My band just made a blog/myspace, you should check them both out.
Blog: Ratblog
Myspace: Ratspace
We are going to be recording pretty quick and have a shirt or two up for sale as soon as we can. Also, a show is in the works for the friday before Halloween (the 30th), so keep a look out for that.
- Dan
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Rest/End Of Summer
READ THE BLOG BEFORE THIS FIRST!...unless you don't want to hear bout some trip to Cali I went on.
2nd part of the summer blog here. Probably should have mentioned this earlier but for the better part of the summer me and Ramsay had been playing guitar together writing some tunes and those tunes eventually evolved into this band that me and Ryan and been joking about for awhile which neither of us thought would ever materialize, but it did which is rad. The band formed with me and Ryan playin guitar, my bro Con on bass, big ol Grant on drums and Derrek "Mr. Incredible" Traxel doing the vocal duties it is called RATWHEEL, keep your ears open. So, right when we get back from Cali we get offer to play this show which was like a week later, we were not ready to play a show at all and had barely jammed and got our songs worked out but Grant and Ryan were psyched on the idea much the shegrin of me, and Con who thought we wouldn't be ready. So we spent the next week jamming everyday and ended up getting out shit together and actually playing 2 shows instead of one and both went splendid. We nailed out 4 songs and people were vibin it so it was a good time for sure. Thanks to all our friends who came out to watch our first show, definetly helped to calm me down. I guess I should mention that I flipped out one day while jamming and broke out cause I couldn't get a song down. The boys aka Ramsay had a good lark at that one. Ratwheel is writing more songs right now, I think we got about 6 or 7 now and are going to record in the very near future. I will post the demo up on here when it's done.
In other show news, the boys from Kelowna managed to get this allstar lineup to come play a show in Kelowna over Vancouver, lineup was Have Heart, Shipwreck, Cruel Hand, Bitter End and Grave Maker (amazing). So I was super pumped for that since Have Heart is one of my favorite bands and it would be my last time seeing them before they broke up :(. The show ended up being awesome and the venue the boys found was ridiculously good. All bands were solid, we mosh, we sang and Sean got frapped...hard.
I am trying to think of other stuff to talk about in here...the rest of the summer was pretty basic, we did a bunch of swimming, cliff jumping, wakeboarding, hanging at the cabin, and some partyin here and there. All of which were a great time. We had Lennea's dad come stay with us at the cabin for a weekend, her brother and their dogs came as well. It was fun having them here I really enjoyed just hangin and playing with the dogs all weekend. One of the dogs Duke i'm pretty sure is gay/retarded, pees like a girl (he is male), lets things hit him in the head when you throw them to him, is afraid of everything even though he is huge (about 130 pounds) and has to nap after like 10 mins of exercise. Lennea also just had her friend Megan come stay with us for a week which was fun, I always find we do alot more activities when we have people staying with us. OH, I just remember that last weekend me, my Dad and Connor went to Van for the BC Lions game. Game was intense, came down to the last play with the Lions coming out on top. Was never really into the CFL but the game was super exciting and fun, thanks to my Dad for taking us!
So I guess the highlights of summer aside from the trip to Cali would be these:
- Friend hangouts: Ramsay, Grant, Derrek, Joni, Con, Sean, Lindsay, Matt, Dustin, Tommy, Clayton, Megan, Justen and of course Lennea.
- Cabin days
- Dan + Lennea hangouts
- Swimming
- Enderby river floats
- Screamers
- Cliff Jumping
- Oroville
- Ratwheel shows + jams
- Have Heart show
- Kelowna Monsters
- BC Lions
- Mom and Dad
- Opie naps
- Partyin
- All around good times
I am sure I am missing some stuff but that stuff up there pretty much sums up my whole summer. It was a blast and I am sad that I am now back at school (today was my first day). I am hoping the year won't be too tough but I won't be holding my breath. Kinda worried that I won't be able to get my work done since I am back living at home now, so many distractions. Also, me and Lennea are going to the hot springs in Revelstoke for our 3 year anniversary (send presents) in Revelstoke this weekend, which I am hyped for as it will be like my last big outing for the summer, after that pure unfun school ugh.
Anyways, this summer was a blast and one of the best I have ever had, hopefully next years will be as good! Thanks to all my buds for hangin with me, being the best friends I could ask for and making my summer a good one.
- Dan
Some more pics to end it:
2nd part of the summer blog here. Probably should have mentioned this earlier but for the better part of the summer me and Ramsay had been playing guitar together writing some tunes and those tunes eventually evolved into this band that me and Ryan and been joking about for awhile which neither of us thought would ever materialize, but it did which is rad. The band formed with me and Ryan playin guitar, my bro Con on bass, big ol Grant on drums and Derrek "Mr. Incredible" Traxel doing the vocal duties it is called RATWHEEL, keep your ears open. So, right when we get back from Cali we get offer to play this show which was like a week later, we were not ready to play a show at all and had barely jammed and got our songs worked out but Grant and Ryan were psyched on the idea much the shegrin of me, and Con who thought we wouldn't be ready. So we spent the next week jamming everyday and ended up getting out shit together and actually playing 2 shows instead of one and both went splendid. We nailed out 4 songs and people were vibin it so it was a good time for sure. Thanks to all our friends who came out to watch our first show, definetly helped to calm me down. I guess I should mention that I flipped out one day while jamming and broke out cause I couldn't get a song down. The boys aka Ramsay had a good lark at that one. Ratwheel is writing more songs right now, I think we got about 6 or 7 now and are going to record in the very near future. I will post the demo up on here when it's done.
In other show news, the boys from Kelowna managed to get this allstar lineup to come play a show in Kelowna over Vancouver, lineup was Have Heart, Shipwreck, Cruel Hand, Bitter End and Grave Maker (amazing). So I was super pumped for that since Have Heart is one of my favorite bands and it would be my last time seeing them before they broke up :(. The show ended up being awesome and the venue the boys found was ridiculously good. All bands were solid, we mosh, we sang and Sean got frapped...hard.
I am trying to think of other stuff to talk about in here...the rest of the summer was pretty basic, we did a bunch of swimming, cliff jumping, wakeboarding, hanging at the cabin, and some partyin here and there. All of which were a great time. We had Lennea's dad come stay with us at the cabin for a weekend, her brother and their dogs came as well. It was fun having them here I really enjoyed just hangin and playing with the dogs all weekend. One of the dogs Duke i'm pretty sure is gay/retarded, pees like a girl (he is male), lets things hit him in the head when you throw them to him, is afraid of everything even though he is huge (about 130 pounds) and has to nap after like 10 mins of exercise. Lennea also just had her friend Megan come stay with us for a week which was fun, I always find we do alot more activities when we have people staying with us. OH, I just remember that last weekend me, my Dad and Connor went to Van for the BC Lions game. Game was intense, came down to the last play with the Lions coming out on top. Was never really into the CFL but the game was super exciting and fun, thanks to my Dad for taking us!
So I guess the highlights of summer aside from the trip to Cali would be these:
- Friend hangouts: Ramsay, Grant, Derrek, Joni, Con, Sean, Lindsay, Matt, Dustin, Tommy, Clayton, Megan, Justen and of course Lennea.
- Cabin days
- Dan + Lennea hangouts
- Swimming
- Enderby river floats
- Screamers
- Cliff Jumping
- Oroville
- Ratwheel shows + jams
- Have Heart show
- Kelowna Monsters
- BC Lions
- Mom and Dad
- Opie naps
- Partyin
- All around good times
I am sure I am missing some stuff but that stuff up there pretty much sums up my whole summer. It was a blast and I am sad that I am now back at school (today was my first day). I am hoping the year won't be too tough but I won't be holding my breath. Kinda worried that I won't be able to get my work done since I am back living at home now, so many distractions. Also, me and Lennea are going to the hot springs in Revelstoke for our 3 year anniversary (send presents) in Revelstoke this weekend, which I am hyped for as it will be like my last big outing for the summer, after that pure unfun school ugh.
Anyways, this summer was a blast and one of the best I have ever had, hopefully next years will be as good! Thanks to all my buds for hangin with me, being the best friends I could ask for and making my summer a good one.
- Dan
Some more pics to end it:
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
SUMMER
Was planning on writing on this thing all of summer with a bunch of updates but never got around to it. I don't think anyone really missed reading it anyways...so it doesn't really matter. I pretty much forget everything that happened over summer though so my storytelling is going to be super shitty this time round, sorry to all my millions of followers. ONTO THE SUMMER.
Shit started off on a pretty crappy note, me and Lennea moved back to Vernon had a hard time gettin work at first which resulted in us being hella broke for a few weeks. I missed out on going to Rainfest which bummed me out HARD (think i wrote bout that shit last time). Eventually we got that shit sorted out and both ended up getting jobs at PRT which was a shitdogger of a job. The had us workin out in the hot ass sun all day liftin wood a blocks of trees, then when the lifting shit was done they moved me to this other job where I had to thin out all the little trees in the blocks. Showed up to work to do the thinning and found that all the men had quit cause apparently thinning is woman's work. So I rocked bein the only male on the force for a couple weeks but it was cool cause I had Lennea to hang with. However, she ended up ditching me for a better job leaving me all by myself with a bunch of ladies and girls I knew from school but never talked to. Hella awkward cause we knew each other and would give each other the ol head nod from time to time but would never actually talk...Some of you may be wondering "but Dan, why didn't you just get a new job?" Well I'll tell ya, I didn't have any money and had to save up for Sound and Fury which was in a couple weeks and didn't wanna quit and not find a new job and I didn't wanna get a new job then have to ask for 2 weeks off right away. So I decided to tough it out till I left.
The job at PRT worked out nice cause the work ended like the day before we all left for Cali. Reason we went to Cali was for Sound and Fury (look it up) and to have a little bit o fun at Disneyland. We took pretty much the exact same trip last summer and it was a hoot. So we went to Cali with me, Lennea, Connor, Ramsay, Sean, Derrek, Joni, Justen, and Kara (pretty much the only people who would bother to read this and don't really need to know what happened on the trip...). We left from Van on the bus, stayed the night in Seattle which was fun. We ate at an oldschool type diner and went to the beach which was filled with colored people who knew nothing of Canada, we pretty much just made fun of ignorant little girls the whole time. Next day flew out to Cali and took the train to Oxnard. We stayed there for 4 nights and went to Sound and Fury. Highlights:
- Pool party, naked Sean, R2D2 swims
- Meeting up with Clarke
- Going to some muck hole swimming area down stink alley
- These little rolled up chips that Clarke discovered, Gucamole flavor FTW!
- Kid getting stabbed
- Security gettting RAVAGED!
- These sets: Shai Hulud, Shook Ones, Lewd Acts, Mongoloids, Rotting Out, Mother Of Mercy, Ceremony x2, Mind Eraser, Creatures, Trash Talk (played outside in the alley CRAZY) sure I forgot some rad sets, oh well.
- Some certain people being super downers the whole time
After S&F we went to Medieval Times, Disneyland and Cali Adventure which was a hoot. We rode all the rides, ate lots of food and pretty much just had a blast. Highlights:
- Clarke manning up and staying the whole trip
- Black and White knight being the WORST but cheering for him all the same
- Picture with the King
- Multi-Cultural knight
- Space Mountain, Indiana Jones, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder, Buzz Lightyear, Haunted Mansion
- CHURROS
- Chimychangas
- Soup in a bread bowl
- Fantasmic
- Roller coaster, Soarin Over Cali, Maliboomer, Tower Of Terror
- Dark Rider
- Free Tortillas
- Ghoulish Delight
- Debbie Downer
- Wispy Shit Beard
All in all the trip was a blast, I didn't go into tons of detail cause tons happened...and I pretty much remember none of it. Kinda hectic with some many people, everyone got up in everyone else's grill on a couple occasions but the trip was still awesome!
I am gonna end this blog here and split the rest of the summer into another one so you faithful readers don't have to slug your way through tons of useless time wasting boring writing that I try to make entertaining.
Here's some pics of the trip.
Shit started off on a pretty crappy note, me and Lennea moved back to Vernon had a hard time gettin work at first which resulted in us being hella broke for a few weeks. I missed out on going to Rainfest which bummed me out HARD (think i wrote bout that shit last time). Eventually we got that shit sorted out and both ended up getting jobs at PRT which was a shitdogger of a job. The had us workin out in the hot ass sun all day liftin wood a blocks of trees, then when the lifting shit was done they moved me to this other job where I had to thin out all the little trees in the blocks. Showed up to work to do the thinning and found that all the men had quit cause apparently thinning is woman's work. So I rocked bein the only male on the force for a couple weeks but it was cool cause I had Lennea to hang with. However, she ended up ditching me for a better job leaving me all by myself with a bunch of ladies and girls I knew from school but never talked to. Hella awkward cause we knew each other and would give each other the ol head nod from time to time but would never actually talk...Some of you may be wondering "but Dan, why didn't you just get a new job?" Well I'll tell ya, I didn't have any money and had to save up for Sound and Fury which was in a couple weeks and didn't wanna quit and not find a new job and I didn't wanna get a new job then have to ask for 2 weeks off right away. So I decided to tough it out till I left.
The job at PRT worked out nice cause the work ended like the day before we all left for Cali. Reason we went to Cali was for Sound and Fury (look it up) and to have a little bit o fun at Disneyland. We took pretty much the exact same trip last summer and it was a hoot. So we went to Cali with me, Lennea, Connor, Ramsay, Sean, Derrek, Joni, Justen, and Kara (pretty much the only people who would bother to read this and don't really need to know what happened on the trip...). We left from Van on the bus, stayed the night in Seattle which was fun. We ate at an oldschool type diner and went to the beach which was filled with colored people who knew nothing of Canada, we pretty much just made fun of ignorant little girls the whole time. Next day flew out to Cali and took the train to Oxnard. We stayed there for 4 nights and went to Sound and Fury. Highlights:
- Pool party, naked Sean, R2D2 swims
- Meeting up with Clarke
- Going to some muck hole swimming area down stink alley
- These little rolled up chips that Clarke discovered, Gucamole flavor FTW!
- Kid getting stabbed
- Security gettting RAVAGED!
- These sets: Shai Hulud, Shook Ones, Lewd Acts, Mongoloids, Rotting Out, Mother Of Mercy, Ceremony x2, Mind Eraser, Creatures, Trash Talk (played outside in the alley CRAZY) sure I forgot some rad sets, oh well.
- Some certain people being super downers the whole time
After S&F we went to Medieval Times, Disneyland and Cali Adventure which was a hoot. We rode all the rides, ate lots of food and pretty much just had a blast. Highlights:
- Clarke manning up and staying the whole trip
- Black and White knight being the WORST but cheering for him all the same
- Picture with the King
- Multi-Cultural knight
- Space Mountain, Indiana Jones, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder, Buzz Lightyear, Haunted Mansion
- CHURROS
- Chimychangas
- Soup in a bread bowl
- Fantasmic
- Roller coaster, Soarin Over Cali, Maliboomer, Tower Of Terror
- Dark Rider
- Free Tortillas
- Ghoulish Delight
- Debbie Downer
- Wispy Shit Beard
All in all the trip was a blast, I didn't go into tons of detail cause tons happened...and I pretty much remember none of it. Kinda hectic with some many people, everyone got up in everyone else's grill on a couple occasions but the trip was still awesome!
I am gonna end this blog here and split the rest of the summer into another one so you faithful readers don't have to slug your way through tons of useless time wasting boring writing that I try to make entertaining.
Here's some pics of the trip.
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