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Age of Unenlightenment
A N.C. Baptist minister put up a sign that says the Koran should be flushed. He says: "Where is the desecration of the Quran? Because from the viewpoint of Christ -- the Bible -- 66 books is his revealed word to mankind. Any other book trying to state they are God's revealed message to mankind would be false." Hey dickhead: guess what? You're part of the problem.
Sith Happens
I saw Star Wars today... Brandon has seen it three times so far, and Dwight at least once. I thought it was okay. There sure is a lot of shit flying around all the time, and it jumps around a lot through a convoluted plot, but Yoda was cool. I love watching him kick some ass. Actually, that assessment goes the same for Episode II. I guess I'll always be a LOTR trilogy man, or at the very least, Evil Dead trilogy.
I also finally got Ozzfest tickets and waited so long that lawn was all that was available. I don't know how that works for a "festival" event with multiple stages; maybe the lawn is where the second stage is. That would be cool.
Dark Tranquillity
I've been listening to the new DT album at the gym lately. It's pretty good. The last one, Damage Done, was the first DT I bought and I thought it was kind of hit-and-miss. The production was too samey the whole way through... I'd go back and listen to it again but I think I lost it somewhere. Then I went and bought Haven two weeks ago since it had "The Wonders At Your Feet" on it which I remembered being cool in concert. That song's good and so is the title track, but again, hit and miss. They have a lot of albums though so they can assemble a pretty strong set list.
Gotta tap into that Russian market...
Here's an interesting tidbit from Wikipedia about Yngwie Malmsteen:
Odyssey would be his biggest hit album, mainly because of its first single "Heaven Tonight". Shows in Russia during the Odyssey tour were recorded, and released in 1989 as his fifth album Trial By Fire: Live in Leningrad. Not only was the concert in Leningrad the largest ever concert by a western artist in the Soviet Union, but subsequent Malmsteen record sales in Russia totalled 27 Million. Interestingly that is as many recordings as the Red Hot Chili Peppers had sold in total by 2003, worldwide.
So that's how he can afford all those Ferraris.
No Fannie's
We were supposed to play at Fannie's this Friday with Silver Side, but they had a scheduling problem and had to cancel the show. I guess there was the option of us playing the show, but we'd need to find a band or two to extend the play time to about 4 hours and there wasn't any time to promote. So, no Fannie's.
We also watched the DVD of our last Dream Street show, and decided that we weren't as tight as we thought we were, so now we're really focusing on that in practice. I think yesterday's practice was very productive. Unfortunately, I keep smashing the crap out of my right middle finger with the stick, always in the same place. Ow.
Back in the news
Who thinks Lynndie England looks like a hobbit? Not a Peter Jackson hobbit, but the old animated kind:
 
fat mecca
Now a restaurant is offering a 15 lb hamburger, complete with 10.5 pounds of beef, 25 slices of cheese and a whole head of lettuce. The only person to finish one was a 100 pound girl. I guess now she's 115 pounds.
Photos up
We got the CD from the photographer, and they turned out pretty well. I have stuck them anywhere in the site that seemed reasonable.
Market Fresh Finger Bits
Another opportunistic jerk found something in his sandwich and wants $50k for it. If you're eating off the Arby's Value Menu, expect that there may be foreign objects in your food. It just doesn't correlate that finding something in your lunch should equate to a huge cash payoff. Can you put a price on emotional pain and suffering? No. But if you could, I bet it would be more on the order of a replacement Happy Meal than something exceeding the median annual income of American households. For $50,000 I would gladly eat an entire human head, let alone some little bit of finger that I spat out again. Maybe he should sue them because eating the employee's fingertip made him fat.
weird facial hair decisions
If you're a guy with any combination of the following:
- A soul patch
- A goatee (just the beard part, not a Van Dyke which includes the moustache)
- Sideburns of any unusual length or shape
- A neck beard
- A fu-manchu, pencil moustache or any other strange above-the-nose affectation;
Then you probably look stupider than you think you do.
loudness
Our new song, The Message, is coming together well. I don't think we'll be able to play it at the 30th show though. There are a lot of lyrics and I guess Dwight's part is hard to play and sing at the same time. Speaking of Dwight, he got a new Line 6 head and I gave him a 4x12 cabinet I had, and now he's loud. If we weren't loud before we are now. I started wearing earpugs in practice so I can hear everything better. Scott's working all weekend so there's no practice until Tuesday, then the show's on Saturday. The CD from the photographer has not arrived yet.
Ozzfest Lineup
Wow, how's this for a lineup?
- Black Sabbath
- Iron Maiden (!)
- The Haunted
- In Flames
- Arch Enemy
- Soilwork
- Rob Zombie
- Shadows Fall
- Black Label Society
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