The last day of november

Well we didn't write that song this week. I thought we wouldn't.
And to top it off I have bad hayfever. Which has made me quite annoyed.
It hasn't been the greatest weekend.
The songwriting is not happening either. It's just switched off. I'm uninspired. Well actually I am a bit by Everyday Sunday but it's still not working very well.
Life at the moment seems a tad grey. You know, kind of boring, same old, same old. I need something to wake me up.
And I'm not talking about coffee either.

Jordan

i believe

i believe i'm a new creation

been planned out just before creation
before the first star in the sky
i was a star in his eye

-rapture ruckus
nate

reggae on drumz rocks!

yea, playing reggae on the drums is so much fun i love it
nate

camp's the best

I really like this picture. We took it at camp in herbetville in January this year. Except in the original Dan looks weird.

edited photo: (the best)


original photo:


nate

convertibles and datson 2-80's

today was another of those really hot days. and to top it off me and dan and jord had to deliver 500 pamphlets over half the town. then i had to run to the bank and deliver something. then i had to run to town and drop off a movie and buy potatoes. beka was picking me up but she wasn't at healthnuts so i had a wild-goose-chase everywhere for her. then i found her. then we had to walk to the supermarket to get pasta and then we finally got home. so now my legs are sore! oh and i saw this mean as yellow convertible with mean wheels. and beka saw a datson 2-80 which she smartly took a picture of. it's really cool. but i was on my bike and i didn't have a camera on my phone. it didn't matter though cause i've been using the same battery on my phone for a whole week without charging it so it kept turning off which was irritatingly annoying when i ran out of pamphlets and had to text mum so she could drop me off some more. but i finally managed it.
nate

9:59

Well I'm here to inform everybody that at the very moment of writing this it is 9:59 pm. And that's New Zealand time.
If I was talking Saudi Arabian time then the people over there wouldn't have even woken up. Lazy bones.
I find it weird to think while we're having summer, over in USA the people over there will be shovelling snow from their driveways.
So spare them a thought when you're melting at Parachute.

Jordan

Microphone stands

Haven't been up to much lately. Did a bit of band practice today. It's sounding pretty good but we need to practice a few of our songs more. Some we've got perfectly but others just need a bit more spicing up.

Problem is it's going to be tricky spicing them up when I'm really the only one who can do any of that. Not that Dan or Nate are suddenly obscure it's just Daniel can't really do that great on the keyboard when he has to use one hand to hold his microphone up (we need a microphone stand!). And even though Nate is the best drummer (for his age) that I've seen, theres not many fiddly bits you can do on drums. Well you know what I mean. You can't even play chords, not to mention notes on them.

It's getting a bit annoying.

Well we're planning on writing What I've done for Myself sometime this week if it all goes well but we probably won't get around to doing it tomorrow cos we've got a paper run.

Man I wish we had another guitarist sometimes. Or even a bass player.

Even though we're pretty good as it is. We just need a microphone stand! This one would do:

Or even this one:

But unfourtunatly we have neither of them. Though that last one looks easy to make...................

Jordan

The Hottest day of the year

I'm sure it was today. Honestly I practically could feel my face melting off when I did the paper run. To top it all off I got hayfever from all the pollen floating around in the muggy air and spent half the day sneezing. All this did not add up for a good band practice at all. It was one of those days when it's hard to do anything except read. I didn't even feel like playing my guitar that much. (Very unusual I assure you)
It was 35 degrees! And this is Dannevirke we're talking about!
Oh well at least we didn't have it as bad as Beka. She had to an exam in this weather!
So hopefully tomorrow it's cooler. Otherwise I'll have to stick my head in the freezer.

Jordan

Happy things

Hey its Dan here, Nate and Jaws are "babysitting" our friends and I'm stuck at home reeeeaaaaaalllllly bored.But I'm still happy for somethings, like our new amp, and freezing ice-blocks on a hot day, and cold rivers to jump into, and cool pictures like this one (see below)

thats it

Dan

Bother

I forgot what I's goin to write about! nice nate

Amp Number 2!!!!

Ok everybody this has got to be one of the most exciting bits of news for our band (apart from Nate's drumkit arriving of course.)
We scored ourselves that amp today! Dan and Dad stayed up last night fixing it and this morning I couldn't wait to get up and try it. Thanks Dad, you're the best!!
The problem was though the fact that it was a bass amp. So Dad said that it should be for my guitar.
I didn't really much like that idea though cos it's quite a bit smaller than my amp. But I gave it a shot anyway and was quite surprised. It makes my guitar sound WAY better. So now it's the guitar amp. And Dan's using my one for his microphone.
There's only one small problem. Seeing as Dan's on the keyboard he can't really play and hold the mike so he has to keep putting it down and picking it up and it's pretty annoying cos he misses out on some parts like that. We really need a microphone stand.
But otherwise it's all sweet. We are seriously up and running now.
Only a concert left t0 go!

Jordan

Well here I am on a friday night....

Well here I am on a Friday night on the computer writing. Rosie's really annoying and won't go to sleep. She keeps saying "Where Mummy?" (its 9:36) Mum and Jord and Beka are at Youth Group. Dad and Dan are making an amp in the workshop, and Josh and Kezi are asleep (unlike Rosie!)
And today I was raking leaves when the raked slipped and hit me in the side of the foot. So now my foot really hurts. So I have nothing else to do but write the blog. And I'm really tired... but its been a good day. Gtg rescue Rosie
nate

Around is finished (finally)

Hey everyone!
We've had a pretty good day today. In the morning after the usual schoolwork we sat down and stuck in to fixing up another one of our songs.
And it worked! Got it all sorted now and it sounds pretty mint. A slow song- not got very many of them.
The rest of the day we went around talking in Yoda voices. It was quite fun. As I said, "Crazy,we are!"
The songwriting process is coming along-very slowly I must admit but at least it's coming along. I've got pieces of at least five songs written down on notepaper by my bed-still got one from August (back when we went skiing!) in there.
It's the finishing off which is the hard bit. The last song I wrote just straight off was ummmmm can't remember. I think it might have been Kiwi on my Wall (which, coincidently was the third song I ever wrote. We've canned the first two.).
Anyway that's about it for today. Oh and someone told me today that our music is very Ameican Punk-ish (which I'd never heard of, but apparently the sound is kinda like Greenday and Stellar Kart.).
So I was pretty stoked about that.

Jordan

everday sunday rule!!!

wow everyday sunday are the meanest band ever! beka heard one of their songs on Life FM so we randomely looked them up. Then they turned out to be really cool. They use PRS (Paul Reed Smith) guitars and their song Find me tonight is sooooo cool. But you can probably read all that about them when you go to their myspace page. (There's a link to it on the right-hand-side of our blog). They're like.... up there near the top of the chart.
nate

I have an official haircutter!

Today we had a rockin' band practice. We did everything right - including Make up your Mind - which went surprisingly well. Beka gave me another rockstar haircut (she's pretty much the official now).
And the new Soul Purpose magazine came out so we've been gluing our eyes to that as well.
nate

Amazing stuff

I couldn't believe it!
Today we played Make up your Mind and it actually worked! It even sounded good!
It was truly amazing.
And I was thinking of canning that too.
Good thing I didn't.

Jordan

I love lists.

I do. It's kind of weird.

So here's one of my lists: The top 5 guitars I'd most like to have.

1. Vox Guitar organ.

Needs no introduction.PRS 513

Because it has five pickups and 13 sounds!3.Gibson Flying V

It's beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!4.Any wooden guitar

It's so smooth and again it's a PRS guitar and Stellar Kart, Everyday Sunday, Kutless, Family Force 5, Linkin Park, Switchfoot and Casting Crowns use PRS guitars.5. A V-wing accustic

I have a thing for these. Ever since I saw one in the Rockshop.

There's a few more actually but I have to go now so that'll do.

Jordan

Everyday Sunday

We found out this real cool band last night called Everyday Sunday. Beka had randomly heard one of their songs on Life Fm, and so I decided to look them up.
I was pretty much blown away. On their Myspace page they had a few of their songs, and they were just awesome. Kind of a bit like Stellar Kart without the keyboard. And with a bit of Kingston thrown in the mix.
It's like a fresh breath of insparation. What I hate in a band is when they sound like some other band. Not their own thing.
But these guys are original.
I wish they were coming to Parachute.

Jordan

Happy days

I've finally managed to get Dad around to fixing that amp! Okay, he hasn't started it yet, but he's said he'll get it finished by the end of the week.
Didn't get much time to practice today as I was pretty busy. Well kinda anyway.
We went on a photoshoot tonight but it was pretty much the same as usual; nothing special. We went into this place where your supposed to walk your dogs. So we pretended Dan was a dog (the things we do to our lead singer!) and went in. Then we saw an actual guy with a dog and it wasn't on a lead. We thought our story wouldn't hold much water so we hid up a tree while Beka took some pictures. Then we went back into Beka's car,turned the radio up and roared down High Street.
(Don't worry-we didn't really! I think Beka was under the speed limit and her car can't roar anyway.)
Happy days mate.

Jordan

Born for this

This is what we were born to do. This is who we are.
And we're not changing to something else.
We are ourselves.
Let's rock the world!

Jordan

Life

It's all going along good here. Haven't done much but we're just polishing up on our stuff, making it sound a lot better. Cos even some of the songs that we've "fixed up" don't sound that great.
Also I keep thinking of real cool openings- I've got about five so far! I think I need to write a few songs to go with them.
So right now we've got a handful of well-polished songs we just need somewhere to play them.
Man I'm busy. Or I would be if I got around to doing all the stuff which I need to. I just like procrastinating.
But I've been thinking (sometimes not such a good idea!).
At time's life seems a bit pointless. Now I'm not trying to sound suicidal here, but it seems like you enter this world, then you work to survive, and try to get above it all, get away from your problems. Then you leave this world. Taking nothing.
It's not pointless though. Sometime's it's boring but never pointless. We have a time limit on this earth and it's what we do with it which counts. We're here to help each other. Not to just get by.
That's what we were created for.
Lets get out there and do it!

Jordan

I just went crazy on the drums

yea i did man it was fun lol
nate

Stars

Lastnite me and Beka and Jords went outside in the dark and did sparklers. Then Beka got a "massive bruise" by kicking something unknown. So we sat on the tramp and looked at the stars which were really pretty.

In the dark....

Woah! I'm writing this whole blog with the computer screen off! So if I make any spelling mistakes its not my fault, k?...... Well I guess it is, actually.
nate

Well today we went to the Dempsters and had the randomest time ever.Then we came home and painted Beka's new room. If you ask me I'm sick of painting. But I can't really do anything about that.
And as soon when it gets dark me and Beka and Jords are going to go outside and play with sparklers and take pictures.
So we're waiting for it to get dark right now.

Nate

Boredom

Sometimes I really think life is so boring.
This morning I was pretty bored.
And guess what? Now that I'm not bored any more, I've thought up about five things I could of done while I was bored.
But I didn't do any of them.
I hate that.
When you're bored you seem to never be able to think of what to do.
It's annoying.
What I wish I had was a recording device. Cos then we could record all our songs and it'd be fun to muck around on.
But I don't have one of them.
So I'll just have to think of something else.

The end

Jaws

Writer's block

Just when you want to write something, all the words disappear from your head.
When you're living as usual, sometime's at the randomest moments you get this sentence, phrase, verse or idea in your head and you have to go and write it down before you forget it.
It's so unreliable and that's the beuty of it.
You can't force a song to happen, it just has to happen.
Otherwise it dosn't work.
Sometime's I wonder where all the ideas come from. Mum reckons they all come from God. I reckon she's right. Some of them just seem so good, so absolutly amazing that you can't really believe we thought of that ourselves.
So at the moment I'm really wanting to write another song for our side project Ground Zero (we havn't had a practice for ages and we're supposed to go to Fuse next year-ARGH!)
but as I've said, I can't think of anthing.
I guess I'll have to wait and see what happens.
That's the only way to do it.
Maybe I'm to distracted. When we went on a ski trip the first time this year I was quite bored on the way back so I had time to think. But the second time round the radio was on full bore on a boring as programme, and it was so annoying me that I couldn't write a scrap. So I just gave up.
I think I must have writer's block.
I still manage to write my blog fine though.

Jordan

One-wheelers

We've had quite a good couple of days. Yesterday we finally thought of something we could do for Around (but then got completely off the subject when Dad came inside and wanted Nate to play something.) Then today we were practicing our new song and my guitar teacher thought it was real good.
Apart from that though we haven't been up to much at all.
Yesterday we went on quite a few photoshoots with Beka, it was pretty cool. I still haven't seen the pictures though.
And today we mostly spent outside mucking around. We built this cool bike ramp and went up it at top speed on Josh's little bmx and it was real cool. Except I'm to big for it and when I did it the first time I ended up accidentally landing on the back wheel so I was doing a one-wheeler.
Then I fell over.
So I decided that I better not for my saftey.

Anyway that's completly off topic. Whatever the topic is.

Jordan

my "early" night

So........havn't been up to much lately except we tried to try another song today. Didn't work so well (didn't work at all actually)
Anyway I was hoping I could write one of those deep and meaningful blogs or even a real random one but Mum was on here and now it's 10. 41 and I was planning to have an early night.
So much for that.
We went on a bit of a photoshoot tonight it was pretty cool. Though I was mostly txting through it and for once Nate was taking all the pictures.
Anyway I better head off to bed cos I'm supposed to be waking up at 6 tomorrow for another photoshoot!
My goodness.
Also I have some very sad news. I was looking up a few bands on Sunday and I found out that My Life Story have decided to call it a day and have disbanded.
I was quite gutted about that.

Jordan

folding papers comes after writing blogs..

I really should be folding the papers but I feel like writing the blog. And besides I just painted the laundry with Mum for an hour. Then I had a shower. And now its 8:00! You know that saying 'time flys when you're having fun'? I reckon its not about time speeding up, but about having so much fun that you forget the time. Because time does'nt speed up. I actually rcckon it does. Very slowly though. Like, half a second every year or around that. This year shot by so quick you can hardly remember it. Woah.. think about that one. I'm going to be up for a while wondering how time can shoot by so quick that you can't remember it. Confusing. Anyway, the moral is time doesn't speed up....... - its just your imagination. And thats about it.
nate

yay!!!!!!

yay! we have our other computer keyboard back. B-D
nate

I should get my learner's.......

I stayed up late last night to watch the election and thank goodness, National came in. Hopefully they do make a change.One thing though. Apparently they're going to raise the driving age to 18.
Dumb.
I havn't been feeling to good lately so we didn't practice anything today not that we had much time anyway. And I felt slightly better after playing my guitar too.
Obviously.

Jordan

man today was funny...

man today was funny. at the church picnic me and william had to find a falling star as part of a scavenger hunt. i had a micheal owen top on (he's a star soccer player) so william picked me up and threw me on the ground! haha i only just got that
nate

Our new keyboard is dumb..

We have a new keyboard on our computer. I hate it. The a, n, e, and m have faded away. And it makes stupid noises when you press a key. And the backspace button is tiny! Its annoying.
nate

politics and writing lessons

I've been real slack lately at writing my blog, but once again there's absolutly nothing to talk
about.
Actually I take it all back. There's always something to talk about.
The hard thing is deciding what.
Like I could be blabbering on about nothing for ages and everyone reading this would say boring and skip to the stellar kart blog.
Enough of the writing lesson.
Oh actually I guess tonight is pretty important cos it's election day.
Now i want to get this straight. I don't like politicians. As a general rule they're always covering something up, slandering each other, or making dumb laws.
The thing which annoys me most is the fact that they don't seem like real people who actually want to do what the people want.
Enough of the politics too.
Still, I'm hoping that National get in. I really am wanting a change for the better for New Zealand.
We'll have to wait and see what happens.

Jordan

P.s there is something funny about the election. someone found a bobblehead of john key in the supermarket and we're going to play a real fun game with it at youth group it's going to be a blast!

Why I don't like reggae

Nothing to report really.
Except I learnt some more reggae today.
So did Nate.
I still don't think we'll put any reggae in our band. Not that I have anything against it. It's just not my style.
End of story.
I'd rather play Tears in Heaven any day.
Actually, to tell the truth, it is quite fun to play cos it sounds so (dare I say that word) funky.
And it's harder than my usual boring down-stroke guitar playing. So it gives me a challenge.
I just don't like listening to it.
Or maybe it's just Spacifix I don't like listening to.
There's actually this kind of annoying reggae song which used to be on the radio all the time, which I thought was pretty cool actually. It was by some guy called Taki Tanne.
Anyway that's quite enough about reggae.
Just goes to show that there's not anything else to write about except my personal tastes in music. So while I'm here I might as state a few more bands whose music I think just rocks.
Daughtry would have to be there. And Kutless. Kingston rock too. I quite like Mumsdollar as well, Fm Static are still the meanest, this Kiwi band which I have not seen yet or even heard much (unfortunatly) called Arm's Reach, Paramore are cool too. And there's this real cool band I've discovered lately called Search the City who sound really awesome so I'd pop them up there too. If you havn't heard Son of a Gun, then look it up, you won't regret it!
If you like rock that is......................

Jordan

We're finished!

Man I'm stoked.
We have finally finished our song after about two weeks of writing, practicing and refining, the 8th song we've written, and musicly the best.
We just completly rip it up when performing it.
Anyway, it took forever to finish but it was worth it. Next time we might fix up one of our older ones; probably a slow song cos we've only got one of them.
Here's the words:

Moonlight Shadows

I'm wide awake/I can't escape/ The shadows of the moonlight/ And I'll accomplish/ My final wish/ To see the sunrise

But I'm not going to break/ It's said and done/ If I can't walk away/ Then I'll run

Where's the sense in it all/ I wasn't planning to fall/ But it seems I've seen my final defeat/
And now I'm slipping away/ Is this my final mistake/ I'm so incomplete/ I need you with me/ Cos I can't see the end of this mystery

Break the chains/ I need a change/ Will I be stuck forever/ And once again/ I'm to blame/
Can we get it back together

I haven't got this far/ Just to fall apart/ I need you more than anyone knows/ I see the truth in these moonlight shadows
(c) copyright Mayday 08

I was so glad when we'd finished it. Bring on the next one!!

Jordan

the new car

wow we have a new car now! Its a real flash Subaru. The seats look they were made for boy racers. They probably were actually.
Anyway Mum and Dad picked it up on Sunday. Unfortunately there wasn't enough room in the car for me and Dan so we went to William & Mitchell's and bounced from the shed roof onto the tramp which kept us occupied for four hours!
Anyway Mum took us for a spin in the car today for the first time. It had a cd player so we put on Daughtry. It was awesome. And now Beka's claimed the other car so we can go on heaps of mean roadtrips.
nate

My weekend

Ok I have been studying my brain out this weekend. Along with playing pool, ping-pong, embracing my pyromaniacness, not txting anyone for a full day, and what's worse not touching my guitar AT ALL for a whole day!!!!!!!!! =O =O =O =O
Along the way I managed to cook up some mince (which apparently with the right combination of mince, nachos and sour cream tasted like catfood- I was severely insulted I tell you), managed to avoid getting pulled out in rips, stared at stars, tried whirling a fire-stick, got in numerous arguments about Pirates of the Caribbean 3, got up to question 120 in the 2006 version of the road code, ate lolly cake, looked at stars, slept under a ping-pong table, wrote out a sign in charcoal, played the most funny game of Supersnap, heard crazy storys involving rubber chickens*, got mad cos I missed a Kingston concert =(), listened to music lots, sung happy birthday, ate M+Ms, jumped over waves and got very wet, watched people try to light some sand on fire, avoided getting sunburnt, saw the coolest sunrise (it was red as!!!) got my photo taken, forgot my toothbrush, had to brush my teeth with my finger, walked through cutting grass in the dark, watched a very funny spoof of the Terminator, used a wooden plak as a fireman's pole, sunk some pool balls, read reader's digest, listened to 12 days of Christmas by Relient K which is the funniest song ever, had milo, used most of my phone's battery by playing a game, and had the best weekend I've had in a long,long time!

Jordan

*It's complicated, I'll explain later

I'm smart

Man I havn't written a blog for so long I almost forgot how to sign in.
Smart.
Jordan