Fuck You Mother Nature!!!!

While I find winter astonishing in it's appearance, I'm reluctant to applaud it's unfortunate side effects; mainly it's effects on travel and commerce. Weight of the World had two shows this weekend, one on Friday night and one on Sunday night. These shows happened to coincide with the most snowfall we've received thus far. While I definitely want to avoid a car accident and meeting my premature death, it is frustrating to have to sit at home snowed in when you could be rocking the fuck out. Those two shows (in Bristol, VT and Kingston, NY) was the only thing I thought about all week at work. So here's a big middle finger to snow in general. I also want to mention that digging your car out of snow three times in just four days fucking sucks.

Unfortunately, Bruce our drummer didn't get the message about the show on Friday being cancelled. By the time I actually got a hold of him, he was already on the road from Rutland and only twenty minutes from Bristol. To be quite honest, I can't believe he even considered venturing out to begin with. The roads were fucking horrible. Even the drive through downtown Burlington for me was sketchy enough. Bruce is a trooper alright. So he ended up just coming to Burlington and hanging out with me for the weekend. We didn't do a whole lot exciting, unless you want to count hanging out at Muddy Waters and drinking coffee and buying pants at the mall exciting. At least we got to check out that new organic pizza place called Bite Me. The girl who took our order was stunningly beautiful. Oh yeah and Bruce also volunteered for Vermont Freedom to Marry at the Palace 9 movie theater where they were showing Milk again. Mikey X showed up too. We had a great time being three heterosexual males working for a gay rights organization.

So its the Holiday season and I have not bought a single thing for anybody. I think that's pretty cool. The whole thing is way to vetted in materialism and shallow promises of community and family. It's all bullshit. We should all just get together and be happy that we made it through another year. Oh wait, that's New Year's eve.....ummm......Santa is a nazi.

I put the order in for the Weight of the World 7"s last Thursday. I really hope they got the package I sent them. I'm going to call United Records Pressing tomorrow to make sure they got the whole bundle. So the plan is to have 300 copies of our 7" vinyl EP. They will be available on three separate colors; red, green and clear. There will also be three black test pressings sent to me before the rest of the batch is made. The total cost of this was a whopping $777. And that is JUST the actual records. Jess and I have been working on a cover for the nifty piece of wax and we're going to make the sleeves ourselves with card-stock and get them printed up at Kinko's or something. That's probably going to cost me a pretty penny as well. The records will all be hand-assembled and numbered by ourselves. Besides, this is fucking hardcore. Isn't that the way it's supposed to be? I'm hoping we'll have the 7" ready for a release party in late February. I just booked a show for February 21st at 242 Main in Burlington. The show will also feature The Stereo State and Maker (two amazing Western Massachusetts Pop-Punk bands). I hope all goes according to plan.

I'm so tired right now. My nights go by way too fast. I lose my health insurance in nine days. The girl I like isn't over her ex. Things could be worse, but I'm fucking grateful to be alive and grateful for my family who cares so much about me. But seriously I need a girlfriend...