| Current mood: | tired |
| Current music: | silence really |
across the universe
I'm awake. What am I doing up this early? I told Mandy last night that I was gonna wake up early today and cook her breakfast, she basically pulled the "not before I make it" thing. So I waited till she fell asleep and then I got up, took a shower, and the food is cookin' on the stove as I type.
Yeah, which means I didn't sleep last night. No big deal really. With the way my mind was racing I prolly wouldn't have gotten any sleep anyways. You know we may be on a break, but that doesn't mean the work stops. Me and Benj are constantly writing lyrics together, tossin' ideas off of each other. We gotta start thinking about our next album and what songs we could possibly use on it. Then there's our other projects we've started. Our clothing line.. who knew me and Benj had a knack for designing clothes. Wouldn't say we have a knack for it really. We basically just do what we like and hope everyone else feels the same way. It's pretty fun though, to be in this kinda position where we can combine our tastes in music and clothes and do everythin' that we're doing.
Then there's the MTV show we host. I'm not even sure why I'm mentionin' it. There's nothing to it really. They call us and tell us they need to film at a certain location. We show up. Shoot like 10 episodes or somethin' and then we leave. It's pretty basic. We're always crackin' jokes at each other on the show and messing up our lines. Course we don't really get to pick the music videos that are played. Hell if we did, no one would watch. *smirks*
Then of course our record label. Me and Benj get the fun of job of goin' through demos and thinking about which bands we might wanna sign to it. It's.. the whole thing is awesome. Just the idea. Us havin' a record label with John Feldman. I mean, slap with a fuckin' stick cause sometimes I swear I'm dreaming.
Then there's MADE Tour.. I don't know if Benj has ever mentioned anything about this but it's definitely an awesome thing that's goin' on right now. It kicked off last month and it's got some great bands on it like The Movielife, Autopilot Off, etc. I was hopin' to check out the tour sometime soon, still might show up to a couple tour dates and see how well it's goin. I wanted to check out Warped too, to hang out with the guys since I'm still kinda pissed we didn't get to do Warped this year.
Yeah see, all this stuff has been on my mind. Me and Benj have turned into business men without even realizing it. I know I tend to worry a lot, but this ain't even me worryin'. I'm just tryin' to keep my head straight and organized so to speak.
I've been thinking a lot about my life too. Thinkin' back about the family I came from, to the family I've created. Me and Benj have been through a lot. We worked our asses off to get to where we are now, sacrificed a lot of things, but we made it. Billy, Paul, and Chris of course. But all our work, It's all payin' off right now and it's the best feelin' in the world to see your dreams finally come about. To go from workin' 2 or 3 jobs to this, doin' what we love to do and getting paid for it. It's really amazing. I know sometimes I take it for granted. I get stressed and pissed off about things. The fans are usually the first ones to notice. Just cause, sometimes I don't watch the way I act around them and they notice shit like that. Usually Benj is right there to snap some sense into me though. I just try not to take things for granted. I feel like we could lose the great thing we have goin' for us at any time. So I wanna make the best of all of it and hopefully this whole career we've built is a permanent one.
Aight I guess I've rambled out my thoughts enough. In between writin' about the music and shit I've been running to the stove and tryin' to make sure nothing gets burned. I'll prolly wait till Mandy gets up, eat, then take a nap or somethin. The babies aren't up yet though, I guess that's a good thing. Maybe I can take care of them today and give Mandy some uh, time off or something. Hah. She'll prolly fight me on that one.
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