gonna talk about and this week is no different. Fear not, as usual, I'm sure I'll come up with plenty of random things to talk about. Things in the land of Pensive have been rather calm as of late. Been writing ourselves a fun little song down in the studio the past couple days. Its developed into a very unique expression of our individuality. A bit more on the darker half of our inner selfs. Actually, a few of the songs we've got in the works are tending a bit more to the dark side of things as of late. Not heavy, just dark. You'll see when the time is right and then you shall understand the full extent of our masterplans! It will be magnificent.
Things are continuing to shape up for our summer plans as far as touring goes. However, well, we like to save it all up for one big announcement when the time is right so for now you can all just rest easy knowing that we're on it! Like in Pulp Fiction. When Vincent and Jules have the problem with their car and Jules calls Mr. Wallas and Mr. Wallas tells him its all good and that he's on it and that he's sending in the Wolf. Yeah, its like that. We're on it. What ain't no country I ever heard of, they speak English in What?
I think its time to enter the geeky part of the blog so those of you that don't have to stomach for it, well, you've been warned. First up, and most importantly, I think you all know exactly what's on my mind. Yep, you've got it! LOST!!! Oh LOST, it was just so damn epic it hurt! [spoilers abound! read at your own risk. you have been warned!] So, we've finally truly met Jacob and he proved to be as mysterious as we could all have imagined. Clearly, he doesn't age. And he's had interaction with the vast majority, if not all, of the characters. But let's not waste time with a recap, let's get to the theories portion. Now now, I'm sure there's tons of theories floating out there but here's what we've come up with. It looks like John Locke isn't actually alive but is somehow Jacob's friend from the Black Rock scene. Ya know what though, I think we've got it at least part of that figured out. Its the smoke monster! We've seen it take the form of Echo's brother and Ben's daughter and has drawn memories from them before. When Ben "summoned" the smoke monster so that he could be judged, Locke appeared out of the jungle and when they were in the temple and Ben fell into the hole, the monster didn't appear until Locke "left" and Locke didn't come back till the moster was done with Ben. Think about it. Plus, Jacob's friend was wearing black. Black like smoke? Oh yes! Now, what does all this mean? We'll have to wait to see. Is Jacob really dead? He seemed to accept his fate pretty willingly. Perhaps he knew that Jack was gonna change things there by completely undoing his death? Did the nuclear explosion do what it was supposed to do? Can the future really be changed? Only time will tell . . . It physically hurts that we must wait 7 months to see whats gonna happen next. I am beyond obsessed with LOST. We're gonna start watching again from the beginning so we can be super ready for its return 7 months from now. Its gonna be wonderful.
Was that geeky enough for you? Well don't forget the J.J. Abrhams and Damon Lindelof also collaborated on a little movie called Star Trek. We saw it last weekend. It was about time travel as well. It was amazing! You need to see it. Take it from me. I am not a Star Trek fan but this movie swayed me quite a bit. Don't let the time travel plot scare you though. Its very well explained. Oh, and our good friend Zachary Quinto did a fine job becoming Spock. He needs to have more roles beyond just Heroes (which really should be "The Sylar Show").
Let's wrap things up. I'm almost done with Persona 3. Its all sorts of amazing. Makes you think about certain things. Rather depressing things but hey, its all good. Momento mori. We find out who's gonna be the new Batman next week. I'm sure you're thinking to yourself "new" Batman? Yeah. Its true. Bruce Wayne died. Grant Morrison killed him. My guess as to who is gonna be wearing the cape next? Dick Grayson, the original Robin and current Nightwing. And I don't think our good friend Tim Drake is gonna stick around as Robin. My guess is that Damien Wayne will be filling those tights. Do you care? Naw, probably not, but I do. Anything else? Hmm, I don't think so actually.
I swear I had one more thing to discuss but it really doesn't appear so. Oh, Tour Stories! Yeah, Tour Stories. The current episode of TBND. Its good stuff. We've got tons of little out-takes from it that I might at some point try to edit into a bloopers reel. It'd be long, hard work, but I bet you'd giggle a couple times. Like I do. Giggle giggle giggle. Alright. See ya next week. When Terminator comes out. Its gonna be good fun as well I believe. Can you believe that Jeremy has never seen any of the Terminator movies?! Nor any of the Die Hard or Predator or Alien movies?!?! (AvP doesn't count)
Kiyoshi Kojima
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The Calamity From the Sky
Saturday, May 9, 2009 @ 10:31 PM
Howdy world!
We're totally gonna go see Star Trek tomorrow! Am I excited? You bet I am! I've never really been a Trek fan before but I have faith in this movie. Just like I was never an Iron Man fan, I still loved his movie last year. Speaking of movies from last year, I watched The Dark Knight again a couple nights ago. I haven't seen it since I watched it the night I bought it on Blu Ray but let me tell you, its even better than I remembered! I went into this blog promising myself I wouldn't talk about Batman and I broke that promise before the first paragraph was even over! Wow, thats pretty bad, don't ya think?
Let's move on, shall we? I think I'll do some shameless self-promotion. First up, for you San Diego folks, you should already know about our June 6th show in El Cajon. If you didn't, well, now you do. We always make sure that our hometown shows are appropriately epic so you won't want to miss it. You have my word on it. We're still formulating our plans for it at the moment but you can rest assured it will be a once in a lifetime experience. Its not every day that your drummer graduates from high school (damn I'm old!). Other news: we are currently finalizing our plans for our summer tour so expect to see those dates posted in the next couple weeks. We always like to wait till everything is in place before we post stuff.
[don't worry though, I shall have returned to SD by the time Comic-Con starts and even though I waited too long to get my usual 4-day pass (I held off on buying till I knew our plans) but I did get a pass for Thursday and Sunday so thats something at least. I won't get to see the Kevin Smith panel which is always on the Friday night but I'll get to spend more money than I should on the floor!]
Also, and this is big news for us . . . We finally got an official ringtone! So you and all your friends should go ahead and pick it up. I'm sure you know how to find ringtones on your phone so just search for Pensive!
I always try to get this blogs a bit light hearted and enjoyable but I think I need to go on a little rant for a moment so brace yourself. As you might be aware of, there is currently a rather sizeable fire raging near Santa Barbara CA. It was the headlining story on all the evening network news programs. However, whenever there's a fire in San Diego County, its barely a footnote on news shows. Even the 2003 fire here which (if my information is correct . . . Every makes mistakes sometimes. Even R2-D2.) was the largest wildfire in California history. In that fire more than 2400 houses were lost. In the 2007 wildfires, 1500 homes were lost (including our good friend Richard Varshock's home. Now is not the time to go over all that cause that could be a blog on its own, but we're glad Richard is doing better and its great to see him at shows). Do you know how many were lost in this current fire? 47. Now now, I want to make it clear that I am in no way taking anything away from the tragedy that is this current fire or the devestation that the people effected by it must feel. The only point of it is that for some reason, its a big deal where as fires in San Diego are usuall just a quick note at the end of newscasts. The point being, when people tell you there's a bias in news reporting, they're right.
Alright, I'm done being controversial. I'm sorry. Sometimes I just can't help myself when I'm passionate about a subject. Perhaps sometime I'll tell some stories about our fire experiences. They're pretty epic. But not today. Instead I shall move to a much more lighthearted subject!
Let's take about The Band Next Door for a moment, shall we? This week we've got the grand adventures of Julio and Cody in Mexico. Up next week we've got tour stories! Have you ever wanted to know what life on the road is like for us? Well you can find out in just 6 days!! We actually shot this episode twice. The first cut of it just didn't work for any of us. We just didn't do it right and the episode mainly consisted of uninterpted minutes of Julio or I just telling a story. Not ever entertaining. So over the last weekend we scrambled and reshot a bunch of new footage of everyone taking turns telling stories and Steven the video master cut it in with stuff we'd taped on the road and its just awesome! There were lots of funny little moments that didn't make the cut and if I have the time and the skill, I might try to put together a little bloopers reel of sort. But thats only a maybe. I'm not sure if I'll be able to pull it off . . .
In some sad news. I knew this was coming but it still brings a tear to my eye. A couple weeks ago, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children came out on Blu Ray in Japan and it came bundled with a demo of Final Fantasy XIII. Wonderful, huh? Sadly for us English speaking folk, we won't get the same special treatment when we get the Advent Children Blu Ray in June. The problem arises from the fact that in Japan FFXIII is a PS3 exclusive but is gonna be made for both PS3 and XBOX360 in the rest of the world. Why is that a problem? Well they claim that they're not gonna start porting it over to the XBOX till the Japanese version is completed. Which means they're not gonna be able to have a demo ready for the XBOX for a long time since it has probably barely even started to be coded. So even if there could be PS3 demo ready easily, they won't release a demo for only one system. Sad days. And of course, I'm quite sure that Square's decision to go multi-platform in America will delay the eventual release of the game. My guess? December of 2010. A year after the Japanese release. 4 years after FFXII. Far too long considering that in the 4 years from '97 to '01, FFVII through FFX were all released.
End rant #2. I'm just full of rants today, ain't I?
I hope you all have a wonderful week. See you back here next week for another exciting installment of Patrick's Weekly Blogs!
Cid Highwind
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life
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 @ 5:46 PM
Its worth living.
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Your Shirt is Red!!!
Sunday, May 3, 2009 @ 12:26 AM
Hello world!
How is everyone doing tonight? I'm doing wonderfully. You might be asking yourself why and I shall tell you. Its because we're featured on MySpace music right now! How freakin' cool is that?! And oh, also because we've got the next episode of The Band Next Door up now and its all about ME! And well, if we know one thing about me, we should know that I'm quite the little narcissist. Or at least I like to play the role. So yeah, if you haven't check it out yet, its up on YouTube right now!
Speaking of my ankle, when I first returned home from the Chicago area hospital, I spent a couple days and nights on the couch. At first I tried to make it upstairs every night to go to bed, but eventually I was just too tired and in too much pain to crawl up the stairs. I spent most of the first couple weeks at home crawling around because anytime I'd attempt to stand up (naturally, not putting any pressure on my broken ankle) I'd be in terrible pain after just a couple seconds when all the blood would rush to the ankle. I spent most of the time lying on the couch with my ankle propped up on a bunch of pillows. During those days (and now I finally get to the point of all this!) I watched my entire 4 season collection of Batman: The Animated Series!
Along with my alleged narcissism, I think we should all be well aware of my love of all things Batman. It was through the Batman cartoon that I was first introduced to the Caped Crusader. I've always been obsessed ever since then essentially. Even through the dark ages known as "Batman Forever" and "Batman & Robin" (not to be confused with the new comic starting up in June known as "Batman & Robin" that shall be much, much, much better than that dreaded movie). A couple years back, I randomly happened to see the Batman: The Animated Series DVDs at a Barnes & Noble (aka The Happiest Place on Earth) and couldn't resist. Still to this day, that Bruce Wayne / Batman is my favorite. Though, I'd say Heath Ledger is a better Joker than Mark "Luke Skywalker" Hamill. Yes, thats right. Mark Hamill did the voice of the Joker in the cartoon. Oh, and as an added bonus, lots of the voice actors from the animated series are gonna be reprising their roles for the upcoming video game Batman: Arkham Asylum. Needless to say, I'm psyched. Too bad it got pushed back from "late June" to "late Summer." Sad times.
Do you care? I dunno. I always struggle with that question as I write these blogs. I'm always afraid that when I go off on my long little rants about things completely and utterly unrelated to anything Pensive that I lose your interest. Perhaps some feedback here is necessary. If you have any sort of input as to what you'd like to hear about in these weekly blogs, you are more than welcome to leave a comment with your requests. I could tell some stories from the past tour but, well, we just filmed a whole bunch of stuff for an episode about tour stories and until that is all edited and I know which ones we're gonna use for the episode, I think I'll have to save them for later.
Now that I'm home, I have indeed had a chance to pick up the cds that I was speaking of in the last blog though I haven't quite yet had the chance to give them all a good listen. You might have to wait until next week for me to give you a full report.
Have you ever seen Kung Pao: Enter the Fist? Its funny.
I made the most amazing Asain noodles the other night.
Heroes got better as the season drew to a close. Surprisingly. I'm not too happy about what they did to Sylar but alas. I'll just go see him in Star Trek next week.
Lost is still the best show ever made. I wasn't too happy about last week's episode either. He better not really be dead! That just makes me so sad. I'm so curious to know how its all gonna play out in the end. Oh Lost, you keep me in such sweet suspense . . .
Oh, by the way, how did you all like my ultra awesome mustache in the new video? I think I might have to grow me another one of those. Whenever we record our next album, I think a good mustache will help me write better guitar solos, don't you?
Speaking of new albums and guitar solos, well, I think that speaks for itself. No no no, we're not doing a new album. We haven't even begun to work out magic on Artifacts yet! But, we like to be prepared so we're always working on new stuff and I get to throw a little flash into the songs from time to time with a little fretboard fireworks. Very tasty. Mmmm.
Ok, ok, I think that should just about wrap it up for this week. I hope you enjoyed my rambles about Batman and Lost and Heroes. Just like every week. Gotta love tradition, don't ya? See ya next week!
Chosimba One
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