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April 28, 2005: 10:37 PM
Ok well due to the fact that i have insomnia, i am here with some thoughts at 10:37 at nights. shit fuck
awesome. this is not really like a deep thought. its just whats going on inside my head. its ninja scene numba one.
Scene: Broad daylight, new york city, new york.
Here goes: Okay so Rascal Flats has got his ski mask on. He is also weilding dual sawed-offs and hes ready
for some good old-fashioned vigalante. because last week, at this very time and place, noon at the northern corner of times
square, Rascal was mugged by Jimbob Sanders. Jimbob, a struggling heroin junkie, needed some drug money, and even after Rascal
reported the incident, Jimbob was not placed in custody, nor issued a warning by local city police. Thus Rascal is weilding,
again, dual sawed-offs. The problem is that Rascal is about to be thwarted by Ninja 1. (Enter Jimbob onto corner) Rascal spots
Jimbob and starts polite conversation. Jimbob is so trippin' face he has no clue that he had once robbed this decent citizen.
All of a sudden, Rascal pulls out his concealed weapons and aims one at Jimbob's face, the other at his private area. (Enter
Ninja 1) Ninja 1, with ninja sense tingling, bursts out from a trash can nearby and lands between Rascal and his soon-to-be
victim. He says some words in a different language that neither man can understand ("splenk! Winhes splouter lese poingneate
supe tenda gadre!") Both men are confused and utterly befuddled. Rascal is so spellbound, he drops his weapons. Bad move.
Both guns go off, and shrapnel is shot into Jimbob's head (killing his heroin-shooting, poor excuse for an ass) and also into
Ninja 1's foot, wounding him severely. (Enter Ninja 2) Ninja 2, with ninja senses tingling, swoops in from the top of a light
pole that he had been resting on, pondering the whole situation and watching it play out and unfold before his very eyes.
Ninja 2 swiftly and forcefully knocks Rascal to the ground, and in the proceess, actually hurls himself fifty feet along with
Rascal (Enter Ninja 3), right in front of the feet of Ninja 3, with ninja senses tingling. Ninja 3 swoops them both up with
ease, and scales the Virgin Megastore's front window and up onto its roof, but not before rescuing Ninja 1 (with shrapnel
still in his foot) and picking up the now lifeless body of Jimbob Sanders (dead). He throws all four, two men and two ninjas,
onto the roof and issues some confusing speech of his own ("Spleklthorn...niseh thiah fashdes!"), once again confuddling the
two men. Ninjas 1 and 2 understand him perfectly, obviously, and dually pick up Jimbob (still dead) and fly him across the
street to the top of the MTV studios. Ninja 3 is now alone with Rascal and starts yelling expletives in his native ninja language
("Fuck you, douche bag! [yes ninjas curse in english]). Enthralled, Rascal stands up, but Ninja 3 is too fast and too strong,
and within a half-second Rascal is thrown clear across the roof and is impaled to the top of the "V", the largest part of
Virgin Megastore's signature sign. He dies seconds later. Across the street, Ninjas 1 and 2 are attempting to revive Jimbob
(still very dead) but to no avail. Ninja 3, with ninja senses tingling, leaps clear across the city block to join his comrades,
and they discuss the situation. After thorough analyzation of the situation at hand, the three very stealthy ninjas leave
the scene, leaving Jimbob Sanders (now like super-extra very dead) to waste away and Rascal Flats (getting a little bit more
dead) to get picked apart by the gizzards that the ninjas think live in NYC. Unfortunately, their plan does not work out,
and rather than having gizzards eat his liver and other vital organs, a custodian at the Virgin Megastore discovers Rascal's
lifeless body (still very impaled and now rather dead) and begins to eat it himself. So the ninjas avail in the end.
Score: Ninjas 1, Wrong-doers 0
(End.)
-mike. the psycho guitar player. with insomnia.
February 11, 2005: 9:08 PM
Ohhh, come on Marc. You know I love you
Even your Republican, bullshit, nonesense
-Taylor-
Thursday, 2/10/05
Taylor, you're a fucking idiot and a stuborn pain in the ass.
Marc
February 7th, 2005: 10:35 PM
Ok, two things i would just like to clarify: One, the sorry everybody is nothing about me supporting
any belief or anything like that, and two, spaghetti and blankets is on Mitch Hedburg's CD. Gotta listen to it to understand
it. The CD is called Mitch all together.
Back to Sorry Everybody, as I said, I saw it in the bookstore and I thought it was kind of funny and satyrical.
If you can't handle a simple book and have to get all up in arms about it, then you know what...kill yourself. Seriously,
there's no need for uptight people in this world who can't deal with a little bit of ink on paper that says a few things that
you don't like. But wait, I forgot that freedom of speech wasn't really a freedom because I can only say what I want
until somebody doesn't like it. So express your opinion all you want because I have the password to the site, and as
long as I do, it's going to stay.
Uhh third, Marc your coming off as kind of whiny about how whiny liberals, left-wingers, whatever, are.
Think about that one. Come talk to me in person because I don't care for the introverted ways of the online text battles.
Lastly, for all the republicans, in your infinite wisdom I bet you never pondered this idea. In the
past couple days there has been discussion about whether or not Abraham Lincoln was gay; I believe there was a book written
on it. Anyway, as you well know, Abraham Lincoln was the founder of the Republican Party's beliefs today. Thus,
everything that the Republican Party believes in could be based off of a gay point-of-view of life, which, by the
way, a majority (and I emphasize majority for all of you exceptions out there) of the Republicans denounce in all forms in
society. Just think about it, the group that so elequouently belittles the homosexuals, their way of life, and whether
or not they should marry are the a group that is based off a person with those very same beliefs.
Just something to ponder. And if you don't like what i have to say....Blow me for all i care.
-Taylor-
Monday, February 7th, 9:23pm
First off, I dont like Bush. But that link posted below about the book is pretty shitty. If comes across
as condecending to anyone who did support Bush (which I remind you is the majority of the country) and more liberal bitching
and whining. For christ sake, the election happened, stop complaining about it. If you must, go write a letter to your congressman
or something. But it;s getting old.
And about the spagetti and blankets...? I dont get it.
How about we all talk about a complete reform
of our current political system into something thats more efficient and less costly, instead of Bush?
-Marc
February 6, 2005: 11:17 PM
Think about it, could it get any funnier than the combination of spaghetti and blankets being sold at McDonald's.
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Thanks Mitch Hedburg
-Taylor-
January 29th, 2005: 12:15 AM
I found this site after looking at the book they had in Borders. It's quite interesting, yet also
comical in its own ways.
-Taylor-
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:07 pm.
Hey, what's going
on all you loyal listeners of Caffeine. There was a request for an update of the deep thoughts section. Unfortunatly,
none of us think too much, and when we do realize that we are thinking, we don't write it down. Usually.
Okay, maybe sometimes we do...
anyway...i found a free write that i did for my creative writing class...here it is...mind
you i had to write for fifteen minutes straight, whatever came to my head, no editing...here we go...
i
hate writing with green pens, i can't even write on the lines, it's like a pre-kindergarten kid, who is too stupid to
figure out what is going on, when i close my eyes, there is a pink spot in my left eye in the shape of a semicircle,
it's very pretty. I hate that word, it's so overused and nondescriptive, why can't there be another word
jello, that's the new word for pretty. Jello=pretty. why, i don't even like jello, or jello pudding, except for
chocolate pudding in Israel. Man do i love that place. I can't believe that i just said love. I hate
that word. it's so dumb. everything revolves around love, it's just like the sun. It's amusing to watch
people sitting at computers with no screens on. I'm listening to Less Than Jake, they're such a...band. I wish
i was just like them, but i'm not. They're singing about randomness and a nonstop spinning world. I wish that
i was nonstop spinning. There are so many good things in the world, yet people only find violent...disgusting, diabolical...things
to do. Why did i just think of 5 synonyms? Why am i so weird. It's like my brain is mush, like children's
oatmeal. Bluealhsf! How the fuck do you spell that? Is that even a word?
My wrist hurts. i wish
i was invicable, so that when i did stupid shit i wouldn't get hurt. why don't i have any gall? i wish i did with
the ladies.
how did these random words get on the next page? what do they mean? its like a cryptic message.
I am supposed to be thinking like i'm making a movies. i wish someone made a movies about me. it would be so depressing
and emo. my life is a sham, thats what i always tell doug. What a funny thing, our friendship. I feel like
i'm writing a marathon. i watched a seinfeld, how the fuck do you spell his name, on marathons last night. it
was very funny...a few sentences ago i forgot a period. Ha! i'm late for my period, wow what a horrible joke.
i can't believe i just thought that. that's such a mark kessel thing to say. pick it up! what a ska anthem!
i love ska, its so happy and just makes you wanna dance when you hear it. Its a beautiful thing, ska is. i love being
in a ska band. we get so many hot girls to come to our practices. they only come for joey though, cuz he's a PIMP,
or at least he pretends. this is so messy. i hope we don' thave to share thi sbecause i can't read it. I
can't read or do anything anymore. it's weird. my brain has just become a squashed piece of thing in my head.
i wish there was peace in Israel so i can go there again. It's such a beautiful country. I love, damn that word,
the people in the country. Mr. V is speaking, so i guess i'm done.
damn...i'm so stupid.
peace
-Dan
December 24, 2004, 9:18pm.
because i have nothing better to do on christmas eve...
it just occured to me a comment that was made sometime ago about the band. i mean i thought about it, and
at the time, it was very true, although i didnt want it to be. of course, we overcame the situation and now here we are.
"what happened to caffeinated? are you guys still a band? you like died."
this statement, from a friend no less haha, kind of scared me. not like freaked me out and i started to
pine for my mommy, but it was like "wow, thats true. i cant let that happen." lately it has seemed that i dont really like
the band, because the band is not playing that many shows. this all is changing however, because finally, taylor has provided
some positive reinforcement, and taken the initiative to actually get us a show on january 7th, as im sure you know. but until
this point, i was quite afraid that caffeinated was slowly on its way to find itself where many other bands eventually do...at
the end of their rope, and no longer a band. i really didnt want that to happen, and im sure we have fans SOMEWHERE that feel
the same way. its unfortunate that we have been as such this far, but that is all changing.
we recently joined forces with a production company known simply as Team Awesome who will be putting us
on in mid-February. they will be pairing us up with such teams as Kid Go Home and Too Short Notice, both of which are of notable
achievement, band-wise, and who i respect. this, i can assure, comes as a boost of confidence to us as a band as well as individuals,
and im sure some fans, as i said those SOMEWHERE, are excited as well.
i know this was like half news/half deep thoughts, but i was compelled to talk about it because it was something
that i was really thinking about, and after all, this is a section about thinking. i really am glad that the band is finally
moving forward again, i mean this could possibly mean even a full length cd coming out asap. well soon at least. the machine
finally started moving again, similar to how it was much earlier in the year. but lets hope it is with a little bit more professional-ism.
anyway, at least it will be a new year.
im done. and going to church. and then getting presents. good night caffeine addicts.
burrrrrrrrrrr.
-mike
December 2, 2004: 10:54pm | I sent
this letter to Wayne a few days ago. This isn't really a rant- I have since received e-mail from Wayne and talked to him in
person on the matter. For the most part, it's resolved. There's just nothing else to it. I'm posting this mainly for historical
value, posterity, whatever. Anyway, on with the letter:
Wayne Janke-
I find it amazing that you have
the close-minded audacity to place full blame for poor ticket sales on a small group of individuals. The lack of marketing
skills and foresight displayed by the Senior Class Council while planning LBS is blaringly apparent. The commercial aired
on HCTV promoting LBS was pathetic and ineffective to say the least, and was only aired a handful of times before the event.
At the same time, the committee choosing the bands only chose bands playing a single style of music. In doing so, the committee
turned away a huge demographic of potential customers. This brings up the question of the competence of the committee in the
area of music. Exactly what credentials did they have in the area they were voting on?
"Lack of maturity" was a prominent
theme throughout your letter. You perfectly embodied this theme with your statement:
"As you may not know, the
Last Band Standing will be continued next year by this years Sophomore Class. Also, I would like to inform you that I will
still have an influence in what goes on, as I will be training their class to run a successful show. Meaning I can advise
them of who has created problems in the past, and who has not."
I hope for your sake you have better things to
do next year than hang around HCRHS settling old grudges. Fact is, after what we experienced this year, I have no desire and
no motivation to play next years show. On a similar note, the last line of your letter was quite ludicrous. In an attempt
to offer the illusion that you are trying to offer us an ultimatum, you made yourself appear vapid by misspelling "apoligies".
Please, if you are going to send spiteful e-mails, take the time to spell check them.
In complete and utter disgust,
Marc Critelli
So that's it. Hope you enjoyed.
-Marc
November 28, 2004. 2:26pm
I come bearing a few of my "deep thoughts." I was reviewing the guest
book and i noticed much anger and hate. I want to say first to my fellow band members, we have to accept that some people
are going to shit on us. Its part of being a band. Not everyone will like us, and they have the right to write
about it as much as they want in our guest book. Secondly, to the non-band members, you must understand that we are
merely 8 young men, with low paying jobs, and cant afford to have things professionally recorded, or have expensive equipment
that would enhance our sound. We are doing the best we can with what we have, which right now is a cheap computer microphone
and a 12 dollar downloaded recorder/mixer. So just try to understand. Also leave your name if your going
to give us critisism, dont worry were not gonna find and destroy you, it just makes it easier for us to improve.
PS the canadian kids seem mad chill, however im pretty sure canada is "up
there" not "down there"
Peace. Love. and Ska.
jdo
November 26, 2004: 2:30 PM
I, Taylor, have created this section in order to let our band vent in a very theraputic way, as to not interfere
with the news. News will now be strictly news, but here will be the true feelings and heart of the band. To add
to that, this section was inspired by the letter from Wayne Janke because everyone in the band has a say on it and we want
everyone to hear our minds.
So i will start by saying that I think the letter was truly a waste of good time. Well, actually now
that I think about it, whatever else he could've done would've been a waste too. However, the letter seemed to indicate
a lot of animostiy towards us as people and slightly as musicians. He says that he is "personally disgusted", which
is i'm guessing is because of the way we went about our actions. Well really there was no action at all done by
the band as a whole. Yes, we were pissed, but only a few of us really took action to do something about the whole
ordeal, namely, myself, Marc, and Dan. We were the ones who came up with the idea to create an anti-LBS.
The only reason we didn't go through with the idea was not because we got scared or something like that, nooooo; the reason
we didn't do it was due to the fact that we didn't have enough money to cover for liability insurance. And
when i told Wayne about how we weren't going to go through with the idea, he has the audasity to say
that we realized it was a "gay idea" and that "we knew better". I said, "no we just don't have the money to cover for
everything, dick". This pric thinks he sits on this high pedestal and can do whatever he wants, he is surely mistaken.
Now to add to all this, after we decided not to go through with the anti-LBS, we decided to just stage
a boycott of the whole concert in general. Apparently it worked because they fell really short in ticket sales
(you can refer to the letter in the news section to get the full details of the aspect). What I would like
to say on the matter of it being our band who is the problem and we were the cause of the failure of the fundraiser is
this: WE WERE NOT THE ONLY ONES!! There were other bands who thought the whole decision
of the bands in LBS was utter bullshit. Bands like Rising Phoenix, At Any Cost, Waffle Stompers, Forgiving Winter, and
Red. Yes, you read correctly, bands that were already in the show thought that it was a bad decision. We
actually had Red and Forgiving Winter ready to drop out if our show fell through. So this, in essence, disproves his
whole argument that we were the cause of the problem; there were many other bands who helped in the cause. Furthermore,
people just didn't go to the show because of us. HELL NO! They didn't go to because they thought the majority
of bands playing were shit. Not to be blunt about it (and i'm sorry to the majority of bands), but that's the truth.
I talked with numerous people about how they thought the bands playing weren't good enough to play. And when i mentioned
the bands not playing, like Rising Phoenix, Waffle Stompers, and Caffeinated, they were really shocked. If i remember
right, one said, "are u fucking kidding me?!"
So there you go, there's the whole truth behind what happened with the situation. I hope that most
of the bands weren't disappointed with the turnout of fans, and i would also like to give my apologies to the senior class
council for causing your prom ticket prices to go so high. Then again, I'm not a senior, so why should I care? But,
to the seniors, all you have to do is thank your senior class council, especially Wayne Janke, for the cause of the high ticket
prices because if they just decided fairly, not because of spite or bitterness to a certain band, then you would have your
fair ticket prices. I hope most of those who read this can see where we are coming from and that most you agree with
what we did. It may have been immature, but it was what needed to be done. Someone needed to stand up to the school's
aristocracy, and show them we aren't going to take their crap anymore. We aren't their puppets. Now with that
said, I would also like to say something personally to Wayne Janke, watch out. You have just made one of the dumbest
decisions you could've ever made in your life. You have decided to incur the wrath of Taylor Aldredge, something that
so few have done. And not only have u brought on my wrath, you have brought on the wrath of all of caffeinated, it's
followers, and all the people that we could possibly know. I pity you and your stupid ignorance, but it's your choice
and now you will have to live with the consequences of what you said. If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
apologies(hahaha), then either tell us in the guestbook or email them to Wayne Janke at ripcurl2802@hotmail.com. Show support for the cause, viva la resitance!!!
--Taylor--
Oh yeah by the way....SKA FOR-FUCKING-EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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