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| April 3rd, 2006 - Just thought I would let everyone know that they can find music videos from my bands and solo project at a few new sites: www.ifilm.com (Just searh for the word "Weasels" & you'll get a good selection of videos) www.youtube.com www.myspace.com (Bruises Music Video) www.myspace.com (Music Videos of Broken & Summer Days Live, Acoustic, On Air) www.myspace.com (Short clips from the DVD - The History of the West Side Weasels) |
| January 20th 2006 - Well here it is, my new webpage. Here everyone can keep track of my different projects as well as my solo material. I will do my best to keep this webpage up to date. Thanks to everyone who continues to give me support! |
| December 27th, 2006 - Wishing everyone a Happy New Year! You can now buy my CD's right here from this website! Purchase Merch from the Anthology Page. Hooray! |
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July 14th, 2007 - Just wanted to let everyone know that you can now buy my new CD now! Limited to 500 copies and just plain terrible. |
| January 6th, 2009 - Hello again everyone! 2008 was a tough year for me in my personal life, and I had some serious problems arise. My wholesale jewelry business was hurt bad financially when our salesman ran off with over $235,000 in inventory. This lead to a landslide of problems that resulted in the loss of my home. Shortly after, my home was robbed and the crooks got away with over $32,000 worth of music equipment and all of my Camcorders, and electronics. They got my entire CD Collection that contained over 3,000 CD's. It was a devastating blow. A few weeks later I was involved in a hit and run accident that nearly cost me my life, and totaled my car. Needless to say, I was ready for 2009! With the start of a New Year, I am very excited and ready for my luck to change! I have finished recording the "March" CD, and it should hit shelves in April of 2009. So wish me luck in 2009......I need it! Cheers! |
| February 10th, 2010 - Greetings everyone! Over a year has passed since my last update, so I figured it's time to let everyone know what's going on. Most of you know that 2008 was a tough year. My home was robbed, than my business. I had my car totaled in a hit and run accident, and so on.... I was hoping for good luck in 2009, but my luck didn't change. I found out that the family business lost more than we had thought in the robbery. After doing inventory and going over the books, we had actually lost about $385,000....so far. We keep finding more stores that bought from us and paid our salesman cash. Our salesman wrote up a phony invoice for them, leaving us in the dark. I think he got away with close to half a million. Regardless, it was enough to pretty much put me out of business, and jobless. All of my other businesses have suffered because of the loss. I still have yet to release my new CD "March", because Bad Stain has not had the funds. In fact, Bad Stain only released one CD last year. The CD was Numbers On Napkins single, FORGET THIS, I'M GOING TO TOKYO and was limited to 500 copies. The full length will be released on F-Bomb Records in 2010. That album is also way overdue! In late January, my girlfriend Julie was hospitalized for an infection in her heart. We had been together for 16 months with some ups and downs. She had a bad problem with alcoholism, but I managed to get her clean. The problem was that I constantly found her drinking behind my back. She spent a month vomiting blood in my bedroom before she eventually was hospitalized in April of 2008 and got off the juice for good! Unfortunately, she picked up other habits. I caught her doing a variety of drugs, ranging from coke, to heroin, to crack. Now don't get me wrong, I'm down to have fun, and I've done my share of drugs. I wasn't happy with her because she was always doing the drugs. I told her I wouldn't care if it was in moderation, and as long as it was never around my kid. Well, I did put my foot down when it came to crack, and I'm happy to say she eventually gave it up. Still, she would use behind my back, and our relationship became turbulent. Shortly after Christmas of 2008, Julie looked emaciated and very ill. She got worse as the month progressed, and I eventually took her to the hospital. She had an infection in her heart, and she informed me that she required a series of operations, followed by 4 months of being hospitalized to receive intravenous antibiotics. The doctors informed me she was also withdrawing from heroin. After a week in the hospital, her family requested no visitors, and I was unable to see or call her. I found out from the staff that the infection in her heart was from shooting heroin. I called the hospital daily, getting updates from the staff, but her family refused to allow anyone to see her. In April of 2009, my mother informed me that she was going to have hospice take care of her at her home in New River. She was suffering from COPD and Addison's Disease. My mother had another problem that many were unaware of. She was a full blown hypochondriac, and had developed a strong addiction to morphine, oxycontin, valium, and other painkillers and anti anxiety medications. Her addiction was bigger than I had known. She was borrowing hundreds from me every week to purchase the drugs. My mother had not been able to get any pain medication from doctors after her third overdose in February of 2009. I drove her to a variety of doctors, and she always asked for painkillers. I would talk to the doctors and let them know she had a problem, but usually they already knew. Her hospital records were clear, and nobody would give her medicine. Doctors told her she could live twenty or thirty more years, but taking pain meds could slow her breathing and even kill her because of the COPD. She eventually gave up asking doctors, and just had Hospice come in to take care of her. When they arrived in mid April, my mom asked for morphine. She was told that they could not give her morphine unless she was at the physical hospice location. So of course she demanded to check into hospice. My mom never told me that she was checking into hospice, and I called her home and boyfriend for a few days before I finally discovered she had checked into hospice, thanks to my aunt. By then, she had already asked for morphine, which slowed her breathing, and put her into the hospital. My aunt informed me that my mother was not doing well, and told me to call her the following day at 6:00pm, because my mom had to talk to me. I called her the next day at 7:30, an hour and a half later than I was told. My mom didn't answer. I called again at 9:00, but she still didn't answer. I figured I would call the next day. At 3:00am my aunt called me from the hospital. My mother had suffered a stroke at 7:15. Of course I felt horrible that I didn't call at 6:00 like I was told. I felt worse when I got to the hospital, only to find out that my mom wanted to talk to me because she was informed by the doctors that she had less than a week to live. The doctors informed me that it would be best for me to sign a DO NOT RESUSCITATE form. My mother had her lawyer coming by to help her fill out the form in the morning. Now, it was up to me to sign the paperwork to allow my mother to die. It was the hardest thing I have ever done. On April 27th, she passed away. Making 2009 a far worse year than 2008, or any other year to date. On April 28th I called the hospital looking for Julie. I wanted to let her know what happened. To my surprise, she had checked out two days earlier. With no way to reach her, I called dozens of nursing homes, knowing she needed her antibiotics intravenously. She was nowhere. I sent her e-mails with no reply. I never saw her again. In May we had a memorial for my mother. It was a sad event. The hardest part was telling my daughter. It was the single hardest thing I have ever done. It broke her heart. She was very close to my Mom, and she felt as though she lost her best friend. I seldom cry. I hadn't shed a tear since 2003, but I will admit I wept like a child when I lost my mother. I wept because we were close, and she had a rough life. She tried hard to raise me and my brother, and made a lot of sacrifices. She made a lot of bad choices, and was selfish at many times as well. She made mistakes, but being a father I understand. I cried the most because I realized my daughter would never have a chance to see her grandma ever again. My mother would not be able to see my daughter grow up. It kills me just thinking about it. Three weeks after the memorial, I had to put my dog Angel to sleep. It was a horrible experience, as it just brought back the memories of my mother dying in my arms, just a few weeks prior. It was the first time I had ever put down a dog. My first dog Chance is still kicking....somehow. But his baby sister just couldn't survive without my mother. My mom had been taking care of Angel for the past two years, as my apartments would not take large dogs. When my mom never came home, Angel quit eating. She was skin and bones, and wanting to die. Of course I told my daughter that Angel went to live at a doggy retirement home. I couldn't let her be exposed to more death that soon. The year was tough, but I did have some good things happen as well. I got back together with my ex-wife Amy. We have both grown up, and decided to give it another try. She was there for me when my Mom passed, and she is great with my daughter. We have stayed friends for the past decade, and we finally had the courage to try again, and I think she could end up being the one...again! My band Numbers On Napkins signed a contract with F-Bomb Records to release our long overdue album BORRACHOS, CHINGASOS Y RUCAS in late 2009. It happened just weeks before Bad Stain was going to release it, but the band felt that F-Bomb could help us more, as they have better distribution. At the tail end of 2009, Numbers On Napkins guitarist, Matt Martini chose to leave the band to pursue his side project "Reason Unknown" full time. Matt was like a brother, and I hated to see him go, but I fully understood. Matt wanted to play nothing but raw punk rock, and Numbers On Napkins just plays whatever styles we write, whatever styles we enjoy. Even though NoN is primarily punk and pop punk, we do blend an assortment of styles, making us a punk influenced fusion rock band. Reason Unknown is an amazing band, and I wish Matt all the best! With all that being said, I am very excited about 2010. Numbers On Napkins will be releasing our new CD, and I will be releasing "March". I am nearly finished recording "April", and NoN is in the middle of recording material for a cover album, and has six originals nearly complete, with another six half way done. I also found about 20 songs we have never released over the years...mostly demo's, covers, and live songs....but a couple decent originals we just didn't put on previous albums. With any luck, perhaps NoN will release a few albums in 2010, and I will put a couple out myself! My daughter also wants to record an album with her band NOTHING IN CHINA. She turned six ten days ago, but feels her band is ready to hit the studio. They only have a couple songs, but if she can write a few more, I would like to release an E.P. for her band by late 2010. I guess we'll have to see if I have the funds in this shitty economy, and if her band is really ready for such a challenge at such a young age. Thanks to all my fans for sticking with me during this slow period. I know I haven't released new material lately, but rest assured, my new music will be worth the wait! Cheers - Chase |