MY TRIP TO ATL AND THE NEW METALLICA!!!
Wow! I was soooo busy yesterday I didn’t have time to blog about my mini vacation to Atlanta! I went down Wednesday night after work and stayed with my friends Kenny and Troy (gotta love sleeper sofas!). When I got there around ten, Troy was already passed out from a hard day (pansy!) and Kenny and I went out to a couple of sports bars where he proceeded to have a few too many beers. Needless to say, getting home was fun being I had no idea where in the hell we were! Friends don’t let friends drive drunk, drunk driving’s bad mm-kay!
Since we got home at, like, four in the morning, Kenny was a little difficult waking up later that morning so we could go to the Georgia Aquarium. I convinced Troy to come along although I still ended up driving, but at least I had a coherent navigator as we made our trek into downtown ATL. The aquarium was really nice, but we were able to cover the whole place and get some overpriced food in about an hour and a half. Not quite worth the nearly $30 admission price, but I’m glad I went anyways. Overpriced but enjoyable if you have the dough to blow!
I took it easy the rest of the day, but spent the day with our mutual friend Paul on Friday while Kenny and Troy were at work. We grabbed some lunch at the Golden Corral in Alpharetta then went to Best Buy so Paul could pick up the new METALLICA cd. While we were there, someone tipped us off that Hot Topic was selling it for only five bucks that day only. Needless to say, we ended up at the North Point Mall to pick up the new cd and take care of some other shopping since we were conveniently at the mall anyways.
We got out to Paul’s car (no, I didn’t have to drive this time!) and popped the new METALLICA disc in at a good, full volume! Wow! It’s the first time I’ve wanted to crank a new METALLICA cd in 20 years! It’s still not quite what they used to be in some ways, but, I gotta say, Lars has really outdone himself with his drumming which is a relief considering the YouTube clip where he can barely keep up the double bass in “One”! The whole album is so much better than “The Day That Never Comes” which I consider to be the weakest track on the album. I will further dissect the new METALLICA in the next issue of The Village Idiot where I now do CD reviews each month (and which would explain why I haven’t done any in a while here in my Twisted Thoughts!). Make sure you grab a copy! It’s FREE!!!!
METALLICA Death Magnetic \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/
That night Kenny, Troy and I went to a surprise birthday party for their bandmate Justin. Kenny, surprisingly, stayed sober that night so I didn’t have to drive! I did, however, do some really crappy driving in the Wii version of MarioKart. The party was held at their friend Andy’s house and he was a wizard at the game taunting his opponents as he whipped our asses.
After the party, Kenny and I met up with a few other friends from the party at the Oasis, a fun little ‘gentleman’s club’ as they like to call them. I still had money left over being I was shacking up at Kenny and Troy’s which was bad because that left me with money for dances. In the words of Forrest Gump, “That’s all I got to say about that”!
I was invited to go to a college football party at Kenny and Troy’s other bandmate Gerr’s house to watch Georgia take on South Carolina. I was already planning on heading to the Mall of Georgia that day while on my way home so I regretfully declined because they were gonna have some good eatin’! I proceeded to head home and stopped by the mall and pretty much spent the rest of my paycheck (which was cool since yesterday was payday!). I picked up a new pair of Chucks, a couple of shirts and a new coffee table book (I’ve been obsessed with those lately!) on roller coasters.
I got home, unpacked and unwound and prepared for my usual Sunday ritual of going to church, visiting my mom and aunt and working on Upstate Unsigned. And, of course, I got my own copy of the new METALLICA disc yesterday so I can fine tune my review!