Dax Pierson of Subtle and Themselves is seriously injured after a van accident on the current Subtle tour. He shattered his fifth vertebrae, and it remains to be seen if the paralysis he is suffering from is permenant or temporary.

I have had a heavy heart all day since Eric called me up and told me the news. I wish nothing but a full recovery for Dax. If there was anything I could do to help in some way I would do it. Me and Eric both agreed that this sort of stuff is not supposed to happen to such a nice guy. If it had to happen to anybody, why not Good Charlotte?

If you have a spare moment, you should try to send him some good luck and best wishes.

I wish Dax quick recovery as well as the rest of the Subtle crew. Such a great band. Such great folks.

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ps. Check out this shiznit
Patton the Multitasker
I am fucking shocked that Mtv still even reports this shit.
RADIO EDIT))))))))))))))))
one more edit, stumbled upon this while i was supposed to be writing my art history paper. It is addicting. I made an amazing Eric.
South Park Create a Character

Yup, so are all those award shows. Except the Blockbuster awards of course.

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Well yesterday was my birthday.
It was pretty dull for the most part and included me getting drunk by myself and calling all my friends on the phone and telling them it was my birthday.

BUT THEN

I went ande saw Lyric's Born with a live band at Barbati's Pan and even though the everyone (i mean the three other people who I know in this town who are over 21) bitched out on meeting us there, it was the sweetest show. That man has a great stage presence. High energy. Two encores. The second encore they didn't have anything ready so they picked a song from the forthcoming CD "Same Shit, Differant Day". It was awesome. My vocal chords were torn to shreds. You know the show went well when you see the people that were in the band buying some merch. I nearly had to indian leg wrestle the bass player for the last silkscreen poster.

ILOVEYOU
SLKEDGHJHK
ps. I am so hungover i keep puking out my window, you haven't lived untill you watch puke fly 12 stories down to the ground.

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it has been a time of hectic contemplation and challange for me until a few days ago. i arived in marbella a touristed part of southern spain. the beaches of spain. they are beautiful. i slept on one a few days earlier, but that was quite frightning because i could have been robed or stabed or something. i also slept in a squat, which was probably the most desgusting bed i have ever been in.
here in marbella i have basically decided that i need a vacation from my trip. i am just fucking around. no tourist shit. i met some dudes and tried to find work, but being american made that dificult. it was fun to think of staying here though. i also found out a bout a sight called wwoof.org where you voulenteer to work on a farm and they give you a place to live and food. awesome. this is all over the world. something to look into. when and if i come home (which i will) i want to start backpacking. like into mexico. i met a guy who may go in australia. i feel it is time to start planing a differnt future for myself. i met a guy from poland who was 32, and had been traveling since he was 13 and left poland at 17. he knew 9 langagues. what a fucking life to choose. of course he was basically a bum, and it was his gross squat i stayed in. but it suddenly takes the power out of this systimized life they have planed for us. And what about money he said.
all right i will stop for my dads sake. but i could get much crazier. it is fun i say.
i guess i will go. i am going to the beach to drink wine and oj. i think it is raining though. oh well.
i look foward to seeing you all soon. open your thoughts to doing some traveling with me. or without me.

ok, april fools....
Im not moving back to Ashland for the summer.
My female came to her senses and now im staying in Portland.
I still am going to make some pilgrimages to the holy land I call Ashland, but not going to be coming back to live for any portion of time longer than maybe two weeks.
I love you all, (even the ones who say they know me and my mom), and desperately want to visit with all of you.
I miss Smokey Beach, Ween and Waffles, and Eric's wierd hip remix rap music.
I miss Felix and the Goose, Rothschild 100 proof vodka, and the Jumpfighters.
I miss all of you.
MUCH LUV
sledg

SUNSHINE THE WEREWOLF, SUNSHINE THE WEREWOLF, SUNSHINE THE WEREWOLF!!!!!!!!!!

wanna make a call?

http://hacking.to/parishilton/book.html

chad muska, eminem, vin diesel, usher, nicole richie, ashlee simpson, elija blue, ashley olson, christina aguliara, fred durst, ... who wants to find out if this is real?

A question for all of you:

Are females really worth the trouble?

Before you blurt out an answer, just think honastly about it. I've been going back and forth about it all night.

Im starting to lean towards the answer of NO.

Im starting to lean towards PAYING STRANGERS TO FUCK ME

have a nice day
sledg

ps. someone got to this site through a search on google for "nick olivieri naked"

Taken from ProudParenting.comProudParenting.com:

Q: You once wrote/said: "Ignorant heterosexuals are right to fear the gay community. They are the future. Our future. The next step in our evolution." What did you mean by that?

MJK: I was being flippant. The homophobic non-empathetic male leaders of this world who believe man was granted dominion over the earth by God are doing everything in their power to butt-rape this planet. However, this planet is far smarter than we are. I believe she has presented a solution. If the current state of men cannot discover compassion for this planet on their own, the earth will bear males who are made up entirely of compassion, emotion, empathy, and impeccable taste in shoes. It's this sort of theory and philosophy that's kept me virtually anonymous in the eyes of pop culture.

I saw Subtle at the Doug Fir last night. It was outrageous. You know that feeling in your pelvis you get when you get hit in the balls? It was the polar opposite, but with the same reaction of falling on the ground, moaning and not being able to stand up for a period of aq time. Going to the show all alone was a bummer, and it made me really realize how much I miss all of you. I walked to go meet my girlfriend at a bar called the Shanghai Tunnel and as I crossed the burnside bridge, I looked over the River and the lights of the city and I realized how much I like Portland and how I look forward to exploring it more. At the very least there are about 20 more strip clubs to check out.

Speaking of being hit in the balls, one thing that gave me the actual feeling of a football to the groin was watching the movie Constantine, or as I will refer to it from now on:
The gayest movie of all-time or Hell-Matrix or Church-Matrix

You can tell that they were trying really hard to make it good, but it was absolutely unable to tell a coherant story. I was in the mood to watch a bad movie, but it needed Vin Deisel in it to get to the Good/Bad level I was looking for. And to think about it a little, that would have made the movie so fucking awesome. The one bright spot was Peter Stormare as the devil. I thought he was well cast.

I saw a trailer for Sin City and it looks bad-anal.
A stripper gave me panties.
luv
sledg
ps. This guy was also in constantine(he was a bad guy, but I don't understand what he did that was bad):
Machinehead

Went and saw Subtle at WOW hall again. Joined with Mike and Corey (Corvallis friends), we met up with Jeryl, Darla, Jon and Valium. Amazing show. The crowd was a little strange (I would have never thought you could grind to F.K.O.), but the performance was rock solid, as usual. I got my copy of The Pelt signed by Dose himself and got another chance to ninja-pose with one Dax Pierson. for true.

A gift to Beard-o from the all-knowing Eugene Sci-Fi band, Launchpad.

Doseone, on the mic, bitches.

Dose, singing into Beard-o's hat.

DAX AND ERIC HAVE NINJA STYLE.

my travels have changed much in the last few days. since i met this guy scott. he created the perfect oppertunity to change my current path. to try something new. i met this guy five days ago and had hardly left his side until thismorning when we went our own way on our journey. he was a perfect stranger, and now i feel so close to him. this is why my trip is good. the people i have met.
i could talk about spain a bit. granada being an awesome place. and wondering up a mountian today and the awesomeness of a gypse atmosphere. but i wont.
last night we hung out with so us exchange students. we went to a college party. there were about 1000 people in a huge croud on the street drinking. there was a cop watching this. it felt like a high school party but was very cool . then we went back to this dude levi´s place. a very cool guy. piscies. and me and scott had a little three some with a girl named amanda. gemini.

now wait a second this is still jon raby here.

neither of us fucked her. and i am curious of who was in control of all of this. scott or amanda. not me. but bascially it was a weird experience. it was 6 in the morning by now too. very drunk. i dont really know what to think about all of this. it was cool, but bad at the same time. carthatic i guess.
i never told you guys but i lost my virginity to some friend of t-roc´s girlfreind. my last night in ashland . i assume you know that tallon. but maybe not.
it was really not good. i was not attracted to her. and i find, as i found here, that sex can be very hard, (unless i supose it is so perfect that it is not). we ended up sharing the depression of our lives with eachother. her name was anna. and the night can only be sumed up as carthatic as well. i revealed to her parts of my life that had not yet been revelied. and it was a challenge to look past any bad of the night and see the good.
it is amazing how much of a challenge this sex and love shit is. you all know. i generally tend to think it is harder for me. but it is just uniquely different for me.

today was the first day i actually missed home. i had expected homesickness to come earler, and be stronger. but truthfully it made me happy to miss home. to miss my mom and my dad. to miss my friends.
i had focused and expected fear from this feeling for so long. but it was good. this is good.

in itallian they say.
well i had better go before i start crying. no.
i love you. specifically.
jon r

quickest. redesign. ever.
still in profress.
tell me what you think.

first, i have added my last four covers made for the diversions section of The Daily Barometer. Peep them HERE.

but yeah, this week has been insane. i thought it would be easy (easier at least), but alas, it turned out to be terrible. this is the first spare moment i've had in the last four days. weak sauce. i wish i didn't care so much, i think i'd be much happier.

anyway, Nintendo was awesome. In the span of 3 days, I don't think I've ever had that much fun. It was crazy. I am really sick of telling my stories, but here's a quick rundown:

day 1:

0500 - wake up, shower, pack pickup, head to PDX
0545 - realize i woke up and hour early, i was supposed to get up at 0600.
0800 - arive at PDX and check in. end up getting bumped to the 0830 flight. yes!
1000 - land at sea-tac. eat some food, take a taxi to the westin.
1100 - take a quick cat nap, then a shower, then watch judge joe brown
1330 - meet the 30 other college journalists in the lobby for the bus ride to Nintendo
1400 - arive at Nintendo, tour DigiPen & NOA's central office, didn't meet mario/ zelda:(
1730 - take bus back to seattle for dinner
1830 - sit down for a 3 hour dinner with an open bar. drink lots of free beer with Tom.
1900 - drunk, i realize that this is the high-point of the trip. (good guys, good beer)
2200 - arive back at hotel, drunk, only to find a gift back on my bed filled with swag.
2300 - fall asleep while watching The Simpsons.

day 2:

0730 - wake up late, rush to the westin's ballroom.
0800 - drink coffee, discuss previous day with the crew
0900 - play Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (best game ever) for an hour
1000 - speeches from some of the Nintendo big-wigs.
1001 - I realize that even the Nintendo corpos are awesome.
0000 - the rest of the day was a blur of interviews, food and gameplaying. epic.
2300 - after roaming downtown with the boys, i fall asleep watching The Simpsons

day 3:

0730 - wake up late again (what the fuck is wrong with me) -- rush to checkout
0800 - realize flight doesn't leave until 1130 (what the fuck is wrong with me)
0900 - get bumped to earlier flight (now this is where it gets interesting)
0910 - checkin -- person working desk types on computer, gives me weird look
0911 - i ask if something is wrong -- person holds up finger in "wait" gesture
0912 - smiling, she looks at me and tells me i'm clear to board
0915 - head to tarmac, board plane.
0916 - look around plane
0916 - turn to flight attendant
0917 - ask "am i the only passenger on this flight?"
0917 - flight attendant answers: "yep."
0920 - take off with 4 people on plane -- pilot, co-pilot, flight attendant, me
0921 - realize i could masturbate at no consequence.
0922 - realize that would be wrong at this juncture
1000 - arive at PDX, make trek back home.

fucking. amazing. trip.
i. love. nintendo.
i. also. love. you. all.

so, while i very regularly come to the site and check up, i realized that it's been quite some time since i posted... oops. but, it doesn't look like my absence has really put a damper on things, so good shit.

ecuador is still ecaudor. the other day i missed home and it was raining, so i decided walking in it would be a good idea. you know, make it feel a bit like home. really, it just resulted in a very cold and wet me. my feet were wet for hours. bleh. realized the other day that, while i thought i still had four months left, i really only have three. oh! well alrighty then.

so here's my current frustration: once again, i'm stuck in a situation where the thing that i want is so damn close, but geographical location prevents me from having it. the last time i dealt with this situation with this person was three years ago. honestly, i never thought it would even be a possibility again. yet once again, here we are, wishing that our repsective locations could be just a little closer to one another. *sigh* is it may yet? it's like a sick joke, this whole thing. so close... but so so far. lame.

yeah, that's what i got.


siempre.....

Hey
Everyone should buy General Patton vs. the X-ecutioners,
it is duderadical and it will take herpes off your junk..........
anyway that is pretty much it.
Looking forward to seeing lord bearded, his maiden, and eric this weekend, for THE LOCUST.

Much Luv
sledg

General Patton vs. the X-ecutioners!

I've just been hung up on 5 times, 1 2 3 4 5, total of times sarah has just been hung up on = 5. I filed me and Eli's taxed last month through TurboTax. I did everything electronicly, which cost extra, so we could get pur federal and state refunds in 10 to 14 days. Both federal and state are supposed to be directly deposited into our respective checking accounts. Well we got our federal refund but no news of state. I go online today when I got home from a bullshit day at school, during which I failed my biology quiz miserably, to check the status of me and Eli's state return. All I can get from TurboTax is that the electronic status = accepted by the state. It will not let me view any other part of either of our returns, it will not let me print our forms, it will not give me my product registration number, it will not let me get to the "Help" page, it will not let me do anything except look at the "Easy - Step Navigator" and when I click on a selection it reloads the "Easy - Step Navigator" again and again and again. So I call the Oregon refund hotline and they show no record of either one of our taxes as being filed, even though I have a confromation number they have no clue what I'm talking about. So since I can't get any useful conatct information out of the TurboTax site I call 411, which gives me the wrong number, so I have to call back. I finally get the number for TurboTax, a 1-800 customer service center number which connects me to these fucking evolutionary challanged monkey fucks in god-knows-where Arizona...

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I'm pretty positive everyone already knows about this since I'm always the last one to know everything but Maynard did a short film called "Sleeping Dogs Lie" that is being released Feb 28th, he plays a "Barney Fife-like cop". I guess he did somethin "unscripted" in the flick to watch out for. Anyhow I guess it's a murder mystery that touches a bit on the concept of the collective unconscious. There is a trailer and info at http://www.toolband.com and you can preorder copies, i'm sure we will have to wait a long time, if ever, for it to come to southern Oregon (not to the movies mind you but DJ's if anywhere). Anyhow if anyone know any more good info on this let me know.

It's here. I depart for Nintendo HQ tomorrow morn. I have to get up at 5:00am. I'm not stoked about that. I'm already dreading coming back, since I'll be missing 2 days of class and I have much due the following week, but fuck it, i'm so-very excited.

Anyway, I love you all, expect loads of pictures when I return.

Dear Jeffrey Goodwill,
1. Hitting on chicks over the internet doesn't work because:
a. It's creepy
b. It assures everyone that you are still a virgin, since you are obviously scared to talk to chicks that are physically around you. This double-obviously means you don't know how to please a woman.

2. When you use words like "we", as in "i think we can have a good thing" it means that you have already fantasized about being together with this person and have some sort of relationship with them, which you, uh, DONT. Added to that, why do you think you guys "can have a good thing"? Have you met her? Or are you just thinking about what a good thing it would be if you could date someone? Do you email Heidi Klum the same thing. Jenna Jameson? Raquel Welch?

The point I'm getting at is that you obviously don't have much of a grasp on reality. And to give you a little secret between guys.... THAT IS SCARY TO GIRLS. People who tend to think that they "could have a good thing" with someone they've never met usually go by the title of STALKER. Sure I think often that me and Josie Maran "could have a good thing", but if i were to try to tell her that she'd file a restraining order against me. Some things are just not meant to be. It's about drawing that line between fantasy and reality. And once you' start thinking that you can cross line, that is when you are a psycho. That is what makes people child molesters and panty thieves.

Some advice:
Since you are 24 and still a virgin you need to learn some skills quick. To boost your confidence around the ladies, I suggest you hire some prostitutes to teach you the ropes. Once you feel comfortable and know where all the differant parts are (namely the clit, the funhole, and the asshole), you are halfway there. The next thing you need to do is leave you room and go outside and make some friends. This is what I refer to as "building a social network". Through this "social network" you meet people which eventually leads to meeting Chicks. When faced with talking to a girl, its best not to think about how you are coming off. You just have to engage them in some conversation. Eventually you'll find ONE desperate enough to fuck you. You're going to make some mistake s along the way, which is ok as long as you learn from them. You are even going to make some mistakes in the sack, which is ok, as long as you dont let it mess with your confidence. A premature ejaculation here or there is no big deal.

NOW GO OUT THERE And BE SOMEBODY!!!!

Im glad we had this talk
love
SLEDG

<{[(UPDATE)]}> Ps. The PATTON VS. X-CUTIONERS tracklist is insane and inside

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Kadens A Rock Star

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1. I would like to say first and foremost that I am sorry to hear about your friend eric. I felt sad just reading about it. It just seems like such a shame when things like this happen, especially in the way he went out. I guess that it should just be taken as a learning experiance for the rest of us about how fragile life really is.

2. To Jeffrey Goodell-
Live out your chimonic internet porn chat room fantasies somewhere else you CHIMO. When I read a comment and can tell that the person who wrote it was stroking themselves while typing it (or in this case, probably shoving Anime videos up their poopshoot), it makes me feel sick. The only people who get to try to score any poon from this site are the people who are on it (shut up eric). Not you. And stop stealing panties and dryer lint from the dorm laundry rooms you pervert. Not every site is like your "nude celebrity pic message board". You are disgusting.

3. FANTOMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOCUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!TREVOR DUNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
APRIL25!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PORTLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hello all. i am leaving amsterdam today. like i said it is really great here. last night i fianally went out to see the night life. i met a guy named pruette from south africa and agreed to go out with him. drinking i thought, but no, it was to the vangough museum. so i went and it was very cool. i was impressed with this van gough fellow. then we went out. after few bars we picked up a couple of hot holland babes, mostly by pruetts assistance that they should. they were very cool. from harlem, just near by. we talked about politics and the city, and home. ect. bush... and hollands past occupation of south africa. and well shit. i really needed to talk to someone around here, i really like amsterdam, but i was not sure if the free mindset was just a surface view, but not all that true. they were good hosts of thier country.
then me a pruette went to the hot clubs, and were not accepted to any, wrong sneekers?
i am leaving to day because it would be too easy to stay here for longer. maybe i will move here? probably not ehh.
well love you lots. peace----out
jonny

1. Go to imdb.com
2. Go to the EYES WIDE SHUT page
3. Go to the message boards
4. Read all the ideas of what that movie is about

This will make you:
1. Laugh
2. Cry
3. Be glad you have a job so that you don't sit around your parents garage all day picking apart Eyes Wide Shut

Apperantly, PICKING APART means:
1. Measuring how tall everyone in the orgy scene is to try to figure out who was the red cloak guy
2. Making sure all of the girls in the orgy scene had perfectly round ariolas, because that has something to do with the theme of the movie
3. Figuring out if there are "continuity errors" or if its just for "dream effect"
4. Theorizing about what might of happened to Tom Cruises character had he made the cloak people REALLY mad
5. Figuring out how each and every detail aplies to Tom Cruises' character's soul

There is other awesome nerd and dork stuff, too. Just give it a try sometime. It will make you smile. There is one guy that pisses everyone off on that board because all he does is rant about how the Matrix trilogy is the modern day Citizen Kane. I love nerds.

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So I think Eli has a gambeling problem, he recently bet me that I could not go a month with out giving him head, what self-serving man would bet against himself in such a way?? The bet is worth $300.00.

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These guys are badass (smokeandsmokepracticespot.com)

Great Cd's
1. Smoke and Smoke - Love Suffers Long = The perfect way to piss people off while making yourself extremely happy. If I knew how to sculpt things I would construct a giant brass Spencer Moody in the middle of the park blocks here in Portland. Or mayber on top of that boat that never moves next to the Morrison bridge.
2. Tom Waits - Real Gone = I hope this man lives to be 400 years old.
3. Hot Snakes - Audit in Progress = These guys kick so much ass playing the same shit over and over, it blows my fucking mind. Its all the same but differant and it will turn your cock blue.
4. Patton/Kaada - Romances = A cd that took me by surprise, a sign of Patton. You will find that the second track off this album will not leave your head EVER!
5. Cake - Pressure Chief = Cake has not changed one bit! BUT WHO CARES!? Every song still has trumpet solos and the yelling in the background but it still is fucking catchy as shit. Everyone in the band still plays four million instruments each. It makes me want to start wearing birkinstocks and I dont know why.

One last note:
There is a guy that walk through downtown Portland with a giant boombox! I have spotted him like six times and he's always blaring some rad ass jazz. I love crazy people.

Well i did go to amsterdam, i was afraid to but for no reason. everone here speaks english, everone, as a second langague. it is crazy. they seem to be nice, not out of their way nice, but smiling down the sidewalk. everyone rides bikes. and there are shitloads of hot girls. shitloads. on this matter i did go to the red light distric, not at night though. not hot. kind of scary gross. i met a guy from scotland. he was soo cool. alan. very hard to understand his acent though. he gave me a lot of ideas for places to go. smaller towns with acient ruiens. i may follow this advice. i am enjoying learning about history in the places i go. today i went to a university exibition or museum. with artifacts of egypt, middleeast, roman, greek and other cultures. and read about them there. it was cool. i also went to rembrants house/ museum. it was very cool. there are a lot of artistic people who have come from the netherlands area. picasso too i think. i want to go see anne franks house where she hid from the natzis. i have begun to make a plan befor going out too. this is much smarter. in paris i just walked around obvlious, with no direction in mind until my legs were killing me. it sucked. eating from the grocery store is a trick i picked up, while totally simple it never dawned on me. way cheeper. in amsterdam they eat a lot of processed food. i got some fruit cracker/cookies that are really good for desert. and these fruit juice things that arent refridgerated. lots of crackers too. i think this is for fiber, fiberrich. because fruit is expensive. it really isn't much more north than paris though, and paris fruit was in abundence. i wouldn't mind going to duch land (i forget the name) oh yea denmark. probably where this idology comes from. there seems to be much more of an acceptance to modernerty than i have here. i wnat to go to rotterdam in the netherlands too. the guide book says hypermodern and asking the world why the hell not? basically i have begun to warm up to my travels. jet lag is almost warn off, but not quite. and i bought a watch yesterday, which will be helpful. i am still do sure what day it is. wendsday? i have been writing a lot too, this is why i am rambeling. say whatevery you think it is all important. i will probaby stay here for a while more.
peace out, and peace on...motherfuckers. oh and there is a film museum here and lots of focus on movies. very cool.