Cuponk!!!! What Shot you got?

So in this video you will get a behind the scenes tour from Bam Margera. He was the director of the new commercial, from Hasbro's new game called Cuponk. Hope you enjoy it.









---Shane---

Why won't they work......?

So I have taken two sleeping pills so I can catch up on some sleep, but they don't seem to be working. Anyway I just got done reading all of my older Blog post....WOW!!!! I felt like I went back in time, and some of the stuff I barely remember typing. I sure am glad though I have been documenting my life through a blogging site. I wish I have updated a lot more about my life, since I have moved down to L.A. I have done so much, like being in Two Movies, and Two Commercials....and a bunch of blurry Extra time on T.V. shows I don't even watch. Well I guess we all have to start somewhere. Or just find I way to pay bills. As I'm typing my eyes are starting to drop, maybe I shouldn't have mixed the two pills with me blogging. Oh well. Well in about a week I leave for Redding California where I will be working as a painter/construction, to save up some money to Record a full length album, with one amazing producer(s). I haven't really decided which one I would want to be a part of my record, they are both so talented, but also a little different in their own style. I guess I just need to keep on praying and asking God for the Wisdom on choosing what is best for my music, and my future in this business.





Time for sleep

ZzzzzzzZZZZzzzZZZZZZzzzzzzz.....


---Shane---

Hello

Its been some long times since I last wrote on here. Maybe since the Twitter is taking up all my time....Hmmmm.


---Shane---

Trying new things

So a few weeks ago I was told by my manager to make a Twitter account. I did, and I feel very lame telling the twit world what I'm up to, and trying to keep up with John Mayers Twits....

So how about you go and FOLLOW www.twitter.com/letterstoSHANE


---Shane---

Music and Movies

Its been a crazy last few weeks for us boys in Letters. Last night we had a meeting about making a Music video for the song Get Up. The meeting went really well, and we're happy with all the people we will be working with. The thing is, this means the we will be even more busy this week from meetings to photo shoots and re tooling Get up to become a 3:15 min song for the video so that means more studio work!!!! Which is always fun to do. I want to thank everyone who has been praying for us and for us to follow the right path along this wonderful journey God has in store for us. Thank you all so much.


Off to movie making


---Shane---

Busy Busy

Just to let you all know letters to the Editor is finally getting their butts back in the Studio with all new material. I can't wait till you all get to hear our new stuff. Also be sure to stay updated on up and coming shows in April because we should have some new dates up if you live in the Southern California area.



---Shane---

Missing

I wanted to make a list or just some stuff I will be missing when i move down to L.A.

There is no particular order.


1.My gal pal Sam.

2.All my guys I kick it with till the sun comes out playing Madden or just sitting at a Starbucks.

3.Brad, and Aku

4.My moms brownies she makes just to make...

5.Playing Madden till three in the morning with my Dad

6.Running into someone and catching up since Brentwood is so small...ha

7.My family up here

8.Willys Bagels

9.Lame Brentwood and Disco, and Oakley, and Antioch parties...ha

10.X Box 360

11.All of the Letters to the Editor fans (up North) and old DiTiB ones you guys all rock!!

12.My bed

13.Free Food

14.All the people I hang out with even if I just met you only once.

Well I tried to get to 15 But I guess i wont be losing much...ha
Thank you to all the people who have gone to a show or bought a CD or a shirt or just slapped one of our stickers on the school bathroom. I also want to thank all my friends who have been there along my side through the thin and thick you know who you are.

All my bags are packed,

---Shane---

Whats in store for the future

Well I will finally be moving to L.A along with half of my band mates Ryan and Chris, to work on our album and do some random "movie TV stuff" while Aku, and Brad stay up here. They will come down when needed. I must say it's always been a dream of mine to move somewhere to do what I love but when I was offered something and the time finally came I became a little scared. Some of you may think I'm crazy for just moving down there, but I have a great team of people working with/for me. I hope to keep you people who actually read these updated as much as I can. I'm sure I will have some stories...

Please pray for me and the rest of the guys in letters to the Editor


packing my bags,

---Shane---

Show!

Well Letters to the Editor had it's first show in the BAY AREA. I thought it went well I would have to give us a stong C+ on it. My voice has been going IN-N-OUT, but I still fought on like Rocky.

Heres a cool pic of Ryan, and the amps of me and Brad's with a little twinkle to them.

Photo by Tayler

Check her stuff out at www.flickr.com/akelafoto




Merry Christmas


---Shane---

Who Made My Top Ten

Top ten albums of the year for me.



1.Ben Folds- Way to Normal



2.Say Anything-In Defense of the Genre



3.Jack's Mannequin- The Glass Passenger



4.Weezer-The Red Album



5.Death Cab For Cutie -Narrow Stairs



6.Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends



7.Jon Foreman- Winter EP



8.UNDERØATH- Lost in the Sound of Separation



9.Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III



10.Katy Perry - One Of The Boys




If you haven't heard any of these go and look them up now.


---Shane---

Photo Shoot

Today was a not so pretty day, but I think we managed to brighten it up with a flas and some smiles. We had half a photo shoot done with a wonderful gal namde Taylor. my favorite time was when i had to get in the water with my clothes on, while the others stayed safe an dry in the canoe.





If you wanna go and check out more of the photos we took and give kudos to the ones you like, then feel free to do so at this site. http://flickr.com/photos/akelafoto

smiles

---Shane---

Having fun stuff to do

Well it's been sometime since I actually wrote a real blog. So I will be doing so on this one. Life is going on the path it takes me. I have mostly been in "poetic" song mode, due to the new ep and album my band Letters to the Editor is working on. It has been pretty stressful since we have a show to play in about a month and we're still writing songs and brainstorming ideas, but I know we will all pull through. On the other side of the band is promotions, we're also in the process of making some of our future merch. So I'm stoked about that cause that's what always separates bands other than their sound. We also have our first photo shoot coming up on Tuesday, with a really nice girl named Taylor with a company called Art is the Cure Check them out...





I have been doing some acting auditions as well. The band got picked up by a production company in L.A at a show to be under their management as actors, so by doing that we go to auditions for roles with musicians needed, cause they don't want actors to fake play. Me Ryan and Aku recently had an audition for a new Movie called Sympathy for Delicious, and it's being directed by one of my favorite actors Mark Ruffalo. James Franco will also be having a lead role in it so that makes it even bigger...
Call backs haven't happened yet but when they do we're hoping to get one. It would be so much fun to be part of a really stories I got the chance to read the script and it was very good. Also it's something that would help pay some bills...ha We'll just see what God has in store for us. I feel blessed to just even audition for a film, and not knowing how to portray as an actor.

That should do it for now. I'll try to be more up to date as the weeks go on.

Music, Movies, and Memories,

---Shane---

My future investment

To wonderful new sounds


---Shane---

Life is Moving

Well Today was a hard one for me, and one of my best friends Eric and Aku. Eric finally said his goodbyes to us to depart on his new journey in life by serving his country. He will be in Chicago for boot camp for two months and then I will hopefully fly out there with Aku after the two months to see him graduate. It was hard because I have mainly spent everyday of my childhood life till now seeing Eric everyday, cause we have been a block a way neighbors even when we both moved we still lived a block from one another.

On a better note I will be waking up tomorrow by 4:00am to leave for Huntington Beach at 4:30am to star recording Letters to the Editor first real produced demo. I am pretty stoked for it, epically to hear what all of the tipple f (fff) aka friends and family and fans think of all our new material. Sorry for that slang or overplayed acronyms. But we're really excited.

Well that's all I can really say for now without boring you and myself. But be sure to keep checking this blog site out and www.myspace.com/deareditor for the up and coming

No Sleep,

---Shane---

How cool my girlfriend is...

Enough shown. I'm proud of her she knows how to ride a sweet green bike

Wish List

I decided to make a wish list for myself on Guitars I would end up buying first if I landed on the Jack pot from the lottery I didn't play. There is really no special order.


Gibson ES-335 Dot Plain-top Electric Guitar with Gloss Finish
Vintage Sunburst



Classic semi-hollowbody design
Dual '57 Gibson humbuckers ( I would switch them with the Gibson dirty finger humbuckers to get more of that pop punk sound.)
Thin tapered '60s neck
Rosewood fingerboard
Nickel hardware
Grover tuners
Tune-O-Matic bridge with stopbar tailpiece
Separate volume and tone controls with 3-way switch

I'm a huge fan of semi hollow guitars and Gibson pretty much has the best to offer from the wood to the clean polish finish, and the wonderful sound of clean Jazz chords to some good rock jams. I'm also really into the sunburst finish.


Paul Reed Smith Mira Double Cut Electric Guitar with Moon Inlays and Standard Neck
Vintage Mahogany




Body Type: Double Cut
Body Wood: Mahogany
Scale Length: 25.0"
Neck Joint: Set
Neck Wood: Mahogany
Fretboard: East Indian Rosewood
Neck Shape: Standard
Inlay: Moons
Frets: 24
Nut Width: 1-21/32"
Fretboard Radius: 10.0"
Bridge: PRS Stoptail
Pickup Bridge: PRS Mira
Pickup Neck: PRS Mira
Controls: Volume, Tone, Mini Toggle [Coil Tap]
Tuners: PRS Locking Mini's
Hardware Color: Nickel
Pickup Selector: 3-Way Blade
Finish: Gloss


This guitar pretty much explains itself. The sound of this bad boy is flawless, you want clean you get the clean sound you need, and as for rocking sounds it does just as better job. The lock in tunnings are awesome to have as well. I also love the artwork on the fretboards it's very beautiful and gives it a whole new look.


Paul Reed Smith Mira Double Cut Electric Guitar with Moon Inlays and Standard Neck
Wild Mint



This is the same as the one on top I just really like this color of it. So it's a toss up.


Gibson Hummingbird True Vintage Acoustic Guitar



Square shoulder dreadnought body
Premium Sitka spruce top
Mahogany back and sides
6-ply top, 4-ply back
Mahogany neck
24-3/4" scale
Round neck profile
Madagascar rosewood fingerboard
Single-ply binding
Mother-of-pearl parallelogram inlays
Bone nut and saddle
1.725" nut
Mother-of-pearl crown inlay on headstock
Madagascar rosewood bridge
Mother-of-pearl dot bridge inlays
White bridge pins
Vintage "Green Keys" tuners
Tortoise hummingbird pickguard


I love playing songs acoustic, and the sound from this one is so rich and full with energy and emotion on every chord you play. It also caught my eye for it's vintage style.


So if any of you are ever shopping one day, and happen to run across one of these items, don't be shy to buy it...for my Christmas gift


---Shane---

Free Piano...For me?

I just got a free piano, due to one of my managers quest on looking on Craigslist.
Not really the best tune, but it does the job for new writting material.






finger pressing black, and whie keys


---Shane---

Brandon Buck

Brandon Buck was one of my first friends I met at Kindergarten along with Cole " The Bash Bros". I still remember when he first came to my house to play with me, and we were both wearing hats and he had his on backwards, and he told me I should do it too. He taught me how to look cool...ha. I remember when Cole Brandon, and me were all pigs in a school play. (Thanks Mrs. Salano) Eating my mom's brownies with peanut butter and, drinking coke was always a great snack for us after playing in the pool. Oh and those long skate trips we would do just to go skate at certain spots, and gathering up all our money to eat Taco Bell.



The three of us always had each others backs. From baseball games to soccer games to skating and getting in conflicts with other neighbor hood kids. We always had fun together. There are so many memories I have with that kid, from school to sports and just hanging out. Brandon was a total different person, he always did things a little different cause he knew he could do it and he was confident. He was always the more daring one in the group I still remember when he decided to climb on the top roof of the Skipolinis playground, and jump off. He broke his wrist...and then a couple days later he got his cast wet in someones pool. (it may have been mine) He always had the most stylish hair. He was the first to bleach the top of his hair, out of the group of friends we had.




I'm gonna miss those days from going to Yosemite and the Jelly Belly factory, and sleep overs and just seeing your face.


Ever since the Move from cities it seemed like all three of us lost touched but talked to each other when we did. I remember Brandon came to my last birthday when I turned 16 it was fun talking to him cause I remember we went out front on my porch and just talked about the old days as children, and how things changed as we grow up but not liking girls we would always talk about that.

I feel horrible that I thought of getting all three of us to hang out again cause I never made time to sit down and call you. I'm am so sorry for that I wish I could take some of those days back to just hang with you one last time. I just want you to know that you have been a huge part of my child to teen life, and I enjoyed every bit of it

Everything happens for a reason, and we as people should not live with regret, but live with thankfulness with moments we have shared with each other.





I love you Brandon


Your fellow Bash Bro,

---Shane---

The up an coming

Life has been moving very fast these last couple of weeks since tour. The band had a lot of changes happen to it I am sorry to say but Dice in the Icebox is no longer a Band anymore it's just a story to talk about that happened in the past. (RIP DiTiB)

We all had fun playing shows for you guys and with each other, many stories some good some bad, but I will miss those days, but I'm exited to start my new chapters in my life. The band decided to go different ways as music and individual goals. Five of us stayed and started a new band called letters to the Editor. That band is now signed to a management company in L.A Called Stern talent. They have already gotten us so many things such as a new Demo dropping this next spring of 2009 we will be working with a producer of the name of Giovanni Jackson who has help produce many artist/groups from Kid Rock Linkin Park and Nirvana and many others and now Letters to the Editor

We are extremely excited to be working with him and at a wonderful studio called Griffdog records located on the wonderful beach of Huntington. So from the time being I have been living in Brentwood and some weeks and ends in L.A I must say it's pretty fun going back and forth meeting new friends and telling stories to old friends.


I would like to thank everyone who has been there or with me during my Music Journey you all know who you are from my old Deer Valley and Liberty High school days mainly the ones in Liberty sorry I was there longer.

To answer a few questions I seem to be getting a lot.


1. No I will not forget the little people. (as in old friends before this cool thing happened

2. I don't think I will every be famous maybe to some, but i don't think so.

3. I haven't decide when I will be moving down yet, sometime near the end of this year...I think.


I want to inform to who ever is reading this, I am not writing this to brag nor gain attention its all simply from excitement and wanting friends and family to know the down low and anyone else who actually reads these blogs of mine.




---Shane---

Never stop dreaming

So I just back home from my Tour I was on with my band. Now this tour started out like any other little tour a small band would go on. Then became much much more. I say this because at the end of tour we got to be part of a Competition called Hollywood's Next best Talent. It was a very cool event that involved many talented people from singers in every genre and Actors in every style and dancers, and Bands. The Band Category was the one we were in. We had to play one of our songs in two minutes which involved re-writing that song, then we were to perform it in front of only for a panel of judges that consist of record Companies Like Hollywood Records, Columbia Records, producers for some of these companies and some management companies that were connected to these bigger companies...I think I used that word enough now..good thing this isn't being graded.

(Sorry old High school English Teacher Ms. Rod)

So after all that stress and nerves and being done throwing up, which I did by the way. We headed to our room in the Hotel and then enjoyed Denny's with some new friends we met through this event. The next day we found out that we won the Band category, and also found out that we would be performing the next night at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre. That was an amazing experience, we also received a trophy from two model gals...and I was also interviewed by a lady after our performance from MTV on the stage, not in front of a camera, but it was still cool.


A lot of great stuff has been happening with me and the band, and I give it all to my Lord and Savior. I would also like to thank all my family, and close friends who have been there through it all. You guys are awesome.

I can't wait to see where the rest of my story goes.


---Shane---