The General Elections

Dudes are campaigning around my estate.
One old lad from Fine Gael, most definitely Christian knocked on my door a few minutes ago, hands me a flyer and starts staring me up and down.
Why?
Probably because I was wearing my Jerry Falwell Ceremony shirt and the dude who was campaigning looked exactly like him haha. Not to mention the whole Christian thing.
Robbedge will know how I feel.
He wouldn't leave my doorstep just chatting away about Eircom Phonewatch or something.
Awkward 5 minutes...

I love this shirt.

HOLIDAYS!

Me and Bryan are going to have more fun than anyone on Wednesday, super excited to see Find A Way for the 1,000,000th time this month. :D

Metal Karaoke is the best thing in the world.
Seriously.
Hel is adding more and more songs all the time so we're all laughin'

Last night me and Martin chilled out played games and drank a few tall boys.
Talked about secrets. Oh the secrets we shared.

I have an interview in Ballyfermot on Friday the day after we're back from holidays.

I thought it was going to be like old man Pickles is trying to take the youth centre and turn all the stray dogs into glue and Marley and Me save the day or something but it was actually very touching.
-Bryan on Marley and Me.

One Time

I've not updated in a while because nothing really has happened.
Like at all.
I finally get my dole pay tomorrow which means $$$ and no more debt.
Everyone is so happy for me I know right?
Looming interest on overdue credit card bills is never nice, especially when it begins to pile up, glad i can get rid of it tomorrow.
Hooray!
(So I can max it out again as soon as possible)

I'm sure everyone knows that Demented has split, I'm not about to comment on the split because I'll have nothing but negative things to say on the matter. Really. The people who I've spoken to about it know what's up anyway, so there is no point in writing about it here.
All I will say is that for the most part I tried my best the last year and put on some great shows and I'll continue to try and do so, although it will be a lot tougher now to get the bands I want.

I've been unwell for a good bit, feeling better then relapsing, today was one of those days.
Probably from all the laughs I do be having before I'm fully better.

Yeah I've nothing else.
Come hang with me tomorrow.

Get down with the sickness

Fuck that.
I slept until like 9pm today only waking up to watch the Merseyside Derby.
I've got lots of muscle pain, headaches and a cough to boot.
It's been a long time since I was sick so I was kinda askin' for it.

That's what I get for sitting at the door in the Boom Boom Room wearing wet clothes.
brr.

So the last few days were pretty good all things aside, got to hang with Jeff from Bomb the Music Industry and he was pretty much the nicest, most enthusiastic guy in the world.
Sos really helped out loads as well as the other Chewy fellahs which was real nice of 'em.
It's nice to have a break til the end of this month from running shows, no better time to be sick I suppose.
:)
Some bad shit though, WOUNDS showing exactly what kind of band they are by pulling out of a show we're putting on. Fuck that.

I'll be round town later on today (THURSDAY) so hit me up.

Achoo

It's getting very hard to stand.

Gutted that there are few videos of his duet with Springsteen, Billy Joel rules.

...

I just don't know anymore. Somebody help me, please.

-Bryan

The Realness

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Let's Ride It Out

I think my house has a ghost, everything keeps flickering on and off and shit.

So I'm 20 now and everything is a laugh.
Last week was too delish, out every night to celebrate haha on top of my party like.

On Saturday myself and Kate (Icepick) were in an alleyway (behind Loop) drinkin' cans, havin' the laugh and chats in the rain, we saw this couple riding in one of the doorways and then Santa.
We spent the next while looking for Karma, it was pretty good we were standing outside it for 5 minutes trying to think where it could be, eventually we looked up and saw the sign.
Embarrassing.
Transmission was about 3 million laughs, I was in a bad mood going home but it's all good.

I'm still waiting for my dole shit, I did my means test and I think I handled it quite well, got all my documentation down, I still have to wait but I'm on top of the list.
The waiting game is the worst game ever.
I've got an over the phone interview as well tomorrow for some job in Dun Laoghaire, I'm gonna have to lie lots haha. Do what ya gotta do in the recession.
My dad is Lee Brown's boss.


The Notorious B.I.G. film is out in 2 weeks and despite pretty mediocre reviews I'm still pretty excited, I downloaded Life After Death after listening to Ready to Die for about 3 months straight and it is the realest shit you'll ever hear.
Let's go see the film, we can make a day of it!

Someone have a party.

Ya'll.

The best things in life are...

Significantly cheaper than they should be...

Today me and Conor were going to hang and drink a few tall boys.
We went up to Tesco in Shankill and spent 20 minutes deciding whether or not to split a crate.

We got a crate (24 bottles of Budweiser), went up to the counter and had some small talk with an old woman, she was chatting away about her bad back, obviously not focusing on the task at hand.

I gave her a 50 and her still going on about her back handed me my change, I said thanks and left the shop.
When I got outside I realised I had 44 euro change, that's right she gave me an extra 20.
The laughs were had. 3 euro for 12 brews each.
I hope that lady's back problems persist but aren't too inconvenient.

I'm 20 tomorrow. Everyone come to Antics with me and Downtown Lee Brown.
:)

This was.

The Laugh

The Carrier

Was great, all my muscles are sore now.
I wish more people came, I felt really shite after it when we lost money yet again.
I feel bad because we owe a lot of people money and they're gonna have to wait for Save Your Breath.

But all the comments about the gig on Moshspace was refreshing and uplifting, glad everyone had a good time, that's why we do it.
Maybe we'll slow it down a bit.
Ah sher.

Roll on Friday.

Disfear are unbelievable, so are Doomriders.
If you don't like these bands, like them.
http://www.mediafire.com/?jmnjyzmetmg

Bryan is a lecherous man.
Some might even say he's a bastard.

19

My external HDD broke. Gutted.
But they're giving me a new one, I lose all my hours of tv shows and films though :(
Also some videos of shows I would have liked to keep, I'll just get 'em off sound Ralphy though.

When me and Claire walked down Dun Laoghaire pier for the first time last year I gave her hassle over it because it was cold and I was tired haha so every time we went out from then on I kinda gave her hassle still, but it's really grown on me. I'm sure she won't read this ;)
Especially at night, no one is there so you get good thinking time, even if you're just walking quietly with someone or talking about secret stuff, I guess you just feel at ease in places like that at night.

It's my birthday on the 21st of January...
This is my last two weeks as a teenager, I was thinking of celebrating with a party in my house on the 16th or 17th which would be a Friday or Saturday and anyone who reads this is invited I guess and would be able to stay over etc...
That is to say if it happens, show me interest people.

I've applied for college next year.

The other day I got The Disco Before The Breakdown by Against Me! on record from Horror Business, I was pretty excited to see it because it's definitely one of my favourite records ever and I never had the 7".

Sure here we are.

I've come to terms with a lot of things in the past week.
It's amazing how you can drift from people and feel isolated from the people you used to be closest to, especially when it's an entire group of people.
Ah well.

"If ya told me bout all this when I was 15, I never would have believed it"

Rochie 09

Hi There!

Fuck, last night was so good thanks for letting me stay over last night Becca. The fact that I'm having difficulty breathing for the last coupe of days is kinda worrying.
My health is slowly deteriorating. :(
But I got a big slab o' cake off the birthday girl because she's off to work at Vogue!
Win/Win aside from not being able to see Becca til February...

Anyway reflection time.

This year was definitely one of the best ever.
There weren't any particular low points at all, aside from certain falling outs...
Making loads of new friends.
I'd name them all but then I'd be a cool dude, you know who ya're.


This year was also the year I started putting on shows with Demented well the year started out with Joebreaker promotions haha.
Needless to say I was still fresh as fuck, still am haha.
This show was incredible but it wasn't without it's hitches.
We lost a lot of money because of a fairly ridiculous guarantee and HUGE van and I didn't get my money back til about 5 months after! Still was the best way to start out as it really made up for the losses at other shows attendance was pretty mass at this show.
We lost the venue later in the year because of drunken slut kids.
After the show Mac asked me to join Demented with him and Sean and sure here I am, originally Mac asked me to join because of my Greystones hook up, so much for that haha.
I was involved in putting on shows I never ever thought I'd put on some of which had us shitting ourselves over money and some which we thought were gravy trains but fell on their arses.
E.G. Ceremony (Still Awesome)
But I think the fact that we finished in positive figures this year shows a lot for all the work we put in, I mean a lot of people don't acknowledge that I'm even in Demented especially touring bands but it's all good because I get the knowing that I put on rad shows that gets all my friends togetha for a gooood time.
Have Heart was the best anything ever.



Joining Real Talk! happened a bit by mistake as well, Mac posted asking looking for people to join his band I said messing that I HAD a bass and later proved that I couldn't play it haha.
And sure I got to play with a group of sound lads, go on a little mini tour of Ireland with No Turning Back and play with some of my favourite bands. We're on a break but sure we'll see how things go in the summer but if 09 is as good as I imagined it would be in 04, we're laughin.

R.I.P. Remikyosh

With all the shows and stuff and then things like games nights in Becca's, going back to Mac's after a night in Fibbers for some Prevo and Prevomania which is becoming less likely that I'll ever win haha, Unlimited Card for Cineworld (Currently in a coma), Ghosties, Jack's 21st, Ciara's Chrimbo Classic, Pirate-x-Ninja's party, finding big bags of Jelly, Notorious B.I.G., traveling with the lads to shows, Pizza Hut with Ruthie, chats with Olivia on the phone because she is almost never available to hang causa college haha, Meteor Offer of a Lifetime, London,
Glassjaw, aside from the fact that they're the worst band ever, MOUSTACHES
Passing out in Classnevin...a lot and hangin with everyone in Classnevin :)
Dudes like Derry who does so much for Demented and the lads. Icepick and Paris
Mark losing his Finches, Fallout 3, Xbox Live Party Chat with the lads, Manchester United grabbing a double and the prospect that 09 will be even better!
Best of all, the fuckin' lads.

Hooray!

I could go on...there is so much more to say but sher fuck it.

Go On.