Pretty good weekend. Got alot done today. Did some marketing work, went to the fabric store, rented videos, layed on the couch and read TIME magazine (stories on John Kerry and Michael Moore), went to the grocery store, had an amazing breakfast (fresh spanish breakfast wraps and home fries, courtesy of my roomies boyfriend), vacuumed my floor and that was about it for today. Last night I went to a party a couple of my friends had, it was really great, I got to talk about Design and Typography with a couple of people who are really interested in that sorta thing. You'd be surprised how passionate I can get when I'm talking about type and logo design. I'm like a fucking fascist zealot with that stuff.
So, I think we're gonna kick some music talk in the journal today. I now present:
BuckyKatt666's
TOP TEN SHOWS/CONCERTS
(in no particular order of importance).
1. Nine Inch Nails w/ A Perfect Circle -- Worcester, MA I had been waiting to see this band for six years and they did not dissapoint. I got to finally dance in a slam pit to March of the Pigs, Wish, and Gave-Up. In the middle of the set, three huge fucking LCD screens descended from the lighting rigs and played videos by noted video artist Bill Viola that corresponded with three songs from The Fragile. I swear on my life, that I came almost to the point of tears during the video and performance of The Great Below. APC was uninteresting.
2. Rob Zombie w/Monster Magnet & Fear Factory - Philly, PA For those of you who don't know. I am obsessed with the Zombie, I mean, shit I've got his artwork tattooed on my shoulder and all. This was the first time I saw him (I never got to see White Zombie). It was the first leg of the Hellbilly Deluxe tour. His stage was amazing. Dancing girls, fire, a giant fucking devil, running, screaming, spitting blood. Rob Zombie is fucking amazing. Monster Magnet were of course, awesome. They had strippers come out and dance during Space Lord. Fear Factory were pretty cool too, but I don't really give a shit about them. It was a really rough show. There were metal boys everywhere. For a while it seemed like large men were falling from the sky and landing on my neck.
3. HITS '02, Day 3: Anti-Nowhere League + The Virus w/Wattie Buchan -- Asbury Park, NJ I couldn't afford to go to the first two days. I only went for the third day, because Animal, the singer of The Anti-Nowhere League said I could interview him. So, after hanging out with The League all day, I got to watch their set from backstage. They rocked it hard. REAL HARD. They played this song called Going Down from their Mad Max Post-Apocalyptic Punk phase that totally kicked my ass. After they played I ran to the side stage to catch the Virus with my pal Charlotte. I had never seen them before, and holy fuck did they set that shit on fire. Those reformed Dead Kennedy clowns were playing on the main stage, but all the real punk action was going on this stage. Their was no pit, there was a riot. There was screaming and flailing and boots everywhere, I got hit everywhere... and this was before Wattie Buchan of the Exploited came out to sing I Believe In Anarchy with the band. Wattie has the coolest fucking hair in all of punk rock. I was about six feet away from him earlier when the League were chilling out by the pool and I almost shit myself. Charlotte and I kept hitting each other on the shoulder and giggling like school girls...
4. Clutch -- The Crowbar, State College, PA I caught Clutch for the second time (I've seen them five times total I think, maybe six) right after the release of Pure Rock Fury. If any of you have ever been in The Crowbar, you know what a band of this power can do to a room that small. They played for almost two hours. Fifteen minute drum solo from JP. A glorious night of PURE ROCK FURY and pirate drinking anthems. I spoke with Neil (the singer) earlier in the night regarding how much their new album was better than their last album:
Me: Does it hurt?
Neil: Does what hurt?
Me: Being THAT good?
Neil: No
(Neil pauses thoughtfully)
Neil: But if it did, it would build character.
5. The Damned w/Tsunami Bomb & Tiger Army -- Philly, PA The Damned kicked so much ass that it cannot be describe. Dave Vanian's voice actually gets deeper, richer, and more haunting with age. They did an incredible set that mixed the really early stuff with a healthy does of Machine Gun Etiquette and Grave Disorder. There was a circle pit that was so goddamned big that after you got around two or three times you were ready to die. This was one of those shows where the audience was so into it that the band got more into it, then the audience got more into it, then the band got more into it, and next thing you know, you've got a legendary performance on your hands. We missed most of Tsunami Bomb (shitty, cuz I had been waiting to see them since they played a show pretty much for seven people in PA on one of their first tours -- they were great). Tiger Army played too fast to sound good. I love the bands studio recordings, but they sucked live.
I'll do the bottom 5 next Journal. I gotta eat dinner now, its 11:27pm.
Oh, and I added some pics to the BuckyKatt666's Pics folder.
Have fun kids.
So, I think we're gonna kick some music talk in the journal today. I now present:
BuckyKatt666's
TOP TEN SHOWS/CONCERTS
(in no particular order of importance).
1. Nine Inch Nails w/ A Perfect Circle -- Worcester, MA I had been waiting to see this band for six years and they did not dissapoint. I got to finally dance in a slam pit to March of the Pigs, Wish, and Gave-Up. In the middle of the set, three huge fucking LCD screens descended from the lighting rigs and played videos by noted video artist Bill Viola that corresponded with three songs from The Fragile. I swear on my life, that I came almost to the point of tears during the video and performance of The Great Below. APC was uninteresting.
2. Rob Zombie w/Monster Magnet & Fear Factory - Philly, PA For those of you who don't know. I am obsessed with the Zombie, I mean, shit I've got his artwork tattooed on my shoulder and all. This was the first time I saw him (I never got to see White Zombie). It was the first leg of the Hellbilly Deluxe tour. His stage was amazing. Dancing girls, fire, a giant fucking devil, running, screaming, spitting blood. Rob Zombie is fucking amazing. Monster Magnet were of course, awesome. They had strippers come out and dance during Space Lord. Fear Factory were pretty cool too, but I don't really give a shit about them. It was a really rough show. There were metal boys everywhere. For a while it seemed like large men were falling from the sky and landing on my neck.
3. HITS '02, Day 3: Anti-Nowhere League + The Virus w/Wattie Buchan -- Asbury Park, NJ I couldn't afford to go to the first two days. I only went for the third day, because Animal, the singer of The Anti-Nowhere League said I could interview him. So, after hanging out with The League all day, I got to watch their set from backstage. They rocked it hard. REAL HARD. They played this song called Going Down from their Mad Max Post-Apocalyptic Punk phase that totally kicked my ass. After they played I ran to the side stage to catch the Virus with my pal Charlotte. I had never seen them before, and holy fuck did they set that shit on fire. Those reformed Dead Kennedy clowns were playing on the main stage, but all the real punk action was going on this stage. Their was no pit, there was a riot. There was screaming and flailing and boots everywhere, I got hit everywhere... and this was before Wattie Buchan of the Exploited came out to sing I Believe In Anarchy with the band. Wattie has the coolest fucking hair in all of punk rock. I was about six feet away from him earlier when the League were chilling out by the pool and I almost shit myself. Charlotte and I kept hitting each other on the shoulder and giggling like school girls...
4. Clutch -- The Crowbar, State College, PA I caught Clutch for the second time (I've seen them five times total I think, maybe six) right after the release of Pure Rock Fury. If any of you have ever been in The Crowbar, you know what a band of this power can do to a room that small. They played for almost two hours. Fifteen minute drum solo from JP. A glorious night of PURE ROCK FURY and pirate drinking anthems. I spoke with Neil (the singer) earlier in the night regarding how much their new album was better than their last album:
Me: Does it hurt?
Neil: Does what hurt?
Me: Being THAT good?
Neil: No
(Neil pauses thoughtfully)
Neil: But if it did, it would build character.
5. The Damned w/Tsunami Bomb & Tiger Army -- Philly, PA The Damned kicked so much ass that it cannot be describe. Dave Vanian's voice actually gets deeper, richer, and more haunting with age. They did an incredible set that mixed the really early stuff with a healthy does of Machine Gun Etiquette and Grave Disorder. There was a circle pit that was so goddamned big that after you got around two or three times you were ready to die. This was one of those shows where the audience was so into it that the band got more into it, then the audience got more into it, then the band got more into it, and next thing you know, you've got a legendary performance on your hands. We missed most of Tsunami Bomb (shitty, cuz I had been waiting to see them since they played a show pretty much for seven people in PA on one of their first tours -- they were great). Tiger Army played too fast to sound good. I love the bands studio recordings, but they sucked live.
I'll do the bottom 5 next Journal. I gotta eat dinner now, its 11:27pm.
Oh, and I added some pics to the BuckyKatt666's Pics folder.
Have fun kids.
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I hope you have fun camping. I should be car shopping and begininng to go through the enormous amount of crap I have accumulated after a measly 13 months in my current apartment. Because in two weeks, I start transitioning to my VERY OWN PLACE! YEAH! It's pretty teeny, though, so I need to scale down in order to have room to move around and dance naked and such.