This weekend: Joshua Tree

Seriously one of my favorite things to do since moving to Los Angeles is to take weekend camping trips with my friend Dan in Joshua Tree National Park. I have always been a camper but only in the past year have I been a rock climber. The first time Dan asked me to go I was a little hesitant, but I will try almost anything once, so I started climbing....and LOVED IT! This weekend will be another camping adventure for me. Every time we go, we recruit a new person, so I'm excited to see who will be added to our camping family adventures!

Me and Dan on my first climbing adventure

Second place still feels like losing...

Wolfy is moving back to Florida

My roommate is moving back to Florida in the beginning of May. I'm hiding it pretty well, but I'm actually super depressed about it. Even though he is the guy who moves around every 4 months and I'm sure he'll be back soon, I am really bummed about it. He's so rad.

I'll miss you like a bad disease...not at all

One more minute is one too long
And I won't forget it,
The way you did me wrong

Hurt like a boxer
You fight like a snake
And if you want her
I'm not standing in your way

The way I feel is
The way I feel is
The way I feel it

I need you like another broken heart and a hole in my head
I need you like a six foot grave and a high speed train wreck
I bet you find it hard to believe
But I miss you like a bad disease
And maybe baby now you know how much you really mean to me

Watch your dock so I don't know how I sink so low but
I get happy, feel better when you go

Learned my lesson
Learned the hard way
I'm better for it
I'll never make the same mistake

The way I feel is
The way I feel is
The way I feel it

I need you like another broken heart and a hole in my head
I need you like a six foot grave and a high speed train wreck
I bet you find it hard to believe
But I miss you like a bad disease
And maybe baby now you know how much you really mean to me

Hey, hey, hey
Sail away
Hey, hey, hey
Sail away
Hey, hey, hey
Sail away

I need you like another broken heart and a hole in my head
I need you like a six foot grave and a high speed train wreck
I bet you find it hard to believe
But I miss you like a bad disease
And maybe baby now you know how much you really mean to me

Wrong Way Kids

"One day you'll be old enough to look at this and you'll be very ashamed your father was a famous punk rocker"

I just wanna write you in a song

I just wanna write you in a song

Put your smile on paper so you can sing along

Found a little hope in the Arts District

Gonna Make You Mine

Gonna Make You Mine

By: Olin and the Moon

Well maybe I should call
Or maybe I should write
Or maybe pace around
'Til something feels right
Rehearse it in my head
Think about it all night
Wake up to a bad dream
The nightmare kind
Get a glass of water
And flush it out my mind
And just write it down
Don't think twice

I'm gonna make you mine
I'm gonna make you mine

Well maybe I could call
Or maybe just show up
And kiss you on the cheek
And watch your face light up
And as the nights falling
We could fall in love
We could watch the sunset
I'd steal it for you
And take all the colors
Paint it in your bedroom
We'd be feeling fine
Don't think twice

I'm gonna make you mine
I'm gonna make you mine

As we watch that sun go down
We will be here now
Just watch that sun go down
Tonight

Cause I'm gonna make you mine
I'm gonna make you mine
I'm gonna make you mine
I'm gonna make you mine

I'm gonna make you mine
I'm gonna make you mine

Live Without Warning

"Always remember there is nothing worth sharing like the love that let's us share our name." 

City Lights

My great friend, Mark and I wrote this song on his most recent trip to Los Angeles. I'm very proud of it.

CITY LIGHTS

written by Amanda Blide and Mark Russell

Another car goes by, lonesome nights

Sit alone under city lights, tonight just passes by

And the car you drive and I see your eyes

Looking down the road of your life and I'm left behind

I can hear your words say goodbye

I count sleepless nights beneath these city lights

Just to pass the time, erase my mind

Rewriting memories you left behind

Another stranger's eyes wake up with mine

Sleeping in my bed from last night, they're not your eyes

We share Hellos, Goodbyes, and I can't find everything you were in my life

When you were mine

I can hear your words say goodbye

I count sleepless nights beneath these city lights

Just to pass the time, erase my mind

Rewriting memories you left behind

I've been pacing, footsteps tracing, back to you, back to you

I'm still begging, he's still saying that we're through, it's through

I can hear your words say goodbye

I count sleepless nights beneath these city lights

Just to pass the time, erase my mind

Rewriting memories you left behind

I can hear your words say goodbye

I count sleepless nights beneath these city lights

RIP Kurt Cobain

"I'm worse at what I do best and for this gift I feel blessed. Our little group has always been and always will until the end."

17 years ago today Kurt Cobain died, or let's be honest, was murdered. Think of all the great music he could have made if he were still alive. RIP Kurt, you're still changing people's lives all these years later.

Hipster Heartbreak

That is going to be my new band name. I already have 3 songs:

City Lights

One Night Stand

Who Are You?

Oh, the inspiration I have had the past 2 weeks. This is more of a hobby, nothing serious, don't expect a tour. Lyrics to come.....

This is tailor made, what's the sense in waiting?

Hands down this is the best day I can ever remember,

I'll always remember the sound of the stereo,

the dim of the soft lights,

the scent of your hair that you twirled in your fingers

and the time on the clock when we realized it's so late

and this walk that we shared together.

The streets were wet

and the gate was locked so I jumped it,

and I let you in.

And you stood at your door with your hands on my waist

and you kissed me like you meant it.

And I knew that you meant it