Shit. I've already used the title "Let's do some shots!" before
Posted October 30, 2007 at 11:46 am by Severed Head
Static-X was awesome last night. One of the opening bands, 3 inches of blood, was also surprisingly good. The band I have to say I hated the crap out of? SHADOWS FALL.
Fuck Shadows Fall. They can go suck a cock.
Anyway, let’s see. First we found out Divine Heresy was cancelled, which was fucking awesome. Means one less shitty band to sit through while we stayed at the front! Then 3 inches of blood came out. And they were pretty good. The singer and one of the guitarists looked like brothers. And at that, mountain men brothers. So you expected the singer to be like growling and shit. But no! He was singing really fucking high! It was crazy! The band was just very likable for some reason. The guitarists did a bunch of harmony stuff. Unfortunately, only a few times was it really cool/something new. Mostly just playing in thirds. Which is still awesome! But nothing too impressive. A few times they got close together and did some shredding parts. Which was awesome. The second guitarist/backup vocals dude looked like my friend Tom, which was awesome. One of the greatest things, as simple as it was, was that they all had long hair! And it’s just so cool when the entire band is banging their head. Also, their drummer? A fucking goddamn mad man! Very fun to watch! In conclusion in one statement thing: Awesome band of long-hairs with great personality and having a great time and who were also VERY tight, as complicated as their music was (think Mastodon).
Next! Shadows Fall came on!… Not a whole lot more to say other than horrible. Seriously. Fuck. Anybody remember the faces Mark makes during Who’s Gonna Train Me, specifically the dodgeball game (the one during the slow motion part)? The singer made this face the entire time! One of the (horrible) guitarists also looked a lot like my friend Dash Mesh. Kind of cool. BUT THEY ALL LOOKED SO FUCKING BORED! Except the singer, who would just throw his fucking disgusting as down-to-the-floor dreads around. And I mean disgusting. One of the dreads was twice as thick as the others and was even longer. It was just so gross. He came up to the front of the audience, stuck his crotch nearly in my face. And it was just annoying. The crowd was full of douche bags, SPECIFICALLY a fat guy behind me, who kept trying to squeeze his way up in front between me and this other dude. Well me and the other dude kept fighting for him not to come in, but eventually he squeezed entire fucking fat body up there. And THEN there was a goddamn clown behind me! A goddamn clown!!!! Fuck clowns! Statistically or not, I just don’ts likes that guy! Anyway, clowns are not metal! We know that trick! Apparently the stupid juggalo was friends with the fat guy because when the juggalo tried getting up front, the fat guy said these exact words “Come on in, buddy!” Then they let a bunch of people up front, and even more when they left after Shadows Fall was on! I mean, I’m really glad they left. But to let every motherfucker in!
Static-X was great though. The sound kind of sucked. For some reason they left the speakers/amps on the side of the stage. That is, on the right and left side, pointing towards the center. Now some of the stuff was on the PA, but that was above our heads and far out to the sides, so we couldn’t hear it! Wayne’s vocals were really hard to hear, and he definitely wasn’t giving it his all last night anyway. At the meet and greet before the show, apparently was really tired and about to fall asleep! You could even tell he was out of it because one of the times when they did some shots (which were real shots this time, not just grape juice like the kind Tripp (the whole band?) used to do!), he was listing all the bands who came out and said “Give it up for Divine Heresy!” Tony told him that they didn’t play today, and Wayne didn’t believe him. So Tony goes “How many of you out there saw Divine Heresy tonight?” Haha. Classic. Wayne was really confused still and was like “Wait, did Divine Heresy really not play tonight?” until a roadie came out and whispered in Wayne’s ear. Anyway, they played a pretty short set. BUT. It was a pretty good one. A lot of old songs. And I got the setlist after the show! Like way after the show! None of the roadies would give it to anyone when we were still inside. So we left. I got a jacket, and we went outside and waited to see if the band would come out. They didn’t. But a roadie randomly came out with the setlist and tried handing it to the two other people waiting when I just grabbed it (not forcefully or anything, mind you). Unfortunately, Forty Ways was crossed out on the list, and I have to admit that’s one of my favorite songs from the new album…. Let’s see. Koichi was spot fucking on tonight! He did a bit of an unassisted guitar solo, and it was quite awesome. Wayne didn’t seem quite as tight as he normally is, but, again, it was really hard to hear his vocals/guitar a lot of the time. Koichi only really stood out during the solos. I think they increased the volume during that part.
OH! AND NICK! Nick is seriously THE most entertaining drummer I have ever seen (no offense, Crumb Bandit)! But if you can find a video of him playing with Static-X, you can tell he always has so much fun. Even during the simple parts, he is kicking ass and doing some weird sort of psychotic man drumming. Even during the simple parts, he makes these wild movements. Seriously one of the greatest drummers to watch live. Definitely has a great time, and that always makes a show good to me, I think. He and I made a lot of eye contact and exchanged odd faces. I did that with each of the band members too. That’s one really cool thing about Static-X. They walk around and interact with a lot of the crowd. I think Koichi recognized Melanie and me. Maybe. Hopefully. Pretty cool though.
Posted October 28, 2007 at 9:27 pm by Crumb Bandit
The more famous I get by doing something, the more likely I want to do it, and sooner. For instance. I want to do a study on sleep, but only when the chance that I get worldwide recognition from it is huge. I want to be in a pop band, but only to sell many records and make it into magazines. Isn’t the mind wonderful? I should not get started on the mind. Who can tell a difference between the mind and the brain? No one. And unless they get famous by discerning those differences, people will not spend the time to do the research. Why do we want to be famous?
Not all the time do we want to be famous. But a lot of times we as humans feel a need to prove ourselves. (Hollywood after efects?)
List of things that make me happy pt. 2
Fun, Fun Facts, Guitar, Life, Limb, Lists, Music, Propaganda, Robots, Website
Posted October 28, 2007 at 10:59 am by Severed Head
I finished this on Friday, less than 12 hours after creating it. I’m sure I’ll add more at some point, but here’s the rest for now:
35. Cousin’s subs
36. Wearing long sleeved shirts
37. Having longer hair than most girls
38. My entire t-shirt collection and all my jackets (Queen jacket! Thanks, Melanie)
39. Burning incense (especially the kind from China my mom got me)
40. Really good sushi (Sakana!)
41.Going to Tokyo Express/Eastwind every Friday with Melanie
42. Having a credit card
43. Getting mail from online shopping, especially when I forget I ordered it
44. Getting more mail than anyone else in the Towers!
45. When a store has sixlets (and I buy them (and I eat them (yum)))
46. Getting A’s on tests into which I had put very little effort (take that, Latin!)
47. Getting my special mixed drink at QT
48. When I listen to an album while driving and it ends right when I get to my location
49. Stephen Colbert
50. The Daily Show (with Jon Stewart, specifically… Fuck Craig Kilborn)
51. Late Night with Conan O’Brien (specifically, The Interrupter or the ghost crooner)
52. Jenna Fischer’s smile
53. Owning a sweet guitar lighter
54. Cooking something really awesome (beef stroganoff, fuck yeah!)
55. When a store has Americone Dream (and I buy it and eat it)
56. When my grandma randomly gives me a package of Pemmican beef jerky
57. All your base are belong to us
58. The feeling when a really big test is over, and you’re free for a while
59. Nice cold coca-cola
60. Combining 2 random soups and having it turn out fucking awesome (yeah, this is a weird one, but try it! Like Beef barley and chicken cream something! FUCKING DELICIOUS)
61. Rolling stuff up (see: Katamari)
62. Flirting it up
63. An awesome sunset
64. Ron Paul signs
65. Kool-aid
66. Chocolate malts!
67. A good game of pool
68. Monopoly (soon to come: METALOPOLY)
69. Lists (you couldn’t tell?)
70. A glass of fine wine/champagne
71. Meteor showers
72. Going for walks late at night by myself
73. Ping pong
74. Owning my awesome car
75. Owning 7 guitars
76. Owning as much music as I do
77. Living with my best friend
78. Verina’s ridiculousness
79. Concept albums
80. Really epic music that sends shivers down my body/gives me goosebumps (Muse, Pink Floyd, Dethklok, Radiohead)
81. Reallly intimate, personal music (ballboy, Pink Floyd again)
82. The times when I get along very well with Hillary (not as often as I’d like)
83. Really sinister sounding music (Local H sometimes, Nick Cave)
84. Bowling
85. Queen!
86. Hanging out with my good pal Melanie
87. Random encounters with old friends
88. Scott Lucas’s voice (Local H)
89. Thom Yorke’s face/smile (Awwww, who’s a cute Thom Yorke?)
90. John McCrea’s attitude (CAKE)
91. The posters on my wall/ceiling
92. Wall of autographed stuff
93. Picture of me meeting Paul Gilbert
94. Robot Attack
95. The rain
96. My rain playlist
97. Going out to dinner
98. Las Vegas, Nevada (not to be confused with Las Vegas, NM)
99. Brownies
100. Seattle
101. Getting a new high score on minesweeper
102. Tara’s sense of humor
103. Getting Peanut Butter Moo’d every single time I go to Jamba Juice
104. Everyone who came to my party! woo hoo!
List of things that make me happy
Posted October 26, 2007 at 11:19 am by Severed Head
On a number of people’s to do before they die lists (particularly on 43 things), they said make a list of 100 things that made them happy. Well I figured it might not be that hard! But then I started thinking, and it is. So here I go… I am just going to keep going, by the way, even if I pass 100. Not sure when I’ll stop, but I guess we’ll see… I’d be cheap to just list all my favorite bands… But I think I might just do that anyway. Haha.
1. Sex
2. Buttsecks memes
3. XKCD
4. Dinosaur comics
5. Totally fucking NAILING a guitar solo
6. Pretty much anything Paul Gilbert does
7. Andrew W.K.! How could this not make one happy?
8. Cats
9. Robot ideas
10. Earthbound
11. Crumb Bandit’s posts on Now More Fun
12. Having the most awesome bed in the world
13. Having a room that is pitch black.
14. ballboy Podcasts
15. English accents
16. Scottish accents (oh, Gordon McIntyre!!)
17. The fact that Gordon McIntyre added me as a friend on last.fm!!!
18. Russian accents
19. Sleeping really well
20. Random people telling me how much they love my hair
21. Halcyon Days (Where Were You Then?) by Local H (Pretty much my favorite song ever, I think)
22. Wearing pants instead of shorts (I would put when I switch from wearing shorts to pants because it feels so damn comfortable, but now I just wear pants all the time)
23. A warm bed on a cold night
24. My collection of Dethklok memorabilia
25. Dethklok
26. Brendon Small
27. Candlelit Bubblebaths
28. Kurt Vonnegut
29. Singing in the car
30. Getting strange looks when I am totally rocking out and banging my head and screaming and air-drumming in the car
31. Achieving lucid dreaming
32. Someone I don’t know complimenting me on my shirt
33. My cologne (Silver Shadow?)/smelling good
34. Owning a badass pedal board
To be continued!
Also, I encourage everyone to start one of these lists… As well as a Things To Do Before I Die list!
Posted October 24, 2007 at 10:26 pm by Crumb Bandit
Here we see a fantastic journey of my meddled mind, wishing for a bit of spending cash, waiting for the day when I start making music again. This is how I feel at the moment.
-Mountain Bike
-New wardrobe
-A place to store my mountain bike
-Electronic drum brain(/sequencer?)
-Recording equipment
-Cologne
On top of all that, I wish to find people who want to create art with me. Metal workers, painters, fabrics, sewists, and so on.
Posted October 24, 2007 at 12:43 pm by Crumb Bandit
This just turned me off of wanting a girlfreind. I didn’t think it could happen.
Read and despair your soul.
Posted October 23, 2007 at 10:16 pm by Crumb Bandit
I am basically paying 7 grand to be on the U of A drumline this year. I am out of state tuition as of now, and I currently have no major. Yea, It is worth it, but only cause my parents are paying for it. I would rather have been in a drum corps, but my work ethic proves me otherwise.
Anyway, we talked about musicality, which in case you didn’t already know, is VERY difficult in the marching medium. It is easy to just play double forte the whole song, but add in a forte piano crescendo and it is like lifting fifty pounds with your wrists.
Once you start to understand what kind of musical phrase you want, you don’t have to worry about accuracy and technicality as much, because it starts to come naturally.
This is what kind of metal band you will see out of my hands if I am ever in one. Not one just of distortion, screaming and booze-blood.
If you happen to know of a band that already sounds like what I am thinking of, let me know.
Awesome thing of the week, Propaganda
Posted October 22, 2007 at 10:40 pm by Severed Head
That’s right! This awesome thing of the week this week is Colbert running for president!
Way to go, Stephen Colbert! While he may not want to actually president, as some reports seem to indicate, I think he should totally change his mind! I think he’s got a much better chance than some of those other candidates out there.
Keep yourselves informed, people! The Stephen Colbert Revolution is upon us!
Fun, Guitar, Life, Limb, Music, Propaganda
Posted October 22, 2007 at 8:59 pm by Severed Head
Posted October 20, 2007 at 10:08 pm by Crumb Bandit
The need for food makes you want to puke. The thought of anything in your mouth makes you want to puke.  You do puke.  You miss all that food that just went down the toilet, or often, on the couch, or your crotch.  One bite to many, and its all back up again. Say goodbye to comfort.  It’s like hiding from the police. You never know when they are going to show up.
Suggestion: Hold back your puke. To do this, simply swallow alot, deep swallows, untill your stomach knows which direction to push food. When you can, open up your lower stomach muscles. This alows the already half digested food to relax, and live a longer life inside of you. This method never failed me yet.