to buy or not to buy
By Eric | November 28, 2001 2:38 pm
Seen on slashdot in regards to not buying RIAA CD’s and such:
“[The argument is] If you don’t like the price, don’t buy it. Guess what? If others still spend billions, my voice isn’t heard and the only person who suffers is me, depriving myself of something I want because the cost/value ratio isn’t fair. Not much useful martydom there…”
AMEN to that.
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Pant-hair-a
By Eric | November 26, 2001 11:25 am
Goddamn Adelphia…. powerlink cut out for like 4-5 hours last night…. bastards. (Like I have anything to do, right?) I plowed through George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” (been wanting to read it forever), and watched Detroit Rock City (hey, the digital cable still worked!). Got up early this morning and Dad helped me fix the car (finally stopped the coolant leak, yay!)
Anyway, I’ve seen this before, and just came across it again, and while I like Pantera, this is just too good to pass up…
PANTERA AS A GLAM BAND!!!! [http://www.metal-sludge.com/ExposedPantera.htm] Cowboys from Hell, eh? I personally like the caption from one of the photos, “Phil Anselmo and his Vulgar Display Of Hairspray”… hahah!
Current Mood: A little hungry
song: Tea Party – Lullabye (Live)
shirt: Staind / doll heads
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Cold’s price is right
By Eric | November 24, 2001 12:57 am
Friday, friday, friday…. started out by waking up and getting the errands out of the way, get the money situation settled, paid bills, etc. So with that out of the way, time to hit the streets. Bank, gas, Frisb’s, Tar-ghetto on Elmwood for a camera (beat all the lines too!), and swung by showplace… nothing going on yet, Cold’s bus was there, but that was about it. Hit AMVETS, 50% off everything! Found two books, and then hit the motherload…. A PRICE IS RIGHT BOARD GAME!!! I have no idea if all the pieces are there, but it looked pretty complete! Salvation Army was next, found a really nice Dolphins / Marino jacket pullover thingy for Mary… Had lotsa time to kill, so I headed in the direction of the Boulevard Mall, which was jammed. Toured the mall and all the people shopping, ate lunch, and headed back to Showplace, there were a couple kids there by then, then Joe and Nick showed up, and then Mary. Mini show review… Flaw was actually decent, Dope was suprisingly better than Rochester (they were on the tour after all, musta told Edsel to tone it down), and Cold was okay. The rochester outing was better, even though they played Outerspace and Bizarre this time… took out the rest of the songs from the first album save for Give, and the set was too short. Mini-ruckus at the end of the show with the kids next to us, the fans that “like any band that has guitars in it”. Regardless, the show was okay, and now I’m home and tired. Gotta work on the car tomorrow, I have lights out :(…
Just remember, no matter how hard you try, you can’t look cool playing on a decorated Rubbermaid totebox!
Current Mood: Tired, but feeling okay
Song: Pearl Jam – Footsteps
Shirt: Cold!
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11/23/2001 Cold, Dope, Flaw (Buffalo, NY at Showplace Theater)
By Eric | November 23, 2001 11:59 pm
We had seen two-thirds of this lineup two months prior in Rochester, so there was plenty to compare and contrast between the two shows.
Got in line about 4:00, Joe and Nick showed up, then Mary. Flaw opened, and they weren’t too bad. More of the same nu-metal stuff, with a bit more singing thrown in, it was decent. [Through the Eyes had only been out for about a month, and I don’t think I’d even heard Payback prior to this. I ended up becoming a pretty big Flaw fan subsequent to this!]
Dope was amazingly better than in Rochester, Edsel wasn’t being such a diva, it sounded better too, but alas, you can’t polish a turd. Better than Rochester still wasn’t great. They did You Spin Me, and then Fuck The Police, which seemed a bit inappropriate after the incidents in NYC, and actually, a bunch of white guys singing it just doesn’t cut it.
Cold came out after a delay, and while they sounded okay, the new set wasn’t quite as good as Rochester. They didn’t have their light show, so they put candles down instead. It was alright, but ehh… lights would have been better. (Mary ended up getting one of the candles.) The guys just all kinda stood in one spot, didn’t move or interact too much at all. They opened with Give, then End of the World, first acoustically, then full-on. Confession, Witch, Outerspace (a first for us!), No One, It’s All Good, She Said, and Send In The Clowns followed. The guys took off, then Scooter and Terry came back to do Bleed, which was the best version I’ve heard yet. Then reaching back to the Something Wicked… EP, they played Bizarre! I don’t think ANYONE in the crowd knew the song besides me and Mary, no one was singing as far as I could tell. They closed with Just Got Wicked, and after the set, Mary got a pick from Jeremy, and had a small skirmish trying to get a towel tossed into the crowd with the idiot kids next to us. In all, the show was okay, but I’m putting the Rochester date ahead of this one.
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Just Got Kicked?
By Eric | November 21, 2001 9:34 am
According to various fans in attendance at the Chicago, IL stop of the Cold/Dope Tour last night, Dope were kicked off the bill after clashing over some production issues with Cold. Apparently, Cold frontman Scooter even went so far as to verbally degrade Dope while on stage. No official announcement has been made as of yet.
SWEET! I hate dope, and now I don’t have to worry about humilating the lead singer again, and my RIT hat won’t get touched by such a dirty, dirty man. Ooh, no water spit at me either! Seriously, I’m not surprised, and I’m actually quite glad they’re off the tour, I can’t stand them, they suck, and oh yeah, they suck. Edsel, quit acting like a baby. According to people on the Cold board, one of Cold’s lighting effects was on the stage, “in Edsel’s way”, and he proceeded to pour water into it, then spit water at one of Cold’s lighting techs. He was also bitching about the lights after every song. Scooter found out and proceeded to kick them off the tour. Go Scoot!
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Focus on the Family reviews IOWA
By Eric | November 20, 2001 10:16 am
Focus on the Family reviews IOWA… this is a great read…
Artist: Slipknot
Album: Iowa
Genre: Rock/Metal
Chart Action: This deplorable disc checked in at number 3.
Reviewed By: Bob Waliszewski
Pro-Social Content: None
Objectionable Content: On the title track, the singer murders his girlfriend in a demented act of affection (“I will kill you to love you”). The band screams countless obscenities (the f-word is a favorite) in violent, hate-filled tirades such as “Left Behind,” “My Plague,” “Metabolic,” “I Am Hated” and “Disasterpiece” (which alludes to an act of sexualized homicide too heinous to describe here). Diseased stuff. Nasty threats are joined by a pervasive self-loathing. These guys moan about their pain and invite others to put them out of their misery (“Disasterpiece” says, “Feel like I’m erased, so kill me just in case”). To escape this hellish existence, “Gently” suggests escaping into a drug-induced euphoria. The dark, morbid “New Abortion” paints a bleak picture that invites an entire “exploited” generation to join in the pity party. Why so much despair and a hair-trigger desire to lash out in gruesome ways? Clues can be found on “People=S—” (“I got changed and I’m sittin’ on the side of Satan”), “The Heretic Anthem” (“If you’re 555, then I’m 666”) and “I Am Hated” (“We will not repent–this is our religion”). Clearly motivated by an unholy alliance.
Summary/Advisory: One song states, “I’m teaching your brightest/They’re listening.” Sad, but true. Focus on the Family gets letters from Christian Slipknot fans asking if it’s okay to tune in. The fact that they have to ask is troubling. Even Entertainment Weekly called Slipknot “the sickest of the sick.”
OK granted, he’s not gonna like the album from the get go, but, at least get the lyrics right, they’re printed in the liner notes! But it never seems to fail that these wonderful social watchdogs target bands like this so they can write a scathing self-righteous review. I realize that not everyone likes slipknot, but it could be any band. Next thing you know, clowns and aliens are gonna be evil, so Cold’s gonna get the shit end of the stick next.
On to happier subjects, my DataComm test went very well, and last night amidst packing and cleaning, we hit MacGregors to celebrate Kelley graduating from RIT! Had a fine time, and then brought Mike and Ann back to watch Damon Wayans, which Jeff had also never seen… ain’t that some fraggernarkle bullshit? ::)
The site is going on hiatus for a little while, a mini version will be up while I’m on break, the blog will be up, with maybe 1 or 2 other things… when I get back from break the site should hopefully have a new look!
Current Mood: just woke up, gotta pack some more, gotta look at some Human Factors crap
Song: 40 Below Summer -Falling Down (Spinner.com is cool!)
Shirt: RIT football
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animosity for dino
By Eric | November 15, 2001 1:34 am
Tuesday night was pretty cool. I got out of my DataComm test after a half-hour, so I came back and chilled at home, and unfortunately I had to go back for Human Factors. After getting out of there an hour early, I came back to Dan making Chicken… mmm mmm good! Had a Natty Ice, and then another as I was finishing up my Database lab. Works well! 🙂 Then I popped in a video and stayed up way too late.
Wednesday was a nice leisurely day. Got up late, gave Mary a ride to work, watched a little Price is Right, had a good time in Leg. Process, Database wasn’t too bad, and I ran around at ETC. I came back, we waited for Dan and Scott, and got dinner at Dinosaur BBQ. BBQ beef is the way to go! 🙂 Stopped off to see the fine folks at 1209 Genny, came back, and finished up the last of the IMM project web site, for the last time, go look here: http://www.rit.edu/~ejb0568/imm/project4/6n.html, this last incarnation has embedded video and audio, and animation! Woohoo!
The Cake and Econoline Crush reviews are up in the concert section… Cake was my 100th concert! 🙂 And I picked up the new Sevendust CD “Animosity” yesterday, if you like sevendust, GO GET THIS ALBUM! And if possible, get it at Best Buy so you can get the limited edition two track live CD, with Denial and Angel’s Son recorded in Florida in early October. RAWK!
Current Mood: not really tired, but it’s 1:30am, so its bedtime
song: Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know
shirt: Vanilla Ice – Hard To Swallow Tour 1999
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econoline to erie for cake
By Eric | November 11, 2001 4:10 pm
What a long freakin weekend… and it’s not long as in extra days… long as in long days with little sleep. Wake up friday morning to be at work at 7:30am. Work was fine, same as always. Mary goes to the SG meeting, and then we leave to get her sister Patrice in Erie. Takes a good 2.5 hours to get there, and then turn right around and take another 1.5 hours to get back to Buffalo. We went straight to Niagara Falls to catch the Econoline Crush show (review will be up shortly), then another hour back to Rochester. got back into the apartment to find that the wonder folks at RIT Resnet shut off my ethernet jack, and I can’t find out why until monday. (I love RIT, did I mention that?) Luckily we have a jack in the living room, and a nice long ethernet cable, so I’m back up for the time being, but the website won’t be back for a little bit. Woke up late saturday morning, finished my Legislative Process paper, then took off about 4:30pm for Cornell University in Ithaca for the Cake show [SHOW #100!!!!] (again, review up shortly), which takes two hours each way. Got back late last night, then woke up early this morning to take Trice back to Erie, 2.5 hours each way again. 14 hours and 820 miles of driving later, I’m right back where I started. At least the shows were good, and Trice looked like she had a great time, so it’s all good 🙂
Gotta finish up my DataComm paper, and I’ll be right back on track. 🙂
Current Mood: somewhere this side of exhaused, but no nap for me….
song: Soundgarden – Bleed Together
shirt: Matt Good / Asshole
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11/10/2001 Cake, Rahzel, Spoon (Ithaca, NY at Cornell University – Barton Hall)
By Eric | November 10, 2001 11:59 pm
This was my 100th concert!!!! And what a band to spend it with! We drove down to Ithaca and were one of the first people in line. Aside from the dumbass girl at the gate giving me the wrong side of the ticket stub, I got in pretty easy, and for the first time, I was the *FIRST* person into the venue! We waited around for an hour until Spoon came on, and totally SUCKED. I don’t care for emo, but these guys were just atrocious. A great band for people with ADD, as every song was a minute and a half long, tops. Thank God they only got a half hour to do their schtick and leave. Rahzel was up next. A member of the Roots crew, this guy can do beat box and sing at the same time! His DJ, JS-1, wasn’t doing too much of anything, and Rahzel did all kinds of beatbox and rapping and sound effects and whatnot, and he was damn impressive! 40 minutes later, its Cake time!! They opened with Arco Arena, and second, played (suprisingly!) Sad Songs and Waltzes!! I was riveted from that point on, bouncing around to every song they played. A suprisingly large amount of Motorcade songs, they played a few set songs, then started playing whatever the crowd was yelling for, which ended up being a lot of old stuff! I was yelling for Comanche, which I got, Mary and Trice wanted Stickshifts and Safetybelts, which they also got, among others. In all, they also played (these are out of order, sorry!) Ruby Sees All, Is This Love?, Frank Sinatra, The Distance, Nugget, Never There, Sheep Go To Heaven, Opera Singer, Meanwhile, Rich James…, Comfort Eagle, Love You Madly, and closed the main set with Short Skirt / Long Jacket. Then for the encore we got Italian Leather Sofa, Haze Of Love, and they closed with Jolene. There were singalongs abound, and during Sheep Go To Heaven, John McCrea, the lead singer, pointed out a girl at the barrier, and remarked “Why aren’t you singing? You’re in the front row and you’re not singing? What kind of bullshit is that?”. Needless to say the girl wasn’t happy, but the rest of us got a huge kick out of it! The entire show was a hell of a lot of fun, and measured up to everything I thought a Cake show would be. What better band to bestow upon Woopop’s 100th concert!!
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11/09/2001 Econoline Crush, Mudmen, Lucid (Niagara Falls, NY at Evening Star)
By Eric | November 9, 2001 11:59 pm
We drove down to Erie, PA earlier in the day to pick up Mary’s sister Patrice, and drove right back to Niagara Falls to catch the show. I’d never been to the Evening Star before this, and was pleasantly surprised at the place. I was expecting this hole in the wall shitty-type bar, and while small, it was really clean and the sound was decent. And no barrier!!! We got there and there was no one there except for our crew: Joe, Nick, Janet, Sara, Danielle and Adrienne. This was Lucid’s first show ever, and they sounded pretty good, much like a conglomeration of Creed, Tantric, and Cool For August. Very good stage presence and such for the lead singer considering it was their first show. Mudmen came out, and they have two bagpipe players with them! Its primarily punk rock with bagpipes, but its decent! The bagpipe players were really good, and they utilized them throughout all the songs, not just in spots like Korn. Although the lead singer was definately Italian, they closed with a Irish-like number called “Drink and Fight” that was pretty rowdy. Then it was time for Econoline. Dan was MIA, supposedly he’s sick and we’ll be back, but no one knows for sure. The replacement bass player looked like his little brother, according to Joe its one of Mark’s old bandmates. They played almost the same setlist as at Showplace, expect for the Encore we got TDM, The Devil You Know, Blunt and May I Go, for which Ziggy brought out an acoustic! We were mad close, Trevor touched Mary, and they sounded as good as always. Another fine show by the EC boys, and Patrice had quite the experience for her first real rock concert! Thanks to Adrienne for the pictures!
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