Gym Class Heroes - Shell Shock

Yes, kids. I am certainly listening to the Ninja Turtles soundtrack. I like all of two songs on it by two of my favorite bands right now. I don't know why I like Travis so much. Maybe it's the fact that he always has this "I just don't give a shit" attitude towards life and everyone in general. Not to mention his music is always amazing. I listen to GCH on the daily and so should everyone else. He says whatever he wants to say and petty much kicks your ass at anything. I don't know what made me decide to pimp him all of a sudden but everyone just go with it for the sake of me! And thats all I have to say about that.

I just finished watching World Trade Center. Movies like that make me sad. I just hate seeing things about real life that have happened recently that I've live through. It isn't like one of those timely war movies where our grandparents went through it. It's something you and I both experienced and dealt with. Most of us were in school or at work when we witnessed it and it was probably one of the most devastating thing most of us has seen and the fact that we couldn't do anything in that very moment but stand and watch this happening on national television to so many people? It was... unreal. And the fact that the entire world heard about it in that very day as well and watched our towers collapsing? Watching and hearing of the nearly 3,000 people that died that day in those towers. Yeah. It's hard to watch. Worst part is that up until that act of terrorism or whathaveyou, people still gave our firefighters, our police, and even our soldiers-in-training the cold shoulder as if they did not serve a purpose up until this day. As if firefighters never had a fire to put out or a life to save. As if any of these people weren't heroes up until this day. Remember when little kids used to want to be firefighters and policemen and everyone would just say its such a general career choice? Now people are proud their children want to go down these paths. Nothing changed about these people? They were heroes long before our towers came down. But really, yeah, it was a devastating day and I actually liked that I got a little insight into what went on in the building and the families who struggled trying to find out if so and so and their loved ones were even going to make it to see another day.

As far as concerts go, I shot The Editors, Hot Hot Heat, & Louis XIV. They all were really good live. It felt weird to not know any of the photographers in the photo pit though. Well, I guess technically I did. Rob was there. He knew who I was or at least recognized me so we talked for a little bit before Hot Hot Heat's set. I'm just used to seeing Matt/Nikon there instead of Rob but it was cool either way. We talked about our days back at Hi Fi Buys and everything. It was nice. I met a couple kids who were obsessed with Hot Hot Heat and I helped get the setlist for one of the girls since no one was allowed int he photo pit. I've been past that whole guitar pick and setlist collecting thing since... well... I was never even into it to begin with.