It’s Thanksgiving.  I don’t care much for how it started, but I know that it’s the time to reflect on what you’re thankful for.  I decided that for once I’d sit down and think about it, cause every year, I just do what everyone does — eat, shit, then sleep.  Delightful, isn’t it?

I’m thankful for hardcore.  If it wasn’t for hardcore, I probably wouldn’t be the person that I am nor would I have the same attitude towards life that I do now.  Granted that I often come of as a negative person, much of my shaping can be traced back to this life.  It’s not just music and it isn’t just a place to hang out.  In a world where everything doesn’t make sense and everything else turned away, I found somewhere to call home.  From Terror to Crime in Stereo, Have Heart to Ruiner, there is nothing else that I can embrace as ‘life.’

I’m thankful for my friends, new and seasoned veterans.  I would drop names, but you already know how it works — if you think I’m talking about you, I am.  You guys are there to go to shows, to help out with cars, sending pictures of old Japanese cars to try to get me to ‘convert,’ to talk bullshit about girls, to play classic video games.  Words can be scribbled, but I’ll let my actions get my point across.

I’m thankful for my family.  It wasn’t until much recently that I’ve grown comfortable with my parents, being myself around them.  With my brother taking off next year, I’m sure the dynamic of the family will change, but there’s no other place to go from here but up.

Anyway, I’m sure that this all sounds like jibberish, but whatever.  I thought it would be nice to sit down and think about what I’m stoked on lately, and this is what came out.

Gabe XXX