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Cartel EP on iTunes

2007-07-24T06:34:00.000-07:00

Since the date was pushed all the way back to August 21st, the guys decided to put out a 3 song EP on the original release date. The songs are Lose It, No Subject (Come With Me), and The Fortune. I'm pretty sure The Fortune was the song when they recorded us clapping at the bubble hah.

Also, Cartel is playing a MYSPACE SECRET SHOW! with The Rocket Summer tonight at The Drunken Unicorn in Atlanta, GE. The show is FREE, all ages, and starts at 7 so get there early before it fills up!

New Video Calls For New Looks

2007-07-16T18:24:00.000-07:00

Cartel spent yesterday in LA making the video for their first single "Lose It" off the new record. You can look through all of the pictures on their buzznet.

AND Joseph Pepper followed through with what he said and shaved his beard into a mustache. It does look very different but it isn't unbearable, just as long as he grows it back. On the other hand Will is now sporting a nice goatee...

Although I cannot wait for Cartel's new album there are several other albums coming out this month. TOMORROW The Rocket Summer's new album "Do You Feel" will be in stores but it's not too late to pre-order it now!

Hey Everyone!

2007-07-08T12:27:00.001-07:00

Band In A Bubble has been over for a couple weeks now and I still find myself checking the website, watching videos, looking at pictures, and still writing on the message boards. But alas, it's over and us Cartel fans must look towards what is in the future, THE NEW ALBUM! I'm just counting down the days...

I've decided to try and continue this blog as my official Cartel fan blog. I doubt I'll remember to update this as frequently as I would like to but I'll try and write about all of Cartel's updates, shows I go to, and things of that nature.

Since Cartel has been out of the Bubble they have changed the date of the album release from July 24th to August 21st. I do not know why but I'm just guessing they had trouble with production of the cd's because a month is a pretty fast turn around. Besides that, the band has also announced their next headlining tour with Nightmare Of You (great band, if you haven't heard of them you should definatly check them out) and Weatherbox. Here are the dates as of now:

Aug 25 2007 7:00P Rocketown Nashville, Tennessee
Aug 27 2007 6:30P Meridian Houston, Texas
Aug 28 2007 6:30P House of Blues Dallas, Texas
Aug 29 2007 6:30P Stubbs Bar-B-Q Austin, Texas
Sep 1 2007 6:30P Marquee Theatre Tempe, Arizona
Sep 2 2007 6:00P House of Blues San Diego, California
Sep 3 2007 6:00P House of Blues Las Vegas, Nevada
Sep 6 2007 6:30P Avalon Los Angeles, California
Sep 7 2007 6:30P Avalon Los Angeles, California
Sep 8 2007 6:00P Slim's San Francisco, California
Sep 9 2007 6:00P Slim's San Francisco, California
Sep 11 2007 6:30P Roseland Theater Portland, Oregon
Sep 12 2007 7:00P Showbox Seattle, Washington
Sep 15 2007 7:00P Ogden Theatre Denver, Colorado
Sep 16 2007 6:30P Granada Theater Lawrence, Kansas
Sep 17 2007 7:00P The Rock Papillion, Nebraska
Sep 18 2007 5:00P First Avenue Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sep 20 2007 7:00P The Rave Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Sep 21 2007 6:30P Clutch Cargos Detroit, Michigan
Sep 23 2007 7:00P Opera House Toronto, Ontario
Sep 24 2007 6:30P Water Street Music Hall Rochester, New York
Sep 25 2007 8:00P Mr. Smalls Theatre Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sep 26 2007 6:30P House of Blues Cleveland, Ohio
Oct 2 2007 7:00P The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza New York, New York
Oct 5 2007 7:00P Electric Factory Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oct 9 2007 6:00P The Norva Norfolk, Virginia
Oct 10 2007 7:00P Amos' Southend Charlotte, North Carolina

Also there are still a couple other shows before the tour including the Starburst Six Flags series:

Jul 12 2007 8:00P Six Flags Northeast E. Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Jul 18 2007 8:00P House of Blues Atlantic City, New Jersey
Jul 19 2007 8:00P Six Flags Great Adventure Jackson, New Jersey
Jul 26 2007 8:00P Six Flags America Baltimore, Maryland
Aug 17 2007 8:00P Missouri State Fair Sedalia, Missouri
Aug 18 2007 8:00P Iowa State Fairgrounds Des Moines, Iowa
Aug 18 2007 8:00P Iowa State Fairgrounds, Grandstand Des Moines, Iowa
Aug 20 2007 5:30P House of Blues Chicago, Illinois
Aug 23 2007 7:00P Newport Music Hall Columbus, Ohio
Aug 24 2007 8:00P NC State University Raleigh, North Carolina

There's also an interview of Cartel while they were in the bubble from Cosmogirl if you haven't heard about that yet.

Well, I'm pretty sure that's it as far as Cartel updates go... Nic's 25th birthday was this past Friday! Hah now I think i'm done. Hope you all had a great 4th of July and have a great week!

Show Timeeee

2007-06-12T19:02:00.000-07:00

It's almost time for Cartel the break out of their bubble that they've been stuck in for the past 20 days and I think they're starting to get a little nervous. To get pumped up they started running around in circles hah.

THAT WAS SO COOL! haha

The show ended so... they went back in the bubble?

It was an amazing night, I copied all four episodes onto a dvd haha. And the concert went awesome too if you missed it you can either watch it on drpepperbubble.com or here http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1562402&vid=156637

2 Hours And Counting...

2007-06-12T14:53:00.000-07:00

SOUNDCHECK!! WHOOO YEAHHH.
I'm so excited for this!

And now they get to just hang out until it's bubble bursting timee.

The Colonel stopped by the give the guys some more chicken.

Joseph, Jeff, and Will resort to lying on the floor after the furniture in the bubble is taken away.

Tonights plans might have to be changed around a bit since it's been pouring down rain for the past hour. The boys watching their dedicated fans standing outside in the rain.

Nic and Jeff get the crowd up and cheering

The webcams are slowly de-activating... =[
I'm starting to get somewhat emotional haha. I've already said this a billion times but this has honestly been an awesome experience for me. I feel like I've really gotten to know all of the guys individually and I feel like I've been part of their experience and It's going to be hard to just all of a sudden let go.

Discussing the weather patterns hah

Well, this is it.

2007-06-12T10:35:00.000-07:00

If you haven't already be sure to download Cartel's first single "Lose It" off of iTunes!

Today is officially Cartel's last day in the bubble. Tonight at 8pm they will burst out of the bubble and perform a live concert which will be broadcast as the final episode of Band In A Bubble so tune into MTV and watch! This is making me sad, I've felt like such a part of this process for the past 20 days. Tomorrow I'm going to be like where's my boys?? Hah I'll miss stalking them but I've loved being able to watch them record this album, as I said before it's been real hah.

Theyre talking about what's going to happen if it starts to rain hah.
Jeff- "As long as we can get drunk afterwards, I'm good."
"It's definatly going to rain..."
"We've got a bunch of Debbie-downers here"

This is all that's visible to me as of what the stage looks like.

They've got all their stuff ready and packed and they're moving everything out.

And now they're just waiting around.
Joseph's model pose?

Some of Will's family just arrived, aww there's too little girls they're adorable! hah

Joseph and Nic claim their self portraits.

Jeff- "Man I have nothing to do until 830"
Some guy- "What are you gonna do?"
Jeff- "I don't know... I'm just getting drunk somewhere."

CARTEL'S LAST NIGHT!!!

2007-06-11T18:38:00.000-07:00

Tonight is Cartel's last night in the bubble! I can tell they're all excited about the big day tomorrow, they probably would love to just bust out right now. I can barely see anyone because they're setting up the lights for tomorrows show, which looks spectacular by the way.

Joseph- "It's like the last day of school, you want to leave early but you have to stay."

The boys are currently walking around singing "Umbrella" by Rihanna haha.
I guess I can play where's Cartel right now......

I spy WILL AND KEVIN!

I spy Joseph? Soundcheck at 9:50... that's cool? Him and Jeff are playing the "I name a song, you play it" game.... "SILVERCHAIR! SABBATH! WEEZER! ZEPPELIN! JOSEPH, LED ZEPPELIN! JOSEPH, BEETLES! JOSEPH, LED ZEPPELIN! JOSEPH, NOVEMBER RAIN! RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE! GREEN DAY! SMASH MOUTH!!" ok i'll stop now they might do this for awhile... haha. it's very amusing.

Well after playing that game for about 20 minutes, they started to practice for tomorrow night! They just played Lose It, and I already know almost all of the lyrics to that song haha.

Cool lighting

SET LIST FOR TOMORROW NIGHT!

Lose It
Runaway
Burn This City
New Song- the one that starts off with a gang verse that Kevin and Jeff recorded.
Tonight (i'm not 100% sure if this ones right)
New song- i don't know the name
Diddy

Goodnight boys- it's been real. I'm going to miss stalking you for the past 20 days of my life. It really has been a great experience being able to see how a record is made. I feel like I'm more connected to you guys and that I've really gotten to know you even though you don't know me haha. Can't wait for the new album, I'm waiting till 12:01 so I can download Lose It off of iTunes!

Victory!

2007-06-11T10:56:00.001-07:00

The webcams are working again, well all but 4 are working. Someone stopped by this morning to interview Cartel. I couldn't hear it too well but i got out a couple things here and there.

Will- "We haven't felt any pressure on this album, it's just been sort of just come naturally." "We're almost redefining ourselves you could say, I mean we're still the same Cartel but the album is definatly different from Chroma."

Joseph- "If we were under pressure I think the new album would've sounded like Chroma."

One of the questions was what are they doing for the third album. They said they were just going to go back to the home studio and record there, Jeff had another idea "ON THE MOON!"

Jeff- "I love it when people are good at their job, I hate stupid people..... JOSEPH."

And then they just sat around for awhile and read, Kevin attempted to play the guitar.

Then they found their Monopoly.

Quick lunch break.

Back to the game.

Then someone came to interview them... it was interesting hah. When the person left one of the guys just goes "god damn." And back tooooo MONOPOLY!

Technical Difficulties

2007-06-10T20:34:00.000-07:00

Sorry guys but the webcams haven't been working at all for the past day and a half for me, i've tried getting on about every hour and they're not even loading its just all black. It's pretty annoying because this is basically all I do and now I have nothing to do. All I know is that they have officially finished the record and are now celebrating for the last two days so hopefully they won't get too bored in there.

Peter Malkinnnn

2007-06-09T14:35:00.000-07:00

Hah i love the way they say his name every single time he walks in.

They're talking about the album. Jeff says that it gives off an early 90's vibe haha. Peter said Wasted was his favorite. That's about all I could understand the sound keeps going in and out.

Now they're listening to a song in the producer room that I actually haven't heard yet and it sounds so good. Peter loves it too which is great.

HAHA. This is adorable they all love dogs. Jeff was like "LOOK AT THAT PUPPY I WANT IT IN HERE! Come onn get that puppy in here pleaseee!" and they're all like "It's so cuteee! I want it in heree" hahha Joseph "It's so stoked on being alive." hah I love these boys. Finally the dog came in and they were all happy.

"It's big full grown chuck sammons!"
"KIZZLE THE WIZARDD"

Kevins brother Kyle Sanders aka "kizzle" hah

Cartel's Tour Manager Chuck Sammons

Jeff was giving himself a back massage on the hover board thing. And then Nic body surfed ontop of him. Then Kevin and Jeff did that superman thing.

Jeff- "JOSEPH..... you're so stupid."

Brotherly Love

Will and Kizzle's Battle

Will practicing his golf swing with a life saber.

A Bit Confused

2007-06-09T10:14:00.001-07:00

Last night all the guys were saying "Yeahhhh it's the last night!" and talking about packing their stuff and everything, which confused me because they still have about 4 days left in the bubble. So maybe they finished to album early and get to leave? Or not I really have no idea, or maybe it's the last night with the camera men around haha i really don't know it was confusing.

I always seem to catch Joseph doing something. I heard part of his interview this morning and then the sound went out and hasn't been on since

The interviewer asked him if he had recorded anything yesturday and he said he had been putting off recording his solo for one song and that he was having trouble coming up with something. He usually just goes in and plays it on the spot but he said he had to actually sit down and write something this time because he had so much freedom in this song.

And I'm assuming he's recording it right now, but I don't know because the sound isn't working.

And then Nic went in to finish recording.

There's so many people out today and there's not even a special event going on, people are just there. Joseph was like "I looked earlier and there was only about 7 people and I look up now and there's like 60."

Now Will is recording some backup vocals.

School's Out For The Summerrr

2007-06-07T15:11:00.001-07:00

Finally, yesturday was my last day of school! I'm going to be a little buisy for the rest of the week so sorry if there is a lack of posts.

The many faces of Joseph Pepper.

And his sweet headband.

New Found Gloryy

2007-06-05T18:06:00.000-07:00

Indeed New Found Glory is at the bubble, or atleast the lead singer is I can't tell if anyone else is here. Will's recording vocals for "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls and I think the lead singer of NFG is also singing in it because the other voice in the recording sounds like him. It sounds amazing.

HAHA. Jeff and Nic gave Kevin a wedgie

Fangs Upp

2007-06-05T11:17:00.000-07:00

"BABY CHUCK!!!"
Will- "I'm taken but baby chuck here looks just like me"

What the guys don't know is that Cobra Starship and possibly New Found Glory are coming up to visit the bubble today. They're starting to get a little bit suspicious because "Baby Chuck" is supposedly just standing in front of the bubble watching. Hah right when i finished typing that they walked in. Oh my I love Gabe Saporta. And Ryland because hes adorable and hilarious.

They gave them a basket full of stuff but I couldn't see what any of it was.

Ryland having fun with the webcams

Yes! They're playing a couple songs for Cobra Starship, I just got to hear the whole entire song Wasted and some other one i don't know the name, Wasted is absolutley amazing. Will just said the whole song is a marching band, and there's no guitar haha.

Gabe and VickyT dancing and then watching themselves on the webcam.

Gabe talking to some fans.

Ryland deserves his own section:
"Those aren't blues, that sounds like modern rock to me!"
"All this waiting is GIVING me the blues"
singing- "Veggie Beuyyygerrrr"
pointing at the pictures of Cartel on the wall "These guys look like the kind of guys that get stuff done"

They couldn't stay very long because they have a show tonight I think.

Once Cobra Starship left they started having a lot of fun...

Jeff- "What do we do now, wear this wig? Let's just beat up Joseph. Let's just stab him."
Nic- "Stab Joseph?"
Jeff- "Yeah"
Will- "YEAH! JOSEPH GET IN HERE!"
Joseph- "What?"
Will and Jeff- "GET IN HERE! Stand right here in the middle"
Joseph- "I don't know about this..."

Jeff- "It's 10 dollars I'm gonna buy it right now. Josephpepperisstupid.com. I'm gonna do it, i'll even make stickers."

Jam Session

2007-06-04T20:14:00.001-07:00

The guys decided to have a little jam session, they could go on all night for all I know but they're rocking out right now.

Holiday Parade

2007-06-04T17:20:00.000-07:00

Jeff- "I would fuck Blondie right now"

Holiday Parade stopped by and is talking to Will and some of the guys right now through the intercom. Apparantly Will got a video from Tiger Woods saying good luck, I must have missed that but he was just talking about it.

Rear Up The Engine

2007-06-04T16:30:00.000-07:00

I believe they are recording a toy truck's engine in one of their songs somehow. They're putting it on something or plugging something into it to make it sound like some sort of electronic sound wave, but it sounds awesome.

Joseph recorded some sweet guitar parts today also.

(Looking at some Band In A Bubble add)
Jeff- "What is this?"
Will- "Rockstar egos my ass"

Apologies Again

2007-06-04T10:05:00.000-07:00

Well I have finals this week so i might not be able to fulfill my blogging duties as well as I would like to haha. They're over Wednesday so wish me luck I'll need it!

Joseph's sister just stopped by.

Haha I've been thinking about what will happen when all of this is over because right now I get home, get on here, and watch. I'm like obsessed with watching it because it makes me feel like connected to the band haha. That's kind of weird but once it's over I'm going to find myself going to the website and being like what happened... hah.

THE BUBBLE BURST

2007-06-03T17:34:00.000-07:00

It's like crazy weather outside and the wind was blowing so hard that a portion of the glass in the front of the bubble just shattered. They're cleaning it up right now, but that must have been so freaky.

Kevin- "This didn't happen in Australia did it??"

On the bright side all the moms are here at the bubble hah. Joseph's mom is quite the entertainer, I didn't get to watch but I heard that she was singing and dancing to one of the new songs haha.

Episode 2...

2007-06-02T17:52:00.000-07:00

Quote of the day:
Joseph- "Look at that cute little kid! I love little kids get in that box and hang out in here!"

No offence to those of you who may disagree, but I'm not a huge fan of the way they film these episodes. First of all only 1/4 of the show had to do with the music component of this whole thing, the rest of it was just random things that happened. I mean some of that is fine because a lot of it is funny, but they only showed film from the TRL song. Secondly I know its television but they over dramatisize everything and it's probably because I stalk them on the webcams so I know what's really going on but I think it's annoying how they over-do everything on tv.

They're in an intense game of Monopoly right now.
Jeff- "Still in jail, darn. I like jail."

I LOVE JOSEPH'S LAUGH.

La La La

2007-06-02T13:51:00.000-07:00

The Boys & Girls Choir of Harlem Alumni Ensemble are in the bubble right now recording for one of Cartel's songs!It sound really neat, there's like a marching band drumline in part of the song, it sounds really cool. It's different but I like it a lot.

Apparantly Joseph likes washing dishes.

puppyy

2007-06-01T18:38:00.001-07:00

Quote of the day:
Joseph- "Put blueberry bagels just for shits and giggles"

Nic's girlfriend and her puppy are visiting the bubble its so cutee, Nic's all happy. And Joseph likes playing with her dog hah.

"The dog partied harder than us"

Practice makes perfect

"on the trackk"

2007-05-31T20:51:00.000-07:00

Quote of the day:

Will- "If I ever buy a mini van I am counting on you to drive up beside me and shoot me in the FACE."

“Thank you Jesus tap dancing Christ.”

The guys accomplished a lot today, i think they might have recorded two whole songs but i'm not sure. They were doing a lot though and it sounded good.

after a hard days work...

Hahahaha okay and then they decided to make a giant pillow blob out of mattresses and pillows so they could jump from upstairs onto the blob....

NEWSSS!
I couldn't hear Will talking too well but either Cartel is covering the song Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls or just Will is co-covering the song Iris with another band.

picturess

2007-05-31T13:13:00.001-07:00

Here's the pictures I promised you guys from Memorial Day! I only put up a few so if you want to see more of them you can look on my buzznet for those pictures and also pictures from various other Cartel concerts.
http://cartelrocks27.buzznet.com/user/main/

The Bubble!

The MTV people that were interviewing me and a few people.

Kevin took these from inside the bubble hah.

It says "What songs do you want to hear, we were thinking about playing say anything else, honestly, and a new one". They actually ended up playing Burn This City, a new one and i don't know the other one because i had to leave early.

haha nicc

amanda bynes!

2007-05-30T13:34:00.000-07:00

Will just told everyone in the recording room that Amanda Bynes is stopping by the bubble to pick out a song for her new movie! That's hugeee for Cartel, ahh imm excited. Hahah before that though they were having a reading party.

sorry guys

2007-05-29T20:45:00.000-07:00

I'm still in school so I won't be able to post as much during the week. Well today Nic and Jeff were sick, Jeff had uvulitis or something like that and I think Nic just had a hangover haha. Today the singer Juliet came to the bubble to record a song with Will. I only got to hear the last minute of it, but I thought it sounded cool. After they recorded everyone was all gathered around the computer watching various youtube videos. I heard Will recording vocals for another soung later in the day that sounded amazing. I don't want to say it was like Q&A but it was like them in that it's different from what Chroma was like.

hahaha oh yeah Kevin and Joseph were doing a crossword puzzle and Kevin was like the capitol of Montana..... do you know that one? And I saw that Jeff was online so I imed him the answer and he said it and was like "like three people just imed me telling me the capital of montana" hah it was funny.

golf and dance parties

2007-05-28T23:40:00.000-07:00

will and kevin opened to doors and set up a golf tee. so will apparantly hit something out of the bubble but i really don't know what hah.

and nic fell asleep

then they started dancing in front of the webcams and consecutively each webcam went black.

haha

2007-05-28T20:35:00.000-07:00

They're playing poker. Well most of them, Nic is in an interview right now. But THERES NO SOUND so I can't hear any of it.

Memorial Day!!!

2007-05-28T19:16:00.000-07:00

I was lucky enough to spend Memorial Day in NYC with CARTELLL! Ohhhyeahhhh. It was so fun, I got there really early and none of the guys were awake yet. There was only about 6 other people there and someone from MTV asked if she could interview us. We basically just said our name, where we're from, and that we love Cartel. And then she told us all to yell, "WE WANT CARTEL TO WAKE UP!" So maybe that will be on the video since they filmed them sleeping.

I made the guys guitar and music shaped cookies, brownies, and tostitos with salsa haha. And then I gave Joseph his birthday card that I made a week or two ago and I heard him talking when they were eating he was like "that was cool that that girl remembered my birthday" haha so that was neat.

There was so many people there, it was crazy. The guys didn't record at all though so I'm assuming that they finished the first song for the deadline tomorrow. Haha some people had dry erase boards and were communicating with Kevin through those, he seems to be the one who enjoys talking to the fans the most. They played a couple songs at around 5 but I could only stay for Burn This City.

I took a bunch of pictures that I will load tomorrow but right now i have some homework I need to finish.

nerf it upp

2007-05-27T21:44:00.000-07:00

I'm really mad that I didn't get to see too much of what was going on today. But my friend and her family came up from north carolina and we had a lot of people here so it was fun, we danced in the rain hah.

If you're planning on visiting the bubble be sure to bring NERF GUNS. The guys had a lot of fun with them today and I'm sure they'd appreiciate things along those lines.

That's pretty much all I got to see today. I know, very VERY productive day. There was a lot of fans that stopped by and the guys really appreciate everyone who comes out so if you live near New York say hi!

the party's startinggg

2007-05-26T14:51:00.000-07:00

Everyone's here and the first contestant just sang Honestly, hah it was pretty entertaining. If you don't know they're having a kareoke contest and the winner gets to hang out with Cartel!! I definatly wish I was there so I could do that, I would win... hah RIGHT.

First singer and Cartel clapping for them hah.

Here's Cartel playing one of their new songs from inside the bubble.

Playing Matter Of Time. The crowd is amazingg they're all singing along and everything.

Wow

2007-05-26T13:52:00.000-07:00

hah apparantly it's extremely hot in there so i'm going to bring them one of those water squirter/fans. jeff "the air conditioning flew out of my pant leg" hah i have no idea why he said that but I thought it was funny.

there are soooo many people outside, it's crazy! they keep asking the guys to sign stuff and everything and they need to record now. hah even i'm getting a little annoyed myself with that, i dont know if the guys are but i would be if i had to work and there was almost 100 people outside that wanted to talk to me. hahah some girl was just like "why can't they just sign all this stuff and then record..." cause maybe theres a hundred of you standing outside.

its thunderingg

2007-05-26T12:29:00.000-07:00

well, it's thundering here. hah i love thunder. ANYWAY

today is the one of the event days so there's a lot of people coming to talk to them. here's a picture of kevin talking to some fans.

and the guys signing something for a fan

Now Kevin's recording, it sounds really good. I love listening in on this and how they change different components of the drum section during the recording process. The simplest beat can add so much more to a song.

And their manager Chris Black stopped by. Him, Will, and Nic chillin out in the kitchen.

dayyy 2

2007-05-26T10:51:00.000-07:00

So today Tony Asher stopped by the bubble to talk to Cartel about their new album, which is exciting for Will since he is a HUGEE Beach Boys fan. I caught them talking about the lyrics for one of the songs. I wasn't able to get much out of it though because I started watching probably half way in their conversation. I think they were talking about how the lyrics are philosophicall or something? I don't know but it was a fun conversation to listen to.

They played a demo for the first song off the record too. It sounded awesome although the sound quality of the webcams isn't too great and makes the instruments sound out of tune hah.

yeahyeah

2007-05-25T19:58:00.000-07:00

Well i couldn't watch too much going on in the bubble because i had some friends over but i did get to catch a little bit of Kevin's recording session. It was really good, there was a lot of new things he was doing and I really liked how it sounded. Haha i really want to keep watching it but my friends are like FREAK! Stop watching that! Oh well their loss. Ok well I gotta go!! Can't wait for Monday!

they're in the bubblee

2007-05-25T08:56:00.000-07:00

Last night was amazing, I just wish I could have been there. When they were showing shots from some of their recent concerts they showed one clip from the concert on Will's birthday and he was holding the shirt I threw him!! Haha I think I might have seen myself in the crowd too so that was cool. Haha I thought that was just a little bit awkward though when they went inside because they just like walked in and it's like ok cool we're in here now but everyone is still looking at us.

Anyway, well today I have a half day at school so I'm going to go home and like watch the webcams all day haha. Except I have friends coming over and only one of them loves Cartel as much as I do so me and her will be watching the webcams like OMG! And the other two will be like guys can we PLEASE do something??

Ahh gtg announcements are onnn

9 HOURS AND 4 MINUTES!

2007-05-24T10:55:00.000-07:00

I went home sick today from school, allergies are killer. That sounds like a lame reason to go home sick but I had a migrane, I couldn't breath through my nose, and my throat hurts. So I came home and slept for a couple hours. It was nice =] hah.

And nowwwwww I can't control my excitement!!! ALMOST 8 MORE HOURSSS! Whoooo I just bought some Dr. Pepper from the store so I'm all set!

So last night I entered to be an official BIB Team Blogger. I hope I get chosen because Cartel is honestly my favorite band and I want to be as much a part of this whole experience as possible. And getting 20 access codes? I would be watching the webcams all day long. Hah i can picture the next 20 days... "Hey Rebecca wanna go out to dinner tonight?" "SHH NO! I'm watching Band In A Bubble!" Even if I'm not chosen I think I'll keep this blog so I can write down my thoughts for my own pleasure. That way I'll have even more ways to remember this whole thing.

I wish I was there for opening night! The anticipation is killing meeeeee.

Band In A Bubble Premiere's Tomorrow!

2007-05-23T20:23:00.000-07:00

I am so proud of these guys!!!

Starting tomorrow, Cartel will be locked in a giant bubble on Pier 54 on the Hudson River in New York City. They'll be recording their new album (!!!) while being broadcast online and on live television. Go to Drpepperbubble.com for more information, it's a pretty awesome site check out the message boards hah.

I'm probably just going to make myself angry by bringing this up but there has been quite a lot of controversy on this whole project. There are so many sites full of people just bashing Cartel left and right for this "marketing ploy". One website... just pissed me off SO much. A guy had been going on and on about Cartel and Band In A Bubble and Will had read it and sent the guy a letter explaining the whole situation. The guy had the nerve to take Will's letter and post it in his blog for everyone to read. That made me so mad and then after that, someone had found it and posted it on another website and people just kept bashing it. I can garantee that a good percentage of the people who were talking don't know one thing about Cartel. Just because they are taking a risk and putting themselves out into the world for everyone to hear doesn't make them desperate, as someone said. They are simply doing something creative to get their music out there and to hopefully gain more fans.

I will be behind this band 100% in whatever they do, because I know what they are capable of accomplishing. They are great guys that have worked hard through the past years and deserve this. I'm very interested to see what goes on inside the bubble. I think it'll be really cool to witness the whole recording process with them and to see all the different aspects of recording an album.

I'll be there May 28th for the Memorial Day Barbacue and June 12th when they burst out. Definatly SUPER excited for those two days. Ahhhh even more for tomorrow! I'm taping all four episodes on DVD's haha. Alright well it's late, I have a project to finish, and I'm really tired so I'm gonna go, night.