John’s Crawlspace

Six showers (and four days) later, I’ve finally washed all the blood off of of my skin. From GWAR, that is. They headlined this years Sounds of the Underground tour… So naturally, they were the last band to play. The first band came on around 2, so we went into The Electric Factory around 1:30 or so – Little did we know, there was no re-entry, so once we had our tickets torn, we couldn’t leave (to drink more while the crappy bands played). To be honest, I’m not a fan of a lot of the bands that were there, so the no re-entry rule definitely sucked. Since we wanted to be as close as possible for Gwar (and a few of the other bands) we were up front the entire time. It was cool as hell to be more or less in the front row for Amon Amarth, The Acacia Strain, and Job For A Cowboy… All three of them put on awesome shows. I used to like Shadows Fall a lot, but over the years my interest in them has faded. It was kinda cool to see them, and they did play a few older songs that I recognized, but I just can’t get into their newer material. Darkest Hour‘s set wasn’t bad, but I never really got into them. Same deal with The Devil Wears Prada. I never liked Everytime I Die, so their set couldn’t have ended faster for me. I’d have to say the worst performance by far belonged to Necro. I have been aware of his music for longer than I’ve known of any of these bands (minus Shadows Fall) and while I was never a huge fan, I didn’t know he would suck this much. In my opinion, this guy is on the same level as Insane Clown Posse, minus the makeup… And if you know how I feel about ICP, that isn’t much of a compliment. He introduced his second or third song as follows, and this is a direct quote: “This next song is called ‘Bury You With Satan’, and if you don’t like it, you’re a fucking faggot”. This dude is 31 years old. People were booing and throwing stuff at him, and he stopped rapping to spit in the face of a kid in the front row that was standing like five feet away from me. I realize I don’t have a whole lot of room to talk here, but this guy’s lyrics are just straight up immature, and his being included on this tour was a pretty bad idea. He tries to appeal to metalheads, but it just doesn’t work out – In one song, he did “shout outs” to Dimebag, Chuck from Death, the dude from Voivod, and a bunch of other dead metal icons. He also asked “who here likes Sepultura?” and after it was clear that the audience did, in fact, like Sepultura, he proceeded to perform his next crappy song which, oddly enough, had absolutely nothing to do with Sepultura. Anyway, I could go on for a while about how much he sucks, but you get the picture. All in all it was a pretty good time, I was exhausted by the end (and soaking wet from all the stuff Gwar shot into the audience) but I definitely don’t regret going… I just wish I could find more places that sell $3 waters, I love that shit.

“Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc.” What’s your Walk Score?

The phone number geolocator is kinda cool, but kinda creepy… You enter the area code and first 3 digits of a phone number, and it provides a graphical representation of (roughly) where that phone number is registered… Or something along those lines. All the numbers I tried were pretty damn accurate.

Aesop Rock’s upcoming release, “None Shall Pass”, has made it’s way onto the web. No surprises there. I preordered this album as soon as I was able to, even though shipping was like $10 or something, and I told myself I wouldn’t listen to it until I got my copy in the mail. So much for that. It sounds great so far, though I’ve only had time to listen to it twice. This is a promo copy (with voice overs) so you should definitely not hesitate to buy the real thing when it comes out, especially since Aesop Rock is an artist worth supporting. I almost feel bad putting this on here… But not bad enough not to do it. Here you go: Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass (Mirror)

3D Mailbox – Talk about taking something simple and making it complicated. I could see downloading this if the only thing you did with your life was check your email… And even then it’s pathetic.

Can you imagine living in a city with so much underground chemical waste that the life expectancy is around 42 years? Check out “The 5 Deadliest Cities In The World”.

I was never really into comic books, but I have some friends that were, so naturally I’ve been in a conversation more than once about “if you could have one super power, what would it be?” If you’ve ever been in a similar conversation (or even if you haven’t, I’m just trying to put this link into context) you have to check these videos out, that stuff is just awesome. And because of video #6, I now need to own a laser that can melt through plastic.

That’s all for now… I’m gonna go make an IED out of a ham sandwich. Read a book!

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