| this is my last entry..... |
[Sep. 2nd, 2004|02:54 am] |
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| |  lonely | ] |
....to anyone who's never had their heart broken, god bless you all! to everyone searching for love but have not yet felt it, how naive you are! if you only knew the pain involved with seperation you would not bother with such a silly, abstract concept such as love. stick to those less extreme emotions; settle for happiness. you're better off being content. |
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| the end of an era.... |
[Aug. 16th, 2004|01:39 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | sad | ] |
| [ | music |
| | saves the day - sell my old clothes im off to heaven | ] |
"Krome wants to go out on a good note Club owner presents several self-imposed rules and changes
BY JOHN DUNPHY
Staff Writer
In less than a year, Krome nightclub will be history. According to owner Tom Beninato, the long-standing Sayreville establishment at Old Spye Road and Route 35 formerly known as Club Bene and once host to some of the biggest names in show business, will be closing its doors in seven to nine months to make way for a proposed senior housing development and marina.
In 2000, the business lost its liquor license, which led to subsequent format changes and the name change. It also led to a different bottom line.
"You can’t do anything [as a club] without liquor," Beninato said, adding that the target demographic has changed as a result. The club used to attract people ages "6 to 100," with children’s theater productions on weekends and musical acts and comedy shows at night, but now mainly hosts rock shows for kids 14 to 18, he said.
In recent years, the club has come under fire from nearby residents and the borough on issues such as parking on residential roads, violence and garbage. This has caused residents to come out to Borough Council meetings to voice their complaints, most recently in July after residents also requested Mayor Kennedy O’Brien’s presence so he could see for himself what a certain Friday night show could bring to the neighborhood.
Beninato said he wants the club to go out on a positive note.
In a letter presented to the borough and read at the council’s meeting on Monday, Beninato laid out a number of new rules and improvements the club plans to implement for its final months.
There will be further enforcement of parking restrictions, more security inside and outside the club, and all mid-week concerts will begin earlier and end earlier, generally prior to 11 p.m. There will also be a "constant effort to control the volume" during performances.
He also said there will be a change in music to "a more centrist format, thus catering to a mainstream teenager." The club will also stop using some or all of its Teen Night promoters.
In the letter, Beninato made mention of how society had abandoned today’s teens.
"My opinion is [today’s teens] are not being educated where their future is full of options," he told Greater Media Newspapers, citing issues with education, peer pressure and the media.
"I think it’s society in general," he said.
Krome will also undergo a name change, due in part to format alterations as well as negative publicity, Beninato said.
Before the club had been renamed Krome, it had been called Club Bene for almost 40 years.
Beninato said a return to that famous moniker was not out of the question.
"We still have the old sign downstairs," he said.
The Borough Council, while acknowledging Beninato’s proposed changes, agreed Monday that it would vote on a resolution at the next regular public meeting to establish permit parking on nearby roads.
"I’ve always believed most of the issues with the clubs have come from [issues] of parking," O’Brien said at the meeting.
If the resolution is approved, the permit parking requirement would become law within seven days.
Beninato said in July he would address the parking issue by triple-parking vehicles in the lot, thus increasing the number of available spaces from 330 to 390. His letter to the council this week notes that "customers who choose not to use our well-lit parking lot will not be granted admission."
At this week’s meeting, Council President Thomas Pollando asked that the cleaning of the parameter of the building, at least 500 feet, be added to the list of changes.
Council members said they would like to see the club hold to the proposals in the letter.
"We’re not looking to close businesses down, but we have to work with clubs on the quality of life of residents," Pollando said.
"I think we’re ready for a change," Beninato noted.
The next regular public meeting of the council will be at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 9 at borough hall."
wow.....just wow first birch hill and now krome? this makes me really sad, i have so many memories at krome. i've seen so many shows there in the past five years. i've met so many people at krome, and had so many good times there. i saw the blood brothers for the first time at krome.....there were like thirty kids there. i saw rilo kiley there, before i knew who jenny lewis and blake sennet were. i remember singing every single word to "sell my old clothes im off to heaven" when saves the day played with thursday and the crowd was still small enough to fit in krome. i remember further seems forever, and everybody was skeptical about the new singer(this was like two new singers ago haha) and he was awesome. fearing for my life standing along the edge of the mosh pits of all the random hardcore shows i've went to there. and all the times i've played there!!! with underoath, with hopesfall......just last week with the start! never having the extra two dollars to park so i just parked my car by the run down diner. how can i forget, even before it was called krome the time i went to see my brother play there. krome will always hold a special place in my heart, and i will miss it when it is gone :-( |
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| i have no title yet... |
[Aug. 15th, 2004|12:18 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  accomplished | ] |
| [ | music |
| | my guitar | ] |
i tried real hard at being cool but you don't notice when i try to impress you what is it that other boys can do that i cannot? it must be those straightedge tattoos. hey can i bum a cigarrette? i started smoking cuz that's what you and your friends do i don't care if i get cancer as long as you notice that i can be a cool kid too |
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| i want a lover..... |
[Aug. 13th, 2004|01:34 am] |
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| | depressed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | bright eyes | ] |
"I picked you out Of a crowd to talk to you Said I liked your shoes
You said thanks can I follow you? So it's up the stairs And out of view
No prying eyes I poured some wine I asked your name you asked the time
Well it's two o'clock Yeah the club is closed we're up the block
Your hands on me Pressing hard against your jeans
Your tongue in my mouth Trying to keep the words from coming out
You didn't care to know Who else may have been here before
I want a lover I don't have to love I want a girl who's to sad to give a fuck
Where's the kid with the chemicals? I thought he said he'd meet us here but I'm not sure
I got the money if you got the time He said it feels good I said I'll give it a try
Then my mind went dark We both forgot where your car was parked Let's just take the train
I'll meet up with the band in the morning
Bad actors with bad habits Some sad singers They just play tragic
Now the phone's ringing And the band's leaving Let's just keep touching
Let's just keep keep singing
I want a lover I don't have to love
I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk
Where's the kid with the chemicals
I got a hunger and I can't seem to get full
I need some meaning I can memorize
The kind I have always seems to slip my mind
But you but you You write such pretty words
But life's no story book Love is an excuse to get hurt
And to hurt Do you like to hurt? 'Cause I do I do I do This didn't hurt me
Didn't hurt me Oh this hurt me" |
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| the man from out of town |
[Aug. 9th, 2004|01:07 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  gloomy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | the holy kiss | ] |
"long time no see stranger," the man had said earlier which i found quite peculiar he somehow knew my name "come have a drink stranger," i sat down at the bar, two shots from the whiskey jar "tell me what's on your mind." "friend i've no purpose at all i eat sleep and drink my woes when im up im really down," i told the man from out of town. "i tell you it isn't so your purpose is great i know you are a seed that has yet to be sewn but you will realize this when you're fully grown," and at that moment time stood still and along my back i felt a chill never before had i even thought it but i was tired i was exhausted misery had it's grip but at that moment misery slipped and when the moment was finally over i looked but could find him nowhere the man from out of town was gone but his message, it still lives on. |
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| my sweet rapture |
[Jul. 21st, 2004|03:02 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  curious | ] |
| [ | music |
| | pedro the lion - my sweet rapture | ] |
"this is how we multiply pity that it's not my wife the friction and skin the trembling sigh this how the bodies move with everything that we could lose pushing us deeper still the sheets and the sweat the seed and the spill the bitter pill yet undiscovered gideon is in the drawer clothes scattered on the floor she's arching her back she screams for more oh my sweet rapture i hear jesus calling me home finally a chance to breathe reaching for the fallen sheets collapsing a glowing heap we've gone to far we've done too much we have to quit it just one more kiss just one more touch please ten more minutes this feels so good just barely moving the tension building our bodies working to reach the goal oh my sweet rapture i hear jesus and the angels singing hallellujah calling me to enter the promise land"
this is the best song ever |
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| the neverending break |
[Jul. 8th, 2004|11:40 pm] |
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they walked along the dock by the beach she said "an evening stroll would be sweet," he held her hand tightly in the dark he joked and made a funny remark "i'll love you when you're gone and im alone," the moment was ruined by her cell phone she answered as if he wasn't talking further down the dock they kept walking he wondered how long this would go on as her phone conversation carried on he listened closely to the voice on the line he glanced at his watch the little hand at nine he thought to himself about marriage and love he pictured the two of them as white doves he smiled to himself as she hung up the phone she asked him if they could speak alone he said "of course," since there was no one around her face had quickly turned to a frown "we need a break," she said as she took back her hand "ok," he said reluctantly though and he added that he'd wait for her his whole life that he loved her and she would make a fine wife he waited and waited and waited some more but the neverending break was hard to ignore. |
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| kamikaze husband |
[Jul. 4th, 2004|12:44 am] |
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he says "it's over now," quietly to himself his toes hang off the edge he wonders if he's really better off dead he thinks about his wife he thinks about his kids he gets down on his knees he says he's sorry but the pains got to cease. kamikaze husband, but she still loves him if he fails. she says "it's over now," he's a vegetable now the kids they wonder why their daddy doesn't speak and he can't blink his eyes. kamikaze husband, but she still loves him if he fails. |
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| toothpaste & orange juice |
[Jun. 29th, 2004|05:32 pm] |
friend, place your hand on my shoulder
it's alright even though we're now older
i'll tell you all about college
and you'll tell me all about your mortgage
we'll reminisce over several cups of coffee
we'll sit in smoking, i'll tell you i switched to tea
friend, to be honest, now we're strangers
and your move to republican is starting to anger
me a bit, but hey we're friends
always, forever, until the end
so tell me more about your bride to be
what's her name? where's she from? who is she?
you'd like to know about my love life?
i sleep around, im not looking for a wife
this conversation is losing momentum
i've got lots of new friends, you haven't met them
friend, to be honest now we're strangers
you've changed so much that i no longer
know you at all, but hey we're friends
always, forever, until the end |
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| hoagies & grinders |
[Jun. 22nd, 2004|06:40 pm] |
im gonna be at coffee blue in belmar tommorrow. amy malkoff said she is coming too and hopefully some other friends will perform as well. it's $3, i'll be there at like seven. don't be a square, be there.
also, this friday the ORB is having a benefit show at the first baptist church in red bank. it starts at seven. im told this will be million time winners last nj show ever! so don't miss it, because they are AMAZINGLY good. i am playing and so is this day & age, and full surrender.
and finally, this saturday is amy malkoff's cd release show at the icafe! if you haven't heard her sing yet, then come out on saturday. she has a beautiful voice and is very talented. the show starts at eight. im not sure who else is playing besides myself but im sure it will be good stuff!
hope to see you there! |
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