I have no idea how old this is, but shit changes and I can guarantee this is not the case with any girl any more.
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I would just like to remind dudes, if you wanna ask any questions. Ask in http://skramzviking.tumblr.com/ask
This tumblr has really served it’s purpose. It’s no longer really used for the same things I had set it up for. When I started this, I had an idea of running something along the lines of a pre-tumblr blog. Where I documented my life, my struggles in long text posts. And I achieved that. Over the past 10 months, and even the months before that before deleting my first tumblr with the same domain due to fear of the police I wrote many text posts documenting my life. But this tumblr documented something quite significant to me. This tumblr began at the end of a romanticised summer, with a girl and the drugs which had a great promise, the festivals, the beginning of my real quest to play music.
Over 10 months this tumblr documented my slow growing disdain for the drugs and the people I had in my life due to the drugs, over the months this blog documented the emotional fallout of a disintegrating relationship with a girl who changed my life, and I apologize for all the really shitty 17 year old whiny posts a couple months back, I really do. But really most of all this tumblr documented the way I changed myself as a result of everything that happened to me, the arrests, the death threats, the vandalism and the assaults made me who I am now, which is something I don’t think a lot of kids can honestly say at this age.
I cut my hair, for the first time since early 2007 in late 2011. I had hair that went down to my stomach, I remember after I cut it I saw a post on tumblr about how cutting your hair is symbolic of changing and cutting away dead weight and dead feelings and memories, and in the wankiest way possible that’s exactly what happened. Through the interest of Chiara I stopped wearing that damn Bathory hoodie that was 5 sizes too big and SCREAMED drug dealer, I started wearing shirts and that plain red sweater that everyone said looked really good on me, it really wasn’t much but the way people interacted with me if I was in the city or something dramatically changed due to the differs in dress. And the most notable change that has amazingly changed my life, shortly after the breakup, I joined two bands Putkah and Wide of the Mark, both of which are gathering me far more shows than Plains ever really did. Putkah is even going to the extent of taking me out the state to make money from playing music, something I think has been nothing more than a dream for Plains since our original inception in 2009. Through my bands (including Plains who stuck with me through all the shit) I’ve met a lot of people, who have been very supportive of me in many ways.
An ex girlfriend today was telling me today how I didn’t post many things complaining about my life anymore. And it really just dawned on me that this blog was a documentation of me changing my life so that I wouldn’t have to make text posts complaining about it anymore. And it’s served it’s purpose. Thanks for reading, everything and anything of mine.
That’s cool man, I left after Putkah played too and didn’t stick around to see Slow or Negative Reinforcement because I was needed back home. Sometimes you just gotta leave.
Personally I think we sounded, pretty shit at times, but overall it was better than the first show I played with Putkah lol. Send my regards to your drummer, even though I’ve already told him, but it means a ton to me and respect is due when people lend gear. I used pretty much his entire kit minus his pedal/ cymbals and hi-hat stand, which if it were the other way round is a lot more (because I’m a particular asshole who likes all my gear to be just right when I set it up back at home) than I’d be willing to share with some random drummer in a punk band I’ve never met nor seen before.
I watched the first half of your set, and the last bit because I left haflway to go prepare for our set (warming up and all that), you guys had a ton of energy. The whole posi-straight edge thing isn’t really my game, but I always dig bands that can get up infront of like 20 people and not care and rock out and be in the zone like they’re in front of 1000.
From the show last night. Hanging out with Ryan from Extortion and that dude with long hair who used to work at Missing Link whose name escapes me.
It would’ve been quite significant, I mean, I remember being 15 in yr.9 going to Missing Link and I remember chatting to that dude about my Agents of Abhorrence tshirt or something, or how my band was actually on some flyer in a record shop for the first time in my life or he would give me record suggestions. And then last night, my band Putkah, played on the same bill as his band, we were after him, we had a bigger crowd than him, this is a dude who I remember being awesome back when I was 15 playing a show with me, getting less of a crowd. It was just weird for me to see. He started talking to me after the show about how good our set was and told me I was a pretty fucking impressive drummer.
Around the same time I was talking to him out the front, Ryan from fucking Extortion came up to me and started talking to me about how good the set was, said he loved watching me drum and it was literally like ‘is this real life?’. I saw Extortion play at Midian in 2009 with this band called Trash Talk, and if you’ve ever heard the ‘Hardcore Punk Changed My Life’ story, you know how important that show was to me. I’ve loved Extortion for years, they’re one of the bands in the world where I’ve paid for their vinyls, I’ve gone out 40km to see them play, they to me almost represent the highest aim any Australian punk band can be. They’ve played festivals in America, toured Australia numerous times and everyone seems to like them, fuck, I even follow dudes here on Tumblr who seem to own every fucking shirt they’ve put out, out of pure fandom. So it was a big deal to me to have Ryan tell me we played awesomely.
It was a big deal, to realize that if 14 year old Roger saw me last night, I probably would’ve been one of those people he idolized and wanted to be or wanted to know and be friends with. It’s a big deal to me to know that I’ve lost track a couple times of what I’ve been doing with my life, but last night solidified that I’m where I wanted to be in 3 years time when I was 14.
—I Assassinated Latin
Plains - I Assassinated Latin
4:06
Off our first release ‘How I Learnt’ (2011)
Other wise known from 2:50 onwards as ‘The song with the greatest snare sound ever recorded in Plains’ thanks to a 14”x9” Brass shell, with a fibreskyn on top and a little reverb. <3 I love my snare.
Remember when I didn’t have my own computer and listened to Triple J to pass time instead?
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