The Life and Times of Bill Marcks

Nuttin' like 100+ in the evening!

Hey all,

I’m just checkin’ in. I’ve uninstalled my FB apps from my G1 and my Ipad for awhile.  To much dramarama for me right now.  I busy trying to get all my certs at work so that I can progress up the chain.  I found myself delving into the FB soap opera, so I’m taking a break.   I was bitchin’ about it with my buddy Greg and Lil’ Jon and Greg brought it to my attention that I was always on Facebook.  I was like, damn you’re right! hahahaha

Anyway,  I tried to move to a new position at work and barely missed the qualifications, thus my new goal is to become fully certified in all thing domain and host related.   My ultimate goal is to get to a supervisor position and really know my way around the net.  I think I will also start focusing more on my reseller site http://www.gringobill.com  I think I could make some killer sites for folks without dinging their walet. 

Apart from that, I’ve just been dodging this Arizona heat.  Dude!  I’ve been on the road for about 8 years.  This is my second full summer in AZ in a long time.  LAME!!  This heat is ridiculous.  Hence another reason to move up at work.  If I get into the marketing department, my work has facilities in Colorado!  That would rock! 

The only thing green and diggin' this heat

Well I gotta run.  I’ll keep you posted when Sanziggo finally jams again.  Its friggin’ hot, we have no bassist and Chad and I are hella busy and married.  hahaha.  I guess that’s about it!  Make it a great week!

Cheers,

B.

Da kids, beatin' the heat

Stories of Survival

Hey All,

So I found a copy of Authority Zero’s new album “Stories of Survival” and gave it a listen. Read on if you’d like to see what I thought.

Authority Zero is releasing their new album entitled Stories of Survival on June 22nd. I happened across a demo of it (don’t worry I’ve preordered and paid for a real copy) and gave it a few listens. The album consists of 11 songs being: “The New Pollution”, “A Day to Remember”, “Brick in The Wave”, “Get It Right”, “Big Bad World”, “Break The Mold”, “Crashland”, “Liberated Education”, “Movement”, “The Remedy” and “ No Way Home”. I’ll break these songs down below.

“The New Polution”: The album begins with Winston Churchill’s “Blood Sweat Tears and Toil” speech and segues into a SoCal/Pennywise feel of a song. I dig the clarity with which Zach plays on this track. The song seems very upbeat and would be good for driving.

“A Day to Remember”: This song has Rise Against feel to it. I dig Jason’s line about “10,000 feet in the air”. It reminds me of being on all the planes back in the day though He probably was referring to snowboarding.

“Brick in the Wave”: This song has a definite Authority Zero stamp to it. It reminds me of a slowed down version of Sky’s the Limit meets Courage. It has an excellent acoustic break down reminiscent of Courage and is sprinkled with Handsonic elements via Ryan Greene. I would not be surprised to see this released as a radio single.

“Get It Right”: I like this song because all of the players get to showcase their abilities. Jeremy gets to play his bass a la “revolution”. Zach has some sick classic rock feeling leads. Zach always had a Jefe feel to his leads, I love it. Jason experiments with the range of his voice and Jim glues it all together.

“Big Bad World”: This song is the typical chillin’ song. Cool reggae. Kind of reminds me of The Expendables, RX Bandits and Matisyahu. I love the harmonies on the track. Zach, Jeremy and Jason have a good mixture of timbres.

“Break The Mold”: This is a cool pit song. It a bit slower than Authority Zero’s previous pit songs but it’ll do the trick. The thing I loved most about this track was the cool Arabic breakdown. Ethnic music was always a key for Authority Zero’s success.

“Crashland”: Starting out with Morse Code it is Authority Zero’s anthem on the album. It reminds me of “War’s End” by Rancid meets “Taking on the World”. Some tempo changes and Zach’s leads make it a memorable song.

“Liberated Education”: Starting out with a phaser intro then breaking into a Pennywise/Rise Against feel of a song, it once again will get ya’ pumped. I love the reggae breakdown and cool harmonies on the leads. It also retains the Authority Zero stamp, bearing much resemblance to “Madman”.

“Movement”: I’m really diggin’ this track. It has a great dancehall feel and I love the call and response between guitar and vocals. The tone and nuances remind me of Homegrown’s track “Surfer Girl”. One of my favorite tracks!

“The Remedy”: This is by far my favorite track. Its tempo changes a bit. There are plenty of sticky hooks and great guitar work. The bass and drums weave in and out in unison and Jason’s voice is best suited to this type of song. A+!!

“No Way Home”: This track kicks back to an Old Skool SoCal feel. The most memorable part of the song is the bridge toward the end of the song. Jeremy throws down a bass line that brings me back to jammin’ “Dawn Patrol” by Megadeth.

Alrighty!!! That’s my take… now preorder this album or buy it on June 22nd. I highly recommend it.

Authority Zero

Cheers,  Bill

IPAD!!!

Hola all!

Well its been awhile and the kids are finally napping so HI!  As, you can see above, I’ve won an Ipad from work.  Its really rad.  I download books to read, watch movies and the kids love it too

Speaking of work,  I’ve recently moved to a different department!  Dude! I’m raking in the dough, I love it!  Not trying to brag but its nice to be able to get out of this finnacial hole finally.  I’ve been broke for about 15 years!  hahaha.

Anyway, wifey and I got to leave the kids with the folks and head back to Puerto Peñasco, Mexico.   It was well needed and enjoyed.

Me and wifey

As usual Rocky Point Ruled!!  We met up with our buddies Sarah, Jason and Mariana.  Check out the pics below and make sure you scroll all the way down to see my buddy Aaron’s kid’s reaction to my Ipad pic hahahaha.  That’s all for now, kinda lame and short but I need to rest before the boys are up.  Have a great week and “no dejas para mañana lo que puedes hacer hoy!”

Salud! -Bill

Kirsten and Sarah

Mariana and Jason

Me and el Capitan

Los Compas

Me, dressed up for an internal interview

Hey All,

Its been a great week!  I landed a job with a new department!  I start Monday.  I’m wicked stoked because in theory I should make about three times what I’ve been making.  Gotta love that!  

I did great this week in sales and was under a lot of presure so I headed up north to Payson, AZ.  Its so beautiful up there.  At the risk of sounding  like a hippy, it really helped me to center my chi. 

Windy Day Up North

I actually got to hang with my family and relax for a day.  It was good times for sure.  The kids were pooped, they ran all day and saw all kinds of cool stuff.

Climbing and being kids...

On Sunday, My buddy L.J. came back from his Zebrahead tour.  It was great to see him, espaecially because he brought me back some Jamon Serrano chips from Madrid!  He’d been in Europe, so he had a hunkering for Mexican food, so we went and chowed at Texanos.  Good stuff. 

This my man right here!!!

To end the week, today we celebrated my brother’s bday.  Its always great to see him smile!  Damn we’re all getting old. 

Blow 'em out old man

Smilin'!

So as you can see, I had a hella great week and look forward to starting my new job.  I hope you have a wonderful week and good fortune!

Cheers… Bill

P.S.  If you’re bored check out more pix below, salud!

Me and my lovely wife

I gotta have fun too!

These trout are about 2.5 ft long no bs! (Hatchery)

Luca and I by the Tonto River

Beautiful Country!

Hey All,

I just watched Azip streamin’ live on havoc.tv. It was pretty cool. I was surprised that they played basically the same set as we used to. I thought they were going to play more new stuff. They did end up playing songs off of their new album Stories of Survival toward the end of their set though, so that was cool. I dug their new ska joint. I’m not sure what the name of it was.

Zach is a very good guit player and has amazing harmonies. I really enjoyed the variations on our old stuff and his playing on the new tunes. He’s a good addition to Azip. Jeremy sounded solid as usual. He is an excellent musician. Jim kept time well, and ripped it up. I dug Jason’s performance he’s still an amazing performer.

Anyway, it was a cool concept seeing a concert online. I just wish they could’ve done it at The Marquee here in AZ. Sainte Rocke is notorious for nazi crowd control and no movement in a crowd type mentality. Oh well! Keep posted to my blog for a full review of the new album after its release May 25th. Cheers!  -Bill

I love when they cooperate!

Hey all,

It’s been pretty cool just chillin’ this weekend. My whole family’s all clogged up with alergies. I’m started to be able to hear out of my right ear again.

It was great week at work. I’m set to make a pretty penny this bonus period. That’ll help when I head back down to Puerto Peñasco. I gotta get back to El Perico Marinero and get me some campechana.

Speaking of Mexico, I think my buddy Greg and Blake are now on board. Greg was instantly down, but Blake still take some convincing. Apart from those guys, my other amigos Sarah, Jason and Mariana are comin’! Gunna be a great time!!!

Well, not much more to report… Sanziggo has kinda been on hold until we can find a bassist. I’d reallly like to start playing out again but I haven’t much time for anything but work and family. Oh well! Sooner or later I’ll work it out. Check out some great shots of my sons below and have a great week!

Cheers,
Bill

These critters are supposed to be in the back!!

Wanna by some wood chip candy?!

Hey all,

It has been awhile, so I figured I’d post a blog.  Well Easter was relaxing and fun.  I love being at home with my family. They grow up so fast!  Where does the time go?  You gotta check out some  

Beautiful Easter

 these pix.  They crack me up. Let’s see here is Easter morning the kids really enjoyed finding

Egg Hunt

eggs and eating a ton o’ candy.  Go figure… it reminds me of that Eddie Izzard bit about how kids are nonethewiser about Easter, but still good times. Below we have Liam showing us the goods!

Show me da eggs!

Anyway, I’m going to spare the text and just put up the reset of the pix. Enjoy!  Back to work and jiujistu tomorrow.  PAZ!
Dee Poo hates baths!
Me and my two Pops!
Two Friends
Uncle Freddy
Easter Night
Luke got into the Vasiline

Alrighty then, have a good week!

B

What up everybody?  I just found out that you can preorder Authority Zero’s “Stories of Survival”  Click the pic above and reserve your copy.  I’ve already reserved mine. 

Cheers,

Bill

Hey All,

I’ve not posted in a bit. Just checkin’ in with ya’s. Well, still going to jiujitsu, should be going more consistantly… I went to a hockey game with my wife, my buddy Bart and his girl Dannia.

Kirsten had a great time and we enjoyed watching the Coyotes defeat he Canadians. 

Sanziggo didn’t get a chance to jam last weekend, so we plan on hittin’ it up prolly Saturday.  Not much more to report, so I’m going to put up an oldy but goody cheesy vid that I put together for “Nihon”  By Sanziggo and try to be more exciting soon.  Also, check out “Pants on the Ground”.  My brother pointed out that the stole my song hahahaha!! The music toward the end is very similar! 

Como ya he dicho, ya me voy a la *beep*

Cheers!

b

Hey All,

Man I had a great week. I should be asleep but here we go. I started out the week by having my team at work win $100 for “best decorated”! We did a World Cup theme, it was rad:

I also did two days of jiujitsu with my buddy Greg Mclarty. Man that’s a tough workout but I get better every time I go:

We have an awesome instructor Paul Nava. He rolls at Arizona Combat Sports and teaches at Kajukenbo Arizona. He’s a brown belt and has been training for over ten years:

On Saturday, I finally met up with Chad to start rollin’ again with Sanziggo. I cleaned out the garage and made some space for jammin’. I can’t wait to start working on our album. Its fun to have music as a hobby again:

I forgot I had so much equipment still, look at this nonsense:

Alright, I gotta go to bed now, these guys are gunna get up soon!:


Have a good Sunday and next week!

Cheers,

Bill