blog 9/2/2009

One long awaited thing happened in the past couple of days.Being the 10th year of the ONLY band i am able to call my favourite has come. Three boys i would only ever be seen kissing, have become a reality again.Memories of the topless age of 11, with my 17 year old step brother at the time, moving my room around to 'the album with the cat on it', as i called it. This was of course the Cheshire Cat record Blink 182 made. Going into year 6 at the ever informative primary school, also listening to the new Dude Ranch album, my vocabulary had expanded in all ways required to be cooler than all the fairies in my year.2001, the Enema Of The State album was continuing on to be the most perfect way to start year 7, with my first realisation of my evolving i don't mind (to everything) attitude was handy, so high school felt like it was more fun than it should've been. I was late to get into that album, so it almost felt like The Mark Tom And Travis Show had come out at the same time. After hearing the live album over and over for easily 4 months, i felt like, after learning plenty of naughty words, something alse about the band struck me. I'd become into music the way i was meant to. Instruments. I was so fascinated at Travis's drumming in the live cd, all i wanted was to play drums.I did infact recieve a drum kit from Mum for my 13th birthday. I had 3 teachers, first was a guy i went to school with, after a few lessons and homework, i was learning quick and became better than him, i felt like i taught, we did also have different taste. I then went to an old guy i would pay more than shouting recess and lunch. His lessons were $25 which i thought was a rip considering he'd just play piano along with me every lesson. That only lasted 5 or 6 lessons, i believed he was much of a lone ranger who wanted a little more music, a little less profession. I was left to practice myself, as much as i could, as soon as i got home from school, at 4, until 7 when Home and Away took over the evening. This lasted well into late 2002.Not a new song at the time, but 'Dick Lips' (check lyrics) sadly became a very relevant song in my life at that point i was 14. My Mum started seeing a guy (he was 21, she was 39) i couldn't deal with it at all, i mean really, how was i supposed to deal with that at 14? So I moved to my dad's, which was secretely very fun. I'd spend every second of my free time with two boys a little younger than me. One of them, could play a blink 182 song on guitar, dammit. I soon was spending those spare moments playing guitar with them, endlessely. It wsan't too short lived, but i did grow up, and did move home. The year of 2003, i was turning 16, far too cool for school being so into music. All school was about for me in year 10 for a few weeks was focussing how to figure out how to listen to the new Selftitled Blink 182 album on my discman with out the teacher seeing, which i would suceed most lessons. This album, being possibly one of the best written records i'll ever know. I had learnt all the words to in these few weeks, really made me want to be taught drums again. My sister's new boyfriend, and still now, Jake, who is in the Sydney band Cassette Kids, was soon to become my teacher. He played all the band nights at school, and at the time was in a band called 'From The Sideline' I would watch him every chance i got, he is now i think maybe one of the best punk/rock/indie etc drummers possibly in Australia. I knew he could play all those songs i wanted to so i listened well, every lesson.The 7 years i'd waited for, were there, 8th, 9th, 10th of August, my birthday being the 9th, this was when i realised WHY i was so in love for so long. Far to amazing. Their three-night-in-a-row-concerts. I lived at the Hordern Pavillion it felt. Short months later though, i was only left to cry, which really was the most important part of my life, not just the band, but music, and the reason why i was into bands like Rufio, New Found Glory, The Ataris, NoFx, Finch, The Starting Line, Goldfinger, Allister, Fenix Tx.. they started this music, I just felt like that was all ending. I was saying bye to it. Now 5 and a half years from my tears, i guess i got what i wanted. Blink 182 are really back together, the way they should be. And i will await their new cd, as i would be. This leads me right to my point, how amazing katy perry is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGyqdB_hFxw