"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!!