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I’m moving, folks. Why? I’m glad you asked. And if you didn’t, you won’t have to in a second.
WordPress does not allow it’s users to customize their blogs anymore beyond the banality they provide. A couple of generic templates and that’s it. If you want something better you have to pay them money. Mind you, mine does not look generic because it was created before they made this move. I made this thing well over a year ago, but lost interest.
I just recently came back to blogging and wanted to update my site ’cause frankly it looks like shit. To me anyway. So I tried to update it and I have very little I can do. Can’t make a new banner. That costs money to upload a new one. Can’t resize the layout. Money. Colors. Money. Etc etc. Oh, wordpress has great WIDGETS. Fuck widgets. I can get all this shit and better at blogger.
So I’ve moved this blog over to there. Sorry to the new people who just recently started following this thing. I love you all, but I have to follow my heart. And my heart says “Fuck you, WordPress.”
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 5 finger death punch, a fallen mind, afallenmind, broke, campaign, crowd funding, crowdfunding, fund raiser, fundraiser, fundraising, indie go go, indiegogo, job less, jobless, marilyn manson, moneyless, music video, need a job, need help, need money, need work, no money, out of a job, out of work, penniless, promotion, promotional, raising, rob zombie, third album
As some of you know, my band has a campaign to raise funds so we can enter a professional recording studio. If you aren’t aware of it, you can watch the video above and get the details here:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/oddities-and-obscenities-the-killer-new-album-by-a-fallen-mind
Anywho, so I’m broke. Join the club, right? Seems like these days no one has any money to go around and when they do, it’s going towards things like bills and rent. Stingy bastards.
Well I, for one, am a fellow stingy bastard. And I have been trying to think of ways you guys out there can help us out if you have no money. So far I have come up with a couple of things (if you want):
A) If you’re kool with it, you can allow me to post on your Facebook page about our campaign. You can friend me here: http://www.facebook.com/painaddiction
B) You can print out a flyer and post it up locally. I have a flyer available, so email me at afallenmind@gmail.com and I’ll send it to you.
C) Tell your friends, family, and other people (offline and online) about it. Post our links and videos, etc. If you need links to our stuff like our IndieGoGo page, our promo videos, our websites, etc, just email me at afallenmind@gmail.com and I’ll help you out.
If you can think of other ways to help our campaign, I’ll send you something. I’m not sure what, but I think that the kooler the way you help us out, the more interesting the thing I will send you. Off the top of my head, I can think of free songs, free t-shirts, free free free stuff. There will be other stuff if the idea is amazing, I’m sure, like sending you free CDs or money or we buy you lunch or something like that. Just run with the idea of spreading the word about our campaign or our website (www.AFallenMind.com) and show us some proof that you did what you did – ie. pics, vids, etc. Send em to afallenmind@gmail.com (NOTHING ILLEGAL!)
So here’s to you helping a brotha’ out.
Oh, and Hail Santa!
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Ever watch the cartoon Godzilla? My youngest son loves it and watches it every Saturday morning on Netflix. I’ve come to realize a few things about the people who are Godzilla’s human “friends.” Those incompetent clam fuckers treat Godzilla’s kid like he’s an idiot and every time they get into some kind of crap, they call on Godzilla to save their asses. Very few times have I seen them try to come up with a solution beyond sticking their thumbs up their asses.
And that little shit who is Godzooky’s “friend” is an cunt. His father should have pulled out.
So what happens when Godzilla saves the day? “Thanks, Godzilla!” And they wave.
Wave? FUCKING WAVE?!
How about some gawd damn FOOD or Godzilla bucks or maybe a blow job for fucks sake??
I keep waiting for Godzilla to show up and tell them all to go fuck themselves by shooting fire up the second asshole he tears into them with his laser eyes.Â
“Come on, Godzilla! You can do it!”
Hey, you little fuck stick. I’m doing the best I can. Why don’t you sacks of useless fuck come over here and help a brotha’ out?!
Dickholes.
I really look forward to Saturday mornings.
P.S. – What the fuck kind of name is “Captain Majors,” anyway? Sounds like something a mentally retarded horse fucker would come up with. I say this with love, by the way.
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The Story
So our third album is coming out next year and it’ll be called Oddities and Obscenities. If you are new to my band, A Fallen Mind, we are a metal band that was started in Los Angeles, Ca about 5 years ago. Since we began, we have put together some amazing songs and music videos, we’ve been blessed enough to have worked with big names in the industry like Nine Inch Nails and Ministry, we’ve appeared in TV and movies, and our fan base is now spread out all over the world.
When A Fallen Mind was founded in 2008, I was a broke single guy with hopes and dreams of becoming a rock star. Now I’m a broke married guy with a wife, 3 kids, a cat, and a dog. Which is why the last 2 albums and singles were done with the Do It Yourself method. And in the course of doing that, we have tried to remain as indie as possible. We recorded in our homes on crappy equipment, edited on our home computers, and produced the music with minimal mastering. All in the name of saving money, because frankly, we didn’t have any.
In going the indie route we have not had any backing from any record label. The upside of this is that we keep full control over our music, image, merch, and branding. The downside is that we get no advances or backing to pay for studio time … and studio time is expensive. For blue collar working men and women, it’s very difficult to do.
Breaking Out of the Underground
So I started this campaign page to help raise money to make this thing happen. I am always trying to find ways for the fans to get involved in the things we do. And now that I have learned about crowdfunding, I’m trying to show our fans how they can invest in an opportunity to make a really good album.
For our third album, we want to bring in Grayson Dey from Dream Level 7 and Dark Gray Music and produce the best album that A Fallen Mind has made yet. If the campaign is successful, we’ll be going into a professional recording studio and laying down tracks for a full length album. Our campaign’s goal is to try to get our fans involved as much as possible and also give them kool shit for helping us. Stuff like a day at Disneyland where we buy our fans lunch, a chance to appear on the album or in a music video, an autographed guitar, a meet and greet with Jessica and myself, T-Shirts (shown below) for one of our first singles, autographed CDs, posters, and more.
Other Helpfuls
If our fans aren’t sure they can commit, they can help us by getting the word out about our campaign page. Hopefully they will spread the word on their Facebook page by sharing a link to our campaign and by telling their friends, family, and even people they hate. Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, their blog, their website, a local bulletin board at their favorite coffee shop, and anywhere they can let their voice be heard. By posting links to our campaign, they help us reach people we could never be able to reach before.
Epilogue n’ Stuff
We have grown as a band and our fans deserve a better sound. This one will be up to them. Our fans will be changing how we make music, and with their faith in us, we will deliver a sound that will surpass anything we have created before.
We have never settled for second best. We don’t go gently into that good night. Never have and never will. This album WILL get made. No matter what. And we are hoping that with our fans’ help, we will produce an album that not only will make them want to mosh their asses off, but also take us out of the underground. This is an album that our fans will be proud of. This WILL BE our best album yet.
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Hail Santa!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: asshole, blog, blogging, egotistical, expressing myself, i'm back, nuts, the confessional, the mark of cain, the mark of kain, vlog, vlogs, why the hell do I do this, youtube
Wow. It’s been over a year, almost 2, since I made any kind of entry on this thing. I’ve been wanting to come back to doing “blogging” (still hate that word) for a while now, but never really did. I was doing some “vlogs” on youtube for a little bit and they seem to catch on a little, but I always hate the process of having to groom myself and become presentable to the world. For one, I hate shaving. Second, I don’t shave my head every day, so most days my dome looks like a guy in his 50s. Not a very sexy look for a 30-something year old. So that’s why there aren’t anymore vlogs on our youtube page, I’m afraid. I like doing them when it comes to me talking/ranting/whatever. Very cathartic. But I’m not much on the “hey, look. I don’t look like a slob” part. So I guess my ego and vanity are what you can blame if you are a fan of those video thingies.
So here I am, back at doing this typing thing, and really… I hate writing. There’s a lot of things I hate, so if that’s already annoying you, better buckle up for the bumpy ride. But I type faster than I talk or hand-write, so it’s what I’m good at.Â
Now a good question would be, “If you hate writing so much and you hate showering like a normal human being, why are you doing this?”
First of all, fuck you. I shower. Second of all, I’m an egotist. Try not to be. But I am. The facts all point to it. I’m the lead singer of a band where I write 99% of the music. I am picky on who I work with. I’m always trying to find a way to express myself to a mass audience. I usually find myself in charge of things, whether I like it or not, because I am a control freak. In the past I posted a blog of my thoughts and feelings, though in my defense, a friend of mine wanted me to do it. I’ve “written a book”, if you count taking the “best of” that blog and put it into book format. It’s truly horrible, though, so I hardly ever acknowledge it’s existence. Etc etc. So the bottom line is, I think, somewhere in my heart of hearts, that some asshole out there wants to listen to me. I think they’re crazy. But I keep doing this kinda shit, so it has to come from somewhere egotistical.
Seriously, though, if you liked anything I’ve written here, or any of the past (or future) entries, you’re nuts. And I thank you for it.
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Dude, alf my life WAS without the internet. It was a magical time when people spent most of their time outside and didn’t give a fuck about who was their friend or not.
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A Fallen Mind is now holding auditions for guitarists:
http://afallenmind.com/audition/
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My wife, my kids, my desire to punch assholes in the asshole.
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I go back and forth on this one. For a long time it was Freddy Krueger. Then Michael Myers. Then Pinhead and the Cenobytes. Then back to Michael Meyers again with the Rob Zombie Halloween movies. Now I think the only monster in my life is the load I dropped in my pants.
The Mark of Kain 