This may seem a little short sited, but I don’t have a lot of time and I’ve neglected this site for too long.

All my life I’ve been lead to believe that dreams could be achieved, records could be broken, and anything is possible. My dad got his first record player at the age of two. Now he’s being inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.

Back when I was five, my parents purchased my first instrument; drums. Wasn’t too difficult for a little kid to bang on stuff, I was pretty much doing that anyways with the pots and pans. We had a studio piano in the house that my brother would frequent, I tought myself how to play and found decent melodies and wrote short songs that were never recorded. When I hit thirteen I picked up my brother’s acoustic guitar and knew that this was the instrument for me.

I always thought that I would drop out of high school and be a successful musician or something. I had no idea how the music industry as we knew it would change and how the evolution of distribution would be so accessible. I always knew that the internet would be the easiest and fastest way to deliver that content, but didn’t know to what extent. I’m glad I didn’t become successful when I wanted to. I’m happy to know that I dodged a storm that could’ve sent me adrift into financial ruin.

I just want to congratulate my dad on living the dream and leading by example. He has always strived for greatness and worked hard for everything he has to offer. He is and will always be an amazing person, radio legend, and father.

Traveling to Oxnard for tasting #2. Finding the place was easy thanks to google maps, but there’s no proper exit going west bound on the 101, so we had to find our way onto the other side of the freeway by some magical mystery route.

We ended up on time and at A Gift of Taste. First impressions of the place was “wow, this is kinda ghetto”. But the cakes tasted way better than our first adventure, granted they didn’t have the pomp and frills of the last time.

So we had the Chocolate w/Mocha Chocolate mousse, Marble w/fresh strawberries, and a white cake w/raspberry-chiffon custard. All of these were pretty sick, despite the fact that they looked like something I could have made in 5 seconds, but it got the job done as far as tasting goes.

The fresh strawberry one was my favorite, but we’re also thinking about our location and time of year we’re going to be having the wedding. We’re also unsure that everyone would like strawberries, so a strawberry-chiffon custard option would most likely be our best bet.

Ultimately I felt like we weren’t getting the proper attention at their small cramped table on the side of the wall. We were more like a side-show to their plethora of decorations they had on display in their crowded store (reminded me more of Hallmark than a bakery). They forgot forks at first, the cake fell over and went everywhere after one person would attempt to cut with the side of the fork, and we were told we would be one of four wedding cakes that day. Yah, wedding cakes.

We have two other places in mind to check out, so we’re hoping to feel comfortable with the people and the taste of the cake and be done with our decision. This hasn’t been the easiest decision making process like I anticipated, but perhaps we’re making up for everything else which came together so smoothly.

Ken Griffey Jr may be the first player in the last 35 years to reach 600 without cheating. He’s being forced to quietly make history in the shadows.

read more | digg story

Hey everyone.

We will be recording drums tomorrow, April 19th at 5:00P EDT (2:00P Pacific) for our upcoming record due out later this year. We’re live streaming everything we record to you via ustream.

You will be able to check out our new songs in the making and watch what we do behind the scenes to bring this record to you online. There is also a chatroom available for you to type type type with us and others. We’ll be bbq’ing, having some drinks, recording, and rocking it.

Go to lastfalling.tv to watch us stream live or check out the clips we’ve recorded. Come hang with us tomorrow!