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Hi, My name is Aleera and you are reading my official blog so GIVE IT UP! AND GIVE THE MUTHA-F*KIN BASSIST SOME!

CURRENT LOCATION: Sydney, Australia
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I just thought that I'd let you all know that I have officially quit smoking. Yeah, I know that you are all thinking, "Aleera Paulsen quite smoking? She can't be serious." Well, I am. Cigarettes are an awful thing and I decided to make my life better by stopping.

Days without smoking : 27
Days since last temptation to smoke: 16
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Well, I'd like to say that the Far Cry From Fearless album is turning out really well in my opinion. There's not really much that I can really say about it at this point. We've finished writing the songs and we are around a quarter of the way through the recording process. However, one thing that I can say about it is that it is a lot darker than I initially thought that it would be. I knew that during the writing process, there would be things that had remained unsaid over the years that were finally going to be brought to light and I knew that this whole album for us as a band, was going to be about facing our demons. It was about finally addressing the 500 pound hairy gorilla in the room that none of us really wanted to talk about. For me especially, the making of this album was about facing the things that have held me captive for years. One of the things that I wrote about on this album is my parents dying in that car crash when I was 12. That was probably would have been the single hardest song I've ever had to write, but it wasn't.... because I knew that Michele, Nate, Jason, and Harley would be there for me 100%. When we first announced the title of the album was to be, Retaliation, I wasn't in love with the idea of having that as the album title. My thought was: "We're not in fight with another band. Why the hell would that even remotely seem like a good title of the album to the rest of the band?" But now I can finally see that we're not fighting the world around us. We're fighting the things within us that have controlled us for years. The things that make us feel like captives in our own skins. That's what I have to say about the FCFF album.
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However, I do have a lot to say about the Red Ringed Revolvers album. Natalie and I are in Sydney, Australia looking for inspiration. As awesome as Australia is, it sucks when it comes to having inspiration for writing songs. Partially because we have no idea what kind of sound we want for the new album. We are thinking we could combine a Los Camposinos! sound with a Le Butcherettes  kinda sound and it would sound really good. Red Ringed Revolvers writing sessions are when I can unleash my inner indie and inner garage rock. On our first album, we drew a lot of influence from The Velvet Underground, The Strokes. Our second album was inspired by The Killers, The Libertines, and I guess The Swell Season. For the third album,  I would like to see us lean more towards and indie/garage rock sound like the Strokes' first album or the Le Butcherretes album that I just got. I think it's called Sin Sin Sin. No one would ever expect ME to be into all the indie music that I am. I've probably stolen a days worth of Daytrotter Sessions off of Nate's computer.  I also read my co-worker, Drew's blog a lot. He has a massive craving for everything indie and his blog can be found here:

Drew's Blog

One band that he SHOULD do an article on is Le Butcherettes. I emailed him about it.

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My, my, this is turning out to be quite a long update. While I'm at it, I might as well announce right here and right now that I am currently working on a solo album. I haven't picked a title yet, mainly because I'm really bad at naming things. That's not a joke. I really am. The songs are turning out great though. The only one that I'm having a lot of trouble involves me playing the role of a whole orchestra. I have 90 sheets of staff paper that I used for that song. I had Harley and Michele and Savannah help me make sure it all sounded good after I had written it. But let me tell you.... it's not easy for one person to be a whole orchestra. The solo album is going to be a studio only project. I'm not going to play solo shows or anything. That would cause a lot of problems with Far Cry From Fearless. As I understand it, Nate is also working on a solo album and he is doing some pretty complex stuff on his. Please don't compare the two. This is my first solo album that I've ever done. Nate's released at least 3 already. I know mine will probably not be as good as his, and I'm asking that no one email me and tell me.

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Well, I love you all!

Ali P


Now Playing: By Your Hand by Los Campesinos!
Currently Reading: Blink by Malcom Gladwell
Enjoying: The light rain in the middle of the night

I'll wait.

Hi, my name is Aleera Lorraine Paulsen and I PLAY DA BASS GEETAR

I've been getting a lot of emails asking what music I listen to. First off, I listen to A LOT of music. I have 4 external hard drives hooked up to the laptop that I uses as my main music base. I'm going to go through the musicians that I love and just to let you know, they're not any particular order (with the exception of ADTR being before FYS)


Vivaldi
Mozart
Handel
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
A Day To Remember
Four Year Strong (2nd Sucks by the way...)
Four Letter Lie
UnderOath
A Kiss For Jersey
We Came As Romans
Fall of Troy
Farewell to Freeway
A Skylit Drive
Parkway Drive
Chunk! No Captain Chunk
Vanna
Saosin
Coheed and Cambria
LoveHateHero
Sky Eats Airplane
Blessthefall
Escape The Fate (with Ronnie Radke)
Evergreen Terrace
Dillenger Escape Plan
Greeley Estates
Secondhand Serenade
Jack Johnson
Jason Mraz
John Butler Trio
Belle & Sebastian
Velvet Underground and Nico
Korn
Slipknot
Stone Sour
Godsmack
Guns N Roses
Led Zeppelin
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Van Halen
The Ramones
The Clash
The Jam
The Sex Pistols
Misfits
Circle Jerks
Rancid
Bad Brains
Dead Kennedys
Minor Threat
Social Distortion
Unwritten Law
Casualties
Black Flag
Anti-Flag
Despised Icon
The A.K.A.s (Are Everywhere)
The Exploited
Poison Girls
Siouxie Sioux and the Banshees
Sublime
Reel Big Fish
Goldfinger
Catch-22
Mighty Mighty Boss Stones
Dance Hall Crashers
Less than Jake
Westbound Train
Big D and the Table Kids
Operation Ivy
Green Day
New Found Glory
Say Anything
Set Your Goals
The Get Up Kids
Lawrence Letterday
Hit The Lights
Jack's Mannequinn
Something Corporate
The Offspring
Blink-182
Story of the Year
Gaslight Anthem
Sum 41
Weezer
The Buzzcocks
The Vines
The Hives
The Strokes
The White Stripes
The Libertines
The Killers
The Fratellis
The Matches
The Kooks
The Audition
The Saboteurs
Kate Nash
Sara Bareilles
She and Him
The Submarines
Paramore
VersaEmerge
Nineteen Ninety-Seven
Violent Femmes
The Tossers
The Pogues
Dropkick Murphys
Flogging Molly
Plain White T's (I really do love these guys)
Fall Out Boy (their older stuff)
Panic(!) At The Disco
Powerspace
Cobra Starship
Gym Class Heroes
Travie McCoy
Mac Miller
Grieves
Ludacris
Yelawolf
Eminem
Notorious B.I.G
Twista
Bad Meets Evil
Tech N9NE
Lil Wayne
T-Pain
T.I.
B.o.B
Tyler The Creator

These are the musicians that I love. Now that I look at the list, I realized that I categorized them into genre.

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FCFF presents RETALIATION
The first album in 4 years.
Check out the interview that Nate and I are about to do on adeninerecords.tumblr.com
IT might be an hour or so before it's posted

I'm going to go to the interview right now. Buh-bye- Aleera

I'll write my songs, they'll sing along and hope time heals everything...

Hi, My name is Aleera Paulsen and I PLAY BASS

I've been ueber busy with everything and I've kinda let my blog whither and die like some science fair project plant that was given no care whatsoever. I promise that I will be better in the future.


I'm updating today because Mr. Drew Smith told Nate I should. Well, how's this for an update?

I've been thinking a lot about things lately. That's what you do when you have absolutely nothing to do and you are confined to a chair. I've been thinking that maybe I might be a little hung up on Nate. I know it's safe to write that here because I know that he won't read my blog. I don't know why I'm still hung up on him. We haven't been together since 2010. I guess it just took me that long for me to find my true feelings towards him. But he's got a girlfriend, and I've got work I always have to do. It just wouldn't work out.


It seems like I'm the only one of my friends that is single. Even Natalie is going out on a date with Taylor this week. I really do suck at being single. I get whistled at bad pickup lines thrown towards me whenever I go anywhere, but that's not what I really want. I want someone who listens, puts up with my hectic schedule and most importantly doesn't see me as just a girl but sees me as someone that they will support no matter what.

I actually won't mind if Nate read this (on his own), but please don't tell him to.

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Far Cry From Fearless is going on a break because some FUCKING DILDOES Wait.. do you add an e when you pluralize dido? Because now it likes like dilDOES. Whatever, anyway, some FUCKING DILDOS had to go and make my best friend, Natalie Neurotoxin who is one of nicest young women in the Lawrence music scene cry for around 12 straight hours. Yeah, that's how much you hurt her. I'm really disappointed in every single one of you.
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To be honest, that's all I've got to say right now.
I'm going to go to Rudy's now. Buh-bye!

Address this letter to Mom and Dad. I know you as a complete unknown

Hi, My Name is Aleera Paulsen and you are reading the official blog of the Far Cry From Fearless/ Red Ringed Revolvers/Sniper Rifles bass guitarist.

I'm going to go ahead and dive right into an extremely deep subject even though this is my very first post. The first topic I want to write about is my parents.They died in a car crash when I was 12 years old. I've never really talked about this to anyone. I guess that a person can only hold onto a burden this big for so long. All I really remember about my parents is that my mother was extremely beautiful and that she had the same greenish eyes as Harley who was only 9 at the time that my parents passed. I don't remember the car crash itself mainly because I wasn't there. I think that I was playing bass when it happened. I got a phone call from my aunt Morgan and she told me that my parents had been in an accident and they hadn't survived. In retrospect, that probably wasn't the best way to phrase things. I mean, I knew about death and I had learned enough about it to know that everyone is bound to die someday. But I never thought that it would happen to anyone that I knew. That was the point where everything in my life changed. I was on my own. Michele, Harley, and I moved in with Jason. Our older sister, Savannah who was 14 at the time decided to move in with Aunt Morgan. I realized that I was going to have to grow up and help raise my younger sister and I also kinda figured that I wasn't going to get help from Savannah or Aunt Morgan. I didn't even think that Michele or Jason would help that much either. I thought that it was going to be just me. But Nate really stepped up and helped me. And even though I had my twin sister and Nate to help me through this whole thing, I still didn't understand why it had happened to us. Was this God's way of getting back at us for being rich and musically talented? I know how stupid that sounds, but for years, that's what I thought. I've never told anyone this either, but every night when I go to sleep, I secretly ask my parents to watch over Michele, Harley, and Savannah. I ask them if we're turning out right. And a lot of times, I ask them to send me some sort of sign to let me know that they are in fact watching over us. I'm not going to say that I don't miss my parents. That would be a flat out lie and one that I couldn't stand to live with. I've actually decided to start writing a song about my parents on Far Cry From Fearless's new album.

Speaking of Far Cry From Fearless, it will be a while before I'm allowed to play again. Nate says that he's not going to let me play for another 2 months. I've decided that I'm going to try to learn to play bass with my toes and see how that goes. I'm going to go ahead and say that it probably won't fill the void that is left by not being able to hold my bass in my hands and play until the carpal tunnel kicks in. I'm sorry about that and I promise to be more careful around amplifiers.

That's all I can really think of. I'd like to thank Nate for actually typing this whole thing out for me and being there for me to lay my head down on while I told him what I wanted him to type.