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2010-04-04T05:32:00.001-07:00

everyone... thanks for following this for so long but i have moved on over to wordpress... please go there from now on...

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Single Mothers & Fathers...

2008-10-20T04:33:00.000-07:00

So I cant sleep AGAIN. Big surprise right. We all know I have a sleeping disorder. Its totally bullshit. I refuse to take drugs to sleep however without something, I just cant sleep. Its been this way my entire life, i think im screwed ha.

Ok, so I was talking to a very dear friend who played a roll in my life early on when our band was starting, and when we left to Hawaii. She has remained in my life, thank god and she is a single mother. Dad is a deadbeat for the most part, you know the deal, you have seen it before.

It got me thinking about my parents. I am a statistic. Parents divorced when I was very young, 6 to be exact, total broken home status, cheating was involved, physical and verbal fighting the whole nine. Im not going to point fingers because I love my parents very much, however I would be lying if I said shit was perfect and that I was not traumatized by what I saw and what took place. Ill save all those details for a book one day, if I ever finish it. ha.

So, this friend of mine, we discussed love, sex without love, cause were essentially like "bros" so we talk about feelings and all that shit. We keeps it real. I said this too her when she described here "being single" and I wrote this because as you all know, I dont pull shit with you guys. Im as real as it comes. Im a very spiritually and religiously grounded person however I am also very connected with "the world" as people like to call it in church (which btw, i dont attend, not because I think its crap, but mainly because Im more down with the personal relationship verse the organized, throw your hands up in the air even if you dont feel it relationship) pros and cons to both mine and theirs, but mine works for me and I hope, for god to some degree. Not perfect, just real.

We discussed loving someone, and the act of "loving someone physically" which we can call sex, fornication or the street term, fucking. Once again, im getting gasps from people thru their computers, I can hear them and feel them as I type and its burning me up haha. Just being real, from all aspects. I like to think im really well rounded. So I told her this....

"I also know what you mean about the whole "fucking", and disconnecting from emotions aspect. When I broke up with XXXXX (thought we were gonna get married, i was a big fat puss, etc), i feel like thats all I ever did since then, even if i were in a relationship for over a year or whatever, it just felt...disconnected. Im ok with that because im always safe and everything I do is never with any malice and for that moment I share, it is filled with a sense of love and respect even if its just that moment but mainly because even if we are hooking up I need to feel a connection physical and emotional even just for that moment, but that doesnt have to carry .. with i love yous and stuff, just respect for ones being, health and heart etc. I have done something I know I wouldnt be happy to tell my parents but I have lived a life and still continue to grow in all my experiences understanding more about who I am, what is right and wrong in not only my eyes, but others and most importantly for me, gods eyes.

(for those assuming that just because I am in a band, I sleep with anything and everything like some dudes in bands do, you would be INCREDIBLY mistaking. I think I would speak for all the dudes in my bands. Pretty good dudes.)

We then went on to talking about being a single parent. I have 2 dogs and somedays, they are so hard to keep up with that I do not even know what I would do with kids... seriously ha. So i told here this...

"Im really proud of you for accomplishing what you set out to do. I know that raising your child ontop of your goals must be a tremendous task and I can only imagine how much it takes out of your body, spirit and soul but at the same time, I can only imagine how much it gives to those things as well. The yin and yang, ebb and flow of everything. life is so fucking cool. I love it."

It got me thinking...

there are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many mothers and fathers out there, single, raising children. It is incredibly inspiring and I dont know why I didnt think maybe more about this, but thats the really awesome thing about life. You will have a conversation and certain things will POP that open a new item of knowledge in your life. Almost like a video game where your like "TADA you have completed the level, you move on to the next level"

This new blessing, and gift tonight came from talking to here and then reflecting on my father and how much effort he put into bringing up to rowdy and i mean ROWDY boys! It gave me an incredible sense of happiness and joy and it inspired to be grateful towards my wonderful father even more so than I already am. The dude is my best friend. My mom is the shit too. We all had really rough times early on but now, things have seemed to just work themselves out. Its like, when your young, and they say "you will appreciate this when your older, you just cant understand this now"

Little moments like this are the reason I am glad I have sleeping disorder haha, I just said that, but yeah, its moments like this, that make very stoked to be alive and sharing in these moments and I just wanted to give all your single mothers and fathers out there tremendous love and support. What a blessing one, to be able to bring new life into the world, but even more so, to guide it and nurture it into the person it will eventually become. All because you gave a shit you know? Isnt that awesome.

Anyhow, Im off to continue writing this small book on motivation, desire and passion. I sound like the movie announcer guy right? haha. When I am done, Ill let you all know. It will be awhile for sure. All this time home has inspired me to write more music, books, paint walls, learn new recipes etc.

k, im out xo

new MUSIC for FREE

2008-09-16T10:33:00.001-07:00

What’s up guys... Danny from NP (national product) here: In 2005 I filled in for a local band I loved when the singer left for college. We ended up recording an EP for fun in our friends bedroom. Shortly after, everyone went off to college and focused on their careers and the real world. I have to say that being in something that did not require marketing plans, and lawyers, record labels and agents was probably one of the most exciting things ever. We could write corny lyrics, and throw hardcore breakdowns in super poppy punk songs and not give a shit whether it was gonna be anything more, and that’s exactly what we did. ALL the songs from the EP are on the myspace for YOU to have for FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Please enjoy these songs that we made, don’t take them too seriously, cause we didn’t and pass them along if you like them. For fans of (and this does not mean “it sounds like”) - anything 80’s, anything PoP pUnK and XHARDcoreXXXX grrrrr http://www.myspace.com/storybookendingforfree

Let It Be....

2008-08-18T13:57:00.000-07:00

A woman came into my life. She was not typical. She was not average. She wasn't even in the same demographic.

She came into me vibrant and full of life teaching me wisdoms and showing me compassion. Understanding me more than any woman ever has. She gets me, she sees through me, and without fully knowing me, she knew me.

A profound thing happened to me yesterday. One of the most powerful moments of my life and it is something I will never forget until the day that I am dead. This is my story about Catherine. A few years back, our drummer Robby met a girl. He moved in with her and started working with her at a place in Corona Del Mar California. While working there he met a woman named Catherine and they became very close. Robby's relationship with the girlfriend dissolved and Robby moved in with Catherine. You may think you know where this is going, but this is going to throw you for a loop. Catherine is in her 50's. She's a demanding woman, she is full of knowledge and she is beautiful with the soul of a 5 year old and the grace of Catherine Hepburn ironically. She came into every member of the bands life in one way and this is how she impacted mine.

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Over the course of the last few years of knowing Catherine, she became a mom to our band and a best friend to us. She was at every show and if you saw us on our tour with Kaddisfly and Bedlight For Blue Eyes, you saw Catherine.

She was a woman who has had millions of dollars and after her divorce, nothing. Shes seen the world, experienced things you and I will one day wish we get to experience.

While knowing and loving Catherine, we came to expect nothing but love and support from her however she was always surprising us in the most selfless of ways. Catherine WAS wealthy. When her husband divorced her, he took everything and left her with nothing, not even a phone call. However, Catherine always managed to give us all money before tour as gifts and has loaned us, which now we will never be able to repay, and knowing her she wouldnt let us anyway, but she gave us a few thousand dollars when we broke down on tour, to make repairs. She never asked us for anything in return until the Kaddisfly tour. She asked us if we could take her with us on tour and im going to get back to this tour in a second. When we got signed and were heading to record our album LUNA, she was right there supporting the band with everything she had.

We found out that Catherine was diagnosed with Cancer. We werent sure exactly how bad it was but Cancer is never good. My mother has it, my grandmother passed away from it and over the course of my young short life, I have lost alot of people to alot of things from suicide, drug overdose to cancer. None of them fair, none of them right. When my grandmothers passed away I didnt cry. I dont know if it was because I was numb from my experience with my brother in Irag (suicide bombing). Thats another story coming soon. We didnt know how serious her condition was, so when we got back from making the album, Robby started taking her to the doctor for check ups. Check ups turned into chemo and chemo turned into getting injections that cost around $10,000k each. This was over the course of a year that things just progressively got worse. I remember scrambling all my contacts to find a doctor who could help her. She would tell us she was fine, and they found something for her even the story I was getting from Robby was that she was terminal. She lost all her hair and her weight was bouncing back and forth but she looked really healthy.

That was probably because the cancer was inside her lungs. Her fear was dying without being able to breath. They removed part of the tumor in her lungs and that removed some of her ability to breath. She refused to remove anymore tumors from her lungs out of fear. Her skin was soft, her hair was a nice shiny silver that accompanied her age respectfully. She looked really good from the outside, but on the inside, this cancer was destroying her. Its truly amazing how fast someone can deteriorate and it reminds me how fragile we are as people.

She was told she had a few weeks to live and nothing made her lose her pep. Not even the news of the inevitable. It was seriously one of the most inspiring things I have ever experienced in my life. To know that your going to die, and nothing can phase you. To protect us, she would tell us she wasnt in pain at all, she would tell us she was going to make it and that they kept finding all these positive treatments for her and because maybe I was gullible and I believed her hook line and sinker. I took it all. She wanted to tour with us.

We told her that we were going to make her experience what we go through. Your label will never know what its like to be on the road in the van because each experience is unique. Your fans dont really know, your parents dont know. Only YOU know because your living in that van, sleeping on the floor, you setting up and tearing down each night. Your the one wondering how your bills are going to get paid all because you just love something so much to continue doing it every night. For us, thats making music for the kids who still believe in true sincere music from honest genuine people. Maybe thats why Catherine came into our lives? She is one of the most pure honest and genuine people I have ever met. Maybe thats why it was so fitting. So she came out on tour and got everything we told her she would. The floors, the smelly boys, the long drives, the high fives, the whole nine. She fell in love with the bands we were on tour with and shared her wisdom and love with them. Everyone who met Catherine fell in love with her. How could you not. Something so pure only comes along very rarely in our lives and when you find it, embrace it, it never lasts. Its much like a shooting star.

After the tour she continued on with good health and we hit the road once again, but this time without her. When we came home, we found out that Catherine was more terminal then ever and Robby was making plans for her. She was to go to a hospice, and she would pass slowly.

Robby and Catherine moved out of their place and we had just finished our tour in Japan and Hawaii and she was on my mind and heart so heavy.

I arrived back from Hawaii and we prepared for the tour we are on now and by fate she was in Portland in a hospice. We packed our stuff to fulfill our first 2 tour dates and then drove straight to Portland to see her before having to rush to Seattle that night for our show. We showed up and completely surprised her and trust me, if you know Catherine, you know this is not easy. She is almost all knowing... very much omnipresent ha.

Catherine wasnt breathing well, and there were moments, like when we all stood to take a picture that she was gasping needing her machine that provided her with pure oxygen. She was incredibly excited to see us and the look of her happiness was like a little girl during christmas. My heart felt this strange conflict of pain and happiness for her. I welled up heavily and had to leave several times. I have been her before in this moment with someone but something about this experience was new to me. I sat with her for most of the time and looked at her, a much more frail person than the one I saw just a month ago. The cancer was changing her appearance and destroying her. We sat at the table and something very profound happened to me internally, much the same, is why I make music. LET IT BE came on the radio right as she was telling us that she is refusing resuscitation, refusing adrenaline and anything to keep her alive. She has waved all of that to just die. As the song played I could not hear anything more because my fears were more confirmed now than ever. Catherine is going to die very very soon and I am crushed beyond all belief. She spoke about passing as if she was going to the grocery store, with the same casual manner.

I ran outside and completely released in front of their neighbor who probably had no idea what was wrong with me and I battled my emotions and feelings. I remember once my grandmother telling me, as we spread my grandfathers ashes that "we cry for ourselves. We cry because in nature, humans are selfish, and we dont know how to let people go. We want them to be around forever" That is why I never cried for her, or my other grandmother. Not because I wasnt hurt, but because she spoke truth and I adapted to learn how to let go. This is a really unique quality that very few people have and I was blessed with it. I have a defense system that allows me to not feel jealousy, or much pain in almost any situation.

Like i said before tho, there are very few pure moments in life, and this was one, and it cut deep. I collected myself as Robby came out and held me while I cried, he was strong because he has already cried his heart out and this time was my moment. To feel that this is bullshit, and this is unfair, its wrong. How can there be no cure, how can this be ok. How can this be right.

My faith in God will never waver, and it has never. That is the special thing about real faith. I dont need a church to know faith. For people who base their life only on things like a rock is a rock, its scientific fact, they will never understand the true essence of faith and God Bless them for that. Nothing wrong with that, but there is something that is special about believing with your eyes closed because you feel and know it in your heart to be true. Its not something your taught, its not something you should be forced to feel, its something that you find... on your own with your heart.

We came inside and played acoustically for her and she cried out the last tears she had in her dehydrated body. It broke me incredibly. Like I have never been broke before. This was the last time I would ever sing to Catherine, and I could not look her in the eyes or else my already breaking up voice would become inaudible.

I couldnt eat even though her family provided an incredible spread of food for us. My stomach was in knots. I knew this would be my personal last moments with Catherine and I was not ok with that.

I held her for a very long time crying on her shoulder thanking her for coming into my life. It hurt tremendously and hurts more as I type this from the back of the van, driving, further and further away from her, feeling like I would give anything to be with her but I know that my heart could not handle that or maybe I dont want to be that vulnerable. Maybe im really afraid of completely feeling it take me over. Much like I have always questioned people, when i did go to church. They throw their hands up and sing eyes closed with all their soul and I always felt weird that I never felt compelled to do that. I thought it was fake. Now, I realize that for some people its very real. They are compelled because they have allowed their faith to take them completely, however I dont know if I have ever let anything take me completely but this moment came close.

She cried as we drove away and it broke me a little more. We were told we probably wouldnt make our show and by the grace of god we got to the venue right as 1997 finished and there was a good amount of kids with a puzzled look on their faces wondering if we would even make it and when they saw us, some started screaming and yelling for us. We were rushed and set up and during that set up. Jimmy Eat Worlds "CLARITY" album was playing. I was just given the vinyl album 3 days prior however that album changed my life when I first heard it in 1999. Its my all time favorite record and to have it playing was more than a coincidence for me.

It was once again a moment of feeling like there was a hand on me, comforting me and letting me know that things are going to be ok. The crowd was phenomenal and at one point crying during Where Do You Go that we played acoustically. It was a very powerful moment for me and I am sure for them. I will never see Catherine again, and during this tour, there is going to be a moment when she passes, and its inevitable now. There are no more miracles, or medications that will remove the cancer. Only ones to dull the pain.

I have often felt like I could die tomorrow and I would be ok with it. I have learned to let go of all of my fears in that however I am very vulnerable when it comes to people who are as pure as Catherine and especially children. We dont really feel bad for people who lead shitty lives. Its almost like, they deserve it? Altho, no one really deserves death in a sense, its more like, you just dont feel as bad.

I guess i really dont know how I was planning to end this. I dont even think there is a right ending to this. I hope this story touched you and maybe inspired some feelings from personal experiences you have gone through. When you get a chance, listen to the song Let It Be for Catherine, as she is in a sense, Letting It Be.

With love... Danny

On The Road Again...

2008-08-15T07:07:00.001-07:00

This may look like im not stoked. I am however infinitely stoked and my look is of seriousness, that I am holding CLARITY on vinyl. My good friend gave it to me as a late birthday present and I was blow away. This album has changed my life. Now i have to go and buy a record player, and I dont know why, but I am really stoked about that. I have never owned vinyl or records. My dad had tons and I always liked messing with the needle. Im about to go back in time.

On another note. Im writing from Merced California as we head up to Oregon. We are back on tour and I cannot even describe how good it feels to be on a stage again. I was really having anxiety about touring again but now that were back up and at full speed it just feels so good.

If your in the area of where we are touring, you better stop by and see me/us.

Date are: www.myspace.com/nationalproduct

Our Time Here...

2008-08-04T17:47:00.000-07:00

I am going thru an array of feelings right now. We are about to head out on tour and there is so much going on internally with us. Nothing bad, like, we hate each other or anything. Were all best friends, always will be. However. Certain feelings have come up about wanting to pursue a life that doesn't involve touring, and struggling on the road. When you have done it for years and years you start to feel like its repetitious and its not the easiest thing to always keep your passion; your passion.

Yesterday, I found out that our very close friend, who is essentially a mom to everyone in our band, Catherine, is about to pass away. I mentioned this before in blogs and for some of you who came out to our tour with Bedlight & Kaddisfly, remember who she is. She has essentially single handedly been one of the best things to ever happen to this band, and we watched her go from incredible health and long hair to chemo and nothing at all and through all of this, we were told she would make it and now we know that sadly, she wont. I just wrote Kaddisfly and Bedlight to let them know and as im writing this i feel very emotional and tear driven. I hate losing people and I know that her pain will be gone but I cant help but feel like somethings, sometimes are just so incredibly fucked up. This lady asked us to bring her out on tour with her and that it would "make her life". We told her straight up, to not expect a lavish lifestyle, were gonna sleep on floors some nights and do it the real way, that real bands have to do it, and if your in, your in. She never complained once. This coming from a woman who never had kids, was married and had millions and left everything behind for a simple life. Now she is leaving the world behind and in my heart and mind, I feel content knowing that when she said " I have never felt more alive, then touring with you guys", she meant it.

Now, im getting ready to head out on the road and honestly, my heart is just not in it right now. I dont blame some of the guys for being emotionally traumatized in this, especially Robby our drummer, who lived with her and for the past year put his life on the back burner to take her to chemo, to deal with her treatments, and the emotional roller coaster of knowing whether she would live our die and now knowing the inevitable. Its very, very painful for me and the guys right now.

As some of you know, Nathan our bass player, has chosen after his acl tear, that he was going to look at getting married and settling down with his woman, who he is in love with. His did however finish Japan and Hawaii with us even tho he had to drop off that last radio tour. We havent decided who will take that spot or what collectively everyone will feel after this tour. I think right now, matters of the heart are taking more importance than matters of playing all over the country right now. You will still see us on this tour, we will probably be playing without a bass player, and to backing bass tracks and the ironic part is i just went on a rant about dudes who dont play their instruments and get up and fake it. Well, we wont be faking it, but we will have an invisible bassist more than likely, if not be surprised. Funny how the irony of it all works out.

We have another single to come out, and a video for that and have been discussing the next record. I have been writing so much my head wants to explode lately and Im overwhelmed with life, the loss of it to come, and things in life, like:

1. What does it all mean

2. What is really most important for us an individuals

3. Should we just start a screamo dance techno band... (i hope you know im seriously joking)

I hope this blog doesnt freak out anyone or anything, i just dont dig psychologists and I dont know how to express myself when I have anxiety other than writing. I already threw up today and my stomach still hasnt settled.

Thanks for always listening to the few out there who actually care and when you see us on this next tour, were really going to need some hugs, its been a rough year for us with people passing, touring non stop with no breaks and everything else that this industry brings.

xoxox Danny

PASSION of the...

2008-07-31T05:45:00.003-07:00

LIFE...

This is a blog entry about passion. Its a nice little story to brighten your day and remind you of how good it feels to do what you love or encourage you to get out there and get yours.

Have you ever ran into someone you haven't seen in year that had a major impact in your life, or turned down a street that brought back powerful memories of your struggle in life.

That happened to me today. I was driving around checking out all the fish stores in the areas since my tank was acting funny. I was tired as hell. I had run errands all day and sat in the worst southern california traffic ever and I just wanted to go back to my house and lay down in bed and go back to sleep.

I turned down a road that had major significance in my being in California still, as well as my career in music.

This place was called The Executive Suites however, it was far and away from being "Executive".

When I first moved to California, I was living on the floor of my friend Josh's house. He was a vegan straight edge friend of mine, very awesome guy. I was not vegan, nor straight edge but I totally respected his lifestyle and his home. I had nothing but clothing and was waiting for my car to be shipped to California from Hawaii. Josh had a small refrigerator and it was filled with everything vegan. I remember telling him that even tho he did not ask me, I would never bring meat into tho house but if it were cool, I would like to put cheese in the fridge. Of course he was cool with it, he didnt want me to be inconvenienced and I didnt wanna do the same to him. My diet consisted of top ramen and cheese mustard sandwiches and not because it was the only thing allowed, but it was seriously all i could afford. After 6 months on a floor, the guys (my band) were slowly trickling in from Hawaii (where we are from). We were finally on our own, and since our families were/are poor, we didnt have anything like a nest egg, or renters history or anything to help us out. We had no families in Souther California, and that meant we had no where to stay. All we had was our guitars, our clothing, a bunch of Hawaiian candies and top ramen.

We spent every day looking for someone to give us a chance to rent but we kept getting turned away every time and what sucked more was spending $25 bucks every time for your credit checks. None of the people renting would allow you to use the last one you took, so they continuously took your money and ran. Lame.

Well, we soon figured that we had run out of options. We saw this place in Westminster called "The Executive Suites"

It was owned by a really sketchy vietnamese dude who said we could live there weekly for like $150.00. It was a little over $20 a day which for us was like $4 per person. Super good deal right. Well, we started to notice why it was $20 per day.

At night, we had crack heads and dealer below us on the 1st floor doing deals. It was an enclosed 2 story motel and obviously, there was no pool or amenities, so there really was no reason to go outside unless you need some crack.

Our bedroom was a tiny small hotel room equipped with an executive 22 inch tv with channels 1-13, an executive couch that folds out to a bed, an executive bed that later was discovered to have blood soaked into its mattress (yeah, im serious) and an executive shower tub thing that rarely had hot water. 5 people lives in this room. It was our home for quite some time. We still went out attacking the apartment complexes to rent to us, because every night we had new crazy stories about living there. It honestly got to a point where we got so stir crazy that we would drink to get drunk and myself as well as another guy in the band started sniffing vicodin and getting into stuff because we felt like we were going crazy.

We werent eating right, we didnt know anyone in this new world we had just entered. No one would give our band shows unless we would sell 100 tickets. We didnt know 5 people so how were we going to sell 100 tickets. We had entered a world that we were not prepared for.

We went from being BIG FISH in our hometown to crossing an ocean and finding ourselves a microscopic organism in the grand scheme of things.

We knew we had to hustle because we loved music, we loved each other and our dream. We stopped messing around with sniffing and smoking things and started focusing more on getting jobs, going to shows to meet people and setting up our base so that we could start pursuing this full time.

That one turn down that street brought up so many memories and trust me, some i shouldnt write about and some too long to write in this one particular blog but it reminded me of the things that we all go through in life some very good and some very bad to get to where we are going and how those experiences are actually very fundamental to the process.

If it werent for the experiences like The Executive Suites (and the many more im soon to start writing about) and the passion that it took to keep going rather than throw in the towel and go home, it wouldnt feel as good as it does now.

I can proudly say that I have played music that I make with my best friends for an insane amount of people all over the world from the bottom of Mexico to the top of Alaska, from the farthest coast east all the way to the west, from Japan to Canada and more.

All of this made possible by faith in what we set out to do, passion in the music we were creating, loyalty to one another and integrity to always remember that we make music because we love it and we love the people who love music. Never because of money, never because of the hopes of fame, never for the wrong reasons, always for the right ones.

If my band ended tomorrow, I have absolutely no regrets, I would have not 1 single bad feeling that we didnt accomplish what we set out for and more than what we ever intended. I would sit back and look at things like the executive suites, the bloody mattress, the crack heads and more and once again, this is one incident in the MANY crazy stories i have, but I would sit back and smile and be like... "man, we did it. We did it together as friends. Everything 100% organic. No fake hype, no flash in the pan fans. We made incredible bonds with people along the way, we got to see the world and we can walk away without saying things like "we quit, or were calling it a day, or we broke up". We can walk away knowing we did what we set out to do and music will never end in us just because we no longer creating it on the same platform we once used to"

I guess what I am saying is:

Live your life with complete and extreme passion. Love without fear, move forward without hesitation. Never chase money, money was never intended to be caught. When you do what you love, the money will come to you, because your not requiring it to continue. Its really strange that the things in life you think you need are the things you actually need less of. The things you want are generally never what you end up feeling fulfilled by in the end. Also, and I quote. "To Thyne Own Self Be True" If you are true to your passion it will ALWAYS be true to you. Now to end this with some lyrics my dad used to sing to me that will ring forever true...

"You can't always get what you want, But if you try sometimes you might find, You get what you need" - The Rolling Stones... and boy... or girl... aint that the truth!

IPHONE vs IPHONE

2008-07-31T03:43:00.005-07:00

I have been weighing the 2 phones out. I currently own a 1st generation iphone aka iphone 1.0. I upgraded from my sidekick 3 that I was in love with. The sidekick was great for everything I needed while on the road. I had games, instant messaging, internet and email all over an edge network using Tmobile as my carrier.

I saw the iPhone and fell in love. I had to have it, but I hate AT&T and did not want to leave Tmobile and my GREAT current plan ($80 = 2000 anytime minutes, free mobile to mobile, free nights/weekends + unlimited data) Whats a boy to do. I wanted something that could sync flawlessly with my macbook pro.

The iPhone was the one. I sold my sidekick online for $300 and took that money to buy my $400 first gen iPhone the month it game out.

I hacked my iphone, which was VERY easy and simple, i popped in my tmobile sim and set my phone plan to a blackberry plan.

Over the course of the next 2 months of getting my iPhone hacked, i learned SSHing which is file transfer via FTP uploading from your computer to your phone. I got every video game console on my phone (sega, nintendo, snes, xbox) and I was now able to play my modded iphone with emulated video games and I have ALL the video games ever made. I also have a video camera that is great quality on the phone, voice notes, and just soooooo much more.

By the way, the best part is that all of these applications are FREE! via the hackers/developers who upload this to the installer program on the hacked iphones.

Speed forward to July. The new iPhone is coming out. All the hype. Of course Steve Jobs wouldnt let you go a day without hyping any of his products, some of which I absolutely love and some that I loathe.

Your either a mac junkie or your not. If you have ever owned a mac in the last 2 years you know what I mean, if from long before that and still on a mac, i dont need to explain, we see eye to eye. If your on a PC and hate mac because you fear the unknown, you and I should talk. I was once a PC head for 10 years, and I left PC to the ways of MAC and baby, once your go MAC, you never go back. haha ok im kidding and that a was a random rant... back to the topic.

iPhone 3G is coming out. Apple is paying developers stupid amounts of money to create great apps for people but they MUST BE under apple guidelines. The ones I have on my phone are most deff not, hence hacked.

Apple boasts of better reception, better GPS, better everything basically.

I get my hands on an iPhone 3g and one word came to mind.... actually 2.

STALE & CHEAP.

They replaced the metal backing with plastic. -1
The reception actually was worse -1
The APP Store was not in place or ready -1
The APPs were waaaaay more $$$ then expected -1
The APPs that were to come, were nothing to shout about -1

I started to look at my phone and this new 3G and I started to think. Ok wait. They want to up sell me to join AT&T for 2 years which I have to activate in their store (btw, that was a can of worms... activations not working first few days of release hahah) and AT&T raised its price so that even if you are paying $200 for the iPhone, over the course of your 2 years with AT&T your paying waaaaaaaaay more, plus, the plans arent that great.

They want me to believe that my hacked hot rodded phone, which you all can have btw, with ANY CARRIER inluding AT&T, was inferior to the almighty 3G that downloaded in 18 seconds verses 34. Your telling me that people fell for that line of bull crap.

Newer is not always "BETTER" my friends. I am ok splitting the difference of the 18 to 34 seconds with a pick to the nose, a scratch to the crotch, a sip of my soda, a hug to a friend. I am not going to die if I dont have the 18 second full page download.

Plus, im on WIFI most anywhere I go anyway, so i dont even care about 3G. Neither should you. Almost anywhere you go now, your going to have WIFI hot spots and your phone pics it right up. Some are locked but even when locked and your on EDGE speed, your still flying thru the net. I know, i use it when I cannot get wifi and its still popping.

I guess, I got fired up because Steve Jobs and the Apple Team speak excellence and lately he has been bumming me out with taking shortcuts with his products. You dont need to worry about money Steve, you own roughly 60% of the music industry income on digital music sales. You sold over 2 billion songs online. Your iPhone have sold well over a billion dollars worth. We havent even touch Ipods, computers and more. Its frustrating when anyone in life allows quantity to over rule quality.

.... and guys, dont even get me start on iMovie 08.

Casler...Out

p.s. Anyone interested in hacking their iPhones, I would love to assist you on steps and tips. Leave me a comment so I can write you.

Also, if YOU out there, have a phone you love, tell me about it. What makes it great? What makes it suck?

My Wisdom Teeth Removal

2008-07-28T23:47:00.000-07:00

Bring the pain...

I just got my wisdom teeth removed. I have had the tops taken out before but I have never been more fearful about getting my lowers removed. These bad boys were in the jaw, and deep. They were under the skin and impacted. This meant, parts of my jaw would need to be cut out in order to extract the tooth.

WTF?

Yeah...

So i wasn't really nervous the day of the operation. I got more nervous on my pre examinations and xrays because they told me the bad news and they actually said "so are you ready?"

Shiiiiiiit. Ready for what?

They wanted to go to work right after the xray and I pussed out. No way man. I wanted to party that weekend and then work it out the following week. Well, its been a week since my extraction and I am still in ALOT of pain. Im on all the meds you can think of and I even doubled my dosage because alot of it just wasnt working. That is... until I found Clove Oil. This stuff is amazing. All the pain is gone in my dry socket. Kinda ridiculous to me that this works and vicodin doesnt.

So anyway, I was all hopped up on the nitrous, which is seriously like the scene where Will Ferrel gets shot in the neck in the movie Old School. I started laughing my ass off and telling the surgeon... "get that shit out of there, yeah, get that shit. get it." I was on another planet for sure. Thank god for my ipod. I got home, and didnt feel any pain, and thought, lets make a youtube video. After i made this tho, I went into extreme pain mode. Drugs wore off and i was in agony. Anyhow, here are some pics and below is the video.

1. Diagram of Impacted Teeth 2. Xray of Impacted Teeth 3. An Operation

Meet the Fish...

2008-07-25T22:11:00.000-07:00

So, for the past few days I have been in agonizing pain, which I still am, from my oral surgery. Totally sucks. The one thing that has kept my spirits up and the pain somewhat out of my mind is my fish. I went to the store and bought a bunch of new fish for my aquarium since two of my buddies died the other day. They were old and it was time. Once one died, the other couldnt go on. It was romantic... errrrr... kinda. Yeah so. Meet my new buddies.

OSCAR the GROUCH

BIO:

OTG as I like to call him is most def. a grouch. He is also kinda like my dogs. He always wants food and is super nice to me, but pretty mean to everyone else, including his tank mates. He likes to jump out of the water when I start to feed the fish. He chases the other fish around the tank but he is no real threat. He wont even eat the feeder fish or crickets that get put in the tank. He lets the 3 stooges do that.

LARRY

BIO:

This is Larry, he is one of the 3 stooges. They are pretty goofy fish. They are always smiling and doing stupid fish things around the tank like bumping into each other, biting one another and all the sort.

CURLEY & MO

BIO:

These guys are the counter parts to Larry. Larry is basically the main fish and these guys are like the sidekicks. Everything Larry does, they follow.

NEMO

BIO:

Why the name Nemo, when he doesnt look like Nemo? Well, he has a lucky fin.... or lack there of. When I got him, the previous owner told me that he was born like that. I learned that the people who sold this fish, lied to the people they sold it to calling them "heart fish" They cut the tails off the babies because the shape would make them look like hearts. Really sad yeah? So, this is my guy. He was waaaaaaaaaay stoked when we finally put some other fish in his size. He wont grow any more and cant swim to fast so he was happy to have some new friends to chase after.

BITEY & FIGHTY

BIO:

These Pacu's are of the Piranha family. They were just way to cool to not get for the tank. These guys fight and bite one another all day unless there is food in the tank. I did not know, but these guys can get up to 3 feet long! Its a good thing I have a pretty big tank.

50/50 Aka 50 cent

BIO:

These guys are my Bala Sharks. They are pretty "BALLA" so I thought I would give them thug names and since they are twins. 50/50 sounds good. They pretty much zip around the tank throwing down game on all the fish. One never to get played, if the Grouch tries to hustle them, they run and hide inside the reef.

ZIG ZAG

BIO:

These two Pictus Catfish are so awesome. They zig and zag, hence the name, all over the tank. Everyone in the tank likes them, so i think they may be the popular kids at school right now.

Below are some of the actual high resolution pics of the guys, its hard to take pics with an iphone when they swim so fast. Also, I have a Pleco aka Plecoptomus Prime. He just hides to much so i couldn't get a pic for you guys but his breed pic is below:

Ok, do YOU have any fish? Ever owned any? Tell me what's going on in your tank. What kind of fish you have, or what you have had or if you have any suggestions for my tank. xo

Hitting a Girl!?!?!?! WTF

2008-07-20T17:14:00.000-07:00

So, one of my all time favorite sites... www.absolutepunk.net (which is a community of musicians and music lovers, who I love), posted a news post about a fight that just happened at warped tour. It ignited some serious debate so I thought, im gonna throw my thoughts in this blog and I wanna hear what you all think about it:

The link is attached:

THE FIGHT VIDEO

THE AP.net Post

So this is my response to the situation... I want to know yours in my comments.

My personal experience.

Im at my friends bar, this girl starts talking to me, blonde girl. Im not really interested in her but im amicable with her. I talk to her. She is pretty drunk and she starts to get a little obnoxious. She pulls me in between her legs and I politely told her, im sorry, im not comfortable with that, i dont really know you. She then, feeling a little rejected I guess, starts saying "what are you a ***" and im like "why because im not making out with you in a bar, and because im not like every other bro tool in this bar".... she continued to call me a *** and i decided to ignore her. She then thought it would be funny to start poking me in the shoulder and then the face and touching me and my neck to which I replied...

"look, im really not fucking comfortable with you putting your hands on me. I dont appreciate people touching me who dont know me"

Keep in mind guys, im sober, shes drunk, im really fuckin irritated.

She grabs my hand and starts bitting my pointer finger, fucking HARD. Its like into the bone and i start yelling at her to stop and she wont, i yell one more time, and i see blood and i slap the fucking shit out of her. I wanted to knock her fucking ass out. She then started to be a bad ass and call me a *** some more and was like, my friends are gonna kick your ass...

I laughed, hand motioned to security to "kick this one out, dont let her back in"

That was that but I spent the next week with a healing swollen finger and the night it happened, it was just non stop bleeding.

So as i dont condone hitting a girl, i can understand a circumstance where one may feel they need to reciprocate some force... what level of force that is, and how its distributed is relative to the person dishing it out....

Dont mistake my understanding for saying that its OK. Im just saying I look at all angles here and i did not see the full video so i wont judge him and her because if i was to judge i would say... from the clip that doesnt show the entire incident... its hearsay before the clip, but the clip at that point in my eyes, shows a male (security) with his hands up at first in an non threatening manner, where the girl was coming at him in a threatening manner, and when she made contact, he took it upon himself to punch her... not cool, shes obviously to small to do any damage with that many other dudes around, however... she put her hands on him in an aggressive fashion and he reciprocated. that shit happens. Is it wrong, is it right? Well, thats why this thread has 800+ replies. Alot of people have alot of thoughts on how to handle these situations and its easy to be in the stands but everyone is different and if it were YOU in a physical situation where you may have felt threatened, the scenario may be different, it may not. Its all relative to the person and the situation.

xo

So now im curious to your thoughts, and while your at it. Dont forget to check my poll on the right. I want to know what you would like me to blog about. At the end of the poll I am going to write about whatever topic you choose.

3 Rants... 1 day...

2008-07-16T08:26:00.000-07:00

So I cant sleep... what better to do than write some blogs. I recently just joined iReport with CNN. I have always wanted to be a new anchor or journalist on the road, so this is kinda cool for me. Yeah, im a big fat loser. I know. Well, here are my 3 iReport news stories. Enjoy...

GREAT MEMORIES

Remembering the greats and the memories

When I was growing up. My brother and I fought like a bunch of vultures vying for the same piece of meat. Always tooth and nail, all the time. The one thing we could always agree on was baseball.

We made it our childhood goal to collect all the major rookie cards. We saves all of our allowance and watched every game and we were just hooked. Even now as im an adult, my card collection astonishes me and its in mint condition well worth over 100K.

One of my great memories was the affinity my brother and I had for Cal Ripkin Jr. Donruss, the card company released 5,000 Gold Series Autographed cards by Cal and I remember saving $30 of allowance to buy the box. However, there were only 5K ever made and there were tons of players and different box sets. I stood there with David for a good 45 minutes grabbing different boxes and wondering which one had Cal in it.

I finally found a box that I believed with all of me had Cal in it. I grabbed the box, paid the lady my $30 which was ALOT of money back then when your a kid. We ran outside and feverishly opened the box.

Got down to the last 5 cards and I started balling my eyes out. I knew it wasnt to be. Cal was elusive and it would take forever to save up another $30 on a whim that I may find him.

THE VERY LAST CARD....

Was Cal. Im not pulling your chain, not making an elaborate story. This was a true genuine childhood moment of pure luck and joy. We started screaming our heads off bloody murder. We got CAL!!!!! WE GOT CAL!!!

We got a bullet proof case as they called them, for the card and would share it each night for whos room it got to be in.

This was one good story of many and altho Im too young to have seen them live I always had love for Honus Wagner, The Babe, Willy Mays, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams and all the greats even leading up to the greats of my time.

You'll never find my baseball cards in the spokes of a bicycle.

DO WE NEED MORE CARS???

The Auto industry experiences worst decline in 15 years

Ok, to get right down to brass tacks here. We dont need more cars. We should be thinking more conservatively about the amount of cars we already have on the road and how we can in some way recycle those into further use that is more economical and environmentally friendly. I drive a mercedes, not the most practical or fuel efficient, but i got the car when gas was under $2 a gallon and to be honest, spending money on gas was not as big of a deal as it is now. Since then, i have used an electric car as well as a veggie oil converted diesel hybrid van.

For speed, the mercedes and the van do it. For economics and cleanliness the electric car wins. Comfortability would have to go to the mercedes and electric car since the electric gives you that "motorcycle/jeep feel of no doors and the wind whipping past you on a sunny day"

With gas prices, rent rising, food being outrageous I can see why a vehicle is the last thing on peoples minds. In fact more of my friends are carpooling, biking and even walking. Thats probably the most healthy, fuel efficient and economic as well as environmentally friendly thing to do there is. Back to the Caveman days ha.

BATTLE OF THE BUD

Do you really care if a European company owns it?

Personally, i know there are alot of people who will disagree with me, and call me a traitor... mainly rednecks. Well thats cool, but I personally could care less who owns budweiser or not. I drive past their brewery all the time and I grew up on an island in the pacific that consumes so much bud that we even have our own Hawaiian labels and guess what... NOONE GAVE 2 "YOU KNOW WHATS", as long as you get drunk. Im speaking for the majority of the people I know because I heard about the sell off, and while drinking beers over the 4th, I asked if anyone actually even gave a shit. Guess what... not one person did. I saw how one guy said "Man... budweiser is like ford" If he meant, like Ford for the sake of making crappy beer, like Ford makes crappy vehicles... then yes. It is like Ford and in that case... the car will still "git errrr done" just like the beer will.

The heritage of bud being on the low end of beers will not change just because its ownership is changing hands. It will still be good ole budweiser and when you can't afford Guinness, Blue Moon, a nice Heff or whatever your poison is, you will still always be able to count on Bud being your cheap and effective drinking partner. Now after that, youll only have to watch out for the pee pee monster

To see my iReport Page...

http://www.ireport.com/people/DannyNP

Medicated

2008-07-15T17:43:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! I wanted to let you know we just announced the premier of our new video "Medicated".

So, check it out http://nationalproduct.buzznet.com/user/video/play/3329781/>>

Go leave some comment love over there and say whats up baby!

- Danny

What a DAY!

2008-07-15T02:57:00.000-07:00

So the other day I went out for a ride with my buddy dudley. On our way we witness a pretty bitchin car crash. Noone was hurt so im not a jerk for thinking it was rad. Anyhow, brand new car slams into another car who I honestly dont know how she got in that spot anyhow. It was very awkward of a crash. We were at a light next to them so i snapped a pic because I thought she looked like SUPASTAR from SNL and my buddy just clapped at them. She looked at us and yelled "why are you taking a picture, why is he clapping???" It wasnt malicious, it was just kind of odd to be honest.

Next, we head to the bizzle, aka jack in the box for some Jalapeno Poppers. In my box of what was supposed to be 7 i got alot more than I bargained for. I got 10. Not only that, i got a Jalapenis Popper. Folks, i did not know Jack in the Box made these but i was impressed (see diagram) Also, best part of it. The teller was gay. I high fived him and drove off.

I usually spend my nights watching online videos on break.com or other funny sites. I saw this shot of Henry Rollins (black flag) and it paused right at this moment. I thought it was pretty funny, so i found a shot of me where I look like butt too. If you slow down video roles, you can find some hilarious stuff.

Last but not least, the pee pee monster. He's real, he's out there... WATCH OUT.

I need more Cowbell...

2008-05-30T16:25:00.000-07:00

As we are heading home from being on the road for 5 months. We celebrated in New Mexico by having a few drinks with some friends. We were shaking off everything that life has thrown us in the last 5 months, but more so, everything life has given us as well. We have deff "been there, done that" since releasing our record LUNA. We toured Canada with Saosin & Poison the Well and while there, our van burst into flames with us in it. We did several trips to Alaska & Hawaii, tour the beautiful US of A multiple times. Watched our bus break on us almost everyday, said screw that for safety reasons and bought a brand new 15 passenger van so we wouldnt have to worry about breakdowns anymore, unless it was the ones we were making on stage "throw in scenester guitar throw of your head move" kidding of course, but hey, had to do it.

Well while having our drinks and reflecting, the scene from SNL came on about more cowbell. Priceless, such a great scene, and song. Shortly after my boy Brett Farve was shown cleaning out his locker. Very emotional for me because that guy is like an idol to me. He is a man of true character. Played the day his father past away and won the game. A true man of passion in life for his family, for his sport, for his fans and his team. Everything I admire and aspire to one day be. We go through our lives worrying about all these bullshit trivial things and I think we find ourselves not realizing that we are focusing to hard inward, and not enough outward. I see it in so many aspects of life, i even see it in me, and I think thats a good start. When you can notice things that are bullshit so you can start changing who you are or how you look at things.

Im a part of a music "scene" if you will but our band is in the world thats a weird parallel and i dont know how it works or why and most of the time i dont question it. Some days we are on a stage with total radio butt rock bands like Evansblue and Red with a punk rock headliner like Joan Jett, some days were on a stage with bands like Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, Saosin etc and others we play face to face for 30 kids stoked to be crammed into a small room.

All of these things put my soul into perspective when you feel appreciate by people from so many different demographics. I dont think our band will ever be on a "success" level of a Paramore, or a My Chemical Romance and were totally cool with that. I think when we found ourselves wanting that kind of success we forgot that we had success in eachother, in our friends, fans and we ran back to what is real to us. If i can get on a stage everynight, regardless of how many kids, and play with the same integrity of a Jimmy Eat World or a local band who drives 8 hours to play a show and doesnt get paid, then i think i feel successful.

I dont know how this rant started but were finishing up 5 months, there is alot more on my chest, were about to head to Japan, then Hawaii...after that South America and a full US tour in Aug/Sept. I am grateful for the little things life brings me... I am stoked that life always wants some more cowbell. I love Brett Farve, ill miss him. I dont know what else to say except I cant wait to kiss the hell out of my dogs, crawl into my own bed tomorrow, hug my friends, play a lil xbox 360, eat a nice leafy green salad and not hear music for awhile. Especially screamo.

Anton, if your wondering if this was that long Iraq/Life blog, its not, that ones coming. That blog ive been writing for the last month, its not a month long, its just, making sure my wording is right because its some emotional stuff etc. Love you guys xo

Karaoke Orlando - NP & Whole Wheat Bread

2008-05-29T11:57:00.000-07:00

We are huge fans of Karaoke, but even more so, with Rock Star Karaoke. This is where a live band plays, and you get up and sing. While we were in Orlando on tour, we played and then went over to sing some Karaoke and little did we know, the guys from You Me and Everyone We Know and Whole Wheat Bread were there. Such good times!

Note: I sang "Welcome to the Jungle" "I believe in a thing called Love" and "Josie"

Whole Wheat Bread dude rocked some Snoop Dog.

On Strike....

2008-05-21T21:36:00.001-07:00

So today as we went to our radio interview in Atlanta, i noticed that there was a big line of picketers on strike. They were all jumping around much happier then the normal "on strike" person. I thought it was weird so when I walked up to our contact at the station, I asked about it. She said they were striking because the contractor didnt hire union workers, so generally, they are upset. More money to the contractor, less money for workers.

Well the funny part of it all, is that those guys on strike were homeless. The actual workers paid the homeless dudes to wear their uniforms and be on strike all day. No wonder they were happy to be on strike. They get to go buy some crack later. Oh the irony.

xoxox D

A Quick Interview for YOU

2008-04-10T15:58:00.000-07:00

I just did this, real fast for a college student and friend of mine.
.........

Firstly, what is your role in National Product as far as from the artistic stand point as well as your role (in the past, present, and future) from the business aspect of the business?

I am the singer of the band, i write alot of the music as well. I used to handle alot of the management but now I just overlook it as we have managers and agents now.

In what ways as an artist do feel it is beneficial to know what goes on in the wheelings and dealings of the business side of music?

Consider your business your life. You cant just allow people to run your life, feed you, wipe your butt etc. You need a system of checks and balances so that you can 1. be self sufficient and 2. know the inner workings so you dont get screwed over. In this business, people are looking for the dumb ones, and the dumb ones end up on VH1 asking where all their money went to.

What was it that took your passion for what you are doing and made you decide to turn that corner and become a professional in the industry?

If your sincere and passionate at what you do, you never notice the transition. People start calling you a professional or paying you like one and its just a nice bonus since you love it and dont see it as more than hobby, but are aware that it is a business.

What other jobs (in the past and presently if any) did you and the other guys take on while cutting your teeth in the local scene (both while in Hawaii and in the OC)?

Of course, I have bagged groceries, made pizzas, sold real estate, ran a graphic design business, merchandise business and more. Id rather make less money and do what makes me happy then make more and hate the day.

What differences in the industry are in your view the biggest differences between the way things work here in the islands and how they work on the continent?

We take our same structure from the Islands with us everywhere we go, that will never change, and in the end that will be the difference and seperation between NP and the others.

With the recent release of "Luna", what is your view of how the modernization of technology (ie. mp3's, dowloads, etc,. as compared to when were growing up) has helped or hurt in the process of business in regards to sales and profit from them?

It does alot of both. Hurts and Helps. There is no changing what is already the norm, their is only encouraging and evolving. That is what we do with our fans.

If there is anything else you feel should be said in regards to the business that you feel you may want to express to me (or other people in general) about the undustry in general and/or the business side of the useful art of music?

If you continue to do anything in life that love, never forget why you loved it in the first place, everything else will fall into place. Never worry about who has more, whos more famous. Those things are not permanent, they fade, but your integrity and legend will live on long past that as long as your passion was true.

Oregon Trail....Blazing

2008-04-09T00:08:00.000-07:00

So right now im in the most beautiful home, loving life. We arrived to Bend Oregon to do some radio promo and on the way it just starts snowing so hard. I LOVE it when it snows. We arrive to the most incredible house that’s holding us up, and they make the most amazing meal. I think im just really stoked right now. Its not a top ramen night folks. Ha.

Hope your all well out in the world, loving and missing you all.

Home for a BIT!

2008-03-28T00:19:00.001-07:00

Sup chicks and dudes, were home for a bit, it feels dope to live in my house again, pet my dogs, shower regularly, not smell like a dude 24/7 of the hizzy. Lots of new news for you guys all coming soon, hope your ready!

Danny

Fan of the Week

2008-03-22T19:13:00.000-07:00

Want to be our Fan of the Week? Tell us why...

You will be featured on our Myspace page (www.myspace.com/nationalproduct) and win some pretty rad prizes.

Submit your entries to our Street Team Co-Captain, Natalie aka "Wisconsin" at npolicht@aol.com

Be sure to include your Myspace URL and answer the following questions:

How did you discover National Product?
Why do you like us?
What is your favorite NP song and why?

The winner will be selected and notified on March 28th.

Good Luck!

-Danny, Nate, Robby, Stan, Jeff and Danimal

San Jose CANCELLED

2008-03-22T19:12:00.000-07:00

So, were in St George right now with our homies, In Aviate, and we just got word from our agent that the owner of the venue cancelled the show this morning. Apparently, at last nights show the PA blew up...like, literally blew up. So..... you all get to spend your easter with your other families, not your NP families, however, the owner feels bad, and said he is rescheduling, so guess what...We are coming right back to make it up to you, dont hate, participate, love you guys, please understand thats out of our control.xoxo- NP

Tour Updates From Stantera...

2008-02-06T20:59:00.000-08:00

Feb 6th 2008 12:36am As promised to myself on this new year I'm going to try my best to document each day on tour of our cazy lifes =) haha!! I must warn you, I am doing this from my trusty old sidekick and my grammer is not the greatest. I feel sorry for those of you that will be keeping intune and intouch with my daily postings. Hehe Well we praticed today from 5 - 8pm after not been together for almost two months due to the holidays and such. Gosh it felt like we never skiped a beat!!! I was very impressed with everyone. We must be getting really good at this stuff =) Were now in a Ford expedition for this tour. Were BALLING now woop woop! Haha fricK that bus! I kind of hope it gets stolen or blows up or something. For those of you in a band, take it from me DO NOT buy a bus unless your pimping it HARD! Espically a 1981 model. And who cares if its previous owner was super star gath brooks haha! There just way to much to run PERIOD and way to much to up keep. I rather be shoulder to shoulder in this Ford with my buds and know were getting to each show on time with no problems then to have my own bunk to sleep in and a kitchen and bathroom. Shoot I can always pee and poop outside haha! Anywho, were on our way to Provo, Utah for our first show. Can't wait to see our touring buddys lorene drive. =)

Sign Up for our Mailing List and Win!

2007-11-25T23:52:00.001-08:00

National Product and R&M Artist Records are giving you all kinds of chances to win prizes this holiday season, like an Ipod Touch, Ipod Shuffle and IPhone. More than a dozen winners will get our CD-Luna, plus a DVD of our new video "By All Means, " a NP T-shirt and tour poster.

Don't Wait-ENTER NOW!!

The contest ends Jan. 1, 2008, which means you have the chance to start your New Year with some pretty rad prizes and a phone call from one of us.

Check out all of the details on our Myspace page (www.myspace.com/nationalproduct). While your there, you can enter to win! The "Cover Your Eyes" Tour is starting too, be sure to get your tickets...we are coming to a town near you!

Much Love and Good Luck,

Danny, Stan, Nate, Jeff, Robby and Niles xoxox

Love Hate Hero Tour - Blogging It Baby

2007-11-06T12:48:00.000-08:00

Ok, so for this blog, you have to start from the bottom to the top in order to go in events... This blog encompasses our Hawaii tour with Shiny Toy Guns and coming into the East Coast with Love Hate Hero, its more of a photo blog....enjoy xoxo
........

Jeff getting his bar tending on with Pierrick

NP LHH love

robbys body ladies...if you look close, it looks like a moose head

shoe party

there is a burrito in there somewhere

no hander no footer

passed out

stan and too many drinks

danny getting killer stylee in chicago

Nathan showing his asset

the view

robby and i driving thru the night

Robby got into an epic gobstopper battle with our tour manager...see the balls on the ground

our bus broke down on the LHH tour and this dude helped us out, check his grill

more kids

kids waiting for some NP

our wonderful fans...hawaii rocks

hawaii love

this dude Kevin, he started NP with me....and since owns his tattoo shop, we caught up

dude at the airport.... random

this was flying...metal in the air is kinda sketchy

my feet in some sand...booyah

This is what i miss most about home...sitting on the beach and just enjoying the day

Day 1....straight to the beach

The baby blue steele

The ride to the airport....opening up the window on the bus

NP at LAX international getting jiggy with some bags

Robby getting our tickets for Honolulu with the Shiny Toy Guns.

California Burning

2007-10-23T17:48:00.000-07:00

Im sitting on the bus. Originally i was going to tell you how amazing our show in Hawaii was and all that stuff but im a little overwhelmed with whats going on around me. I just got off CNN.com and read about over 500,000 people displaced and evacuated from their homes. I know I am never home really, the road is my home, yet when I do get home, just for that 1 day or that short moment before hitting the road again, i know that at that moment, there is no place like it.

I saw pictures of thousands of people seeking refuge in stadiums and all i could think about was hurricane Katrina. Its really sad to see these people displaced and even more sad to know, the inevitable truth that beyond their homes, some of these people are going to lose everything but their lives. How will they recover from this. Where will they go? How will their children eat, get new clothes, get back to school. That list can rapidly start to mount into a thousand questions. My heart is heavy. I am leaving the place I live in as its in its worst state, and I know am but one small instrument but its hard to drive down the 91 and watch it slowly fall to the back of the bus.

Ill write a blog about Hawaii later. I want this to affect and inspire some of you to pray for the people who are about to, and are facing one of the most catastrophic things to ever happen to them. Its very easy for us to watch from a far and not be affected but im begging you to look deeper and feel, and let it affect you. Feel compassion and let that feeling of being a human enter you and control you if even only for a minute. I know to some people this may not apply but for many, i hope it does. Sending my love to you and yours...

- Danny

End of Tour.... Start of Life of Lie Tour

2007-10-17T12:08:00.000-07:00

Sadly our tour with Lorene Drive has ended in San Antonio.. We will miss those dudes very dearly. They hold a special place in our hearts fo sho. We also had Take The Crown on the last 3 days and that was a neat reunion. Those guys are rad, check um out.

Anyhow...we were supposed to start our Hot Topic Tour tonight at Chain Reaction but god, and our bus had other plans. Our alternator bushings went straight to hell and our belt flew off while we were driving, we almost crashed and decided, "yeaaaaaaaah, we dont need another vehicle to blow up or catch on fire"

So we apologize for that but we are redoing a date in December to make you all stoked. Ill keep you up to date. Lastly, Hawaii, we will see you soon....and for the rest of the USA about to experience NP for the first time, and some for the 2nd and 3rd, we cannot wait to see you.

xoxoxo - NP

Lorene Dr - Tour Journal / 10.12.07

2007-10-14T01:17:00.000-07:00

Sup guys, we are on our way to Little Rock Arkansas. We have lost complete track of time, as i was thinking today was Tuesday and it is actually Friday. Just passed the Mississippi river and saw some cool scenic views.

The whole tour kinda started like this...we flew out to buy a bus in Missouri in the scariest plane ever...long story short...when we were on tour with Saosin/Poison The Well in Canada, our trusty van the "Black Pearl" was over it and the axle snapped and she caught on fire...so we were master-de-bating on whether to get a new 18 passanger or an RV. Our buddy just bought a bus and got a good deal on one and this Christian ministry was getting rid of a bus for a great deal...shes older but still perty. We went out to get her and start the tour and....the mission began driving from Misssouri to California, California to Virginia

Ill start the tour part by saying the guys in Lorene Dr are dope. We have been having a good time with them and my only bum out is that this tour is not longer, however...i know there will be some stuff in store later down the road with us. On to the blog...

Our first show was in Statesboro GA and it was an awesome way to start the tour...we had Esme & The Rise of Science on the bill and didn't even know it. I have been rocking Esme's stuff for a lil bit and it was a pleasant surprise to meet and play with them. Then...The Rise of Science got up and just ripped shit apart. Ever heard of them? Probably not but if you love what Coheed sounded like when they first broke...your gonna flip on these dudes. Super high harmonic and melodic vocals over a Coheed/Circa Survive landscape of sound. Please check them out

The last couple of days we spent in Orlando with our close friends Chris, Ranel, Art, Candice & Q. We had the Lorene Drive boys come stay and introduced them to the crew. Chris was awesome and let all the guys stay at the house where we hung out with puppies, played video games, covered a Journey song and at lots of candy. Good times.

Pictures are below ....

The Wait is Over!

2007-10-11T19:53:00.000-07:00

We couldn't be more thrilled...the EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE on AOL'S MUSIC'S POPEATER, of our video, "By All Means" will debut on Tuesday, October 16, 2007. So tell all of your friends to go to: http://music.aol.com/popeater on Tuesday October 16th to see "By All Means" over and over again! Tell everyone you know about this exclusive premiere, and our new album, LUNA.. available everywhere in-store and online now.

In addition, AOL Radio has added "By All Means" to "Emo" and "New Rock List."

Don't forget that we are currently on the road, so check out the latest tour dates at www.myspace.com/nationalproduct to see us live in your town.

We love you tons and we'll see you soon!

Danny, Rob, Stan, Nate, Jeff and Dan xooxo

World Peace and Rock N Roll

2007-10-04T00:22:00.001-07:00

Hey all, its 1 am, and I cant sleep. We are watching prison break because the show is insane! Today is a great day. We pulled off to check stats on the bus and who pulls up behind us...the Dave Mathews bus pulled up behind us. We hung with that dude for a bit and took off to Georgia...so, right now we are in New Mexico on our way....on a rad note, south korea and north korea wanna be friends. Know what that means. No more nuclear bombs dude. word.

- Danny

WE FOUND OUR NEW HOME ON THE ROAD!

2007-09-28T19:06:00.000-07:00

So here I am sitting in our brand new tour bus. Not new as in an 08 model, new as in, we finally did it. NP now has a tour bus. After our van crashed & caught fire on our Canada tour (see news clips: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=ZG3&q=national+product+band+crash&btnG=Search ">)... we were a little shaken up and felt like we need to find a way to be more secure. We were debating in a masterful way ha, on whether or not to get another large passanger van or an RV like our buddies in You In Series.

Anyhow, we ended up meeting an awesome kid Kyle who played in many bands and bought his own bus. He kept telling us how unsafe and RV was and explained the benefits of a bus. Long story short, we did some searching online and found out that we could buy a brand new van or a used bus for remotely cheap. We found an insane deal on a 12 bunk and couldn’t turn it down. We went through a lot to make this happen, ( 5 different flights, 16 hours of flying and much more) but this band has always been about struggle and sacrifice. We will always be that way. So here we are, driving back home to pick the rest of the boys up and get out on this tour with Lorene Drive and then connect to the Hot Topic tour coming up. We are excited to come see you all. Maybe we can bring a few of you board to see our new home. Enjoy the pics, ill write another blog and Robby and I made a video for you to enjoy, that’s coming soon.

Robby on the initial flight

Dan Huerta, the tour manager

My pre-bus myspace photo at the airport bathroom

The scenery from the sky

The scariest flight ever. A small jet...stay away from these dudes and chicks. Way sketch.

The inside of the death trap

Ole Blue! In all her glory...

So sick!

Huerta throwing metal because he no longer has to sleep in hotel closets

The first day in the new blue bus

The bus auto shop had some rad old cars that were just sitting there. This is how I feel about school too. I wish I could do this to my old school bus.

So rad...old Chevy

Sick double decker

Another old chevy...and.....

Success!!! NP has found a new home!

-Danny and NP

PLEASE HELP AZPUNK.com!

2007-09-07T12:42:00.000-07:00

PLEASE HELP AZPUNK.com!

Long story short, we couldn't afford our server anymore and had to downgrade to a shared host. The forum software we run is a hosebeast and chews servers to bits. The board will be down until we have time to put up a new one.

We're calling for help! Anything you can spare will help immensely in our effort to get the site back to normal again. Please donate via paypal.com by sending your donation to chris@azpunk.com.

Micah & Chris
AZPunk.com

Video Feature on Jack9.com

2007-09-05T18:35:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone!

Check out our video feature on Jack9.com

on Jack9.com!!!!

xo The NP Boyzzz

Rock Sound Magazine

2007-08-26T19:35:00.000-07:00

We are really pleased to announce the current article about us in Rock Sound Magazine. This is from the UK. It's amazing when we try to wrap our heads around everything that is going on and we have all of you to thank for the love and support that you show us.

Be sure to check it out:

www.rock-sound.net

Much Love, Danny, Rob, Stan, Jeff, Nate and Dan

Smartpunk #1!!!

2007-08-24T11:39:00.001-07:00

We did it and by WE I mean YOU guys and NP. We did it!!!! I dont think i ever thought we would see this day for us. We watched Saosin hold this spot for soooooo long with the first record and in admiration watched hoping that when we finished our CD that kids would want it that bad too. Well, today I woke up to that day and we are elated. We went from a debut of #74, to 50 to 30 to 14 to 10 to 7 to 5 to 3 to 2 and today #1. You guys are amazing. If you havent gotten your CD yet, please click the picture below. You will get a CD plus a FREE Tshirt to show you that we love your butts =)

xoxox NP

Charts and Reviews

2007-08-18T12:47:00.001-07:00

SMARTPUNK
Thank you all for making us #3 on Smartpunk.com

REVIEWS
Check out a couple of the reviews for LUNA!

BILLBOARD

LUNA debuts at #131 on The Billboard HEATSEEKERS Chart!
LUNA also debuted at #179 on the Billboard Indie Chart!

THANK YOU FOR GETTING US ON BILLBOARD AND MAKING THE DEBUT OF LUNA SO AMAZING!!!

xo The NP Boyzz

Thanks and Much More...

2007-08-14T20:31:00.000-07:00

Thank you

We just wanted to thank all of you who have bought the CD already and who came out to the CD Release Party at Chain Reaction. It was definitely one of the most amazing shows we have ever played. We had tons of family, friends and the greatest fans come out. Thank you, thank you!

SmartPunk.com #5

Thanks again for helping make us number 5 on SmartPunk.com!!!

Tell your friends that haven't picked up LUNA to order today!
Click the link below!

LUNA now available at Hot Topic

LUNA has been picked up by Hot Topic!

NP's DJ ROSSSTAR Interview now on BUZZNET.COM

Check it out now on BUZZNET.COM! Click below!

Thanks!

xo The NP Boyzzz

Danny and Rob on DJ Rossstar's Punk Rock Show TONIGHT 7PM!

2007-08-09T13:32:00.000-07:00

Danny and Rob will be on DJ Rossstar's Punk Rock show TODAY at 7pm! Make sure you tune in to hear them talk about LUNA and answer your questions!

CLICK THE BANNER TO LISTEN!

BUY LUNA NOW ON AMAZON!!

DON'T FORGET TOMORROW!!!

DANNY ON HAWAII'S STAR 101.9!!!! NOW!!!

2007-08-06T19:13:00.000-07:00

LISTEN TO NATIONAL PRODUCT ON STAR 101.9 in 15 mins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CLICK THE BANNER BELOW!!!

GET THE LOWDOWN ABOUT LUNA FROM DANNY IN 15 MINS ON STAR!

DON'T FORGET TO CALL IN AND REQUEST TO HEAR NP!!!!!!!!!!

-THE NP BOYZZZ

2007-08-05T22:39:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, I thought it would be neat to start doing news bullitens with images for you to see some of the updates this week. Why, because we love your smelly faces and we wanna let you know whats new.
........................................

ITUNES:

NP is the featured ROCK artist on ITUNES. We were just written by Itunes staff to tell us that our CD "LUNA" has had a 100% Buy Rate. What that means is, kids are buying the entire album instead of songs. Thats AWESOME for us because the album tells a story and by take a song out, your basically opening a book and taking 10 pages out that will not complete your experience. *image below*

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SMARTPUNK:

NP Debut at #76 and in 1 day shot up to #51, next day #31, and now we broke the top 10 with our CD featured as a SmartPunk Top Seller. Thats all thanks to YOU GUYS!

If YOU want the CD via SMARTPUNK, below is what you get!

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PUREVOLUME:

NP is the FEATURED artist right now on PV. Please go check it out! Especially if you want to HEAR the song ALLISON that did not make the record but was a fan favorite from our EP.

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MYSPACE:

Did you know we have NEW: photos, a new myspace layout, new songs up???

Well we do and....NP is going to be the MAIN MUSIC FEATURE on Myspace. Keep checking the MUSIC link for US. Our Feature will be up any day for an entire WEEK!

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MTV / FUSE:

Have you seen NP on MTV or FUSE lately? ALOT of you have. We have been getting your emails, text messages, calls and comments. Thanks for all the support on that. If you go to FUSE.com right now and click the WORM. Youll see NP as the feature there and you can listen to the entire NP record before anyone else does.

Mark Your Calendars

2007-08-04T14:54:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone,

We are on our way to Las Vegas...but thought that we would share some exciting news with you. So, be sure to check out the following dates and events:

Currently we are the featured artist on Pure Volume, (www.purevolume.com) and as an added thank you, we have brought back "Allison" for your listening pleasure. This is off of an older LP, so you will not find it on Luna.

This week, you can find us on Napster under the "New Releases Section". Just go to:http://free.napster.com/

August 7th-The Debut of LUNA....

August 9th- Robby and I will be guests on DJ Rossstar's Punk Rock Show. http://djrossstar.buzznet.com/user/video/1233711/ (Aprox: 6:30 PST)

August 10th-Release Show and Party at Chain Reaction in Anaheim. Get your tickets now, this will be a sold out event.

Stay Tuned, as more tour dates are around the corner!

Much Love, Danny and the NP Boyzzz
xoxoxo

Featured Artist On Star 101.9 KUCD- Hawaii

2007-08-02T17:42:00.000-07:00

It's amazing how much love and support that we receive. Thank you to friends and family...yes that means you! Without you, none of this would be possible. We are the featured artist on the homepage for Star 101.9 KUCD Hawaii.

Check out the following website:http://www.star1019.com/pages/nationalProduct.html

"In a rapidly changing music industry that has left many bands off balance and out of place, National Product is determined to create a new definition of what it means to be a rock band.

Their unique sound and sense of purpose creates an amazing interaction between the band and the fan. This journey is not just for the six members of National Product but for all of us who hear and are changed by the music and message of Luna." SmartPunk.com

The Lives of Famous Men and AOL RADIO (FUSE WORM LISTENING PARTY UP NOW!!!)

2007-07-31T15:44:00.000-07:00

Hey Guys! Just a couple more things today.

The last couple shows on the tour with our friends The Lives of Famous Men were pretty great shows. Friday we headed to Reno to play Club Underground with our other friends The Logan. We all had a great time playing together and having a couple drinks. We spent another day in Reno before heading to Victorville for the last date of our tour. Played a pretty amazing show and were sad to say our goodbyes to some really good friends. Check out The Lives of Famous Men on MySpace!!!

Also, did you hear? You can now hear Sean’s Song on AOL Radio. Please go take a listen on AOL Radio and show AOL just what a force NP fans really are. Just go to AOL Radio and search National Product.

FUSE WORM PARTY UP NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Boyzzz

New Myspace up NOW! FUSE listening Party at 3PM EST (thirty minutes from now)

2007-07-31T11:33:00.000-07:00

Wow, we're really proud of this. Dan (keys) in the band has been working forever on this new myspace design... it came out so awesome! Please come by and check it out at myspace.com/nationalproduct!

Also, in about 30 minutes (3PM EST) FUSE is hosting a listening party of the WHOLE album!

Go here to listen to it :-)

http://fuse.tv/index.php

Much love to you all

The boyz xoxoxoxo

We just put QUAY up to listen to

2007-07-30T09:08:00.001-07:00

Hey everyone....

Wow, are we glad to be heading back home now... get some real sleep, all that.... play with the dogs... miss those little pissers.

Big news for this week is just like the last few Mondays, we have a new song from LUNA up.

Go check it out! It's called Quay, you might remember hearing a demo of it like 6 months ago or more. Well, this is the real done DONE version, sweet.

Also, in case you haven't heard, our record is FOR SALE on iTunes right now.... grab it here

Much love to you all.... getting way exciting now.... August 7th is so close!

The Boyz...

Canada and all her glory

2007-07-27T00:27:00.000-07:00

This was from our drive back to the USA. This part of canda is like some
lord of the rings crap. Its so awesome looking. I recommend it kids.

Goodbye Pearl

2007-07-27T00:24:00.000-07:00

Sad to see her go. We had to rip her apart and take the valuables from
the wreckage that was The Black Pearl.

R.I.P.

2007-07-25T14:09:00.000-07:00

At the Border & Dinosaurs
so we got stuck at the canadian border for like 4 hours waiting to be
let in. during that time we took some pics and went to the bathroom.
notice the dudes bathrooms. Says homies, on it. rad.

Also, we found a dinosaur park and we spent a good while taking pics of
us running from them.m

Chicago

2007-07-25T14:06:00.000-07:00

So we had some time off before our show. We hopped in the pool by the
lake, put on our daisy dukes and rocked that piece! There was the pool
hog, or PH as we like to call her who was barking orders and telling us
what we could and couldn't do, I snuck a few pics of her in there.

Also, our ball flew off the side into the lake, our buds jumped in to
grab it and found themselves waste deep in a duck crap mud slush that
smelled worse than anything ever. In the pics they are throwing up as
they are being pulled up.

Chicago

2007-07-15T12:10:00.000-07:00

We played Chicago for the 1st time and it was cool to see kids there
singing our songs. We got so excited that we went home and decided to
sing other peoples songs...that is, after guitar hero.

The night went down like this....

1. Played show
2. Went home, had some adult tasty beverages
3. Started guitar hero
3. Drank some more
4. Started singstar competition
5. Drank some more
6. I ended up asleep behind a couch
7. Woke up to write this.
8. Shower time

1st Class & Niagara Falls

2007-07-11T12:54:00.000-07:00

So we had a cool experience leaving Alaska. We got to our plan and they
said they needed 8 people to give up seats and if they did so, they
would get $400, free food and drinks and 1st class. We all made it to
the desk fast and gave up our seats along with 2 of our new homies from
the band 12 Tribes.

We got to Salt Lake City and did it again getting another $400 plus food
and drinks and hotel. I suggest telling your check in person you don't
mind being bumped, it kinda rules.

So now, we are in New York, Buffalo area. We had to miss last nights
show because truth be told, we sat in an airport and on flights home
from alaska for way to long. We needed sleep and noone woke up to the
alarm. Sorry kids, we will be back, some new tours are being announced.

We saw Niagara Falls today! Amazing. Check out the pics.

Summer Meltown...Alaska

2007-07-08T14:16:00.000-07:00

ak homie

he wanted us to sign his head and even said he would let me tattoo my name on him!

nate

ak homie

robby

jeff

Danny's siggy

robby setting up

the crowd

more crowd

danny & crowd

danny and dog whisperer action

bathroom view

patio

nate our homie

a cool plate

sick house

tour manager johnny and danny chasing a moose

the moose

making a wish

remember these when you were a little kid? so cool

brock from 36's house

Nate again

Shimmer

36 CF and 12 Tribes balling

NP suiting up

The shot to win that game

...............

Well, we just woke up in our rooms and its time to say goodbye to Alaska.

Its the most quiet the house has been. We came we saw we conquered, Jay Z baby! Ha Kidding. Seriously tho... we love Alaska, we got to play for a few thousand kids who went absolutely ape shit during the set. Lots of video coming soon.

For everyone at AK Soul, Chad, Kurt, Nate, Natasha & Candice @ Chez
Ritts for the amazing full body massage and facial, Robinson for the
Party Bus and drinks at F st, Mark @ Orca Inn for shredding us alive,
Jon from the Time Bandit (deadliest catch) Platinum Jaxxx for the hooks
and Joe Grahmn over at Anchor, 36, 12 tribes, lost Concept, strept,
dekcuf and lastly all you amazing kids that rocked out. Enjoy the pics.

Oh yeah, the moose pic, we became friends.

Alaska...day 2

2007-07-05T11:12:00.000-07:00

event poster

dude who looks like Freddie mercury

station KWHL

danny and microphone

woody and mic

station

booyah

kwhl bear

a rad fish

teepee

local bar

the cheese

trees

more trees

4th dinner

macy jane

..........

We celebrated the 4th of July at some new friends house and it was
amazing. I personally felt like I was at home with my own family. It was
amazing.

We hungout with some of their kids and I found this little girl Macy
Jane with her hands in the beer box and holding an empty beer bottle.
Way cute and way wrong at the same time but I couldn't help myself so I
took pics.

To celebrate after we went to F street where the have a cheese block and
your supposed to go in and shave some cheese and eat it but...the sign
says Do Not Eat because technically the health dept is not cool with
cheese just hanging out. Its awesome tho.

Then we went to platinum jaxx, a cool bar/club and had some food and
drank jager or as I like to call it yacker cause it makes me wanna yack.
Black licorice is for a rare breed of people and I'm not one of them.

Also this is really off topic but we just finished our morning show here
at KWHL and we are at mcdonalds and it made me think of the last time we
were in alaska. We found a mcdonalds that had the full on kid slides and
playground. I was so excited I ran up the stairs, climbed the ladder and
got to the point of no return where I started to climb thru the tunnels.
I couldn't help but notice the smell of urine everywhere. I had to keep
going tho because you can't really back up so I figured, things can't
get any worse...

I get to the slide and start sliding down and forgot about static
electricity...well needless to say...that shit should be illegal. I was
electrocuted the whole way down and had to stop and military style crawl
out of there. It was terrible and I can't even imagine small kids
getting worked going down there.

So I told Jeff how fun it was and he didn't know I was lying and he got
electrocuted. Danny +1 Jeff 0

Alaska, this just in...

2007-07-04T11:25:00.000-07:00

Mark, our Bed & Breakfast host, shredder, rocker, destroyer of worlds

Niles texting his boyfriend

Wing man

Booyah, were safe

On the plane, lots of old people rocking out

my side eye red from no sleep

wing it

the woods baby

metal in the woods

only a part of the bed & breakfast, the rest of the house isnt shown

packing up to get to our house

Chad from AK soul

Niles and Kurt

McKenzie, our video dude for Meltdown

The dirty bunch

Yep

Kurt AK soul

Bear

Airport

escalator temporarily stairs

bear paw

rawr

more rawr

................

We just got in! We got picked up by our buddies Chad and Kurt from
AK soul. I cannot explain how amazing it feels to be here!!! So
beautiful. Weather is just right and the people are great already.

The house in the picture is this massive 8 bedroom house in the woods we
have pretty much all to ourselves. The owner and his friends have been
hanging out with us partying. These dudes don't sleep and rock harder
than we ever could.

More coming soon, were safe mom.

Love you guys!

Alaska here we come...

2007-07-03T14:17:00.000-07:00

Just waking up on the plane in Chicago...beat

Booyah

Robby knocked out

This chick was at the show in South Carolina...i just really liked the pic

Robby can make his head turn into a pack of hotdogs

Fo Life G

Lives of Famous Men know how to get down in the bathroom

Frog

Frogger

Robert / Ribbert / Froggert

..................

So we had to leave our good new buddies in the bands You In Series &
Live of Famous Men for a few days and it will be sad, but....we had a
blast with them and know it will continue when we meet back up in Boston
or as I like to call it Baaaastttin'

Some of the pics below are from South Carolina and of the other bands.
Some are today from the airport.
LUNA, the debut record from National Product is out nationwide AUGUST
7TH

Danny Casler via Hip Top

Aim - DannyCasler
Email - Danny@npmusic.com

www.myspace.com/nationalproduct

Orland - OHHHHHHH

2007-06-29T16:32:00.000-07:00

Orlando chillin

The Lake

The Pad

Our homie Q

Nasty Nate

The Boys and some Beers

.............

Wow, did we need this or what! A great Orlando show, some great friends,
some pool, jacuzzi and hang out time. So rad. We had the guys in You In
Series (not shown in the pics) come over and we put on our floaties and
swam, went out on the boat and peed in the pool. We are headed to
jacksonville right now. Much love to everyone we love in orlando for
having us back and taking care of us =p

The Never Ending Story...break down

2007-06-27T13:39:00.000-07:00

Jeff after seeing the dude whos towing us

Crammed in the truck, look how bummed robby is

Thats our driver

Him again

Him chasing the other dude towing us

Van = Sad

More bummage

The Stick is Spicey

Dude

Dude again

Kids....this is a weird poster

Our Engine

Engine

SCARY

The fix it place

Watermelon is a big deal in this town...they have Watermelon Festival. We love watermelon.

The waiting room

Me not bummed, because there is watermelon

Watching BET

Youll never be alone again

.......

Yeah, you guessed right. We broke down again and finally found out the
problem. Pep Boys (never ever use them), lied to us, used our broken
part, said it was new, and charged for new parts, labor and much more,
hence we kept breaking down. This is shots from the ordeal....broke down
in the duuuurrrrtty seeeeerrrrf.
Danny Casler via Hip Top

Aim - DannyCasler
Email - Danny@npmusic.com

www.myspace.com/nationalproduct

More Break Downs than a Hardcore Band

2007-06-23T17:01:00.000-07:00

Niles getting his photo on

Johnny Balls, or tour manager eating his safeway beef jerkey

The Black Pearl shipwrecked for a lil bit

Bummer

Butterflies in the sky, reading rainbow

Wasp shield wiper

We are mechanics

If we stare at it, it may work

We were hoping this was gonna be Johnny's Saloon but to no avail, it was a gas station

This is "Boss"

About to get towed

We all got to ride in the van while it was on top of the tow, it was like riding at the top of a double decker bus and a few times, i felt like we may die.

.............

Yeah we broke down again...ummmm in the middle of texas. We made the 1st
show we broke down for so if we can keep our streak, we will make this
San Antonio and Austin show, either that or this tour will have become a
road trip really fast. Our spirits our good and everyone laughing, its
just something we can't control and it sucks for that aspect but we are
making the best of it. One the positive side of things, its really
puuurrrty where we are.

Off To Tuscon

2007-06-22T19:59:00.000-07:00

The Pad

Myk, Devo, Girl

NP baby

Myk

Wall of love

ONNS

From the roof

Geetars

Outside the house

Roof love

Jeff at sundown

The peeool and jacuzzi

Cruisin

..............

So we are off to our next stop...Tuscon Arizona...we just got our
radiator fixed and some of us stayed at the Oh No Not Stereo studio home
in Scottsdale. Basically its a sick house with a pool and jacuzzi, a lot
of band boys, a lot of swimming, drinking and hanging out. Gonna miss
these dudes but the next journey must go on. Oh yeah, we also got to
become friends with Aaron of Sugar Cult. Really rad dude, I hope we work
out some touring together because that would be bitchin!

Arizona Curse

2007-06-21T18:59:00.000-07:00

Our cat just slept

Danimal

Nate Dogg

Robby

Danny

The food Jeff ate...looks like poop

worked!

Nate getting his poop on

Over Heating

Bumming out

Bumming

Bummed

Stoked on poop...Johnny Balls

Nathan

.........

We got our heeeeerrrrrr did and are on our way again to our phoenix date. Man, it seems like
every time we go thru Arizona our tire blows out, the van stops working,
something happens.

Our radiator cracked and we thought we weren't going to make it,
fortunately, we are well on our way. Its like 110 degrees and baking so
we stopped into a rest spot to shower in the sink. Here are some pics
from the break down. Also, I stepped on a dead mouse on accident, gross.

HAWAII

2007-06-06T00:44:00.000-07:00

Here are some pics and a blog from our last day in Hawaii along with the audio call in. Click the phone to hear it.

LISTEN

Our last day enjoying the Mokulua Islands & Lanikai Beach

Sharks Cove

Niles after crawling in over the rocks

The sequence of the guys getting worked on the rocks haha

some more

ha more

woohoo

im in a lava tube in this shot, the sun was shining thru cracks

thats the cave i was in

looking out

Enchanted Lake...amazing

more lake

L&L the best local food

yum

Makapuu Point

Rabbit Island

Sandy Beach w/ Emery

Driving to the beach

My bro driving us

.............

Ok so I said I was going to write more and here it is. Every time I come
back to Hawaii I get pulled closer a little more every time. There is a
spiritual connection here that I can't quite explain. I really get deep
into the culture, the island itself, the color and everything it
encompasses.

This trip was a very special trip for me. I say these next sentences
humbly because these are goals we set out and they became realized.

1. We made the cover of Hawaii's biggest publication (pics & interviews
soon)

2. Our song "love me" not only made it to #1 on Clear Channel radio, but
during testing (radio station calls listeners) our song ranked above
artists who have sold over 10 million records.

3. The show was amazing and the kids were crazy (video & pics soon)

I just feel like all these things we set out for continue to just keep
coming true and now, much faster then normal. I'm blessed.

My brother was here with us this trip and it really humbled me. I
thought deeply about a lot of things. We grew up poor and now, my dad
just bought a house in the hills that is absolutely phenomenal. My
brother nearly lost his life but his recovery, which is a miracle, has
him sitting next to me. My band is achieving thing we never thought
possible.

I heard stan's family who weren't close are now all brought together
because of the band and all of this stuff sits really well in my heart.
I know we aren't just any band. I know our impact is much larger than we
could see it would be, and the fact that soon, it will be much more. It
makes me proud that we are a band of true friends who are doing
something that we set out to do. Its never been about music, it never
will be and that to me is what music is about. The essence of all that
is special in music and life is flowing thru me....I'm blessed.

KHNL NBC

2007-06-05T00:23:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures from the KHNL NBC morning show. If you would like to see video...

VIDEO

David (my bro), Me, Lindsey

The monitor

Cam 1 & 2...wink wink

Booyah

88 Tees

2007-06-04T05:09:00.000-07:00

I wanted to write a blog about our friend Lilly from Hawaii who loved NP and the company she works for called 88 Tees. If your in Hawaii check this vintage store out. They hooked us up with some serious threads and they have some of the raddest latest styles. Below are some pics from our stop in =)

Store

Lily and friend

Store front

Checking out goodies

Robby, #1 stunna

Bomb shirt

NP on TV

2007-05-31T10:37:00.000-07:00

Working the cam

The Anchors Dan, Mahea & Ben

My bro, our labels VP and Conor being rad

Niles...potty pose

Self explanatory for Robby

Booyah

The set up

Ben and the boys

Channel 4 news team, assemble!

Ben again

and Ben again again

.......

We just got done doing our KITV 5 ABC on air performance. It was a
blast. We had such a great time, Ben, Dan and Mahealani, all amazing
people. Mahealani and I are getting married (in my dreams).

Anyhow the whole crew was rad, we had an amazing time. Anyhow, we will
have video up soon, just wanted to let you all know. =p

THE PLANE HAS LANDED

2007-05-29T18:28:00.000-07:00

Our first magazine cover....awwww

My brother and Stan hanging our during lunch

Nate on the phone calling all cars

Niles checking out the dudes on the beach

Conor (label exec) Jeff, Robby and Mark (label exec) on laptops in hawaii, wasaupwidat son!

Our plane and his buddy

Nathan and I on our plane

Nilezzzzzzzzzzz

More Nilezzzzzzzzz

Robby looking at the new AP

Fernando! My brotha

5am soup and drinks

Arriving in Hawaii

Niles at the nerd detector

Check in

Bags baby, how many bags

Check in

Load in

Aww man, I'm so relaxed, right now I have my feet hanging out of the
jeep cherokee while my brother is driving and Nate is in the back. The
flight went by fast thanks to the bloody mary's that Nate bought me at
the airport. This guy Fernando hooked it up with double shots cause he
knows how I do.

We scrambled like roaches this morning to get everything lined up and
packed. This week I would say has been the most mentally draining week
of my life. No sleep, tons of rehearsals, sessions with Doc, approving
CD covers, disapproving cd covers, business crap and more business crap.
I am not for one minute saying it sucks cause it doesn't, its just a lot
right now. Anyway....we landed, had some lunch and now we are headed to
the beach....more coming soon, enjoy the pics...

Oh! So I was walking into my dads house and boom, there it is, the cover
with NP on it. Its our first cover of a big pressed publication. More to
come.

NATHAN CAN SING

2007-05-29T05:39:00.000-07:00

Nathan and I just got a new coach. He is the bomb diggity and he's the
coolest cat out there. His name is Doc Holliday. I thought you all would
like to see pics of how he steps on Nathans stomach to make him sing. We
also figured out that Nate has a string in the back of his butt crack
and if you pull it, he talks and does a little dance.

CAMPING WITH NP

2007-05-13T14:44:00.000-07:00

Danny feeding the squirrels

.........

So we just back from camping. I'm writing you all via my cell phone and
we have all decided to start using blogger more to keep you all updated
on what's going on with us as a whole and individually.

The cool thing is that we can write you at anytime right from our phones
and it goes right to the internet and into your hands to read, reply or
whatever you want =p

Awesome! So, we have been under a lot of stress the last couple of weeks
with everything regarding our record, our families and normal every day
things that humans go through. We decided, you know what, we need to get
away from computers, cell phones and anything that else that was
overwhelming us.

We chose Camp Cuyamaca. This place is deep in san diego and back into
the mountains. Full on indian reservation.

We arrived and it was absolutely beautiful. Mountains, rivers, lakes and
bears oh my. Our park rangers name was Gay Carry (see pic). We invited
her and her friends to come party but she wasn't having it and assured
us her husband would be more willing to hang out and bring his gun. We
asked Gay if we could be Straight with her, she wasn't having that
either so we took off to our site.

Upon arriving we were overwhelmed by squirrels and blue jay's who liked
to eat our dorritos. I hand fed them and we became
close buds. Jeff, Robby, Danimal, Conor (label guy/friend), Johnny
(friend), Chris (camp master) and some cheer leaders all got our hike
on, hitting up waterfalls, and then Conor and I thought of a good
idea..."putting our private parts in freezing water" that idea was
downgraded to a bad idea shortly after the water touched our god given
lovely parts.

We scoped out the rocks for mountain lions since we were in "lion
country" according to Ranger Gay.

We filmed some murder sci fi scenes for the new NPTV which your gonna
get a great laugh with. Its a murder mystery really, super sweet. Murder
She Wrote, eat your heart out, Disturbia, pleeeeeeaaaaase. Were bringing
heat on this one. Anyhow, more pics are coming so tune back to our
blogger. Right now, I'm gonna go put lotion on my one arm that got sun
burned from hanging out the window....smart move on my part. Talk to you
guys soon....

Seacrest... OUT
......
Mmmmmm, the goodness...

Robby taking a seat

The evil branch hand

Feet in freezing mountain water

Video taping NPTV 3

The cast and crew taking a stroll

Battle Axe Chris

Hanging out

Faces of Nate

This is thew crew at the gates with Gay Carey

Chris & Danny. Check out Danny's Aragon lord of the rings pony tail. Bitchin!

Driving down the highway, Nate with some metal

Park Ranger and crotch grabber Gay Carry

Booyah

Chris talking to Gay about what kind of camp ground this "really is"

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