I am very excited being it is the first day of October, my favorite month of the year!  And it happens to come the day after a very eventful day being yesterday was both the day that Iron Man dropped on DVD and the day of Planet Birthday Bash XII!

I left my apartment yesterday morning and went straight to Best Buy to pick up a copy of their Iron Man Limited Edition DVD Gift Set which came with a collectible bust.  I then got to my office to open my new toy only to find that the bust was busted!  Iron Man lost his head!  Literally!  So I got back into my car, went and found some gas (which is a scarce commodity these days!) and went and exchanged my gift set.  I am proud to say Iron Man is now sitting on my desk with his head intact!

After work, Rebecca and I had to haul ass down to Clemson for our twelfth birthday bash with BUCKCHERRY, SHINEDOWN, SAVING ABEL and local favorites PARMALEE.  Unfortunately, I missed PARMALEE’s set but, thankfully, they are local and they frequent shows in town so I’ll have to make a rain check date!  I made it just in time to catch SAVING ABEL put on a great set followed by SHINEDOWN who has never disappointed me!

Turtle and I had the honor of going onstage to make the last announcements of the evening before BUCKCHERRY took the stage.  It was my first time seeing them so I guess you could say that BUCKCHERRY broke my cherry!  LOL!!!

We actually managed to make it home before midnight (well I did; Rebecca still had to pick up her car and head home from my apartment!) and I anxiously ran in to watch some special features (deleted/extended scenes mostly) on my Iron Man DVD and a few minutes of the movie before having to throw in the towel and hit the sack out of pure exhaustion!  Oh well, there’s still tonight!  It’s not like I haven’t seen the movie all the way through three times already!  Remember, I gave it a perfect score of five rockers!  In case you forgot, here it is again:

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So much happened this weekend so it’s no wonder why it flew by so quickly!  Friday night I went out to The Real Gypsy to see my best friend Kenny’s band MARTIANS SEE RED play since they were in town from Atlanta.  These guys get better every time I see them and this time was no exception by any means.  I was especially floored by their cover of METALLICA’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” - especially considering we used to butcher the song over ten years ago when we were both starting out in our ‘garage’ band FEAR THE GHOST and I was attempting lead vocals!  I have video evidence of this abomination!

After the show, a bunch of us went to seek food at 3 a.m. and ending up at the Waffle House on Roper Mountain Rd just a mile or so down from my apartment.  Kenny and his drummer Troy (who was a roommate of mine for a few years before relocating to Atlanta) both decided to crash at my place since it was so close by.  We got in a little after 4 a.m. and Kenny took the couch while Troy took the futon in the spare bedroom.

We all slept in until well after noon and then they took off for Atlanta since Kenny had to work the next morning.  I pretty much laid low for the rest of the day until Rebecca came over and brought her new rescued dog, a black Great Pyrenees named Atticus.  Yeah, she really is dog crazy!  I was amazed at how well behaved the dog is!  I wish my dog Molly would be!

We put Molly out on my balcony and left Atticus in the living room as we ran to Lowe’s so I could get some carpet to cover the balcony before I get new neighbors downstairs so Molly’s pee doesn’t end up raining down on them!  That may not go over too well with the front office!  We then had some dinner at Red Robin’s and got back in time to catch Turtle usher in the Planet’s new metal show Planet X! 

The show kicked off with some FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH with “The Bleeding” then went into the new MUDVAYNE track followed by some “Cowboys From Hell” by PANTERA!  He also spun some of my old school favorites like “Peace Sells” by MEGADETH, “Dead Skin Mask” by SLAYER and “Madhouse” by ANTHRAX!  Of course, there was also a healthy dose of new metal such as “Forever” by IN THIS MOMENT, “Hearts Burst Into Fire” by BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE and “Two Weeks” by ALL THAT REMAINS!

I had a hard time going straight to bed afterwards since the metal got my blood pumping but I managed to crash within an hour.  I got up at 7:45 a.m. which is extremely early for me being an afternoon DJ and all!  I caught the 8:30 service at church so I could meet my mom and aunt at 10 for our trip to Chimney Rock, NC.  We stopped and got some late breakfast and got to Chimney Rock right around noon and spent a few hours taking in the view….and the gift shops!

On the way back, we stopped at Grandad’s Apples to visit the llama (yes, they have a llama!) and get some homemade jams and jellies.  I picked up a jar of apple jelly and a jar of blueberry jam which is flippin’ awesome!  PB&J’s anyone?

Well, now the weekend is pretty much over as I will be taking to the airwaves tonight at 11 for Upstate Unsigned with Donnie from WHISKEY MOUNTAIN MACHINE in studio!  See ya there!

You know, I’m really not sure what happened to my weekend!  All I know is that I kept going all weekend yet I have nothing much to speak of except for yesterday.

Friday I had my best friend Kenny, who was in town from Atlanta for a couple of days, take me to pick up my car from Big O Dodge after getting the front windshield molding reset.  We hung out for a few as he was heading out to meet more friends at Gottrocks and I was heading over to Mikey’s new apartment where he was having a birthday party for his new lady friend, Kelly.  After only two hours or so, the cops came out because of noise complaints so the party disbursed with some going out to another party while Mikey, Kelly and others headed to Gottrocks.  I would have loved to have gone and hung out with Kenny some more since I rarely get to see him, but I was beat so I went home and passed out shortly after midnight.

I didn’t see the light of day until damn near noon Saturday!  I then came to the station to work on the local show while I was on the air.  Afterwards, I went to Beacon Ridge, the apartment complex Rebecca works at to do a little swimming with her co-workers and scarf down some grilled hot dogs!  We parted ways to change into dry clothes and then Becca came over to my apartment and we watched We Own the Night with Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg.  As I expected, it was a great movie with a lot of tense moments and some partial nudity from the lovely Eva Mendes!

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Yesterday, my cousin Ray and his wife Erin had a baby shower for their soon-to-be firstborn son.  Family and friends were out in droves!  I hung out and had some finger sandwiches, fruit, cake and punch - the only justifiable parts for a guy like me to show up to such events!  I then had to take off and head to Spindale, NC and host Sunday Night Live at the Foundation Performing Arts Center with Christian rockers DISCIPLE.  Before introducing the band, I sat in the back of the auditorium watching skits and commercial parodies while waiting to go backstage.  When intermission came, I got a call from Kris, one of the singers from my old band DEAD AT DAWN.  I answered and he asked where I was so I told him I was at the DISCIPLE show in NC to which he replied, “I know, but where are you?”.  At this point it dawned on me that he was there so we played Where’s Waldo for a few minutes until we found each other.  Shannon, the drummer from DEAD AT DAWN was with him as well being the two work together at Coca-Cola so we caught up for a few minutes before I had to go backstage and introduce the band.

I had always heard that DISCIPLE puts on an amazing and energetic show and they, by no means, disappointed me.  After the show, I joined Shannon, Kris and others for a little late dinner at the nearest McDonald’s and then headed home.  Rebecca called me while at the show and wanted me to stop by being she missed the baby shower due to some allergic reaction she had earlier that day and had passed out from the Benadryl she took.  I agreed, but only if I could challenge her to another round of Battleship since she had beat me the night before.  Lo and behold, she kicked my ass again!  I have never understood this, because my ex-girlfriend Sara used to beat me at the game all the time!  What gives?  I guess women are just naturally gifted at blowing things out of the water!  LOL!!!

I gotta say, yesterday actually started out great!  I had a terrific performance evaluation with Mark which was something I was sweating as I always do.  I came out feeling on top of the world and there I stayed until later on that day as I was on the air.  Jessica, one of my co-hosts for Upstate Unsigned, read me a less-than-flattering blog comment from the show’s myspace page.  Apparently a fan of an anonymous local band was upset (to put it lightly) that their song was dropped at the end of the show due to timing as we return to regular programming roughly around midnight.  She proceeded to not only attack the show but other bands featured on the show calling them ‘talentless’ and ‘mainstream crap’.  I would have to say a vast majority of the bands I play have quite a bit of talent and are anything but mainstream as there is a lot of metal, progressive, experimental and everything in between.  And, the reason the band was placed at the end of the show in the first place, was simply because they are somewhat new and have yet to send us any upcoming gigs which is what I base the show on in the first place to promote bands and their shows the following week.

Later in the afternoon as I was wrapping up my shift, I get someone texting in to 20346 criticizing me for dogging on emo.  As I open their text history, I discover it was my ex-girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend as I found where he had been talking crap to other jocks at the station about how I could not run Upstate Unsigned without Rebecca and that she was not given any credit.  Granted this was written before Spring Fling before Becca and I split while she was still co-hosting the show.  Giving Rebecca her fair due, she was an asset to the show and brought it to a level it would not have got to without her.  As a matter of fact, I had to replace her with TWO co-hosts.  I struggled to give her the credit she was due for the show, but, at the end of the day, when ads and promos were made, my name was the one that was tied in with the show simply because I am the one most people are familiar with because I am on the air five hours a day.  However, this guy cannot be reasoned with as he has not liked me from day one since before Becca and I had our first date and has repeatedly attempted to sabotage the relationship.  And, even though Becca and I are no longer together, he still will not let sleeping dogs lie.

After I got off the air, I busted ass to go pick up Rebecca and head downtown to catch Avenue Q at the Peace Center.  As soon as we found our seats, some dude I didn’t even recognize yells “Twisted Todd you suck!”.  A little shocked to hear that in a real non-movie theater, I laughed it off assuming it was a joke.  A couple of friends of mine, Robbie and Vanessa (aka P1 Keymaster and P1 Gatekeeper) were sitting on the other side of the guy a row behind him.  So, before the show started, I headed over there to say hi and, as I passed this guy, he was talking very audibly to his mother about how I had left Lisa’s apartment in a wreck.  To give background here, at the beginning of 2007, I moved in with a couple of friends of mine as a favor to help them with rent since their previous roommate had just moved out.  Within a few months they went through a bitter break-up and both of them moved out leaving me holding the bag.  Being a nice guy since my name wasn’t on the lease at all, I stayed and paid the rent until the lease was up.  When they moved, they left the apartment in a wreck.  So, when it was time for me to move, I emptied and thoroughly cleaned my bedroom and bathroom as well as whatever damage I had done to the kitchen and living room.

Being a confrontational individual, I quickly set the record straight yet without being hasty or rude.  I then tried to change the subject and asked how Lisa was doing.  He smuggly answered the question in a rather rude and dismissive manner and I, disregarding the attitude, told him to tell her I said hi.  He, in like fashion, said that she’d rather not hear it and then started barking at me to move and get my butt out of his mom’s face being I was standing right in front of her at the time.  Ok, boys and girls, NO ONE talks to me like that - I don’t care if you ARE ten feet tall and bulletproof!  So, I quickly invited him to take up whatever issues he had with me outside after the show.

After tipping Robbie off to what had just transpired, I ran to the restroom and to get Rebecca a bottled water.  The show began during my run, so I had to wait a few minutes as they were in an eight minute hold.  I got to my seat and struggled to enjoy the first half of the show all the while wanting to get my hands around that jackass’ throat!  I finally perked up and got a bit excited when they began their number “The Internet is for Porn” of which I have had the video on my myspace before.

During the intermission, I grabbed Robbie and Vanessa and had them sit in the open seats next to us which helped me take my mind off beating someone’s ass.  Of course, after the intermission, the guy in question did not return to his original seat and I did not see him the rest of the night which also helped.  Coward.

I ended up thoroughly enjoying the rest of the show and the four of us hit Steak ‘N’ Shake afterwards for some much needed sustenance.  While there, I filled them in on all the bs that day.  As usual, they all told me roughly the same thing: ‘don’t take it so personal’ or ‘don’t let those people get to you’.  Okay, I know I should be a bit more thick-skinned, but I am only human and surely that would start getting to anyone.  How would you feel about being attacked so many times in one day?  How should I react to all this?  Feel free to leave a comment.  Your feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Before I get into last night’s show at the Handlebar, let me just say that yesterday was not one of the greatest days.  To be honest, the past week or so has just been hell for me in more ways than I care to get into.  I got to the station in one of my post-holiday weekend ‘can’t-believe-it’s-Monday’ moods.  When I am in one of these moods I just try to avoid people as much as possible in attempt to bypass any head-biting that might come from me when I’m grumpy.  And, of course, my evasive tactics are always thwarted by at least someone in building which resulted in a rather good tongue-lashing between myself and the co-worker (one of at least three run-ins I have had with different co-workers over the course of a week - maybe I shouldn’t be such an ass!).

After finally getting the matter resolved, I get back to work only to have my ex-girlfriend wig out on me and back out on last night’s SHINEDOWN show.  So, when I get off work, I head to the Handlebar, alone I might add, for the meet-and-greet with SHINEDOWN.  Finally, this was a turning point in my otherwise sucky day as the guys were really cool, conversational and very appreciative of the radio station and their fans.  I nabbed a couple of autographs, one for me and one for my estranged ex-girlfriend.

After that, Turtle, Greg (our promotions guy) and I introduced the first band, A VACANT SOUL.  The audience, of course, was all psyched for SHINEDOWN while a good many were pumped about PARMALEE yet just a handful of people to my left were familiar with AVS.  I can say with confidence that AVS recruited quite a number of new fans last night at the Handlebar!

Mattman and Paige from The Rise Guys Morning Show gave PARMALEE their stage introduction and then Turtle, intern Tyler (not to be confused with our other Tyler in promotions) and I introduced SHINEDOWN.  Tyler had the wonderful idea of Turtle and I going on with no shirts on since the place was so flippin’ hot and I took it a step further and suggested we actually throw out the shirts off our backs in addition to nice and clean station shirts we were throwing out.  So we did after mopping sweat off various body parts first!

SHINEDOWN came on opening with their killer new single, “Devour” which sent the crowd into a frenzy.  Overall, the entire show was great and I got to meet some avid listeners of the Planet and the Twisted Zone.  The only thing that still concerns me a bit is the fact that male listeners are a lot more excited to meet me than female listeners - and, when I say that, I mean more excited than any male should be when meeting another male!  Oh well, guess I should just become accustomed to signing more man boobs!  LOL!!!

Oh no, it’s Monday!  4th of July weekend is over!  Oh well, time to saddle up!  At least I have a few things to talk about - and yes, that includes movie reviews!  First up, I went to go see the new Angelina Jolie flick Wanted which was amazing even though I’m normally not into assassin movies.  From start to finish the film was damn near flawless with a great storyline with some clever twists and phenomenal special effects.  I had heard great things about the movie but wasn’t expecting to have that much delivered.  I’ve actually been debating over whether to give the film four and a half or five rockers.  So I compromised and gave it four and three-quarters.

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Friday, the 4th, when I wasn’t on the air, I was in my uncle’s pool and eating hot dogs off the grill!  That night I went out to Ground Zero to see KITTIE, DOPE and some great local bands throw down on Independence Day!  Screw fireworks!  I got there as A VACANT SOUL was on the stage and, I gotta say, those guys keep getting better every time I see them!  Can’t wait to see them open for SHINEDOWN tonight!  Expect another blog tomorrow!

After AVS, DEAD 7 hit the downstairs stage for which I was up front virtually the whole time considering they hit their first notes as I was walking out of the john!  They put on a helluva great set throwing in Johnny Cash’s classic “Folsom Prison Blues” as well as some new material.  Back upstairs A NEW REVOLUTION hit the stage.  I wasn’t too familiar with them but they put on a good set.  BOOLOW hit the downstairs stage next and they have really stepped up their game which is really a feat considering bassist/vocalist Jason Scoggins was running the upstairs bar the whole night when he wasn’t onstage!  Hats off to ya, bro!

DOPE was next upstairs followed by HEADSNAP downstairs.  Our Spartanburg boys never disappoint when they take the stage!  And, of course, KITTIE wrapped up the night on the main stage and I was pooped by the time they finished!  Yeah, I know I’m a pansy!

I went straight home, took a harlot’s shower and went to bed.  A couple of hours later I woke up starving so I went to Waffle House at about five in the morning.  Chopped steak, scrambled eggs, hashbrowns and toast never tasted so good!  I sat up for a while to let my late night feeding frenzy digest and then passed back out after seeing the sun come up and slept until time to go back on the air.  And that, ladies and gentlemen, was my Saturday.

Sunday (yesterday) I met my family at Golden Corral to have an early birthday dinner for my brother Anthony.  We then went to Hollywood 20 to catch the new Will Smith flick Hancock.  I really enjoyed the movie until the main character’s background was revealed and I was rather disappointed.  It wasn’t bad, but I thought they could have done better.  Nevertheless, the film was quite entertaining overall and definitely worth checking out on the big screen.

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Last week I got a copy of the new horror DVD The Ruins which hits stores tomorrow (I love my job!) and I will be giving away copies of it all week long only on my show being I am the resident horror movie nut.  I finally got around to watching the film last night and got what I expected which wasn’t much.  I was surprised to see Shawn “Iceman” Ashmore from the X-Men films sporting the bearded nappy-headed look.  As a matter of fact I wasn’t sure it was him until the credits rolled.

Anyways, the movie had the whole Cabin Fever vibe to it where something organic yet sinister ‘eats’ its way through its victims and there is virtually no hope for its college-aged characters.  It was very predictable in places but had its redeeming moments of gore to appease horror fans’ bloodlust.  Not a must-have or even a must-see, but if you manage to win a copy off of me this week, it’s a fun run for a ‘got nothing better to do’ movie night.

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Wow!  What a weekend THIS has been!

Friday night after work, Rebecca and I went to Hollywood 20 to catch the new horror/suspense/thriller The Strangers starring Liv Tyler.  The film was a wonderful exploration into old school psychological terror with the ’strangers’ playing some hardcore cat-and-mouse games with Liv Tyler’s character and her estranged lover.  And the games were just a precursor to the inevitably grim ending.  The film was effective enough to make me actually lock my bedroom door in my apartment and keep my Celtic war sword by my bedside as I turned in that night!

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Before turning in, I tried to find out more about the films’ apparently falsified true events inspiration being I found nothing.  I did, however, discover that I had missed the release of one of my favorite band’s, KING’s X, new album which hit record stores back on May 20th.  Frustrated by my own negligence, I rushed to Best Buy first thing Saturday to purchase XV, their aptly-titled fifteenth album.  I have bought every record on its street date since the mid-90s!  The disc didn’t exactly floor me, but it IS KING’s X and is still better than a vast majority of modern music!

KING’s X  XV  \m/ \m/ \m/

From there, I headed towards Easley to hit 123 East Coast Ink to have Redneck do my long-awaited Darth Vader tattoo on my leg.  While en route, Becca called me to let me know she had found a Schecter Omen-4 left-handed bass on e-Bay for $350 with free shipping.  Having just received a nice paycheck the day before, I was left with a difficult yet obvious decision to go ahead and bite the bullet.  Hey, ramen noodles will do for a couple of weeks, right?!  So I gave her my card info so she could make the purchase only for the card to be declined.  For some reason, online purchases do NOT like my card!  So, she proceeded to make the purchase on her PayPal account and I agreed to reimburse her right after I got my new body art.

I got to 123 East Coast Ink and Redneck proceeded to turn my leg into a beautiful canvas any Star Wars geek would be immensely proud of!  Here’s the pic he took of it right after he finished:

You can also check it out and rate it on the Wall of Ink! 

On the way back to my neck of the woods, I stopped by an ATM to get Becca the cash I owed her for the bass only to find that it left me with much less in my account than I had accounted for.  As I gave her the cash, I informed her of the issue and she, in turn, checked out my online bank statement.  As it turned out, the declined card purchase posted - TWICE!!!  Considering I had just written a check for my rent that morning, I am in a considerable jam.  In all likelihood, the bank will drop the declined charges and all will be well and good, but, in the meantime, I am sweating the good possibility of a bounced check!

So, I headed home a bit concerned but ready to relax a bit nonetheless.  I threw on a load of laundry and rested until my musical comrade Mikey got off work and we headed out to The Real Gypsy to catch a former bandmate’s new band, THE DIRTY EIGHTIES.  Steve and Co. were joined by HEAD LANGUAGE and PREACHER’s GUN for a good live music outing followed by a tasty trip to the Huddle House!

Man, lemme tell you about the luck I have!  For those of you who know about the whole headphone incident, I had the phones under warranty so Rebecca sent them in for a replacement pair.  It took a while, but they finally came in on Thursday and the delivery guy, being the total genius he must be, dropped the box inside her fence where her dogs were on a rainy day.  Needless to say, when Rebecca got home, the soaking wet box had been torn to shreds along with its contents!  So, apparently I need to get yet another replacement pair - this time at a certain anonymous company’s expense!

Well, thankfully after a long, hard and frustrating week, Rebecca had managed to swindle tickets to see Jeff Dunham at the Bi-Lo Center Friday night which was AWESOME!!!

Opening the show was his counterpart, Guitar Guy who did a great job warming up the crowd with his storytelling laced with some impressive guitar shredding.  At the end of his story, he brought us to present day talking about one of his sons who now plays lead guitar in a band you MAY have heard of:  AVENGED SEVENFOLD!!!  I guess I see where Sinister Gates (or would it be Zacky Vengeance?!) gets his mad skills!

Jeff Dunham hits the stage for a brief solo intro before bringing out Walter, Achmed, Peanut, Jose and then encoring with some old school Bubba J to which the audience echoed with familiarity.

A large portion of the show were actually a bunch of new Christmas jokes Jeff is working on for a Christmas dvd which begins filming in June.  And you thought Christmas in July was absurd!  LOL!!!

Yesterday was a fun-filled day with the day-long Insain Metalfest at the Cellar.  The show started at noon with TEN GRAND LEG taking the stage.  I got there a bit late but just in time to catch the second band WELLS OF ELIM finish their set.  MIND CRISIS took the stage next followed by RESTLESS OBLIVION from Charlotte.  RELENTLESS played next then handed the spotlight to SILVER JUDAS from Wilmington, NC.  TASTING VERENA (who you can hear in the studio tonight on Upstate Unsigned) gave their performance and made way for GHOST IN THE MACHINE.  Wrapping up the night was my friend and fellow bandmate, Robbie making his first live appearance with his other band, STRINGBONE and then I gave out and headed home before INSIDIOUS DEMISE concluded the festivities!  Sorry guys, it was almost one in the morning and I’m getting old!  LOL!!!

So, now that I’ve shared my Twisted Thoughts with you, I’m not doing a damn thing for the rest of the day!  You’ll hear from me at two tomorrow!

Man! Last night’s DROWNING POOL show was b’dass!!! The DP guys were really cool to hang out with before the show while CJ was giving his guitar lessons for our Get Schooled series with Guitar Center. I was talking geek with Stevie being a fellow bassist! And, of course, I brought my DP autographed soldier helmet and took a pic with the band boasting it proudly upon my twisted head!  Check out the pic below!

Oh, let’s not forget the incredible opening acts including locals 7TH DAY STRANGER from Clemson and UNCROWNED from ATL! And, surprisingly, EGYPT CENTRAL was also on the bill so I got to catch them perform their song “You Make Me Sick” - and if ya missed it, their doing it again tonight at the Handlebar with HIGHER GROUND, the RHCP tribute band!

Of course, topping the night off was the mighty DROWNING POOL themselves playing all their killer jams from all three albums: “Sinner”, “Tear Away”, “Step Up”, “Soldiers”, “Enemy” and, the grand finale, “Bodies”! They also did their version of BILLY IDOL’s “Rebel Yell” not to mention a provocative portion of VAN HALEN’s “Panama”!

I can say no more except that I love my job!!!

For those who have heard my poor, pathetic hoarse voice on the air this week, here’s why I sound so horrible:

Let’s begin by saying this was an incredibly fun-filled weekend starting with the Rock ‘N’ Bowl Friday night ushering in our month-long celebration of manhood, Test Fest. And let me proudly say that I am a TERRIBLE bowler! As a matter of fact, I didn’t hit a spare or strike the entire night! But it was fun as I made the usual fool out of myself!

Saturday was awesome as Upstate Unsigned invaded this year’s Spring Fling in downtown Spartanburg! Our stage was booked solid with seven killer local bands including PANACEA, AMPLIFYED, STATE OF KONFUSION, WHISKEY MOUNTAIN MACHINE, HEADSNAP, GHOST IN THE MACHINE and A VACANT SOUL! So, needless to say, I was screaming all day both on and off-stage! And, even though the sun rarely made an appearance, I managed to receive a good baking!

Sunday, I slept in having already had a great deal of excitement. Then I headed up to Charlotte to catch SKILLET, THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH and DECYPHER DOWN at Cricket Arena and do a lot more screaming! Ali from Atlantic Records was there so she let me and Rebecca go backstage to hang and talk geek talk with SKILLET.

So, there you have it! My vocal cords are shot and I’m all out of vacation time and I don’t call in sick unless I’m like bleeding out of my eyes or something!