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Who all's going to Comic Con this year?

 

Me and the 'Entourage of Awesome' will be there over the weekend.... I'm not setting up at a table or booth this year (I might do a painting for the benefit auction, though... it's been awhile)

Seriously.

If you read my pre-concert blog a couple weeks ago where I talked about how I got in to shoot Time Again/Youth Brigade/The Casualties at the last minute, only to find that the girls computer died as soon as I had dsl reconnected, and then I discovered my CVC port had decided the break through my skin and was sticking out of my ribcage.... well, they FINALLY scheduled my surgery to have the port replaced for this Friday.

 

They were somewhat dismayed to hear that I was going to have to Greyhound down and probably sleep in the bus station... but what else? That's what happens when your surgeon os about 100 miles away.

 

At least I'm not sick like I was last Summer/Fall when the previous port "blew up" (the port is placed in a pocket between layers of skin and a line runs up my side, to my throat, and into a major vein, then directly into my heart... on the last one, the line blogged up, blew a gasket somewhere, and started leaking caustic medications into the space around the port and the line.) I spent over two months pretty much in bed curled up in a little ball with ice packs on my side before I could get a ride down there to have surgery, and it was so bad they had to move the spot they put the port in a couple of inches (into a less desirable spot) and it took a couple more months for the damage to heal up (and I have a gnarly scar. Although I must point out that I still shot Blaqk Audio 4 days later. With a ton of painkillers =P)... so while this will probably leave a few more scars (I mean, I've had a piece of metal sticking out of my chest in multiple places for two weeks. C'mon)... at least it isn't infected and/or eating a hole in my side.

 

I think, on the whole, that while this port worked great, that they really needed to put something lower profile in me (this one is shaped a lot like a flattened volcano and sticks out a LOT more than the nice flat ones I had for 3+ years before it). I was constantly bumping it and it HURT the entire time I've had it in. Not really pleasant, although it's never pleasent, at least I could forget I had the other one in and you couldn't really see it through the skin other than the scar next to it.

 

Hopefully the next one will be better.

Tiger Army and Social Distortion's Mike Ness will co-headline Hootenanny 2008 on Saturday July 5, 2008 @ Oak Canyon Ranch in Orange County California. The festival includes three music stages, vendors and a display of classic cars.

 

The event is All Ages (Kids 5 and under free admission). Tickets are still available from ticketmaster.com (VIP tickets include a backstage pass)... see the official event site for more details.

 

Also scheduled to appear are Glen Glenn , BR549's Chuck Mead, Royal Crown Revue, Cadillac Tramps, Grant Lee Phillips, Big Sandy, James Intveld, Guana Batz, Throw Rag, Blood on the Saddle, Roger Allen Wade, Russel Scott, Powerflex 5, Chris Schiflet, Dusty Rhodes, Rickey Warwick, Sh*tkickers, Hellbound Hayride, Wil Ridge

Seriously, I'm still getting email notifications that people on MySpace are sending me messages there, even after my Buzznet friends were nice and dropped people notes telling them I can't sign onto MySpace because my DSL is down and the library blocks that site (and now the computer at home has blown it's power supply so I got dsl back up but have no computer to access it :P) but that they can contact me here or by email.

If someone would be nice enough to drop a couple more notes for me, I'd be very grateful. Knowing I have several weeks of messages sitting there, can't see 'em, but no one will contact me off MySpace to tell me what they messaged me about is quite maddening!

 

EDIT: AHHHHGGGH! Got ~another~ message! Someone tell http://www.myspace.com/dirtyfilthymugs they can contact me at http://miseryslifeofdoom.buzznet.com , and sending me messages I can't read is just cruel!

 

(and then add them, because they're an awesome drunken street punk band :) ... or better yet, tell them to join Buzznet, too ;)

Thanks to their booking agent I'm going to be able to shoot Time Again and The Casualties at The Vault 350 in Long Beach (unless Greyhound strands me again... knock wood).

 

So because the laws of karma demand balance in my life (HA) I finally scraped together enough money to have my dsl reconnected at home, went through everything to get it paid, had them start the process to hook it back up, then discovered that the kids PC is DEAD. Won't even power up.

 

So no dsl at home, yet. Plus, If I take photos, not only can't I edit them, I can't even download them.

 

Time to buy more memory chips and send the PC in for repairs :

 

This was pretty much simultaneous with finding out at the last minute (yesterday afternoon is pretty much "last minute") that I get to shoot this show, walk home from the library where I was using the computer (and am right now), and discover that my IV port (large piece of titanium implanted on my rib cage under the skin with a catherter running to my heart so I can get heavy duty medications if necessary. Yes, Lyme Disease and Porphyria both suck) had a secret yearning to be free and burst through the skin. So now I look like the Terminator after a fire fight and have various pieces of shiny metal and silicone STICKING OUT OF THE SKIN ON MY RIBCAGE.

 

I put a bandaid over it and am on my way to Greyhound. I'll hit the emergency room on the way home tomorrow...

 

Note to publishers, websites and other music editors: If it doesn't kill me, I get my fqking photos taken. And they're good.

 

See you all from the road... until the Buzznet phone battery dies, there'll likely be posts @ Miserys Wonderful Life of DOOM

 

I think I'm shooting a show tomorrow.... WOOT!

From PhotoAttorney.com: Photographer Gets $12 Million Verdict!!!

From the 924 Gilman St. website...

I just dropped over to musicpictures.com to upload some photos and noticed that they've started rotating my images onto the display on the front page of their website.

 

Just about died when I saw my little black and white shot of Nick 13 and Geoff Kresge/Tiger Army.... went back a second later and there were two, of The Adicts and The Koffin Kats.

 

*smiles*

 

 

Crud.. I still can't get onto Myspace from the library. Can someone message a couple friends for me and tell them they can contact me via Buzznet? I keep getting notices in my email when people try to contact me there and it's driving me insane :-(

 

 

edit: and go look at my Koffin Kats photos on DOOM... because...

 

 

I only have a couple minutes because I'm at the library on a timer and want to post a few photos on my other account (PLEASE GO LOOK AT THEM!!!)... my kids deadbeat dad neglected to send child support again this month, and I didn't find out until late Thursday night. So our Internet is shut off, long distance phone off, and several more utilities will be following next week, bank account is overdrawn, no food in the house... I scraped together the last of our cash to buy catfood (several beautiful friendly sweet cats need a loving INDOOR home in California, btw.)

I'm going to try to walk down and check my messages every day the library is open, until we end up homeless or something (then I'll probably be sleeping in the parking lot :)

My budgeting doesn't suck. He's just $20,000.00 behind and we barely scrape by. When he does this to us twice in only a couple months, it hits us like a atom bomb.

Think happy thoughts for us. We need them...

 

Nick 13 on "Loveline" TONIGHT Tuesday June 10th!

Dr. Drew and Stryker welcome back Tiger Army's Nick 13 to their radio show "Loveline" on Tuesday, June 10th from 10pm-midnite (Pacific Standard Time)!

The show airs on 106.7 FM KROQ in Los Angeles & Orange County. It's also nationally syndicated and airs all over the country, so check your local listings or at Lovelineshow.com for times and stations!

If you're not in the States or can't tune in, listen to it streaming online on your computer at KROQ.com!

You can also call or e-mail in with questions about love, sex or Tiger Army during the show!

Call: 1-800-LOVE-191 (1-800-568-3191)

Or email: questions@lovelineshow.com

T♠A♠N♠D



(Note: If you can't listen live, the shows are generally available for download from KROQ's website after they're broadcast... ~Misery)

I'm photo'ing Sunday June 8, courtesy of the Swingin' Utters (because ♥ Greg Utter ♥ is awesome)... this is the Utter's only performance for the rest of this YEAR, so if you love them be sure to come out!


Photo by Chris Gomez for the Swingin' Utters

Oh, and there'll also be a lot of cool cars...



And beautiful pin-up models and Burlesque performers...



And tattoo artists...



Did I mention the beuatiful pin-up models and Burlesque performers?



And carnival rides!



And it's all at/on The Queen Mary...



!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watch for Buzznet phone picture updates @ Misery's Wonderful Life of DOOM starting Sunday :)

Free tour sampler EP available now Nine Inch Nails is pleased to offer a free EP featuring songs from the talented group of artists who will be supporting NIN on the Lights In The Sky tour this summer. The EP contains high quality, DRM-free, fully tagged MP3 files from A Place To Bury Strangers, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Crystal Castles, Deerhunter, and Nine Inch Nails.  The download also includes artwork and a pack of digital extras. To download, visit http://lightsinthesky.nin.com

I am currently compiling a list of equipment I need in order to actually survive on this career path (you know, one of THOSE lists) and have been looking at other photographer's "Gear Guides" for tips on upgrades/necessities/etc.

Holy sheyat. I haven't priced things in awhile... I think I'm going to have to take up prostitution or something to pay for this stuff (or at least, to pay my rent while I try to figure out some way to pay for this stuff). I'm currently working with really cheap gear on a very out of date camera body, that really can't (technologically) consistantly give me the kind of quality I need for publication (my point and shoot has a better megapixel rating than my DSLR body :P)

So to start off, I was drooling over Todd Owyoung's Gear Guide on ishootshows.com... most of which is so far out of my reach I can't even pipedream about having any of it. If I could in any semblance of reality ever afford a Nikon D3, believe me, I'd want one. Trying to get fast enough glass to shoot in the dark is going to be bad enough :P

My personal pipedream:

Nikon D300 DX 12.3MP Digital SLR Camera
Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR Zoom Nikkor Lens
Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S DX Nikkor Zoom Lens

Nikon 50mm f/1.4D AF Nikkor Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras
 
  Apple MacBook Pro MB133LL/A 15.4" Laptop (2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD SuperDrive)

(The rest of the list)

Bands confirmed for the Kia Motors Presents The Kevin Says Stage (as of 5.28.2008... keep checking www.kevinsaysstage.com for an updated list)

6/20 Pomona, CA | Fairplex Park
Phantom
Love Equals Death
Miracle Dolls
Action Design
Your Highness Electric
Hunter Revenge
The Remus Lupins
Brave Citizens
Mulatto

6/21 San Francisco, CA | Pier 30/32
Phantom
Love Equals Death
Miracle Dolls
Action Design
Your Highness Electric
The Remus Lupins
Brave Citizens
Hairdoo

6/22 Ventura, CA | Seaside Park
Phantom
Love Equals Death
Miracle Dolls
Action Design
Dollyrots
The Remus Lupins
Brave Citizens
Plastick

6/25 Phoenix, AZ | Cricket Wireless Pavilion
Phantom
Love Equals Death
Action Design
1997
Shapes Of Race Cars
Tickle Me Pink
Brave Citizens
What About Pluto?

6/26 Las Cruces, NM | New Mexico State University Intramural Field
Phantom
Love Equals Death
Action Design
1997
Shapes Of Race Cars
Tickle Me Pink
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating

6/28 Salt Lake City, UT | Utah State Fair
Phantom
Love Equals Death
Lost Point
Action Design
1997
Tickle Me Pink
Danger Mic
Riots Of Eighty
Aurora Falls

6/29 Denver, CO | Invesco Field At Mile High
Phantom
Love Equals Death
Lost Point
1997
Tickle Me Pink
The Big Spank

7/1 Maryland Heights, MO | Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St Louis
Valencia
Fight Fight Fight
Last Great Assault
You, Me, Everyone We Know
1997
Cyanide City

7/2 Bonner Springs, KS | Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Valencia
Fight Fight Fight
Last Great Assault
You, Me, Everyone We Know
1997
Audio Spaghetti

7/3 Dallas, TX | Superpages.com Center (formerly Smirnoff Music Center)
Valencia
Fight Fight Fight
Last Great Assault
1997
Escaping Gravity

7/5 Selma, TX | Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Valencia
Fight Fight Fight
Last Great Assault
The Black Doves

7/6 Houston, TX | Sam Houston Race Park
Valencia
Fight Fight Fight
Last Great Assault
The Concerta Circus
The Western Civilization

7/9 Atlanta, GA | Lakewood Exhibition Center
Valencia
Gaslight Anthem
Madison Fadeout
Yall Street

7/10 Orlando, FL | Central Florida Fairgrounds
Valencia
Gaslight Anthem
The Dollyrots
Josephine Collective
AAK
Paper Street Soap Company

7/11 St. Petersburg, FL | Vinoy Park
Cursive Memory
Gaslight Anthem
The Dollyrots
Josephine Collective
Hovercraft Pirates

7/12 Miami, FL | Bicentennial Park
Cursive Memory
Gaslight Anthem
The Dollyrots
Josephine Collective
Peanuthead

7/13 Elkton, FL | St Johns County Fairgrounds
Cursive Memory
Gaslight Anthem
The Dollyrots
Josephine Collective
My Anomaly

7/14 Charlotte, NC | Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Cursive Memory
Gaslight Anthem
Asian Café
Pivot

7/15 Virginia Beach, VA | Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Cursive Memory
Gaslight Anthem
The Expatriots
great scott!

7/16 Columbia, MD | Merriweather Post Pavilion
Cursive Memory
Gaslight Anthem
Shanti
Cobra Kisses

7/17 Cleveland, OH | Time Warner Cable Amphitheater at Tower City
Cursive Memory
Shanti
Juice Lee
The Host

7/18 Detroit, MI | Comerica Park
Shanti
Time of Plague

7/19 Toronto, ON | Downsview Park Allen Road
Dodger
Staylefish
Shanti
Mean Tangerine

7/20 Montreal, ON | Park Jean Drapeau
Dodger
Staylefish
Shanti
W!NSLOW

7/23 Mansfield, MA | Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
Does It Offend You
Staylefish
The A.K.A.s
Shanti
Draco and the Malfoys
Permanent Holiday
The Asthmatics

7/24 Darien Center, | NY Darien Lake P.A.C.
Does It Offend You
Blasé Debris
Buffalo Casket
The A.K.A.s
Staylefish
JWM
AJAX

7/25 Camden, NJ | Susquehanna Bank Center
Does It Offend You
Blasé Debris
Buffalo Casket
The A.K.A.s
The
p2g
The Mint

7/26 Uniondale, NY | Nassau Coliseum
Does It Offend You
Blasé Debris
Buffalo Casket
The A.K.A.s
Staylefish
Mike Borgia
The Awakening Orchestra

7/27 Scranton, PA | Toyota Pavilion
Cursive Memory
Does It Offend You
Blasé Debris
Buffalo Casket
Stasis

7/28 Englishtown, NJ | Raceway Park
Single File
Does It Offend You
Blasé Debris
Buffalo Casket
Smart Pants

7/29 Pittsburgh, PA | Post Gazette Pavilion At Star Lake
Single File
Does It Offend You
Blasé Debris
Buffalo Casket
The A.K.A.s
Ahimsa Sunrise
The Banana Convention

7/30 Cincinnati, OH | Riverbend Amphitheatre
Single File
Does It Offend You
Blasé Debris
Buffalo Casket
The A.K.A.s
Juicelee
My Latex Brain

7/31 Noblesville, IN | Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Single File
Does It Offend You
The A.K.A.s
The Anti
There For Tomorrow
The Wideawakes
Cerebral Vortex

8/1 Milwaukee, WI | Marcus Amphitheater
Single File
The A.K.A.s
There For Tomorrow
Danger Is My Middle Name
State And Madison
Hired Geeks

8/2 Tinley Park, IL | First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Single File
The A.K.A.s
Flowers for Dorian
There For Tomorrow
Danger Is My Middle Name
State And Madison
Main Street Minority

8/3 Shakopee, MN | Canterbury Park
Single File
The A.K.A.s
There For Tomorrow
Danger Is My Middle Name
State And Madison
Damn Valentines

8/5 Saskatoon, SK | Credit Union Centre
Single File
Hi-Fi Hand Grenades
sonic bids

8/6 Calgary, AB | Race City Speedway
Single File
Hi-Fi Hand Grenades
Rotbottyrot
Tabitha

8/8 Nampa, ID | Idaho Center Amphitheatre
Single File
Hi-Fi Hand Grenades
The A.K.A.s
A Blinding Spyre
Angry Panda

8/9 George, WA | Gorge Amphitheatre
Fall From Grace
Single File
Hi-Fi Hand Grenades
The A.K.A.s
Cute Lepers
American Hero

8/10 St. Helens, OR | Columbia Meadows
Black President
Authority Zero
Fall From Grace
Single File
Hi-Fi Hand Grenades
The A.K.A.s
We Ride At Dawn

8/13 Fresno, CA | Save Mart Center
Black President
Authority Zero
Fall From Grace
Ann Arbor
Single File
Action Design
Zaragoza

8/14 Chula Vista, CA | Coors Amphitheater
Action Design
The Dollyrots
Makeshift Hero
LA5
Hectic Watermelon

8/15 Mountain View, CA | Shoreline Amphitheatre
Black President
Authority Zero
Fall From Grace
Ann Arbor
Single File
Action Design
Touch My Rash

8/16 Marysville, CA | Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Black President
Authority Zero
Fall From Grace
Ann Arbor
Single File
Action Design
PointDexter

8/17 Carson, CA | The Home Depot Center
Black President
Authority Zero
Fall From Grace
Ann Arbor
Single File
Action Design
Hunter Revenge
Mo Bigsley feat. Adrian (No Doubt)
Curmudgeon

... but only for one day out of the four Southern California shows... so now I have to pick which one... (after I pick myself up off the floor where I fainted *THUD*)

...might just be getting a photo pass at the last minute and being able to catch Viva Hate opening for The Adicts...











They had real stage lighting, not heat lamps disguised as spot lights. I filled four 1GB memory cards. Each card holds approximately 380 images. These are not the best images.

I have to go back to editing now. Look for more photos on Misery's Wonderful Life of DOOM later tonight :-)



5.22.2008 5:18PM Update!

Got the first set of Hate photos up...

"Hunter Revenge", the self-titled first album by AFI bassist Hunter Burgan's band Hunter Revenge, has finally been released on iTunes and other online music outlets!

Originally released in 2001, this tribute to his love of  Prince and early-80's-style R&B quickly sold out and has been unavailable until now.

Hunter Revenge

Track Listing

1. 24 Hour Party Zone
2. Mysterious
3. 'Lectric Lover
4. Why Can't U Understand?
5. Do U Want 2 Know?
6. How Do I Forget?
7. We Can't Stop!
8. Out Of Town

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Posted by Hunter

13 May 2008  3:43 PM

iTunes!!! "Hunter Revenge" by Hunter Revenge is now available on iTunes for your downloading pleasure. Notice the competitive price when you buy the entire album! Check it out in your iTunes store today! If you already own a copy of these songs, feel free to write a review. Let the world know that you love Hunter Revenge more than any other band that you can think of right now. -Hunter P.S. Tomorrow is my birthday. P.P.S. For those of you who are sans iPod or hate iTunes or live in a remote part of the world where you can only use Lala, here are other fine online music stores where you can download Hunter Revenge: Rhapsody, Napster, eMusic, GroupieTunes, Amazon MP3 and of course, Lala.