So we got two events coming up that should be a good ol’ time. Both of these events are located at McClintocks in College Point. On the 5th my band, Landing Project, along with a bunch of other loud bands, namely Cue The Sun, As A Gift, and Gone By Friday, will be playing . We’ll have a table set up with our merch selling at discount prices. The following week, on the 12th we’ll be back again to showcase some hardcore acts, these will include Endwell, Southside Panic, Knuckle Up! and more. We will also have a table set up at this event with discounted merch. So if you’re bored and wanna see a fun show, come down to either or both of these events. I forgot to mention, THEY’RE FREE! You pay nothing to get in! I may even have the first ever Only Ones hoodie for sale at these events as well. Stay Tuned, more details soon.

Not many people ever really ask me what “Only Ones Need Apply” means. I find this kind of surprising considering that those four words alone in a phrase have rarely, if ever, been used together. Potential jobs often ask “only ___ need apply” but you won’t often hear the words “Only Ones Need Apply“, unless you are talking about this brand. So what does it mean?

I think a great slogan is one that makes you think, something that isn’t easily understood right away. A benefit of this is that people will remember it, even if they don’t want/try to. When I came up with the slogan I didn’t have intentions to think of some weird mismatched group of words to confuse people into remembering our brand. I’m not that smart and I’m not some business or branding wizard. However, I knew when I was coming up with our brand name that I wanted it to be something plural. I felt people could more easily feel like a part of the whole if the brand name was plural. Only Ones can have a few different meanings but, for me, the main one is about being an individual. Often times we find ourselves looking for approval from others and sacrificing our own personalities and differences for the sake of social obligations or anxieties. The definition of One is Being a single entity, unit, object, or living being. Only Ones really means Only “individuals”, it means that nobody on this planet will ever be you, so why would you sacrifice that for anyone or anything?

Going back to our slogan, I guess the idea came about from all those jobs that ask for “Only _____ need apply”, to let people know who they are specifically looking for. Jonathan and I have been friends since fifth grade, now we are college graduates. We’ve held many a job and many of them were working for minimum wage. We started this brand in the hopes that, after all the years working for other people, maybe one day we could work for ourselves and do something positive in the process.

Jon and I used to sit outside his house, when we were in fifth or sixth grade, and talk about the things we wanted to do in life. They were all things that involved us being ourselves and making a career out of it. For this brand we made, for this newest “job”, Only Ones Need Apply here. We don’t have to pretend to be anyone we aren’t and neither do you. This is a brand made up of two kid’s that grew up together, we thought for ourselves and acted like stupid fools and had fun doing it. It’s a brand for the kids, by two kids. This brand is a result of that individual nature and also the underground subculture that birthed it. It’s about that music that NOT EVERYONE is listening to, those movies NOT EVERYONE is watching, and mainly the lives we choose to live that NOT EVERYONE is living. It’s your own life and it’s NOT FOR ANYONE but yourself to decide. That’s the philosophy behind the brand, whether you follow us or not, we celebrate the fact that we can all make decisions and that’s a beautiful thing.

ONLY ONES NEED APPLY.

When is this video gonna get old? OH WAIT, IT NEVER GETS OLD!!!!!!!!!!

It’s pretty safe to say I would rather vomit horseshit than watch the Fourth Kind again. In fact I think the act of vomiting horseshit would be a relief compared to going through the ordeal that is Fourth Kind just one more time. At least with the horseshit vomiting you feel it coming, you get that nauseous feeling. It starts to come up your throat and finally profusely out of your pie hole. With the vomiting of horseshit there is a release, a light at the end of the tunnel, the horseshit exits your body and life can continue. With the Fourth Kind, there is never a release, there is no light at the end of the tunnel. The end of the tunnel in fact is a brick wall made of horseshit. At the end you smack right into it and you never get out. You never get that hour and thirty eight minutes back! Its forever encapsulated in a tunnel of horseshit forever mocking you!

We all know studios put out similar movies at the same time…if you don’t know just take a look. What made me wanna see this movie is probably due to how much i enjoyed Paranormal Activity. Much like that movie, Fourth Kind bills itself as a film with “real footage”, although in Fourth Kind it’s “real” footage mixed with “re-enactment” stuff. The real footage is sorta believable until you meet Milla Jovovich’s characters “real” self. The “real” interview footage of the “real” Abbey Tyler is pure garbage. It’s so poorly acted and overplayed at parts that no human being could really act in such a way, unless they are pretending to act and CAN’T. The movie is lame, that’s very obvious in my mind, but this actress, whoever she is, cannot even deliver lines with any shred of validity or believability. Nothing about her seems authentic, but that’s really just the icing on this cake of smelly smelly horseshit.

Very often you go to a movie because there is something in the trailer that sparks your interest. In the trailer for this film I saw a few little things here and there that interested me. Like most of us, I figured I’d see it expecting to see all of these interesting things, plus a whole lot more. Well I was wrong, I was dead wrong. What you see in the trailer is what you get. Nothing more, if anything you get less. How so, you ask?! You get less because you lose an hour and a half of your life and ten dollars to boot. If you merely just watched the trailer you’d be ten dollars richer and an hour and a half of your life woulda been saved from that horseshit dead end tunnel I mentioned before. I found nothing of value you here, nothing was gained or learned that couldn’t have been taken from the trailer. I guess maybe that in itself is impressive? Impressively shitty.

Not even the bruises left on the people after their “abductions” are anything worth seeing…

My dad used to beat me and leave me with worse bruises than that. I mean damn, can you guys even see that shit? I can barely see it, might need to turn up the contrast. Now I’m all for being subtle but at the same time you gotta deliver. That bruise looks like she scraped her shoulder walking through a doorway or maybe she just look at it the wrong way.

Fourth Kind is what I’d like to call a “BLUE BALLS” film. It never delivers, it never satisfies, it just exists in the world, hovering about like a UFO in the air, except its brown and made of pure HORSESHIT!

There’s an internal battle waging inside my skull right now…to do the things I need to do or to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The telltale sign of a great game is one you really can’t wait to get back to when you’re away from it. Anyway, if you wanna play with us, my gamertag is bobbyxblair and Jon’s tag is Clinchpoop.