Long Time No Blog!

I figured it was due time to post. I'ts been a while.

Lets see...Thanksgiving Vacation was fun and...interesting in some aspects. Ask me how it was interesting if you're wondering.
All the family came over, Aaron and Eryn, Brandon and Amanda with Aimee, Grandpa and Grandma D, Josh, Breeann. It was great seeing all of them. Aimee is getting so big! She's about 6 months old now. She can clap now, its amusing.

Here's a pic of her in mid-clap:


Josh had his 23rd birthday on Tuesday (the 27th). I went to Hot Topic on Black Friday with Kevin and got him a shirt. Actually this shirt:


Thats Christopher Walken as The Continental, a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live. Good buy i thought. There was special going on, so I was able to get a T-shirt of my own, I got a Darkwing Duck T-Shirt. Pretty Rad.

Lately I've been spending a great deal of time with Doug, Tim, and Josh Thomason. (And Brad too!)
I mean, Ive been friends with these guys for quite some time, except Brad, but its only these last couple months we really started to all hang out toegether. These guys are great, I can talk to them about anything... and they keep me in line, especially Doug and Tim. So thats one blessing God has given me recently.

Yesterday I was at school, and mind you, I was really excited about the next night (tonight now) because I'm going to see Motion City Soundtrack, Mae, and Anberlin in San Francisco. Justin was telling me how he's eeing Relient K and Switchfoot with Julia and Jamie that night (last night) and he offers me a free ticket! Apparently the ticket he bought for a friend from work, and the friend canceled! Obviously I said yes.

So yea, last night I went to San Jose with Justin, Julia and Jamie to see Ruth, Relient K, and Switchfoot. It was amazing, great, and wonderful. (Thought I'd throw in another series of 3)

It was the 6th or 7th time I've seen Relient K. They played 'In Love with the 80s', but for the intro to it they played 'Head Over Heels' by Tears for Fears, and that cover was amazing. They also played a song off their Christmas album, it was Sleigh Ride. For this they brought out blow up lawn decoration snowman, penguin, polar bear, and a Christmas tree. They even had snow machines up top on the lights that made it snow during the song. It was scrumptralescent to say the least. One of the best parts of their set was when the played the Office theme song! They had a Jim look-alike come out on stage, dressed like him, and he played this instrument, I forget what it was called but it looked like a piano/flute hybrid. Matt thiessen sang a couple of lines about scranton, Micheal, Dwight, Jim and Pam...then they broke out into the full fledged song. Here's a video of them doing the office tribute at another show. The sound quality isnt all that great for this video, but here it is:

Towards the end of their set they played Sadie Hawkins Dance. Before they started that song though, they brought out 4 kids from the crowd, one kid who could play guitar, and the others to sing along with them on the last part of 'Sadie Hawkins Dance'. Another good show by the RK.

It was the first time I saw Switchfoot, and I was impressed. They put on one heck of a show. I mean, I've heard their popular songs, and liked them, but I never had or listened to any of the whole CDs. Now I will.

For me, probably the best part of the night was towards the end of Switchfoot's set, whn they played a song they made along with Ruth and Relient K called 'Rebuild'. It was the theme song to to the tour, which a percentage of proceeds go to Habitat For Humanity. The bands also volunteered along the tour to build houses for Habitat for Humanity. Pretty cool. Anyway, for this song, 'Rebuild' , Ruth and Relient K joined Switchfoot on stage to perform the song. I don't think I've ever seen a better performance of any song by any band on stage in all the concerts I've been to. Which is a lot. Anyway, you can download the 'Rebuild' song by going to this page on Switchfoots website.

I'll be putting up pictures (and a little video) of the show on my myspace shortly, just waiting for Julia to upload them first. We were pretty close, say 6 or 7 feet from the stage, so we were able to get some good shots. Oh, we met this guy Ken while waiting in line and he hung out with him during the first half of the show. He's from Australia, and around my age, on his way to Canada, and wanted to stop in California so he could catch some bands he likes in concert. He ended up being a really cool guy, and get this, Hes going to the San Fran show tonight, the same one I'm going to! I hope I see him there again.

So yea, thats whats been happening with my life; I'll update you guys on how the MCS-Mae-Anberling show went tonight in a day or two.

-Jerm

The Office is closed until further notice.

Yep. Another favorite show affected by the strike. Watch this.


oh and the new season of 24 (season 7) is gonna be postponed till after the strike as well. Even though they have a lot the season already filmed. It was supposed to be starting in January...not anymore.

sad face.

Hollywood Writers Strike.

Freakin a man. What at first made me midly annoyed is kinda pissing me off now.

Ok first things first. I believe writers should get a bigger cut of the profits from shows and movies and what not. Especially movies. but since the studio execs arent bugding, no deal was made, the studios are all freaking out. I mean, can't they find decent temporary writers that would be overjoyed to write for these popular shows?

In my earlier blog, I mentioned how NBC canceled the spin-off of Heroes, which was Heroes: Origins, a highly promising spinoff. But now that the strike is pretty much official, theres worse news!!!! Instead of the normal season run, theyre making the season finale for December!!!! Thats half a season theyre throwing away. thats potentially 4 months of shows that are thrown away.

You don't like Heroes you say? Well you better believe other shows are gonna be affected in similar ways. Were talking The Office, 30 Rock, etc. I'm hoping SNL will be spared from harm, but im not sure... Be prepared for a buttload of Reality shows next season, as you don't exactly need writers for those.

Hopefully, a deal is reached somehow during this strike, or else I will be watching significantly less amounts of T.V.

Which I guess could be a good thing for my health, bad thing for my enjoyment.

*******************UPDATE

So I did a little more searching and found out the writers are actually on strike to get a bigger cut of the profits made from DVDs, and also the potential profit the internet brings in. Hmm. interesting.

Also. looks like the office might be in trouble. sadface to the max. :(
look at this link- Closing the office?

Madness? THIS IS MY BLOG SPOT!!!!!!

Yay. November is here!!!!

Halloween was fun last night. Worked 11 to 5, then our neighbor Josephine took me and Josh out to In N Out and ice cream from Mickey D's. Its kinda like when we were little. We appreciate it though.
After that I went to Andrew's and Bridget joined us. We just hung out, went to Sicily's, and watched T.V. at his house. At around 8 45 ish I went and met my brothers at Aaron and Eryns house in Modesto. We were all there for about half an hour, Brandon had brought Aimee with him. We left Aarons a short while after. Brandon with Aimee, Josh and Breeann, and I decided to drive over to our grandparents house for a bit and visit. FINALLY before I went back to Modesto I stopped by Scots for a little while.

So busy but simple halloween.

I came across this preview for Sweeney Todd.
This is movie looks great! Its adapted from a stage musical, Ill be seeing it.

In other news, NBC has canceled the upcoming spinoff of Heroes. Its not official yet, but its a pretty sure thing. Heroes: Origins was supposed to air during the break in the regular Heroes season. However, with the upcoming writers strike happening in Hollywood, NBC pulled the plug!!! I'm pretty ticked about this.


My parents come home saturday!!!! I'm looking forwards to nice home cooked meal. and to see them of course. haha. Thats all for now. peace out homies.