The Farewell Kiss.

I'm sure you all remember this little event in our history, When a shoe was thrown at our last president, George W. Bush. This is an interesting side that all of us should take into account when we view this later in history. Why did he do it. What would compel anyone to do this, to a foreign leader. I think it's probably the funniest thing i've ever seen, and I don't think he was wrong to throw it, but I really think it's interesting as to what it symbolizes. I think when people look back on the presidency of Bush, this event will be very symbolic.

Just when you thought it was safe to let the children out.

HEAVEN AND HELL RELEASES: THE DEVIL YOU KNOW



Holy shit. SO this came out about 2 weeks ago or so, and WOW it's definatly awesome.

Dio era Sabbath was heavy metal at it's finest, but this takes it to a new level of evil. Doom Metal influenced gloomy riff rock like this hasn't been made decently in years. This album reminds me a lot of Candlemass with Dio on vocals. Iommi punches out his always demonic riffs, but none seem to really stand out so far. I've only heard a few songs but the opening of this one, Breaking into Heaven, is pretty metal. So is Atom and Evil, and The Devil You Know. Another awsome one, a little more upbeat, is Turn of the Screw. Every track i've listened to so far screams oldschool badass rock and roll.

I'm definatly getting this album. You should too.

New Guitar? Custom Voyager?

So i've been talking to XX Gutiars out of Belle Plaine, IA. A local custom shop that crafts hand-made guitars. I'm pretty excited, i hope they get my quote back soon. I'm basically making a Kramer Voyager copy with 3 hums, a floyd, and 24 frets. It's going to be an amazing guitar, if I have enough cash. I'm assuming that this place isn't exactly cheap, so who knows at this point.. I'll probably end up modding it out a little myself anyway after they do most of the work. Like i want pointed ends on it opposed to rounded, and i'll have to do the paintjob myself, and I'm not sure about the necks they make or put on it, but I assume they're of decent quality, or they wouldn't be selling them. The paint-job is the only thing i've got left to make up in my mind.

My other option is to get a brand new guitar, I was thinking either a Les Paul or an SG. Les Paul's are expensive but killer, and for the SG i was looking at this G-400 and it looked pretty dece. Depends on the action mostly.. I want a guitar I don't have to do a thing to, Just pick it up and go.

I'm really hoping i'll be able to just custom shop a guitar though, It's too much of a pain to keep looking around for a 88 Kramer Voyager, and everything at guitar center ends up feeling cheap. Used gutiars are nice, but they're not always super reliable.

Sooo, Yeah. I'm not sure what to do yet. I'm really wanting a custom shop voyager though.

Find yourself a girl, and settle down. Live a simple life, in a quiet town.

So the white stripes have been around for a few years but, I decided that I need another blog on here or two, so I'll talk about these dudes. Basically it's the lead dude Jack White, and his ex-wife Meg white. They often say they're bro and sister to shut the media up. ANYHOW, they write basic simple happy classicly influenced rock. They have this level of asthetic that not too many other groups really seem to have. With two people it's not that hard. They have Meg on drums, and Jack rocks the guitar, and keyboards. He's got a very classic rock/ robert plant kinda feel to his voice.



Jack White is also in the Raconteurs, whom have written some cool material, and one of my favorite songs as of late, Steady As She Goes. PERSONALLY i think i liket he Raconteurs more as a band, because they've got a little more to their sound, however the songs aren't always as good as the Stripes, because they're just so damn simple and catchy. So it's really hard to make up my mind here. Does anyone else have this issue?

I dunno, I dig em both.

Which one do you think is better? lemme know.

Keep rockin it.

Forming a new band!

So Sacred kinda fell through the cracks, Not really anyones fault, None of us were super commited, and I never scheduled practices enough. I'm working in a new group though, yet to be named with some kennedy alums, Michael Finley, and Kevin Halbrooks. We're definatly gunna be an Oldschool rock band. Finley is talented in precission playing and articulate leads, where i'm much more show-offy and improved. Definatly two good characteristics. As for our bassist Kevin, he's going to school to learn how to build guitars, and has built his own stuff before. Me and him worked in a group pre-dating my first band with my other bassist Michael Pattison. This group never officially became a band, more just some buddies jammin. As for the drummer, we're possibly going to go with my old vocalist from Sacred, who's been dying to play in a band. Sounds pretty fuckin killer to me.

If not i'm sure we'll find someone. Regardless i'm still friends with everyone from present and past, and I hope theres not any hard feelings. Jammin out with tons of people is always fun, always looking to find the right chemistry.

As for the straight edge show, who knows, Sacred might end up playing that gig, or I might get the new group that spot.

Thinkcrime.

This is not a blog about the actual year of ninteen eighty four, it's about the book/movie called 1984. It's a vision of a man from 1949 of the future. in ninteen eighty four he sees that the world will be under the control of a lovable dictator called Big Brother. Everyone is under the control of the government in an insanly powerful facist dictatorship.

The book has two interesting concepts: The concept of thinkcrime and the concept of doublethink, as well as the modification of the english language to newspeak. They control speech because they hold to the philosphy that if you cannot speak it, then you cannot think it. If you do think it it, you're commiting thinkcrime, and must be fixed. If you hold in two contridicting thoughts at once, seeing that black is white and white is black and finding both are true, and never thinking you knew any different.

I watched the film on youtube, of which two parts I had to see in Italian, because they contained nudity and the thinkcrime of nudity cannot be allowed on the Youtube. Alot of New World Order conspiricies seem to take ideas from this story, and it could be the origins of most of this thought. however if it were really a conpsiracy, wouldn't the conspiritors be controling our thought and access to such material? Is the internet and youtube so free that we are completly free to do anything on it? Some would say yes you can download music illegally, you can steal almost anything digitally, and others would say no, it's all controlled by the system's super computer.

The other creepy thing is that technology is slowly getting closer and closer to that of 1984, where everyone can be monitored, such as with cellphones being tracked by law enforcment, cameras on stoplights and places of buisness, slowly they are installing a system that is not radically different from this film, and it's rather freaky.

The wars in the film are not much unlike our modern wars which are constantly perpetuated for the right wing think-tank, and the empire building of post-modern America. We cannot seem to keep out of international affairs and always seem to be in a war whenever republicans get in office. I think that watching this film and reading this book are very good ideas for modern americans, because some people honestly need a wakeup call.

And ofcourse there is the always looming fear of 2012 that has been slowly growing fear in the common man.

Another interesting dude, my friend Tamera turned me on to, is this Terrence Mckenna guy, who has many ideas relating to this, including that culture is your operating system

Intersting stuff.. Check it out.

3 INCHES OF BLOOD

Alright mannn You guys love metal as much AS I DO so if you've not heard of these dudes then listen up!



(3 INCHES OF BLOOD comes from Canada aye, which uses the metric system, but obviously 3 cubic centimeters of blood is too long to use so I assume they just said Inches would have a better ring to it :D)

SO when you hear these dudes it's like Judas Priest Painkiller mixxed with even crazier thrash metal shit, and sudden screamo vocals. They have two vocalists, and two shredding guitarists. It sounds like a much heavier version of Maiden from time to time too. I really dig these guys, and had a chance to see them almost at Ozzfest 2007, but we didn't get there early enough and they were pretty much opening the jagermiester stage so we didnt see them. (Yes me and my family went to ozzfest for free in 2007, and it twas metal.)

Check these dudes out, I like this Darkhorse track quite a bit, but there most famous one would have to be THE GOATRIDERS HORDE off the album fire up the blades.