Honest to Blog

I am going to keep this blog updated to the best of my ability for the rest of this year! I realize that as a legitimate blogger I have ultimately failed lately. Do to the excess of activities going on (including band practice), it has been increasingly hard to keep up.

QUICK UPDATE OF THE WEEK!

-played show at The Knitting Factory, before the break. Had a great time, and fell in love with our fans and friends all over again. Got to play some new songs, but didn't get to play Native Son (because we ran out of time).

-Claire and I played a small acoustic show at Banana Republic, and the manager want to have us come back.

-Recorded two of our new songs, The Black Sheep and Danger, and right now we are waiting for our fantastic recoding engineer to finish mastering them so that we can flaunt them to the world.

-Over Christmas break I wrote a new song that I have flailed to name. A friend of mine asked me to come perform for the Reflections open mike night at my school, so I am going to sing my new song (which makes me nervous because I am not used to playing alone).

NEW YeArs Re-VOLUTIONs

So, for the new year I have implemented some new years resolutions into my life. However, after one week I realize that these "resolutions" are far more than resolutions, they are in fact revolutionary in terms of the way that I live my life.

1) Make my bed every morning (so simple right?)- making my bed every day is nice because right after I wake up I make my bed, and my brain starts stirring, and then when I am tired at night I climb into my nicely made bed (which is more rewarding than I have ever imagined). This one resolution has led to me to also folding my clothes before I put them away, because I used to throw them on my bed. Folding my clothes inspired me to make the organization of my room more fluid, and this inspired me to organize my life! I figured out how to use my calendar on my computer, I have everything color coded, I have times, and I have information attached to the dates (ex. flight emails attached to the reminder that I have a flight). YEAH WTF IS RIGHT- total revolution! Feels great though, I am not going to lie.

2) Become Healthy (again)- yeah I went a little downhill last semester, ex. walking up the 3rd floor of college hall was a might task. Now I am hitting the gym 3 times a week, and snowboarding every friday, plus running as much as possible. Oh, and I am avoiding sugar like the plague. AND I am going to bed at 11 or 11:30 every single night.

3) SCHOOL work- I realize this blog is about The Danger Bears primarily, but according to Claire it is my blog so I can talk about whatever I want. This semester I am taking quite a few classes, which I am very excited about, but which I refuse to fall behind in.

4)*keeping up with the blog

-love you long time,

Danger

Name Game

Names are important. Names are a part of who we are!

<---(our first band photo, taken ourselves, haha, ghetto)

There is an ongoing debate in my head on whether as people our names shape our lives, or if our lives shape our names. It is a troubling question, especially when you are naming a band.

We wanted to convey the type of music we were making in our name. I think we really wanted to reflect the people that we were too.

Something kind of interesting, memorable, light hearted but having the potential to go in depth. Something REAL. Something kind of entertaining.

We made lists of potential names:

Chicken Scratch (ended up being the name of our album)

Out of Laguna ( we ended up leaving Laguna)

Out of Egypt ( Exodus?)

Garden Party (probably already a band named that or something)

Water Proof (what? that was a stupid idea)

Luck Joy Smugglers ( I was probably reading The Joy Luck Club in English)

The Free Birds (ended up naming a song that)

Sun Beam (no comment)

The Little Ministers ( I'm catholic so... that one didn't really make sense)

The Sol Bears (getting warmer)

This was the biggest hurdle we had come upon, and finally we had found the name for us. Yes Folks, we would call ourselves...

THE DANGER BEARS

At first it didn't really roll off the tongue, we thought it might be too weird. What does that mean?

Are people going to know we are a band, or are they going to think we're action heroes or something?

We didn't know and essentially we didn't really give a shit because we liked it!

The Danger Bears is just a combinations of Claire and I's nicknames.

Claire BEAR

and Dane-ger or DANGER...

I got the nickname Dane-ger when I was playing volleyball. I played all four years of high school as an opposite (I'm left handed).

Every year as soon as season was over, the basketball team would take over the gym and we would have to figure out something to do. Many times we would play a highly intensified form of soccer with virtually no rules dubbed Volleysoccer. Though there may be a debate about who actually christened the nickname, there is no debate as to why I was called that.

I repeatedly would nail my friend Chris in the crotch with the soccer ball. (Sorry Chris)

Once in freshmen year when I was throwing him the volleyball, I chucked it at his nuts. (no explanation). And I think two times I kicked the ball from probably six feet away and they hit him, and he went down...fast.

I got really into those games and I'm not sure if I ever stopped running because after they ricocheted off of Chris's nether region I would have possession of the ball again! I think one time I actually had to hop over his moaning body.

In my senior year sometimes the crowd would chant DANE- GER when I would serve. Good times. Good times. My friend Megan claims to have officially coined my nickname, but the jury is still out on that one.

Anyways that's where we got our name. The Danger Bears.

When we told Claire's parents they were thrilled. SAWEET!

we thought we had conquered the world, we had a song and a name, we were going to build a myspace and post the song! Nothing could stop us! The world was our oyster!

That is of course,

until I told my

MOTHER...

here's a link to our music page, give her a gander.

http://www.myspace.com/thedangerbears

p.s. feel free to send any personal Danger Bear stories to my email

dangerbears@hotmail.com

and I will post them.