Breaking up is hard to do

So the band is breaking up. Ben decided he wants to go to graduate school at Florida State and he needs to focus on school and his "real" trumpet playing to do that. He also feels like he has done all he could do with PO. And that's fine more power to you for grad school but apparently "real" trumpet playing translates to...."I've decided to give up playing my own music because I don't want to anymore. I'd rather play in a cover band and make money capitolizing off of other peoples music, art, and expression, than play in a band that my friends and I pour ourselves into."

I'm pretty angry about the situation. Yeah, it's time to move on, everyone's kinda working on something else now and thats great. Really just Doug Griffey who is playing with some good friends and then the douche bag cover band. Gordo is playing in his church's praise band so that counts, I guess. As for me I'm not doing anything right now and it sucks a lot.

I think the reason that I'm pissed off is because I've watched certain people throw old ideas out the window in order to make money. Fuck it, I'm not going to sugar coat it, BEN. Yeah I said it, yeah you might at some point read this and if you do, I'm not sorry. Bro, you're one of my best friends in the universe and I'd give you a kidney if you asked, we've been through a lot together but this is one thing I can't back you up on at all, I understand you need money and shit like that, but we used to hate cover bands together, you hated them more than I did, but now that's all changed I suppose. Whatever, it's your call and I shouldn't judge so I'll stop that now.

I'm ready to start something or join up with some people but I don't want to play with idiots. I want to play with people I'm friends with and I want to play some really fun stuff. I'd liken the stuff I want to play to The Movielife, Cartel, Latterman, Jimmy Eat World, Spitalfield, and The Stryder, stuff that just makes you go damn that's fun. I want it to mean something. I want it to come from inside all of us. I want it to be Agressive and Fun, Poppy yet Punishing. Aggresive Pop? Something like that I guess. I don't know.

But lately I've been focusing on school, which is working out well I got an A on my paper in History. I've been slacking a little in my 201 class cause I've yet to buy the book, need to get on that. 250 is going well I beefed a few questions on our first test but I think I pulled a C, at least I hope and it only counts 10 percent the speeches and symopsium groups are huge. Photojournalism is going well we have our first major assignment due monday I need to get on that this weekend.

Anyway to recap the band's breaking up, I really don't like cover bands (sorry to all of you if any of you read this), and I'm ready to do something new, fun, and aggressive.

Much Love,
Zac