Monday, December 21, 2009

Totally Crushed Out

A little while ago, I decided to launch a new webzine called Totally Crushed Out. It's not unlike how this blog started, but there's a lot less rambling and a bit more generalized (not so much music, even though that's the majority of the posts right now, though I hope it will change with time). I am also not the only person who is writing for it, which is always a plus (i.e. less stressful). In the new year, we'll have some merch and whatnot, so update your bookmarks. Totally Crushed Out is the new Chasing Coolness.

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Sunday, May 18, 2008

ruining my favorite comics

last week, james and i saw "forgetting sarah marshall" and the trailer for "wanted" played before the flick. ugh.

for those of you who aren't total nerds, "wanted" was this sweet comic by mark millar that was about a secret league of assassins; this movie makes said group look like a bunch of pussies with morgan freeman as (probably) the only redeeming quality of the flick. angelina jolie's in it but she tends to ruin movies for me (except for "hackers").

a few years ago, mark millar expressed interest in getting eminem to play the lead guy, which would've been much better since homedude looks like marshall mathers in the comic.

anyway, this trailer did not look appealing at all. what a crock of shit.

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Thursday, May 15, 2008

updates and shit...

so as you may have noticed, i'm in the process of shuttering stay off the crack. there's just really no need for it. i guess if i were so inclined, i could spout off about my personal life here (but don't hold your breath). anyway, i have a bunch of reviews and whatnot ready to post. i just have a ton of freelance stuff right now and because writing posts for this site doesn't pay my water bill, i have to do that other shit first. my bad.

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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Promoting My Peeps

Every now and then, I decide to stop being such a selfish bastard and help out my peeps. So here's what's goin' on:

NEW Redefine Magazine! Now with National Distribution!

The Meltdown Continues to Melt Faces Post-Bamboozle Left!

My friend Matt is also going on tour with his solo project, Hair Envelope. I can't access his Myspace on the company computer, but if you do a search for that name, it should come up.

Excelsior!

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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

MAJOR ANNOUCEMENT!!!! [APRIL FOOLZ]


Chasing Coolness @ BAMBOOZLE LEFT? WHAT?

That's right childrens, Chasing Coolness a.k.a. Ryan P. is skraight hittin' the best state in the Union to interview a billion awesome bands for this year's Bamboozle. For real. I'm doing the official blogging for the Bamboozle fansite, Boozle'd, and I'm doing real-time coverage of a plethora of sweet bands like Dance Gavin Dance, NFG, Paramore (Hayley what up?), The Starting Line, From First to Last and Metro Station.

I am totes stoked for this!!!!!! California peeps, I hope you have a place for me to crash!!! You herbs wanna go out and get In-N-Out with me? Sweetness!!!!!

Let's hook it up!!!!!

Bomb the comments and let me know where the parties are at. I'm going to be rolling with a camera crew and a microphone, getting in ya faces. On the real, all you crabs know the deal!

[EDIT]
I apologize to all my friends who fell for this and for my non-friends who accused me of being a hypocrite, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. You fell for that jawn hook, line and stinker. Anyway, I won't be at Bamboozle Left, but my friends Ilene and Mike who spearhead both High Voltage Media and The Meltdown have a booth there, so if you are attending, support their booth. They have some awesome action figures and other nerd shit that their showcasing.

Also, my review of the Bamboozle Road Show is up on Redefine. Bee'lee dat.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Finally! How I Met Your Mother is Back! (and other random updates)

Last night, CBS aired a new, post-strike episode of "How I Met Your Mother." And, despite a few clunky moments, it was really, really flippin' good. I can say that as person who has gone through crazy situations (particularly post-break up) that I can relate to Ted's desire to live it up and act like you don't have to be accountable for choices that you make. But eventually you do, hence the morality spin at the end.

Anyway, I'm getting back to living a semblance of a normal life again. These last few weeks have been crazy. I did some interviews for (of all things) a couple high school newspapers (!), started posting chapters from my unreleased book over on Stay Off the Crack, putting the finishing touches on my demo and getting my place ready for my lady friend who will be out here in a few weeks.

It's interesting that all I wanted was to calm down a little after session, but now I'm finding myself being thrown back into the fire.

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As you may have noticed, I decided to do some spring cleaning and update the links and change the layout of the site. I'm too busy (re: lazy) to actually design something completely new so I went with one of Blogger's better looking default layouts. I also thought about bringing Backed With back since I haven't touched it since last year.

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

to quote erick sermon...

"don't mess with me, or i'll barack o-bomb ya"


http://barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com/

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