Videos/Moving

I've been trying to make more content for my youtube page(youtube.com/theflarida) latley and it's going a little slower then I expected.  However I have been enjoying the content that I have been putting out, I have also been paying attention to other people's pages as well.  Im kind of trying to get an idea for trends and other things that I think my demographic would enjoy seeing from me.  As of right now I am only putting out vlogs and Modern Warfare 3 gameplay, the hard part is trying to do something witht hose two that have not been done yet.  So many people are doing the same thing that i am doing that sometimes it makes it hard to come up with some fresh ideas.  But, I am still trying and am satisfied with what I am putting out, I just have to find a way to put out content on a more consistent basis.  I know I have touched on this before but I am still working on getting some editing software so that i can eventually make actual videos that have substance, story and some comedy in them.  It's coming, I promise.

Onto other news.

We finally got the keys to our new place in Oakhurst, we went down Friday and payed the first months rent and put some boxes inside the place.  Now to do the big huge move that I am definetly not looking forward to in any way shape or form, trust me, it's going to suck.  I dont mind moving persay, but when it comes to the physical act of "moving", well that's when I start to not like it.  Luckily I have a bunch of friends who can help out with the move so that should make it less of a chore and more of a fun thing to do.  Who knows, maybe we can have a big going away party in the empty house that we are moving from, that would be pretty awesome.

Another thing.

I want to find musicians to play some music with.  That is all.

Good bey

A Mood of...

I've got a fever and the only thing that can cure it is some blog work.

Hello everyone, lately I haven't had much inspiration to write in this blog.  Why you ask?  Well, I have been trying to think of ways to bring traffic to my blog and I am stumped.  I currently post stuff about it on my facebook and my twitter and even sometimes on my wife's facebook.  I try to shamelessly plug the fudge out of it until it can take no more, crying in the corner and begging me to stop plugging it every which way possible.  Well, I think that I finally gave into it's pleading.  Until I can find a better way to get traffic to this blog I will continue to be stumped.  But alas, I will not stop trying.  I will never give up.  I will most likely eat an unhealthy breakfast and I will definetly not stop using profanity(unless I'm around my children and even then it is a little iffy).  Sooooooooooooooo, maybe if you would like to help me out then plug my blog or give it a shout out on your facebook or twitter or any other kind of social outlet that you belong to.  It would help me out very very much.  So lets spread the word that their is a aspiring blogger who wants people to read his words and salivate over those words.  GO!!!!!!!!!!!

On to quick news and updates.

The 49er's lost today, its saddening because I was so hopeful of them going all the way to the Super Bowl this year, its been so long since they have been.  WHY GOD, WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!  Oh well, there is always next year right?  RIGHT????????

I have been playing a ton of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.  My goal is to at least prestige twice in the game.  I was able to prestige once in Black Op's so I should be able to hit my goal.

My youngest son Caleb who is 7 months old is walking around in his walker and it is the cutest thing int he whole world.  Sometimes he boxes his brother into a corner and then he cant get out, that's pretty funny to watch.  Caleb follows all of us around now, he so curious and adorable.

I finished reading Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood.  I recommend that you all read or watch it, some of the best story and action around for a Manga/Anime.

That is all.

Tags

I have been thinking about this for a while now and have been wanting to write a blog post about the "tags" that you are allowed to put at the end of every blog.  These tags are supposed to pertain to your blog, like the topic of it and any related key words.  You are allowed to have 20 words to use as tags so you have to choose those words wisely.  Lately I have been guilty of putting words in this section that do not pertain to my blog at all due to seeing that certain words will bring traffic to the blog.  I try to monitor my stats as much as possible and see where my traffic is coming from, why they are coming and what tags brought them to my site.  I have noticed that the words face and game will usually bring some people to the site since they seem to be popular search words.  But lately I have been thinking of new words to put in that could maximize my traffic.  Now, I know that this in its own way is cheating, but isn't the point of a blog to have people view it.  I mean we are sometimes writing for ourselves but why would we put our thoughts and Ideas on the Internet if we did not want someone to view them, right?

Another reason why I try to maximize my traffic is to get my "Monetize" option open, I would someday like this blog or any other site I own to produce some sort of profit.  If not for all of my everyday bills and life then maybe just a little extra spending money.  It would be nice to say I have a site that produces some sort of profit, extra money is always a good thing.  Actually the dream is to make a site that gets as big as the Penny Arcade site, that is the dream and the goal I am always reaching for.  Someday maybe I will get there, until then, I will just keep trying.

Any thoughts to this topic?  Chime in with a comment at the bottom of this blog or if you have any advice then chime in as well.  Later.

Lyrics

So, I'm going to do something different today.  I'm currently reviving an old band with some old friends and here are some lyrics that I have for this project.  Enjoy.

(Chant/Scream)x4
This is an ode to the fallen our brothers in arms
The ones that we will never see again

Where have you gone, is there a place in mind is it peaceful now
All of our Friends have fallen, am I the last to survive
It seems I have to pick up this banner and continue the fight
If I don't do it then who will stand, who will speak their mind
We've come into times of silenced lambs by the lions hands
Once they take our pride we will have nothing left
But a shell of a broken man and a memory of a broken land

(Chorus)
Someday, we'll join you again, and make our amends
The joy's that you are will be made real again
again and again
again and again

I've seen the injustice in front of my own eye's
Watching you die was the hardest thing to see
It's not being able to help that hurt me the most
And then watching everything fall apart all around
There's a void inside, sometimes I forget that your gone
Then suddenly I remember the shock of seeing you
Alive and wrapped up in that hospital bed but not really there
Although you were there you were a hollow shell
Of the man you used to be, rudely taken away from us
By idiots not paying attention to the life in front of them

(Chorus)
Someday, we'll join you again, and make our amends
The joy's that you are will be made real again
again and again
again and again

One day we will come to terms with what happened that day
And I will stop reliving that day int he hospital
Your image ingrained in my mind forever there to haunt me
Sometimes I wish I didn't see you like that
My last memory of you tainted due to negligence
If I could exact revenge on the one's who did this to you
I would do it in a heart beat, stain my hands
But I cant and I will always regret that fact


Let me know what you think, feedback is always a welcome thing with me, until the next time^_^

A Schedule

So i have been thinking of some kind of a schedule for writing my blog posts, like certain days that I write something.  Maybe something like Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.  I don't know, like i said for now it is just an idea in my little head of heads.  I'm also looking to add more pictures to this blog as well, that means that I will have to start writing more of these at home, for the most part I really only write these at work and very rarely at home, yesterday was one of those occasions.  I mean, this site has so much more to offer and by only doing text based blogs with nothing but text(this sentence was redundant) I am only hurting myself.  SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!  I could even post some of my youtube videos onto this blog, unfortunately none of the ones I have made yet but once I start making legit videos that have been edited via some sort of editing software then I think we will be in business.

Speaking of videos, I have a ton of ideas video wise that I hope to be making withing the next 6 months so look out for those little bastards for sure.

Also music.  It seems that I will hopefully be getting together with an old friend of mine to write some new tunes and bring back an old band of mine that I was in hella days ago called Forgotten Masterpiece.  Its going to be myself(Anthony) and Tim, you probably have no idea who this band is being as you most likely don't know me so check out purevolume.com/forgottenmasterpiece because that is were the blunt of the music is at.  Now, the music up on that site is not what we are going to sound like, the two of us are going to evolve it into something new and awesome(I love that word).  Its going to be a new take on Forgotten Masterpiece so don't be disappointed when we sound nothing like we used to sound if you used to listen to us back in the day.

Quick question for you guys before I end this.  Do you think I put enough content in these posts or should I be putting more in here?  I'm talking text and picture wise, let me know what you think in the comments below.

Until next time.

The Un-Happy

Oh my lanta, even when you try to make others happy and what not they still find a way to make something into a negative, it's annoying.

Onto other things, one sentence rant is finished.

My youngest son has started rolling over, its amazing and at the same time scary because sooner then later he is going to start crawling and after that walking and then terrorizing the house along with his older brother.  I think that they are expertly set up to be partners in crime for sure, if not, then mortal enemies.  The end outcome has yet to be decided.  To be honest I cant wait to enroll them into sports, my hope is that sooner or later they will be on the same team and I can watch them tag team it up like little boss's and just be little sports stars.  Or they will beat up the kids that mess with them, either way it will be awesome.

The band I am currently in is still on a Hiatus of sorts, our drummer is getting married this week, then they have a honeymoon and then hopefully we can get back into making music.  I know I am looking forward to this because I have been feeling super music depraved as of lately, I need it in my life or I will go crazy, that's a fact.  Until this moment I will have to wait, definitely not patiently but in some way shape and form.

Oh, and one other thing...

ITS MY FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The App. Store

So i have been updating my apps. on my iPhone and I noticed that the IGN app. that i have is now offering a .99 cent fee to get rid of the adds that they have when you are browsing their articles.  LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who in their right mind would pay for that unless they have now made the adds cover 3/4's of the screen, which if they did indeed do that then F them in their A's, F em hard...

REAL HARD!!!!!!!!!

I think that my wife found a job in Corcoran that she is going to try and get, this could mean myself and the family moving back to Hanford...
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This means that i could get back into music with all of my music playing friends down there, this is a wonderful thing in and of itself(I probably just fudged up that saying).  Not to mention if she got this job then I could get a little shit nothing job and just chill, take care of the boys and play music with people and play shows allt he fudging time, its like a dream come true, A DREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I might even get a job at Tachi working in the Vault with people who aren't fake as fuck and act like children, but lets not get to ahead of our selves ok.  OK!!!!!!!!!!

I hit level 31 in legends of Yore yesterday.  Just wanted you to know.

Oh yeah, I need to mention someone in this blog, someone who showed me all of the games that I had previously talked about like 3 blogs ago or so.  His name is Cody, he works at the same place as me, he's pretty bad ass and I hear of most indie games directly from him, he's like my indie dealer and I am his cock fiend sucking D for my next hit.(Your gonna love this Cody)

Anyways, IM OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not Really What I Want

With every day that passes I realize more and more that what I am doing currently job wise in my life is not what I want at all.  In fact I'm pretty sure I am starting to hate it which sucks, in no way shape or form do I want to hate the job I am tasked to do day in and day out.  But it is happening and it seems that there is really nothing that I can do about it, regardless.  What I do know I want to do is start up a business, which I am int he process of writing up the business plan for, but its going to take time.  I'm going to go by what people say, good things come to those that wait, right?

Anyways, on to other less depressing things.

I have been music starved lately, I NEED it and I NEED it now...NOW!!!!!!!!!
I have been waiting for my Flip HD to come in the mail, well actually to be more accurate to arrive at the Best Buy that I chose for it to go to.  Once I get this key piece of equipment I will be posting some acoustic videos of my band and I that way we can at least be doing something other then doing nothing.  In fact I plan on doing other things with this camera, like actual videos, funny videos, serious videos and all of the other genre's that I did not just mention.  I'm pretty sure that I will even start up a Vlog on the youtube channel I already have, I'm not going to post the URL to that yet but once I have more stuff on there I will post the URL and the people who visit this blog can go and check it out.

Well, that's all for today, sorry it took me so long to write up a new blog, I will try to write more often this coming week.

Realizing

So, I have come to the realization that I will never be able to do the whole band thing again, which sucks a huge cock.  Its just with getting older and acquiring more and more responsibility it just makes it that much harder to find the time to do it, not to mention the people who want to do it with you and who will be dedicated.  Its really a crying shame, but unfortunately its the truth and the truth sucks. 

Over the years I have been in 4 bands ranging from semi successful to just starting, the first band I was in was a band called Forgotten Masterpiece.  FM was my baby, I put a whole lot of time and money into this band that eventually ended up sucking a lot out of me but gave me some of the best times of my life. 

The second band I was in was called Upload Symphony, this was very short lived due to the fact that i played one show with them and then quit/kicked out due to a mutual agreement between myself and the other band members.  To be honest it was hard to make it to practices due to gas prices being almost five bucks a gallon back then. 

Next up was my second semi successful band, This Nightmare Ends at Sunrise.  I can say that I literally loved this band and everything that it was about, the message we portrayed was a fun and goofy one and the music just came out sounding amazing and exactly what I had in my mind.  Not to mention the musical talent of all of five of us combined just formed into this amazing ball of awesome-ness.  Also as a side note this was the first band that I was in that won a battle of the bands and played a killer show to win it as well.  If any of the bands that I was in were to get signed this was the band I wanted to be signed more then any.  All of us had fun, we goofed around and acted like brothers in arms, I have never been closer to band mates in any other band like I was in this band.  This band was also the first time I would ever have to go thru losing a band member due to being taken from this world way before his time.  After our guitarist Kenny died it just lacked something, we tried to keep it going but it just fell apart from there, tuff times.  But I will always have this band in my mind as my favorite.

The last band I was in was called February's Fall, to be honest I'm not entirely sure that I am in this band anymore since we have not talked to each other int he last couple of weeks.  I did however play one show with them so far and it was a lot of fun, its a different genre than I am used to playing, a lot more singing then screaming but still equally as fun.  Plus all the guys in this band are people that I would hang out with on a regular basis, all bad ass guys and nice as hell.

So that's it, those are the bands that I have been a part of, I'm always looking for people to play with but I just feel that where I live now is dead musically.  I have friends who I could play with but its hard to get together due to all of us having time constraints and our own personally responsibilities.  Maybe if I give it time then it will all happen again, who knows.

Inner

Hello, whats going on with you?

So I have been trying to get more people to come to the blog and check it out, the only problem is that I haven't really thought of a good way to get people over here.  Its hard trying to get your blog going.

Im listening to some dubstep right now, I like it but did you ever notice how it sounds just like transormers transforming, ahhhhhhhh, it all makes sense.

I think tonight you are only going to get random thoughts from me, I feel very scatter brianed tonight to be honest, kind of like I cant really focus on just one topic and have a million of them in my head tonight, ugh, UNPREDICTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have all these bottled up lyrics in my head and I NEED to get them out, hopefully I will be able to on Wednesday since I have band practice.  Im going to make us sit down and write a new song, we got to have some fresh material for the masses if you know what I mean.  I really dont want people to be tired of the music we already have cause they have already heard those songs like a million times before.  Gotta keep it fresh to death, THAT'S A FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Musical Interests Part 1

So as of latley I have been listening to a couple of new bands/artists, I just thought I should share them with you considering how awesome they are.

Memphis May Fire-This band is Amazing, the lead singer's voice is just epic, his screams are insane and his vocals are clean and georgous.  These guys are more of a Hardcore feel with melodic melodies but they deffenitly need to be checked out by everyone.  One of the best things about this band is the deep meaning lyrics.  I've been in a couple bands and have written all of the lyrics for said bands, but this lead singer's lyrics are of a caliber that I have never seen before.  Just heart felt lyrics that hit you where it counts, this is the first band that I actually cared to see what the lyrics were just so I could connect with the song in a better way.  Kudos to the gentlemen in this band, cause they are definetly doing something right in a music scene that has so much wrong in it.

Ellie Goulding-Im usually not much of a female vocolist fan, but oh my God here voice is amazing and different and just beautiful.  Not to mention she is pretty good looking herself ;)  But that is beside the point, the point here is that she is an awesome musician(She can actually play guitar as well).  Thanks to my wife I have been listening to her non stop for the last two days.  Now back to her voice.  Its unique in the best way possible, its unlike any voice I have ever heard before, I guess if you were to compare her to someone it would be kind of like Regina Specktre in a way.  Then you hear the music she is singing and it sounds equally amazing, so different and original, just what the doctor ordered.  So check her out as well.

The Recieving End of Sirens-I have never heard or seen a band with three guitarist and three vocolist be as amazing as these guys are.  You would think that this wouldn't work out at all but these guys find a way to make it work and work wonderfully at that.  The only down side is that they have been broken up for about two or three years now so there is no more live shows by these guys, but their music should still be checked out and appreciated.  Its original, its fantastic and I could listen to it for hours, not a song from them that I have yet to not like in any way, shap or form.  On a side note, one of their guitarist is in a band now called The Deer Hunter, check them out as well.  I have seen them live and they were awesome as well.

Thats all the bands that I have for you today, maybe I will make this a reacuring topic along with my Powers topic as well, hmmmmmmmm.  We will have to see, until then I guess this will be a part 1.  Also, please follow me on Twitter @Aflarida, its the only social site I am on, its kind of random when I post a tweet but they are usually pretty good^_^   Until Next time.  BYE!!!!!!!!!!!

Muzak

As of latley I have not been able to practice with the band that I am in, its kind of sucked that I cant get out there to get shit rolling but I have been busy with other things in my life.  The thing that really bugs me is that I have had inspiration up the wazoo, I need to get these lyrics out of my mind and in music form before I explode into a giant goo ball of music.  So far I have played one show with the band I am in, they are called February's Fall.  That one show was fun but I ended up massacering some of their lyrics, that is why I am looking forward to getting my own stuff into the fray that way I dont have to worry about singing their old songs as much and we can focus more on writing new material.  Hopefully better material as well.

So my wife recently signed me up for Gamefly and I am dumbfounded at why I never signed up for this to begin with, STUPID!!!!!!!  I think that in the long run this is defenitly cheaper then buying games outright, instead they just send me some games on my que and I love it.  I have some awesome games coming my way and am excited to play some of them.

Well, it seems I have lost my inspiration to write, so I am leaving now, GOOD BEY!!!!!!!!!!!

A plan worth NOTE

I have been thinking about what I really want in life, mainly to due with music and the future plans that I have made with myself.  I'm not intirely sure that I want to play the type of music I am playing right now, the only bad thing about coming into a new band that already has a shit tone of materiel is that they only want to play their stuff that has been previously written via their tireless effort, blood, sweat and tears.  I don't know if I want to play "their" music, I want to make it into "our"music.  I want to make a collaborative effort to make music that we have all had a part in and not just the four guys who were there before me.  Their music is not bad, I just want to have a better connection to the music that we play at shows, I want to be pissed off if I fuck up a part because it had my emotions into it, not just act all funny about it and shrug it off.

One thing I really want to do is to write my own music, I want to really write a concept album about the rapture and the events taking place after but in the eye's of one mans perspective.  I really regret never learning to play an instrument, that would have been a far useful tool to help with all of my creative issues.  Instead I have to rely on others for this effort.  I would much rather rely on myself since it is so hard to portray my feelings and how i want the music to sound if I am not the one playing it.  Unfortunately now I am just complaining and I really have no desire to do that on this blog as of now.

So I guess I am at a cross roads musically, I will talk to the guys and see what they want to do, I hope that they are down to write new stuff cause I really really REALLY!!!!!!!!!!! would like to play music in which I can call my own, SO VERY BADLY!!!!!!!!