to each: his own.

so we're in california. i'm way behing on blogging, and the OC blog is going to have to wait. I've got a ton to say, who knows what i'll get to...

-So many of you have heard about my mishap at the BSU show last week. i won't get into it, but my face is healing nicely and i do appreciate all the kind emails.

-i've had enough of bands wearing eyeliner. i get it and it's fine, but it's so goddamn trendy right now it's ridiculous. i realize i have friends in bands that do this and there are bands i like that do this, i'm just saying i'm out on the whole thing. (many of you are probably thinking 'hasn't convy been wearing ties a lot lately?' guilty. but c'mon, eyeliner is a different story) and what makes me even more sick is all these girls who are like 'i love guys in eyeliner.' what the hell is that? that's not like a natural thing you're drawn to, it's a stupid trend. in 4th grade were you like 'i love a man in a slap bracelet?' in 8th grade were you like 'i need a guy who rocks an acid-washed tight roll'? actually, maybe you were. i've just had enough. i mean a lot of these bands are small touring bands like us. i don't need to tell you that money is tight. we only eat when we have to and we avoid spending money whenever possible. the idea that there's a band somewhere on their way to a show and somebody's like 'oh shit, can we stop and get some eyeliner before we get to the club?'.. it blows my mind. Now i'm known to change clothes before i go on stage and try to look sharp. as of late i've even been known to put some stuff in my hair (you would to, if your brother cut your hair and did what he did to mine.) i assure you when i'm in the bathrooms of these clubs and i'm putting the stuff in my hair i'm usually kind of embarassed. it's just not very rock n' roll. So the idea of applying eye make up in the bathroom of one of these clubs is the most perplexing thing to me. ahhhhh. these are my thoughts on bands wearing eyeliner ...but to each his own.

- i got the new ben folds. it's delicious. it came with a making of DVD. i really like ben folds. i'll write some more in depth thoughts on the record later. but it's good, go buy it.

-the ben folds thing got me thinking. he thanks his wife all over the record, dedicates it to her and talks about what great ears she has. that's awesome and i really hope she does, but there's a chance that she doesn't and he just gets her involved in making it because he loves her so much. so then i started thinking about Linda McCartney. (ok, Linda was paul mccartney's wife, as in paul from the beatles. post-beatles he formed the band Wings and had Linda sing and play some keyboards) Now it's sort of popular opinion that Linda McCartney wasn't really that talented...or musical...at all. BUT Paul loved her so much that he put her in the band. Now who's to say that she made Wings any worse, or that they would have been better without her? not me. Wings was amazing (but they had Paul writing the songs so it was sort of inevitable) But who knows? they cold have been better with someone else, and you know they would have been better live with someone else doing her parts. It's possible that in some way she screwed things up, screwed up paul's music. Did he know and no care? did he even notice? does i matter? To each: his own.The bottom line here is that i truly hope that someday i find someone i love so much that i don't mind them fucking up my music.

-i've got so much more on my mind, but it can wait. i'm tired and we've got to rock Fresno tomorrow.

-Convy

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