I am so awful at keeping blogs.


Sometimes I find myself not knowing why I even bother attempting to do it, although I know deep down inside it's because I'm way too lazy to keep a physical journal of sorts, so a blog is the perfect thing for me.


in other news:
NO has some new recordings. Three rough-sounding practices. Kind of like a live demo.
Actually, that's exactly what they are.
I'll upload those at some point. They all feature the exact same songs, but we'd switch them up sometimes. Specifically, there are the short and extended versions of Learn to Share and Environmental Song, while most others are pretty much the same.
The second and third ones feature (I use that word loosely, because they're mixed so poorly) our new guitarist. We call her Chelsea Smiles on our myspace page.
Saturday is NYPIRG's Rock the Vote. NO is playing at said Rock the Vote. It begins at 11 AM. NO is playing at 11 AM. Jimmy and I are convinced that NYPIRG hates NO.

I "started" a side-project with my friend Pete. We haven't actually gotten together and shared songs with each other, but we've decided that when we can, we'd get our acoustics out and jam or something. This might be the best chance I get to use the songs I wrote over the summer (especially 'Flyswatter' and 'dotorg'... I really like those two).

I hear Tom Gabel has a solo EP coming out later this month. The title? Heart Burns. Fuck. Guess I have to rename those homemade Against Me! rarity collections.

I can't believe it's the last day of September. Where the fuck does the time go?

Where oh where oh where oh where oh where oh where oh where did you get that stupid shit eating grin that you wear?

There was a battle of the bands on the SUNY New Paltz campus today.

and by 'battle of the bands' I mean a pre-determined line up including bands not from the area and bands who were best friends of the promoter. It was more like a concert, as there was never any sort of sign-up for local bands, just a small sentence on a Facebook group saying you should contact the promoter if you wanted to play. Which is what Jimmy, my drummer did, and we still got rejected because the line up was already too full.

whatever the fuck that means. you'd think bands full of students who attend the school would have priority, but whatever.

the good news is that NO! (formerly known as The Mania) will be playing a show in the same spot anyway. For a better cause too. It'll be for the [first] [annual?] Rock the Vote show on October 4th. If you're in the area (New Paltz), fucking check us out!


also, I guess I'm changing up the format to this blog. No more music only stuff. Though next time NO! records something, I'll probably put it up here.