You were right...

You were right.
We can't be together.
I said...
I wont be "filed under left for dead"

I cary out
situations in my head
I lead them up to the point that i dread
It's all in my head
It's all in my fucking head

They pound the floorboards
While I try to think
I try to study
While they're "obliged" to drink

I will never get away from the distractions
I can't get away from the disdain
I try to block it out with no distraction
It comes back as if it were the refrain

I see the stars over Brighton tonight
I start to think that I just might
turn away, and forget today.

MY LIFE IS AN ERGS! SONG

I stayed up just late enough to watch the sunrise
It was then that I realized that I could talk to you all night
tried so hard to play it cool,
now I don't have to be that way with you

I'm lost again it's no surprise
you level me with your eyes
the simple beauty it can get lost
avoid overbearing at all costs

God this world
makes me feel so small sometimes
and when I feel as though
I'm alone tonight

It can be a dream
that keeps me from misery
till I awake to thoughts of you
with all intention of leaving me

And I wonder
if I have the energy to wake up
And if I keep falling back to sleep
will I ever stop
If I don't know what to say
I'll sleep away the day
so that nothing can affect me

I can't turn a corner
without someone telling me
who I am
and what I need to be

but I just can't face the facts
that I wish I had the motivation
to match my potential
lost in a play with no acts

I get so lost in numbers
and things of trivial matter
I'll count the days she's gone
resistance feels like chatter

I'll hold back so I don't lose you
and succumb to sacrifice
resistance is futile
cause being with someone has never felt so right

http://lookingforgold.blogspot.com/2010/03/sxsw-why.html

The music industry is by definition an operation invented to divert money spent on music away from actual musicians - the problems that the music industry is currently facing have specifically to do with the fact that the money that would usually flow directly to the bigger economic actors is now going somewhere else.

songs that I covered over the past year or so:

Songs...
Against Me - Sink Florida Sink
Alkaline Trio - Every Thug Needs A Lady
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Candle in the Wind
Blink-182 - Don't Leave Me
Blink-182 - Dumpweed
Bomb The Music Industry - Cold Chillin'
Bomb The Music Industrty! - Saddr Weirdr
The Ergs! - Books About Miles Davis
The Ergs! - Aja
Matt Aspinwall - Part One
Paul Baribeau - Only Babies Cry
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation >
NOTE: inspired by and performed with Laura Stevenson and the Cans on 2/28/10 @ the castle
Smash Mouth - All Star

FEST 9!

FRIDAY 10/29
Hellmouth
Hard Skin
Static Radio
Bars of Gold
The Wild*
Protagonist
Strike Anywhere
Mikey Erg!
Suicide Machines* (feat. M. Belanger. YAY FRIENDS)

Saturday 10/30
Dear Landlord (from outside, missed the faygo)
Paul Baribeau (feat. Merg! on OBC)
GOOD LUCK
We Are The Union
THE MEASURE [SA]
LAURA STEVENSON AND THE CANS
The Snips
PAINT IT BLACK
Bent Left (what?)
ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES (DEAR SPIKE!)
-Late Night: Pianos Become the Teeth, Paint It Black

Sunday 10/31 (Jah-loween)
The Dopamines
O PIONEERS!!!
LEMURIA
THE MENZINGERS
Underground Railroad To Candyland
BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!

FEST 8

For my records...

FRIDAY 10/30
Laura Stevenson and the Cans
Safety
Cheeky
Coffee Project
Matt Kurz One
Iron Chic
Kudrow
Strike Anywhere
Chotto Ghetto
Crime In Stereo

SATURDAY 10/31
Rehasher
Max Levine Ensemble
The Flatliners
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Algernon Cadwallader
Dillinger Four
Less Than Jake
Snuff
We Are The Union
So Many Dynamos
Defiance, Ohio

SUNDAY 11/01
Broadway Calls
Off With Their Heads
This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
The Emotron
O Pioneers!
Bomb The Music Industry