Most people who know me are quite aware that I am a Reality T.V. junky.  I coined the moniker RBP (Reality Based Programming) around 2005, and it’s been on the rise ever since.  Some of my favorites include Bravo’s Top Chef, Fox’s Hells Kitchen/Kitchen Nightmares, A&E’s Intervention, VH1’s Celebrity Rehab, & plenty others.

The Real World was the first reality show I got into.  Arguably, it could be the first RBP ever?  I caught on in San Francisco, when a young gentleman by the name of ‘Puck’ captivated me with his loogies and lack of respect for anybody.  A marathon goes by and I was hooked.  From there, I  checked out two previous seasons, (NYC & L.A.) and have since then watched the majority of the others also.

As the show has gotten older, the lovely or should I say crappy programmers made the show more about drinking and hooking up then actually being ‘real.’  I understand what’s good for T.V. and all that bullshit, but it’s ridiculous and unrealistic as hell.  Not to mention the new ‘celebrity’ that people become after being on the show and see how long they can drag out 15 minutes.  Between the spin off shows (Inferno, The Duel, The Island, RW/RR Challenges, how many more are there?) to the club appearances and various other things, the cast now takes what they have and run with it.

Now some people actually are talented like Kevin Powell from the first season who has gone on to write for Vibe Magazine and be a spokesperson for the hip hop generation, but he did that based on his own talent;  not the ‘I’ve been on MTV’ route.  The majority of the cast is fucking worthless and/or whorish, but suffice it to say I continue to watch.

Onto the latest season:  Brooklyn.  Now there are eight strangers, two of which are from Utah of all places, a gay guy from Miami, a pageant winner from KC, an army guy outta PA, an ex-lesbian who is now straight from idk where, an east coast ‘best abs of the year’ award winner, and last but not least: a transgender guy/girl named Katelynn. 

After watching the first episode, I feel like this show might be entertaining based soley upon the ex-army guy from PA.  He seems to have some issues that are in the background that will surely come out when there is no T.V. to watch and being with complete strangers.  It’s quite entertaining to see his take on Katelynn, who although has completely changed genders, he still refers to as ‘him’. 

Nonetheless, it appears to be an interesting season ahead of us, and I’m sure the debauchary will make me laugh as much as I want to vomit.  It’s on MTV (obvi) Wednesday’s @ 10PM.

 MANHUNTERS MOTHER FUCKER

Tony tells me he tried to put me up on this show a while ago, but my gf and I stumbled upon it while being couch bums on our 3 year anniversary.  (We went out first and whatnot, so don’t think I’m a wack ass bf.) 

A&E is the network that hosts this great show.  The program is basically COPS yayed out of it’s gord.  The premise is that a task force is hired to find people who are wanted for serious crimes, and travel all over the U.S. to track them down.  Think of a loan shark who goes on tour to track MF’s who have scorned the justice system.

One day they’re @ home base which I believe is in NYC or Newark, NJ.  Next day they’re in Orlando knocking on some guy’s door @ 6AM for attempted murder who’s been on the lamb for eight months.  After handcuffing and arresting the gentleman, Officer Peppers or ‘Pep’ as he’s nicknamed thanks the guy for coming to Florida so he could see Disney World.  They caught the guy literally with his pants down as he was sleeping when they busted him.

I don’t know when Manhunters is on, but it is a must see if you like shows like Cops or Police chases or anything. 

You’re In Good Hands With Allstate 

I should be up and running with another car in the next week or so as I just recieved my settlement check from the Taurus.  For once I came out ahead in a terrible situation in the sense that I don’t owe shit on the car anymore and actually got money back.  It is an incredible inconvenience to rely on people for rides when I would rather drive off a cliff by myself.  I’ll post a pic of my new whip when I get it.  Stephanie, the main woman who helped me with my claim really took care of me and got me a nice crispy check for my troubles….thanks girl!

Also, thanks to everyone who’s helped my bum ass out with rides over the past few weeks.  It’s allowed me to get drunk when I usually have to drive, and helped me save money on gas.  Really though, thanks for looking out when I needed help.  I’ve been in somewhat of a depression over some shit recently, and wanted to big up the people who’ve helped me with rides and try to stay positive.

Re-Ordering Tees

It was dope that most of our tee shirts got sold @ the Magic Bag and over the holidays, but we left some people without b/c of sizes getting sold out.  We just want to let everyone know that we’ll be re-ordering tee shirts next week and will have your size in stock.  We took pre-orders for the shirts and if you want to jump on the list and reserve your size hit myself or Tony up @ abrasivemethod@gmail.com The Shirts are $12.

We are getting back into the swing of things with the holidays finally being over, and are moving forward with Living A Nightmare…  We’re really proud of the album and want everything to come to fruition the way we planned.  We’re going to be doing a couple of special things with this release, but are keeping things quiet while we try to strategize.  Look for a single to be available for download in the next month or so. 

Lucky # 13

The album is still available for download @ AM.com  We’ve been getting a lot of compliments about the album, and are still getting downloads daily even if it’s only a few.  It’s cool for people to be interested in the album when we didn’t really push it @ all which means people are actually seeking out to hear our music.  Maybe there’s more listeners out there tuning into our music than we even thought, and although it is an uphill battle, we’re no longer @ the very bottom of it. 

This album doesn’t really have shit on Living A Nightmare… and I say that with grace knowing that what we’ve been doing over the years is truly original, and shows our growth as artists.  It’s funny how we started out being a suburban rap group and how that style has headed to the forefront of hip hop with this ‘hipster’ movement, yet we were making tracks like that when we were 19 & 20. 

I hope we’re not too ahead of our time, jk.  I don’t need for A.M. to be Nirvana or anything, but I definately don’t want us to be The Pixies in the sense that Nirvana got their whole style from The Pixies, yet not half as many people are familiar with them.  A brother’s just looking for a little Jimmy Eat World success.

Anyways, thanks to everyone who has DL’ed the album, stopped by the site, copped merch, come see us play, and/or can’t keep our name out of your mouth.  We don’t get mentioned a lot on these popular/local sites, but some people love to hate that we’re doing shit they could never do, and that is a good thing.  When people are talking I suppose that means you’re doing something that affects them right?

Taking what’s mine in ‘09. 

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