Below are the 10 most recent journal entries recorded in Wailing Monkey Clasping a Tree's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, January 16th, 2002
6:34 pm	Let's try this again Century Media Mail Order 1453-A 14th St. #324 Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA Voice: 310-973-5357 Fax Orders To: 310-973-5466 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Order # 30184 Date Order Placed: 16-Jan-02 Chris Khodadadian 1851 Ayers Way Burbank CA 91501 USA Phone: 8188486764 Email: boond@mindspring.com Item Qty Cost Amount ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ICED EARTH - DARK GENESIS BOX SET(CD) 1 $50.00 $50.00 Subtotal: $50.00 Credit Card - Add 3%: $1.50 California Resident - 8.25% Sales Tax: $4.13 Shipping: $2.50 Order Total: $58.13 Payment Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Method: credit-card Card Type: Visa Comments: Fuck you Century Media. I ordered my box set back in november, you mysteriously "lose" my and a bunch of others orders, and now you tell me to reorder, except the goddamn price has been JACKED UP 20 DOLLARS. FUCK YOU. I can't wait until Iced Earth leaves your shitty ass, piece of shit, joke of a label. Go to hell. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 2nd, 2001
12:50 am	Century Media Mail Order 1453-A 14th St. #324 Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA Voice: 310-973-5357 Fax Orders To: 310-973-5466 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Order # 28198 Date Order Placed: 24-Nov-01 Chris Khodadadian 1851 Ayers Way Burbank CA 91501 USA Phone: 1 818 848 6764 Email: boond@mindspring.com Item Qty Cost Amount ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ICED EARTH - DARK GENESIS (PRE-ORDER)BOX(CD) 1 $31.50 $31.50 Subtotal: $31.50 Credit Card - Add 3%: $0.95 California Resident - 8.25% Sales Tax: $2.60 Shipping: $2.50 Order Total: $37.54 Payment Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Method: credit-card Card Type: Visa (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 30th, 2001
2:21 pm	Battle of the Bands Well...another show, another reason to think my band is cursed. It started off looking VERY good for us. Out lead guitarist Christian actually showed up to play with us, which meant we had a good chance of winning. We practiced all day, up until about 45 minutes before the show. So anyway...we all drive to the show. We're the fourth band to go. So, after the third band just gets on, Rudy and Christian go to tune their guitars. On the way there, Rudy's strap gets caught on a fence, and he kept walking and he dropped his guitar (an ESP Explorer) on the ground, head first. The head cracked in half, leaving him only three strings to work witn,. (The lower three strings) We play our show, which everyone said was really good even though our rhythm guitarist was using a 3-string guitar. After we play Rudy goes driving around crying. Mainly because his guitar is his life, and now its gone. So I stayed back waiting for the show to end hoping by some miracle of God we'd win so I could give Rudy the 500 bucks to fix, or get a new guitar. Unfortunately we don't win, our good friends Savage Henry won. Good for them, they put on a great show. I just wish that we could have gotten that money, because now our band is completely set back until Rudy gets a new guitar or fixes his with money he doesn't have. I've just been thinking a lot about the band lately. Every show we play, something goes wrong. You want me to list them in order? Spirit week 2000 - They cut our set short and only let us play 1 song out of the 4 we were promised. Jester's court 2001 - Rudy's wireless system took a shit right before we went on (keep in mind it was working fine just about 2 minutes ago, we were the first act) so we had no rhythm guitar. Cobalt 2001 - Rudy broke a string and we didn't get to finish our set About 3 shows at peoples houses where we brought all our gear, set up, then found out we couldn't play so we had to haul it all home. ND Rally about 2 weeks ago - PA was dead, Rudy's mic was practically not on ND Battle of the bands -- I just told you what happened. So, I guess we're cursed. Those are all the bad things I can remember, there might be more that just escapes me right now.. The one thing that is really depressing me is this. It's just not about the music anymore. No one, I mean no one, including the bands that played, will deny that our music was the most thought out, together, and impressive. But that doesn't count anymore with people. It's all about how much you talk, scream, or act up. Shock value. Unfortunately, we don't offer any of that. We're fans of music, we go up there, start playing our music without a word, and only say one thing which is a "Thank you" at the end of our set. We are there to play you MUSIC, not to be your television. And everywhere we go, the same thing happens. No one listens, the just LOOK. It just seems like a band like us will never make it, no matter how much effort or money or faith I or Rudy put into it. Maybe we're pushing a lost cause. Some people I know will tell me i'm just bitching for no reason again, and to stop complaining so much. Well you know what? FUCK YOU, I have a right to complain. I've put hundreds of dollars, hundreds if not thousands of hours, and immeasurable faith into this band, only to get dicked around everytime we play. I'm not asking for ANYTHING other than a show that goes WELL. I'm not asking for a record contract, money, groupies to blow me, I'm just asking for a fucking show where nothing goes wrong. Current Mood: crushed Current Music: no music (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 25th, 2001
8:34 pm	I've never had a friend move away before. Well, it really sucks. Gregs going to Seattle for college on Friday. To say I'm going to miss him would be an understatement. I don't really consider myself to have many friends...having one of my favourite ones leave really sucks. I sometimes I could relive the good old times. Me being a Junior, Greg, Josh, Rudy, Jeff, Mike, everyone else still seniors. Jeff's house, smoking pot. Listening to the tape of Josh puking over and over. Watching Greg and Mike smoke Cheetos, listening to Van Veens paranoid babbling. Just...watching Will. Driving down Alameda in the Ragemobile for some Del Taco, late in the night. I'll cry if I go on, but there are so many other memories... Well, I know it's the best for you to leave Greg. That's why I'm letting you (just kidding). I guess for you it's time to move on to bigger and better places. I'm still stuck down here, wishing it was a year ago. Back when things seemed right. I don't feel right being a senior. I don't feel right without all the guys. I feel empty, and pointless. I feel like fate has held me back a year for some reason..I walk around school everyday hoping that if I look hard enough, I'll see Greg's, and everyone elses faces down in the tunnel. But it's empty, as it has been the past 3 weeks, and will continue to be forever. School is just so wrong, so empty and boring without you guys. Everyday I go to school and I just feel like shit. I feel misplaced, lost...everyday people ask me what I'm sad about, or why I look depressed sometimes... But I just tell them it's nothing. People keep asking me why I'm quiet sometimes...well now you know. It's hard enough to go through that at school, but now Greg's leaving for good, just not from 7:45 - 1:15....Anyway, enough about me... Greg, thanks for the memories. I know there will be more to come. But this chapter of our lives has come to a close. It was great, and I'll miss it, and I know I'm not ready to move on, but I will be soon. I love ya man, have an awesome time in college, and try not to forget about me. Adios.. WHOOPIE!!!!!!!!! Current Mood: depressed (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 19th, 2001
10:30 pm	I wish I wasn't so lazy as to never update this thingy. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 5th, 2001
3:47 pm	Silly rabbit, logic is for kids. (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 16th, 2001
11:20 pm	Face of Melinda -Mikael ?kerfeldt By the turnstile beckons a damsel fair The face of Melinda neath blackened hair No joy would flicker in her eyes Brooding sadness came to a rise Words would falter to atone Failure had passed the stepping stone She had sworn her vows to another This is when no-one will bother And conceded pain in crumbling mirth A harlot of God upon the earth Found where she sacrificed her ways That hollow love in her face Still I plotted to have her back The contentment that would fill the crack My soul released a fluttering sigh This day fell, the darkness nigh I took her by the hand to say All faith forever has been washed away I returned for you in great dismay Come with me, far away to stay Endlessly gazing in nocturnal prime She spoke of her vices and broke the rhyme But baffled herself with the final line My promise is made but my heart is thine Current Mood: mellow Current Music: Opeth - Still Life - 05 - Face of Melinda (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 11th, 2001
3:42 pm	Tear down the wall.. I deleted my entries because they sucked.. Anyway, things have been flowing smoothly for the past couple of weeks. I've been home parentless this whole time. My parents went to Europe and are just coming back tonight, which sucks, but whatever, they are leaving this winter again for a couple of weeks so this is not the last time I'll be alone. I can't wait until school starts. I'm going to be the self proclaimed King of my school. I'm going to wear a burger king crown and walk around with a scepter and a purple cape. I'll probably get a uniform violation, but I don't care. I'm a senior. I'm taking English IV, Religion IV, Economics/Government, Acting I, Computers, and PE. Talk about a fun fuckin' year. You'll hear from me later. Current Mood: blah Current Music: Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards - 03 - Poor Man's Crusade (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 8th, 2001
9:13 pm	Still.. ....Feelin' Fine Current Mood: bored Current Music: Metallica - Master of Puppets (Comment on this)
Friday, July 6th, 2001
7:45 pm	Little known fact about Chris... I have a bald spot on my head from stress -- See if you can find it! Fun for the whole family... Current Mood: indescribable Current Music: Iron Maiden - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Comment on this)