night owls

frigidshortcomings: Still one of my favorite CT bands ever....

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:34:50 -0400

frigidshortcomings:

Still one of my favorite CT bands ever. This song wasn’t on tumblr yet.

"I do not want to live Like my mother and my father did Doing everything for their kid That no one..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:22:58 -0400

“

I do not want to live
Like my mother and my father did
Doing everything for their kid
That no one ever did for them

All is well
All will end well

I can see now
I should have taken my own advice
Every time I came back to life
After having nightmares
Of falling through thin ice

All is well
All will end well

When was the last time you saw
Whatever it was that you swore you saw in me?

I made myself better the day
You left me in a letter and all it said was

Go on
And do
Every single thing
I couldn’t do for you

So if
You’re looking
Backwards
I am
Running faster

Do not waste anymore time

On me

”

- ‘on me’

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 03:32:46 -0400

hingwamoyphotography: Night Owls

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:04:07 -0400

hingwamoyphotography:

Night Owls

"I guess I thought we’d forget all the nights you stayed out past 5:15 kissing the boy with..."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:06:26 -0400

“I guess I thought we’d forget all the nights you stayed out past 5:15 kissing the boy with tattoos who wasn’t me. I guess i’m no longer “fatally yours”, so suggest is you stay away from Connecticut.”

- I Thought We’d Forget - Night Owls

"I hate the way mother always asks about all of my old friends like I know where they went. Where did..."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:01:08 -0400

“I hate the way mother always asks about all of my old friends like I know where they went. Where did you go? Come home.”

- Exit 46

"This is my revenge every morning I wake up with my pockets full of sand and bottle caps."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:59:13 -0400

“This is my revenge every morning I wake up with my pockets full of sand and bottle caps.”

- Revenge & Redemption by Night Owls

"I’ll swim upstream before I let the tides decide for me."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:56:28 -0400

“I’ll swim upstream before I let the tides decide for me.”

- Timothy by Night Owls

A little insight into the inspiration of our song...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:25:07 -0400

A little insight into the inspiration of our song “Timothy”

‘Miss Kim’ Turner Taught Farmington Students About Caring

Kim Turner didn’t have a fancy high-level job. She worked in a middle school cafeteria. All she really had to do was make sure nothing bad happened during lunch.

Hugging the unhuggable, slipping kids candy, chatting with the lonely, counseling young relationships, diffusing impending disaster, remembering names, making every kid feel special — none of that was part of her official job description.

She was a cafeteria monitor. But “Miss Kim” went way above and beyond what was expected. She touched thousands of lives during her 14 years’ working in the Farmington school system.

Two Sundays ago, an estimated 3,000 people came through Farmington High School to grieve as a community for Turner, who died in a car accident on her way to work earlier this month. Some 3,000 ‘tweens, teens, college students and parents — all whose lives had been touched by this one woman with a small job and a gigantic heart.

With a packed gymnasium and a packed auditorium watching the memorial service on a big screen, emotions were on display. Kids openly wept for this cafeteria worker who quietly intervened when a fight in the boys’ bathroom was being cooked up, who consoled a girl whose best friend had just dumped her, who made sure nobody sat alone at lunchtime.

Turner’s humor, individuality and wild enthusiasm made for good copy in memorial speeches written by students and teachers, all of whom were able to inject a little levity into the otherwise melancholy dedications.

But it wasn’t Turner’s obsession with the color purple or her love of Chinese food that made an impact on these young people. It was the fact that she went out of her way to care for people.

Turner attended dances — both at the school and at the town’s community center — with no expectation of being compensated for her time. She just wanted to get to know the kids better and to make sure they were safe. She’d give administrators “the down-low” on a student in trouble or in need of special attention. Because she also had afternoon bus duty at the school, hers was the last friendly face many students saw before heading to a home that might not be as warm as the school cafeteria in the presence of Miss Kim.

Parents tend to fixate on getting their kids into the best college and steering them toward a successful career. It’s the nature of our society and what we value.

But what if we encouraged something more than stellar SAT scores and a high GPA from our kids? What if we spent more energy persuading them to be good people and to help others?

As I walked out of the memorial service with my eighth-grader, both of us dressed in purple in her honor, he announced, “I want to be like Miss Kim when I grow up.”

To have a child who grows up to be as deliberately caring and attentive as Miss Kim should be the greatest success for any parent. Turner has left a community of young people with an inspiration to do more, to be more.

These kids are now changed as a result of this tragic event. They’ve lost a friend, an ally, a confidant. They’ve lost their sunshine.

But with this slap in the face of reality, they’ve gained an appreciation for how amazing one’s life can be — first-class degree or not. And maybe we’ll all experience a shift in priorities.

At the end of your life, which number would you like to be higher: Your SAT score or the number of lives made better by your existence?

Teresa Pelham is a freelance writer from Farmington and a regular contributor to our parenting blog http://www.ctnow.com/mommyminute.

nightowls//arthurhauser

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:34:10 -0400

nightowls//arthurhauser

connecticuthardcore: old gigs believe

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:51:52 -0400

connecticuthardcore:

old gigs

believe

great moments in night owls history

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:49:08 -0400

great moments in night owls history

dave girhl is a real thing.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:47:23 -0400

dave girhl is a real thing.

5 am. Rock n Roll Hotel. Seriously though this was actually the...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:37:36 -0400

5 am. Rock n Roll Hotel. Seriously though this was actually the best. Thanks Sunning xo. Arthur Hauser

best day ever. Midas. Bayshore. The Pits. Arthur Hauser...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:35:20 -0400

best day ever. Midas. Bayshore. The Pits.

Arthur Hauser Photography

Some footage of us recording the new record. xo

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:44:41 -0400

Some footage of us recording the new record. xo

We’ve been hard at work the past few days recording our...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:09:50 -0400

We’ve been hard at work the past few days recording our new six song 7 inch due out this summer. We rented out Silver Bullet Studios for the entire week and we are on schedule to finish up by this weekend. We spent almost an entire year perfecting these songs and the effort has paid off. Melissa recorded all six songs in one day (it blew my fucking mind), Travis & Dan have been absolutely killing it and Chris Teti is proving himself to be the true wizard we all know he would become. Squier is coming in later to polish off the bass parts and we begin tracking vocals in the morning.

The past year has been a very rough time on the band and I could sit here and blame it on bad luck or make (legitimate) excuses as to why we missed out on a lot of shows we were booked for but the bottom line is that this is a new era of Night Owls and will not be a band of excuses. All negativity and frustration regarding the past few horrific months will be filtered into the new record over the next few days.

Thank you for anyone who has ever sang along, helped us put gas in the van, booked us for a show or told a friend about us. From the wildest snow storm CT has ever seen to bankrupting van bills on day 1 of tour to personal obligations to spend time with loved ones in a time of mourning I really want to thank you for your understanding and giving us your unconditional love. We’re booking an extended tour with our boys in Milkshakes for late August and are working on a few weekends in July to hype our release. Our new record, tour planning and release will show Night Owls’ true colors and represent the passion we have to make the full time push as soon as possible. I’m posting a studio update video shortly, email us at nightowlsmusic(at)yahoo(dot)com if you want to have us play your shows and our previous releases are streaming on our bandcamp you can reach by clicking the photo above.

-Matt

emilyfoxtrot: I want to drive and never come home. I want to...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:09:10 -0400

emilyfoxtrot:

I want to drive and never come home.
I want to lie and never be known as a liar as a thief as a man who just grits his teeth through a forty hour week.

Video

Mon, 27 May 2013 02:03:48 -0400

Photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:59:45 -0400