State Radio Comes To My Town, O.A.R. Continues Spiraling Downard, and Other Stuff.

So due to a bad grade in science class, I have recently been thrown off the computer for all of the last semester of school. I'm permitted to use it now because well... my dad's not watching. Last week I believe, I posted about O.A.R., and how I hate the whole "All Sides" road they've taken. It turns out that they keep marching down the monetization path, because last week they came out with http://www.liveoar.com/. This website might spell the end of the taping industry that makes O.A.R. awesome. Thanks to taping, I can get any show when I want it, for free thanks to websites like http://www.oarsa.org/ (<--- Totally rules, no questions asked). This website basically did what http://www.umlive.net/ did for another one of my favorite bands, Umphrey's McGee. It takes the taping that everyone loves, and puts it on the website for everyone to pay. Now whatever, you could probably find a sketchy way around it, but for now, taping may as well vanish for a reason I like O.A.R. That wasn't all that happened this week.

So today, State Radio came to my high school in our town. I love Dispatch for those who don't already know, and henceforth, I love State Radio. I was so pumped, but... turns out I had a lacrosse match, so I didn't get to see the guys who I have been waiting to see for a year, and only to have them come to my high school for me to be on the high school turf playing lacrosse. I'll probably find the set list. My sister is at the show right now, and I'm really annoyed. She got to sit in on a panel discussion with the group about their environmental work, and I believe she got to meet Chad, who is totally a guy I look up to in music. She's going because it's there, I would have killed to go because I love it. So, I hope it was a good show, maybe I'll find a taping of the show or something.

We actually ended up losing the game, so that was no fun either. The lights went out on the turf in the middle of the game, and it actually took up about fifteen minutes to get the lights back on so we could play again. Stupid timers. We might have had to forfeit had we not been able to get the lights on. It wouldn't have mattered as much because we were only down by one. By the end of the game of course, we were down by five.

So tonight might not have been that much fun, and this weekend probably won't be either, but I'll live. I've been pressing through the Dark Tower, I'm on book three: The Wastelands, and I'm slowly but surely working my way through. I don't know about wether or not I'm going to Gathering Of The Vibes. I'd kill to go, I'd get to see State Radio, Guster, DSO, and tons of other sweet acts (including moe., who can totally rip).

That's all for now,
Andrew.