- July 16, 2001 -

good news today kidz! SHIFTED has plans to enter the studio to begin work on our first release tommorrow, July 17th. we will personally keep you updated right here as we continue to progress. in the meantime, expect to see some expansions around here. we sill soon be posting more eye candy, new sound clips for your listening pleasure, and, if I can talk the rest of the guys into it, perhaps we will start posting up personal brain farts on an individual basis. we have the option of putting up a chat room, but we'd like to know if anyone would actually use it first. post your thoughts on the message board. speaking of the message board, LET'S SEE SOME MORE! we want to know your thoughts on music today, the state of the world, what you had for breakfast 2 weeks ago, WHATEVER!

you all missed an interesting evening a few nights ago. myself, kool-aid, vega, and a few friends were out and about at a local park, when a car full of drunken assholes pulled up and began pestering us for cigarettes. incredibly enough, none of us had any. (we're sorry broke bums..) then they start asking for money so they can buy cigarettes, and SURPRISE, we don't have that either. they took it upon themselves to start going through our pockets and personal belongings, and must have asked for cigarettes about 350 times in the span of 10 minutes. i started to walk away, and watched the scenario from a distance. much to my surprise and chagrin, one of the kidz started throwing fists at vega. little did we know that the matrix is real and vega has been set free.. you should have SEEN this kid dodging EVERY SINGLE punch thrown. it was a treat to see our own bass player moving like only morpheus can.. in the midst of vega dodging the drunk dude's fists of fury, kool-aid took it upon himself to get into the trunk of his car to find........ A TIRE IRON! another drunk ass tried to wrestle it away from him, and when his efforts ended, in one fowl swoop, kool-aid struck him in the back of the head with the wrath of god. I've never seen a human being fold like that. unfortunately, that wasn't the end... the drunks started shouting about a gun, and when the gun came out, we all froze, and watched in agony as they pistol-whipped the windows out of kool-aid's car. to make matters worse, (although this came as no shock) the lazy worthless assholes at Dover Police Department did absolutely NOTHING when we went to report the incident. However, this is FAR from over, and let this be a lesson to all of you. If you fuck wit kool-aid, you're gonna get a tire iron to the back of your dome..

that's it for now. don't watch too much tv.

- July 09, 2001 -

hello again. SHIFTED has been hard at work on new material to bludgeon over your pretty little headz. (don't worry, we'll kiss it and make it all better.) We had to cancel a gig at the ground floor with shift, but rest assured there will be plenty more opportunities to see us real soon.

previous reports that jay left the band are currently false. he's still beating on (or is it off?) for us, and doing his own part to keep us all shifting to a higher level.

one time, i saw a turtle lying in the road, and it had been hit by a car, and its guts were all strung out from its carapace, and it looked like spaghetti. yum.

fact: there is a country (guess which one) in which the penalty for masturbation is decapitation. gotta lose some head to gain some head i guess.

buckle your seatbelts and stay tuned kidz. in the coming weeks SHIFTED is going to take you places you've never dreamed of before. until then, peace.

- July 03, 2001 -

greetings, and salutations. welcome to our corner of the world. in case you didn't notice, the site has been completely revamped, courtesy of yours truly. 2 major updates in the world of SHIFTED:

1. jay lost touch with reality and the band, respectively. we are currently seeking a replacement drummer. (tom reynolds where are you?)

2. shawn continues his escapades in oregon, but will no longer be bringin the noise to SHIFTED. in his place, beit temporary or 4ever, we've got synrgy, taking a step aside from his duty as a trance dj and bringing his own special style of 6 stringed madness to the massive.

that's it for now kidz. until next time, peace.