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Saturday, November 08, 2008
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The Same Storm.
Stare Down The Sun has a *NEW* CD on the way! It's only a couple month out. We've got 14 songs on it and it's different than our previous 2 albums. It's got a lot of depth. It's some of the best song writting I've ever been apart of. I think this disc will display a very versitle mix and a tremendous amount of growth since out debut "a better place". I'm excited about this. I can't wait for it to be availible to everyone.
Soo in PRELUDE, PRE-SUPPORT, and PROMOTION we have several upcomming gigs. Here's what the next two months look like...
NOV 13th @ TAMMANY HALL in Worcester, MA. This is a WAAF "Puddle of Mudd Promotion" show. There will be all sorts of give aways and some of the best local talent in the area! Show starts and 9pm.
NOV. 15th @ The WATERFRONT in Holyoke, MA. I'll do an acoustic set to open up then the FULL band will play 2 full sets of old and new songs! 21+ (a couple dollar cover.
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DEC. 17th The LUCKY DOG MUSIC HALL in Worcester, MA. Not sure who else in on the bill but I'll post more when I find out. I think its 18+ and the doors at 8PM.
DEC 28th @ The WATERFRONT BACKROOM. ALL AGES.
If you need anymore specific details, directions, or possible a lift message me on here. And be on the look out for our CD RELEASE PARTY DATE as we should have one soon. Hope to see everyone soon.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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whats popping
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Ok so I'm writing this because I need to be more vocal about what's going on with me musically. I need to get involed in promoting and talking about my band and shows and other projects im working on! So yeah I think im gonna start writting about it. Its just really tough to promote well enough to get people to come out to shows!! So this is an effort to inform and promote all that good stuff.
Soo with the band Stare Down The Sun we are about half way done recording our 3rd album. Right now it's working title is "The Same Storm" so i'll refer to it as that. Anyway the album is slated to have 14 song which is a first for us, as our first two albums had 10 songs each. Personally I feel like this is going to be our best album yet. It is a very diverse album. There are some very bright songs on it. It also has some of the darkest, heaviest songs we've ever wrote. So studio wise, all the song writting is done. The drums are finished and the guitars are about half way done. Up next is the bass then its vocals and harmonies! We're hoping to have the album complete within the next month. Once we send away for duplication we'll set a date for release. We really have a lot invested in this album and we're hoping that through word of mouth and promotion we can get some good support for its release. If you're reading this and you can help spread the word at all please do. We're nothing without our fans and friends.
Ok so in other areas...
I have a another project up and running. It's mostly based off of my acoustic arrangements. It's technically called a "solo" project but I've been getting lots of help from Ben Jon (as always) and Wes Bourque is on board and working with us too! I have about 5 songs written for this album as of now. There is still alot of work to be done with it but I'm very excieted and wanted to mention it. I can't really explain the stlye of music. But I can say its a little more resolute and hopeful than other things that I've done. I guess the best way to describe it is "JOHN MAYERS EVIL TWIN!" someone who heard a song said that once and its actually semi-accurate.
Anway thats what up right now. I also wanted to say THANK-YOU to all of you who have supported us over the years. It is soo appreciated.
Finally I would like to ask all of you to rally behind us and spread the word that we have a new CD comming out! Over the years we've lost touch with alot of people that we would love to see come out!!! Not just to our shows either!! To all shows!! We need to get this scence pumping again!! | ..TABLE>
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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90%
I've been seeing the "Mccain votes with bush 90% of the time" add like every other commercial.. so I decided to check into it. I'm posting this on here to try help refute these insanley misguided adds. Lord knows at a 3 to 1 money advantage Mccain doesnt have the resources to refute them. This is me doing my part to combat an injustice.
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Addressing the "Mccain votes with bush 90% of the time" nonsense
This is honestly one of the more foolish things that I have heard at the DNCC and in the talking points over the last couple of months as the Democrats try and tie McCain as the third term for Bush. It is an effective campaign attempt but it does not make any sense.
Has it occurred to you that George Bush doesn't have a vote in the Senate? So just how do you measure the percentage of times that McCain is voting "with" the president? Well, perhaps you could measure the number of times that a Senator votes with the Republican members. Ahhh … but remember, most Senate votes are unanimous. This would mean that the only way not to "vote with the president" would be not to vote at all. As Dick Morris wrote: "The fact that McCain backs commending a basketball team on its victory doesn't mean that he is in lockstep ideologically with the president."
Morris also points out a series of important issues on which Bush and McCain did not agree:
- McCain fought for campaign finance reform — McCain-Feingold — that Bush resisted and ultimately signed because he had no choice.
- McCain led the battle to restrict interrogation techniques of terror suspects and to ban torture.
- McCain went with Joe Lieberman on a tough measure to curb climate change, something Bush denies is going on.
- McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts when they passed.
- McCain urged the Iraq surge, a posture Bush rejected for years before conceding its wisdom.
- McCain favors FDA regulation of tobacco and sponsored legislation to that effect, a position all but a handful of Republican senators oppose.
- McCain's energy bill, also with Lieberman, is a virtual blueprint for energy independence and development of alternate sources.
- After the Enron scandal, McCain introduced sweeping reforms in corporate governance and legislation to guarantee pensions and prohibit golden parachutes for executives. Bush opposed McCain's changes and the watered-down Sarbanes-Oxley bill eventuated.
- McCain has been harshly critical of congressional overspending, particularly of budgetary earmarks, a position Bush only lately adopted (after the Democrats took over Congress).
Using the same methodology you would probably find that most Democrat senators also voted with Bush 90% of the time.
I have to say more about the economic nonsense that Obama spat out yesterday: Obama's response last night to the charge that he is going to significantly raise taxes on small business owners that are producing 80% of the new jobs in our economy was to say that "I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and start-ups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow."
Obama said he was going to eliminate capital gains taxes. These small businessmen generally don't pay capital gains taxes. They pay income taxes. Obama's plan is to raise the income taxes on these entrepreneurs. Telling the American people that he will cut their capital gains taxes is simply a charade.
Then there's Obama's line about the Republicans and McCain not proposing one penny of tax relief for over 100 million Americans. Sounds good. But if you're educated; if you know the statistics; if you pay attention you will know that the bottom 50% of income earners in this country pay only about 3% of all individual income taxes collected by the federal government. When you get to the bottom 40% that percentage figures drops to zero. Now just what is our current population figure? Around 300 million or so? That would bean that about 120 million Americans have no federal income tax liability at all. Yet there's Obama saying that McCain is offering no tax relief to these people. Relief from what?
There was another line in Obama's speech that is very typical of far-left politicians. Obama seems to feel those with higher incomes in this country have not earned their way. Whatever the wealthy have was given to them, not earned. So Obama tells the adoring crowd that Republicans want to "Give more and more to those with the most, and hope that prosperity will trickle down to the rest." As I said, this is a standard Democrat theme. Wealthy people didn't earn what they have, it was given to them. And since it was given to them, there's nothing really all that wrong with taking more and more of it away from them … just to even things out a bit. Remember, please, that Obama flat-out said that he wants to raise taxes on the rich not to bring in increased government revenues, but to make things more "fair."
This idea that whatever wealthy or successful people have was given to them is reflected in the idea that people should "give back." Charity isn't recognized for what it is; one individual giving some of what they have earned to another in need. No .. it's just someone giving back some of the stuff that was given to them. Accomplishment and the concept of earning seems to have no place in Democrat rhetoric | ..TABLE>
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Monday, October 20, 2008
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Misguided adds
Category: News and Politics
Here are some samples of these MISGUIDED, NEGATIVE, and UNTRUE adds obama is running:
*****Obama's False Medicare Claim
October 20, 2008
He accuses McCain of proposing to cut benefits. Not true.
Summary
In a TV ad and in speeches, Obama is making bogus claims that McCain plans to cut $880 billion from Medicare spending and to reduce benefits.
- A TV spot says McCain's plan requires "cuts in benefits, eligibility or both."
- Obama said in a speech that McCain plans "cuts" that would force seniors to "pay more for your drugs, receive fewer services, and get lower quality care."
These claims are false, and based on a single newspaper report that says no such thing. McCain's policy director states unequivocally that no benefit cuts are envisioned. McCain does propose substantial "savings" through such means as cutting fraud, increased use of information technology in medicine and better handling of expensive chronic diseases. Obama himself proposes some of the same cost-saving measures. We're skeptical that either candidate can deliver the savings they promise, but that's no basis for Obama to accuse McCain of planning huge benefit cuts.*******
*******Obama's Stem Cell Spinning
September 30, 2008
His radio ad is wrong: McCain still supports federal funding for stem cell research.
Summary
An Obama-Biden radio ad hammers McCain for being opposed to stem cell research. Not true. Meanwhile two spots from the McCain-Palin campaign, together with the Republican National Committee, describe McCain's support for the research; they're largely accurate.
By saying that "John McCain has stood in the way – he's opposed stem cell research," the Obama ad seriously misstates the view that McCain has held on this issue since 2001, when he began backing embryonic stem cell research, a position that was out of step with that of many of his fellow Republicans.
The McCain/RNC ads would probably lead listeners to believe that Palin shares McCain's views on this topic. That's not true. But we find that to be a minor flaw compared with the misrepresentation in Obama's ad. *******
*****Obama's Trade Trickery
September 26, 2008
An Obama ad implies that a Pennsylvania plant sent jobs overseas and says that McCain is to blame. That's wrong.
Summary
An Obama-Biden ad ties McCain to the closing of a plant in Pennsylvania. Its assertions are misleading and false:
- The ad says McCain "sold ... out" workers whose factory closed. But there was nothing McCain, or anyone could have done. The factory was making parts for televisions that are becoming obsolete. The company in question has called the ad "misleading."
- It implies jobs were sent to China by saying that workers were paid to "disassemble the plant and ship the equipment to China" and that McCain "supported tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas." But the only things shipped to China were the parts.
- It's misleading to imply that McCain's support for the tax code in question is to blame for companies sending jobs overseas, as we've said before. The Obama-Biden campaign refers to a dynamic of U.S. tax code that allows companies to defer paying corporate income taxes on money they earn overseas and leave overseas. But the relationship to lost jobs is tenuous.******
********Stretching with Biden
September 18, 2008
Obama's running mate gives a twist to McCain's words while stumping in Michigan.
Summary
Biden proved once again that it doesn't take outright falsehoods to create a skewed impression of one's opponent. We found in a Sept. 15 speech that:
- Biden used partial quotes to support his charge that McCain wouldn't help "small borrowers" suffering in the mortgage crisis but would "fight for those that lost their ... real estate investments." In fact, McCain's full quote said he would also fight for those who "lost their jobs" and "savings," and he has proposed assistance for homeowners.
- He said McCain called Sen. Webb's GI Bill proposal "too generous." McCain never used those words. He did support a less-costly version of the bill.
- Biden repeated several other talking points that we've previously critiqued for their spin, including the accusation that McCain would give $4 billion a year in tax cuts to oil companies.*********
*******Scaring Seniors
September 19, 2008
Updated: September 20, 2008
An Obama-Biden ad says McCain supports "cutting benefits in half" for Social Security recipients. False!
Summary
A new Obama ad characterizes the "Bush-McCain privatization plan" as "cutting Social Security Benefits in half." This is a falsehood sure to frighten seniors who rely on their Social Security checks. In truth, McCain does not propose to cut those checks at all.
The ad refers to a Bush proposal from 2005 to hold down the growth of benefits for future retirees. Compared to the buying power of benefits paid to today's retirees, that would not have been a "cut" for anybody. It would have been a "cut" of half only in relation to benefits now promised to retirees who have yet to be born. And for average workers, that "cut" in 2075 was projected by one of Obama's own economic advisers to be 28 percent, not "half."
The ad also says McCain voted "in favor of privatizing Social Security." The term "privatizing" could give the wrong impression. McCain does support creating government-managed accounts that would allow individuals to invest some portion of their Social Security payroll taxes in widely diversified stock or bond funds. ********
... Ok so... There are a whole lot more but I'll stop there. Look, I know Mccain is not innocent in al this. He's put out false adds as well. But nowhere NEAR as many as OBAMA has. The margin is atleast 3 to 1 but probably even more.
So our formula for the presidency changes now...
Lie about accepting caimpagin finance reform + Lie about debating anytime, anywhere + Out spend your opponent by epic proportions + Lie thru your teeth in campaign adds + Use as many scaretactics as you can then X3
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It’s out of control.
Category: News and Politics
Some of the things going on in the presidental race are buring my ass right now. I will probably post a series of blogs to vent this shit out.
The thing that is killing me the most if the 3 to 1 edge Obama has in spending. He's out spending Mccain on TV by 3 to 1. Check these figures out
Michigan - Obama 2.2mil Mccain 642,000
Florida - Obama 2.8mill Mccain 623,000
NC - Obama 1.5Mill Mccain 137,000
PA - Obama 3mill Mccain 807,000
VA - Obama 1.6m Mccain 909,000
This is just fucking ridiculous and frankly not fair. The worst part is the BARACK OBAMA during the democratic primarys AGREEED to FOLLOW the Mccain-Fiengold campaign finance reform (Finegold is a Democrat by the way, again showing mccains bipartisan ability). And then once OBAMA got the nomination he went back on his word and his signature. I can see why he did it now but I just dont think its fair.
I equate this too salary caps in sports. if there were no salary caps in Football, Basketball, Hockey, or Baseball you would see the same 2 or 3 teams wininng every year. A team like tampa bay would have no shot at post season let alone WS.
It really sucks cause it makes it no longer about the issues or the man running, but about money. Ha if I had the kinda money obama had I would be giving him a run for his money in the polls.
I hate injustice and thats what this is. That coupled with the fact that obama lies and said he would follow the bipartisan campaign finance refomr bill really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
PS: Barack Obama has spent more money on negative campaign adds than any other presidental hopeful in HISTORY. He also lied about saying he would debate mccain anytime and anywhere. Instead he fought vigorusly to keep it to 3 presidential debates. When someone challenges someone and they back down it makes me wonder what they are hiding or lacking.
So I guess the formula to get into the white house is skirting around issues, minimal debates, and a shit load of money spent trashing and lying about your opponent in negative campaign adds. Oh and maybe throw a million dollars to a community organizing company that has a radical liberal agenda and practices voter fraud.
The will be more to come...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
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Free our minds or bound our spirits.
Okay so It's like 1am on september 3rd 2008. I just finished watching VP nominee Sarah Palin deliver her speech at the republican national convention. You see what I find to be really disturbing is that there are MANY people, WAAY too many who will now not be open to the rest of this blog. Simply because I just mentioned the word 'republican'. They may still continue to read in disgust, But they will already have pre-conceived notions about words they have yet to read. This disheartends me...
Let me tell you I register as 'Unenrolled'. Which is another term for Independant. I have no party affiliation. To be fair and honest I will say that after what I've seen in the past two weeks I am warming up to presidential hopeful, senator John Mccain. That last statement in no way means that I have made up my mind. I'm just relaying to you that I have kept my mind open long enough to hear, to actually hear what BOTH sides have been saying. And from what i hear from a lot of people I know, that is a very rare thing. It's saddens me that people make up there mind before anything really happens, and before they know much other than names and party affiliation. Another thing that really gets me is the people who vote without actually researching either candidate. They vote because they like the way this guy looks or sounds, or all their friends are voting for him/her. Rather than seeking out the issues and voting for someone that will make a difference to them and the things they stand for. I guess the argument for that is, there are many people who don't know what they stand for or simply don't want to stand for anything. If thats the case, wake up!! Stand for something - anything. Ah, I guess in a funny wierd way this is just the democratic process.
Anyway, The real campagining hasn't even started yet, and people have already closed off their minds. Mind you that I am speaking of both 'democrats' and 'republicans' alike. I'm not writing this blog to push one candiate over another. I have no political agenda what-so-ever in writing this. I just urge any and all who read this, please try to stay open. Try to remain unbiased as long as you can! I'm gonna sum this whole rant up with a quote that I really love and that has resonated with me ever since I read it...
'There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that prinicple is contempt prior to investigation.'
-Herbert Spencer.
Keep an open mind to all things a like. What have you got to lose?
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Saturday, August 02, 2008
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Other worldly self edits.
Current mood:  bullied
So I'm stuck in my own head today!! It's like I can't get out. I keep fucking with my self, realizing it, stoping it, then doing it all over again! It's the text book definition of insanity (doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result) I've been insane my whole life according to that definition! The amount of self sabotage in me is startling. It's like a part of me wants me to suffer, wants me to obsess, and ultimately wants me to fail! Like what the fuck is that!? It's exhausting, all this inner conflict! I have like a million and one fights with myself everyday. It's like I have a reality TV show going on up in my head
I just need to accept one thing; That there is a god, and i'm not him. When I play god, I lose. I truly believe there is a god (or a higher power or whatever you want to call it. My interpratation may be different than yours and thats ok.) But yeah, I really do believe. The problem is I don't have FAITH in it yet. The big difference between belief and faith is.. TRUST. I can believe something all I want but i'll never get past the surface or give in or let go until I have FAITH in somthing/someone. Until i TRUST.
Haha, I actually feel a little better now that i BLOGGED about that. I usually just get more pissed when I write these! Anyway, I think all I have to do is stay out of my own way today. I just need to try to remain useful and teachable today and maybe i'll have a shot tomorrow. Ok thats it. Bye-m
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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What happens in the space between confrontation and rage...
Current mood:  irritated
... I do not profess to know
But I do know that i'm pretty pissed off today! I'm so frustrated by just about everything thats going on around me! I'm trying so hard and doing the right thing, and it's like when the fuck is that gonna pay off? I had a good job. A really good job. For once in my life I liked my job. And what happens? They cut the company in half and I'm on the short end!! I can't get my arms around why I had to lose that job. Now I'm stuck looking for a job and there is NOTHING out there. I just don't get it. I really don't. Like I said I've been doing the right thing day in and day out and this is the kinda shit I get for it!? And to top it off I'm lonely as hell. Each time I think maybe I found someone or the right situation for me, some crazy shit happens. Or I realize that the situatuion would jeporodize what I'm doing. So here I am, no job, no girl, nothing. Just a bed, a car with out gas, and guitar!! Anyone know of any jobs out there? Decent ones? Or any normal non-psycho women?
I know this is just life happening and I trust that a higher power has a plan for me. But sometimes it feels hopeless. I just gotta keep pluggin away and make the next right desicion. I just want more from life, but man it can be a bitch trying to get it.
I think it was freud who said somthing like "Life is the ability to work and the capacity to love".... I got em both. It's just where's the work and where's the love?
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
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Filter, Bullshit, On.
Current mood:  virginal
I don't usually blog. Ah blog, thats such an ugly word. Don't you think? Anyway, I'm not sure why I'm writing this. I just feel compelled to write. I'm sure it has a lot to do with boredom. I feel like a shell of what I use to be. What I use to be? I don't even know what that is. I don't know who the fuck or what the fuck I am. Let alone where I belong in this world. You see, I can't remember much of my childhood. I vaguely remember being a early teenager, and I've been high, drunk, or some sort of fucked up ever since then. So now here I am, 10 weeks sober and I haven't the slightest clue how to live like you mortals. You humans. Sure I hear all sorts of advice. All sorts of stupid little cliche's that make me wanna puke everytime I hear them. You know them all, and I enjoyed my dinner too much to take the chance of losing it by typing them out. So is that my only hope? My only shot at making my life right? Adopting one of those stupid fucking sayings? Framing them and hanging them all over my apartment? Looking in the mirror and repeating them over, and over, and over? Maybe a self help book or too? Oh wait I know! Doctor fucking phil holds the answers to all my problems. The second comming of christ with his day time talk show! The truth is no one knows. And I guess thats where I get most of my comfort. Thats where I get my hope. Granted, I only have just enough of both, but it keeps me hanging in there. It's a great relief to realize no one knows fucking shit when it comes to this. It's great to know I don't have to rely on a spiritual book, or be a sappy babbiling cliche to have a shot at figuring this shit out. And it's never gonna be perfect. It's never gonna be easy. But it has to be me. It has to be my way. Not some fucking quote, or a fucking yoga class. It has to be unique. Cause thats what I am. Thats what you are. If it's not unique, it's not real. And if it's not real, good luck/
And I don't give a fuck if that doesn't make sense.
It does to me.
-m
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