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I was listening to this, by the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zod2ZQtUdwI

I paused a Fat Pat track to listen to that Juicy Karkass song and it's one of the most regretful decisions I've ever made in my life.

My friend just got her wedding photos back. She found this gem in it.

I mostly used the internet to post on punk message boards. I was way into indie rock and No Idea Records and the only Plan It X bands I listened to were This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb and Against Me!  I saw my first show, Bright Eyes with Her Space Holiday and the Arab Strap, a little after my 13th birthday.  I also got to see Alkaline Trio and Pretty Girls Make Graves that year.  I went to the record store on the first Tuesday of every month because they had 20% off everything and my mom would buy me 3 or 4 CDs at a time.  I think she did that because I didn't really have any friends so I never went to birthday parties or even go out to the movies or the park or the beach with anyone on weekends or during the summer, but she knew I liked listening to music so that was decent substitute for having friends.  I was probably at the peak of my skills as a bassist at that point, too, because I would actually put effort into practicing (I started playing bass when I was 11).  I was obsessed with the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel so I'd stay up all night watching movies like Pi, Funny Ha Ha, City of God, Amelie, the Royal Tenenbaums, pretty much the standard mainstream indie movies.

You guys ever had Vernors ginger ale soda? I think it tastes disgusting.

I just got this dude on my forearm a couple hours ago. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbrUzJlTffs

Jonas is the toughest looking person in that picture.

so happy that dakota was the first person to respond to this thread.

having just moved to canada from the uk i am very excited at the amount of new soda pops i get to try. i am mostly trying to sample every kind of root beer possible but jones's bubblegum is also up my alley, as are most apple flavoured things. the jarritos i've tried have been good. there is also a higher quality of cream soda over here, they were mostly all terrible in the uk. i'm not a huge cream soda fan but could be partial to one once in a while now i know i can get decent ones.

also me and kw are planning a root beer zine so any root beer fans should look out for that in the not too distant future.

I heard that the UK uses a different recipe for Dr Pepper that tastes awful.  Drink a North American for us and report back!

I've got a Dr Pepper tattoo.

One of my favorite sodas is Jarritos.  I think it's the most popular Mexican exported soda so you can find it a lot of places with a large Mexican population.  There are several flavors, my favorite being guava and tamarind.

The shop dude at the barbershop wanted to take my picture after I got a fade.

Is briantightpants (I refuse to refer to the newest alias) really almost 30?

Glen (or is it Glenn?), your life sounds like a Springsteen song.

Are you still in LA or are you gonna move back to a tiny Midwestern town?

 I'm honestly curious about how y'all are doing.  I've been posting on the board for almost 9 years now and many of you have been posting longer and your lives are sure to have changed over time.  I started posting on this board when I was 15 and now I'm 24 and am about to decide on where my life should head now.

I got to thinking about this because of Plan It X Fest, which is currently going on and I'm not there.  I went to the last 2 and it breaks my heart that I'm not watching bands and eating breakfast and getting drunk with all my friends from around the world.  The reason I can't go is because I'm in an intensive summer school program finishing up the last two classes to graduate with my degree in supply chain management.  These are the two classes I've had the most difficulty with since starting university almost 5 years ago, but I'm doing well and will definitely pass and be finished by August.

I currently work part time at my university's music library and have been here for almost a year now.  My first academic library job was a little over 3 years ago in a different library on campus and I didn't enjoy it much so I quit to get back in the food and beverage industry which was a blast.  The hours sucked and were long, but the money was great and the job was fun and my restaurant got to be in the Wall Street Journal, the Zaggat Guide, and countless online journals.  I was having fun, but the hours were too crazy so I quit to come back to standardized library life and sort of fell in love with libraries again.  In my spare time I design t-shirts and other clothes for a small clothing line I own, as well as making posters for local shows.  I've gotten to do posters for some pretty big bands that I never would've thought I'd have the opportunity to draw for.  Some bands include OFF!, Ringworm, Terror, Austin Lucas, Saw Wheel, and FIDLAR.

After I graduate, I hope to continue working in a library, preferably academic, or work at a silk-screening/t-shirt place.  I love my hometown, Houston, very much so if I'm able to land a job here I plan on renting out some office space at my friend's skate warehouse to continue running the t-shirt/clothing and poster business.  The skate warehouse is a huge warehouse some friends of mine rented out in my neighborhood and built some ramps/transitions, benches, and rails in there to skate around in.  I have no idea how they plan on making money off the place to keep it afloat, but I've been once and it was awesome and I took a gander at some of their business plans and talked to a few of their investors and everything seems to be going on track.  If I land a job elsewhere, the only other city I'm willing to move to is Austin because it's pretty safe up there compared to where I live now, as far as violent crime goes.  I've gotten a few career leads in New York City, which would be cool because I dig rent control and urban density and the violent crime is also lower there, but I'm not sure if I'm down to live in another big city again.  I love Bloomington every time I visit so I've been considering moving up there, even though I don't know if I could deal with the cold.  They have one of the best music and business colleges in the country so I occasionally run into a book or a student at my library that is from Bloomington and it makes me miss it terribly.

PRINCE is a great band.  For those of you not in the know, Brad from Rosa/Punkin' Pie fronts it and Orville from OBN IIIs recorded a few tracks for them.

I found this picture of me in high school. I had probably been posting on this board for 2 or 3 years at this point.



Here's a more recent picture of me: