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Awwww yes....I saw Slayer last night at Promowest (I refuse to call it the LC) and what a good show it was. Needless to say, I can defintely tell I was at a show last night, judging by the way my body feels.

I got to the show towards the end of the opening act, of which I don't even know their name. They were decent....but nothing special. Certainly good considering they were a local band. However, Unearth was to come on after them...and I had never seen Unearth before. I was in for a good surprise...the only thing I had known about Unearth before the show is that my girlfriend Meow slapped one of their members in the face with a piece of ham while backstage several months back when they opened for Slipknot. Needless to say, right when Unearth took the stage was when the crowd seemed to be at its most violent. Maybe its because there wasn't as many people to cram in tight and there was more room for movement...Right when they opened up the crowd erupted and I immediately got tripped up and fell down (the only time I fell the entire show). As I was getting up I managed to catch an elbow right in the left eye...figures that at the moment my hands are down is when a lethal blow comes flying my way. Regardless, I continued on as the impact didn't open up my skin and only left a knot on my eyebrow line. Shortly after that, though, I caught a hefty hook right in the jaw...and this really got my gears going. For the rest of the show I caused quite a fair amount of mayhem and made sure that anyone in my way got pushed right the fuck back...something I know just a few people in the pit didn't expect from me given my size.

Unearth played a good set and I was happy to have had the opportunity to see them. After they left the stage I took the opportunity to walk around and ran into a few people I knew from Columbus and quite a few people I haven't seen in a minute from Dayton. Pretty nice surprise to see people that I used to know back in the day. I got offered the possibility of sitting in a box seat with a great view from my friend Kirsten, but it didn't pan out as the girl who had the spare pass was lost in the crowd downstairs. I made the best of it and busted through the crowd to the middle of the pit when Slayer took the stage. I figured I'd have more fun there anyways. There was certainly more people down in the pit this time, and a lot more shoving involved. I tried to lift this guy up so he could crowd surf but somehow he insisted that I get lifted up instead. It wound up being sort of cool cause people had me by my legs and I lifted straight up like a man levitating out of the pit right in front of Tom Araya. After I got deposited in front of the crowd I calmly walked around and then jumped back in for more where I continued to thrash for a few more songs until I started to get dehydrated. Once this happened, I retreated back to the bar and watched the final 5 songs in relative peace.

I have to say Slayer played a hell of a show and was easily just as good as last time I saw them at the Newport on the Jagermeister tour a few years back. Its funny how much they've regained popularity as the crowd at the Newport was a third of the size of the crowd last night. Other than that, there isn't a whole lot of shows that I'm looking forward to, which is just as good I guess. I'm really trying to focus my time on artwork and music.

Until next time...