June 2009
2 posts
No Tour This Summer....New Music!
Hiii!!! A lot of you have been asking us about touring this summer and unfortunately we will not be out on the road, this will be our first summer home in almost 3 years. We are probably going to do some dates in August but nothing really in June and July. However, we’ve been working really, really hard on new material and we are going to be in and out of the studio throughout the months of...
WE WANT YOU ON OUR BUZZNET!!!
HEY! we are so stoked to announce that we are in the new issue of Popstar Magazine (July issue) on sale now at Target and all other newsstands! Go pick it up and find “Racing Kites” in the FRESH FACES section!!! Here’s the deal, go pick up the new issue of Popstar Magazine (July issue) find the page where it covers “Racing Kites” take a picture with it open and send...
May 2009
2 posts
Philadelphia to Alabama!!
Hey! Alex here! it’s almost 6 im the morning here, Preston and I are sitting at Philadelphia International Airport waiting to board our flight to Birmingham, Alabama!! Why Alabama?? Were going to finish writing our new songs over there and were sooo stoked!!! We’re going to constantly update our Buzznet.com/racingkites account with pictures so refresh that page 100 times a day!! We...
NEW MUSIC!
Hey!!!! I’m so sorry we’ve been out of touch, we’ve been writing new music and we can’t wait to share it with all of you! Seriously, this is the best music we’ve ever written, it’s going to blow your mind!!! Stay tuned!!!
<3
Alex
PS! Preston is back to himself, thank you for all of your support, he’s stoked you are so rad to him!
April 2009
4 posts
Preston's Condition
Hi friends, Alex here, I wanted to let you all know what’s been going on. This is a little personal, but since our fans are our family, we wanted to fill you in. Yesterday morning, our bass player Preston was admitted to a hospital after he collapsed on the floor. Complaining about stabbing back pains, Preston’s mother rushed him to the hospital. After undergoing several tests, the...
PLEASE READ!
Hi, Alex here, I’m afraid I have some bad news. Unfortunately we have to cancel the rest of our tour dates because of our trailer situation. We’ve been putting off getting a new trailer and it finally caught up with us, our trailer is on it’s last leg and we hope it gets us home in one piece. Most of you that know us know that we are not the type of band to cancel shows,...
Goodbye California, Hello Washington!!
Hii! so I’m pretty bummed we are leaving California because I’m going to miss the near perfect weather I’ve been soaking in for the past few days but, I’m leaving with some good memories. Lately I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and it absolutely blows my mind to think that I’ve toured the entire country with my band, when I first started this I always dreamt...
We are in California!!!
Hiiii!!! Alex here, wow, I decided that it’s time to dust off this blog, we haven’t updated this thing in a really long time and it didn’t hit me until someone came out to our show and told me. On behalf of that band I’d like to apologize, things have been so crazy since we’ve been on the road. We just wrapped up our tour with Sparks The Rescue and The Dangerous...
March 2009
3 posts
VIRGINIAAA!!!
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!! Alex here, we are in the van driving to Winchester, Virginia for our show tonight! The last few days were surreal, thank you Delaware, you are awesome!! So, we just started tour and we are so stoked, our trailer is completely full, we had to squeeze some stuff in our van so we are all sitting next to each other, it’s cute haha! I hate driving the van and trailer...
Tax returns
Are really confusing. I spent my whole night doing them and my brian hurts 200000000000 papers an no one to tell me what box to fill out. Ughhh. Terrible. At least I’m finished.
This blog is short. If you wanna read more stuff hit up my personal blog prestonrk.Tumblr.com I update it every day and will be posting pictures from our upcoming tour with sparks the rescue and dangerous summer
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Snowed In!!
Happy Tuesday!! Alex here, on behalf of the band I would like to apologize for not updating this blog the past week, let’s just say things have been very crazy here at camp RK but, that’s a good thing right? On Sunday it snowed and it snowed a ton, schools had snow days, some places didn’t even open for business! So, I’m very excited about Friday….I can’t tell...
February 2009
14 posts
Tuesday Shmuesday!
Soooooooo today i am lucky enough to have off work and it feels great. Know what i did today absolutely nothing!! i’ve been loving every second of it. I’ve been eatin food and i actually did alittle drawing its been awhile i originally was going to go to art school after high school. It feels nice to pic up a pencil and draw again im actually trying out a design for a possible rk...
It's a wrap!!!
It’s Sunday Funday!!! haha, not really! Today is my day to rest, it felt so good to sleep in, no alarm to wake me up. On Friday and Saturday we shot a music video for our single “Be My Runaway” with producer Ryan Mast and we had so much fun, his crew was awesome and he was really easy to work with so when we finally called it a wrap last night it was weird. When you spend your...
Short and Sweet
Todays update from me will be a short one. I got some procedure done at the denist today and im all numb and out of it. I hate the denist i always feel weird there and something about people jabbing around in my mouth with those tools just really bothers me. We have practice tonight. Should be a good time. We’re working on some new music which always excites me and also working on improving...
zonked out!!
so i have been super tired lately. driving to the city to see my friends and not coming home till 5am. its starting to catch up to me. but anyways i came home from work yesterday at about 5. i slept till 10 this morning. i feel so weird now i kept waking up and look at the clock and it would feel like 15 min went by but really like 3 hours. i really should get some good sleep.
tours coming up...
My Birthday, Friday 13th, & Valentine's Day!
Hiiiiiiiiii!!! what is up? today is Friday the 13th and I’m just waiting for bad luck to happen! don’t you? who’s going to see the new movie with Jason tonight? I totally am, I’ve been so stoked ever since I’ve seen the trailers for it! Yesterday was my birthday, thank you all for leaving me comments on the band’s myspace and my personal page, I love you all so...
supppp
rick here, im just hanging out at home watching some tv, prolly gonna watch donnie darko in a few after i get away from my computer, the world wide web is too addicting haha, i just browse like crazy. anyways, its been quite boring having the month of february off. i just wannna be playing shows, i cant wait to get back on the road and get to the west coast, woooo! hope every one can come out to...
Oh wed nights
So were on our way to practice its gonna be a late night.! And i have to be up at 8 am to go to the dmv its gonna be the worst day ever no matter where you live why does it always seem like the dmv is always busy and no one knows whats going on oh boy wish me luck. Probably pulling a all nighter tonight
Mattyf
Crazy People! and Blink 182!
Ok so i have 2 things to talk about. So as some of you have heard me mention before when im not working in the band my job in the “real world” is delvering food. So sunday night im working. Im driving heading to a house to deliver food jammin out to some New Found Glory having a ball by myself haha. Some truck comes up behind me and is riding inches away from me. So after a bit i brake...
party party party
Had a work party last night. so much fun. we got to hang out with all the store in our area. i love all those people. really rad night. im about to step out the door to go to work but i wanted to let everyone know i have my own personal blog that i post pictures of us on the road and just random stuff that happens to me. its prestonrk.tumblr.com. go check it out and follow me. i try to update it...
February Shmebruary
Snap! it’s already February 7th! time is just flying by! This morning I woke up and I looked at my phone and all my contacts were gone, I freaked out! I mean, seriously, imagine waking up and realizing all of your phone numbers are gone, it’s just a nightmare. I called T-Mobile right away and they said since Google is gearing up for their new over the air update they are reseting all...
wanna do karate in the garage!?
haha, gotta love Step Brothers, just got done watching some of it on my laptop, what a great movie! so this week has been kinda crazy, with all this snow and all, im actually sick of this cold weather. i just wanna wear flip flops again, and wear t shirts, i hate the fact that i have to start my car and warm it up! and then wear a million layers just to stay warm. not fun. but yeah, this weekend...
Pretty fly for a rabbi
Wuzzup yaaallll,
Not much goin on right now as you could have guessed ive been playin video games alot. Thats what i do when im home. How bout the superbowl pretty
exciting my fam lived in pittsburgh for a long time so
they were all superpumped fr
the steelers winning.. Not sure
what else is up i wish it would
snow alot or not at all what a
tease mother nature is haha.
Well later...
Snow Thanks, Snow Time!
Sooooo today its snowing quite a bit and I deliver pizza, now you would think on a day like today people would tip you well because im driving around in the snow. Buuuuuut Noooooooo! people are actually meaner. Unbelievable haha. I then proceeded after work to drive to my friends apartment and i come to find that roadways arent even plowed or salted. it was a pretty much like amusement park ride...
Pt. Pleasant, Superbowl, Bamboozle Left, and muddy...
That title right there sums up my last few days! Let’s see, we just played a sweet show @ the Pt. Pleasant Elks in Pt. Pleasant, NJ this past Saturday and it was surreal, all of you that came out sure as hell gave me a night I won’t forget. After we played, Matty F and I talked about how sometimes we couldn’t hear each other sing because you were all singing at the top of your...
January 2009
11 posts
hey!
hey guys, its beeen a while since my last post on here, we have beeen real busy with tour and since we got home this week ive been working like crazy, and im sure the other dudes have been too. but anyways, speaking of the tour, it was sweeeeet! the other bands we toured with, Love and Reverie, and A Bird A Sparrow, are the coolest dudes around. our week was filled with movie quotes from step...
We are in Connecticut!
Hey! how is everyone doing? Alex here, I would like to apologize on behalf of the band about the slow updates on here. We have been out on the road and things have been hectic! we’ve been recording a lot of footage on our video camera so we can post video blogs more often! You can check our latest one on @ myspace.com/racingkites. Let’s see, tour has been rad, we’ve been playing...
My Bloody Valentine/Mall Cop!
Heyyyyyyy! I’m so excited to get back on the road and see all of your beautiful faces so make sure you come out and hang out! Last night I went to see a special advanced screening of My Bloody Valentine in 3D! the glasses they give you are so hip and you’re supposed to recycle them after the movie but I kept my for memory…I know, I’m lame! The movie was pretty good, the 3D...
tour soon!
sooooo…. its almost the weekend, which means tour!!! =]
cant wait! its been a while since we played shows, and im excited, even tho its kind of short, its still gonna be a whole lot of fun, it always is. i hope everyone can come hang out at our Hot Topic in store acoustic performance, theres no reason not to come, its free and its at the mall! you can have the best of both worlds, you can...
Today I.........
taped a dollar bill to a piece of fishing line and i put it in the hallway of our mall. it was funny. i did it to an old lady and she freaked out i thought she was gonna have a heart attack. I guess no one had ever pulled a prank on her like that haha. Imagine if you saw a dollar bill sitting on the ground and then it just moved every time you tried to pick it up. i was nice though and i gave her...
TGIF!
TGIF! here comes the weekend!!!! Yesterday we moved into our new practice space, I’m stoked, it’s cheaper and we get to practice whenever we want for however long we want, it’s pretty sweet!!! A big thank you to Rick’s dad for letting us crash his work space. We filmed the move and you can check out the whole entire thing on our youtube channel @...
the belated blogger
sorry guys! yesterday was a super busy day for me, it seems that my blog day is always on our band practice day, on top of that I had to be up for work at 6:30am! then after work I had to replace the wheel bearings in our trailer AGAIN. the last time I did it I didn’t get a chance to grease it so on the way back from our Delaware show at the grange me and alex almost died and we didn’t...
Suup
I never know what to write, but ive been doin the same thing as i always do. Ive been out of touch lately and keeping to myself. Anyone seen any good movies lately? Im really interested in seeing the new adam sandler movie or jim carrey movie have you seen them?were they good? Let me know maybe see ya on the road next week hope 09 is Ofine so far.. Little rhyme for ya. Later!
Mattyf
Tour!
So basically I’m excited to get back on the road. I miss playing shows, I miss being in a different state everyday and I miss meeting new people and seeing old friends we”ve made. We hit the road in a week or 2 for 5 days with Love and Reverie and A Bird A Sparrow. Should be a good time so check out the dates and if we are coming near you, you better come hang out! We’re playing...
LiveSTRONG
Happy New Year!!! It’s 2009! damn, time is flying by!! How did you celebrate the new year? I’ve already heard tons of stories about how my friends drank till they puked haha! I decided to spend time with my mom and two sisters this year. Last year I went to some random party with some friends, got completely wasted and threw up all over the front lawn of someone’s house, it...
happy new year!
helloooo, hope everyone had a good new year! i know i did, i had a lot of fun with my friends, what did you guys do for new years? sooo yeah im pretty psyched for this year, i feel like a lot of good things are going to come for us. i cant wait to get on the road and tour, feels like its been forever. i think we’re going to be hitting up the west coast, soo for those of you always asking for...
December 2008
17 posts
Word Life!
WAAAAAAAZZZZ UUUUPPP! hows everyone been? First off i would like to say hope everyone had a good holiday and has a good new year. I had a pretty sweet christmas. I got a car stereo, a gps, and most importantly an xbox 360!!!! shazaam! So now i can shoot zombies on left 4 dead from the comfort of my own home. What more could a young man ask for?! Secondly I would like to thank anyone who has...
Oh the holidays
Christmas is over and I hope you all got what you really wanted!!! I was just really glad I got to spend it with my family. Our new record is out and the response you’ve given us has been fantastic, I’m absolutely stoked! If you don’t own a copy of “Be My Runaway” yet make sure you pick it up on iTunes for only $4.95! What does everyone have planned for New Years? Let...
New CD out tomorrow!!!
WOW! “Be My Runaway” drops tomorrow and I’m beyond excited! I don’t even know how to really explain the feeling but it’s just amazing, I can’t wait for you all to hear it! It comes out tomorrow on all major online stores like iTunes and Amazon and the hard copy’s will be available at our online store and through Smartpunk.com. We released our last full EP...
holler ballers
so im not sure what to update ….
xmas is close so ive done some shopping. im almost done! my older bro is coming into town next week from pittsburgh so that should be awesome i dont get to spend as much time with him as id like to. ive been on this kick where im trying to beat every video game i own haha ive got like a list of about 25 beat right now out of a couple hundred hahahaha call...
MY HOMIESS!
So with it being pretty close to christmas break alot of my good friends whop i don’t get to see very often are now hoem from school or done classes for a good month or so. So past week or so has been good times because I’ve just been hanging out with my close friends. Im sure as to alot of other people friends are important to them, but they are very important to me. If we arent...
Dont tell my boss!!!
First of all if you didnt preorder our cd you still have a chance while supplies last. Im at work till 11pm and i have to keep this short because i am on the clock. But last night was crazy we got locked out of our practice room . It suckkeddd, but lets just say nothing stops RK :-). But anyway we have been practicing a new set for you kids and hope that you all like it. I know I told everyone...
In the studio/music video?
Hey!! What’s happening? I’m here with Rick in the studio getting some things done with Rob. It’s almost 12:30 but it feels like 8 in the morning, I’m not really sure why, I’m just extra tired today. Is everyone excited for the holidays? I hope you all get the presents you want like the new Racing Kites cd right? We wanted to thank all of you for pre-ordering it!...
Rain Rain Go Away!
hey guys, whats goin on! its a terrible day here in jersey, its beeen raining like crazy all day and it hasnt stopped. it would be nice if everyone could just take off and relax when its raining out, cause its never fun having to work out in the rain, or go to class in the pouring raining or actually doing anything. i had to walk my dogs and i even brought an umbrella and when i got back in i was...
Foooood!!
So tonight was a fun little night. I went with some people visit our wonderful Tour Manager Dave at his first night at PF Changs in our area. Im glad he lives near me now so we can hang alot more. If you live near me in PA or delaware you shoudl go visit Dave there. He’s a very entertaining waiter. Food was delcious!! I got the Mongolian Beef soooo good. Its def. my favorite Chinese...
JFKLDJSOFJEIONINSONFKDSJFLD
Wow its terrible getting home at 12 oclock from work and having to go in the next day. Its like you get out the day you have to go back in! So i got home and tried to do a video update because im terrible at spelling and typing and it wouldn’t upload to youtube for like forever. I have really bad luck with computers. So this weekend rick came down and removed our busted wheel from the...
I Met Iron Chef Bobby Flay!!!
I have to admit, I was shocked and couldn’t believe my eyes! Those of you who don’t know much about Chef Bobby Flay here’s some info, he’s a very famous chef that has many popular TV shows on The Food Network (That’s pretty much the only channel I watch). He owns several restaurants and recently opened up a burger joint close to my house called “Bobby’s...
Best/Worst Day
hey hey!
so today is prolly the best/worst day of the week for me. its the best because its band practice day! but the worst bc i have to drive an hour and forty five minutes to practice and an hour and forty five home =[. thats the only down side to having practice, haha. but we have been working on our new material so maybeeeeee you guys will hear some of it at the next shows. we do have...
another post about video games
so im sitting here with bobby and dave and were playing video games big suprise im playing video games. but let me tell you something. last night me dave preston and matt played left 4 dead for 7 and a half hours dtil 9 am trying to beat the no mercy campaign on expert and we finally did it i was the only person who survived to the helicopter lol. we used preston as bait and the other three of us...