This won’t be a long post, I haven’t felt like posting lately, but this summer has been interesting. I moved out to Tacoma, WA for a job, two buddies came with me, one has since returned home, the other remains.

I’ve been able to go camping twice so far on the Pacific, and both times it’s been super fun. Also had a nice couple of weeks at home before I left. Check out some pictures on my Flickr account.

And here’s an animated GIF I made while at the Grand Mere dunes with my dad:

I’m super excited about Clutch’s new studio album, the first that they’ll produce entirely on their own Weathermaker Music label. The album is called “Strange Cousins from the West,” and will be released on July 7th. MetalSucks.net has the new single, 50,000 Unstoppable Watts streaming on their site, check it out!

So I had kept this text file of interesting quotes or song lyrics (mostly song lyrics) that I heard. I haven’t added to it in years, but it still has some quotes that I really like. I figured I’d toss it up here and see if anyone can guess where they come from. I would say most of them are not too obvious, but there’s a few in there that you should recognize. Some of them are kind of deep, most of them are just interesting to me. Anyway, give it a try!

Hey guys, it’s been a while since I’ve updated, and this isn’t an amazing update to boot, but figured I’d let you know about a couple of bands I’ve been into lately.

If you haven’t checked out my other post, please do, I list a bunch of the instrumental progressive rock bands that I listen to! Well, there is some singing in some of them, but oh well! So, onto the bands&hellip.

Mouth of the Architect (Dayton, OH)
The song Hate & Heartache starts out with a sample of some movie or something, haven’t quite figured it out, but it’s a pretty powerful message that turns into an awesome song!

Maybeshewill (Leicester, UK)
I actually found out about this band when searching for the source of the previous song’s sample, because apparently Maybeshewill has a song that has the same (but extended) sample in it! I think Maybeshewill did it first (in the song Not for Want of Trying), but oh well. This band’s a little harder than Mouth of the Architect, but both are excellent!

Years of Rice & Salt (London, UK)
I don’t quite remember how I heard about this band, but either way I found them or they found me on Twitter (that’s another article, Twitter’s pretty powerful…) and have a free downloadable EP so I figured I’d check them out. Definitely worth it, and eagerly awaiting a full length!

This has been one of my favorite genres to explore recently. There’s a ton of great stuff out there! Hope you enjoy checking these bands out.

Thanks Jeremy for tagging me with this. It gives me a reason to post, and is actually a pretty cool shot if I do say so myself!

Rules: go to the sixth page of your Flickr stream, and post the sixth picture that’s listed, then tag six more people.

This was a trip that I made with Adam and Tyler two summers ago out to the Apostle Islands. We camped and kayaked for a couple of days. It was quite an adventure as the first day we went out we kind of got caught in a small windstorm and I ended up tipping my kayak over, and it was early in the summer so Superior was still cold.

This particular shot was when we went out two days after that incident (it rained the day after, we went to Duluth, and the freshwater aquarium). There were a bunch of pretty cool sea caves along the shore, so we went exploring!

So that’s my story. I think I’ll tag these six lucky folks:

Justin Sailor
The Carpenters
Chris Barr
Larry Tomlinson
My mom
And fellow Yooper Brian Rendel