Saturday, January 17, 2009

cradle of filth

We went and saw cradle of filth

Its a black metal goth band that we saw at Ozzfest a few years back and loved. They are also played on XM radio a bit and we were kinda psyched to go see them , enough to drive to the Paladium in Worcester.

Now , I`ve always known that the majority of young adults in Worcester are drunken idiots , I still am always surprised at their proliferance , year after year , churning out new ones to mingle with the older drunken idiots generally found in Worcester. This show was especially filled with a multi-variety of drunken , stumbling , slurring morons. Not that we are unused to seeing a few at the many concerts we`ve been in , it just seems there are always so much more of them here , and so much drunker . There was just one such punk , who while we watched the concert from a raised platform toward the back , sat at loris feet , and promptly puked on himself.
After his escort we went on to enjoy the show until .....

They were these 3 incredibly moronic fans hovering behind us. More moronic than the usual fare. These 3 all shared the same brain cell and weren`t even bright enough to know they should fight for it. Our ape ancestors would be ashamed to call them biolgoically superior descendants. One gets used to a few yells , and hell yeahs at concerts ....after a few of those , you kinda tune it out and go enjoy the show. But it was difficult to ignore their horrifically ignorant , or obvious , or moronic remarks screamed at the top of their lungs. To give the exact details of these utterances would probably do you damage so I shall spare of such horror , but you must understand my point. I cannot begin to explain the unintelligible conversations they were having with eachother ...Looking at them did not dispel the perception one iota , they were fat , open mouthed breathing , drippy lipped slurring and seemed to be semi-retarded ...actually thats an insult to the mentally challenged. They were DUMB> Really , really dumb .... Have I made my point ridiculously clear. Well , If THEY read this rant , it would not penetrate their minds as to how dumb I proclaim them to be.

Sorry , I might have gone a little overboard on that little shpiel , HELL NO I DIDN`T..

Anyway , the show was good but not great. The sound was so-so and the lead singers mic was just not loud enough .. you couldn`t hear his yells and growls and the keyboard chics haunting voice didn`t sound as good live .... There wasn`t much theatrics like the ozzfest show which had half-naked hotty chics climbing 15 foot curtains and doing kinda strip pole stunts with them. They did have really sick looking videos and artwork depicting all sorts of depraved acts upon the curtain screen behind the band. We apparently most like their newer stuff that has more baroque orchestral sounds and keyboard with the chic backup singing to go along with the crunchy ....

Monday, January 12, 2009

First Ski weekend of the year

Feel free not to read the following because it is not interesting but I felt I must journal this episode as to remember it in the future.

Went to Stratton Mountain ,vt for the weekend and stayed at the inn on the mountain. Planned on Lori to take ski lessons but we didn`t make it in time coz it takes over an hour to get rentals ...sux
I had a relatively nice day of skiing despite the frigid temps , except towards the last hour plus of trying to get off one side of the mountain back to the main lodge , only to find myself back on a trail leading to that same wrong side of the mountain. With no exaggeration , I spent 1 hour out of 1 hour and 7 minutes either on a lift in 17 degrees weather or on a quad burning connector green trail ,skate-skiing so as to avoid an absolute standstill...
We also wimped out on the x-country ski lessons I planned on , sunday , as it was snowing and windy , and my all wheel drive subaru almost didn`t make it out of the inn`s parking lot. Took three attempts to get up the icy hill... We ended up doing some snow shoeing instead at Fort Dummer state park in brattleboro , vt and had a nice lunch in greenfield , mass ...a quaint college town that may or may not have a college.
We even hit the gym that sunday evening when we got home , and I did 24 laps in the pool (brando told me I should swim and he was right) which is probably the most swimming i`ve done since I was a kid (I passed a lifeguard test as a young punk but never bothered lifeguard-ering) - So despite not eating all that wonderful (we did pack some good for us food but had difficulty with dinner options) I lost another pound ... I`m officially 5 pounds lighter than when we started dieting , Jan 5th. Lori , complainedly , only managed to avoid gaining weight over the weekend weighing in at .......____(yeah right , she`d kill me)

Saturday, January 03, 2009

Fat til the Fifth !!!

Lori and I during the holidays have decided that we werent going to make our selves crazy worrying about calorie intake. We have been going to the gym relatively regularly , but have not been eating consistently well. So , Lori came up with FAT TIL CHRISTMAS !!! Woohoo , all worries are tossed out the window , anytime we considered skipping ...say ...french fries with a burger we yell Fat til Christmas , and doggone it ...order them damn fries.
Its such a liberating feeling to relieve oneself of the guilt associated with naughty food choices. Simply exclaim our Mantra , sometimes very loudly and in a high pitched voice , FAT TIL XMAS !!!! and order away , or submerge it in oil , or bathe it in butter , or smother it with sausage gravey ... woohooo Fat til hmmmm.....
We realized that it is still holiday season after xmas , after all Lori and I are off work most of new years week... fat til xmas will not work. There is still a week of holiday before the obligatory new years resolutions. Aha !!!
FAT TIL NEW YEARS !!! - heee haww !!!
And Fat til new years became the new thought of the day , the new style , the new fit (or not so fit). Fat til New Years lasted until ...about ....New Years.
Now.... Hungover , with more Vacation time til we have to get back to full work weeks ,starting on Monday , Jan 5th....We realized that another change must be implemented , one that truly fulfils our goals and expresses our deepest feelings. .
FAT TIL THE FIFTH --- Yes , thats it , we do not need to deny ourselves in the face of a FAT breakfast following a night of drinking. AFter all , how can one diet when hung over. Need to eat those queasies away. So Fat til the fifth it is.
We did consider FAT til February but felt that may be pushing it. As it is ,it is feasible that we will for all that be Fat til February despite our fortuitous attempts of
de-fat-ifying from the Fifth Forward.