A bunch

Ozzfest was awesome. Rob Zombie was great (played mostly White Zombie stuff). Black Label Society was disapointing. Iron Maiden was awesome (though the set was too short); they'll be putting out a new album and doing their own tour in the next year or so. Sabbath was also awesome, and Ozzy sounded quite lucid, was in great shape, and was WAY better than when we saw him with his own lineup in 2003. My "holy crap, I can't believe they are playing this" moment was Electric Funeral - I never thought I'd hear that live! I'm amazed by the number of kids that left at the start of the Maiden or Sabbath sets. Um hello? These guys are the reason that all of the other bands here are making the music they are. Geesh!

The NEG cookout was fun, though I got eaten alive despite bug spray. We also hit the VT Faire on its last day. Alas, the Falconry and Artillery people weren't there, but it was still a nice day. Brian and I stopped at http://www.newenglandforestry.org/nqw/searchdetail.asp?id=117 on the way home for some ice cream and poking at the antiques. It was nice to check the place out again.

I finished "Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way" so I'll start http://www.ovusoft.com/ today and read the new Harry Potter book once Brian is done with it. We ordered tickets to Spamalot, The Christmas Spectacular (for a NYC trip in early December) and for the Gigantour (Megadeth man, too bad Anthrax isn't on the Boston leg of the tour). Its been one nutso weekend!

And so it begins

The new Waltham album comes out tomorrow (if you get it at Newbury Comics it will come with an additional self-produced disk). Thus begins the Media Frenzy: ( Read more... )