Guillotined

The most important check/balance is that of the people revolting against the government.

Revolution should be a belt around our waist.
When the government needs straightening out we should be ready to whip them so badly that they cringe when we even motion a hand towards our midsection.

I never had the chance to meet Dominic but his words have and will continue to inspire me and many others for years to come.

Please, take notice of this tragic loss. Yesterday a tremendous mind and leader was taken from your generation. Don't ever let the heart you share with him be taken, as well.

My sincere condolences to his friends, family and loved ones.

Thank you, Dominic, for all of your inspiration and hope.

www. myspace. com/lastlights

www. myspace. com/hauntedlikeahouse

Rest in peace.

Clarity

For those who were even aware of this I never got a chance to fully explain much. I want to clear up some misconceptions real quick, from my own personal stand point.


First being that our old NAME was not Sever the Ties...in fact, for all intents and purposes, our old BAND was Sever the Ties. It started when I was 16 and ended when I was 18. During that time I had thought myself to be quite the know it all and followed Christianity pretty closely (to the best of my knowledge) because my girlfriend at the time had lead me in that direction after the split up of my family over matters of adultery. I've always been a pretty big enthusiasts and so I jumped right in and assured myself of the relevance of that religion in every way.


A few years had passed and much wasn't sitting right with me about calling myself a Christian (or about what the word really meant) or about forcing myself to write songs that I wasn't quite sure I felt.


The search for God quickly lead me to the search for truth and honesty and I found that honestly I was nowhere near or connected to what I had tried to do in the band Sever the Ties. Simultaneously the musical direction was changing. We had began seeking to find our own answers in more ways than one.


Decades formed slightly afterward. I was 18. We spent a year writing a demo that has recently been released as an EP called "Numbered". Since then we have been writing a load and have released demos of a few of those songs (i.e; H.I.H.A.
, Cig Burns), which leads me to my next point:

To the best of my knowledge I have never written an "anti-god" song. In fact, anyone who knows me probably knows that in some way I do believe in God. I just don't know what all that entails..

Decades has always been about searching and that original purpose was inspired by failed attempts of an earlier life.


Thanks for allowing me the time to merely explain myself. I don't want anyone to think that I write songs against God. I've written plenty of songs against things but that is one place, of many, in which I have no interest in telling people what to believe. My only interest is sharing the occupations of my heart and mind in hopes that maybe somebody, somewhere will be able to relate (by chance or design or whatever) and perhaps not feel so alone in this fucked up heap of a world. That's the way I felt when first listening to all the bands that made me want to play music and be a part of the punk community. That's all I can hope to do.


I apologize if my personal growth and soul-searching has left a bad taste in your mouth but all I know to do is keep trying to be as real with people as possible so that those mistakes of my past are not furthered.


Thanks for reading all of that.

-Cameron

So, last night we played a show at a place called The Info Shop in Oklahoma City. Grave Maker and Call to Preserve jumped on the show last minute.

It was pretty awesome. The venue was a little shack with lots of bikes hanging from the ceiling. I hit my head at least 5 times trying to get to the merch.

I'm bummed that we didn't get to hang out afterward. Trey and Flint had Take Control and Grave Maker stay and I got texts from everybody asking why we weren't there partying. Ross had work at 6 am.

Who wants to grow up, right?

Today's playlist:

Tom Gabel - Anna is a Stool Pigeon

Hot Water Music - Jack of All Trades

The Clash - Spanish Bombs

Jawbreaker - Accident Prone

Rival Schools - Everything Has Its Points

Also, listen to this band Kintaro. They are fucking great.

www.myspace.com/sexkintarosex

That's all..

Do you still feel wasted? Did you wake up restless again? Did you stay in bed all day, desperately searching for a reason to crawl out of it? Are you patiently waiting? Did you sleep through all the subtle hints? You heard rumors of a life waiting to begin...Did that cosmic sign ever come? Have you figured out what it is?

There's a fire still burning in your bones. Adam Smith has his hand around your throat. Don't let the flame be choked.

"The ones who love us best, are the one we'll lay to rest,

visit them on holidays at best.

The ones who love us least, are the ones we'll die to please,

if it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand."

-The Replacements

It's been a while..

I haven't made a posts in a long time. If there is one thing that I consistently do it's lose track of things that I mean to consistently do. Fuck.

Been reading Walden a lot, lately. Not reading as much as I'd like, though. I have a lot of books that I bought recently but haven't had a chance to get to. It's nice to know that a break is coming up.

Work and school tends to get in the way of all the things I care about. I want to be done with it because I'm ready to start learning.

They say that Thoreau swore off normal careers as a threat to his development.

Wrote another new Decades song last night. "Numbered" just came out in October but we already have nearly six new songs. Hopefully we can release another EP sometime after January... I'm ready to move on from that.

Two tests and a debate tomorrow. Then I'm going to head home and play my new guitar and drink the remainder of my bottle of Jameson. Tuesday night. A day in the life.

Nick and Chris let me hear a phone recording of a new Power Trip song today...sounds awesome. Check them out www.myspace.com/powertriphc

I should probably go to sleep. It's getting late.


Today's playlist:

-Chuck Ragan "For Broken Ears"

-The Clash "I'm Not Down"

-Alkaline Trio "While You're Waiting"

-Fugazi "Glueman"

I found this picture today.



















I should probably leave it at that.

-Cameron

June 7th and 8th

After waking up and having leftover brats for breakfast we headed to Hollywood Rebels Tattoo shop to hang out with everybody and get some tattoos.

We ended up only having time for Ross, Austin and I to get tattooed before we had to head to St. Louis.

After we left for STL we listened to Chuck Berry and Rage Against the Machine pretty much nonstop.

Arrived at like 11:30pm at a venue called Building R. I wish I had pictures of it but I don't yet. These two dudes named Gus and Dallas live there and it's an old factory warehouse in the industrial district right on the Mississippi River. They had a mini ramp in the back next to some huge windows looking out over these cooking oil refineries and the river. It was a fucking incredible place.

So many cool kids and all different kinds of them at that. After Fare Thee Well, Dude Nukem (hell yes) and A Death and A Promise we played..it was like 1:30am when we got on stage and it fucking ruled. The kids that were there were all going off and I was drunk as hell because Gabe bought us a case of Stag.
"Smokes...let's go."

All the bands playing ended up giving us their cash. I can't tell you guys how much it means to us to have such good friends away from home.

When the show was over I staggered into the van and we said "goodbye" to everyone then headed towards Cincinnati. Tried to get a motel room anywhere in Illinois at around 6 or 7am and after stopping at about 20 different places with no vacancies we were informed that there had been a major flood the day before and the government had been paying for tons of families to be staying in hotels as refugees. We booked it to Indianapolis, IN and got here at about noon. Wound up taking showers and falling asleep until 7pm.

Right now we're eating sandwiches, watching Ross play GTA4 and trying to find something good to do with our night off. This will probably be the first and last time we stay in a motel but it was cheap and we've been doing really well with money. It's been cool to just relax.

I'll finish this off with the famous words of Chuck Berry:
"Hail, hail rock n' roll."