Shows - Downloads - Weekends

Hercules is playing 3 shows in December around the midwest! If you live near any of these towns, come out to the show!

Friday, December 18th Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground

with : The Heat Machine (CD RELEASE) Artillery Funk & The Bishops

Saturday, December 19th Cedar Falls, IA @ The 1108 House
with : Agress, Caulfield & Dead Heroes

Sunday, December 20th Sioux Falls, SD @ Middy Mansion

with : Worst Of Times, Caulfield & Dead Heroes

Also you (meaning the 6 people who look at this blog) can download the newest Hercules full length "Moon Riders" (released 06.11.09 on Nihilism Records - www.myspace.com/nihilismrecordsne) for free by going to www.mediafire.com/hercules

tell all of your friends to download it. pass it around if you feel like it!

On a personal note, things are going awesome right now! I am in Omaha today using the internet, eating at my parents then going to the dudes house to soundproof our practice space and have Hercules and Koizumi practice. I am currently on a 3 day weekend from work which is really awesome. This whole Thanksgiving weekend is going to rule. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving 1 in York with my dads family, Thursday is Thanksgiving 2 in York with my moms family (Lyndsi, Kailey and Dani will also be attending!) Friday at midnight is the bar then the casino for Gabes 21st birthday, Saturday is Punxgiving and Touche Amore @ Ghost House and Sunday is Phobia @ Ghost House! What a weekend I have coming up!

Pumped on life. Still have no money but I never do so fuck it!

LincOmaha

I haven't made a post in over a month. Things have drastically changed since I got home from tour at the end of September. I quit my jobs at Coco Key Water Resort and Godfather's Pizza. I first quit Coco Key but still stuck around at Godfather's for a few weeks. We decided to move out of the Float Crib at the end of October so I quit one job to search for a new place to live and a new place to work. I ended up moving in with Kailey in Lincoln and got a job pretty fast at Jimmy Johns. I moved here October 19th, right after I got over my mono and have been hanging out and working ever since.

I am also the most broke I have been since before I started working when I was 14. I have had $1 in my bank account for the last week and a half and that is the only money that I have. Touring 3 and a half months this year plus moving plus bills has put me in a terrible money situation. But I'm working and I will bounce back, I always seem to. But things have been really rough the last month money wise. Haven't had money to get back to Omaha much which sucks because I really miss it there.

Thought I wanted a break from booking tours, but after almost two months of being home I'm already itching to get started on the next one. And luckily for me, that's exactly what I am doing! Hercules and Battle are going to road dog together again in March! This time hitting up the Midwest, Canada and the West Coast! I am really excited to hang out with those dudes again and am really excited to tour in Canada. Hercules is working on getting either a 7" or at least a CDR of some new songs and a Black Sabbath cover released by this tour. Really excited to be writing, recording and touring again. It's what I love to do!

Been in a real good mood lately, things are looking up. Want to start making money and get back to Omaha more often then things will be perfect!

Mono

I can't believe this shit. So I'm still dealing with what originally was thought to be an abscess on my tonsils, that is not the case at all. I was prescribed an antibiotic by the hospital to help my swelling go down. The next day I went to an ENT (ears, nose, throat) doctor to get my abscess drained. He stuck a needle in my neck but nothing would come out and he was saying he was not convinced that this was an abscess. He told me he thought it was some sort of virus that my body was going to have to get over itself. He told me to keep an eye on it and call him in the morning. During all of this I also developed a cold and was having high fevers everynight before I went to bed.

The next day all of my swelling was the same and I didn't feel better so I went back into the ENT and he told me he was sure it was mono. We didn't do a mono test because he said it takes a week to get back and it would cost me too much money to find out for sure. He told me to keep taking my antibiotics and just let the mono do it's thing. The day I got done taking my antibiotics I broke out in the most ridiculous rash I have ever seen. This rash goes from my feet all the way up to my skull. It itches, burns and hurts. I am honestly more rash than skin right now, I look like a ginger freak. I woke up with this and decided to go into the hospital to see what the hell was going on. The doctor did a mono test and confirmed that I do have mono. He told me this rash was caused by my antibiotics I was taking. He also told me taking those antibiotics was completely pointless since I did not have a tonsil abscess.

So here I sit, dealing with this for the last week and a half, now with a rash I got because I took medicine I didn't need to be taking. Here's the real kicker...I will have this rash for 7-10 days. And if I have it longer than that I have to go back into the doctor. The doctor at the hospital in Lincoln told me he got mono when he was in his 20's and he had it for 2 months. Symptoms can come and go at anytime so basically I could feel better then just get all of these symptoms again a week later. The only light at the end of this dark, dark tunnel is that after I'm over it I just have the mono virus forever and can never get this again. Again, I can't believe this shit.

Abscess

This all started with me finding a huge lump on my neck Sunday night. I thought it was weird but I didn't think much of it. After talking to a few people who had similar things I wasn't worried and just figured it was no big deal. Thursday I woke up with a little bit of a sore throat but I usually get those when it gets a little colder out so once again didnt think anything of it. Friday brought some swelling and a weird pus filled sore in my throat. I q-tipped some of the pus out of the sore and it literally smelled like human shit was in my mouth. It was awful.

Saturday I woke up in extreme pain and my neck was now swollen in a few different places. I decided that Monday I should go into the doctor because this was looking pretty bad. I went itno work Saturday night and noticed my pain was getting worse and my throat swelled even more. At the very end of my shift I started getting shooting pains in my ear and I knew I had to get something done. After work I decided I couldn't let this slide and went into the emergencey room.

When I arrived I should a nurse my huge swollen neck and my pus filled sores and she was horrified. In fact, everyone I showed was horrified. I was told multiple times that you're not supposed to see swelling outside of the neck with things like this. They said they needed to do a cat scan. During the scan I had iodine pumped into me to see if I had an abscess in my throat or not. I was luckily warned of this before it happend but when they pumped it into me my body got super hot and it felt like I was just pissing in my pants the entire time, it was a really strange feeling.

After my cat scan Kailey came up from Lincoln to hang out with me at the hospital and it ruled, made me feel a lot better. She called my mom and my parents decided to come up to hang out as well. After waiting for about an hour after my cat scan the doctor finally came in and told me that I have an infected abscess in my throat. The only way to really get rid of this is to cut open and drain the abscess. Unfortunately for me the pocket of infection hasn't fully formed so I have to wait until tomorrow (Monday) to get it cut open. I have to get up at 7:00am tomorrow to call a Ear, Nose and Throat doctor to try to get in. If I can't get into there I have to go back to the emergency room to cut sliced and drained.

Luckily I went in when I did though. The swelling was so huge that is was putting pressure on my windpipe and if I didn't go in it could have swollen my windpipe shut which would obviously kill me. That was wild news to get. I got some medicine to take for the swelling and it has gone down a bit today and the pain isn't nearly as bad. It's 1:05am right now and I can't really sleep because I have absolutely no idea what to expect tomorrow. I was told they would cut it open and drain it but I have no clue what that process is like. I hope everything goes well. This is all a huge bummer.

Home For A While

Moving out of The Float Crib this month. Not sure where I am moving to. Not sure where I am going to work. Not sure what I am going to do. Things will work out as they should.

Go Big Red

What can I say on my 70th post about tonight? I guess I can be cliche and start from the beginning. Gabe picked me up and we rolled over to the manor where Jay's younger sister hosted her birthday party. Imagine any college movie party you've seen and set it in the manor with our friends strategically placed throughout the party like hobo streamers. Bumping' beats provided by a DJ, green lights to set the mood and more booty dancing and break dancing than you can handle. No one knew who any of these people were or where they came from. But we knew they were there to get drunk, smoke weed and grind their dicks on ass or ass on dicks.

The night rolled on and it fucking sucked the whole time. I even heard a go big red chant, and not in the funny way like when we chant "USA!" at ghost house. Real, heartfelt chants to the gods of the grid iron more commonly referred to as the black shirts. Gabe, myself and a handful of others decided to seek sanctuary in his room and spend our Saturday wrecking Liberty City on Grand Theft Auto 4. It was a great fucking time, eons better than the lame ass party that raged beneath our feet.

Just as I blew a cops head off (on grand theft auto) Joey walked up to tell us that the cops were here. They were let in by two histerical girls who were not ok with the idea of not allowing the police to come into your house. You don't have to let them in. They busted in and honestly said "OH NO IT'S THE COPS!" just like in Super Bad, or was it Super Troopers? Either way, Cody looked outside only to tell us that there were 3 cop cars, oh wait here comes a 4th, never mind here comes a 5th! Five goddamn cop cars lined up outside of the manor ready to crack some fucking minors domes. Two cops entered Gabe's room and asked us who lived there. Gabe looked around for a bit as if to think that one of us may decide to lie and fess up to cover him. He finally approached the cop and told him that he lived there. The cop asked 3 or 4 times if this was a frat house which blew my mind (do we look like we live in a fucking frat?) .

Time passed as weed and pipes were confiscated from unsuspecting teenagers trying to let out some steam after this weeks grueling school week. Some left in tears, one left in the back of a cop car. As we sat and watched the scatter out on the street another cop entered Gabe's room with the same old questions. He asked us if we were smoking weed then pointed directly at Marc and said "you've been in the weed room." We all laughed and asked him what the fuck that meant to which the cop replied "come on guys, he's obviously been in the weed room." A total mind fuck of ungodly proportions. We laughed, talked about all of the wild shit assorted people saw then decided to head to Rados then call it a night.

Home From Tour Again

Didn't really do a home from tour post. Pretty much got home and was thrown back in to working a lot and having a ton of shit going on when I'm not working. I put my two weeks in at Coco Key on Monday and my last day is a week from today. That will be awesome not working that job anymore because it literally took my soul away, that's the only way to describe it. I don't know what my deal is, I once was content with working but the older I get the more I hate it. It's one of the reason I am usually in a bad mood. I've had a lot of bad shit happen to me this year and being at work reminds me of standing there in one place for 8 hours thinking about all of my problems and having nothing to keep me occupied from them. It's a real mentally draining job.

Now I have other bad shit going on right now. I am ruining good things around me being in a shit mood but I literally can't stop. My problems are just going to wear me down and put me in an even shittier place. I've tried having a positive outlook and I can't, even when I have things going great in my life. Always focusing on the negative. Feeling so unmotivated lately. Feeling alone when I'm clearly not. This has simultaneously been the best and worst year of my life.