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No Turning Back @ W2 last sunday

Steeped in work, no time to design this blog. Will get into it soon enough.

Checked out a review for the NTB show here:
http://www.roarezine.nl/2011/03/30/reflections-tour-w2-den-bosch/#

Here we go again

So after noticing this blog is still getting views every month I decided to start it back up again. Obviously it's gonna be hard to put a bunch of stuff on here about MLIW so I'm gonna broaden my scope but it will still be music related.

So what's been going on? A whole lot. I been playing a lot with No Turning Back for the past year and also with my own band Viper Cobra. Actually we've got a release show coming up April 2nd, stoked to be putting out a 7" again. Also me and my girl have been doing a blog about renovating and decorating our appartment, it's doing really well with more viewers each month. Please check it out here: jivinsisterfanny.blogspot.com and if you like it please follow or like on stumbleupon or whatever.

So uhm yeah, this is just more like an announcement type post with me saying I'm gonna start this back up. So yeah, keep checking back as I will put more and more stuff up in the future.

Oh right, before I forget. Tomorrow I'm playing the legendary W2 venue again. They used to have classic hardcore matinees where hundreds of kids would show up and tomorrow we're headlining. NTB ofcourse. Pretty awesome and not bad for a 31 year old.

This is me now:

so close to being done.

now this made me laugh

recording day 17? I lost count...

Yesterday we got done recording and today we started mixing, it's sounding so good it hurts my brain. I can't wait to unleash it on the world.

listening:
Crooked Fingers - Red Devil Dawn
Thomas Brinkmann & Heiko Lauts - Tyranids
Adam Beyer & Marco Carola - Fusionframe EP
Matthias Meyer & Sven Weiseman - Voltage
Shit Robot - Wrong Galaxy
Marek Hemman - Rory

Reading (not that there is much time to read):
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Me celebrating being done with my parts.

recording day 10

Today John and me finished our guitarparts. Jeff finished all of his vocals except for 1 song. Tomorrow is a day off, I'm gonna sleep in and it's gonna be glorious. Brooks is coming monday!

Grindhouse

Yesterday we had a day off from recording so John and me went and saw Grindhouse and now I urge you to go see it.
Today we tracked some vocals and tomorrow we will start tracking guitars. I'm excited I finally get to record for real.

Listening: The Knife - Silent Shout

538 Johnson

thanks to everybody who came out.

Day 5 of recording

Today we finished all the drum and bass tracks. Things are going nice and smooth and it's turning out awesome, I couldn't be more excited. J. is awesome, today he busted out some cool stories from his Government Issue days.
some pics:


I think this was the first day


the eichman cometh...


Tim keeping track of what's going on


TO is done. Naptime.

Also today our next tour got announced, check it out.

Modern Life Is War, Death Before Dishonor, and special guest Brooks Strause will tour together late this month through mid-May. Here's the schedule:

dates w/ One Dead Three Wounded
4/28 TBA
4/29 Lemoyne, PA @ Championship
4/30 Trenton, NJ @ Championship Bar and Grill
5/1 Brooklyn, NY @ Club Europa
5/2 Poughkeepsie, NY @ Club Crannel
5/3 Oneida, NY @ Awesome Fun N Skate
5/4 Altoona, PA @ Chevy Chase Community Center
5/5 Valatie, NY @ American Legion
5/6 Amherst. MA @ MercyHouse
5/7 Boston, MA @ Roman's
5/8 Nashua, NH @ Polish American Hall
5/9 Windham, ME @ Windham Veterans Hall

5/10 Quebec City, QC @ L'ANTI
5/11 Ottowa, ONT @ Montgomery Legion Hall
5/12 Montreal, QC @ LINCO
5/13 Toronto, ONT @ Holy Joes
5/14 London, ONT @ Call The Office
5/15 St. Catherines, ONT @ L3 Nightclub
5/16 Hamilton, ONT @ The Underground
5/17 Mt. Clemens, MI @ Hayloft Liquor Stand
5/18 Chicago, IL @ Knights of Columbus
5/19 Iowa City, IA @ TBA

In the little downtime I got I am
Listening: Bunny Rabbit
Reading: Swann's Way by Proust

Tour & Recording

Thanx to everybody who came out and made our last tour a blast. Especially Milwaukee and Brooklyn were beyond ridiculous.
Today we started day 3 of recording at the magpie cage and things are going way fast. We're laying down drums and bass the next couple days before moving on to guitars next week. To bad we're hold up in the studio pretty much 12 hours a day so we haven't really gotten the chance to check out Baltimore. Tomorrow Girl Talk is playing The Ottobar and it looks like I don't get to go which is kind of a bum out. Oh well.

When we're done recording we will head out on a tour with Boston's Death Before Dishonour and Iowa's Brooks Straus. This is def the most interesting package we done in a while.

Minnie Irwin

Minnie Irwin checks my bed for crocodiles and alligators every night.

St. Patties day

Yesterday we played a show with Checkmate, Torpedo Darlings, Brooks Strause and Beat Strings in Cedar Falls for St. Patricks day. It was nuts. Here's what the people had to say;

"Bar Police Strobe Show.
it was like a white zombie video during MLIW.
the flashlights were swingin'
the only thing i could think was white zombie. MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN!"

"new MLIW tunes are really good. Reverb Cody's face after DEADRAMONES was hilarious. he looked so angry and ran his finger across his throat to tell jeff eaton that they were done."

"MLIW's new shit is way sweet.
my legs got crushed into the stage during that whole show..
I sucked Jeff's cock for 30 seconds."

"I think i saw the frog punch matt gerstandt in the face during mliw, can anyone confirm"

"there was a man in a leather coat. I am going to guess and say he had black pants fairly short haircut and maybe a goatee? does anyone know who this man is. he walked up to observe mliw and stood right by me. he had a drink in his hand. he started spitting on the people who were performing in the white zombie light show. this was excellent. He looked very bad ass. then he walked back in the direction of the bar. he came back a little bit later with one other man. they ran up to the stage and did a quick little stage dive thing. this could have been god."

All the bands were amazing with my personal favorite being Brooks Strause. I love that man. This was one of the most fun nights in a long time.


Other news: we got all the songs for the new record done. expect 11 ragers. We're leaving M'town for a shirt tour on the way to Baltimore where we're recording. I will try to keep some kind of studio report going on here but you know how that goes. After recording we're going straight into what is sure to be this year's most interesting tourpackage. I will post it as soon as it gets announced, get siked.

oh, before I forget... Over the last few years there has been about 5 different unauthorized Modern Life Is War pages on myspace. Which is alright but the tourdates and information were never posted or kept up to date, so now we have an official fansite page. www.myspace.com/modernlifeiswar add us if you are into it. We are not running the page so don’t attempt to contact us through that. You can always hit us up on email modernlifeiswar@yahoo.com

Upcoming dates
3/24/07 TBD , Omaha, NE @ Christ Community Church Student Center
w/ TBD tickets: TBD $ advance/ TBD $ door

3/25/07 5:00 Iowa City, IA @ Picador
w/ Neon Hookers, Kingdom, In Remebrance, Killing Kings, High Five

3/27/07 TBD , Milwaukee,WI @ Shorewood Legion Hall
w/ TBD tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door

3/28/07 TBD , Evansville, IN @ Club 1123
w/ TBD tickets: 7 $ advance/ 7 $ door

3/29/07 TBD , Pittsburgh, PA @ Roboto Project
w/ TBD tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door

3/30/07 TBD , Rochester, NY @ AV Space
w/ Achilles, Borrowed Time tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door

3/31/07 TBD , Brooklyn, NY @ 538 Johnson Ave
w/ Mother Night, Paper Dragons tickets: 5 $ advance/ 5 $ door

4/1/07 TBD , Baltimore, MD @ Charm City Art Space
w/ Ruiner, Fighting Dogs, I Adapt, Pulling Teeth tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door

Tante Joke, bedankt voor de foto's!

it wasn't me

Hey Chalie

We're all working hard trying to get this record done in time so I kinda forgot to updat this. Last week I had my friends Ivo and Pieter over for a week and we didn't do much besides eating and drinking haha. It was great! Ivo celebrated his 30th birthday here with 40's and a cake with 20 something candles to make him feel good. Minni was so excited we had euro's visiting she decided to dress up.

More books I bought recently:
Petronius - Satyricon
T.S. Eliot - Wasteland
Gustav Flaubert - Sentimental Education
Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
Oscar Wilde - The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Hemmingway - For Whom The Bells Toll
Various - Classic American Short Stories. This one has stories by Hemmingway, Henry James, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, William Faulkner and way more.

Back from tour

Back home and getting ready to pick my 2 boys from Holland up from the airport. They're coming to hang out for a week and enjoy M'towns scenery which right now is all snow and ice.

Hit up the bookstore last monday and this is what I got:
The Bostonians - Henry James
Portrait of a Lady - Henry Hames
Washington Square and Daisy Miller - Henry James
Cousin Bette - Honore de Balzac
The Heptameron - Marguerita de Navarre
The Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Complete Works - Alexander Pope
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

and yesterday at the antique's store I found Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, it's been a good week. Also, check out my rocking chair, I'm such a grandpa.



here's me and the geeks caught with our pants on our ankles:

Day 2 of tour

Kansas City and St. Louis were both awesome, thanx to everybody that came out.
The weather has changed dramatically overnight and it's nice out again.

This morning in Kansas City I saw this van sitting on the parking lot across from the house where we stayed so I decided to linger and see if Brit Brit or Tomkat were around but no such luck.

Chicago tomorrow, I'm excited to see some people I haven't seen in a while again. I'm talking The Geeks (this South Korean band that's on this tour) into playing Sham 69's 'if the kids are united'.

Leaving for tour

Leaving for tour tomorrow morning, pretty stoked. We also just got our tourdates for march so I'll post those on here as well.
Bringing with me besides the obvious:
- Pere Goriot by Honore the Balzac, almost done with this one and I wanna urge you to get into this writer
- A Keith Richards biografy this weird bird from Holland sent me, I'm stoked to read this, it looks promising
- Werewolves In Their Youth by Michael Chabon, I've never heard of this guy but people seem pretty stoked about him
- The Golden Bowl by Henry James, he's my favourite writes but can at times be pretty hard to get through
- A beard clipper that I just bought, I will be a non stop scruffy extravaganza from now on
- 7 cans of pringles barbeque flavour
- pictures of everybody I think about while away from home even though I have no clue where home exactly is
- my moleskine, get into it, they're huge for a reason

packing always takes me a long as time even though I like to travel light. I spend a lot of time deciding what not to bring so here's my playlist while packing, I wish all of you would listen to this even though some of these gems are a bit older. everybody who's complaining about a lack of exciting music going on should shut the hell up and that includes the guy from apparat himself. and yes, the new JT has some really innovating moments but I had to stop listening after the 'hi my name is bob and I work at my job' song which ruins that entire record. If I'm rambling it's because Kate at Corner's hooked us up with free going away drinks.
- trentemoller - the last resort
- digital mystiks - digital mystikz
- mum - summer makes good
- nathan fake - the sky is pink & drowning in a sea of love
- apparat - multifunktionsgebene
- lazy fat people - big city

Before I forget, I saw Will Whitmore yesterday and I got a gift for a special person. special. Also I just met Chef D'Micael who's the chef (as his name suggests) at the Tremont. True.

In other news, I just started a collaboration with my buddy Thorir from Reykjavik, Iceland who's doing My Summer In The Salvation Army, Gavin Portland and Fighting Shit amongst many many other things which I am wicked wicked excited about (the music he makes as well as this collab). It looks like me and him will be doing some really interesting stuff musically which I can't wait to share with the world, I will keep you posted. If it doesn't work out this was the last you'll hear off it and bootleg mp3's will go down in internet history.

I love music, it's my girlfriend. Here's tourdates, come say hi because I am playing the best guitar I ever have right now and MLIW is an unstopable rockmachine. While you're at it, say hi to Tim too and make him feel welcome (ladies...). for anybody who can't be at one of these show: I'll think about posting about them but don't count on it. I might post pics if somehow they find their way to me. I'm rambling again, thanx Kate. (ps: metal hammer thinks I'm an interesting fact, top of the world!):

Upcoming shows:

2/18/07 US , Kansas City, MO @ The Anchor
w/ The Geeks, Ambitions tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door

2/19/07 US , St. Louis, MO @ Lemp Arts Center
w/ The Geeks, Ambitions tickets: 7 $ advance/ 7 $ door

2/20/07 US , Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
w/ The Geeks, Ambitions tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door

2/21/07 US , Indianapolis, IN @ The Underground
w/ The Geeks, Ambitions tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door

2/22/07 US , Dayton, OH @ The Water Front
w/ The Geeks, Ambitions tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door

2/23/07 US , Mt. Clemens, MI @ Hayloft Liquor Stand
w/ Bane, The Geeks, Ambitions tickets: 12 $ advance/ 12 $ door

2/24/07 US , Beloit, WI @ Beloit University
w/ tullycraft, decibully, nakatomi plaza, and dead town revival tickets: $ FREEadvance/ $ FREEdoor Open to Non-students.

3/17/07 Cedar Falls, IA @ The Reverb: St. Patrick’s Day Bash w/ Beat Strings, Brooks Strause, Torpedo Darlings and Checkmate. Doors: 7:00 Show: 10:00

3/24/07 TBD , Omaha, NE @ Christ Community Church Student Center
w/ TBD tickets: TBD $ advance/ TBD $ door

3/27/07 TBD , Milwaukee,WI @ Shorewood Legion Hall
w/ TBD tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door

3/28/07 TBD , Evansville, IN @ Club 1123
w/ TBD tickets: 7 $ advance/ 7 $ door

3/29/07 TBD , Pittsburgh, PA @ Roboto Project
w/ TBD tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door

3/30/07 TBD , Rochester, NY @ AV Space
w/ Achilles, Borrowed Time tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door

3/31/07 TBD , Brooklyn, NY @ 538 Johnson Ave
w/ Mother Night, Paper Dragons tickets: 5 $ advance/ 5 $ door

4/1/07 TBD , Baltimore, MD @ Charm City Art Space
w/ Ruiner, Fighting Dogs, I Adapt, Pulling Teeth tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door