but a fun one at that! :nod::p

Mine was more like something out of a weird movie. :o

oooo...sorry to hear that - hopefully tomorrow is better! a brand new day! :nod:

Well, I got home from Florida and now I'm bored.

Stevie Nicks, the world-renowned Great Sage and Eminent Philosopher, once said, "You can only rock out so much. Then you have to go rest." I personally experienced this universal truth this past Monday evening when my long-awaited Fear Factory show finally arrived and then I spent much of Tuesday lying on the couch, complaining my neck was stiff.

That's the theory I'm going with, anyway. I'd much rather believe that I needed that rest on Tuesday because seeing Fear Factory and the mighty Prong rocked my socks so hard that I, y'know... ended up with some kind of 24 hour, metal-induced form of polio, and not that I'm maybe getting a little too old to bang my head as vigorously as I did in days of future passed (or past, if you're Uncanny like that). Why? Because, like baseball, there's no crying in metal. Ask Tom Araya - you just get a titanium plate installed in your neck, and then you just walk it off, flower.

Anyway, I say all of that just so I can say all of this: the show was frakkin' epic. I love me some Fear Factory like Gene Hoglan, Dino Cazares, and Byron Stroud love cake, and I'm so damn glad to see Dino back in the band, you have no idea - and having the legendary Gene "The Atomic Clock" Hoglan in there now is just gold, y'all.

My ass was front & center, clinging to the security rail like a demented monkey so no one could dislodge me. The set was great, and finally hearing "Self Bias Resistor," one of my long-time theme songs, live was just epic.

I was double lucky, though. Not only did I get to see FF, but I also got to see the mighty Prong on the same night - another band I have loved forever, and you can bet your ass I bounced like an idiot during "Rude Awakening," (like this, :blob1:, only way more metal) because that song is unbearably catchy. AND I got picks from both Tommy Victor and Tony Campos, to add to my Official Collection of Picks What I Have Collected from Various Artists that Use Picks. Score!

Speaking of which - Byron Stroud tried to toss a pick down my shirt, but alas, it bounced off and some doucherocket stole it away from me before I could catch it. So, like...a pox on that guy's house. A really BIG pox. Yea, even unto the seventh generation! That'll fix his little red wagon but good, yo.

Anyway, there were three other bands, too. The first one was some act called The Gorge, who were not exactly bad, I don't think, but I can't tell for sure, because I was completely distracted by the fact that the vocalist had a strange tiny moustache like Cochese from that one Beastie Boys video.

Second band, Thy Will Be Done, were awesome. I talked to the vocalist for a few minutes later in the evening, and he was really sweet. He'd made a nice speech before dedicating a song to Peter Steele, Dio, and Paul Gray of Slipknot, who had died just that morning, so I told him I appreciated that, and he was all adorable about it. Gotta love a cuddly metal dude with epic facial hair.

The other band was Silent Civilian. I had heard Silent Civilian was the new brainchild of Jonny Santos, ex member of Spineshank. I was a big fan of Spineshank back in the day, and they had some great albums. Even got nominated for a Grammy. So I figured, hey, these guys might be good, because Spineshank! Yay! But Santos has apparently decided the right thing to do with his life is to trade making awesome music like that of Spineshank's for...metalcore? Yeah, I don't get it, either.

At any rate, I have to go now. I'm going to blast a Slayer album and see about developing a vaccine for the metal-induced polio thing. After that, just in case, I'm going to see about devising a way to bang my head that involves less in the way of neck injury and more in the way of relaxing Swedish massage and/or soothing acupuncture session.

Perhaps a headbang/Tai Chi hybrid?

Can someone get me Coach from Survivor's number? His hair's kinda long and I know he likes him some Tai Chi. Let's make this happen, people! Vertebrae are at stake! Shake your asses!

Well, I can't sleep (never mind why), so I'm giving Say You Will a second chance. So far, I've found a few songs I quite like:
"Murrow Turning Over In His Grave" (which I rather liked the first time I heard Say You Will)
"Illume" (wasn't sure at first, but I'll say I like it, at least for now)
"Miranda"
"Come" (doesn't sound like loud, annoying noise this time around, fortunately)
"Smile At You"

I've also found some songs I'm confident I won't like anytime soon:
"What's The World Coming To"
"Thrown Down"
"Say You Will"
"Peacekeeper" (I think Lindsey used the same vocal noises on "Gift Of Screws" on this song, except for "GOS" he was screaming... in any case, "GOS" is an awesome song, unlike this one)
"Running Through The Garden"

And there are some songs I just don't know what to make of:
"Red Rover"

So that's just over half of the album. If I stay awake for the whole album (it is almost 4am here at the mo'!) I'll finish my synopsis. Stay tuned! :)

I got me something pretty epic today...

And enough fabric for a full cape and pair of legwarmers. It's gunna be a long night ;)

YAYYYY i'm so glad you like me! LOL why don't you enjoy Red Rover? It's one of my favorites!:shrug:

Agreed! Say You Will is the best Buckingham Nicks album Fleetwood Mac ever recorded :xoxo:

it's my favorite album. Period. Very first CD i ever bought with my own money...i was 7 and a half and so very proud of myself...:D

I love it too.. I think my first album was Demon Days by Gorillaz ... I was 11 I think :shrug:

I'm obsessed with ordering pizza online. Blame my roommate. We obsess over tracking the order, seeing who's making it, getting way too oddly specific about the pizza in ways we'd be too embarrassed to over the phone.

That in mind-- I just placed my first online order with Pizza Hut. Eta is in thirty minutes. I'll let you guys know what's up after delivery.

I'd like some pizza about now. I'm... a bit drunk so it'd probably so me good

Ugh, you should have waited for me :p I'm drinking to The Dance tonight.

I'm really let down with my pizza hut. I went with pepperoni and pineapple. The fine men and women at pizza hut decided that both of those toppings should be baked onto the pizza. Party foul. Pineapple is only good when it's placed raw afterwards :( :distress: :(

IMO, you need a laugh a day, and this should provide it:


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