Ok, well we haven’t been sucked into a black hole, so at least science hasn’t killed us all as of yet in the search for answers to the origins of life.  But is this not the biggest bunch of boocrap billing for billions of bucks?  I mean ten billion dollars just to prove and better understand the “Big Bang” Theory?  And, to top it off, at the risk of possibly annihilating life on Earth in the process?  Granted it was only an extremely slim chance and life is about taking risks, but how great of a price is that chance?  Destroying life on Earth in an attempt to understand how it began?

There’s a book in my car right now that I am taking with me to Atlanta for the rest of the week that clearly tells how the world began and it’s called the Bible.  Now I’m not going to start preaching or Bible-thumping here, but, even if you don’t believe in God, this whole overpriced, glorified science project is downright ludicrous!  Isn’t there something better we could do with ten billion dollars than try to play God at the potential expense of the entire human race?  If this were a comic book, wouldn’t these European scientists be the diabolical villains?  For some odd reason I’m thinking of Doc Ock’s little pet project in Spider-Man 2 - just on a much grander scale!  I don’t even think Oscorp could cough up ten billion big ones for the science fair!

Labor Day weekend was just that: laborous!  So, when I wasn’t working, I was out trying to blow my paycheck!  Hey, what’s the point in working relelentlessly if I don’t take some time to go out and enjoy it?!  Friday I met up with Rebecca after work.  Yes, we are on speaking terms again and trying to somehow sort out our differences in some way whether it leads to us seeing each other again or not.  She brought me her latest dog rescuee being she is like the crazy cat lady only with a crapload of dogs instead of cats!  I think she knew I’d be interested in this one being the dog is a Boston terrier and border collie mix and I have always wanted a Boston terrier.  So she brought Molly (the name she gave her being she is fond of giving dogs people names - as for me, I still want a male Boston terrier and name him Vader!) to the apartment and we went to Target to pick up some stuff for the dog (leash, toys, bowls, etc.) and then went to Ruby Tuesday’s for dinner.

Saturday I did little more than do my on-air shift and the same could be said for most of Sunday.  My mom and Aunt Pat came over to see the new addition to the Twisted family and we walked her out to the small man-made lake out by my apartment complex.

Monday, when I wasn’t on the air (again!), Rebecca and I managed to take in a movie: the new comedy spoof Tropic Thunder starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey, Jr.  Of the three lead characters, Downey clearly made his mark portraying “the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude”.  I mean his character stayed in character until the end of the movie!  “I stay in character until I finish the DVD commentary!” I believe he said….and he wasn’t kidding!

And let’s not forget the A-list supporting cast of Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey and, oh yes, Tom “Damn, my ass is crazy!” Cruise!  I really enjoyed the film as it was a breath of fresh air from other crappy spoof movies such as the ridiculous Scary Movie saga that has bled over into the even more preposterous Epic Movie, Disaster Movie and all the other ”Fill in the Flippin’ Blank” movies!

And it really pisses me off that everyone is all up in arms about their references to mentally handicapped people as ‘retards’.  I admit it’s in rather poor taste, but isn’t comedy supposed to be unapologetically irreverent?  I mean I just watched the new Harold & Kumar flick on DVD and it’s remorselessly racist!  Being a Christian, I constantly see shows like South Park or especially Moral Orel that make a mockery of my beliefs.  Yes, it offends me, but I simply choose not to watch it if it gets too offensive which I did stop watching the latter of the two shows because it honestly made me feel like a heathen….or worse!  LOL!!!

Tropic Thunder   \m/  \m/  \m/  \n

And here’s a few of the DVDs I’ve watched recently now that I have a steady supply of rentals with Blockbuster Total Access:

I just mentioned how racist Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay was, but don’t get me wrong, it was a riot!  If you liked their first adventure getting to White Castle, you’ll caertainly enjoy this!

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay   \m/  \m/  \m/  \

I pretty much got what I expected out of Prom Night and maybe a little more since it was more bloody and violent than what I would expect from a PG-13 rated slasher flick.  Granted it is painfully obvious that it is not a remake of the Jamie Lee Curtis horror film of the same name.  The character names are different as well as the overall plot of the movie save for the fact that both films occur on (big surprise here!) high school prom nights.

Prom Night  \m/  \m/  \

When Grandma’s Boy first came out, I thought it would be a big piece of crap trying to capitalize on Adam Sandler’s success by throwing a comedy together using a cast full of his supporting cast regulars - but no Sandler.  It turned out being one of my favorite comedies in recent years so I had high hopes for Happy Madison’s latest DVD release Strange Wilderness.  I have to say I was somewhat disappointed.  Don’t get me wrong, it had some rather hilarious moments, but just didn’t deliver a comedy I’d really want to watch again.

Strange Wilderness   \m/  \m/  \n

That’s it!  I’m done and heading home to take care of Molly!

I don’t know what the deal is, but for some odd reason I cannot meet a dependable woman.  I guess it’s a good thing I’m not looking for a relationship, but living alone gets lonely and it’s good to have a woman’s companionship from time to time.  Anyways, it seems like every time I turn around I run into a female that either stands me up with no phone call or simply doesn’t do what they say they will.  And, if I do speak to them again, there is almost always some outrageous excuse like, say, they got their phone stolen by a pack of rabid ferrets or some crap like that and they expect you to buy it.  God forbid you call them out on it, because they’ll get defensive and try to make you believe you’re the most selfish and inconsiderate bastard that ever walked the Earth.

I am truly sick of it!  And it’s been happening to me as far back as high school!  Why do they do it?  What is the motivation here?  What do they have to gain by pulling these stunts?  Is it some crazed power trip they try to have over men?  I mean if you don’t want to have anything to do with a guy, why not just tell him?  I mean I can handle upfront outright rejection over getting led on.  Gentlemen, why do we put up with this?  Ladies, what’s your deal?

Ideally, relationships are meant to bring the best out of two people.  However, in many cases, the opposite is true.  Most, if not all, of us at one point or another, meet someone that brings the worst out of us.  Many of us meet several in our lifetimes.  I am certainly no exception.

In college, I met a girl from Florida named Elena whose parents were from Puerto Rico.  We hit it off immediately and got along great…..for a whole weekend.  She being a college freshman (I being a sophomore at the time) she wanted to date around which was understandable - except for the fact she kept going after my friends and then ran back to me after getting shot down.  This went on for a whole semester with her last pursuit being my first cousin and bandmate Ray.  This was too much for me to handle but still I wanted her.

Christmas break came and we went back home - me to Greenville and Elena to Florida.  She began writing me like every other day (this was just before the internet and email took off) and she’d ask about Ray.  At this time was when Ray and his now wife Erin began dating.  Needless to say Elena was crushed, but bounced back by claiming to have ‘come to her senses’ and realizing that she only wanted me.  Of course, to me at that time, this was wonderful news!

So, when we returned to Winthrop the next semester, we began our hot ‘n’ heavy relationship with the both of us quickly losing our virginities (yes, I was a virgin until I was 19).  However, it wasn’t just our passion that was hot ‘n’ heavy - our fighting became quite notorious as we would sometimes fight clear across campus.  That woman pulled elements out of me that no other woman ever has (and hopefully never will).

After dating for three semesters (roughly a year and a half), Elena broke up with me during summer break while she was taking summer classes at Winthrop to, again, pursue other relationships.  So our relationship had come full circle and my heart was severely broken.  Was she worth my time in the first place?  Surely not, but that didn’t matter because my heart often overrides the functions of my brain.  That and my libido!

The only other person to have ever caused as much grief and heartache would be my most recent ex-girlfriend Rebecca.  When I first met her, she was living in Savannah so I kept my distance because I’ve had enough bad experiences with long distance relationships.  We kept in touch through MySpace although she dodged any proposal of meeting up.  Finally one day she actually called me and we began talking and I learned that she was moving back to Greenville.

She was in town for a couple of weeks prior to her actual move and we went out and hit it off…..for about a month.  Hey, I admit, that was longer than Elena!  We started dating officially after only a week and then she was back in Savannah.  Almost immediately after our first date, her ‘best friend’ which also happened to be her ex-boyfriend, started in trying to sabotage the relationship by pulling various stunts.  Rebecca, of course, just tried to dismiss his actions because she valued him as a friend even to the point of it jeopardizing our relationship.

At first, I rolled with it as best I could because I really felt Rebecca and I had real potential.  However, their relationship obviously made me very insecure in our relationship and, after about a month, it started to take its toll.  Over the next six months, she broke up with me at least half a dozen times.

To make matters worse, when she returned to Greenville and bought her first house, I would drop by to see her to find her ex there - and sometimes at late hours!  I would walk in and nothing would be going on, but Rebecca would be visibly startled to see me and then be quick to get defensive when I made my accusatory conclusions.  Do I think there was anything going on?  Actually no, I really do believe that Rebecca is just too nice a person to see the harm in certain things and certain people.  To this day I don’t believe she sees her ex for who he really is.

Late last year, I did some probing and found some inappropriate things, not necessarily physical, about their relationship and brought it to her attention.  That encounter did not go well at all, but I think it actually sobered the girl up just a bit.  Over the holidays we slowly patched things up and took our last run of the relationship after the new year.  She put her friendship with her ex aside and we had a fairly decent run for a few months.

Back in March, we took our first (and consequently only) vacation together as we went to Savannah for St. Patty’s Day weekend and then went down to Orlando.  During that time, it became painfully obvious to me that I was growing tired of the relationship largely due to our lack of communication.  I still loved her very much, but, despite all the time we were spending together, we never really talked.  Obviously I am open about EVERYTHING!  Rebecca, on the other hand, is not.  She is content with letting things slide instead of addressing them.  I am much more confrontational.  I love to talk.  She prefers to just sit quietly with her significant other and say very little.

Granted, there is nothing wrong with either trait, but those traits make our personalities almost irreversibly incompatible.  So, at Spring Fling this year, we had our final fight as a couple.  She had a friend pick her up in Spartanburg and we officially ended the relationship that night.  After being together off and on for right at a year, neither of us wanted to just say goodbye.  Of course, Rebecca is obviously used to being friends with her exes in the first place.

So, we tried seeing each other as friends.  Well, I probably wouldn’t be writing this blog right now had that plan worked out.  As a matter of fact, I’m pretty sure Rebecca is not going to be happy that this blog is being written as I am sure she will be reading it.  However, I am actually not doing this for the sheer intent of upsetting her in any way though I’d be lying if I said I had not the slightest bit of ill will.

The fact is that Rebecca has a good heart and I truly believe that.  However, my friend Mikey summed it very well in saying that she has her priorities straight when it comes to her job and finances but tends to let her friends come at a distant second.  This consequently makes her somewhat unreliable as she rarely does what she says she will do - well at least in the time frame she says she will.  Me, I am punctual and prompt in nearly every way - at least when it counts considering I am late to the office almost every day but, hey, I get the job done!

Again, this difference in traits has made it virtually impossible for us to coexist as friends.  At least as close as we had been until recently.  Her inability to do as she promises to had finally reached the breaking point for me.  So I demanded the key to my apartment back after telling her off.

Instead of giving it to me in person, she took it upon herself to enter my apartment yesterday while I was making my weekly visit to see my mom and aunt, took her bridesmaid dress she had left after a wedding and slid the key back under the door after locking up.  Needless to say, I was furious when I got home at the fact that she had entered my apartment after I had told her to return my key.  Being an assistant manager at an apartment community, she knew that there was nothing I could do legally, but how does reflect upon her especially considering her profession?

I am honestly baffled by her recent actions as they do not seem to come from the same person I have cared about for so long.  Ultimately, that is the inspiration for writing this blog as it makes me reflect upon not only this relationship which was doomed from the beginning, but all of my doomed relationships in the past, only one of which I spotlighted for relevance.  It is also the reason I have made a new blog category called “Words of Twisdom” as I am hoping to share the lessons I have learned in the past.  Hell, who am I kidding, I just hope I learn from my past mistakes!  If you gained any insight from this or have something to share yourself, feel free to leave your own thoughts - granted they’re not as ‘twisted’ as mine!

And since I’m talking about doomed relationships, you can see just how ‘bad’ your girlfriend is by taking the “Bad Girlfriend” survey here.

…and I’ll bitch if I want to!  Especially since my birthday had to fall on a Monday!  Damn leap year!  I didn’t want to get out of bed as usual, but I did and, as I was getting ready and brushing my hair, I noticed the bald spot in the back of my head felt bigger.  I took a pic with my camera phone raised over my head and, sure enough, it is!  I have to find some sort of solution or shave my head!  I love my hair!  I don’t want to lose it all at 32!

Then, I get to work and discover that most, if not all, of Upstate Unsigned somehow got lost and did not air last night.  That was really disheartening because I put a lot of work into that show each week using up a good part of my weekends!  Hopefully this day will get better as I am on the air now!

This weekend, however, was pretty good as I spent a good part of it celebrating my upcoming birthday.  I took it easy for the most part Friday, but rushed home after work Saturday to clean my apartment before guests started arriving for my birthday party.  Rebecca got there first as she was coordinating the fiesta and brought the Jell-O shots and various liquors.  She also helped me put the finishing touches on straightening my apartment and vacuumed for me. 

My brother Anthony showed up while Becca was out getting snacks for the party.  I was in the shower and he let himself in which scared the crap outta me when I heard someone in my apartment!  At least he made up for startling me by hooking up my DVD player in the spare bedroom and discovering that I have extended cable - and apparently have the whole year I’ve lived there!  The turnout was great and Rebecca was an excellent hostess as she always is!  I knew there was a reason I kept her around after we broke up!  LOL!!!

Sunday I tried unsuccessfully to sleep in, so I got up and enjoyed my newly discovered world of cable television since I had been going on DVDs for over a year!  At three, I met my mom, Aunt Pat and Anthony at Cracker Barrel where I had their awesome blueberry pancakes being that was all I could stomach as I was feeling some adverse effects from the party.  We then went and caught the 4:40 showing of The Dark Knight at Hollywood 20.

Afterwards, I ran back to the station to put Upstate Unsigned together with one of my Twisted Toddy co-hosts, Jessica.  Of course, we all know how futile that was!  Oh well, technical difficulties do arise!  What can you do other than roll with it?

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!!!

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!

The Strangers  \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/

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!