Bring it back to the Title

     Well folks, it's 11:11 as i begin to type (ha got 'em) and I figured I just go off what I feel like right now which for all intents and purposes is pretty good.

     Now I know you don't care but a majority contributing factor was the New York Mets winning tonight in 11 innings, it was a good time. I also had a couple cups of coffee at like 5pm so that's where the energy is coming from.

     Finally I'm on my 3rd listen through of Fall Out Boys' "From Under the Cork Tree" which a fantastic album. I've gotten a good listen to of some classics (Sugar We're Going Down, Dance Dance) some personal favorites (A little less Sixteen Candles, Sophomore Slump) and even getting a good listen to of some songs I've never really considered like "I've got a dark alley and an idea that says that you should just shut your mouth" and "Champagne for my real friends real pain for my sham friends". It's very interesting how listening to songs you KNOW, kinda know and are learning for the first time all in the matter of minutes can change your perspective.

      Really what I'm trying to get back to is the title of this blog: "the basics from a bassist". For all the bullshit and metaphors and cryptic posts I put up on this website I would like to believe their is some basic honesty and forwardness in my writing and my musical tastes, style and identity, I like to think of myself as a pretty happy and outgoing person, but I have my moments in which sometimes I just kinda shut down. Recently some people have caught me in these space outs and I feel like they don't believe me when I tell them I'm fine... The truth is I really am. I usually have just been caught in the moment. Usually when people say they get caught in the moment, they reference it later as just being consumed and enthralled by the moment but when I get caught in the moment it's the exact opposite. It's me sitting there, zoned out thinking of all the circumstances and random events that happened leading to the moment, analyzing everything happening in the moment and imagining results of the moment. I actually think it's interesting that people assume there's something wrong or bothering me, don't get me wrong I appreciate the concern, but lets keep it basic here... what do I have to be complaining about? My life is pretty great and I try not to rub it in but I also count my blessings most nights.

      As far as music is concerned in tonight's post, "I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth" has been speaking to me for about the last 25 minutes or so, so I've been listening. It's just droppin little hints here and there for new songs, new ideas, both rhythmically and lyrically and some good life tips, but tonight's post is trying to be light on metaphors so I'll leave that alone tonight. Really with Everything or Nothing moving back into writing mode I've been gearing up to try and bring something to the table and I think I've gathered some material and experience recently I can put to good use.

Wish us luck,
Just some bassist

Ok

Dear Fonts, 

You're a idiot. 

Well other Fonts that's not very nice but I see your point, dick move to go more than a month without writing even though you had nothing better to do. So here I am now as the chiding of some other people (you know who you are) finally met my utter boredom forcing me to type this post. 

So many of you adoring fans must be wondering "Fonts, what amazing crazy stuff have you been up to since April?" Well super excited fan, not much, a lot of stuff has happened to a lot of people around me but all and all I pretty much in the same spot I've been in or a year or so, which as far as I'm concerned is a good thing. 

In the current events column

-Gibb, T, Abar and many many others graduated from the Abbey so go forth and conquer class of 2015!

-Everything or Nothing played another show that for reasons way to complicated to go into I fronted and sang (to varying degrees of success). Next show on the 13th :)

-Tom, Furz and Maeve are all gearing up to graduate in the next week or so that will be exciting.

-I've big chilled with the homies several times and those have been good times. 

-Megan joined the group briefly at the end of the school year. Hopefully this is solid addition to next year's addition of the music group. 

-The spring play touched me on a deep level... the same kinda way your uncle would that would require years of therapy to get over. I firmly believe the abbey players made the best possible show of a poor script/ director.

-Got my wisdom teeth out (ouch)

On the subject of the title...Ok. 

I've this one idea in my head for about a week or so for when ever i decided to sit and write my next post. For the first time in a while I can look around at my life and every single thing seems to be okay. Now I know that's never true, but before you go raining all over my parade, this last month has gone about as smoothly as someone could have hoped. So here I am now reflecting thinking deep thought like I sometimes do wondering what I could have done to make more of these past weeks, and not much is coming to my mind, which I think is a good thing. I have a few lists that I think you guys know about, one of them is regrets and I try to keep it very short, in fact I have 4 regrets from all of High School, if that's not some kind of record I'll be shocked. But yeah right now everything seems to be just fine.

Keep it A-O-K,

Fonts

PS. Good listening list for the night

When You Were Young/ Spaceman: Killers

The Prayer: Kid Cudi

The Thrill: Wiz Kalifa

The intro: xx

High of 75; Reliant K