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Those were from my digital camera. It was a house on the block diagonal to me. Here's the news article. - News Article -

I'm watching all this and reminded of Tool's lyrics to their new song "Vicarious" which is still in heavy rotation in my ear, along with the rest of the illegally downloaded copy of the album which I will definitely be buying as soon as it comes out.


Eye on the TV
'cause tragedy thrills me
Whatever flavor
it happens to be, like:
"Killed by the husband"
"Drowned by the ocean"
"Shot by his own son"
"She used a poison
In his tea and kissed him goodbye"
That's my kind of story
It's no fun 'til someone dies

Don't look at me like
I am a monster
Frown out your one face
But with the other
Stare like a junkie
Into the TV
Stare like a zombie
While the mother holds her child
Watches him die
Hands to the sky, crying
"Why, oh why?"

'Cause I need to watch things die... From a distance
Vicariously, I live
While the whole world dies
You all need it too, don't lie

Why can't we just admit it?
Why can't we just admit it?
We won't give pause until the blood is flowing
Neither the brave nor bold
Will write us the stories so
We won't give pause until the blood is flowing

I need to watch things die...
from a good, safe distance
Vicariously, I live
While the whole world dies
You all feel the same, so
Why can't we just admit it?

Blood like rain come down
Drum on grave and ground

Part vampire
Part warrior
Carnivore and voyeur
Stare at the transmitter
Sing to the death rattle

La la la la la la lie

Credulous, at best
Your desire to believe in
Angels in the hearts of men
Pull your head on out
Your head believes in... give a listen
Shouldn't have to say it all again
The universe is hostile, so impersonal
Devour to survive, so it is
So it's always been

We all feed
On tragedy
It's like blood to a vampire

Vicariously, I live
While the whole world dies
Much better you than I

This is actually typed out by me, Coz, so don't think for a second I'm forwarding some stupid chain letter over my blog.

If you're getting a bunch of "pre-approved" credit card offers and similar "pre-approved" offers, you should know that your credit score is dwindling. Every time a bank hits up your credit history to give you these pre-approved offers, your credit score goes down. I've been getting them more and more and noticing my APR% on my current credit cards is getting higher and higher. I jumped from about 10% to 24% in about a year - just because of all this.

So, I learned you can call this number and opt-out of this service. The 3 major credit bureaus then cannot give out your information, saving your credit score from falling any further.

The number is 1-888-567-8688 if this is something you want to do.

indi asked if I could put some old rap tune to this mini-video she made of herself as she was fooling around her hew digital camera's movie function. (her original video was just her dancing to no music) She was gonna use it to send to her friends to promote her album.

hehehe. So I made this.

o we know Tally Hall's in Millvale on May 12th and I will probably be going. Well, 5 days after that it looks like TOOL will be playing at the magnificent Tower Theater (a mile from me). They're doing a limited "theater" tour across the country, playing in smaller venues before going to Europe and most likely coming back to the US for their usual stadium tour. What an opportunity! There's a great chance I will miss getting tickets due to the limited seating and thousands of people wanting to get a ticket. But I'm gonna try my best. This Saturday at 10am, tickets available through internet and phone only. You can bet I'll be up at 8am, perched and ready to clickity-click away on Ticketmaster's website. Maybe I'll try calling at the same time, too. Hmm...

Tool's first single from their new album debuted today. If you haven't heard it, you should uh, go hear it. The album comes out May 2nd. YEEP!!

Circuit Theory now has a 6 song repertoire.

ork let us out at 2pm today. I'm trying to figure out what to do with all this extra time I wasn't counting on. I'm all out of sorts. So I'll sit here, listen to Kidd Chris and try to type of my account of the Michigan trip while I still remember it.

Liz and I didn't get out on the highways until 7pm Friday night. (A freaking WEEK ago already! Jesus... I've been so out of it and tired this week. I must have been sleepwalking for the majority of it.) The trip there was fairly easy. No real problems and I was awake enough to get through it all. There was torrential rains though about mid-PA. It was near impossible to see through. Upon arriving into the general Ann Arbor area, one of the exits I was supposed to take was closed. EEK! I hate that. I did manage to follow the detour well, though, and we arrived at The Red Roof Inn at 4:30am Saturday. Pretty much went right to sleep despite the fact that Expedia mistakenly booked us a non-smoking room. I would deal with that when I woke up.

Woke up at 12:30pm or so. We didn't have much on the agenda, but we wanted to go eat before getting to the Blind Pig at around 5. When we arrived, we were definitely the first ones there. Not too long after though, another Tally Hall Message Boarder, "Oliver" and his mother, who drove from Wilkes-Barre, came walking up. We just talked and stuff in the chilly weather outside the venue until some other people started showing up. Eventually, some other Forum members showed up. Jennie and her father drove from New Hampshire! (see... it's not so much that the parents are roped into doing this, they actually like Tally Hall) "Kitsune" from Syracuse met up with us also. We started to notice we were kind of losing our place in line but figured everyone knew we were there first so we were one of the first people to get in when the doors opened around 7/7:30. By that time, there was a line of people down the block and around the corner. Lotsa people. In fact, just over 800!

The shows were great. The venue was open to all ages during this first show, so the younger ones could get a chance to see them. They were quiter than the 2nd show which was 21+. The band plays there often so they like to do something different and special each time. On this night, they chose to get dark cover-alls and sew x-mas lights to themselves. Each member wore their respective color (see: necktie colors).
Ok, so they kept the houselights off. They hooked up a switch they could control with their foot. The first 2 songs were performed with this outfit. The best thing about it though, was that the person who was singing and/or playing at that moment in time of the song, were lit up. Otherwise, they were blacked out. So if two members sung a line in harmony, ony they would be lit. When one person was playing, only they'd be lit. When they were all playing, they'd all be lit. Clever, eh? I could see transposing that idea into a music video in a better, more professional manner.

The 2nd show had a lot more college kids, so they were loud and it was a bit distracting. Plus, my back was hurting me so badly even after the first show that I could barely enjoy anything. It was at times some of the most excrutiating pain I've ever felt in my back. I'm thinking it was just from sitting for 9.5 hours, then the next day, standing fairly still for hours on end (about 8 after the 2nd show ended -- but it was already hurting kinda bad after only 5 hours.)

Got back to the hotel and slept for about 5 hours only to get up at 10:30 or so and get ready to check out. We planned on getting to Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum at around noon when it opened, but we ran into more roadblocks and detours. It was so frustrating! Ended up riding on "8 Mile" though and that was kind of amusing. Finally at about 2:30 or something we found our way to this magical place. Luckily, I had exchanged numbers with Oliver (who we were supposed to meet there at noon) and they helped me get there. After spending a little bit of time at Marvin's, we all went to McDonald's and talked to some local folk about how to get back on the highways we needed to get on. Half the roads we would normally take were shut down! It was absurd! GRR!

Eventually, we got on the right track and made our way back to eastern PA. Not a pleasant ride, honestly. Whatever. I'm glad I made it back home with my new TH shirt and my new MMMM shirt and my few pictures. I really disappointed myself with the lack of pictures I took. Dunno why, I just didn't see much reason to take all those pictures... plus, some of the things I wanted to shoot were things no one would understand why I'd want to so I was thinking the locals would laugh at me. Oh well.

Now, Tally Hall is coming to Millvale in mid-May. That's just outisde Pittsburgh. I just might do it.

Here are some pictures:

My pictures

Jennie's million pictures
(Most of these are the pictures I should have taken. You get to see the long line, too.)

Adam's recent pictures of Marvin's.
(Adam lives out there but he's a great photographer and I thought it would be relevant to give you more shots of what MMMM looks like.)

So, then. www.hiddeninthesand.com hasn't been updated much with any more content but it tends to get an average of 93 unique visitors per day and an average of 284 page loads per day. Not bad. I'm sure there will be more once it starts getting in the search engines and once I get more content in there.

Hmm... yes... ok...
I don't have much more to say, I suppose. Happy Keester.

Just wanted to say I'm home.
I'll get back to this post to write a real post later.

....zzz...zzz..zzz..zzz...zzz.....

k everyone. I'll be gone until late Sunday night. Hope you miss me. Hope you watched The O.C. tonight and got to hear Tally Hall's wonderful song. See HITS News for a screenshot. Hope you go visit HITS News. Hope you're thrilled to finally know the name of the band I'm playing in. Because I'm gonna tell ya.

Circuit Theory

See ya.

pril fools day provided me with an opportunity to play a little joke, I suppose, on those who visited this website. A melodramatic self-loathing message scrawled in default font over a blank white canvas was something some people might not find too surprising if I actually did fall into a mood dark enough to want to rip it all down. If you scrolled down far enough, you'd have seen a tiny little thing at the bottom of the page reading "April fools." Some didn't see it, so my apologies to those I fooled. Just trying to have some fun.

Yesterday, April 2nd, this site found itself blank again, except for a special birthday wish and some music playing. It's just my little way of stopping time for someone who deserves to feel special enough to have time stopped for. Is that even proper english? I lose my eolquence when I attempt to keep the utmost sincerity. So, I guess that's why I resort to graphics and music. Unfortunatly, it didn't hold as much impact as I originally planned because the site was "down" the day before. Still, it did what it was intended to do.



For those who care, I just launched "hiddeninthesand.com" which is the ultimate Tally Hall Fan Headquarters website. It's not 100% complete, but I wanted it up and ready for at least this week before I go to Ann Arbor next Saturday. I wanted the fans and band to see it before I met and spoke with them.

So take a look around. S'allight? S'allight.
http://www.hiddeninthesand.com