Monday, August 15, 2005

"Summer has come and passed...

...the innocent can never last. Wake me up when September ends."--Green Day


3 things that have given me chills in the past 7 days:

1) "Wake Me Up When September Ends" video...all 7:08 of it....

2) Finding that PERFECT song to open/close a really good compilation cd.

3) Listening to "Fix You" by Coldplay on headphones after seeing the concert....these fucking lyrics are amazing--and they're positive, which is a new thing to popular music....relatively...

When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel soo tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose somethng you can't repalce
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try, you never know
Just what you want
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face and I
Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
and there you have it....go get chills.
be good, or die.
ROCK!

Friday, August 12, 2005

"Your shit's like chocolate cake...

...your ass smells like a rose" exerpt from LOVE DUMP by Static-X


so....

Green Day/Jimmy Eat World 8/10: great show--J.E.W. was a bit thin sounding vocally, but was a good solid set, nonetheless. Green Day: WOW! great set, starting w/ the opening song "American Idiot" which b/c of B.J.'s antics, was a 7min rendition! Great frontman and not just for a few songs, but the entire 2hr set!!! He got the kids going from the first downbeat to the last audible frequency of the set. They played some hits, and some not-hits...."King for a Day" which is always fun, "Knowlege" the OP-Ivy cover they did on Kerplunk! and they picked kids out of the crowd to play the instruments for the last verse...and they played a bunch of stuff from American Idiot....many cellphones/lighters in the dark auditorium for "Wake Me Up When September Ends" and "Blvd. of Broken Dreams"........their final encore song was "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)", so made my way back to the 'VIP' area (free beer and munchies)....if they'd played "Macy's Day Parade" , i'd have stayed.....and did i mention the PYRO?!!!

311--8/11...that looks weird.....what a fun show..and the rain held out! i've come to the conclusion (again) that i need to pick up the middle 3 albums (Soundsystem, Chaos A.D., and Evolver)...i have the first4 albums and the greatest hits, and now the new one Don't Tread on Me which is really fuckng good, though its short--37min....but great....

i'm sleepy....damn tryptohan!!!!

suggested listening:

Trivium "Ascendancy"
Green Day "American Idiot", "Dookie", "Insomniac", "Nimrod", and "Warning"
Jimmy Eat World "Clarity" and "Futures"
311 "Don't Tread on Me"
Tool "Lateralus"
Mastodon "Leviathan"
E.L.O. "All Over the World: The Very Best of E.L.O."
Shout Out Louds "Howl Howl Gaff Gaff"
Rise Against "Siren Song of the Counterculture"--->congrats to them, #1 on Billboard's Top New Artist chart!!!!

ROCK!!

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

"tell me why....

...you feel alright but still I don't" -exerpt from Lombardy St. by Avail

so....
what the hell have i done recently....well....

saturday (aug. 6th) went to my very first OZZFEST up at Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI...

HOT TOPIC/2nd Stage:
..missed a few bands i'd wanted to see (the haunted, black dahlia murder, bury your dead), but caught most of the other ones....

Trivium--fuck me they're AMAZING! lots of energy
A Dozen Furies--they sounded good, i wasn't really paying attention....
Mastodon--these guys are going to rule the world, that's all i've to say....
As I Lay Dying--they're pretty energetic--i was kinda buzzed, but i liked what i saw...
Killswitch Engage--i always love seeing these guys play, the guitarist is a lot of fun....
Rob Zombie--holy buttnugget! A) he looks WAY different, he lost the "al jourgenson-esque" look, and went w/ his own self--major plus. B) how fun--he's super energetic, totally not what i was expecting, i loved it.
*note: all of the above bands, w/ the exception of rob zombie, trivium, and a dozen furies, were seen from the stage BEHIND the band (MAJOR DEVIL HORNS to JASON @ Heavy Hitter, Inc. and his lovely wife--the amazing A.J.--i love those 2!)--what a different perspective, especially for Mastodon, Brann, the drummer is fucking amazing--he's like a heavier-hitting, moderner, bad-asser Neil Peart--and Vinnie was drooling at the technique and precision....he was standing behind the drummer during every band possible, and his favourite was mastodon.

Main Stage:
In Flames--they were okay. i'd seen em open for Soulfly and Slayer a few years ago at the Riviera.
Black Label Society--never seen em--they were pretty good, and Zakk Wylde kicks ass on guitar, there were moments where it seemed a bit self-indulgent, but it still rocked nonetheless.
Shadows Fall--these guys kick fuckin' ass--Brian Fair, the singer, has these amazingly long dreads, and gets up on a block on stage and swings em everywhere...badass *note: i was talkin w/ brent, guitar (stage right) of mastodon, and brian came up--he's not very tall and his dreads are past his knees.
Mudvayne--WOW--lots of energy, not too bad, i needed caffeine at this point, but it was a strong set...the bassist is really fucking good.
Iron (fucking) Maiden: HOLY SKELETON METAL!!! they only played songs from the first 4 albums, and that was fine by me...these guys are amazing, bruce dickinson, the singer, has so much fucking energy, i thought he was gonna jump right into the crowd a few times....and eddie kicks ass!
Black Sabbath: ok, the thought of leaving after a few songs in order to beat traffic HAD indeed crossed my mind, but i'll admit that was definately a premature notion. once they started playing, i was in awe...taken back to my early teens, as an aspiring guitar learner...my first 2 or 3 songs i learned to play all the way thru were "War Pigs" and "Iron Man" and quite possibly "Snowblind"...needless to say Tony Iommi had back then become one of my top 5 guitar heroes...and after seeing them nearly 12years after i first picked up a guitar, i was reminded that he still does reign as one of my top 5 favourite guitarists of all time. SO fluent, SO precise...it was amazing....and OZZY....WOW! Ozzy was not as stuttery and incoherint as he normally seems....he was like a little kid again, running around stage throwing buckets of water on the crowd....waving his arms....at one point he heaved a waterbottle off the stage and it nearly hit me in the head (yes we were that close--thanx to mr DAVE, one of my fantastic bosses--and i happened to be oggling at a female walking past--oops--but you can't blame me, isn't the "SEX" first in the 3 most important things in life? "SEX, DRUGS, and ROCK & ROLL"?!)....
..so all in all, my first Ozzfest was a success, and i'll most likely be going back next year...assuming the bands are ones i'd like to see......tentatively, Vinnie and I are intending on riding our 'hogs' up there (i'm aiming at gettin one come late winter/early spring) and spending the night......

ROCK!!!

next up--Green Day/Jimmy Eat World @ Allstate on WEds (8/10)

some music i've been rockin' to in the past few days:

Mastodon "Leviathan" (currently)
Avail "Over the James"
Green Day "American Idiot"
Air "Virgin Suicides (original motion picture soundtrack)"
The Falcon "God Don't Make No Trash (Up Your Ass With Broken Glass)"
Misfits "Collection I"
Motion City Soundtrack "I Am the Movie" and "Commit This to Memory"
Mudvayne "Lost and Found"
Burn the Priest "Burn the Priest"
Lamb of God "As the Palaces Burn" and "Ashes of the Wake"
Neil Young "greatest hits"
Jeff Buckley "Live Al' Olympia" and "Live at Sine"

that should do it for now......enjoy.


ROCK!

Monday, August 01, 2005

Dr. Feelgood

here's some feelgood lyrics to start your week/august off right:

Take this razor sign your name across my wrist so everyone will know who left me like this.
"A Synonym for Acquisce" by Bayside
Put a pillow over your face, suffocate you, rip into your chest and pull out your heart. To see i you bleed like I do. Tripping over my words, now you're trippin on me. Isn't that funny? Couldn't you just laugh until you choke? I wish you would. And your face could match your eyes, cold and blue and lifeless. How could I ever fall for you?
"Cold And Blue And Lifeless" by Bayside
have a great week. =)