The Vegas Window

Well, I am putting up a video from the show on April 16th. I have ones for the other songs played, but I don’t wanna suck my bandwidth up. IM me if you want other: contradelahoya.

Carlo Of Hollywood - Year Of The Gun (with New Order - Blue Monday interlude)

So about this show, we kinda sucked alot. We only got to practice for three hours the day of the show due to everybody’s schedules. So I am sure we goof up alot, but who cares… if you don’t like it turn it off. I just brush my sholders off.

PS: Yeah, and I know… shut up at the beginning. I sound like an idiot and a prick. But it’s just an inside joke with my brother and I. Please don’t hate me.

Things have just been getting better and better, and then better. The Carlo show on Saturday night went great. James played bass on Year Of The Gun and it really added to the song. We had a pretty good response, and I am just hoping to get more songs together for the next show. 3 songs is way too short, I just want to keep playing!

Carlo Of Hollywood - 4/16/05
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In other matters - DEPECHE MODE, DEPECHE MODE, DEPECHE MODE! Seriously, I have been going crazy for these past few days, listening to the band non-stop. AND I MEAN NON-STOP I was a casual fan for awhile, I had Singles 86 - 98, then Singles 81 - 85. Then I took this old Violator era video from the backroom of the Blockbuster I worked at. Needless to say, my love for this band has been ever growing, and has just recently accelerated. I am afraid of getting in too deep, because I am sure by the end of the year I will manage to accumulate every remix/single/b-side and outtake. And I don’t know if I have time for something like that. But I have no self-control so I am sure I will just consume, consume, consume.

Last night, Jimmie and I stayed up late drawing really sweet tattoos on each other’s arms. Jimmie donned the “Sweet Jet Action” tat. While I was given the “So-Cal Kuztum”. Totally rad dude!

For the most part, Spring Break was pretty lame. I didn’t go anywhere like I had wanted to. Regardless of my stuck in Florida status, I made the best of it.March 25th
Drove to St. Augustine in the freaking worse rain and traffic of my entire life. Then ran The Sleeping show at Will’s Pub in Orlando. Drove back to Melbourne…

March 25th/26th

We had the battle of the band sign-ups at 5:30 AM. So a bunch of the bands were camped outside in tents. While inside, Carlo Of Hollywood jammed it up.

March 28th
Stopped by the Social to see Travis’ new band Inkwell. And my all time favorite Orlando band and coolest friends Band Marino played. That band only has up to go. Went dancing at the Back Booth with like three of the hottest ladies ever. (Marina, Tara, and Brittney) As you will see, this week shapes up to be an indie rocker expose.

March 29th
Carlo Of Hollywood had its first show. Followed by a sick dance party.
The Carlo set went like this:
Carlo Of Hollywood - Hollywood to Hollywood (with Kraftwerk - Radioactivity intro)
Carlo Of Hollywood - Reach For The Best
Carlo Of Hollywood - Year Of The Gun (with New Order - Blue Monday interlude)

March 31st
Spent the day with Brittney. We went thrifting, ate a BBQ lunch with her parents, made a sick muscle tee with a Keytar on it, and then got Sushi. Oh, and I jumped over a pole at Wal-Mart with jean cut offs.

April 1st
Ran the Defiance/Action Tour at Screamers. I went to this real great show at Wills afterwards. It was with a bunch of bands from a label called Anticon. It was all electronic loops and white guy hip-hop.

April 1st/2nd
After the Will’s show I went to Dan’s dorm. Dan and I hung out in Orlando all night and stopped by friends’ houses. We smoked cigars and talked about the old movies we used to make.

April 2nd
Ran Against All Authority show in Vero Beach.

April 4th
I had to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to go hang dry wall with Josh. We arrived at the home owner’s townhouse on the beach at 7 am. The guy came out of his house in boxers and a robe. He looked just like Alfred Molina’s character in Boogie Nights. This particular gentleman was an artist. He paints big marijuana leaves and such. The type you find in head shops and at flee markets. Hey kept saying “all right man!” all day.