MSHVB in Spin magazine

Mt St Helen's Vietnam Band

This monday coming up. Mt St Helen's Vietnam band is playing at the troubadour in LA. 

this show is gonna be amazing. theres a ton of us going if you want to car pool with us

myspace.com/mtsthelensvietnamband

forgot to put sun screen on.

here is a picture of my nasty burn.... wow i learn my lesson yesterday. its hurts to sleep, hurts to bend over. hurts when i get slapped.  so a little advice from me. don't go to the beach for 2 hours and not have sun screen on. 

whos gonna get MVP this year? Kobe or Lebron

off to the DMV

i have been wanting to go to the DMV for about 4 months now.  i have a 1976 Honda motorcycle in the garage but the tags are from 2001 so i have to pay all the years till now that it wasn't registered for. which is like 450 bucks.  I am really excited to start driving this bike. 

joey

i just had to post a picture of this kid. he has been giving me some problems over the past couple days. telling me i shouldn't come back to Washington and if i do that i better hope he doesn't find out. and its all because i posted a comment on a friends facebook and the picture was of a friend holding 3 condoms in her hand. i made a joke about it and said i bet she used those that night. 

        Well i guess that was a bad joke and made her sound like a slut. which she is not a slut. anyways here is picture of Joey Lince. 

Journeys

i am now the manager of the Journeys at Westminster mall. i have been waiting so long to be a manager. it has been a long week and a half i have been working open to close (9:30am -9:30 pm) everyday just hiring a couple good workers and trying to get the employees that roger the old manager hire to quit because they all suck. i wish i could just fire them but the California law on firing people is pretty nuts. plus i am training my assistant manager. once i get her trained enough i don't have to be at the store when ever it is open. which tomorrow is the first day I'm not opening the store my assistant manager is opening. but i am so nervous that she won't be able to do it without my help the first time so i might just go to the mall and if she calls me and needs help i am there to help her. hope you all are doing well. 

its good to have you back jon!

My best friend Jonathan just came in today from washington. i picked him up from the airport and headed back to the studio. the plan for today was go to a Lakers game because Jons parents bought us 400 dollars tickets last night. so we get back to the studio and we go online to print the tickets out and the seller of the tickets didn't send them and refunded the money back. he made up some stupid reason why it didn't work out. (something about bad weather idk. he just wanted to go to the game) so i look for some more tickets and i really didn't think it was gonna work out we were just gonna have to go to a bar and watch the game on tv.
Well i found some tickets and made sure that we could get the tickets right way because the game was starting in 1 hour. so we got the tickets mean while i almost got a parking ticket because my time was up on the meter so i run down and talk to the cop. thank the lord he didn't give me a ticket. we rushed down to the staple center. meet up with the guy who sold us the tickets! dang he was like a billionaire. and he was parked right by the staple center in a no parking zone driving a Audi R8! omg that car is pricey. and he gave us 20 dollars for parking because he was a baller.
Lakers had a awesome game vs the spurs. Trevor Ariza with a season high. Andrew Bynum with a double double. not a in and out double double. and Koby Beef with a normal 22 point game. A little bonus about the game. i just happened to be sitting by this really cute women in her 30's i think she was i don't know tho. and she was super cool. gave my her Fry's and offered Jon and i a beer. a couple other things but you would of had to been there because i am not gonna say it on here.
We went to a couple car dealerships after. Jonathan is looking for a car. so we test drove a legit Honda and a slick BMW. dang i should start buying lotto tickets because if i were to win like 1.1 million or whatever it is. because i would be at the car dealership getting a car.
and ended the best day off ever by playing 2 1/2 hours of basketball with a bunch of guys and i girl from Biola and long beach including my friend Ben.

manager!

This week is starting off really good. my manager is on vacation so i am the main manager on duty and it is really nice. I interviewed a girl today... my first interview ever. i was really nervous and i think she was too. but not as much as me.  within the next month i will hopefully be a manager at the Westminster mall Journeys. that girl i interviewed today might be my assistant manager at west minster.  

    Wahoo the Lakers had a awesome game tonight! against the Cavaliers (Lebron James is a little baby) 

    Anyways i am off to bed. i need sleep

flooding in stanwood (my home town)

some guy driving in the flood with his door open. (looks like Barry Reed)

this is the barn i have painted a few times

heres the update

I posted a blog a couple weeks back about a couple of the shoes i wanted to get. so now i am gonna post a new one blog about the shoes i actually got... 

wow i suck so bad at blogging!

      I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving/christmas and hope you all have a great new years. I had a awesome christmas. spent christmas eve night at Audrey's mom and stepdads house. which was a awesome time. it felt almost like a normal christmas drinking eggnog and sitting by a fire. and of course went to christmas eve service at work. (it started at 12... wow i was just glad i had a couple drinks. because i would of been bored. it was a catholic mass thats why i was bored. i am used to singing a lot of christmas hymns and hearing the story of jesus birth.  

    

looking for a new job!

so today was a worrible day at journeys. i am sick of every single person i work with. even the girl that is always on a good one. (from smoking weed) my manager is a dick. and they all just care about them sleves. plus i work 40+ hours a week. and only get about 500 every 2 weeks.... wow i am  really getting ripped off. anyone have any thoughts on where i should get a job?

i am thinking the CLOSET? NORDSTROMS? THE OIL FIELDS? 

well pray for me tomorrow i will be working 8 hours

lakers game!

Samuel and i went to a Lakers game, we had awesome seats. Samuel bought them on EBay the night before, i don't know how he found them at 3 in the morning. but they were awesome. the Lakers did alright. Kobe had a season low for points and Far mar had a season high. when the game was about 5 Min's from being over and the Lakers pretty much won for sure. (they won by 27 points) we moved down to get like almost court side seats. it was crazy being so close to the ball game. 

a new pair of kicks

i need some new shoes. what do you think i should get?

Mt. St. Helen's Vietnam Band coming to LA december 3rd

       Mt. St Helen's Vietnam Band coming to Los Angles!! December 3rd. i saw their first show in Seattle! that was before i moved here. the first show was amazing. Mt. St Helen's Vietnam Band has their own style, 3 of the members in the band are like my family.

       Mt. St. Helen's Vietnam band just got signed by Dead Ocean's. they already released an EP called Weepy. and will issue a full length album in spring.  

check out there music! also this was in the LA times a little artical about Mt. St Helen's Vietnam band

link

Quantum Of Solace

    The new 007 movie just came out last night! Samuel Audrey, Ceasar and i went and saw the midnight showing of it last night. it was really good. i would rate it a 9. 

it was a great wednesday!

       I miss the days when Wednesday night was the night i went to church and got to learn about God and see all my friends. wow i have so many good memories. i learn a lot of things from Steve Scott, Jason Kelly, Jeremy William's (Jeremy you weren't the youth pastor but you were the guys leader and i learned a lot of good lessons) Ben Verdoes, and Eric barns. i would not be the person i am today if it wasn't for you guys teaching me life lessions. i miss having a awesome church family. i hope i can find a good church down here. 

         wahoo the Lakers won tonight. it was a close game. Samuel and i headed over to the gym after the NBA game and we played a couple (8) games of basketball. i lost every single game... :( but it was still a workout.  

friends, Warm Beach, Camp,

       I have pretty much lost all contact with my my friends from Washington besides Obeyah and Kristian Enge. i guess everyone else is to busy or don't even care. thanks Obeyah and Kristian for taking the time to call me! well i guess it is hard and maybe pointless to talk to a friend in another state. but its always nice to hear what's going on up in Warm Beach/Stanwood area.

     What's new up in Washington? i hear pastor josh came out with a new book? has anyone read it yet? my wonderful mom is send it down here in the mail right now! can't wait to read what that man of God has to say! if i lived 2 hours away the church that josh brooks is the pastor at i would drive there to hear him speak. 

      This is gonna be the first time in a long time that i will not be attending the Lights of Christmas! thank you Jesus. and the first time in about 6 years i will not be at the middle school or high school retreat. i hope everyone has fun this year! 

       I have finally got settled in down here. for a couples months i thought about moving back up. Because i missed everyone and i had a super sweet job offer! but there was a couple reasons i moved here. number 1. i do not like the rain. (oh by the way it does rain down here. but the amazing thing about California is that when it rains it rains in the middle of the night and by the time you wake up it has stopped and by the time 12:30 rolls around the sun is shinning and the puddles are gone. number 2. i love chilling with my brother Samuel. and 2 weeks out of the year that he came up and visited was not enough. number 3. I was sick of getting treated like a camp kid. (for example). if i did something wrong at the camp, like ran a stop sign, or as a joke gave a friend of mine that worked at camp a little gift that was pretty dirty. well instead of calling me and talking to me about it since i am 19 years old. they had my dad come into a little meeting to tell him about it. not saying anything to me.  well the right thing to do would of been to talk to me about it since i am a adult kinda living at home  (i was 4 days from moving to california) why is my dad responsible for the actions that i do? he's not. number 4. my best friend jonathan was going to college down here! 

      You guys are proably so bored now so i will stop writing. i miss everyone! i would love a phone call from any of you! or just a text. 

       

my weekend

sorry for all of you that check my blog. (glory, Mom and Dad, Samuel, Obeyah,Jon phelps)  i haven't posted anything for about a month. hope all is well. i had a good weekend. got to stay the night at Biola and chill with my friend Jonathan! on saturday night. my plan was to get out of work at 8:30 and go play some basketball and go se oo7 but stuff happened at work so i was unable to get out of work until 10:30 and then oo7 isnt coming out until this coming weekend.  well i ended up just taking it easy with jonathan. and then waking up at 7 on sunday to go to saddle back church, with Jonathan and Darren. wow that church is huge. its like a city. and everyone is over there fifty's. i wanted to meet some people my age. then i got to chill at Noah's 1st birthday. that was a lot of fun. Sunday night had a meeting at work which was a big waste of time. drove up to Biola after the meeting and met up with Jonathan and went to midnight madness! (its not a club or rave. it was at Biola)