In the Mind of Nate

Hello everyone, at the start of last I felt that I may have used the title to that post, Long Cold Winter a bit prematurely. Then that idea went out the window with how warm it got here. But I know that you aren't reading to hear about the weather. And NO this is NOT exactly a year in review entry either... This post stemmed from several thoughts I had over the past week and what music I decided to revisit amongst my favorites. Last week I was describing everything involving performing at the 2nd Annual Misfit Toy Mosh . There was part of my usual "ritual" if you will whenever I am out of the house (but especially at our shows) that I forgot to include, handing out stickers. More so my temporary inability to do so and the almost castrating or sterilizing feeling that it brought me. A bit over dramatic perhaps, but I feel it necessary to be able to do so. But this was soon overshadowed by realizing that about 1k stickers have been shared around t...

Hello again everyone. Now that I'm back into the full swing of things, it seems pretty ridiculous that I took such a long break from blogging. Recently I've been trying to finish up a lot of tasks that have been stockpiling up by simply not overthinking and diving in little by little to get what I need get done. After completing a few things, I couldn't believe that these things have just been sitting around not finished for so long. Some of the stuff included re-doing the band's online merchandise store to showcase some stuff like new shirts, phone cases, etc that have our new album cover printed on it. My main deterrent was the fact that I started doing this a few months ago absent mindedly placing our new album cover on the merchandise before it was actually finalized to include the album title at the bottom. You see, these little things create lots of mental clutter that kept me from making the merchandise available to people. But this was just one of severa...

Hello everyone, at this point it wouldn't even be redundant to say I'm sorry that I haven't blogged in a while. It's nearly downright embarrassing that I haven't. Especially since this is the longest I have gone without making a new post. Ironically enough, I was planning on doing this post almost a year ago. So obviously a lot has gone on between now and then. We recently released a new album called "the Sorrows" and we've already done three out of town trips to perform. In the interim, we have parted ways with some bandmembers and gain new ones. One of which literally risked life and limb on one of the tours. The actions of our new drummer, Kenn Holley who came in literally one week before we were going to go out on the road are the complete opposite of the title of this post. I'm sure many of you recognize the title as a line from a song by The late great Tom Petty . He was certainly onto something, and that's not the only re...