Bury Your Dead DVD (05/15/2005)

By Josh Highland in Josh's Rambling, music

I wrote this on may 15, but im just getting around to posting it

I�ve been working hard on things lately. I feel like I have so many things going on, I get one night a week to work on each one.

In the past week, I have added two new features to notpop: "notify admin" and message board spell check.

Both explain themselves, the notify admin will send me an email with information about a problem a user is experiencing, so I can fix the situation.

The spell check is really cool. I have wanted A spell check feature for years on notPop. I stumbled across a javascript/php/linux application that would allow me to do finally have one. It uses php to power a linux binary called "aspell", the javascript will replace the misspelled word. It works really good.

Last night I went to the bury your dead DVD video shoot at chain reaction. I pushed my way to the very front of the crowd. During the first song, big Eric threw his guitar and accidentally smashed Matt in the head. There was blood everywhere. I got a bunch of blood on me. For the last few songs, I did some stage dives. The show was super fun. I�m all beat up today though. I have bruises all over me from being pushed by the crowd, and having kids headwalk/stagedive on me. It�s all in good fun though. I�m glad I went. I think the DVD will be pretty good.

I�ve also been working a bunch on my house. It�s really coming together. I think I�m almost done with all of the dry wall work. That means that I can get it all textured, and then I can paint, and then get the flooring put in! Before I do that, I need to put my master bathroom all together. It�s still all ripped a part.

I like working on my house so much, that I want to buy another house, an old beater, fix her up and either rent it or sell it off. I think it would be way fun, and a good way to make some money. I could also employ some of my friends to do some of the labor for me, giving them a job, and also helping me out. It�s a win win situation! Anyone have a beat up house they want to sell for cheap?

Getting old (05/14/2005)

By Josh Highland in Josh's Rambling

I wrote this on may 14th, but im just now getting around to posting it

There was a show at the church on Friday. It was a good time. I was still beat up feeling from the Bury Your Dead show, but that didn�t stop me from having a good time at the church show. It was probably the roughest show at the church so far. I got a nice fist to the side of my head that really rung my bell. Massive matt had to take me outside until i could see straight again. Later that night Joey managed to kick me really good in the shoulder and basically give me a dead arm. I swear, I�m getting to old to mosh. I don�t care what the Throwdown lyrics say!

I went out and ordered a new bathroom vanity and custom counter top. That stuff isn�t cheap, let me tell you! Eh, you buy it once and you have it for ever I guess, and its really nice stuff. I�m trying to figure out what to do with the wet bar in my living room area, I don�t know how to design it. This week i finished framing in, dry walling, and adding bull nose to around the new garden window. I also finished patching some holes i made running the coax, as well as finished sanding the ceiling downstairs. I don�t know if i need to hire someone with a texture gun or not to finish the ceiling. I�m going to do some tests on some scrap sheets of dry wall and see if i can do it myself. If I can, it will save me some money which is good.

I really need to work on notpop. The members are starting to revolt. I don�t blame them. Half the reason notpop was born was out of a revolt because i didnt like the features that makeout club offered. That and I wanted to stretch my wings and create a large scale website that could live on it own. Now i feel like Dr. Frankenstein. My monster has grown out of control and I need to do something before I lose all control. I have a lot of tricks up my sleeve though. I have a whole composition book full of ideas for notpop and pseudo code on how to put it all together. The trick is finding the time to do it!

It�s also gotten tricky to update things on the site… my work has blocked all access to this server. suck.

Pale Horse (05/19/2005)

By Josh Highland in Josh's Rambling, music

I wrote this on may 19th, but I am just posting this now

Today during lunch I stopped by del taco to grab a bite to eat. I saw some kid in camo shorts and tattoos in the corner, along with some other similar looking guys. After I ordered my food, I realized who it was. It was the band Pale Horse all the way from Connecticut. They had played the church 2 nights earlier. I thought they were on their way to Vegas after they played. Apparently the show got shifted back a night, so they stayed in Redlands all yesterday. Thom put them up at his house.

I ate lunch and hung out with those guys. I bought a cd and a shirt from them to support them on tour. Its cool because I wanted to buy merch at the show, but I didn�t have any cash on me. I really like their music.

I really like the fact that we have a venue in town and that we can help out touring bands. I�m learning that actions really speak louder then words when you extend friendship and hospitality to people. When you�re a small band on the road you�re basically homeless, and living out of the van for weeks on end, and most of the time really broke on top of it. I�m glad that Redlands and kids from xdeathstarx can extend the favor and spread the blessings that we have had. More times then I can remember have had people we didn�t really know let us sleep at the place, shower, and feed us when we had no place to go.


Matthew 25:35 For I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in;