The day started like any other. Got up for work, went to work, worked, and got out of work. Then the fun began. I rushed home to change and headed out to the Buy to pick up my 8-hours-of-work check.
Now for a little back-story. For those of you who have been reading this blog from the beginning, you may remember me mentioning that a band called As I Lay Dying had decided to use some footage that we shot last summer in their next DVD. To what extent and how much, we really had no idea. All I knew is that Kyle had apparently sent out our names to whomever it concerned to attain credit for said shoot. Well that was a while ago and I didn't hear anything since. Last weekend when I was in Grand Rapids at Studiotte I was paroosing an old Alternative Press that was laying around and an advertisement caught my eye. It was for the new As I Lay Dying DVD entitled "This Is Who We Are." Near the bottom of the ad was a release date for April 14. I immediately text'd Kyle letting him know of this to which he replied that he didn't even know it was out and he would try to get a copy sent to him; However, if I were going to get it, to let him know if our names showed up. Skip a head to today. Kyle text'd me wondering if I'd picked up the DVD. I said no, and that truth be told, I was waiting to see if he had got it. He let me know that he was waiting on me. Fun times. I told him I'd try picking it up today when I went to the store.
And now we're back to me picking up the check. I said some quick hello's and headed to the music aisle. I had remembered seeing something about the DVD online where it layed out what was on each disc. Cornerstone's name was on there, so regardless, I thought, I'd get to see our footage even if we weren't credited. So I bought it and headed over to Brandon's where he, Aubrey, Laura, and I were meeting to head to (guess...) the Mac store in Novi. His sister was thinking about getting a MacBook and wanted to see what the store had to offer. I guess it was good because I had questions concerning a couple hard drives I needed to get information off of. So with hard drives and plastic sealed DVD in hand, I got in the backseat and was off. When we stopped to get gas in town I decided now was as good a time as any to see if anything was mentioned about Cornerstone. I opened up the package wrap and saw this:
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I'll be honest with you all, I'm pretty damn stoked. First nationally released credit. Wow. Thanks and kudos goes out to Mr. Kyle Farthing as well as Rhett and Mike. It definitely was a good time, guys.
So yeah, I opened that up in the car and showed the peeps. Good times all around. When we got to Novi we headed straight to the Mac store where I stepped up to the Genius bar and was given directions on how to easily transfer everything. Basically...I'm a moron and forgot to use common sense. Can you say 2 SATA enclosures. And I thought that the fact they were RAID 0 was going to be a problem. Haha. Next was a little more shopping (including me finding a nice, formal outfit) and a hearty meal at California Pizza Kitchen. The Tigers game was on near the bar so I was watching that. Unfortunately we lost after Justin Verlander pitched 8 full innings and allowed no runs. How'd we lose, you ask? Well because Rodney came in and got hit up (literally) in one inning of play. No one's perfect, but come ON. Those are the games we have to win. At least Verlander didn't get the L. Brandon ended up driving back for what turned out to be a fantastic evening.
But it wasn't over yet. On the way back I got to talking to Ben and Nic who were headed home (along with others) from the Tigers game. We decided we were going to see The Hangover at 11:55 tonight. Nic, if anyone was wondering, is getting married tomorrow so he decided to take some of the guys out tonight. Anyway, Brandon was a little tired so he passed but I called Josh after we got back and he was down. I picked Hockin up and we headed to NCG for the final showing of the night. And man...I wasn't expecting what we saw. The 11:55 show was a legitiment sellout. Literally every seat, once we finally got into the theater, was filled. Everyone was sitting next to someone. We even ended up having to plant ourselves in one of the first rows. That was a little upsetting, but man, it was all worth it. The crowd helped, but that movie was hilarious. I'm still wondering how they got away with something at the very end (as in ratings-wise) but since I hate the MPAA, I won't fret about it. The lights came on, I said goodbye's and see-you-tomorrow's and headed on home (after dropping of Hosh).
I'm now in front of a computer growing all the more tired with each passing minute. Man, a busy day, but one of the best I've had in a while. I'm still a little giddy about the whole As I Lay Dying DVD thing. Sweet.
When the sun goes down,
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