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Best of 2011! (My opinion)

Everyone's been seeing them, practically every website and magazine out there is naming off the "best of" 2011. So, I decided to jump on that band bus (not band wagon, bus) and do the same. This year has been completely amazing for me, so much has happened.

        Let's recap: This year I have seen (in this order), The Dead Masquerade tour (Drive A, Get Scared, Motionless In White, Alesana, headlined by Escape The Fate), the Welcome To The Family tour (Bullet For My Valentine, Three Days Grace, and Avenged Sevenfold), The Noise tour (The Make, There For Tomorrow, You Me At Six, We Are The In Crowd, and Mayday Parade), The Buried Alive tour (Black Veil Brides, Asking Alexandria, Hollywood Undead and Avenged Sevenfold) and Adelita's Way with Art Of Dying and Emphatic as support.

    I have gotten the honor meeting Drive A, Nick Matthews (now out of Get Scared), Max Green (now out of Escape The Fate), Bullet For My Valentine, Mayday Parade, Sarah Ann and Jeff from The Make, Josh of You Me At Six, Taylor from We Are The In Crowd, Makia from There For Tomorrow, Emphatic, Art Of Dying, and Rick DeJesus from Adelita's Way.

   Just this year, I have realized my true passion is music, and have begun doing interviews. My first ever happened in March with Drive A's Jason Nott. Even though they are not broken up, they can guarentee I will never ever forget them. Not only were they the first band I actually really got to talk to, but your first interview is a big deal.  I discovered the amazing person that is Bryan Stars, and got to actually talk to him, which was amazing. He's such an inspirational persom, who I admire a lot, just souly because he is helpful and is doing the exact job I want. I hope one day to do an interview side by side with him, that'd be one true honor. I also got to the major honor of getting to do my first in person interview with Cale Gontier of Art Of Dying, and their manager TJ.

         Its been one hell of a year, with some up's and down's, but right now, I am focusing on the up's.
Below are some of the BEST things (musically) that have happened to me this year, and then a bit further down, I'll talk about my favorite songs and bands that have sprouted up this year.

Best Concert: Welcome To The Family tour.
Even though now, for very personal reasons, I no longer listen to Bullet For My Valentine, and some memories of that night sting I have to say musically that was probably one of the best shows I've ever seen. At the time, Bullet For My Valentine and Three Days Grace were two of my favorite bands, and Avenged Sevenfold is my mothers. I remember freaking out when I discovered the tour, and getting even more excited when a local radio station gave away tickets. We got insanely lucky and won tickets on our first try, only about a week before the concert. Just two days before the show, one of the DJ's called and said we were also getting to go back stage. While meeting Bullet was dissapointing, it was still amazing to get to say I have met them, what was even greater is I got to meet them and see them with my best friend. Yeah, it hurts now, because the very next day some shit went down and our friendship shattered into pieces, but I am still really happy I got to do that with him. It ment the world to him, as Bullet is his favorite band, and Matt Tuck is his idol, and it ment the world to me because I got to see him with his idol, and see two of my favorite bands with my best friend. Plus, they all did great, and Avenged Sevenfold had the best stage set up I have ever seen for that tour. It was all in honor of their late drummer, The Rev, and they had a very elebaorate grave yard set up on the stage, as well as they hid the drummer so it was more like a memorial for the Rev. M. Shadows actually had the entire audience in tears or nearly in tears as he gave a beautiful speech about his dear friend. I am not big on Avenged but I love how they still show their love for the Rev so greatly and are contiuning on in his honor. That's true friendship.

Best experience: The best experience was getting to actually hang out with Art Of Dying, mostly Cale Gontier. We saw them play at a bar called Porky's Roadhouse, and that night was seriously a dream come true. Litterally, people usually can only dream about stuff like that. That night I got to go on stage with Emphatic, met all of them, got pictures with a couple of them, was leaning on the stage for all three bands (there was no barricade), got two interviews in one night, and got to hang out with Art Of Dying after the show. It was the coolest thing ever! I often go back on forth on which is really my first in person interview, whether its the Art Of Dying one or Adelita's Way. I started the Art Of Dying one first, because their manager TJ was a sweetheart and helped me as much as he could, but I finished my interview with Rick DeJesus befoer I finished the Art Of Dying one. That was something else that was amazing to me. I met Rick before the show started at all, and all I did was mention I had questions for Adelita's Way. Without hesitating, he said after the show he'd do it. I was even more surprised when he saw me standing near him and he said, "I needed to talk to you, didn't I?" I was really surprised he remembered. Then getting to just hang out with Cale Gontier was amazing. I got to just talk to him for like two hours, we stood there singing "Fuck You", actually the whole bar did, but I mostly heard Cale. It was amazing, a real dream come true. You know they're normal people, but you do not fully believe it until you see it. I actually saw him dancing with his friend and manager, making look like he was raping him, and then get slapped on the butt by TJ. It was funny, and awesome to just hang out. I'll never forget that.

  I'd also have to say that the Mayday Parade concert was a huge deal to me, because I only got to go because the manager was really sweet, and gave me a meet and greet pass, tickets, and a photo pass. It was one of the best experiences ever just because it was the first time I went to a show and felt like more than just a fan. I felt like a professional that night, which was a dream come true.

Best album of 2011: Its kind of a toss up between several, but I think I have to go with the debut, self-titled album for Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows, D.R.U.G.S. Runners up were Set The World On Fire by Black Veil Brides, The Drug In Me Is You by Falling In Reverse, Dirty Work by All Time Low, and Goodbye Lullaby by Avril Lavigne.

Best song of 2011: I don't know how to even judge this. There's far too many good ones that were released this year. Some of the ones that come to mind are, "I'm Here To Take The Sky" by D.R.U.G.S, "The Chain" -Three Days Grace (Fleetwood Mac cover), "That Girl" -All Time Low, "Heroes" -All Time Low, "God Bless You" by Black Veil Brides, "What The Hell" by Avril Lavigne, "Don't Forget About Me" by Emphatic, and so many more. So I honestly can't decide!!

Best COVER song of 2011: There's been plenty of covers this year, including the fourth installment of the Punk Goes Pop series was released. The best, I'd have to say is the Sleeping With Sirens cover of Cee-Lo Green's "Fuck You". That song is overly catchy, and I might add -slightly addictive! I also considered Artist Vs Poet's cover of the Taylor Swift song, "Mean." and their cover of "Super Bass." As well as the Three Days Grace cover of "The Chain." It was pretty amazing, but "Fuck You" got stuck in several people's heads, and it got stuck in mine for about three weeks straight.

Best band of 2011: This was a really hard choice, but I think I'll have to go with D.R.U.G.S. They just began this year, but have already gotten so far. I'm very proud of them, and can't wait to see where all they go in their lifetime as a band.

WORST album of 2011: Thank You, Happy Birthday by Cage The Elephant! That album sucked..it only had one good song, and it also won the worst video ever. Their video for "Aberdeen" is AWFUL. Go watch it, they kill the poor dragon monster thingy.. All it wanted was a friend and they go and kill it. It pissed me off so much, I saw it once -the day it was released- and I still to this day get pissed when I think about it. Its just horrid.

I also want to say I think the worst mistake made this year in music was Escape The Fate kicking out Max Green. That seriously was not right, I have to say. Escape The Fate will not be the same wtihout him, and I will never think Craig had the right to do that. Since Max was the last remaining original member I feel like he should have been the one who could decide who was in and who was out, not Craig.

Over all though, its been one hell of a year, and I wonder what 2012 has in store for me and everyone else. It is Christmas Eve 2011 right now, so I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas. :)

Letters to Santa...

Dear Santa,

   What do I want for Christmas this year? Oh there's plenty of things...one of them needs to like six rockstars in my room. If that's at all possible, that'd be nice. Not in poster form, the real humans, please. I will return them, I promise. I still want them to be able to make music, and frankly, they will not be able to from my bedroom. I just want some time from the boys from Black Veil Brides, Adam Gontier, and maybe Jack and Alex from All Time Low. That'd be a party. Through in Matt Good too, please, Andy will be happier than.
        I also really would like it if you could get Max Green back into Escape The Fate, and Nick Matthews back into Get Scared. Those bands just will not be the same without them. There's plenty of things I want, but I won't use up too much of your time.
          Can I ask for a few more things though? I want my best friend back, I miss him greatly, its been very weird going through life without him, without getting to see him just about every day. I got to hang out with him for the first time in months yesterday, that was really nice. Maybe I should accept that as a Christmas gift alone. Yeah...maybe I should, please forget I asked. I feel like I am being greedy.

        Oh, and can you please help all the people in the world who need some help right now? Christmas isn't too great for many people this year. Lots of small children are being forced to learn the truth about you too soon, just because their families can't afford it. For some, there's not even a special meal to celebrate. Its just an oridinary day, when it shouldn't be. I realize I'm asking a lot, but it bothers me.

            I've been trying to avoid the thought of Christmas souly because I couldn't afford to buy many gifts nor was I recieving any. Then it dawned on me, that's not what Christmas is about. Its about showing people you care, and too many people do not do that ever. My weakness is that I care too much, I've always felt that way, and probably always will. I want more people to care about one another. It'd make the world a better place if you ask me. If everyone would think of just one person this year that was not themselves, they'd make two people happy. They'd be happy because someone thought about them, and you'd be happy because you made someone feel good. Isn't that what its all about?

        I guess in a nut shell, if I put all the concert tickets, money, iTunes cards, clothing and band merchandise aside, all I really want for Christmas is people to care about each other for just a day. Just one. Is that too hard?

          Merry Christmas to anyone who may have read this. I hope it is a good one.

Lots of Love,
Ariel

My first SONG review ("Across Oceans" -His Lament Featuring Cisko Miranda of Arizona heavyweights & Eyes Set To Kill)

I had never reviewed just a song before, but a friend of mine came to me and asked me if I could review their latest song, "Across Oceans". So here is what I thought of His Lament's latest song, "Across Oceans."
It starts off slow, and that surprised me greatly. Their normal sound is much harder, so the piano and slowed down lyrics surprised me. In the first view seconds of the song, the lyrics basically state that its hard to be away from home, and one could only assume it was due to touring or work related. I liked the violins that pick up about thirty seconds into the song, that added something nice to it. It was a great way to build up to their usual metal sound.

          While I found the screaming slightly hard to understand, it still sounded like whoever does the screaming knows what they're doing. That was good enough for me, only time its not is if they sound like they're going to hurt themselves trying to scream. I really liked how the screaming and normal singing flowed, sometimes it isn't very smooth, but in this song it is. I also liked the lyrics, from what I could understand. Normally, I have the lyrics handy when I review things, but in this case I did not.

 Over all, I do think this is a good snong. Not quite my style, but still good. I'd highly recommend it to people, espeically if you're into bands like Eyes Set To Kill and Asking Alexandria. Go check "Across Oceans.", and their other songs out now. They have an album coming out soon, I'll get more details on that.

Leave them a comment telling them what you think at the link below!
His Lament

Details for Immortal Music 2012 plans!

If you are reading this, that probably means that the plans for 2012 have been posted. I just wanted to explain everything a little bit further, mostly to prevent as much confusion as possible.

   I'm thinking it'd be easiest if I explained day by day, rather than go with all the special things first.

I will be trying to post the news every single day, along with an straight of music every day. It'll be two hours on Saturday on Sunday, as long as I can swing it. Obviously there will be days where not everything gets done because I was either lazy or not near a computer, but I will try for sure to do things as much as I can.

Now on to the indiviual days, on Mondays I'll post anywhere between two and four album reviews, and play a game of Would You Rather. In case you don't know what that is, its a ridiculous but fun game where you ask someone two insane things that nobody would really want to do or ever have to do and they have to pick. Its kinda a stupid game, but also sort of fun. For example, "Would you rather lick peanut butter off a hobos foot or make out with a monkey?" If that sounds familar to you, that's because I got it from Zoey 101. There are no winners, so there'll be no prizes.

 On Tuesdays, I'm gonna suggest bands and songs to people. They won't always be bands you've never heard of, but it can still be fun to get the feedback, and its advertising for them. I'll also be playing lyric games. I see them all the time on pages, and how you play is the page admin (in this case, me) posts a song quote and whoever guesses it right or finishes the lyric properly first wins. The winner will get a picture request, or sometimes a graphic request.

   Wednesdays will be a little empty. I'll make graphics and every other one post a band biography. Anyone who's been on Immortal Music can tell I don't exactly like writing band biographies, but I honestly need to. So I am going to try to get that done, that means there'll be about two of those a month, which'll help a lot. If I managed to keep that up for a full year that alone will be twenty four a year. I think...math is not my strong suit, that's kinda why I'm a writer.

      Thursday is a little empty too, I plan on posting a lot of lyric videos, the news, music, and that's it. I know lyric videos aren't anything big, but what I'm thinking is I'll probably make one new one and share a whole lot more that are outstanding to me. They will not be part of the hour of music.

Friday I will post more album reviews, probably the same ammount as Mondays, two to four. I also will be posting music videos. I will just pick out some of my favorites, so something like that, and post them. Like the lyric videos, they won't be part of the hour of music.

  Saturdays will have the music news, an article about entertainment things (probably mostly Youtubers), random trivia. I haven't quite decided if I am going to turn it into a game, I post trivia and see if people know if its true or false, or if it'll just be random facts. It may be a mix of all of it. There will also be two hours of music every Saturday.

  Then on Sunday, there will be a special blog from me just saying whatever I want. I do these from time to time anyways, and still probably will, but I am going to try to make it a habit every Sunday. It could be on any topic, or even really no topic. I also plan on doing something that any 90's kid will probably greatly enjoy. I decided that I wanted to do an All That inspired 'Vital Infomation For Your Every Day Life." I actually was watching some Shane Dawson video when he mentioned Lori Beth Dimberg, the girl who did vital information. That was probably my favorite part of All That, and still is, so I thought it'd be fun if I tried to do the same thing. Its easy really, you basically just say anything that's good to do, and then something random that is not good to do. For example; "It is good to cover your mouth when you cough, it is not a good idea to cover your mouth with your baby sister when you cough." Or just something stupid and funny like that.

       So that's the plans, hopefully I stick to them and that you guys like the idea I have. I am open to suggestions, just leave a comment, and if its good, maybe I'll try it!

  Oh, before I go, I feel I should say this. My original idea was to do videos instead of blogs on Sundays, but my camera's audio sucks, so I really can't. Once I get a good camera, I am absolutely going to do that, but there's no telling when I'm going to get a good camera. Those aren't cheap!

Plans wrapped up in a blankie

So I am sitting here at my kitchen table wrapped up in a black blankie with pink skulls. Its techincally a throw, but I just like calling it a blankie. I am sitting with it wrapped around me because I am cold, my nose is running and instead of being a normal person and just grabbing the jacket I had hanging not two feet aware from my bed, I just walked into my room and grabbed this off my bed. Its not even that cold in here, but I just wanted to feel warm.

         I think I've re-caught (I don't care if its not a word, I am using it!) a cold that I had. Wonderful. Thank you, father, for giving it back to me. How very thoughtful of you. -_- Not really. Anyways, its a week to Christmas, and only two until the new year begins. I've been talking such hype about my plans for Immortal Music in the new year, but I haven't told you guys really much of anything I have planned. I've been trying to keep it all a surprise until December 31, but I just was informed that my friends are planning a New Years party, so I don't think I'll be home to post all the changes.

   Because I am thinking of that fact, and I just sort of want to post it all, I think I will be posting the daily plans today. Some things will stay the same, and there'll be more added. Its sort of my way of trying to get the page more active, as well as the site.

   Also a side note, I haven't gotten to upgrade the site yet to a pro account. I have been talking about this for months, and being Christmas time, and in the middle of tour season, I keep thinking of other things I want. One of them being seeing D.R.U.G.S in concert. The updates will come later.

Here's what's going on today!

Oh how I wish I had internet on my phone so I could post updates throughout the day of what I'm doing on the Facebook page. One day I will, that'll make things easier. Anyways, while I do not know if anyone really reads what I say here, I wanted to tell people what I am up to today. It all involves Music = Life and Immortal Music.

             Yesterday I wrote five album reviews, Here And Now by Nickelback, Damage by Emphatic, Race You To The Bottom by New Medicine, Best Intentions by We Are The In Crowd, and Let's Cheers To This by Sleeping With Sirens. All of which will be posted today. For some reason, I got up and decided I was going to write album reviews, and instead of doing my adverage of three at a time, I did four and a half, and completed the fifth one right before I went to sleep last night. Don't ask me why, I honestly don't have a clue. 

           Those will be up today, and I will be trying once again to make my lyric video for "Fuck You" by Sleeping With Sirens. I have been trying for a couple days now and it just hasn't worked. I will try to get that done and posted sometime today though.

    Also, tonight I have my sixth interview! This one is with a local band that isn't getting the recongition they deserve yet. I'm hoping I can help them get more popular. That should be up tomorrow, plus I am going to take pictures. That may take a while to get up though.

So that's what's going, I'm gonna stop talking here and get to work! Bye!

Here's the game plan for today.

Ok guys, so here's what I'm gonna do (if everything goes as planned). I'm going to post the news here in a few minutes, come back here to Facebook, post a few new things into my "Band Bucketlist", attempt to make my lyric video that I was working on yesterday, post that (if it gets finished), post the album reviews I have completed. Oh, and I really need to post a Song Of The Day. I've seriously neglected that lately, and I don't know why! Its just been slipping my mind, I guess.

           I might as well go ahead and tell you guys what the video will be for. Keep in mind, computers are insanely stupid some days, and it may not actually let me make it, but if it does, it will be for the Sleeping With Sirens cover of "Fuck You" by Cee Loo Green. Does this really come as much of a shock to anyone? I mean come on, I've only been posting that song practically every day since it came out. I sort of got the idea to do this because of Shane Dawson, honestly. I was watching his latest video, and for some reason, it inspired something out of me.

Shane, as screwed up as his videos may sometimes be, actually is really inspiring. He's a goof ball, but with very good morals. I've been thinking about making a lyric video for "Fuck You" for a couple weeks now, but the one I made yesterday that got deleted was kick ass. You guys would have loved it. I'm going to try to do something similar to it today, but no promises.

Anyways, I am now wasting time that I do not have to waste. I need to get started on my work, because not only do I have plenty to do online, I also have to make cookies today. Sorry I can't share those with you guys. :P

I'll talk to you all later. I don't know why things are now getting posted in a weird form of a paragraph. That always happens when I post a video in a blog. Don't know why.

I want YOUR help!

The title is 100% correct, I want your help on something. Yes, you, the one with the eyes and the hair, with the face. You! Ok, so maybe I'm being a little weird, so I'll just get to the point. With 2012 just around the corner, I have been thinking a lot about upcoming plans for Immortal Music. I do have a few select ideas, but I want more.

             As many of you may have noticed, about a month a go or so now, I changed "the news" section to "the venom" section. I did that for obvious reasons, to fit the immortal /vampire feel the website has. However, I want to now change the other sections to something more suitable for the theme, and I am stuck! I really really, really, need suggestions for the album reviews, homepage (considering "the coffin"), interviews, calander, and biography page. Please, if you have any idea at all, post a comment telling me your idea. Maybe I'll use it. If its good enough, I probably will to be honest.

             Also, I want more fan incorperation this coming year. I want people to suggest projects in mind, and fun little things to get the site more active and all that good stuff. I will not tell you what any of that is until December 30, maybe even later than that, I don't know yet. All I'll tell you now is that I'm planning a lot more fun to be happening in 2012.

          I mentioned a few months ago that I wanted to do this project called "Album Reviews A to Z", but I never did it. Now, I am planning on doing it, but not the way I originally planned. Instead of just filling in the holes I left with the letters of bands I didn't do (like G, I think), I will start with an A band and go all the way through Z. There probably will be some inbetween, but ultimately, I will write 26 (is there 26 letters in the alphabet? I'm too lazy to count right now!) reviews one for every letter of the alphabet. I also want you guys to suggest bands I should do biographies for, albums I should review,  games we should play, whatever you can think of! Suggest it. :D

      Ok guys, I have more to say, but I think that'll wait until a bit later, because I am making a project out of this, and I have to make the project in order to post a blog thing here. I don't know, I feel like I'm rambling, bye guys!

Best. Night. Ever! (Adelita's Way, Art Of Dying and Emphatic concert!)

Best. Night. Ever. Not only did I get to interview Rick from Adelita's Way, Cale from Art Of Dying, and Art Of Dying's manager, but I actually got the once in a life time chance of hanging out with the bands. How many people can ever get the chance to say, "Hey, I stood there singing Nickelback songs with Cale Gontier of Art Of Dying" or "I watched Rick from Adelita's Way get litterally picked up by a radio DJ and another guy for no real reason at all while taking shots."

             The concert was held at Porky's Roadhouse in Port Charolette, FL, and I can not say enough good about this place. Its small and intimate, open three days a week, the staff is all really friendly and nice. Their owner, Leon, actually offered to help me out with interviews, and the bartenders, Nancy and Michele (those are the only two I talked to you) were beyond sweet.

          Everyone was really sweet, the staff, and the bands. We all know that rockstars are just normal people, but you do not believe it fully until you see it. I over an hour of time with Art Of Dying, parts of Emphatic and the lead singer of Adelita's Way, Rick. Plus, I got autographs, and as mentioned before, interviews. I never got to do an interview in person before, so I'm sure you can imagine my excitment.

          I got there around 6:30, and the doors didn't even techincally open until 7, and they told us that Adelita's Way was not in the building at that time. They dropped by, fixed up their equipment, and then headed out to the local radio station, 99x. The other bands were there, in fact two of the guys in Art Of Dying were just chilling and playing pool in the room. I talked to them for a bit, and left them alone.I was very surprised to realize that Jeff, their drummer, actually remembered my name a few hours later. They told me I'd have to talk to their tour manager about an interview, but Jeff said if its fine by their manager, he'd happily do an interview with me.

        While I did get my interview, it was split up between their manager, T.J, and Cale, their bassist. T.J answered the majority of the questions, but then after the show Cale helped me out with the rest. I was so thrilled, and they both knew it. I am pretty sure I thanked T.J, Cale, and Rick a thousand times each.

      How I got my interview with Rick was interesting. He walks in the door, and I recongized him. He got swarmed with fans, but after it cleared up a bit, my friends and I got pictures with him, and then I was just talking to him. I told him I recently interviewed Mayday Parade, and actually had questions thought up for Adelita's Way. I did not ask  for an interview, just said I have questions, and the next thing I know, he's saying "After the show, let's do it!" He kept to his word too, he answered about four questions minutes after getting off stage, then went back to the bus to shower and get changed and while he was carrying on with his friend's, he answered all my questions.

                Cale came shortly after Rick answered the first few questions. I was actually waiting on Jeff, but Cale was talking to a friend of mine, and he saw me standing there and asked what was up. I told him I was trying to finish my interview, and he asked with who. My saying "You" (meaning Art Of Dying) baffled him for a minute, but then I explained that I was actually waiting on Jeff, but if he'd wanna answer the questions, I'd be cool with that too. So he did. I only had three questions left for him, plus I added on. The interviews will both be up, probably sometime today or tomorrow. I will also try to get the pictures all up too.

        New Medicine was unable to make the show, but Emphatic, Art Of Dying, and Adelita's Way were amazing. Emphatic actually did something I never saw anyone actually do, except for music videos, where its totally planned. For their last song, which was "Bounce", Patrick, the lead singer, suddenly was like, "Who wants to come up on stage? You know what, come on, take pictures from the stage! Get up here." Or something along those lines. Pretty much half of the people -including myself and two friends- were on stage. Yes, I did get pictures from the stage. That was fucking incredible! I told them so too, I have never ever ever gotten to do something like that.

        This whole night was full of firsts. It was my one friend's first rock concert, my first one in a bar, and the first time I have ever gotten to just hang out with the bands. I have met people before, but its usually only a few minutes with the band, if that, so it was really something getting to "party" with them. The bar was slowly clearing out, but some people were still in there, especially the bands. I mostly hung out with Cale from Art Of Dying, for several reasons. A) He was hanging out with one of my friends. B) He was really nice, and fun. C) -This is the true fan in me-, he was hot. Cale, if you ever see this, I am jealous that you kissed my friend, not me. Laughing my ass off at that comment.

      It is not a completely off the wall thought that he may see this. He told me himself to share any and all pictures with them, so it would only make sense if he also read everything I said about them. It may not happen, but who knows, it could happen.

   I will never forget this night. Getting a ton of great pictures, singing and dancing for the hell of it with these insanely sweet rockstars, watching Cale fake rape his friend, and get his ass smacked by his tour manager. I am not kidding, that actually happened. I got a bit of a dirty look from Cale (playfully), because I said I wish I had the camera out.

       I heard some interesting things too, some of it will be in the interviews, so I will not mention that here, but I heard from someone who is a childhood friend of Rick from Adelita's Way, that he used to be a Chip-And-Dale's dancer. For those who do not know, that is a male stripper. Honestly, I wasn't surprised. He was dancing like he knew what he was doing.

    So, its 3:57am, I am going to cut this off and go to bed. Expect pictures and interviews within the days to come. Best night of my life, I am sure I will never forget it! Thank you to Porky's Roadhouse for having such an epic event, and thank you to Emphatic, Adelita's Way and Art Of Dying for being such awesome people. You really impressed me with your kindess.

Most anticipated things of 2012!

I was looking at Alternative Press' Most Anticipated albums of 2012, and it got me thinking. What do I want to see come out in 2012? They only mentioned albums and EP's, but what about all the tours? Not to mention, I am not looking forward to any of the things they mentioned, though I knew about The Used planning to release an album next year, and that is pretty cool. Feel free to read everything they had to say right here. Everything I have to say is vastly different.

      For one, I can not wait to hear more for D.R.U.G.S. Their first album is amazing, but one album is not enough. They have come so far so fast, and I am certain that they will amaze us all with their sophmore album, whenever it may come out. If you ask me, they are the best band to start this year.

    I also look forward to hearing the third Boys Like Girls album, whenever that's due out. I always enjoy their music, and as long as they do not drastically change, I'll still love them.

There's also seeing Falling In Reverse tour more, as they've barely gotten to lately. There's been a lot of issues trying to get their tours up and going, and I think that's a shame. I've heard Ronnie say he loves playing shows, so it sucks for him that he barely has. They played five dates on Warped this summer, and a few short tours with Eyes Set To Kill and others. I want to see them tour a lot more this coming year, and put out a new album! I have a feeling they probably will, seeing as Ronnie said he wrote over four hundred songs while in jail. They have material set for a very long time if they'd want.

      I'd love to see All Time Low touring more, and put out another album as well. Preferably, one very similar to Dirty Work. That is honestly, their best album. The true pop-rock sound works wonders for them, and I love it.

    Then there's Warped tour 2012. Bands will be announced soon, and dates are already out, but it is possibly the biggest tour for music. Everyone knows about Warped tour, and if you don't, you live under a rock obviously. There is nothing else quite like it, not here in America anyways. So far only one band has been confirmed for Warped, and that's You Me At Six. I saw them live, and they said they will be on next year's Warped tour while on stage. There's been rumors going around that Falling In Reverse will be on all the dates, on the main stage this year at Warped, and I have heard rumors that All Time Low and Yellowcard will be on the 2012 Warped. Whether that's true or not, I don't know. All Time Low has not been on Warped in some time, though they did play a few dates this year. I hope its true, I'd love to see All Time Low on Warped tour.

           I'd also love to see D.R.U.G.S, Black Veil Brides, The Ready Set, all return to Warped tour this year. I heard they were among some of the best at Warped that were not on the main stage, and I think that'd be kick ass. As a music journalist, I am thinking I'll go to Warped tour 2012 because its one hell of a chance to meet and really talk to a ton of people. Not even just the people in the band, but the people who work for the band. You can learn a lot from just them even.

  Here's a list of just some of the people I'd love to see on Warped tour 2012. Half of these probably won't be on there, but you never know.
All Time Low, Mayday Parade, The Ready Set, NeverShoutNever, Black Veil Brides, D.R.U.G.S, Artist Vs Poet, Avril Lavigne, Black Tide, Blood On The Dance Floor, Boys Like Girls, We Are The In Crowd, The Maine, Go Radio, Sixx.AM, Falling In Reverse, Escape The Fate, Drive A, Get Scared, Five Finger Death Punch, Glamour Of The Kill, Halestorm, Hell Or Highwater, Hey Monday, Hit The Lights, Life On Repeat, Lovehatehero, BlessTheFall, The Material, Modern Day Escape, My Chemical Romance, My Darkest Days, One Less Reason, Panic! At The Disco, Pierce The Veil, Picture Me Broken, The Pretty Reckless, Secondhand Serenade, Simple Plan, Sleeping With Sirens, Spill Canvas, The Starting Line, Valencia, Vampires Everywhere!, The Veer Union, We're All Virus.

There'd be more, like Art Of Dying, Three Days Grace, Shinedown, Adelita's Way, and a few others, but I know they'd never in a million years be on Warped tour Some of the ones I mentioned like, Five Finger Death Punch, MCR, and probably Black Tide wouldn't either. Ones like All Time Low, Mayday, The Ready Set, and others are plausable though. We're All Virus would be stoked to do Warped Tour, that'd mean they'd get to play shows out of the state of Florida. They're still a local band. I don't really know why I want NeverShoutNever! on Warped tour, I only like one song by him. I guess its because he's adorable. Superficial reason, I know.

   The number one thing I am looking forward to, however, is Three Days Grace fourth studio album. It has been completed since May or somewhere right around there. The release date, and title are still unknown, but I am highly excited for it. As many people know, they're my favorite band, and out of the three albums they currently have, they only have two songs I don't like. They're such an amazing band, so I can not wait to hear more for them.

X-Mas Ball 2011 (Buried Alive tour!)

Last night was the kick off to Avenged Sevenfold's Buried Alive tour, it was also an annual event called X-Mas Ball. Before I go on explaining, it is actually 'X' Mas not the Christmas Ball. I know Xmas is another way to say Christmas, but in this case its not. The radio station that hosts it is called 99x so its always been called the X-Mas Ball.

           The bands were (in this order) Black Veil Brides, Asking Alexandria, Hollywood Undead, and then, finally, Avenged Sevenfold. Honestly, Black Veil Brides was the best band there, even though they only played five songs. I don't wanna spoil the set list, since the tour has barely begun, but let's just say I was surprised by a few things they did not play, and I was surprised by a couple they played. I will tell you this, they played "Rebel Yell" off their upcoming EP. This surprised my mom, because I never told her they covered it. I wasn't really surprised, considering the EP comes out next month.

    Someone was clearly pissing Andy off, because he told more than one person to suck his dick. I don't know exactly what happened, but at one point he crotched down, and got someone's attetnion. He said into the microphone, "Hey, tell him suck my dick, from me." A little while later he did the hand gesture to someone on the other side of the stage, and flipped someone off. For some reason, they get a lot of hate. I even told someone to shut up during the show because they were insulting them! Some guy, who was probably only sixteen or seventeen yelled, "Play something good!" As soon as I heard it, I guess I went into defensive fan mode, and yelled at him to shut the fuck up, that they were good, and if he didn't like it he could leave. He didn't even resond. :)

          Normally, I am not one to fangirl, but I have to admit, I totally did with this one! I got all the way up to the barricade, and stayed there, I could see perfectly and was happy. BVB coulda never gotten off stage and I would have been a happy camper. The first time I heard Andy talk, my mind was blown! I didn't even scream, I just looked at him with my jaw dropped. Of course, then I screamed. I think I was in fangirl heaven up there, I could have watched them forever! I tried to get video, but the sound quality on them sucked. I probably will still upload them eventually, but I may also edit them so the recorded verison is there. I don't know yet, but I was very amused. I got a lot of pictures too, I noticed I got almost equal ammounts of pictures of Andy and Ashley. They're my favorites of the band, but I did get pictures of all of them, even a few of CC.
            It was really hard getting pictures of CC, not only was I at an angle that I barely saw him, but he head bangs really hard. I was almost certain he nearly hit head on the drums several times. I also thought for sure Andy was somehow going to manage to hurt himself even though they were only on stage for five or six songs. He kept spitting on the stage, and at one point I saw him slip. I was just waiting for him to fall on his face. Thankfully though, he did not. He did however need to pull up his pants, I have more than one picture where you can see how buttcrack. Its sort of surprising since he practically has to paint his pants on.

    Still, they were amazing, and I know say anyone who has said Andy can not sing has something seriously wrong with them. If you ask me, he has a voice of a sex God. Given, that is coming from an Andy Biersack fangirl.

         After BVB went off, there was a twenty minute intermission, and then Asking Alexandria took the stage. I stayed in for one song, one song I did not know even, and walked out. The music wasn't music, it was noise! I don't really think it was Asking Alexandria's doing, and Danny's voice sounded just fine most of the time, but really it was the acoustics in that place. I decided to just hang out in the hallway with a couple friends, and stayed out there all through Asking Alexandria and Hollywood Undead. The only songs I even recongized from either band were, "Not The American Average", "Final Chapter (Let's Change The Channel)", and for Hollywood Undead, "Undead" and "Hear Me Now". With Hollywood Undead, that was only because those are the only two songs of theirs I know. With Asking Alexandria, it was because I couldn't understand much of what Danny was saying, and couldn't really decipher the music.

           Only reason I knew that they played "Not The American Average" and "Final Chapter" was because I know "Not The American Average" is my favorite, and I know it very well, and he screams "Oh My God" at the beginning of "Final Chapter", and I heard that clearly. They both sounded awful though! I was considering going back in for "Not The American Average" but then I heard some of it and it was so bad it made me jump! They should have fixed the sound better.

          We had fun in the hallway though, looked at merchandise, amused the Black Veil Brides merch guy by going over there four times, and taking pictures in front of it. He got in them, that was cool. Plus my friend and I ballroom danced for no real reason in the hallway to Hollywood Undead playing something I didn't know in the actual arena. Plus we met a Craig Mabbitt look a like, and amused him too by taking a picture with him. Actually, what made him laugh was me saying to my overly quiet friend that she couldn't take a picture with him because he wasn't Craig Mabbitt. He cracked up, and said do it anyways for the hell of it. I am pretty sure he won't forget that for a while.

       When we went back in, my friends and I parted ways. They took their seats, I headed for the front. A guy I met there (A friend of a friend) decided to follow me up there. I think I made him a little nervous by the fact that my 4'11 and a half foot self was willing to take on the crowd myself. I felt kinda badass walking straight to the middle of the floor with him following me. He was probably thinking I was out of my mind, but people think I'm a lot younger than I really am, and while I normally hate that, it comes in handy at concerts. People are more willing to let me get in front of them, or even help me get to the front. I lost Devon (the guy I met), at some point, and went up to the barricade. Didn't even need to fight my way up there, I basically just walked up there. Weird thing was, I had to do more fighting to get to the front at the Mayday Parade concert I went to last week then I did for them.

   I myself am not a big fan of A7x, but my mom is. I promised her that this time around I'd get her a lot of pictures of them, because the last time we saw them we only got a few. Since I didn't really care about them at all, I mostly just focused on taking pictures. I got a ton of good ones, which I will upload to the Music = Life page as soon as I can. Facebook's photo uploader has been terribly slow lately, and glitchy, so it takes me a while to get everything up.

         Even though I was on the barricade and probably ten feet from a speaker, I didn't pay attention to all the songs they played. I know they played several I knew fairly well like "Nightmare", "Second Heartbeat", "Unholy Confessions", "Buried Alive", ect. It would have been weird if they hadn't played "Buried Alive". I mean, come on its the Buired Alive tour, its to be expected. They did well, and I got some very great pictures.

       I had fun, and I defentily want to see Black Veil Brides again! They're high up on my list of the best performers I've ever seen. Right up there with Three Days Grace.

What an amazing year!

I know people normally do things like this on New Years Eve, but I feel its important to say some things now. 2011, though its had its down's, has been such an incredible year. I've realized who my true friends are, made some new ones, and have begun living my dream. I decided this year that I want to be a music journalist, and have been working very hard to pursue that dream. Not only have I landed interviews with Jason Nott of Drive A, Bryan Stars from YouTube, but also Mayday Parade.

           I have won tickets to see several of my favorite bands this year. First this year, I saw Escape The Fate with Alesana, Motionless In White, Drive A, and Get Scared on January 30,2011. Then I saw Avenged Sevenfold, supported by Three Days Grace and Bullet For My Valentine on May 9, 2011. I won tickets to go to Uproar Festival 2011 with Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, Bullet For My Valentine, Escape The Fate, Black Tide, Seether, Sevendust, Art Of Dying, and Hell Or Highwater for September 3. Unfortunately, I did not get to go to that, but we still had the tickets. Then on November 18th I got the honor to meet Mayday Parade, recieve a photo pass, and see them live with We Are The In Crowd, The Make, There For Tomorrow, and You Me At Six.

      Now, for November 23, I have tickets to see Avenged Sevenfold again with Black Veil Brides, Asking Alexandria, and Hollywood Undead on the first date of the Buried Alive tour. Or, as its called her local, the X-Mas Ball!!

    This makes me so freakin' happy right now. After tomorrow, I would have seen five of my favorite bands this year alone! How many people are ever able to say that? My favorites include Three Days Grace, Escape The Fate, Mayday Parade, Black Veil Brides, and Bullet For My Valentine used to be in there. I won't get into that though, I am in a good mood right now, and explaining that always brings my mood down.

       This year has been incredible, I've gotten to do so many things that most people never get to do, and I can not say how thankful I am for it. We've never been lucky people, but for some reason we've been incredibly lucky this year. Perfect time of the year to be thankful for things, I suppose.

     Now I can not wait for tomorrow! I hope to meet Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides.

THE NOISE TOUR (How it was!)

So last night was the second to last night of Mayday Parade's Noise Tour. It featured (in this order), The Make, There For Tomorrow, You Me At Six, We Are The In Crowd, and of course, Mayday Parade. As I have been saying on the Facebook page for some time now, I got the honor of getting into the Street Team Meet And Greet for Mayday Parade. After much confusion, and actually asking Alex Garcia himself where it was, along with two of the You Me At Six guys,  several security guards, and many miscellanious fans, we finally were able to get inside.

              They had to go get Mayday Parade's tour manager, Mike, and he let us in. I had already spoken with him on the phone, so I'm assuming that's why it was so casual. I've done other meet and greets before, but they were never like this. The band, all except their bassist, Jeremy Lenzo, was down in the pit of the club, just wandering around down there. They are all so sweet! They didn't hesitate at all to take pictures, sign things, or just stand there talking with you. We did miss Jeremy, which was a shame, since he was the one I got to interview, but its still ok. He had been down there, but since we were late getting in there due to confusion, we missed him.

        We had to go outside again to get my photo pass, which ment I got to skip the barricade in the pit to get right up to the stage. Myself, and about six other people got to do so, though I wasn't informed until right before You Me At Six went on stage that I could go up there for the first three songs of every band, not just Mayday Parade. So unforunately, I missed out on that for The Make, and There for Tomorrow, and actually didn't get a lot for You Me At Six (because the security guard only let me in there for one song.), but I was right there for We Are The In Crowd, and Mayday Parade.

          I didn't know a lot of the songs the other bands played, but I knew all of the ones Mayday Parade played. Before that though, I know There For Tomorrow played "Pages" for the first time on this tour, You Me At Six played "Little Death" (I think, I wasn't really paying a lot of attention to them) and a few others that I recongized, but couldn't quite place. The crowd went nuts for them though. It was cool seeing the crowd get more pysched with every band.

       The first band was a new band from California, The Make, and while I had never heard them, they're really good. I loved their passion and energy, they were so into it, plus you could tell this was still a treat for them, not a job to them. We got to meet the singer (who's name I unfortunately do not know) and their keyboardist / guitarist (who's name I also do not know). The drummer and bassist disappeared out of thin air, we looked around, but could not find him anywhere, so we just sort of gave up. Ironically, my mom who wasn't even seeing the concert (though she was in the parking lot), did meet the bassist outside. We also got their autographs on a free poster they were giving out, which was cool. They both seemed surprised because we complimented not only their talent, but we said the lead singer was adorable and the keyboardist was pretty. I'm not sure why they were so surprised we'd say that, because its the total truth.

          We hung out with some people we met outside the venue before the concert started through most of There For Tomorrow, though my attention was sparked when he said something about they hadn't played "Pages" at all this tour, so they wanted to. I recorded it, but the sound quality isn't too great, unfortunately. Everything else is great though.

        We were in the pit for some of You Me At Six, but that was only for a few songs. For some reason we didn't really pay much attention to them. However, once We Are The In Crowd got on stage, we didn't leave the pit, so we defentily paid attention. We were getting tired of trying to push past people, so we just decided to hang out down there for the remainder of the show.

          While I didn't know a lot of We Are The In Crowd's music, I quite enjoyed their set. They were so into it, you could tell they were having a blast even though both the lead singer, Taylor, and the guitarist, Jordan were injured. Taylor told me before the show that she fell, so her foot was in a walking cast, and while on stage she told the audience a story about Jordan getting the bright idea to climb a fence while drunk. Instead of really climbing it, he sort of flew over it, and landed on the bassist, Mike, which resulted in many cuts upon his face. I felt bad he was injured, but the story amused me. Everyone, even Jordan, seemed amused.

          Then it was time for Mayday Parade, which was obviously the one everyone was the most excited for. On and off for half an hour before they actually took the stage the audience would chant "Mayday". Only for seconds at a time, but it'd die down and pick up again several times. By the time it finally started everyone was going nuts, even the boys on stage! They didn't strike me as the hyper types, but they defentily are!

        Since tonight is the final night of the Noise tour, and anyone going to it will not be reading this until after the show, I feel it is safe to say the set list. These songs are not in order, and I do feel like I forgot a song or two, but here's what I recall them doing. They opened with "Oh Well, Oh Well", then played "Jersey", then "Anywhere But Here." I'm a bit fuzzy on the order of the songs, but they also played, "Kids In love", "Miserable At Best", "Stay", "When You See My Friends", "Jamie All Over", "No Heroes Allowed", "Black Cat", "When I Get Home You're So Dead", "Walk On Water Or Drown", "Three Cheers For Five Years" and ended with "One Man Drinking Game."

        Never before have I ended up crying during a concert due to the music before. They played "Miserable At Best", and "Stay" together. Derek asked for the crowd to tell him they wanted him to play a sad song, so of course everyone did, and then he started in on "Miserable At Best". As if that song wasn't touching enough, he went right into "Stay". I was choking up a bit on the words to "Miserable At Best", for personal reasons, but I completely lost it when I realized he was started "Stay". I felt like I shouldn't have been crying, but then I had a thought. Music is supposed to be relatable, the bands want their fans to be moved by their words. They were so moved at some point that they wrote the lyrics, so it only makes sense that they'd probably be very touched to hear that a fan could relate to a song so much that they cried while screaming the lyrics.

       Some people may view that as a fangirl sort of deal, but I don't. I view it as life. Its just one person connecting with another. It was an incredible night, and I am truly honored that I got this experience. Much thanks to Mayday Parade's managers Jaime and Mike, you guys made a dream of mine come true, and you can gurarentee I'll never forget your kindess. Thank you to We Are the In Crowd, You Me At Six, We Are The In Crowd, The Make, and of course, Mayday Parade for sharing your music with the world. You do the world justice just by singing your heart out night after night.

       Oh, I also feel I should mention this, Derek Sanders, Mayday Parade's lead singer said that two months ago he fathered a baby girl. I found it incredibly sweet that he'd mention her on stage in front of a thousand people/

        That was defentily one of the best nights of my life, I've never gotten to experience anything quite like that.

How am I supposed to not feel bad?

As everyone on the Facebook page knows, I am going to see Mayday Parade tonight. I am excited, but at the same time I feel like an awful person. We really can not afford this, but yet I still really want to go. Its a huge opprunity, and while others are meeting the band too, I doubt any of them are going to get there the way I did. I got it because I showed interest in the band as people. I don't fully know what the "street team" does, but even if its similar, the curcumstances are vastly different.


              Anyways, I don't know what to do. I feel like a horrible person for even wanting to go still. I got so annoyed earlier I just said "Fuck it, we're not going!" My parents wouldn't accept that. They know how important this is to me, but at the same time, you know what's gonna happen. Since we can't afford it, we'll go without something soon and then I'll hear about it. I have some money, and I do plan on forcing it upon my mother. Either way, I still feel awful..

Props to those YouTubers out there...and Mayday Parade concert tomorrow!

Hey guys, so we all know about those YouTubers out there, big ones like Smosh, Shane Dawson and Ray William Johnson, and a million more. I don't know how they stand it! I tried to make a video yesterday, it took me like thirteen tries and I still didn't end up keeping that! I don't know if it was me or the camera, but you could barely hear me at all, and I think I was talking pretty loud.
 
           I think I may scrap the whole "vlog" idea, and just stick to blogs. I don't know yet, opinions would be nice, but who am I kidding? When I ask for opinions I never get them from you guys. I don't know why really, I don't think anyone likes the whole blog idea. The most views I've gotten in one day was seven, but generally its one or two. Anyways, it really was not working out too well, but whatever. Someone might care and read these random things.

     Before I go, I wanted to share some stuff with you guys. I 'll start the official entertainment section within the next few months but Shane Dawson posted a new video, you can check that out below, and Smosh was in an Epic Meal Time video, which you can view by clicking right here.

So much to do!

  I want to apologize again, last night I got a little emotional on the Facebook page, a lot of you guys saw it, and some people responded. I appericate the ones that responded, and to all, I still apologize. I didn't mean to, it just sort of happened.

             Anyways, on to the normal stuff. I wanted to say I have been working on plans for Immortal Music and Music = Life. I believe I mentioned this yesterday, but I am still working on it. I'm planning set days for some things, and some daily things. I am planning on starting all this on Sunday, January 1, 2012. I won't tell you all what I'm planning yet, but I think people will like it. Or at least I hope people will like it.
 
              I think the page will be more active this way, and that'll be nice. Um...I just realized I have like nothing else to say, so I guess I'll go. Bye guys!
       

Wasting time

Once again, I have been wasting time watching Shane Dawson for hours on end. Normally, I try to keep track, but I have no idea how long its been. I'm guessing somewhere between two or four hours. I don't know, he's really freakin' addictive. I wanted to ask you guys though, would it be cool if I interviewed Shane Dawson? I keep thinking of questions for him, and I did find his email address, so why not? It'd be pretty fucking awesome. I think it'd be a good time, anyways.

       He puts me in such a random mood, though I'll admit he's made me cry like three times. One of which, he had me bawling. That was this morning. I'm in a good mood, so I won't go into detail. Let's just say, I watched one of his videos about his grandmother, who has now passed away, and I couldn't take it. It struck a nerve that I try to surpress a lot, but it also does come to the surface. Friends know the story, and do try to keep me away from the subject, because it puts me in a very dark place. Anyways, apart from that, I do really think he's a cool person. Many people are aware that I have been watching him like crazy lately. Not really because I am being an OCD fangirl or anything like that, its for a few reasons. One of them being that he is funny, obviously, or else I wouldn't waste my days watching his videos.

         Another reason is, if I ever do get to interview him, I don't think it'd look very good if I don't have a clue what his videos are about. I mean, where are you gonna come up with questions if you don't know the person's material? You kinda have to know it. So, um, I keep thinking of all these random things today, and I am thinking I'm going to start doing a lot next year. Like start making Vlogs or whatever, even though I really doubt they'll be popular. I just was thinking earlier that this year, while its had it's up's and down's has been a great year.

      I've gone to two concerts, soon to be three, met one of my favorite people on the planet (Max Green), saw three of my favorite bands this year, and got to meet one of them. Then this Friday, I'll be seeing and meeting another one of my favorites, Mayday Parade. I feel like I've been bragging about that, I'm really sorry, guys, if its seemed like I have been. I just feel so honored getting to do this. How many people get to say they get to go to a concert for one of their favorite bands for free? Plus they get to meet them, again for free, all because they showed great interest in the band as people for the most part? I knew it comes with the job, but its rare when people just starting out get to do this. I don't think people get how truely awesome that is.

       Oh, and quick announcement. I still don't have the money for the upgrade for Immortal Music, but I am hoping to get it for Christmas. My grandpa, most years, sends me about $50 for Christmas, and if he does this year I'll use that to get the pro upgrade for the site. It'll last a year, so I am just hoping next year I'll have the money to upgrade again, or else...well I don't know what the fuck I'll do. Once I get that I'll stop posting blogs here.

           I'm gonna wrap this up, but seriously, tell me if you like the idea of me interviewing Shane Dawson. Even if you don't, I probably will still try. Also, if you want, think of some people you'd like to see me interview. Comment on that shit. :) Bye, ya'll.

Talking about some deep shit now.

Alright, so anyone who's been on the Facebook page the past few days knows that I have been obessively watching Shane Dawson videos on YouTube. Ususally he's all goofy, and silly, you know? He isn't always like that though, he does have some serious ones. He has one where he talks about his issues with his dad, one about flaws where he quotes Hannah Montana, questioning why you were ever born, and the one I most recently watched, one about bullying and suicide.

             It really spoke to me. I don't really know why it spoke to me the way it did, but it did. I think it spoke to me because he opened up on camera to thousands of people. Not only did he tell his story, but he asked about others. He seemed geniune about it too, and honestly, that's rare. Especially on the internet! So many people on the internet seem to be trolling one another, and purposely insulting someone or something. Real life is just like that too, and it shouldn't be like that.

     The video I made, is similar to my lyric videos in style, but I do not use lyrics. I used my own words, just trying to reach out to people. I used a very beatiful song, that actually gave me that warm and fuzzy feeling when I first heard it, in the background. The song in it is "I Will Be There" by Art Of Dying, and I used it because it flat out says, "I will be there when nothing works and no one cares." Not a lot of people ever say that, or when they do, they don't mean it. I find that very shameful, because at some point in time, we're all going to need someone.
     
            We're taught as small children, "treat others the way we wanna be treated.", but so many people forgot that golden rule. I've always said my weakness is that I care too much, that's why my theme song is "Scars" by Papa Roach. Everyone knows that, I make it very clear. I try to be that person that's always there for people, and sometimes I'm there even when I don't really wanna be. I don't know why really, I guess I just try to make up for those who aren't like that without really thinking about it.

        In the video I made, I made sure to tell people that if they wanted, they can even talk to me about stuff. I said on YouTube, but even on Facebook or email. I want to make a difference, which, as I've mentioned before is why I am going into the music journalism business. It makes myself happy, helps out the bands, and could possibly save someone's life. Music is my escape, and it is for many others too. Someone's heart and soul goes into most songs, and if you listen carefully, you can tell.

             Um...so that's kinda why I made the video. I coulda made an actual video of me talking, but I feel I get my point across better if I write instead of talk. That and I was too lazy to make a video. If you haven't seen Shane's video, go watch it. Or I guess you could click right here to watch Shane's video, or right here to watch mine. Shane's is better, obviously. There you go, there you have it. Maybe I'll actually get around to making videos. I don't know, that still makes me a bit nervous. I'm not sure how I feel about it. People should tell me what they think. I mean, I'm a boring person, so I don't even know what the fuck I'd talk about.

Big Time Rush has just gone and pissed me off! (We need to bring this to ATL's attention)

I am not hating on them, I want to say that first and formost! However, I am hating on what the fuck they did. Its never cool when a band steals another band's song and does not give them credit, its no different then you drawing a picture, giving it to one of your friends, and then they act like they worked so hard on it. Everyone want the credit where the credit is due, and I thought people had gotten better about it.

           Guess not. I have not heard of songs getting stolen in years, though off the top of my head I can not name a single one that got stolen. I know there have been some in the past, but maybe I wasn't aware of any of them. You probably already know this, as anyone that follows Byran Stars on Faceook or Twitter, or even YouTube has probably already heard, but Big Time Rush stole All Time Low's song, "No idea." I didn't think a thing of it until I heard it.

          I thought to myself, Oh come on, guys, its just a cover. If you don't like it, so what? That's no reason to hate on it. I like some of BTR's music, and I adore All Time Low, so I listened to it. All the words are changed, except for the chorus, and that seriously pissed me off. To make it worse, they are putting it on their sophmore album, which I discovered comes out on November 21, along with several good albums.

      I thought Disney did shit like that, ripping off good music and all that. I thought all musicians would respect one another, and know better than to steal each other's work. Its not easy to write songs, and I know All Time Low worked hard on this. I don't know if they're aware of this, but if they're not they should be. I want every All Time Low fan to go post on ATL's Facebook page talking about this rip off, Tweet Jack, Alex, Zack, and Brian, and the All Time Low accounnt, even bring it to the attention of Interscope. I think this is very wrong, because they're claiming its theirs and its not. Its clearly not, if you've heard "No Idea" you'll know that. I know nobody really reads my blogs, so I'm probably talking to myself, but this is a serious matter. A very good band has been ripped off, and that's a problem. They need to get the correct credit, and quite frankly, I don't think Big Time Rush deserves to have that on their album. Its not a cover, its a rip off.

        Help ATL out, spread the word about it. Oh, and don't go by BTR's album, Elevate. That's just supporting them and their stealing. Which is a crime, by the way. I don't know if they write their own songs or if some of the writers for Nickelodon do, but either way, someone knew what the hell they were doing. Big Time Rush, is honestly the boy and Nickelodon verison of Hannah Montana. I don't want them to get as shitty as she did. Either way, my opinion just went way down.

KIDZ BOP SUCKS!

I got word last night that there's now a Kidz Bop 20. I remember when the first one came out in 2001. I just googled that to make sure, it was in October 2001. So, what the fuck?! They've been ruining songs for ten years, and have twenty cd's out now? I've never liked them, they've ruined great songs for ten freakin' years. Why??? Hell if I know. Not only do they sound bad, but they pick songs with inappropriate lyrics and change them so they're not inappropriate. Like, "The Lazy Song" by Bruno Mars or "Fucking Perfect" by P!nk. They have covered both, and changed both. "Fucking Perfect" is now "Freaking perfect", and advertised as just "Perfect."

            I didn't think a thing about "The Lazy Song", until the line, "Gonna throw my hands in my pants." 10 year olds can not sing that line! Hopefully, they won't even understand why someone would do that. If you don't get it, and you're over, oh say, twelve, you need help. I'm just saying, then would be a good time to go talk to your parents about the birds and bees. I still don't get why they call it that, by the way. Its really more like flowers and hummingbirds. Oh whatever, anyways, so I wanted to hear exactly what they did to this song to make it "appropriate." Instead of saying "Gonna throw my hands in my pants", they say "Gonna throw my hands in the air."

        Doesn't have the same ring to it, does it? A lot of songs are like that, and I personally don't think their voices ever blend well. Some of them do have some talent, but not really. Kidz Bop needs to stop making "music"! I love covers, but I love covers like this:

Not covers like this:

Its awful, honestly. Stop ruining songs, kids. I know its not you, and some of you do have real talent, but there's so much wrong with this!

           Did anyone like Kidz Bop growing up? I didn't, though I think I may have had a sample of one of them, because it came in a Happy Meal. Oh, and this is just something else I have to say, why on Earth do they have one of the girls singing about meeting a girl? There's so much wrong with this song, I don't even wanna look at what else is on the album. 

      I actually don't even like Bruno Mars, which I know is weird since a lot of girls that do like pop music love him. I like his lyrics, but not his voice. It just...doesn't sit well with me.! I like covers though, especially Pierce The Veil's cover of "Just The Way You Are" and We Are The In Crowd's cover of "Grenade."

     Speaking of, there's two things I have to mention. Punk Goes Pop 4 hits shelves and stores online on the 21st of this month. So there's still a little over a week for that, but also, I will be seeing We Are the In Crowd next Friday night at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The venue is pretty small, so even though I do not have a planned meet and greet for them, chances are I will get to. Because of that, I'm hoping to have some questions thought up on the off chance that I get any real time with any of them. However, I've barely heard anything by We Are The In Crowd, so I really need some fan help here. Think up some questions and comment with them on the Facebook page. PLEASE! I only six days. I also really want to think of some for There For Tomorrow and You Me At Six. I can do You Me At Six, I just haven't yet.

             If you guys have anything to say, please comment. Ya'll are too damn shy with commenting! Help me out, I'd appericate it, and you never know, your question may get answered. I don't know yet, I'm actually not able to promise anything.

Falling In Reverse and album reviews!

This morning I got up, and wrote three album reviews. I'll be posting those on Immortal Music later, and may just write another one later. I don't know yet, but its possible. I also got up and started watching live videos of Falling In Reverse and D.R.U.G.S.

             If anyone really pays attention at all to the Facebook page, you probably already know I am a big of D.R.U.G.S fangirl. That's not entirely true. This also won't be news to you if you ever really see the page, but while I do love D.R.U.G.S' music, the real draw to them is Matt Good. I find him to be adorable as hell, which is rather rare for a rocker. They usually look tough or some would say "emo.", not him though. He looks like a little boy, sometimes. I just want to hug him!

            I feel like such a loser posting all that, when I'm supposed to be professional. You know what though? I'm not a professional yet! Even if I was, so what? I'm going into an industry where you're not supposed to be stuck up, with your hair in a bun and a pants suit. You're supposed to be the one with the crazy colors in your hair, wearing band tees and Tripps if you want to. Music is all about expressing yourself, so why not let the ones who support it express themselves in a unique way too. I'm aware that most journalists are professional, in the nicer outfits, and all that good stuff, but I don't care. I am me, and who knows? Maybe me being different from the rest will get me more fame in the music business. I'm not in it to be famous, but if I happen to get there along the way, well, that'd be ok.

       I feel like I jump around a lot with my blogs, and maybe I do. Do you guys even care? Probably not, I don't think any of you really read this thing. If you do, please comment on the link that brought you here from the Facebook page telling me you read these.

     I also have to mention this, I just found what is a fake account for Max Green, Escape The Fate's bassist. It even says its fake, but what I don't get it is why it says he's gay and in a relationship with Monte (Escape The Fate's gutiarist)! He is not gay, and defentily not in a relationship with Monte. That being said I wouldn't be shocked if Max was bi, seeing as I've seen him kiss Craig and basically feel him up before for no known reason.

       I feel like, if you're going to make a fanpage or whatever, at least have your facts right.

Sorry, random rant over. Um...like I said, I'll get the album reviews up today, and I'll post the news in a little while. I think I'm gonna go watch some more Shane Dawson. I showed that one I posted on the Facebook page to my brother and now I kinda watch some more. Byeee!

I feel like I have been so lazy this afternoon!

Its only like one o'clock and I feel like I've been so damn lazy its not even funny. Maybe that's because I just wasted like two hours watching Shane Dawson videos. I seriously feel like I should pick up the camera and just start making videos, maybe you guys would actually pay attention to those!
 
                 I kinda think nobody wants to read and that's why nobody pays attention to my blogs. For that matter, I'm not even certain more than like two people read the music news on Immortal Music. Anyways, so I was watching Shane Dawson earlier, and normally I don't watch him. I saw one video sometime last year and thought it was the stupidest thing ever. I remember telling my friend who told me to watch him that he was hot as hell but not at all funny. I guess I was just watching the wrong video, as I checked out his ShaneDawsonTV2 channel, and laughed my fucking ass off.

         The video that ultimately got me to change my mind was "Gay kiss with Shane Dawson", and I originally clicked on it because I was like, "Ok, there's a ton of gay rumors about him, but he denies it so much. Why would there be a video of him kissing a dude?" I figured it'd be a fake out video, where it comes close, but then doesn't happen. I won't ruin the video for it, you can check it out on the Music = Life page on Facebook, or on Shane's ShaneDawsonTV2 account. Just something he does in the video made me crack up so much I watched it twice in a row, and I never do that! I never even do that for Smosh, who I adore.

   SPEAKING OF SMOSH, (like my segway there?), they're doing a contest to fly you and two people out to Califorina to meet them and be in an episode of Lunchtime With Smosh. If you don't know what Lunchtime With Smosh is, you're a loser. Just kidding, but seriously, you're missing out. It can be found on Ian's channel, IanH. That is also where they post videos for "Ian Is Bored", which is really just Mailtime with Smosh, and the videos where Mari talks about articles they post on the Smosh Pit on Smosh.com.

Somewhere below this text, there is a link to the video about Smosh's contest. The contest is called For Breakout Contest and is sponsered by X Out acne cream. Honestly, who cares who's sponsering it? Its Smosh, they're fucking awesome. Go check out the video, and the rest of their videos.

  The basic rules of the contest are simply. Build a fort and make a three minute (or less) video of you breaking out of it. The most creative wins, and only people thirteen to eighteen can enter. That part kind of sucks, as I know for sure that people older than eighteen would kill to make a fort just so they can destroy it and then meet Smosh. I do plan on entering, and I am barely able to enter, seeing as I am eighteen.

I love how this started as me talking and ended with me reporting about a few YouTube stars. See? This is why I need an entertainment section! This way I can talk about the random videos I watch for no real reason at all, and I can say its for my site. Yay for excuses to waste my day on Youtube? No, oh you're no fun. Oh wait, someone just nodded in front of the computer? Sweetness, high five person!

            That would have been far less stupid had that not been all typed out...two things on my Christmas list: my own camera, and my own computer. Two very needed things.

All joking aside, go check out Smosh and Shane Dawson. On the off chance Shane will ever see this, I am sorry I wrongly judged you. That was not fair at all, but I've never once been a hater, so that's an upside!

      I have no idea why I just added that last part, I know he'll NEVER see this.
Fort Breakout Contest

Does anyone even read this thing? (Rants and Immortal Music updates)

 Seriously, does anyone even read my blog? I'll admit, they're just me talking to myself, and is that ever interesting? I don't read blogs, all I do is talk to myself, or at least, that's what it feels like. The stats say nobody's really viewed my blog since the very first post, when I stated everyone had to read it. Several peoole did, because it intailed information to the changes for Immortal Music.

   Speaking of, I am still thinking about some changes, and some new add on's and updates I am considering. I've been thinking about setting set days for some things. If you're interested, there's a list of possible ideas below. I'd appericate it if you guys would drop a message on the Facebook page with your thoughts on it. That does include suggestions for other things!

  Possible ideas for a schedule:
       -Album reviews every Monday and Friday (2 -4 a week)
       -Band Biographies every other Wednesday (1 every 2 weeks)
       - Entertainement Section every Saturday or Sunday
       -"Vlog /Video log" every Sunday
       -Layout changes on the 27th of every month.
  I would still post news every day, because frankly if I didn't, I'd fall behind. I am also considering doing themes for the whole "hour of music" thing I've been doing lately. People seem to like it, but I thought it could be even more fun if they were themed. For example, "Only songs about love." or "Only songs without the letter A in them." Fun, sometimes challanging things like that. They're just ideas, but I'd really like it if someone would give me some feedback.
       
            Also, I plan on keeping up with the whole "vs" thing I've been doing lately. People still need to answer the latest one, which is is "Falling In Reverse vs Black Veil Brides".They were tied until moments ago, when someone else just voted Black Veil Brides up one more. So it appears as though BVB may win. Who knows. I will leave this one up until this evening, and if nothing changes, I will pronounce BVB the winner's and have them contiune on in future vs battles.

     Please help out here! If I get no feedback, I assume nobody cares and nothing gets changed. Given, I may just do some of this anyways, especially the band biographies. Maybe that'd be a good way to get me to write more of them, I really need to do more of those, I do not have enough of them.

You're nuts if you think...

I was watching a video BryanStars posted about what he thinks about We The Kings and others, and it got me thinking. He's nuts if he thinks All Time Low is losing their touch! I don't even get why he'd say that considering he told me himself last month that All Time Low is his all time favorite band. His opinion is that Dirty Work is not their best album, while I feel it is! If anyone has ever taken the time to read my review of it, I clearly state, "All Time Low has finally found their true sound." Or something along those lines, hell if I know for sure what the hell I said. He also states that We The Kings and NeverShoutNever have gone down hill. I really can't speak for those two, I only like one NeverShoutNever song ("Happy"), and I haven't really bothered to listen to We The Kings since Secret Valentine came out.

        Honestly, I can't think of any bands that have slipped. All I keep thinking is music is music, they will never slip unless they stop. Music changes with the person who writes it, and unfortunately, sometimes people don't like the difference. That's not the musician's fault, its just life. I'm seriously trying to think of someone in the music world who honestly "slipped" and only one that is coming to my mind is Hannah freakin' Montana! That's completely different because she only helped write the Hannah music some of the time, and all the rest of the time it was TV writers writing her music. There's a reason not all of her music was good -plus her music is for kid's show, what would you expect?

        I've had more cases where I didn't like someone's older music, but I loved their newer stuff. For example, All Time Low and Simple Plan. As I didn't like All Time Low's earlier work over all. I liked a few songs, and that was it. They've gotten better over the years. Same goes for Simple Plan, though I did enjoy their earlier stuff, I rarely would think about more thant two or three songs. I love their Get Your Heart On! album though, especially the track "You Suck At Love." Its just awesome.

        So tell me, is there anyone you feel has slipped?

I'm surprised.

I'm surprised guys, I get on here today to post something just for the hell of it, and decided to check the stats from yesterday. The last blog I had, never got more than two views a day. Yesterday 11 people viewed it, its still not much but still pretty awesome to me. Thank you, guys!

        Now on to what I actually came on here for. Is anyone else sick of seeing statuses saying, "Missing him" or "Missing her."? I saw like four today, two of them are from a thirteen year old and it annoys me!I get so tired of seeing lovey dovey messages being posted in some people's status. Its like, I get it, you miss your boyfriend, do you have to mention it at the end of EVERY status. Ugh, maybe its just me, I don't know. Its always bugged me, and even when I've been in a relationship, I can not say as though I ever posted a status saying I missed them. Or if I did, it was like one or two times.

     What's really annoying is when its a thirteen year old, I mean come the fuck on. I feel like anyone under the age of 14 should have crushes, not relationships! Fifteen is ok, sixteen is the age I feel is acceptable. You have to hit a level of maturity for a real relationship, without that, you're gonna "Break up" with someone every two days, and be very upset, and possbibly get pressured into something you will regret later. Its just all around a bad idea, if you ask me. Again, maybe its just me, I don't know.

            *Sigh* Random rant over. Just as an aside, I am listening to what I thought was a leaked verison of Punk Goes Pop 4, but its totally fake! I'm not sure if the For All Those Sleeping cover of "You Belong With Me" was real or not, but the "Super Bass" cover was defentily not! It was Artist Vs Poet, not The Downtown Fiction. Still a good cover, but its the wrong name! This person seriously needs to put the real band name up, and stop lying. She was trying to tell people that it was too The Downtown Fiction because Artist Vs Poet is not on Punk Goes Pop 4. Bitch, you're just lying, or really clueless about bands.

       I'm still listening to the fake album, as I do enjoy covers, but so far I'm not overly impressed. I listened to the "You Belong With Me" cover, and I liked that, love "Super Bass", "We R Who We R", didn't like that one, and now I'm on "Fuck You". Supposedly its Sleeping With Sirens, I know for a fact its not! I forget the actual band name, but its not Sleeping With Sirens. The singer's voice is too low to be Sleeping With Sirens. Now I am listening to what is supposedly Woe Is Me's cover of "Last Friday Night".  Its a cover of it that I have known for a while. "Last Friday Night" by The Vegas Wake Up. I just wanted to see if it would be this cover or not, as I knew it'd be fake and sometime today Woe Is Me is offically releasing the cover.

        I'll keep posting songs on the Facebook page, and a couple of the songs I've heard and mentioned above are currently on the FB page.

       

Immortal Music's new creator's blog.

Due to recent changes to the website, to save some room, I will be posting my 'Creator's Blog' posts here until I have the money to upgrade my website, Immortal Music to the pro status. I don't really want to, and it will be a bit weird, but what has to be done will be done. I apologize if this is odd for anyone else, its incredibly unprofessional, if you ask me. I do not have any other option for now though, unless I was to create an entire new site just for the blogs. That seemed pointless to me, so I just resorted back to Blogger. I'm hoping this will only be temporary, honestly.
       Just going to dive in here with some changes that have been maded to the website. The pages for the album reviews, band biographies and interviews have been converted from normal pages to a blog style, so they are easier to view. Also, I still really want some feed back on the Immortal Awards! Can someone at least tell me if its a sucky idea or not? I still want to do it, but I don't have enough bands. Maybe I'll sit down later and really think about it.

        Sometime soon I do plan on adding more reviews and biographies. I haven't reviewed anything since last month, and I haven't written a biography since September. Not to mention, I only have a small handful. I need more practice with those.

 I also just feel like saying something real quick, as its running through my head and it seems important to say. I do find rockstars attractive, and yes, sometimes that is the majority of their appeal, but that is never my reason for being into a band. You're not into a band then, you're into the person.Which is fine, but when I say I am a "fangirl" for someone, its not usually just skin deep. Its because of what they write, or their personality. Same goes for normal people, I am not superficial like that.

         Music is my life, and I sincerely mean that. Its very powerful, and simply amazing. It has nothing to do with the looks of the band.