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[24 Mar 2008|08:43pm] |
once upon a time there was a guy named mike carden. he was born on december third, in 1984. mike had magical guitar playing abilities, from the day he left the womb, and everyone came far and wide to see such a miracle, proclaiming him the next messiah, giving him gifts such as gold and anyting to do with he-man. the child grew into a man and then learned that he was the son of...
wait a minute, hold on. mike carden is me. obviously i've been spending too much time around sisky, my head is just full of nonsense. really, i was born on december the third, but i'm pretty sure my guitar abilities aren't magical. or they haven't proved to be yet, since i'm still pretty. single. i guess they count for something, though, since the academy is... is doing really great so far, isn't it? and come on, let's be honest, it can't all have been beckett's doing, can it?
nope, guys and dolls, you heard it here. william beckett is not the only mastermind behind the academy is... in fact, the other mastermind is none other than.....pete wentz. i mean, what? come on, you guys all knew it, deep down, right? pete wentz is the genius behind everything in the world. i wouldn't honestly be surprised if he wasn't the reincarnated messiah himself. although i guess that theory was shot down with those pictures of his. insert entire body shudder here.
no, i kid, i kid. lets get down to some serious business here. easter has come and gone, oddly enough. i'm still trying to figure out why it was that easter was literally the week after st patrick's day this year, and i'm wondering if maybe it was the leap year? but i can't remember four years ago, so i couldn't honestly tell you whether or not it happened the same way at the last leap year. because i really just have no idea at all. i asked jack the camera guy about it, and he was most unhelpful, so, for now, i've decided to drop the subject and bring it up again next year. something like "so, hey, why was easter in march last year?" and maybe, by then, someone will known. or they'll think i'm crazy when i mention that easter was, as a matter of fact, in april. because i think that's how i treated whoever told me this year. i remember, sometime around january, i think it was sisky who mentioned easter being in march. maybe it was my mom. honestly, i can't remember. i do know that i had to look at my phone and see if someone was pulling a prank on me. they weren't.
speaking of pranks, april fool's day is not far off at all. i'm not sure if i should be scared or excited. and, of course, i have some planning to do. when it comes to april fool's day, pranks happen, and often, in the world of fueled by ramen. and, seeing as i usually get pranked by someone it's time for mike carden to have his day. and that, my friends, is why i will be taking suggestions, soon. some people can help me out with my pranks. look out, friends, you never know who my next victim will be...
now, back to being serious, since april fool's day is anything but. i'm here, in los angeles, because we're starting to work on our new record. at the same time, we're all just trying to have a good time. we've been touring so much, it still feels weird to me, to just be sitting and doing nothing at all. one thing about living in los angeles, no matter what i do, i kind of feel like i'm poor. maybe it's just paying rent and stuff like that, but i feel like i need to watch where i spend my money, and how. i'm pretty sure i'm just crazy. it might be the constant needling of my family telling me not to blow my money, like so many "superstars" do. i keep having to remind them that i'm not a superstar at all. we're still on our way up.
lately, we've been enjoying the work we've been doing, and a few sleepovers here and there. easter meant, of course, seeing the family. i even got to see mama siska for a little while. it was nice, and kind of reminded me of the old days, when we were all young and saw each other's moms a lot more than we do now. now that we're grown up and can go do whatever we want. hard to believe so much time has passed since the start of tai, isn't it? 2002? that's six years. who knew six years could fly by so fast. although i'll be twenty-four in december. that's even more time that's just flying by. i'm almost halfway to thirty. holy shit.
warped tour this year is going to be fucking awesome this year. us, cobra, gym class heroes and we the kings for an entire tour together? i'm pretty sure it's going to be the most fun ever. or at least, in a very, very long time. lets see how long it takes for gabanti to get us all drunk and doing something insane like shaving our heads or hanging out windows or something like that. who knows what's to come in the lives of tai?
i think that's it, kids. i'm starting to get distracted by late night sitcoms. although i hardly think nine thirty really counts as late night. but whatever, it feels pretty late to me. don't ever let anyone tell you that recording isn't hard work. so keep that in mind, i'm going to go have a snack and enjoy some quality time with my tv.
- michael s carden
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