Kurtis Johnson’s Blog

so tonight was a great night. i hung out with my girlfriend. i do this all the time but instead of just watching T.V. or something, we did something wayyy more fun. I dont know what is going through your mind right now but heres what we did. we just sat and talked for like 2 hours while looking out the window at the ATL skyline. (or just the one cool building you can see from her window. its really close and looks cool) it was the first time we just sat and talked that long in a long time. we just talked about old times and whatever random stuff came to mind. it was nice. i also gave her a new nickname. “poot.” i just forgot about that word and thought it was funny. so i called her that and she doesnt like it at all. hahahahahaha. so i guess ill have to find a new one. but i love her a lot.

in other news, we played a show on friday at the Georgia Institute of Technology (more commonly known as Georgia Tech. it was good. we played really well and got to hang out with some friends. so yea, if you read this, come to our upcoming shows!! it will be fun! thats all!

so yea, i guess its official that im an idiot. im not sure what really happened this past week, but i do know i almost lost someone important to me. im glad everything is worked out and better than it ever has been. and i hope it stays that way.

in happier, less cheesy news, well…. there isnt a whole lot. but it seems as if a lot of things are changing for the better. i started reading Gods Word a lot lately like i should. i was terrible at keeping up with that but i know im not the only one so i dont feel like a total heathen. hahahaha. but yea, this ones short. but thats all.

“if they ask you for a sign of the Father in ya, tell em its movement”

so we havent played a show in over a week and its lame. i just wanna play some rock and roll. i went and saw cartel last night for like the millionth time ever and it made me just wanna play rock n roll. i know im supposed to be cool and pretend that im not influenced by them since we play a similar style of music, but i like em. hopefully we can play music as much as them and every other big band gets too one day. lately we have just been getting some crappy shows. we bust our little tails to load up and drive to where ever and set up, and it turns out that whoever set up the show did a terrible job with promotion and only like 2 kids show up. (probably more than 2 but you get the point.) we can promote if its a place we are familiar with but its not always the bands job if they are playing a city/town thats not their local town. and we dont draw our own huge crowds yet. we drew a few kids in ohio and the other places we played on tour, which was cool being as how it was our first little tour and we went by ourselves with nothing.

for some reason i have a good feeling about this band. even though its not my name on the CD and the shirts its still a blast and im still gettin to do the only thing i want to do. i just want to do it more. ha. the future looks good. we have some shows that i actually think will be good coming up. so yea. thats all i guess.

so tonight me and chris definitely picked up 2 hitch hikers. they waved us down and we kinda drove past them (like you always do), then i was like, “hmmmm, maybe ill stop and get them.” chris agreed so we did. the reason we decided to stop is because they were two middle aged white people, nicely dressed, walking around the middle of the ghetto. they were really cool and ended up giving me 20$ when we dropped them off downtown, which is where we were heading anyways. i was glad i picked them up because i really needed an extra 20$, and i know if i was in their situation, i would have wanted a ride out of there as well. ha. turns out they were here on business and they were originally from ohio. i dont think they were too familiar with the neighborhood because they were walking in a pretty rough part of town. so i guess you could say i saved their lives. haha. good times.

so i totally went to the fair tonight with amanda for like an hour. i spent 14$ and we rode one ride. it was a total rip off. but it was fun hangin out with her as usual. it was the first time i had been to an event like that in henry county in a while and i forgot how ridiculous this place is. it seemed like there would be a lot of tension because everyone there was either a “gangster” or a redneck. the problem with the “gangsters” is that they are in McDonough, and im sorry but McDonough just isnt not a “hard/tough” city. im sure there are plenty of people there that could beat me up for sayin that, but that doesnt make you “hard”. i thought it was funny how the even the white kids walked around like they were tough with their camo hats halfway on their heads. i just wanted to tell them to get a life. im not judging anyone really, it just took me back to high school. i know ive only been out of high school for a couple years but i can just see how big of a difference there is between now and then. haha. oh well. i had my days where i thought i was cool. i used to be “punk rock”.  i wanted to be tom delonge from blink 182. hahaha. so i guess everyone has there time. anyways im gonna go to bed. if you read this and found this blog offensive, leave me a comment. i need a good chuckle.

so yea… i played drums tonight at our show and i thought it was gay. i mean i guess i played ok, but after watching the videos, there was just a lot of low energy and it even came off as a very boring live performance if you ask me. the look on my face was funny. i just looked confused the whole time. i felt kinda out of my comfort zone and un-rehearsed. haha oh well. we will get back on the ball here soon. maybe even practice once in a while. we really could be good, but we never just set up our gear and practice as a band. part of it is because we dont have time. but then when we do play on the weekends, it just seems like each show was “just ok”. its probably just us and we sound GREAT to everyone else, but i think we could be 1000000000 times better if we had a band practice every now and then. so yea.  thats it. im going to bed.

so today was one of those days. i say that.. but it really wasnt that bad. it lasted 24 hours like all the rest of the days. i got my butt kicked in my private/classical guitar class because i didnt practice enough. im really trying to get better at guitar. hopefully i will soon.

on a happier note, i finally got with the program and learned how to use photoshop a little bit. i designed that awesome looking header at the top of my blog with the planes and the globe. haha. it doesnt make any sense, but i think it looks cool. i also put my amp for sale on craigslist today. i just need something more practical. so if any of you 2 people who read this are interested in buying my amp, contact me.

i wish something funny happened today. this was a boring blog. maybe ill brighten it up with this joke….. How Do You Get Holy Water????
You Boil The Hell Out Of It! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. goodnight

so tonight was the first night of our new “gig” at this church in atlanta. we are playing there every sunday night, leading worship and what not. it went well. but the best part was after we left and me, austin, brink and my girlfriend amanda, went to caribou coffee. we were trying to find a place to park when brink pulled out in front of a nice bmw, (who by the way was driving way to fast) causing him to slam on his brakes. this guy was angry and chased brink into the parking lot yelling as if he wanted to throw fists. this guy had some big talk until brink stepped out of the car and he saw he is like 9 feet tall. then he chilled out. but brink smarted off a little which made it funny. nothing really harsh, he kept his religion through all of it but i thought it made for a great story. honestly, this didnt really make me realize anything deep and spiritual about my own life. i know thats typically what you get when you read peoples blogs. but i just thought it was funny. im not really good at writing “deep” thoughts out on these things. maybe will get around to it sometime soon.

but yea, the music tonight went really well and i think its gonna be a good experience. and it does look like im playing drums this weekend at our show. so if you read this and can come out, you dont wanna miss this. this will probably only happen once! haha