The beginning is near.

Back from the dead?
You could call it that.
Personally I think it's too soon to say... we'll play it by ear.

First off, sorry about the lack of activity here.
I haven't had any stories tell, things to rant about or hidden musical gems to glorify.
I guess of course one can always find things to rant about if one looks.
Laziness on my part.

Harsh times we live in these days.
I just flicked thru the recent posts on twitter.
Not a piece of anything even close to good news as far the eye can see.
Economy problems seem to be the norm in most countries, intolerance is just a present if not even more so than ever, we are obsessed with surface and superficiality and a great portion of the world is burning in the flames of war started on ludicrous grounds.
And that's just some of the shit WE'VE fucked up for ourselves.

Mother earth sure as hell is doing a great job trying to hint that the party is over.. and we ain't invited to the afer-party.
On top of all that we have, if the Mayans are to be believed, about 1 year left until the shit really hits the fan.
So...
Economic crisis (Don't be fooled.. things can get ALOT worse)
War (See above)
Natural disasters ( No explanation needed I feel)
The Mayan thing (Don't have the details but it doesn't seem very fun)
Zombie uprise (Added for my own amusement. I'm totally ready for this when it goes down)
Alien invasion (Hopefully Close Encounter Of Third Kind aliens or E.T rather than..Alien or ID4) Nuclear holocaust (Trying to blow up the aliens)
Animals rising up and taking their turf back (I would love to see this one)
Iphones rising up and making us their slaves (They're half way there already...)

Seems we have alot of fun times ahead. Here comes my solution to the whole thing:

Ready?





Pay attention now.







Only gonna say this once.






RELAX!
Lighten up, have a beer or twelve., and breathe a little.

The world is always ending in one way or another.
It does seem like we are living in an age where things get shaken up a bit.
I have a few friends who truly believe we are racing towards some kind of big endgame scenario.
Maybe we are.
If so, I'm pretty sure a has-been musician /guitar-teacher/ bartender/DJ/professional whiner can't do anything about and I don't care what you do for a living because I know you can't either.

I don't believe the end is near, I do however believe we've reached some kind of breaking point and somethings got to change.

Change is not the end. It's just something new.
If anything the beginning is near.

So with that said, I will leave you for this time and hope I see you soon.

/Beard