and now...for something a little different - RUSH!

Yes, Rush - positively the most influentual band in history, no matter what you're opinion on the matter is. Wired did a nice review of their rockumentary, Beyond the lighted stage, out now and coming to cable June 26 and BluRay June 29. I've seen Rush in concert twice and they are truly the masters of their instruments, even if they run around on stage or get the crowd moshing - they will hypnotize you with their music.



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The Final Frontier

No - believe it or not this isn't a write-up about the new Maiden album, actually Alex and I were just outside talking about aliens and the endless wilderness of space. It's absolutely mind boggling - beyond words even - that space is endless. Literally - it never ends - never! How is that shit even possible? How can we even imagine that? It's enough to drive someone insane. It twists your mind in ways you didn't think were possible. So anyway, so much for being beyond words.

We also talked about aliens, or other beings in space - it's impossible that in all that infinite endlessness, there isn't anyone else out there. There has to be, just absolutely has to be another race of beings out there. It's ridiculous to think that we are the only ones in all this - space.

What I can't figure out is why are they hiding from us? Do we scare them bad? I know if I were observing this planet, I would be pretty scared to approach humans, with their beat the shit out of them and shoot first, then ask questions philosophy, while they video tape it for Youtube. And its a fucking shame its that way too - because we are such a barbaric and ignorant people, we are missing out on a wealth of knowledge that could quite possibly save us and most certainly give us the ability to join them in the vast exploratory regions of space. But, no, we have to be the white trash rednecks of the universe and trash our planet, the space around us and even ourselves.

Pity.

More Iron Maiden videos from the Dallas show!

Now this is badass! I wish I could say I made these videos, but I didn't and I'm glad too, because I think I can see myself in the first one! Now how cool is that?!




I found myself! There's really no way I could explain it - but I'm like raising my hands up to the lyrics and doing the ever so popular devil sign with both hands, its close to the end. Yeah, I know that's a pretty generic description, but hey - I know it's me! LOL

WTF?! Iron Maiden Nikes for six grand!

Now this is just messed up - a pair of Nikes for $6,000! Gimme a fucking break, this guy needs to get a fucking life - I don't care if only 24 pair were made - if anyone buy these shoes they are stupid! If I had the money to throw away - I would buy them! In a heartbeat!

Iron Maiden themes for your iGoogle page

FINALLY!! Google was kind enough to finally add my themes to their index - so go check out my Iron Maiden themes here. I know this will sound pretty narcisstic, but I really do think my IM themes are better than the others posted. Only because I used much higher resolution images and created much better compositions - but hey, you decide for yourself.

What a shitty way to start the day!

You might think that this is only a blog about Iron Maiden, but it's really not - I'm just in a fanatical phase I often go through about anything - this time it's Maiden.

So I'm on my way to work and about halfway there (it takes me an hour and a half) I get a call from my mom - she proceeds to ask me a question in a not very nice tone and didn't like the answer I gave so she got irate and bitching about how she's going to miss a day of work because her tire is flat and I have the portable air pump with me in the truck. Knowing my mom and how she blows everything out of proportion and acts like it's always the end of the world - I turn around and proceed to go home to give her the air pump. About halfway home, I get stuck behind an accident that just occured moments before and had to sit there for 20 minutes, while I watched the other side of the street get through the intersection, while we just sat there - with a frustrated thumb up our butt. After getting through the interection, I nearly get caught speeding if I didn't have a watchful eye out for the cop car sitting on the side of the road - a 70 in a 60 in Princeton would have been a very bad thing.

I finally get home and guess what? She isn't even THERE! Oh the horror, the anger, the bullshit of having to listen to her cry and blame me for something that wasnt' even going to happen! Miss work because of me, my ass! When she will ever talk to me like a human being is beyond me.

So I went ahead and left the air pump on the porch, because I was going to have to work late anyway to make up for being late. So off to work I go.

It was a fairly breezy trip - a lot smoother and less traffic than I usually get but only because I was now an hour behind my usual time. Whew, only an hour, that isn't bad - I can live with that.
Oh hey there is my exit to work! YAY!! and it's only 9:30 - good time and it should be for driving 85mph down the tollway.

BLAM!!

What the FUCK! Aw shit, you gotta be kidding, a fucking flat tire NOW!?

Well this is just great, so I call the roadside assistance people, because I don't have a jack in the truck- this is my mom's truck by the way- and wait 45 MINUTES, waiting for them to get there, while I'm staring at my work building the whole time - what fun.

I must say though, when the guy got there - he was totally kickass - he should have been in the Nascar pits or something, because he had my tire changed out in 5 minutes. Literally. So you can bet this guy is going to get a good report from me on the comment card.

The last time I used them, some dumbass came out to help me and you would think he'd never changed a tire in his life - he was definitely a rookie. I had to do it for him he was so bad at it - he even stripped one of the lugs, so i had to get a hammer to get the wrench on. He got a bad report.

So now here I am at work, writing in my blog - mainly because I have got to get this out of my system so I can actually focus on my work that I'm already behind in.

NOT a good way to start the day - something good better fucking happen today to make up for all the bullshit I had to deal with - maybe my mom will learn how to be nice and talk to me like a person, instead of a dog. NAH, never happen - so I'll settle for getting my t-shirts in the mail! YAY!

The Eddie Cam!

Here is some awesome footage of Eddie on stage on the latest tour for The Final Frontier album. You can see at Ironmaiden.com - but just for my blog's sake, I'm posting it here as well. Because I LOVE Iron Maiden!



I can imagine that the guy in the Eddie suit is just the luckiest fucker alive! I would LOVE to be that guy - I wonder if they have tryouts or something or if it's just one of the roadies. Lucky bastard. I love how he plays the guitar and really interacts with the band this time. The last time I saw him on the Somewhere On Tour, tour, he didn't seem to do all that. But it's very cool. He did the same at the Dallas show - we all went so freaking wild when he came on during the song Iron Maiden - which of course is a staple event during an Iron Maiden concert.

They really changed the look of him this time - he almost doesn't look like Eddie at all. But hey, it's Iron Maiden and they can do whatever the hell they want and we are going to love em for it anyway!