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The scene is dead!!!!!

I see people on message boards using the term "scene" a lot still.� I find it incredibly humorous.� ANNOUNCEMENT: The "scene" you speak of is dead!� It died several years ago when the mainstream turned to the underground music scene, as it does every ten years or so, and made those bands popular.� I'm sorry to break this news to you.� These bands are no longer playing VFW halls put on by LOCAL promoters, booking their own tours, trading shows with bands from other parts of the country and releasing music themselves.�Its all packaged tours with big product sponsors, ticketmaster pre-sales, ads in national magazines, iTunes, merch in hot topic, myspace, facebook, and twitter pages, songs placed in MTV reality shows and in some instances; radio play.� There's nothing wrong with all of that, because that's what it takes to get exposure and make a living playing music these days, but all of that commercialization means it is no longer a "scene".� I've come to that realization, its time you do the same!I know there are still "scenes" out there, and as a product of the hardcore scene I have many great memories, so that makes me happy, but these music scenes are not the ones I'm reading about online. Eron

Ping Pong Duel: JT vs. Micah

Yo Gabba Gabba

Normally I don't watch a lot of TV, but Avery really likes a show called Yo Gabba Gabba. I figured that since it's pretty much named after a Ramones song, it has to be pretty good. When I watched the first episode Jimmy Eat World was performing a song which is pretty damn cool. I did a little research and found out that it was created by members of The Aquabats, which is also pretty awesome. I was so impressed by these facts that I ran out and bought my daughter a toy from the show...Dancing Brobee! It was dancing so much it blurred the picture...I wish you guys would dance this much at our shows.

Start watching Yo Gabba Gabbs and get intense! Hey, it's better than reality TV.

xxxJT

GOOD NEWS/BAD NEWS

Okay, so I've got some GOOD news...my team, University of Dayton made the NCAA Tournament this year! This is the first time since 2004 I believe, so its pretty exciting. The BAD news is that we're probably going to break up after their first game. Ya see, UD plays (and is going to DOMINATE and thereby upset) the higher seeded West Virginia, JT's team, in the first round!

While the impending doom which Luke Fa"THREE"zious, Chris Wright, Marcus Johnson and rest of the Dayton Flyers are going to unleash upon WV is much to my liking, for you, our fans, there are no winners as the resulting inter-band tension caused by said win will be too much for JT to handle. He'll go into a life of seclusion rather than face eternal embarrassment. Matt and Micah, even though they don't follow college hoops, will not want to be associated with a person who's team lost so badly in the first round and quit the band lest the embarrassment rub off on them.

I know we've made it through a lot in this band, and that's why this news is so incredibly hard to break to everyone! Thank you all for your support over the years! Its been swell!

GOOOOODAAYYYYYTTTTTTTTTTONNNNNNNFFFFLLLYYYYYYERRRRRRRRSSSSSSS!!!!

Pibb

How did the cat get so fat? When did the cat start wearing a hat? What if we could all just lay around all day and have no responsibilities...we just got to sleep while our owners put stuff on top of us for their own amusement. Maybe the world would be a much more peaceful place. Or maybe it would only take us a few more years to fuck it up again. How selfish can we really be? Please try to think about that...try to do something for someone else today. No matter how small...small things turn to big and so on. Pick up some trash, make coffee for your parents, treat a broke friend to the value menu...call someone and apologize for being mean to them. We are all guilty, and we are also all innocent.
Love one another...
xxxJT

Toy Piano

Big sounds come from small instruments. I was messing around with this little toy piano a few days ago and came up with a really cool melody for a chorus. These things sound so broken and frail, but it's actually pretty unique. A lot of old school producers still use these little guys on real recordings. Maybe I will record an idea with it and send it out to those who sign up for our mailing list. I'm all about small rewards for small favors...so scratch my back!
xxxJT

Forget about solar energy...

So over the last few months I've been researching solar panels and wind-mills to put on my house in order to cut down on my monthly energy bills and to nullify the environmental impact of all my stick breaking that I've been doing in the studio. Today, I was going through my bookmarks one by one like I usually do in the afternoon. First I hit up absolutepunk.net (to catch up on bands I know personally and like and also read updates on those I despise...you gotta know your enemy!). I followed this up with macrumors.com (I'm trying to figure out when the new iPhone comes out b/c my cell phone contract is up in May). Then I skipped over to espn.com (Its March Madness time again and University of Dayton has a 90% chance of going to the big dance this year barring some unforeseen fluke of nature!!!!). Finally, and this is really what this whole story is about, I ended up at msnbc.com to check the news for the day when I found my (and your) green energy solution! Forget solar, forget wind...I introduce to you the energy source of the future...HAMSTERS!!!!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29596930/

Go Hamster!

Eron

Dinner with Eron

Help is on the way...

This is probably one of the reasons for the economic tumble we are in. This joker probably bought this spare tire cover and a pack of cigarettes instead of paying for his mortgage. Buy what you need, not what you want. And are jeeps really cool enough to flaunt with this? Lame!
xxxJT