CHANTAL

THIS IS HORRIBLE!!!  I JUST FOUND OUT AND I'M PRETTY UPSET RIGHT NOW!!!

We here at Third Eye Studios were deeply saddened when earlier this week Robert White, brother to John White owner of Third Eye Studios, passed away. Those of us that were fortunate enough to know Rob knew that his caring for music and tattoos were dwarfed only by his immence love for his family and friends. Obviously John is taking time off to be with loved ones, so if there is anything you wish to give to the White family, money donations, letters, ect.. we welcome you to drop it off here at Third Eye. We will make sure it gets to them as soon as possible. It is also possible to make donations to help with funeral costs online through the malcontents page (http://www.myspace.com/theemalcontents). Our hopes and prayers are with the White family and we knows yours are as well.
Remember his love, remember his kindness, remember Rob the punk rocker with a heart of gold.



P.S. We hope to see you all on the 15th for the benefit show.

---The Malcontents will be playing at Jesse's in Margate (formerly Gotrocks) off Atlantic on sept 15 .
It will be a benefit show to help Rob's family with the costs of funeral services, etc.
ALL proceeds will go to his family. So please come out and donate whatever you can. It will be greatly appreciated by us and more importantly, his loving family. If you have any questions please feel free to contact any of us. Again, your support is greatly appreciated!

So, as some of you may or may not know, I got my hand an exclusive Projekt Revolution Tour '07 Promotional Posters.  These posters were never for sale and you can only get them if: you tore them off a wall, work for the Projekt Revolution Street Team, or if you know someone who tours on the Projekt Revolution Tour..........or if your company prints the posters! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 

With that being said, I told everyone I was going to hold a contest to allow my friends on Buzznet to win them because I love you all so much!  What type of friend would I be if I didn't make you people promote me!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  So this is the deal, with 2008 rapidly approaching I plan on getting some pretty sweet interviews with some of your favorite bands and other generally cool people.  The majority of these interviews will be videotaped so all you can watch from the comfort of home!  YAY!!!!!  Now let's just get to the facts: 

CONTEST #1

-Create a banner with yours truly on it, don't forget to include "WESTONIAN CRUNK and my buzznet information.

Top 5 banners will receive a poster!  Holla!  Send me your banners, I'll post them to my buzznet and the top 5 banners with the most buzz, not comments will win!  That's pretty simple if you ask me, I know everyone here is good at photoshop so no whining!

I HAVE LIKE MORE THAN 30 OF THESE TO GIVE AWAY SO THERE WILL BE MORE CONTESTS SOON!  BEFORE SEPTEMBER!!!!!!

As the cost of living in South Florida outpaces the rest of the nation, the Treasure Coast is feeling some of the heat.

Consumer prices in South Florida were up sharply to 4.4 percent in May and June, higher than any other major metro area in the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Consumer Price Index report, which tracks costs from Miami to West Palm Beach, echoes price pressures that are being felt in this region.

The largest jump came in the cost of housing, which is growing at a 6.7 percent annual rate largely because of the cost of rent. Apartment rents in Miami and Fort Lauderdale have increased 9.1 percent this year.

"There's no question rents have gone up," said David Levin, of the Delray Beach real estate consulting firm David Levin & Associates. Florida's previously hot residential real estate market drew in speculators, and the stock of rentals went down.

With a much smaller rental market and condo-conversion craze, Treasure Coast rent rates for a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment have increased only about a dollar in the last year, according to data released last week by California-based Real Facts. The firm tracks rents nationwide.

After housing, food and beverage prices are going up at annual rate of 4.2 percent in South Florida, according to government figures. The milk price jump was especially noticeable in the last month, when the government raised the minimum price processors must pay for milk by 33 cents a gallon. One reason is the cost of corn, which has risen sharply because of increased demand for corn to be used in ethanol. That's driven up feed prices, which are about half the cost of producing milk.

The federal milk price system is structured so that nine Florida counties pay the highest prices in the nation, said Bob Yonkers, chief economist of the International Dairy Foods Association.

Processors in Martin, Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade pay an extra 37 cents a gallon because of the distance from here to the Upper Midwest, the nearest part of the country where there is excess milk production. Processors in St. Lucie and Indian River counties pay 30 cents extra.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics also says South Florida had a strong 5.4 percent annual gain in an unusual category of consumer goods that combines the cost of education, books, school supplies, tuition and fees with the cost of telephone service and information-technology hardware and servers and personal computers.

High gas prices have contributed to higher transportation costs. South Florida's gas and diesel fuel costs are rising at a 5.7 percent annual rate, greater than the nation's 4.9 percent rate.

On the Treasure Coast, gas prices were 3.8 percent higher in June than a year earlier, according to Gasbuddy.com, a consumer-driven Web site that tracks fuel prices.

That may be the key to the whole picture, suggests economist William Stronge, a Florida Atlantic University professor emeritus.

"You have to ask yourself why should we be different than New York City or other cities," he said. "It could be that transportation costs are somewhat higher."

The Sun-Sentinel contributed to this story.

TREASURE COAST BY THE NUMBERS

Average fuel prices on the Treasure Coast in June, compared with the same time in 2006: 3.8% increase

Median price for an existing single-family home:

Martin County: 6.3% decrease

St. Lucie County: 9.4% decrease

Indian River County: 10.4% decrease

Average rent on the Treasure Coast for a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in the second quarter of 2007: 0.1% increase

Average utility bills

Florida Power and Light: 4.8% decrease

Fort Pierce Utilities Authority: 7.5% increase

Vero Beach Utilities: 16.6% increase, as of August 1

It’s time for me to get serious and I really hope everyone reads this!  Any form of substance abuse affects everyone involved with the abuser.  It’s important for you to recognize your friend, family, or co-worker has a problem and to reach out and help them.  If they don’t accept the help you are offering than there is really nothing more you can do until they are willing to take the help.  I know this from a personal experience that I’d like the share with you about a close family who has given up their life to alcohol.

*For privacy reasons the name of my family member has been changed but the events are true*

It all pretty much just began going downhill for Elizabeth when she was in high school.  She began hanging out with the wrong crowd and experimenting with drugs and alcohol.  On top of her new found taste for drugs and alcohol she was battling a long term problem with bulimia.  Elizabeth graduated high school and went to college.  While in college she attended Bartending School and eventually began bartending around South Florida.  This only aided to her abuse of alcohol and drugs.  Elizabeth started failing her college courses and never even received her two year degree.  At this point her personal relationships weren’t helping her situation either.  Elizabeth was living with her abusive boyfriend in a little house in downtown.  He had verbally abused her, thrown bottles at her, and neglected her emotional needs.  Eventually her boyfriend and her broke up, after that she just kept dating other abusive jerks.  She than started getting deeper into her substance abuse.  Not only was Elizabeth now an alcoholic but she was also abusing cocaine. 

Eventually Elizabeth was able to kick the cocaine habit and actually met a semi-decent boyfriend compared to the other losers she had dated.  They ended up getting married and having a child together.  Almost a year after their daughter was born Elizabeth’s husband, Matt, was offered a better job back in Maryland.  The couple and their infant baby moved up to Maryland.  They began fighting all the time, Matt suggested that they spend a week a part so that they can cool down and not fight in front of the baby.  At the time Elizabeth was a cocktail waitress at a shady strip joint.  When Matt came back home after a week of being separated from Elizabeth she had another man in her bed.  Unfortunately Elizabeth’s issues with her body have made her self-esteem so low that she believes that any man who will sleep with her must think she’s beautiful.  THE REAL TRUTH IS THAT THEY JUST THINK SHE’S SOME ALCOHOLIC SKANK!  Matt ends up divorcing Elizabeth and now Elizabeth is all alone in a city she doesn’t even want to be in.

So, I being a good family member decide and try to help Elizabeth out.  I move up to Maryland to live with Elizabeth and to try and help her get her life together.  Also, I wanted to ease the mind of Elizabeth’s mother who worries sick about her all day and night.  I only remained in Maryland for 3 weeks, in those 3 weeks Elizabeth’s abusive behavior thanks to her alcohol abuse was out of control.  The even that led me to leave in such a rush is heartbreaking to anyone who hears the story. 

Elizabeth and I pick up her daughter from Matt’s house, so far everything is fine.  We go home and make dinner and go downtown to eat with one of her creepy friends.  There is a brief confrontation over some minor shit that doesn’t even matter at this point.  I take Elizabeth and the baby home and head out to the movies with my friend Jeff.  Right when the credits start rolling I get a phone call from Elizabeth’s mother saying that the apartment caught on fire.  I guess Elizabeth decided to drink a bottle of Vodka by herself, I know the baby wasn’t drinking it, and pass out with the stove on which led to the apartment catching on fire. 

The baby, Elizabeth, and I head downtown to stay with Elizabeth’s creepy friend.  She flips out in the car because I want take her to her abusive boyfriend’s house.  She’s slurring her words, she smells god awful, and I this point I think the common street whore can hold their head up higher in public.  Elizabeth flips out when I ask her to get out of the car and hold the baby so I can park and walk over.  In case you don’t know parking in the area we were in was scarce and I would have had to park in a horrible neighborhood.  Elizabeth refuses to get out of my car dumps some remaining vodka on my floor and slaps me in the face.  I remain as calm as possible and don’t touch her back.  Eventually I get Elizabeth’s ass out of my car and I floor it out of there with the baby still sleeping in her car seat. 

With no one to turn to and no where to go, I end up at Matt’s house around 2am.  He was the only person I knew, I was crying, shaking, and generally flipping out.  NO ONE HAD EVER DISRESPECTED ME LIKE THAT BEFORE!  I never would have expected that level of disrespect to come from a family member.  Matt takes me and the baby in, talks to me and calms me down.  The only thing I care about at this point is that the baby is safe.  I don’t care about Elizabeth’s well being!  I did everything I could for her and clearly she doesn’t think she has a problem.  I’m not going to try and help someone that doesn’t want help and as far as I’m concerned, someone who doesn’t haven’t any respect from their peers sure does have too much self pride to get help. 

Elizabeth think she is better than the common substance abuser walking the street, she thinks she deserves the finer things in life, she is in her mid 20s, and in her mind she is a casual drinker.

REALITY: ELIZABETH IS AN ALCOHOLIC, AN UNFIT PARENT, MATERIALISTIC, MOOCHER, SELF CENTERED, ABUSER, MANIPULATOR, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY SHE IS A LOSER!

This is a true story and some may call me heartless but I believe the greatest love of all is tough love.  Elizabeth is still alive but she is dead in my heart…….this is how it has to be.

IF YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW NEEDS HELP, DON'T BE AFRAID TO ASK!  YOU CAN VISIT WWW.ADDICT-HELP.COM, WWW.TWLOHA.COM, OR A LOCAL A.A. MEETING!  THERE IS HELP AVAILABLE FOR EVERYONE AS LONG AS THEY ARE WILLING TO RECEIVE IT!

***First, I want to make it very clear that I have nothing against myspace.  Thanks to myspace I’m able to keep in touch with old friends that I used to go to school with from all the different places I’ve lived.*** 

Personally, I think myspace is a great way to keep in touch with old friends and yes to even meet new friends.  There is only one problem I have with myspace and it’s not so much with myspace itself as it is with the users on myspace.  In case you didn’t know not everyone on myspace is a hot attractive guy or girl!  This leads to the major issue with myspace, PLEASE STOP TAKING PHOTOS OF YOURSELF WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR FRIENDS IN YOUR UNDERWEAR OR ANY FORM OF A PROVACTIVE POSE!!!!  This especially goes to all the minors on myspace.  Just because you see some skanky ass bitch that has over a million friends flaunting herself all over myspace and television doesn’t mean that people actually respect her.  The only people that really look at those photos are fucking PREDATORS!!!

Does no one else watch MSNBC TO CATCH A PREDATOR?  Hello people, wake up!  I know you’re thinking, but I set my profile to private.  Well anyone can pretend to be someone they are not on the internet.  That’s the beauty of the whole thing I guess!  Do yourself a favor and stop shaming yourself and your family and knock it off!  This isn’t just directed to the ladies, this is also directed the gentlemen as well.  I personally don’t care if you have a 6 pack or bitch tits!  I think most people will agree with me when I say taking a photo of yourself in your bathroom mirror shirtless makes you seem like and egotistical loser! 

In all honesty, if you wanted people to know you were easy, you could always just go work the tracks.  They are always available for employment!  I’m not getting down on people who do this; I’m just saying have a little self respect and dignity!  The more people know that you respect yourself, the more they will respect you.

 JUST BEWARE AND BE SAFE!! 

THIS ALSO APPLIES TO ANY OTHER BLOGGING COMMUNITY (facebook, buzznet, etc.)!

Believe it or not there was once a time when the only way an artist could gain mass popularity was through the radio!  I know it sounds a little hard to believe that your MTV’s, Fuse’s, and VH1’s didn’t exist at one point.  For your information music television has only been around for almost a third of the time that actual television has been around.  I’m not even going to lie, I wasn’t born when MTV was first launched I didn’t get experience the excitement of seeing my favorite artists performing on my tube every day and night.  I was the first generation of kids that grew up with MTV from beginning to end.  Which leads me to this question: What happened to Music Television? 

            Even when I was growing up in the late 80s early 90s Music Television was still incorporated one key element, the music!  MTV was the first channel to play music videos and was also the first one to sell out!  MTV use to make or break someone’s career, if you didn’t get played on MTV than you didn’t have a fan base and that was just that.  Nowadays everyone has gotten use to the fact that MTV is a sellout no one needs MTV anymore!  Yeah, sure does getting video played on MTV even when it’s only between the hours of 4am-7am help?  Hell Yeah it still does some what, but only if you’re a big gold chain wearin’, women degrading, ghetto slangin’, rap star!  That is of course if MTV still plays music videos.  It seems like they sold out to big business and started playing more reality shows than I care to see in a year let alone a season.  Fuck L.C., Laguna Beach, and all those Bullshit shows.  That’s not what MTV is supposed to be about!  Oh yeah, and what happened to MTV2 being the channel where all they played was music videos?  I think now they have MTV Hits or some shit like that, which is now their designated music videos 24/7 channel.  DOES ANYBODY EVEN GET THAT CHANNEL?  The only reason I have MTV Hits and all that shit is because I have digital cable, I didn’t know I had it until about a month ago.  

            MTV didn’t bring Norma Jean into my room, it sure as hell didn’t give me Between the Buried and Me, and I know for damn sure I didn’t see Darkest Hour all over my television screen.  Music no longer lives on T.V., it lives in the hearts of all the kids who spend their hard earned money going to shows in shitty ass clubs that don’t have air conditioning and most likely only really can hold about 100 people and you find yourself 1 out of about 1000 kids there.  Every single kid that goes to a show is keeping music alive! 

            Oh, and don’t think VH1 and Fuse are any better!  First of all, VH1 is like the music video channel that my parents tune in to watch.  They play these weird ass fucking artist that in all honesty sound the same, I’m whining does sound the same to all people no matter what language they speak.  But than VH1 was like we need reality shows!  So than you got your Flavor of Love and all that bullshit.  It’s like first of all, you weren’t good in the first place and now you want me to watch reality shows with wash ups!  SADLY, there plan worked and people have been going nuts over their god awful shows.  FUSE, you know what I have to give Fuse credit because they actually do play a more diverse array of videos.  So, I would like to applaud them for that.  However, I have started to notice that Fuse is following in the foot steps of MTV and it won’t be too long before they are reality show central!

I guess what I’m really trying to say is this, FUCK MTV AND ALL THEIR FUCKING CHANNELS, FUCK VH1, AND SOMEWHAT FUCK FUSE!

If you want to see more of your favorite artists, stop downloading their music on torrentspy and other websites and actually get your ass to a record store and buy their CD!  The more CDs sold in an area the more likely the artist will play a show near you. 

I can’t remember ever meeting someone who actually used a label maker, those that did actually own one of those horrific machines either received it as a gift or broke it on the first use.  This leads me to ponder, if no one uses a label maker than why does every still apply label to one another?  Even when I was in high school which was about 4 years ago now, you were either a sociable person or “anti-social”.  Of course I generally was categorized as “anti-social” based on the way I looked but the reality of it was that everyone at school knew who I was, and the majority of the people found me humorous and generally didn’t have a problem with me. 

Once I left high school in 2004 I started hearing all this labeling in college, which I’m also sure was going on in High Schools as well.  Oh well this person is so SCENE, and you don’t really want to hang out with this person because they are GOTH and that’s not too popular right now.  It was pretty mind blowing to me personally that literally one to two years of an age difference was spawning a whole new group of kids. 

I never quite understood what being “scene” was.  As a matter of fact I still don’t and in all honesty I don’t want to get “scene”.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not bashing scene kids or anyone affiliated with them, I’m just saying I’d rather not be labeled by what I look like or what music I listen to.  Personally, what I’ve noticed about the mass majority of scene kids in my home of South Florida is that they are all FAKE!  Yeap, I said it……….every last one is FAKE!  [It’s important to note that the majority of people in South Florida are FAKE so its not just the scene kids, but since this article is about them…………….we will focus on them.]  For some awful reason I find myself always at large gatherings of scene kids.  They all look relatively a like, if someone from what I will refer to as the outside world says anything they all just look around waiting to see if the group approves or disapproves of the comments just made, they all think they are going to be famous and that people in the outside world should just bow to them now, and they all have stupid nicknames and abbreviations. 

Now, I know what you’re thinking, “Bitch you have a nickname, hence the WESTONIAN CRUNK, and you are getting down on them for having a nickname?”  Now, I am the first person to admit that Westonian Crunk is the most ridiculously stupid nickname on the planet but I used to be the former Queen of Grillz (yes gold teeth) so the nickname fits me perfectly, Westonian is from the city I have resided in for 10 years now (Weston) & Crunk was in reference to my need to consume as much alcohol as humanly possible.  My nickname served a purpose once and actually had significant meaning in my life. 

Furthermore, these kids all follow a trend to a tee!  One minute they are straightedge Vegans, the next they are Vegan no edge, than they are no longer Vegans but are edge, and so forth.  There is only one thing I ask of people in this world and that is to better themselves & the world by being who they want to be and thinking freely.  Don’t follow a trend just because you’re friends or doing it, or because your favorite musician is doing it.  THINK FREELY!!!!  It’s okay to have the whole “scene” image but don’t have the “scene” mind!  BE YOURSELF!  I wasn’t the most popular kid in school, I didn’t date the captain of our shitty ass football team (fuck you Cypress Bay), and I sure as hell wasn’t class President…………….but you know what I was myself and I said what was on my mind and never held back and I still do that to this day.  Either people are going to like you, love you, hate you, or generally so terrified of you that they don’t say shit!  Just deal with it!  Life wouldn’t be fun without a little bit of pain and suffering! 

That’s my thought for today.  You can agree with me, disagree with me, or you can just generally be offended by everything I just said.  I don't care, just know this: I'm writing this in hopes of freeing a few people's minds today! 
 

Jacksonville blows...rock boys are hot...tour buses are fun...roid rage is not cool...skinny bitches (D) suck...FMU still scares me...Bill is a fucking creep...FHP adores me...Uffie makes me horny...Mickey Avalon's still a druggie...and I'm still waiting to fuck!!!

Black McDonalds...annoying busted bitches in beamers (fucking 3)...Maxwell House smells DEE-LISH!...back alleys...dead ends...PS3 riots...Where's the beef?...heavy(k) beats...obese spooning...white trash...handicap photos...hot orange hoodies.

Waking up early...waking up late...fist fights on stage (nice job KEN!)...thinking about getting laid...tired days...cold nights...cracked windows...football games...smooth operating...scared shitless bitches...foot switch flushing...piss on walls...molded bread...hot soup...cold beer...D.S.A...bad sex stories...dick piercings...sorbet arguments...wool jackets...scary ladders...homo-eroticism...hand in pants...hair pulling...eye shutting...football throwing...James flinching...beating up chicks discussions.

Rick Ross hustlin'...neanderthal antics...pantless answering...low top looking...blow job stories...cig snatching...stupid girls screaming for Bobby...rubic cube confusion...Wal-Mart shopping...baby Laquinda Mick...latina hits...hot pink hair...cool, calm Ken...beat making...running lights...5 min taco bell runs...scalping tickets...banana cherry wristbands...cops all around...tour beef...Honda pacing...hot chicks in charge...popping the glock.

That pretty much sums up mine and Krystal's weekend with Eighteen Visions & Company in Jacksonville, FL.