Nick's online journal of burning love

The site that auto-posted all my Twitter updates to LJ has gone under. That makes me sad. I'm currently searching for an alternative. I don't want to abandon it for LJText because there are lots of friends on Twitter that aren't on LJ, etc, etc. If any of you know of an alternative site that will do the same type of service, please lemme know!

All my various groups of family, friends, music biz acquaintances are spread across five or six different social networking sites. Someone should design one big site that combines all of them into one customizable screen.

Let me know when it's done, okay?

Freedom isn't free.

No, there's a hefty fuckin' fee.

• 16:12 Back from an awesome Flagstaff gig! I love that town. New cover song in the works. It's gonna be a 'Kick'... #

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• 14:08 The house show fucking KILLED last night! Holy shit. Hitting the road to Flagstaff for tonight's show! #
• 16:49 Traffic jam on the way to Flagstaff. My weiner is displeased. #

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• 17:32 Finished writing "Cutthroat Business", just in time for the new tour! Huzzah for new Limit Club songs! #
• 10:21 twitpic.com/8h8ll - Fwd: DSC00056 #
• 11:35 Practice was canceled. Now hanging out with Suze, drinking coffee and playing Bookworm. #

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• 18:10 It always makes me inexplicably happy and sad when I get notice of a friend getting married. Congratulations Mark. #
• 18:43 @DerikEnvy I saw the Front when I was in Casper Wyoming earlier this year. They're a great power-pop band. Looks like a good show! #

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• 01:15 Saw 'Year One' with the Returners and Annie. Now playing drunk Uno with Janessa and Juan. Good night indeed. #

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• 02:45 Just got home. Played with VideoNasties @ Jughead's, then saw Mummies tribute band at Yucca Tap Room. Twas a good night. #
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• 18:42 We will listen to Wesley Willis - Greatest Hits Vol 1 and 2 in their entirety en route to a tour gig. Oh yes. Rock over London. Rock on ... #
• 23:50 Just watched The Wrestler. Good movie, but what a downer. Boner thoroughly killed. #

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• 00:06 I am so done with the internet. #

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• 20:54 DJing at Rogue West in about an hour! #

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• 17:29 Moustache Party pics are up: beatnick138.livejournal.com/ #

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We just can't seem to have a party without:

- Fireworks
- Nudity
- Somebody puking

( Here are the photos. )

• 18:48 Going to see Peter Murphy with Annie. Hangover City. Moustache Party was a great success! #
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• 21:35 Pete is covering NIN's 'Hurt'. What the...? #
• 21:58 Too Much 21st Century! I'm kinda surprised he's playing a Bauhaus song. #
• 22:14 twitpic.com/7g3ai - #
• 22:16 In the middle of Strange Kind of Love, they switched to Bela Lugosi's Dead. How awesome! #
• 22:17 Now it's the Passion of Lovers! #
• 22:30 twitpic.com/7g46w - #
• 22:41 She's In Parties... David Bowie's Space Oddity! No Cuts You Up or Hit Song though. #
• 11:58 @Laurenski The Moustache Party was awesome! Pics coming soon. #

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• 13:35 Moustache party a my house tonight! Shit goes down around 9ish. #

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• 13:15 @JhnnyN Where da white bitches at?! #
• 14:58 I think Patti Smith and Joey Ramone are the same person. Has anyone ever seen the two of them together? Didn't think so. #

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• 15:34 @definedbyclass twitpic.com/75euo - Butt fucking friend. #
• 22:59 Lindsay getting a button maker was one of the coolest things ever to happen. #

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• 15:43 Had a great time at Rogue West last night. Johnny, Deisy, Linz, Jim, Charlie and Michelle... you guys rule. #

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• 16:34 twitpic.com/70b0z - #
• 18:57 @s14atdi twitpic.com/70k7x - That was a good cheese stick. #

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• 12:38 Going to the post office to mail an EPIC amount of Limit Club crap. This is going to cost a fortune. O_o #
• 16:58 @Biiiancaaaa I will puke in your firepit. This is my new mission. #

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• 15:53 Congratulations to new daddy Joel Robles and Raquel. Their son Adrien has officially been born. #
• 18:09 Just booked a gig in Farmington New Mexico with the Nekromantix! This tour is going to fucking rock! #
• 00:13 Suze's back paws are hurt. It's super sad. :-( #

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• 16:18 twitpic.com/6pcx4 - #
• 01:07 Spent six solid hours today promoting our tour. Juan Carlos and NickDave had better be doing their part, or I'll fucking kill them. #

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• 14:20 twitpic.com/6mi66 - #
• 14:25 twitpic.com/6mi66 - The tour posters are here! Bianca, you kick SO much ass! #
• 15:25 @OCRockabilly Yes we are good sir! all over So-Cal, actually. Check out our full tour schedule at www.limitclub.com #
• 17:23 @OCRockabilly I don't believe there are any pre-sales going on. Just door ticket sales at the venue. See ya there! #

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• 12:14 "Can I get one regular Poutin... it's for an AMERICAN." #
• 13:00 Heading over to Lindsay's class to practice a White Stripes song with a buncha kids! This should be interesting. Haha. #
• 20:47 DJing at Rogue West tonight! Be there @ 10pm! #
• 22:49 "I have seven faces... thought I knew which one to wear." #

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Here are the photos from the Quakes Negative Charge East Coast Tour. Just looking at these makes my feel all cramped up and exhausted. What a killer time it was!

Let's get cookin'.



( There are over 100 photos in here. Many of which feature me being drunk and/or stupid. )

"Last time, fellas!"

• 16:01 Is it possible to get laser hair removal on my FACE? The only thing I hate more than shaving is... facial hair. #
• 09:52 @spicysalsa Sean? Which one? #

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• 12:50 Happy birthday to me! Buy me stuff you bastards! #
• 13:25 twitpic.com/68ijm - Lindsay, Juan, Monty, Nick, Danny. #
• 15:04 twitpic.com/68ijm - ...in our shower. #
• 18:21 "I can't believe I'm paying for sex on my birthday." #
• 04:13 I'm absolutely sure I will be deaf by the time I'm 30. #

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• 16:31 Impromptu VideoNasties show featuring Juan Carlos on drums tonight at PV lonuge! Typical Nasties. Chaos reigns supreme. Hahaha! #
• 21:10 twitpic.com/68ijm - #

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We did a photo shoot for our upcoming West Coast tour the other day. Janessa was kind enough to take photos for us. And what a great job she did!



( Here are the pics from the shoot! )

Here's the complete list of dates on the tour:

Jul 3 2009 - The Sound Factory - Lake Havasu, Arizona
Jul 5 2009 - DiPiazza’s - Long Beach, California
Jul 10 2009 - Sundances Place - Prescott, Arizona
Jul 11 2009 - Mad Science Studio - San Bernardino, California
Jul 12 2009 - Radio Room - San Diego, California
Jul 14 2009 - The Good Hurt Nightclub - Los Angeles, California
Jul 15 2009 - Lamp Liter Inn Bar and Grille - Visalia, California
Jul 16 2009 - Monterey Live - Monterey, California
Jul 17 2009 - Black Forest - Eugene, Oregon
Jul 18 2009 - Club Motor - Seattle, Washington
Jul 19 2009 - Muddy Waters Coffee Shop (afternoon acoustic show) - Portland, Oregon
Jul 19 2009 - Chaos Cafe - Portland, Oregon
Jul 21 2009 - NeatNeatNoise Radio Show (live acoustic set) - San Francisco, California
Jul 21 2009 - Rockit Room - San Francisco, California
Jul 22 2009 - The Plea For Peace Center - Stockton, California
Jul 23 2009 - Henderson Events Plaza - Las Vegas, Nevada
Jul 24 2009 - Bender’s Tavern - Denver, Colorado
Jul 25 2009 - Black Market Goods - Albuquerque, New Mexico

• 21:59 @spicysalsa You officially Twitter way too fucking much. Don't make me come down there and pee on you. #
• 22:02 @spicysalsa Goddamn that was fast! I bow to your Twit-abilities. Hahaha. #

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• 20:45 twitpic.com/63hqi - #
• 00:10 Just saw Dexter Romweber and the Detroit Cobras! Great show! The Cobras covered Charlie Rich AND Otis Redding! Holy shit awesome! #

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• 20:50 @Calabrese666 "Eat a buncha salami!" #
• 21:23 @misswendy13 twitpic.com/61c5k - Ms Becky nooooooooo!
  
  
  Or should I say, Mr Becky? #
• 09:19 Limit Club "Cutthroat Business" photo shoot in two hours! So excite! #
• 10:50 "Fall From Grace" has to be one of Siouxsie's best songs. Is it possible to sound mournful and sexy at the same time? Yes. #

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• 19:37 We're finally home. I'm always surprised when we return home alive after tours. I will go die now. #

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Touring is not healthy. There is no way to stick to any kind of regimen as far as sleeping, eating, showering, etc, is concerned. You are consistantly deprived of a good night's sleep. There's no way to get any exercise because you're cramped in a van for hours upon hours for weeks at a time. That's not even taking into account the toll that is taken on your body by alcohol consumption, eating shitty gas station foods that contain practically ZERO nutritional value and drinking enough coffee to kill an elephant. Oh and by the way, there's no money in it either. You could make a lot more money just by getting a regular 9-5 job. But where's the fun in that? In short - touring is fucked up. At least on the underground circuit. If you aren't incredibly focused, it would be very easy to fall off the rails.

We were on the road for three weeks with The Quakes. I didn't play any of the shows obviously. I was just there as a support guy. I ran the merch table, did some driving, acted as a moderator between Juan Carlos, Kenny and Paul arguing about random shit and generally took up a good amount of space. The list of states that we drove through is daunting. It doesn't seem like we should have been able to cover all this ground in such a short amount of time, but somehow it happened! We drove through:

New Mexico
Texas
Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
Maryland
Delaware
New Jersey
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Oklahoma
Michigan
New Hampshire
Maine
Vermont
Quebec
Ontario

The best shows were by far Chicago, New York, Montreal and Ann Arbor. Not surprisingly, those were the towns that had the best music scenes (incidentally, three of those were the towns where I got to meet up with old friends again).

In Chicago, we met up with the guys from the Curtains, Dylan and Adam from the Reckless Ones (formerly of the Corpse Show Creeps), Evelyn (former drummer from the Video Nasties and all around cool chick). In New York, I met up with the Memphis Morticians, the Arkhams, and my old best friend John McCullough. In Montreal we hung out with Custom Pat and Flipper from the motherfucking Gutter Demons(!), the Hypnophonics, and hundreds of gorgeously pale and thin French Canadian women (most of which did not speak a word of English). In Ann Arbor, we met up with our main mofo Diana Price (Di-Pri), and the eternally wicked Koffin Kats. Honorable mention goes to Baltimore and my mate Liz Bouras.

The last show with the Koffin Kats really did me in. I was doing A-OK until then. I was holding off the sickness that had afflicted Juan and Kenny. I was trying to eat healthy (didn't really work) and trying to get as much sleep as possible. Of course all the strain was bound to catch up to me sooner or later and it did in Ann Arbor. I got too drunk. People kept buying me drinks simply because I was "the guy from The Limit Club" (speaking of which, I was recognised at a lot of the shows! Always a welcome surprise. My enterprise is ever expanding... hahaha). I woke up the next morning and almost collapsed from hangover. I turned on the shower and just laid there in the tub for about ten minutes with the water pelting against my quivering, nauseous, naked body. Hahaha! I just couldn't help myself. It was such a good time hanging out with Diana and the Koffin Kats, not to mention the Quakes. It was just the Grand Finale I was hoping for. So many of my favorite people all in one place. The next morning though... oh did I regret it.

Now I'm sitting around, suffering from a case of the "Road-Flu" and catching up on all the e-mail and MySpace duties I've been neglecting. The tour was a great amount of fun and adventure, but holy shit was it a lot of work. 

I'll post all the pictures and stuff soon. Prepare yourselves.

• 20:05 Fireflies all along the highway in Missouri in the middle of the rainy night. Fucking gorgeous. #
• 07:12 We've officially been driving for over 24 hours. I never thought I'd be so happy to be in New Mexico. #

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• 13:15 Avast - Michigan! Last show of the tour tonight in Ann Arbor with the goddamned Koffin Kats! #
• 20:22 "Last time fellas!" #
• 07:37 The tour is almost over! Whatta wild trip it's been. Just 1,981 miles (approximately 33.5 hours of driving) to go. #

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• 13:54 So much roadkill along the highway in Pennsylvania! Every 100 yards or another poor critter that done got dead! #
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• 18:11 "YOU BOYS LIKE MEX-EE-CO?!?" #
• 19:24 Smoking in bars still legal in Pittsburgh. "Beer and cigarettes are a bad combination..." #
• 20:47 Some lady hit on me. She said "You look a rockabilly guy from California" and asked if I like Morrissey. Then she asked "Are you gay?" Haha! #
• 21:10 Horror punk bingo. This Pittsburgh band whose name I don't remember are playing "London Dungeon". At least they have an organ player. #

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• 16:06 I enjoy always enjoy watching bands scribble down their set lists in the last few minutes before they go onstage. #
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• 08:33 Just got back through the Niagara Falls US border. I miss Canada already! #

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• 17:46 Many French Canadians do not speak English! This is quite an interesting experience. I met Flipper from the Gutter Demons! #
• 07:30 Happy birthday Lindsay! Goddamn you're old! #
• 11:29 Montreal has some of the best looking, friendliest people I've ever met. Gotta come back! Also - Poutin is good drunk food. #

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• 19:53 Why don't they have Filiburto's in New Hampshire? #
• 09:53 Vermont! Canada coming up in 20 miles! Aiee! #
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• 11:09 The road signs are in kilometers here in Canada! And fucking FRENCH. I guess English isn't the primary language. We are so screwed. #

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• 12:32 We were just in Maine for like 10 minutes. #
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• 12:23 This East Coast weather is intoxicating. Cold, grey and windy. Perfect for a black hearted gargoyle like me. #
• 15:57 Driving through Yale University campus. Impressive buildings all around! #
• 18:43 Dudes who insist on twiddling on their instruments in the middle of the bar before they go onstage are douchebags. Go home you dumb dildos! #
• 09:50 Just finished reading "Babylon's Burning" by Clinton Heylin. Very informative book on punk and new wave history. Rock! #
• 11:13 Avast - New Muthafuckin' Hampshire. #

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• 19:38 Horror punk bingo (?) - the Soul Reapin' Three are playing Danzig's "Mother". I think that counts. #
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• 19:15 Clown strippers, burlesque babes, Memphis Morticians, Arkhams... this is by FAR the best show of this tour so far. Oh yes... #
• 00:09 New York City is an amazing place... I met some really cool people here tonight. It was great hanging out with Johnny also. #
• 08:52 Avast - Connecticut! #
• 11:35 Avast - Massachusetts! #

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• 12:14 Avast - Maryland. #
• 19:57 Horror punk bingo - the Deadnecks are playing "Skulls"... rather badly. #
• 07:16 It was cook hangin' out with Elizabeth in Baltimore last night. Now - onwards to New York City! #
• 11:43 New York City! Just saw the muthafuckin' Statue of Liberty. Rock and roll. #

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• 16:54 Horrorpunk Bingo: the Quartershots are playing "American Nightmare". #
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• 13:13 We're going to Niagra Falls with Chris Van Cleve. Paul is MIA. #
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• 10:38 Kiss your soul goodbye. #

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This tour has been outrageous. So much fun crammed into less than a week. We've been to Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago (where we hung out with Evelyn and our friends Adam and Dylan from the Corpse Show Creeps), Cleveland. Now we're in Buffalo, New York kickin back at a hotel while Paul takes care of some personal business.

My "States I've Been To" map is starting to look pretty goddamn cool. It will look even better by the time this is all over.