Damien asked me to write something poetic given my natural lean towards the dramatic. I've stared at the screen for a good ten minutes and can't seem to think of anything fitting to write. No words to explain this outcome, the sum of all these parts, the empty that now occupies a room on the 12th floor of the music building. All that's left to speak is sad and the only sound left to hear is the thump of my heavy heart bleeding on automatic pilot inside a chest heavy with sighs.

Life has happened at lightning speed and in some cases in debilitating fashion all around us and closely inside our being.

The Outside has come to it's end. After 7 years, Monday and Thursday nights find 4 new hooligans completely free of prior engagements (of The Outside sort). The scoreboard has darkened after a slew of shows, 4 self produced cds, a plethora of songs and a room full of memories. We lived our dream in the shape of a team made of dedicated dreamers. We compromised nothing (sometimes to a fault---fuck yeah). We loved, fought, cried, broke up, got back together, flew planes, fell off stages, did shots of bourbon,  got back together, met each others families, sweated, got escorted off stages, celebrated our personal joys of life and suffered some of it's unfair tragedies, laughed, fought, cried, peed (a lot), drank our weights in alcohol combined, laughed, loved and most importantly created music. We made songs that we enjoyed. Songs that we still listen to. Songs that some of you listen to. It was a journey- the journey we desired to take. The Outside was the life I dreamed of living.

Thank you to everyone who came to shows, drank with us, laughed with us, loved with us, listened to us and inspired us.

We did record a final EP with 4 or 5 of our last songs. Soon there will be a way  to download those...you know so you can sit around listening to them and be dramatic like I have been for the past few weeks (in the same fashion as the past few sentences).

Someone recently asked me how my twenties were. Without hesitation I replied 'they were excellent.' The Outside was a huge part of that response. We love you guys and appreciate everyone who was along with us for the ride.

ol' dirty tree and the boys