This is a drawing I did a couple of years ago. Nothing formal really, just paper and pencil. This is really interesting because there were other sketches together with this one 'cause I made this on a letter. One huge letter with a lot of drawings. I could not even remember what was in there. Nina just took a picture of this and sent it to me. I used to have tons of stuff at home too but I can't find them no more. I remember drawing a lot in college, just losing myself into the sketches. Staring at the blank page at first  not knowing where to begin. And after I put in that first stroke, it just flows like water released from a dam. What I find exciting, strangely, are the mistakes that I make. Proportion, too much color, uneven shades, etc. I find it very satisfying altering or finding ways to make my work better, discovering things. Another thing that I really enjoy is shading and shadowing. I love seeing them scribbly lines come together and make sense. Anyway, I hope I could find my other drawings or maybe I could draw new ones. But naahh.. not now.  So in conclusion, my drawings kick ass and that's the end of it. 

Due to the awesome tubes boy George has, we decided to include this song in our playlist. I remember the first time I heard it, I couldn't stop listening. And we, at LATBB, all agreed that we should play this because of it's sheer power, depth and emotion. Oh and the acoustic! Man, Brent Smith (shinedown vocals) at his best! Sublime! But..there's always a but...but by the power of youtube, I came upon some videos of these guys in concert and what I saw shattered me within. How could I respect a guy who lip sync's through the chorus. It was pretty clear that his voice was fading out. I know, I know, months of touring and that same song every night, blah blah blah.. that should not be a reason man, I mean the band gets paid millions to do their shit., to hear that song. But hey, if you want to be mutherfunkin Ashlee Simpson then fine, I won't be seeing you live any time soon anyway so fuck it. Love the song nonetheless, I'll just listen to the record.

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Here we are gearing up. They had to share an amp though, keyboard amp. And the second pic is Lalai, with a big smile on her face. Thumbs up Lai! hmm... I don't know what that guy is doing with Lalai exactly. Stroking something probably. Looks like she likes it. Anyway the third pic is us tearing up the stage.. That's me illuminated. I wonder why we had such crappy lighting.

Man, it was a good thing they had us play. We tore the house down. It was nice to see everybody getting out of their seats and dancing around. Felt like a party..almost. But it's kinda dangerous to invite us though. See Chuck and George below? After a few drinks and some disappointing circumstances such as the both of them not winning anything big (except that "goodluck to you" photo album) . This is how the night ended. WITH A KISS. (and I won't say brokeback..so over-used!)

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Man, I scoured thru everyone's files just to get one lousy picture. Out of at least a hundred people, no one took a decent picture of us on stage kicking ass. DANG! Kurt's not even in the scene!

Anyway, this is before the party. Of course as always Lalai and the Big Boners stepped up to the plate and got our threads together and were smokin' hot in our Country get up. Well not exactly pretty western but who cares, we're rockstars anyway.

So the Party was...uhm...how shall I put this gently...uh..lamer than usual. I'm so sick of that whole "organized",  "everybody-on-Q" kinda thing. If were goin' all out western then they should've served pork-butts and tatters! Or some Corn-breaaad! or something like that. And the location! Who cares about the view?! All everybody wanted was to party! Prizes and gifts are all fine and dandy but it went on and on and on.. it was such a drag. Seriously, I heard people snoozing in the back. Why couldn't they just give everybody what they deserved and get on with the party! We just wanna party damn it! I went there expecting beer barrels, mechanical bulls with counrty chix flying everywhere. Rock n roll, beer and brawl! But what did we get?! Shanghai noon! Yerp! straight up!

The best decision they made was to let LATBB rock the house. That was the only bright spot in the party. Off the hook encore!

Haha! C'mon ctc i'm just playin'. You know we love you!

Stay tuned for upcoming posts. I'm gonna track down them clowns who's got our pictures and video! Watchout!! 

So we jammed today. Today is the 13th of december. Dont' be fooled by the date on the  picture. We used George's digcam, he didn't set the date right. He told me he didn't bother reading the manual. he probably doesn't know how to set the date. Anyway, this was after we played our set for like the guzillionth time.

Kurt's pre-jam warm-up. We were still outside talking about our upcoming debut performance and what not. We're shit scared but excited nontheless.

Way to go tinogs! Cool riff! But seriously he's just playing dancing queen. After having heard Paul Gilbert's version. He wishes he had an extra finger to make him play better.

 
So, this is me forgetting my parts. I'm such an idiot! Man I'm such a looser. There we were rockin' it up and I forgot my damn parts!
But immediately after the music went haywire, I turned around, checked my cable, checked the amp. Don't worry everyone. Technical malfunction! It was the cable. Damn these faulty equipment. Naahh, Im kidding it was me. Such a loser!

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Here's Chuck. Don't be fooled by his girly demeanor he hits them drums pretty hard. This is actually his signature move. We had such a good photographer that he was able to capture one of chuck's finest moments. As you can see he takes really good care of his hair. He does this move after every show. Notice that he's not holding another stick, that's his move. He throws the other stick at the audience and brushes his hair. Really smooth move.

 
We feature anyone who likes to jam with us. This is me with Android. Can you tell if I'm enjoying myself?! Kidding! Seriously, andrei is so pretty in this pic. He kinda looks like a caricature. Kidding again!

He's really not that familiar with the band's outlandish stunts. But he fits in well with his famed mic-stroking, mouth-tapping vocal stylings.

So, after about an hour or two of screaching guitars, bone-crunching drums, unrivaled stunts and comedy with LATBB's unique brand of music we headed back to headquearters.

DROP BY FOR MORE BAND UPDATES 

Left to right: Kurt aka tinogs aka tafkak, me (ax-man extrodinaire), chuck aka jovs aka stormbringer

Thats just half of the band. I couldn't get a decent picture of us together so of course, I decided to put the picture with the most good-looking dude on the planet (me). Here's the rest of them miscreants:

Name: George
Position: Lead Vocals
Nicknames: Axl, Boy George, George Michael, Karma Chameleon,
Cactus/Cactus George (Brilliant fuckin' idea man!)
Influences: 80's Glam rock, Axl Rose, Skidrow, Poison..you get the picture

So this is George. Taking on frontman chores.
He's pretty good. He sings better when he's drunk
actually and is a lot bolder too. I can't wait until December 15
and see if he will do what we're planning to do with that tsong
shyan wang song. He's probably preparing his resignation
already for the aftermath. Kidding!! No rumors ctc aiight?!

 Name: OJ
 Position: Guitars
 Nicknames: Big boner, tripod
 Influences: Alternative stuff

Hmm.. Rockstar-esque (left pic), undecided (left pic with some chick). He's cool though. And he does a pretty good Hitler impersonation

  Name: Kurt
 Position: guitars
 Nicknames: the real giovs. Tinogs (tinoghong band),
 T.A.F.K.A.K (the artist formerly known as kurt)
 Influences: America.. and everything else..He loves his MIAMI VICE

 Kurt's pretty good. Pretty cool too, in a weird kinda way.
 He's so good that a guitar company offerred him his own
 Signature series. It's call the Rockerz (jb music, P3T) Kurt
 Signature series. Go and get one and feel the fretboard bend
 in a couple of months. 

Name: Chuck
Position: Drums (he likes hitting things)
Nicknames: Jovehtz (still not approved), alagad ni horniness
Influences: Anything that rocks
 
Do not stay infront of the drums while chuck is playing. He
will literally make you shit your pants. Seriously, he wanted his left foot amputated and replaced with a pedal. Whenever we practice and I stay in front of them loud-ass drums I get dizzy and dis-oriented and foam a little in the mouth. But I know I bug him with my out-of-tune, bent, shrieking ax too.

Name: Ronie
Position: Bass
Nicknames: Murdaaah/murdaah twins/ murdaaah sistahz, drop it like its hot,
Lalai
Influences: Girly music

Lalai plays pretty good actually. Was originally just a spectator but we drafted her in the band. She has some pretty kick-ass dace moves (when she plays). Her fingers are pretty quick. Must be from those years of rubbing, u-know-who's
bald head. (starts with a C). Anyway, the nick lalai was coined from urban dub's lalay lim 'cause she looks like her. Thats her on the right. I know you probably took a closer look if that was Ronie. Well no, but close enough, what the hell. 

Name: migraineboy (me)
Position: guitars
Nicknames: brandon, nid and sometimes Hoy, gwapo!!
Influences: rock legends, hendrix, etc. G3. Paul gilbert

This is me. Omnipotent ax-wielding hero. With the 3rd loudest guitar in the world. Need I say more?

So, that's the whole group. We are still debating on what the name of the band should be. Some say Make Busy, others DSLAM, Lalai and the big boners, ghost of hitler and a whole lot more. Anyway one thing's for certain, you are one of the few to gaze upon the greatest crew in rock n roll history.

PLAYING ON DECEMBER 15 

If you noticed, I haven't updated my shitty blog for over a month now. I've been digging a cave. NO!  Not the hellhole cube in the office. Not that!

Hmm all I need now is an airplane. And the target? I'll probably save the plane crash for something big like some kind of moron convention or something. Well, like I said before, if you think you've spoken ill of me and you're an idiot then I'd probably kill you first.