Chad Bishop Nankervis

Yay! Drums!

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:45:50 GMT

Yay!

Britt brought my cymbals up the other day, and I got my HQ Percussion drums pads today so I finally got to play the drums for a while. I was all excited to play some STG, but there wasn't any on my iPod, so I just played along to some Muse instead.

Yikes it was hot! This is definitely a better workout than the treadmill :)

June Blog

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:23:15 GMT

Chadman's life in June 2008

Welcome Xander!

On June 21st at 8:39am, our son Xander was born! He was 8 pounds and 4 ounces for those out there counting. 21 inches long too. In other words, not small! Mom was happy to get him out. At the risk of sounding like every freaking new parent on the planet, he's the cutest. Unfortunately, he's also the fussiest. And he likes to fuss most between 12 and 4am. Ugh. So much for sleep! Other than that, we're super thankful because mom and baby are both doing great. We have him until October, then life goes back to normal-ish when he starts infant care and we all go back to work. (boooo!)

Check out my photostream if you want to see more pix of the little monster.

Canyon Adventures

Before Xander showed up, I was spending some Sundays up on Angeles Crest Hwy. Someone went down hard on a Ninja 250 and I caught one of the guys at Newk's talking about it.

I also get stuck behind a gixxer that was being driven really slowly and failed to yield. I posted a video of it, and proceeded to get into a flamewar with some guy that acts exactly like I did about 22 years ago (ala: Super Snobby Motorcycle Guy). Check out the comments (be sure and click 'view all comments' at the bottom of the page so you can see them in order) and watch me try and spar with a motorcyclist without being a snobby car guy. w00 fun.

Click here to open the video page.

Hard Core Logo

Since I have lots of time sitting around keeping the little creature from crying his eyes out, I finally watched the movie "Hard Core Logo" that Gab gave me a bit ago. The movie was great, but painfully predictable for me since just about every band I've ever been in or known personally could have been the model for the movie script. It's a tragic tale of a self righteous band's complete implosion. The singer is totally self absorbed and has no real future without his band (but treats them like shit anyway), and the key creative band member is off looking for greener pastures, but doesn't tell the singer. Oh the drama. Anyone who wants to be in a band and see what kind of bullshit they're in for should watch this movie before signing on the dotted line. You've been warned.

Idiot Stare Cover Ruined

Today Blayne dropped the news that NIN and Pete Murphy have releases a cover of The Normal's "Warm Leatherette", which normally would be pretty cool, except that Idiot Stare has already recorded a version of that song, oh, like two years ago, and we we're going to put it on our next CD. Suck. We've been beaten to the punch again. Hopefully Rev-Co won't ruin our cover of Milkshake the same way.

Extreme Reactions to Gas Prices

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:42:27 GMT

My friends at M-Audio are having drastic reactions to the high price of gas. Hucky traded in his new-ish Jeep for a used Mini Cooper, and Marc bought a Honda Ruckus scooter so he wouldn't have to drive his Honda Pilot to work. It'll probably take both of them a while to make up the spent money, but who cares? These are cool toys!

accident on the 210

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:10:02 GMT

accident on the 210, originally uploaded by chadlybishop.

Oops. Someone didn't make it to work the other morning, they flipped their SUV instead. Suckage.

Ducati Desmosedici RR with Race Pipe

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:10:10 GMT

Ducati Desmosedici RR with Race Pipe, originally uploaded by chadlybishop.

Freaking awesome sounding motorcycle.

My Ghetto Neighbor

Sun, 25 May 2008 21:56:44 GMT

Apparently my neighbor thinks we live in North Hollywood, because he's "thrown away" his couch on the sidewalk. The problem is, in the SCV, the homies don't come along and pick it up. It's been there for a week.

For bonus points, note the browning grass (also a plus to beautify the hood) and the for sale sign that, surprisingly, hasn't worked for almost a year.

Chemlab Show

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:58:50 GMT

The Chemlab gig was a great experience. I got to see a lot of great people that I haven't seen in forever, and meet a few new ones as well. Jared and company are all true pros and always great to gig with, as well as being fine humans to boot.

Our show went over fantastically. There was plenty of room up on stage, and after some 1st song issues (we only did a line check before going on), the monitor system was all worked out. The room was packed the whole time, and we even got the pit going with "To The Head". We played "World Destruction" for an encore, and on the very last note of the very last song, my guitar strap broke. It's like it gave its all for the show and broke right on queue. Weird.

Skeleton Key and USSA played between us and Chemlab, and during that time I found myself being chased out of the kitchen while witnessing a requisition of a metal spoon, stack of plastic cups, and a bottle of First Impression cleaner. Then I watched my friend's girlfriends dirty dance with each other. Ahem. We then went on a scavenger hunt for the lyrics to "Suicide Jag", as Jared invited Blayne to join Chemlab on stage later in the night during their set, and Blayne didn't know the words! I even shot the shit with Jared for a while, who was nice enough to remind me that Idiot Stare had played with Chemlab at the Troub last time they were in L.A. - something I had completely wiped from my memory. Doh.

Lots of cool old Coldwave personalities in attendance as well, all of which came up and said "hey". It was certainly a "rock star" night.

So, anyway. Chemlab goes on at some silly time like 1am (too many bands on the bill - and we did our part by playing too long - oops!), and THEY FUCKING BRING IT. Big time. I haven't seen a band own a room like that for a long time. Especially not in Los Angeles and not at one in the morning.

If you were in L.A. last night and didn't make it out, you missed some wikked Coldwave action! :)

I fought the law...and won!

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:09:32 GMT

Way back in February I got a BS ticket for failure to stop in Pasadena. Well, I took the thing to trial by declaration and just today I got the news that my case was dismissed. w00t! I win!

Unhandled OOZE!!

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:31:40 GMT

I completely f*d up and forgot to take any photos of Lars' art...but here's some of OOZE. Many more in the gallery.(WARNING: Many pix of a man with no pants inside).

Here's a movie of Matthew trying to fix his microphone while Omen beats the hell out of things. Good industrial fun!

Shameless Self Promotion

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:39:18 GMT

I've haven't blogged anything in forever and a half. I miss all my STG friends, but Idiot Stare is going bananas right now, so I'm rolling with it. In place of anything useful to say, here's the band's latest newsletter:

IDIOT STARE ANNOUNCES WEST COAST SUMMER TOUR
We are coming to a town near you - check us out!! It will also give you a chance to see The Last Dance and Simple Shelter plus local favorites.

JUNE 15
Trauma
Sacramento, California

JUNE 16
The Green Lantern Bar
San Jose/Mt. View, California

JUNE 17
Fez Ballroom
Portland, Oregon

JUNE 18
El Corazon
(formerly Graceland)
Seattle, Washington

JUNE 30
BOX UNDERGROUND
Antiguo Palacio Jai Alai
Tijuana, Mexico

LIMITED EDITION TOUR T-SHIRTS
Make sure to check us out so you have a chance to get your very own custom-designed limited-edition t-shirt created just for this tour and only available at the shows.

Regular Idiot Stare merch is still available at Cafe Press.

NEW PRESSING OF WELCOME TO BABYLON
Must have for any Idiot Stare fan's collection - this new replicated pressing features an 8-page full color booklet and clear jewel case with full color tray art inside and out and amazing high quality offset print.

Order it now at CD Baby or other outlets like DSBP.

Great reviews of Welcome to Babylon continue to pour in.
Catch them at our blog.

NEW SONGS ON MYSPACE
For a limited time, preview four songs from Welcome to Babylon on the band's MySpace page. "Mainframe God", "Porno", "BabyLAon", and "Ghost".

Click here to go to MySpace.

You can always check up on us at our MYSPACE site and IDIOT STARE.COM to stay on top of what's happening next.

THANK YOU for your ongoing support!!!

See you out there soon!

IDIOT STARE

Please to be checking out the Idiot Stare

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:28:50 GMT

Yay, it's finally out. You can check out the 1st song off the album at our MySpace site, and we have a music video for the 2nd song from the record on YouTube. Please to go and enjoy!!

If you're cool with CD-R's you can go and buy. It'll be on iTunes soon-ish.

IDIOT STARE

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:17:43 GMT

Hi Peeps! I haven't been on here in forever...

IDIOT STARE is (finally!) gearing up to release their 3rd full length studio album, "Welcome to Babylon".

In the next few weeks we'll be previewing selected track on our MySpace page. Add us as your friend so you'll be sure and get the bulletins when the songs are up.

All hail The Rock!

I even have the same forehead!

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 05:19:28 GMT

You're Brian Eno.
You're a little reclusive maybe, a little quieter
than most people...
But man, who needs outside entertainment when your
brain is like KABOOM all the time? You are
innovative, creative, and intelligent. You
dress flamboyantly, gravitating towards large
feathers and tinsel. Everyone respects you, and
looks up to you. We are not worthy, we are not
worthy...

Which rad old school 70's glam icon are you? (with pics)
brought to you by Quizilla

Rotten Records

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:33:07 GMT

So.....

Rotten Records just asked to be STG's friend on MySpace. Hopefully they'll be straight and give up some sales figures. I'd love to know how NLH did over the years...although I'm prepared to be underwhelmed.

A small victory for SATAN!

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:38:41 GMT

I've wanted to do this for sooooooo long...

So, I'm driving home from lunch. It's really hot out and I've got my windows down. Pull up to the stoplight next to some wiggers in an IS300, also with their windows down.

"BOOM uh huh BOOM, ya nigger nigger BOOM, ya, muthafuckers, uh huh, ya niggahhhhhh BOOM BOOM"

OMFG. I've pulled up next to some dorky white kids playing R&B (c)Rap as loud as they can get it. Well. Unfortunately for them, I'm feeling a bit superior because I just happened to have Slayer's War Ensemble playing. **evil grin** Up to 11 it goes! And here's the best part..after about a minutes of suffering thru my unholy musical attack, THEY roll THEIR windows up. SWEEEET!! SATAN WINS!!!!

Burning down the house

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:40:04 GMT

What are the odds of this happening? Sunday afternoon Lynne's Compaq computer monitor decided it had enough of the heat and set itself on fire. Thank God we were home at the time and stopped it before any real damage happened. Everyone who leaves their monitors on 24/7 like we used to might want to reconsider.

So it's gonna be like that eh?

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:10:37 GMT

Ya know, just when you think that there's a freaking Industrial Scene growning in Los Angeles again, you have to hear some news that reminds you that, NO actually, it's just as fucked up as it ever was.

Apparently some FUCKING RETARD is going around town and throwing out our (STG) flyers for the upcoming Bar Sinister gig. WTF?! Are we back in the 80's when hair bands used to pull this kind of bickering bullshit with each other? I thought that all of us in the "scene" had grown up and gotten past this shit. To be honest, this crap NEVER happened back in the 90's when we were all working together. I guess this is what happens when some new people who don't know how to deal with their frustration enter the scene and decide to take their anger out on a BAND instead of fixing their issues with specific individuals.

So, PLEASE, if you know who's doing this, try and talk some reason into them so the scene can continue to grown instead of burn itself out again.

Fucking get over it already.

STG Flyer

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:29:56 GMT

Spread the joy that is internet promotion!

Zen and MotoGP

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:24:40 GMT

Just returned from MotoGP up at Laguna Seca. It was awesome. I forgot how good it is to "be a motorcyclist" even if I don't have a bike right now. It's just such a great culture to be around (although I can only relate to the "park and pose" type in the four wheel world).

Here's a few pix.

My recent return to the drumset has been a great boost to my sense of self, and I think someday owning another 2 wheeler is also necessary to completing the puzzle that is the Chadman. The goal shall be to ride up to next year's MotoGP in July 2006. I'm sure if I budget appropriately, I can still do Z CHAN justice, get some wood flooring and other goodies for the house, and secure a cheap but fun moto by then. I knew I didn't sell my leathers for a reason.

The needs of the many...

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:20:27 GMT

It looks very likely that after a 10 year reprieve, I'll be making my return to the drumset. STG's very awesome drummer Brandon unfortunately cannot make the next few shows, and I'm finding very quickly that I'm the best guy for the job. So, fun as it is to jump and bounce around playing guitar for STG, I think the band needs me more as a stable and reliable rhythm section than 2nd guitarist (STG needs 2 guitars like a hole in the head).

I have about one and a half months to secure a drumset and learn to not suck air after 1/2 song. Luckily I have a good connection with DW, and STG is willing to spend its cash on the cause. That should cover drums, hello treadmill to get me back into drumming shape.

All two of you (Lynne, Larry) who enjoy seeing me play guitar will have to wait until the next istare show - although I plan on putting on as best a show as I can from behind the kit. :)

New STG Music

Sat, 21 May 2005 05:07:01 GMT

Nursing the Dead demo online on the STG MySpace page. First of many to come. For you picky fucks...it's just a demo...so, NO, it's not done yet. Just wanted everyone to know that we're cookin on new stuff and the "reunion" phase is over.

STG - Now With Forums!

Sun, 08 May 2005 21:59:16 GMT

check em and stuff --

http://www.screamingtogod.com/forums/index.php

Big ups to a8 for maken'em happen.

you know you're in the right band when...

Fri, 06 May 2005 16:10:24 GMT

First...a story...

Idiot Stare's "Ghost" got reviewed on a website and we got slammed. It was obvious the little prick who wrote the review was only doing it so he could get free CD's and sell them on eBay (which he did with ours...we saw the listing). SO, i wrote the little fucker an email and started a bitch war with him...cause he was an ass. Then the other members of Idiot Stare (who have more brains and patience than I) told me to cut it out and relax. Bad reviews are just part of the process. So...I grumbled but backed down.

Ok, now to the present:

STG played at club Quarantine a bit ago and some dipshit fucker who has NO idea who we are wrote some snide comments about us in some local rag around here. The good part of this story is that Shane called ME up all bummer and pissed off. "We're gonna kick this guy's ass!".

Yes we are.

I'm in the right band.

Where's my boots?!

This would be me then [bday meaning]

Thu, 05 May 2005 06:17:17 GMT

Your Birthdate: October 16

Your birth on the 16th day of the month gives a sense of loneliness and generally the desire to work alone.

You are relatively inflexible, and insist on your being independent.

You need a good deal of time to rest and to meditate.

You are introspective and a little stubborn.

Because of this, it may not be easy for you to maintain permanent relationships, but you probably will as you are very much into home and family.

This birth day inclines to interests in the technical, the scientific, and to the religious or the unknown realm of spiritual explorations.

The date gives you a tendency to seek unusual approaches and makes your style seem a little different and unique to those around you.

Your intuition is aided by the day of your birth, but most of your actions are bedded in logic, responsibility, and the rational approach.

You may be emotional, but have a hard time expressing these emotions.

Because of this, there may be some difficulty in giving or receiving affection.

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

STG marches on

Wed, 04 May 2005 08:10:50 GMT

Ok...I'm kinda drunk when I write this...but I need to be "in the moment" to capture the thoughts...

Shane and Fin just left after a night of working on new STG shit @ my pad...and I gotta say, it went really well. All the expected STG ingredients are there, but we've also allowed some flavors from Element and Idiot Stare into the new stuff as well. Everything (musically) really has come full circle. It's a great feeling to finally put all the musical eggs in one basket.

(If I may) I gotta say...you fans of Element and Idiot Stare are really in for a treat with this next STG record.

...and shit is just getting started. This is song #1.

Chad Bishop Nankervis

Yay! Drums!

June Blog

Extreme Reactions to Gas Prices

accident on the 210

Ducati Desmosedici RR with Race Pipe

My Ghetto Neighbor

Chemlab Show

I fought the law...and won!

Unhandled OOZE!!

Shameless Self Promotion

Please to be checking out the Idiot Stare

IDIOT STARE

I even have the same forehead!

Rotten Records

A small victory for SATAN!

Burning down the house

So it's gonna be like that eh?

STG Flyer

Zen and MotoGP

The needs of the many...

New STG Music

STG - *Now With Forums!*

you know you're in the right band when...

This would be me then [bday meaning]

STG marches on

STG - Now With Forums!