It's a long read, but please take a moment.

First off we aren't boycotting it because they dont pay bands enough. It's the kids that get the brunt of it not the bands.

Its not worth 10$ to get into a neptunes show. The only way touring bands can get enough money is to jack up the door price because Eddie(the owner and ultimate decision maker for shows) takes such a huge cut. He was making shows impossible and has openly admitted that he "doesnt care about the bands or the kids that come out," just his money. That is not what hardcore and punk is about.

Eddie has on many occasion made 500$+ at the door (and this isnt even counting tarpon fests). That's way too much. The State Theater charges 500$ to a promoter but that includes professional sound, lighting, SECURITY, and a huge fucking venue that can hold hundreds of kids. There is no way Neptunes is anywhere near that. Its one door guy who can barely keep track of the money, an asshole bar tender who is pissed that 16 year old kids arent buying alcoholic drinks and tipping him(go figure?), and an owner who sits in his office the whole time and comes out periodicly to toy around with PA levels. Yet some how he walks away with rent money for the month, at the kid's expense.

If you think this is some kind of boycott to protect local band's financial interests, then you're out of your mind. Every band ive been in has taken 20$ to no money at 90% played shows with a FUCKING smile. We have no local guarentee, and we keep it that way for a reason. The idea here, was that Eddie could have taken a smaller cut so that door prices could be lowered. This is for the show goers.

Not to mention that Eddie himself is a huge scum bag. He talks shit on fucking kids despite the fact that he is a 45 year old business owner. Calling 17 year old kids fat and starting fights with people half his age is not professional in the least.

That little club has a lot of memories, but they are just that MEMORIES. We worked with them for so long, because we had NO WHERE ELSE TO go for shows. He fucking sucked us dry. Local promoters would work so hard on bringing out amazing touring bands. But Eddie was a financial and moral hindurance to everything.

There is nothing positive about sitting in a trashy bar while some fucking nut robs you blind.

There's nothing wrong with Eddie putting his "business" foot forward and thinking of only himself. He owns a bike shop and a bar. If he wants to have radio rock jam sessions to bring out the drinkers on friday night let him. But that is not what most of us are about. To most of us, music is not just something we turn on or off witha radio switch.

As a local underground music scene we can not forget what's important. We have to stand up in the spirit of punk rock. We aren't asking you spit into owners faces or spray paint a cheesy "anarchy" symbal all over a venue. This is small step that everyone can take to help preserve what we have worked so hard for. DO NOT go to shows booked at The Neptune Lounge.

If you are in a band, whether it be hardcore, punk, indie, screamo, whatever; DO not book shows @the neptune lounge. There are plenty of other venues. FITS presents has been lucky enough to move all hardcore shows to the 688 skatepark. I know i'd rather be going off with all my friends in a skatepark than sitting in a bar waiting to get my money stolen from me. It's an all around more positive enviroment. This lets us get back to what's important, having a good time and sharing our common passion of music.

Please repost this, in myspaces, livejournals, AIM, whatever. Everyone in the
clearwater/tampa area should know about this.

-signed
Now Soldiers
Endurance
FITS Presents
Vince
Poey
Tyler
Justin
Josiah
jake(Hawaiian jake)
JP
Beauty In Chaos
Eliot
Zack
Full Count
Ashleah Nila
Cara
Ashley Lannon
Sam Jacobs
John Carvajal
and everyone else involved with the boycott

(feel free to add your name or band name to the signature in repost to show what our strength as local music community really is)

so what's everyone up to tonight?

i need something to do..

i apperantly have nothing to do tonight..

so someone please call me...

i don't want to spend new years at my house by myself...

P.S.
Entries were never directed toward a certain person in specific, they refered to multiple people.

oh oh oh oh....
apperantly dogs can smell cancer, and theyll start barking at you even if they've seen you before...
weird...
haha friends dogs barked at me all weekend, even though they never barked at me...
oohhh eehhh oooohhhh...
I have not bathed in 2 days...
w00t w00t...
i have been wearing the same clothes sense saturday morning...

Silent Bob: Bitch, what you don't know about me I can just about squeeze in the Grand fucking Canyon. Did you know I always wanted to be a dancer in Vegas?

Hooper: And Jedi's the most insulting installment. Because Vader's beautiful black visage is sullied when he pulls off his mask to reveal a feeble, crusty, old white man! They tryin' to tell us that deep inside we all wants to be white!

Brodie : Ladies and gentlemen, this tall drink of water headed my way is a pillar of the shopping community who informed me earlier today of a nefarious plan of his to screw my girlfriend in an extremely uncomfortable place.
Gil Hicks : What... like the back of a Volkswagen?

Brodie : It's impossible, Lois could never have Superman's baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle the sperm? I guarantee you he blows a load like a shotgun right through her back. What about her womb? Do you think it's strong enough to carry her child? He's an alien, for Christ sake. His Kyrptonian biological makeup is enhanced by earth's yellow sun. If Lois gets a tan the kid could kick right through her stomach. Only someone like Wonder Woman has a strong enough uterus to carry his kid. The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a kryptonite condom. That would kill him.

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
mother motherfuck motherfuck
smokeing weed
doing coke
drinking beers beers beers
rolling fatties
smoking blunts



that is all i have to say...

oh yea...

wait no...

oh hey look..

death...

hey..

how are you?

oh wonderful, ill see you soon...

no?

fuck you then...

oh shit.. monkeys....

*goes gets more vodka*

i am now known as monkey man...

I climbed a tree...

i have scratches on my arms and some on my ankle some how, but it was fun.. i just sat up there and smoked a cig-y...

ugh.. i feel sick...


Edit - 5:59

fuck people..

im done trying to make everyone think of me one way, when im not.. end..

umm at Sam's...

yea...

Stuff and things...

poo...

im tired of people...

a lot of people piss me off...

not sure what to do...

fuck...

shit...

THEY HAVE PACMAN??

WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA

I are done with work in teh lab of doom...

what me do now?

me go sleepy...

no...

blerg..

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
R.D. Laing.

"Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master."
Rev. Jesse Jackson

"You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
Al Capone.

"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships."
Sharon Stone

"Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is."
Barbara Bush (Former US First Lady)

"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex."
Edgar Wallace

"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."
Janeane Garofalo

This weekend was quite pleasant...

indeed it was...

Ryan and Travis are two cool mofo's...

we all need to hang out more...

parties are fun...

i missed out on parties during high school...

i am making up for that now...

and i think i am happy...

"Hi Ryan"
"High Ryan indeed"

Meow... GOOD Question Gary....

Kermit?

Excalibur?

Requiem For a Dream is by far one of my favorite movies now...

i r in lab

teh lab is teh w1n

umm.. no

photoshop makes me happy.. this lab needs to end though.. cause me need food.. i feel like there is something wrong... not sure what.. just something..

i are be in lab...

photoshop today.. w00t

TWO TOUGH QUESTIONS

Question 1:

If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?


Read the next question before looking at the answer for this one.



Question 2:

It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates.


Candidate A -

Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists.
He's had two Mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.


Candidate B -

He was kicked ou t of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.


Candidate C -

He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.



Which of these candidates would be your Choice?

Decide first, no peeking, then scroll down for the answer.



----------------------------------------------




Candidate A: is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B: is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C: is Adolph Hitler.


And, by the way, the answer to the abortion question: If you said yes, you just killed Beethoven.

Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone.

Never be afraid to try something new.

Remember:

Amateurs built the Ark

Professionals built the Titanic



and in case you never saw this one..! ....

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:

* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
* 7 have been arrested for fraud
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
* 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
* 3 have done time for assault
* 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
* 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
* 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Can you guess which organization this is?




Give up yet?





It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group of idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.

ugh...

fuck...

going 24 hours without sleep isnt good...

not eating isnt good either...

but im too stressed out right now to be hungry...

< edit>Made a secret</ edit>...

hope that will help...

if it doesnt...

then i guess i will give up...

but i have to do what i have to do...

estoy en mi clase en este momento.. no aye nada que hacer.. nyk esta haciendo el trabajo pero yo voy a esperar hasta que clase empieze.. estoy hablando con mi madre otra ves que es algo bueno.. pero to se que va ver un momento que vamos a peliar otra vez y no hablamos por meses otra vez..

yo no creo que voy a volber a escribir en ingles aque.. depronto.. toda via no se.. depende en como las cosas vayan esta semana.. ojala vayan bien.. si no... no se que voy hacer.. depronto me buelvo un homosexual... si? no? depronto?

en mas o menos 3 horas voy a estar despierto por 24 horas.. no se si eso es bueno o malo.. todavia no se...

umm no se que hacer...

ya todos me odian..

todas piensan que soy un maricon que no sabe de que esta hablando..

hijo de puto soy yo

the eternal star
has shattered the flame
the ships have left
the pain has come
i walked down the street
never dared to go across



it is 2:46 am do you know where your child is?

yes he is on his computer waiting for his brain to shut down.