themorningof

Hey Guys,
We just posted a Brand New Song on http://www.myspace.com/themorningof !!! Go check it out!

And..today is Rob's 20th birthday, so everyone go wish him a happy birthday!

Lastly, we're going to have a chat on AP.net on Thursday so stay tuned for the exact time and stuff.

Hope you like the new song!

Chris
The Morning Of

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Thanks so much everyone!

<3 TMO

Hey Everybody!!

So, right after our fabulous tour with our new best friends, The Medic Droid and A Cursive Memory, we got to have a little time off, about 3 1/2 weeks. This is the first time we've been off since about September. It's been so awesome so far. I decided to update the journal and tell you guys a little bit of the stuff I've been doing since we've been home. I come from a big Italian family, kinda like that movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" just its "My Big Fat Everyday Italian Lifestyle" haha. When I get home from tour my family is usually always at my house, and I don't mean my direct family, I mean my extended family. Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, all there to welcome me home and shovel as much food down my throat as I'll allow. It's always the same too, "oh Justin, you look like a stick bug, did you eat on tour!?!". So, they all welcomed me home with a big dinner, it was very nice. OHHHH and this is funny, they all found out that The Morning Of has ringtones now, so everytime one of them would get a call I'd hear "Lord get me outta this city tonight..." hahaha. Even tho I'm making fun of them, I love my family and I feel completely blessed to have them in my life.

I decided that since I'd be home for a little I shouldn't be lazy and I should work. My brother Gregg, works a title insurance agency called Land Guard Title, so I started working there. My boss's there were named Lou and Kevin, and I worked with my brother Gregg, this dude named Matt, and these 3 beautiful women named Sam, Leslie, and Tina. This office is exactly like the show The Office, haha. Everyone has such a funny personality and it's just always such a fun place to work. I spent 2 weeks there and it was a blast.

My best friends and I invented a game called Sockey. haha, its a mixture of Hockey and Soccer. We take a soccer ball and we play soccer on a street hockey rink. It is extremely fun and crazy, its fast paced and it can get a little violent. We've been playing almost everynight. One thing is for sure, the Agresta brothers bring it. Oh and theres another thing thats for sure, Prescott is a ball hog. One night we were playing and these hockey players tried to tell us to leave. When we didn't, they called the Park's and Rec's lady on us, she came out on the rink while we were playing and she grabbed our ball and PUNTED it into the woods!!! After we disposed of her body..(just kidding!) we left and 18 cops stopped us! Yes, I didn't make a typo, 18 cops stopped us. They told us it's a hockey rink not a Sockey rink and that we must give it up to hockey dudes when they need it. Go figure, good clean fun being hated on by the local fuzz.

I've also been making up for lost time with my wonderful girlfriend. It's so nice to have more then a couple days here and there to just relax and cuddle and watch Seinfeld together. She cooks for me too. She is wondeeeeeeeeeerful.

I decided I should include a video or something to basically sum up my time home, so here it is.

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Can't wait to get back on the road with my boys in Holiday Parade and The White Tie Affair and see all your lovely faces. Miss you guys!

<3justin TMO

just wanna say hello to everybody...im sorry ive been slacking with this so im gonna say a few words of wisdom..hehe well not really but i posted some new pics of myself and various others from our most current tour with Farewell-Jetlag Gemini-Kenotia
ive had a blast and i know my band would agree. def try to check them out if u can. last night we had this huge shaving cream war bc me and footy(merch guy from there for tommorrow) got farewell van good with loads of shaving cream.......a little bit of alcohol mixed with craziness = u guessed it.........Chaos...hehe, it was all good though....i didnt get ne good pics of that bc we were so covered in shaving cream...but if i do get one..ill post it ASAP! till then...check out the pics i posted whenever u can...

i love you all, Jimmi

Home sick boys write sordid sonnets in organic recycled journals in the back of dark venues in the seediest part of the city.

This is my first tour update. I'm sorry. This is our first time on the west coast!!! You'd think I'd be writing everyday and posting all the awesome pictures we've been taking. I think we're all wrapped up in the experience. This tour's been so cool, we've made some amazing new friends!!! And we can't wait to make more, and see some of our old friends! All the bands are amazing too! Make sure you check em all out, Kenotia, Zolof the rock and roll Destroyer and Jet Lag Gemini! But I promise you'll all get some updates...even if its in creepy nonsensical poetic form. These are just random thoughts, that I write in my little organic recycled journal<3.
Come to a show. help me write some stuff, or I'll show you some of the other stuff in my journal...

Let me know what you think...either comment here, or write me on myspace= abir's myspace.


Should I water this love
Watch it take root upon the earth
Blossom and grow beyond my wildest dreams
Fruit this sweet has never graced my lips

The pacific northwest has been good to me
With beauty my eyes had never seen
Made for my tired eyes to rest themselves upon
I’m 3,000 miles from home, and farther from sanity
I’ve been left for nothing, with 2nd glances towards vanity
My body yearns for her attention, send it via the stars that blanket us tonight

I stared down upon this city of Seattle
Spread my arms and claimed it mine
The beating hearts within it
The broken hearts longing to escape it
I’m fragile and frail
It’s been 30 sleepless hours
And 4 in between
It’s been 13 loveless days
And what feels like years
I’ll make it back to the east coast soon.
Oh i’ll make it back to you soon.
You’re keeping me up nights
I just can’t rest untill I make it to the Empire State
Wait for me sweet princess, oh sweet majesty
I’ll come bearing a love like you’ve never known
Travel weary with bags under my eyes
Screaming to the night for a slumber like a deadman
But I won’t sleep from Seattle til I reach the East Coast
No I won’t sleep til the Empire State opens its arms to me
Pulls me in like the tide of the ocean
Till love ties me down
Full mouth eyes closed
My love I’ll keep in motion <3Abir TMO

Hey, It's abir! Okay, so I had this idea. We leave for tour Friday, and we won't be home too much this year, with our record coming out and all, gotta be on tour promoting it!! So I decided to fill you in on what a day of mine is like when I'm home :). I'm gonna do some more of these "photojournals" on tour too.
Forgive me for making this long, i like details haha.


Waking up and hiding underneath the covers :)


My trusty Batman alarm clock :)


OH NO! I'm late!
Haha jk.


Sleepy Abir.


Time to brush my teeth haha, oh my bathroom counter is so messy eek. Come clean it for me?


This is my nametag on my door. It has no relevance to my day haha, just thought id share it with you :)


Ah, no day starts without a bowl of CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH and lots of work on my little laptop.


Yummmmm


Ok, I have a bottomless pit of a stomach, so I made some post breakfast pancakes haha
*cinnamon pancakes.


Shower time...and no shower is complete without picking something really good to set the tone for the rest of the day...


So i picked The Format b-sides album. Yeahh...my iPod is burnt. Vanfires will do that to an iPod :(


Post shower, i decided whether or not i should shave...


I decided to do that with my hair instead...


Ah, now to pick an outfit.
hmhmhm. So many choices.


Ah, now I'm all dressed...


Now which cologne should I pick...hm..
(i went with hugo boss)


Ah, its not Ferrari, but its good to the evironment...and to my wallet.


I suck at taking pictures, esp when I'm driving, but I swear the Hudson Valley is one of the most beautiful place. I love living here.


OH NO! My gas light turned on! Im on empty, aah!


Gas is ridiculous. how is a boy supposed to get around?


So I get to Chris' for practice, and then a certain Jessica texts me and says "Yo can a sista cop a ride." -_-.


That's right, you better run Jess! Or we're leavin without youu haha


And wipe that grin off your face haha


When Jess is in a rush she forgets to put on deodorant, luckily she always brings it with her! Whew.. haha


All my friends are starting to get apartments...I live in a white van.


Chris' dad hard at work in our trailer. We'd be lost without him.


At chris' Jimmi was being way too cool, as usualll


Lord only knows what Chris is doing..


Spanky!!


Hunger strikes again! Too bad Chris' fridge is the most empty fridge I've ever seen.


Jess on the space...


Justin on the space....


Jessica says 'COME TO THE TMO CD RELEASE SHOW IN NEWBURGH ON JAN 26th. IT'LL BE A BLAST!"


This is the place our Cd release show's happening. They have really good cornbread. Make sure u bring some money!


We hung out in chris' living room for awhile


And Rob dragged Jess all along the floor haha.


Sometimes I play drums...and i look really fierce haha


This is where TMO practices


TMO is also gonna be the Goot back up band on January 27th for our Williamstown, NJ Cd Release show


Never let singer's touch your camera, they take pointless myspace pictures of themselves haha


Jessica sitting on a dryer.....


For every time that Jess smiles, this is the face I make :)


Its cold in Chris' basement....


The coolest kid not in school...Jimmi Kane




TMO acoustic style...


Jess singing her little heart out.


I proceeded to sign a TON of cd booklets. Left my hand in so much pain haha...but hey, if you pre-order an album from Smartpunk.com , you get an autographed booklet from us!


TMO Justin says "I bring the rock."


AH! Finally practice is done, and I'm home eating dinner!!!!


Only one day left to hang out with my little sister! Gah, I'm gonna miss her. (interesting fact, her name is my name spelled backwards..yeah nifty huh?)


This TV is my baby. And of course, I'm watching Seinfeld.

And so that's my day...
After I watched Seinfeld with my little sister we played some games online and then she had to go to bed.

Then Justin had his radio interview with Dj Rosstar!!
I hope you all liked our new song, "Unseen Direction"!!

Well it's getting late, I'm gonna go eat some more cinnamon toast crunch. Hope my day didn't bore you too much!

Love- Abir TMO

Sooooo JANUARY 29TH (cd release date!!!)  is getting closer and closer anddd closer! Who's excited!?? I'm excited!!! but who else is excited??  Me and the dudes are so ready for everyone to hear what we whipped up for yallz!! okay so since we are on this topic of excitement,  I figured I'd excite you all some more with the Track listing baybayyy.. Oh heck yeah!

Track Listing!!!
01) Goodbye Gravity. Welcome Change.
02) Let Your Spirit Soar
03) An Unseen Direction
04) Reverie
05) Smooth Sailing
06) The New Is In
07) The World As We Know It
08) Violins and Trees (Unforgettable)
09) The Sound of Something Secure
10) Shine
11) There's a Bully in the Park
12) Pilot to Base
13) You Vs. the World

 

Love at first sight right??

yup, I know.

 

love, Jess

That last entry was from me! Jess!! teehee

I'm bummed. so bummed. I just dyed my hair. I waited for the dye to sit in my hair. My hair soaked up the "color". The suspense was killing my insides (and scalp!! it was burning!!) ! and when I got to rinse it and dry it, there was the same old boring hair i had an hour before!! what the heck!! 6 bucks wasted.. I could've gotten a nice fried rice and chicken and brocoli with that! wait. How do you spell brocoli? is that right? eh whatever. I'm grumpy.

I saw JUNO today. My heart! it beats! it beats! for Michael Cera <33 haaave merrrcy. I can't get enough. and Ellen Page, she's so awesome. It was really a good movie. There should be more movies like that one. I've always wanted to be in a movie (but really who hasn't?). I pictured myself playing a role like hers. Being 16 and pregnant and not to mention so damn fly. I would fail miserably at that. Love scenes make me blush when I watch them! I could never do it for the big screen!! haha Gahh, I'm such a 5 year old. Oh well. So be it. Because someday Me and michael will run away together and have our own private love scene. I can see it now...

 

Michael's truly, Jess <3

 

Day 2 of 2008

Its so freakin' cold outside!! I busted my rear a couple of times too. Not cool. Okay so, so far nothing great has happened to me yet. The only thing I know that is great is OUR ALBUMCOMING OUT JANUARY 29TH!! THAT'S REALLY SOOOON!! haha I'm so so so excited! You should be to, ya know! haha. So today I decided I want to dye my hair. I don't know why but sometimes I was up one day and get the urge to want to change something. Like change my room around or hair color or boyfriends....hahahaha just kidding. He's sitting right next to me =) ..but yeah. I haven't changed the color yet because I'm unsure of what color I want. I'll wake up tomorrow morning and know the answer to that.

anywayssss..I'm excited to start touring again. I'm excited for adventures and junk food. I can taste it already mmmM yum. I can taste how delicious this year is going to be!! I can smell it. My mouth is watering :D

Ratatouille-ly yours,

Jess

I could use some smoke right now, to aid in this getaway
This new year's twilight is making it hard to hide
Young and restless lover's bathing in the moonlight
With more regard for the heaven's than this celestial body unknowingly attached to this playground of a planet
But that seems so far away
I swear she came to me in my dreams last night. Can angels rewind time?
To a period before they've fallen.
The sun was warm where she took me, in the middle of January.
As we laid upon the sand, with our love laid bare for all to see in this paradise land
But morning scared her off. Now i turn to my tears for company.
There are photographs and friends I've made, who keep me going.
But who will believe that my once great love, knew my window was unlocked for her each night
And she floated in from above, and took me to where I wish I could stay in ignorance and bliss
Its been 3 months, has the fire left your heart? Your eyes look empty now. I'm shaken and confused.
I ran short on courage sometime ago
And this hunger rages on inside me
As I paint this city I call home in love and regret
And she's nowhere to be found
A hypocrite's masquerade
With her and a stranger in the arms that belong around me center stage
While I engage in this lover's tryst between the broken and confused
I colored myself distracted for the moment but this thing called love
This thing called love is a killer
I won't let it take me.
This thing called love is a killer
I won't let it take me
This thing called love is a killer
I won't let it take me
This thing called love is a killer.
help.


I woke up this morning, reallly early. And some things kinda hit me hard, that i was able to ignore over the holiday season.
So i just figured I'd spill my thoughts.

Hope you all had a wonderful new year! I'm really excited for all the things that are coming, like our album!!! Haha, and posting new songs for everyone to hear!

How were all your holidays?


Love always, Abir TMO

 Sunday, Snow day. Today I did nothing but watch movies with my mom. I love being home with my mom. I learn more about her everyday that I'm with her. I remember when I used to think she wasn't so cool. I guess those are just stages we all go through because she is def the coolest person I know. We watched the Nativity Story on HBO. It was pretty good. I love Christmas and holiday movies but I'm not too sure what exactly to believe in anymore. I want to believe in something.  I do believe in something. The whole 3 kings following the star to the birth of a child who is their messiah confuses me. Guess I had to be there. I hope I don't offend anyone with this. It's just what I've been thinking about all day today.

anywho..today my parents asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I said nothing. But then I said a pair of gray skinny jeans (UGH more than anything) and then they said "tell your sister." haha I guess I'm not getting those jeans. eh whatever. All I want for Christmas are my friends and family and Sam.

I should send that short list out to santa asap. Christmas: 9 days!!

alottalove, Jessica

just wanted to introduce myself. im justin and i sing in the morning of. i just wanted to come on and say im looking foward to getting to talk to you guys through our buzznet account!!

any questions, let me know!!

<3justin

So this is my first blog entry. I'm probably gonna talk about everything in here. From my days and nights on tour, to things that are pissing me off, pretty much anything.

So this is your window into Abir TMO's head and heart haha.

Right now i'm writing this at my friend Greg's house in Utica, NY. I had kind of a crazy day yesterday. Probably one of the worst days of my life, but our show in Utica went awesome, there's always a lot of awesome kids there we love who come and hang out. So it definitely makes the whole loading in through the snow and frigid temperatures worth it. Not to mention my lacoste slip-ons in the snow usually leave my toes completely numb ha.

Anyways getting to more interesting stuff, I watched SuperBad last night for the first time. It was fucking hilarious haha. Its weird cuz honestly, when everyone had their myspace name to Mclovin, i was like what the fuck? What is that?Why? I thought it was really stupid...but i have to say, now that I understand it...maybe I'll change my myspace name (4 months too late of course haha..or maybe 6 months haha).

Speaking of movies, i still really want to see American Gangster. But idk if its still playing anywhere haha.

Ugh, i need to shave. and stuff. Its friday night, i probably shouldn't look like a scruffy loser.

I'll write more tonight. And i promise I'll get more interesting haha.

<3Abir