Los Angeles Trip Part II

So after having cream sodas and red ice teas with Ariel in silverlake at Intelligentsia we finally had to head over to Adam's to prepare for the interview/audition with ABC. We headed over there quickly and it felt good to have talked to Ariel about birthright Israel. We waited outside Adam's house and he came out looking like dapper dan in a dope ass suitjacket.

"Man you look like you're trying to 1up us!"

"Well I gotta look better then you guys."

Then we darted over to the disney/abc building after driving through a bunch of hollywood sets, colombia records, elektra records, warner brothers studios.
We finally got to the right building holding up the sign ABC.
They guy at the toll booth took all of our ids in order to confirm that we had an appointment. Noah, Trevor, and Mason gave him their driver's licenses and I gave him my school id. Everyone got a kick out of that. As we entered the premisis of the ABC buildings we noticed that the overhang of the main office building was being held up by the seven dwarves. In addition to the dwarves, the elevator to the parking garage had a huge mickey mouse wizard hat on it.
We entered the meeting with a great deal of nervousness due to the fact that the man who was interviewing us was fairly intimidating and had a strong personality. The music directors from the licensing department were awesome though. The meeting in short went fairly well. We played our asses off (swagger) when at the 2/3 mark of the meeting the emmy winning boss asked us to play. We were awkward in the first half, but towards the 2nd half of the interview we started warming up to them and we had a few good laughs and the left the audition with a feeling of strength.

A Recent Los Angeles Trip

On sunday at 2pm we met up at the practice space packed up two guitars, a tamborine, a shaker, and a couple bags and began our long journey to los angeles. It took us a long time because we made a couple stops (In-N-Out Burger and Santa Barbara hellz yeah). Noah's a vegetarian so it sucked for him when we bought juice burgers, but he said he was content eating snacky chip things that you'd buy at the average gas station. So we rolled into Los Angeles after a grueling 6 1/2 hour drive and we met up with Adam at his apartment in Silverlake. He gave us the itinerary for the next day. So after receiving all the information and seeing our manager in the most casual clothes we'd ever seen him in we decided to get to our hotel finally and drop all of our shit off. We snuck in through our Motel 6 off of hollywood without them knowing that we had been stuffing 4 people into one room (via the underground parking garage). After we dropped our stuff off we grabbed some food at this local pizza place (the pizzas were huge and i ended up getting a gyros). After walking down hollywood for a while Mason and the rest of us ran into a funny situation.

He saw some friends of ours who we knew were visiting in La driving down Hollywood blvd. We called them and met up with them in their green volvo. It was shocking. After wasting an hr with our lunatic friends Mason and I eventually got back to the hotel in one piece and we all crashed at about 12. I was so nervous about our audition with ABC TELEVISION the next day that i barely slept at all that night. The next morning we rolled out of bed at 8:30 and got our beautiful faces on for the meeting with ABC and breakfast with Adam. We went to this spot that we'd been twice before the last trip. It was a sweet burger joint in Los Feliz (where the real culture is) called fred 62.
Adam, Mason, and I got this thing called Strawberry Berret.
It was waffles covers in delicious strawberries and whipped cream. Yum!
After that we killed some time with Adam and drove down to some wonderful stores in Echo Park. We passed Sunset Lodge which was the recording studio that we recorded our new -EP- at. The first store in Echo Park we went to was filled with all this old style stuff. They had 3D glasses, dinosaur eggs, old posters, flint, gold pens, soap, funny shit idk. It was intriguing. The girl that worked there (Noah and I came to the conclusion) was super beautiful and that he should've gotten her phone number. After that store we went to a pawn shop that had a gnarly buzz in door where trevor got a really sweet drum symbol for way cheaper then it was worth. There were some gnarly cholos walking in there who looked like they had stolen the shit they were about to sell to the seedy pawn shop. Then we went to American Vintage across the street where Noah bought this rad black members only jacket. He is officially ready for the disco. After that we met up with our producer of the new -ep- at this cool coffee shop and talked about music and the world.

I'm going to have to talk about the ABC interview in the next blogpost.
Anyway goodnight everyone.
Love,
-jordy

The Future

Lately I have been thinking a lot about the future (as every teenager thinks of at a certain point of their life). Each summer I try to come out of it with a new look on life or a new frame of mind per say.
That is what the subject matter of a lot of my reccent writings have been about. Life is a tumbling wheel. It sure can be a startling thing, and when you leave your hometown to the city. It hits you, and sooner or later you're there! My time has yet to come. Soon though my friend.

As for my band The Vox Jaguars we practiced last night and it was our last band practice with Sam C. on keyboard. He is going to college and we may never see him ever again. He's going to Michigan State University (East Lansing). All the way out there. Everyone seems to be leaving. But we went over to Sam's house yesterday before practice and worked on the keyboard parts with Noah our new keyboardist/guitarist. Noah will be taking over that important position in our band.
Some news with ABC television has arrisen as well, but we'll tell you about that later. We're going down to Los Angeles on August 24th to have a very important meeting. Other then that be sure to check out our show with Evacuee at Pergolesi on September 13th.

Tonight's Show In Oakland

So we played another show in Oakland, California.
This time it was on a Monday night. Our amazing friend John gave Sam and I rides (if you're reading this John thanks a ton again man).
So we rolled up into Oakland and quickly rushed over to Hector's house to go see his new pad on Martin Luther King Jr. way. It is a sweet pad at that.
He still has an entire room dedicated to a record and Cd collection.
It was good hanging with him for about a half hour.
I was sketched out about my equipment still being in the car.
It was parked on a fairly sketchy street in the daytime. When we got back to the car it still had the amps and guitars in it. I was stoked. So we went to Mama Buzz Cafe to go play the show. It was a cute tiny little coffee house art space. Trevor said he hated it, but I was pretty happy to play a show again since it had been awhile.

Waited around awhile for Dylan from Man/Miracle to show up, but as soon as he showed up and set up we charged through a sweat dripping set full of screaming, heads bobbing, jumping on the chairs, and energetic rock and roll songs.
A lot of our friends showed and that made us very happy that we received the support. It was a fun show.
Here is a flyer for our next one:

And here was the flyer for our show at Mama Buzz Cafe tonight:

I really got a theme going for these fliers.
I think I'm going to continue with it.
Next someone is going to think that Morrisey will be playing at Metamusic Records or the Blue Lagoon, hahah such a great scheme. Stay tuned ladies and gentlemen, we'll be taking a break soon to be working on some new material and work with a new band member NOAH BOND (Guitar/Vocals).
Yes, sadly Sam Copperman our beloved keyboard player will be leaving the band to start up his college career to persue his Jazz studies as a standup bassist.
We are happy for him though.
Take care everyone,
-Jordy

The Vox Jaguars

new song

This is a new song. I think it's about death.

"Well I'm just hanging on by a vine
don't know what is wrong don't know what is right.
So take me down to the ocean side.

Tell me just where i stand
and what was there before the beginning X2

Can feel my bones inside
intense nostalgia makes you feel tongue tied.
The kiss of death makes you treasure life.

Tell me just where i stand
and what was there before the beginning X2

Can't look at yourself in the mirror,
the same way.
All Because a part of your soul has died.
Has died.

You left it long ago,
on that broken sand.
Next to your tears and a bright blue sky.
A bright blue sky.

Tell me just where i stand
and what was there before the beginning X2

This could be one of the best songs I have written, and i have never written about death. Exploring new subject matter is an important thing as a songwriter.
You can continue to write love songs, but it is good to seek out new influence other then lust and desire.
Take care everyone,
-jordy