Hi everyone! I know I've been slacking on this site for a while. And I really need to get out there and do some more local reviews!
Well money's been tight, as I'm sure you can all understand. In addition to that, I've been putting together a new site for my podcast. You can check it out at bcastcult.com . So all my movie reviews and any events related to horror, or sci-fi are going there now.
So now that that's pretty much self sufficient, I'm back. I know you missed me.
So here are some upcoming events that I'll be reviewing.
The Emerson is hosting this event which will include Cast From Perfection and many others. I can hardly wait for this!
At Rave Motion Pictures, they're doing a live Rifftrax showing of Birdemic, which is a really terrible version of "The Birds". So that should be exciting. - that review will probably be on bcastcult.
There will be a zombie walk in Broad Ripple, that I'm attending, and you should too. details here .
And that's just the beginning.
If you know of any interesting local events, let me know in the comments, and I'll try to get a review on it.
Be sure to check out bcastcult.com while you're waiting for more content here.
-Malaria
Friday, October 19, 2012
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Beef and Boards "Chicago"
Totally went to Beef and Boards for the first time this past Sunday. It's located up by the Pyramids, and if you don't know what the Pyramids are, take a good ride around 465, and if you can't figure it out, then you're probably retarded.
So I went there with Mike from the Bcast, and his parents who are not from the Bcast, but are still awesome. We had a pretty good time despite this obviously being a venue for senior citizens, but you too can have fun there.
The place is a theater meant for showing plays, but first they give you food. And it's pretty good food. I mean it is a buffet where they cut roast beef for you, and you can choose which cut you get. And everything else tastes pretty good too, but when there's a roast beef involved, you really don't care about anything else.
The servers come around all the time with fresh beverages and they don't spend a lot of time bothering you with decisions to make. They just get in, and get out and leave you to enjoy your company.
After everyone is finished, they start the play. This time, we saw Chicago. The musical play, not the musical group. Both are great in their won ways, but they are not similar at all.
All in all, it was a really good experience. I recommend you try it if you like good service, food and plays. Take it back from the seniors! This should be a thing for all ages!
Beef and Boards
So I went there with Mike from the Bcast, and his parents who are not from the Bcast, but are still awesome. We had a pretty good time despite this obviously being a venue for senior citizens, but you too can have fun there.
The place is a theater meant for showing plays, but first they give you food. And it's pretty good food. I mean it is a buffet where they cut roast beef for you, and you can choose which cut you get. And everything else tastes pretty good too, but when there's a roast beef involved, you really don't care about anything else.
The servers come around all the time with fresh beverages and they don't spend a lot of time bothering you with decisions to make. They just get in, and get out and leave you to enjoy your company.
After everyone is finished, they start the play. This time, we saw Chicago. The musical play, not the musical group. Both are great in their won ways, but they are not similar at all.
All in all, it was a really good experience. I recommend you try it if you like good service, food and plays. Take it back from the seniors! This should be a thing for all ages!
Beef and Boards
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Part 2: Cake: my heroic journey and epic escape from the clutches of doom
All the town screamed. Some in terror and some cackling with delight. There was nothing to be seen in the darkness. Nothing but Wizard Fire cascading through the heavens.
The lights returned suddenly, and lo and behold, on the stage was none other than the Sorceress Metric and her three musical minions. They had crept in under the cover of darkness, for if the guards had seen them, they would have put up a grand exposition and denied their entry.
She began her sorcery. It was like that of another land. Like German pop, 80's synth, psychedelic Pink Floyd songs of walls. Though much better than I am able to describe. Their spell fell like a mist over those taking shelter in the theater. Then suddenly, many lights, geometric in their ways shone throughout the structure. They danced in the air like magic, for magic they were indeed.
Then the rains died down and the atmosphere seemed less threatening than it had just prior to the blackout. The Sorceress and her minions had done what they came to do. The hour grew late and the event seemed to be drawing to an end. Would we get to see Cake this cold rainy night, or was our journey all for naught? It was already past the hour that these events usually subsided and weary travelers made their way back to their home lands.
The lights rose to normal proportions though the sun had already set. many theatre employs scuttled to the stage to bring out sound amplifying gadgets and strange doobly instruments. They even hanged an elaborate tapestry in honor of the Fellowship of Cake. Cake would play this night!
Oh joyous noise! The crowd cheered for them as they finally arrived. They made haste and played the most popular songs out of their expansive repertoire. They must finish by the stroke of midnight, or face massive consequences from the town ordinance.
Half way through, they made pause and gave the gift of a tree to a stranger. The greatest honor one could hope to receive from persons hailing from the land of Iconoclast. From music to life.
After they finished, my party made our weary trek home. Running into more, but minimal rain. Where I wrote in my internet diary,
The End
Part 1
The lights returned suddenly, and lo and behold, on the stage was none other than the Sorceress Metric and her three musical minions. They had crept in under the cover of darkness, for if the guards had seen them, they would have put up a grand exposition and denied their entry.
She began her sorcery. It was like that of another land. Like German pop, 80's synth, psychedelic Pink Floyd songs of walls. Though much better than I am able to describe. Their spell fell like a mist over those taking shelter in the theater. Then suddenly, many lights, geometric in their ways shone throughout the structure. They danced in the air like magic, for magic they were indeed.
Then the rains died down and the atmosphere seemed less threatening than it had just prior to the blackout. The Sorceress and her minions had done what they came to do. The hour grew late and the event seemed to be drawing to an end. Would we get to see Cake this cold rainy night, or was our journey all for naught? It was already past the hour that these events usually subsided and weary travelers made their way back to their home lands.
The lights rose to normal proportions though the sun had already set. many theatre employs scuttled to the stage to bring out sound amplifying gadgets and strange doobly instruments. They even hanged an elaborate tapestry in honor of the Fellowship of Cake. Cake would play this night!
Oh joyous noise! The crowd cheered for them as they finally arrived. They made haste and played the most popular songs out of their expansive repertoire. They must finish by the stroke of midnight, or face massive consequences from the town ordinance.
Half way through, they made pause and gave the gift of a tree to a stranger. The greatest honor one could hope to receive from persons hailing from the land of Iconoclast. From music to life.
After they finished, my party made our weary trek home. Running into more, but minimal rain. Where I wrote in my internet diary,
"My friends and I went to a Cake concert featuring the Wombats and Metric. It changed venues last minute, and the thunderstorm caused a nearly two hour delay. But it was awesome!"
The End
Part 1
Monday, September 10, 2012
Part 1: Cake: my heroic journey and epic escape from the clutches of doom
I had just returned from the mystic land of Dragon*con when I was first offered the invitation. The musical fellowship of Cake was requesting audience in the nearby Park of White River State. I had eagerly accepted this invitation as I have often been told of their great works, and had borne witness to a variety of their more popular pieces. Fast following my acceptance of the invitation, I had begun the time of planning for the travelling of this short journey.
All seemed well until my beloved cousin mentioned that he had heard news of Cake's decision to instead hold the event in another land. This seemed preposterous as it was nearly time for my departure. My feathers had been ruffled in my realization that this news held true, and Cake would indeed be presenting their fine arts in the distant land of Klipsch.
My cousin and I decided to band together along with his new and former housemates and a white mage to ensure our safe travel to the distant land. The road to which was long and littered with many other weary travelers' homeward bound quests, which would prove to make our adventure quite perilous indeed.
Whilst on the road we told many tales, and pondered on the reasonings why the fellowship of Cake had made this last minute decision to change our destination. Could it be that this was all a ruse to confuse the enjoyers of Cake? Was this some dastardly ploy? Was the Cake a lie? Perhaps the evil anti-Cake, the Chocolate Cake, was just out to make our merriments full of despair. They would be sure to sing quite the opposite of the songs that we had grown to know well. We felt insistent that at our journey's end we should find not our beloved bardic fellowship, but instead a baked good with yet a single candle and the signature face of a troll.
With ominous clouds billowing overhead we reached the modest Castle of Klipsch wherein presided many a meadery, pubs, and outlets for clothing goods. In the midst, stood the Grand Theatre of Klipsch. To enter into the town we were one by one subjugated to a mild search of our persons. Guards carefully checked our pockets and purses for any means or gadgets by which villains might cause harm to their otherwise law abiding patrons and guests.
Once inside our party made way to the theatre where we were to choose our seating arrangements for the remainder of the night. Every seat was quite good. We were pleased that on the stage we saw no sign of baked goods. Many of our fears had melted away when we were reassured that the fellowship of Cake were in the vicinity and would be performing that night.
I for one, was delighted to find out that not only were we to experience the arts of Cake, but we were also about to witness the foreign oddities of Wombat, a bardic band from the other side of the world hailing from Liverpool, and named for the exotic creature presiding in lands down under. Liverpooleans must be strange indeed as I am convinced that The Wombats are actually marsupialous wombats who are dressed as human men dressed in women's skinny pants.
Alas, the Wombats proved to be evil wizards. Their enchanting tunes brought forth the storm of all storms. The ominous clouds from before turned the skies as black as night and rolled over blocking the sun from horizon to horizon. The cold hateful winds blew away the castle flags and leaves of trees into the theatre and onto every patron. Thunder and lightning threatened us from every direction. The local towns folk hurried to cover their most valuable structures and items from the impending rains.
Tears fell from the heavens in a monsoonious downpour. The sound of the drops from the clouds could be likened to that of dark soldiers marching into the castle. The lightning was a mighty fire breathing dragon. Fellow travelers scattered for their individual camps just outside the castle walls as others took cover under the faulty shelter provided by the theatre. The air grew colder and the rain dampened my garments. I put my thoughts to warmer days as I shivered under the pavilion. I should have thought to bring my overcoat. Then suddenly, the lights went out.
Tears fell from the heavens in a monsoonious downpour. The sound of the drops from the clouds could be likened to that of dark soldiers marching into the castle. The lightning was a mighty fire breathing dragon. Fellow travelers scattered for their individual camps just outside the castle walls as others took cover under the faulty shelter provided by the theatre. The air grew colder and the rain dampened my garments. I put my thoughts to warmer days as I shivered under the pavilion. I should have thought to bring my overcoat. Then suddenly, the lights went out.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Linkin Park and Incubus at Honda Civic Tour
So I attended the Honda Civic tour at the Klipsch venue last night. I was super excited to see Incubus and Linkin Park.
I had never seen Incubus before and so many of my friends who have seen them play a live show have told me that it was the best concert they had ever seen. "life changing!". Well, I don't know what happened, but it was not really that good. After a short opening act by Mutemath, Incubus went on second. It was still bright daylight. Usually the big acts don't start playing until the sun goes down. So I was pretty caught off guard when I heard them start to play while I was in line to enter the contest to win the awesome Honda Civic SI.
After Incubus was done, it took Linkin Park about 45 minutes to set up their set. They had a lot of pyrotechnics, and a projector show, and a pretty elaborate stage set up, so I can see why it took so long. The bad part was that they usually play music between sets, but instead of that, they just re-played a couple commercials about Linkin Park, and the Honda SI they were giving away. When they finally stopped all that and started playing music - The Beastie Boys - people actually cheered. It was kinda funny.
The Linkin Park set was pretty good. They played all the old music, and a lot of new music too. So even people like me, who stopped following them after Meteora, could have a good time. At one point during their second or third song, the loud speakers for the lawn section gave out, and they were out for a good minute, but when they came back up, they didn't seem to have any more problems for the rest of the night. The visuals for the show were pretty neat. I'm pretty sure Mike Shinoda had something to do with them because he's into that whole graffiti art thing.
Linkin Park was good, but the thing that really bothered me about the whole night was that nobody seemed all that enthusiastic about them at all. Usually you can take a look at the crowd on the lawn, and see some pits, or at the very least people jumping around. Strangely, it looked like nothing but a sea of zombies.
I didn't let that stop me and my friends from having a good time though! I just wish that one day, Linkin Park will play with Korn again.
I had never seen Incubus before and so many of my friends who have seen them play a live show have told me that it was the best concert they had ever seen. "life changing!". Well, I don't know what happened, but it was not really that good. After a short opening act by Mutemath, Incubus went on second. It was still bright daylight. Usually the big acts don't start playing until the sun goes down. So I was pretty caught off guard when I heard them start to play while I was in line to enter the contest to win the awesome Honda Civic SI.
After Incubus was done, it took Linkin Park about 45 minutes to set up their set. They had a lot of pyrotechnics, and a projector show, and a pretty elaborate stage set up, so I can see why it took so long. The bad part was that they usually play music between sets, but instead of that, they just re-played a couple commercials about Linkin Park, and the Honda SI they were giving away. When they finally stopped all that and started playing music - The Beastie Boys - people actually cheered. It was kinda funny.
The Linkin Park set was pretty good. They played all the old music, and a lot of new music too. So even people like me, who stopped following them after Meteora, could have a good time. At one point during their second or third song, the loud speakers for the lawn section gave out, and they were out for a good minute, but when they came back up, they didn't seem to have any more problems for the rest of the night. The visuals for the show were pretty neat. I'm pretty sure Mike Shinoda had something to do with them because he's into that whole graffiti art thing.
Linkin Park was good, but the thing that really bothered me about the whole night was that nobody seemed all that enthusiastic about them at all. Usually you can take a look at the crowd on the lawn, and see some pits, or at the very least people jumping around. Strangely, it looked like nothing but a sea of zombies.
I didn't let that stop me and my friends from having a good time though! I just wish that one day, Linkin Park will play with Korn again.
Bcast Episode 1 Companion
Here are some links to all the stuff we talked about during this episode.
Sega Stuff Podcast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF48RvNEHCs
From The Ponder Couch
http://pondercouch.blogspot.com/
Lloyd Kaufman wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Kaufman
All I need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger
http://www.amazon.com/about-Filmmaking-Learned-Toxic-Avenger/dp/0425163571
Troma
http://www.troma.com/
Cannibal The Musical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iqtP0fR07M
South Park Studios
http://www.southparkstudios.com/
Ernest Scared Stupid
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101821/
Army of Darkness
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/
Rocky Horror
http://www.rockyhorror.com/
Mystery Science Theater 3000
http://www.mst3k.com/
Age of Consent Map
http://tinyurl.com/8bbbh3c
Alferd Packer story
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alferd_Packer
Evil Dead 2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/
Sam Raimi
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000600/
The Hobbit
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/
Bruce Campbell
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0132257/
Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Love-Bruce-Campbell-Way/dp/0312312601
Bubba Ho-Tep
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/
Alien Apocalypse
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404756/
Reasons for Guys to see Titanic
http://www.examiner.com/article/18-reasons-why-titanic-is-not-a-chick-flick
Kevin Smith
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003620/
Clerks
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109445/
Clerks 2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424345/
Dogma
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120655/
JossWhedon
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923736/
Cabin in the Woods
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/
Sega Stuff Podcast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF48RvNEHCs
From The Ponder Couch
http://pondercouch.blogspot.com/
Lloyd Kaufman wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Kaufman
All I need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger
http://www.amazon.com/about-Filmmaking-Learned-Toxic-Avenger/dp/0425163571
Troma
http://www.troma.com/
Cannibal The Musical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iqtP0fR07M
South Park Studios
http://www.southparkstudios.com/
Ernest Scared Stupid
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101821/
Army of Darkness
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/
Rocky Horror
http://www.rockyhorror.com/
Mystery Science Theater 3000
http://www.mst3k.com/
Age of Consent Map
http://tinyurl.com/8bbbh3c
Alferd Packer story
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alferd_Packer
Evil Dead 2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/
Sam Raimi
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000600/
The Hobbit
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/
Bruce Campbell
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0132257/
Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Love-Bruce-Campbell-Way/dp/0312312601
Bubba Ho-Tep
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/
Alien Apocalypse
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404756/
Reasons for Guys to see Titanic
http://www.examiner.com/article/18-reasons-why-titanic-is-not-a-chick-flick
Kevin Smith
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003620/
Clerks
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109445/
Clerks 2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424345/
Dogma
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120655/
JossWhedon
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923736/
Cabin in the Woods
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Holy Shit! Linkin Park and Incubus
i realized last night while making the podcast that today i am going to the linkin park and incubus concert. i guess that's what happens when you have your tickets for 3 months.
pro tip: do not forget about concerts that you've already purchased tickets for.
will write all about it when i get home :)
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Mike and Malaria make a podcast
Thought it would be fun to make a podcast with Mike. So we did.
Search for Bcastcult on itunes or subscribe on the website bcastcult.com
In it, we talk about B movies and normal movies and stuff. It's pretty cool.
We're still trying to figure out the whole podcasting/hosting thing. It's not nearly as easy as Youtube is for videos. I wish Google had a podcast hosting app.
Search for Bcastcult on itunes or subscribe on the website bcastcult.com
In it, we talk about B movies and normal movies and stuff. It's pretty cool.
We're still trying to figure out the whole podcasting/hosting thing. It's not nearly as easy as Youtube is for videos. I wish Google had a podcast hosting app.
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Mega Metal Weekend Review Part 3
Alright, so I'm totally getting a start on this so I will be motivated to finish it before this weekend. I got a lot of other exciting stuff to write about and I have to catch up.
View Part 2 here.
Mayhem Festival 2012!
Ok, so here's the story. I kinda wanted to go to this festival for months. I had planned to go with some friends, but like two days before the show, everyone cancelled for one reason or another. I bought my tickets anyway thinking I would probably meet up with some people up there since I pretty much know everyone in Indiana, and I had some people I knew were going up there with other people. But the venue is like an hour's drive from my house and I just didn't want to drive up there alone.
So anyway about 15 hours before the show, my friend Liz gets offered a free VIP ticket, so she totally jumped on that and was like, "hey let's caravan up there with Chris and Eddie." So we tried to call them, and they were both like, "I'm not going because I'm lame". So Liz and I went up there without them.
So I went to pick up Liz and when I get to her house she tells me that the guy who gave her his extra ticket has a migraine, and so now he has two extra VIP tickets, and if we drive up to his place (which was on the way anyway) that I could have it. So we did, and VIP tickets include some really kick-ass parking and access to the air conditioned bar. It made for a really good time. Not to mention that we were basically upgraded from the lawn to the lower pavilion for free. Lower pavilion at this venue is just about as close as you can get to the show. You can easily throw shit at the stage from this distance, and I am a girl, and I throw like a girl.
See, we were really close.
So we get there and Liz and I met up with my friend Nick, who lives in the middle of nowhere North Dakota. He actually used to be in a local Indianapolis metal band in the late 90's early 2000's, Pupil. Then drama happened and he left the band and then the band turned into some other band. Ishiah (or something like that... I don't remember or know the details.) So I hadn't seen Nick in like 10 years. So it was fun to hang out with him again. He's currently in a band called Celestria in North Dakota, and we had to break the news that his band name is totally the name of the princess of Equestria in My Little Pony. Good job Nick.
So later on, I sent a text to Chris, that said something to the sort of, "I am drunk, come out here and keep me out of trouble." Which actually worked to get him to the show believe it or not. And when he got there and I was not drunk, he bought me drinks cause he is awesome.
Then his lady, Reeann showed up too! She is awesome, and I was super excited that they were both able to come out considering that they had completely bailed on the idea two days before.
Here is all of us together. I'm not in the pic cause I took it.
I also met up with someone I used to LARP with. (Don't judge me!)
I really love this venue. It has so much open space, so you're not just sitting out in the middle of the sun surrounded by a bunch of smelly people.
So on with the show I guess.
At the second stage we saw White Chapel and a number of other bands. I thought they were pretty good. Though I'd never really heard of them before. Liz went crowd surfing. So that was fun.
Then we went over to the main stage and caught As I Lay Dying, which Chris was excited to see. Liz and I took this time to go check out our seats in the pavilion to see how good they were. The seats were awesomely close to the stage.
Then we went back up to the lawn to hook back up with everyone else. We spent most of our time up on the lawn with everyone. Motorhead and Slayer played. And they were good, but I mean they're so old you know. Still good, but didn't have any new stuff or anything.
When Slipknot came on, Liz and I ran back down to our pavilion seats. There was a loud gunshot of sorts that totally startled me, and I ducked and screamed. I then realized that it was part of the show. I felt pretty embarrassed, but that's ok. Slipknot is AMAZING!
They have 3 drummers! I never knew that. It was really cool. They had a really cool light show with fire and projections and fire. And some of the band was playing drums way up in the air while others were climbing up onto the drum kit. And another drummer was playing completely upside down, something I haven't seen since I saw Blink 182 in 2002.
But anyway, where the seats were, it actually allowed no wind at all, so I had to go back up to the lawn about 1/2 way through the set so I wouldn't pass out. I think I actually had more fun out in the grass anyway because it's easier to jump around without tripping over chairs and stuff. The show was still awesome from out in the lawn.
And that wraps up the Mega Metal Weekend review. Sorry it took so long, but the awesomeness made me mentally check out for about a week.
View Part 2 here.
Mayhem Festival 2012!
Ok, so here's the story. I kinda wanted to go to this festival for months. I had planned to go with some friends, but like two days before the show, everyone cancelled for one reason or another. I bought my tickets anyway thinking I would probably meet up with some people up there since I pretty much know everyone in Indiana, and I had some people I knew were going up there with other people. But the venue is like an hour's drive from my house and I just didn't want to drive up there alone.
So anyway about 15 hours before the show, my friend Liz gets offered a free VIP ticket, so she totally jumped on that and was like, "hey let's caravan up there with Chris and Eddie." So we tried to call them, and they were both like, "I'm not going because I'm lame". So Liz and I went up there without them.
So I went to pick up Liz and when I get to her house she tells me that the guy who gave her his extra ticket has a migraine, and so now he has two extra VIP tickets, and if we drive up to his place (which was on the way anyway) that I could have it. So we did, and VIP tickets include some really kick-ass parking and access to the air conditioned bar. It made for a really good time. Not to mention that we were basically upgraded from the lawn to the lower pavilion for free. Lower pavilion at this venue is just about as close as you can get to the show. You can easily throw shit at the stage from this distance, and I am a girl, and I throw like a girl.
See, we were really close.
So we get there and Liz and I met up with my friend Nick, who lives in the middle of nowhere North Dakota. He actually used to be in a local Indianapolis metal band in the late 90's early 2000's, Pupil. Then drama happened and he left the band and then the band turned into some other band. Ishiah (or something like that... I don't remember or know the details.) So I hadn't seen Nick in like 10 years. So it was fun to hang out with him again. He's currently in a band called Celestria in North Dakota, and we had to break the news that his band name is totally the name of the princess of Equestria in My Little Pony. Good job Nick.
So later on, I sent a text to Chris, that said something to the sort of, "I am drunk, come out here and keep me out of trouble." Which actually worked to get him to the show believe it or not. And when he got there and I was not drunk, he bought me drinks cause he is awesome.
Then his lady, Reeann showed up too! She is awesome, and I was super excited that they were both able to come out considering that they had completely bailed on the idea two days before.
Here is all of us together. I'm not in the pic cause I took it.
I also met up with someone I used to LARP with. (Don't judge me!)
I really love this venue. It has so much open space, so you're not just sitting out in the middle of the sun surrounded by a bunch of smelly people.
So on with the show I guess.
At the second stage we saw White Chapel and a number of other bands. I thought they were pretty good. Though I'd never really heard of them before. Liz went crowd surfing. So that was fun.
Then we went over to the main stage and caught As I Lay Dying, which Chris was excited to see. Liz and I took this time to go check out our seats in the pavilion to see how good they were. The seats were awesomely close to the stage.
Then we went back up to the lawn to hook back up with everyone else. We spent most of our time up on the lawn with everyone. Motorhead and Slayer played. And they were good, but I mean they're so old you know. Still good, but didn't have any new stuff or anything.
When Slipknot came on, Liz and I ran back down to our pavilion seats. There was a loud gunshot of sorts that totally startled me, and I ducked and screamed. I then realized that it was part of the show. I felt pretty embarrassed, but that's ok. Slipknot is AMAZING!
They have 3 drummers! I never knew that. It was really cool. They had a really cool light show with fire and projections and fire. And some of the band was playing drums way up in the air while others were climbing up onto the drum kit. And another drummer was playing completely upside down, something I haven't seen since I saw Blink 182 in 2002.
But anyway, where the seats were, it actually allowed no wind at all, so I had to go back up to the lawn about 1/2 way through the set so I wouldn't pass out. I think I actually had more fun out in the grass anyway because it's easier to jump around without tripping over chairs and stuff. The show was still awesome from out in the lawn.
And that wraps up the Mega Metal Weekend review. Sorry it took so long, but the awesomeness made me mentally check out for about a week.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Mega Metal Weekend Review Part 2
My God! I am so sorry it has taken me this long to post Part 2! I could give you all the excuses, but truth is, I was pretty tired that Monday, and then work got in the way.
Read Part 1 here.
Anyway... Part 2!
When we left off, I was about to review 7Horns 7Eyes. I thought they were pretty good, although, I probably wouldn't rush to go buy their CD. They just weren't my thing. However, the cool thing about them is that they reminded me a little bit about Dethklok. They just definitely have that classic metal Metallica, "everything is black" look. The lead guy, totally reminded me of a really skinny Nathan Explosion.
Also, check out that guy's beard! It is so cool!
It has a will of its own. I'm pretty sure the beard is actually the one playing the guitar.
7Horns 7eyes also had a pretty good light show. You can see the different colored lights in the two pics of them.
Next, Jeff Loomis (Nevermore)! WTF! Fucking Guitar God!
This man does not have a face! I seriously took like 7 or 8 pictures of him and there is nothing but hair and hands.
That's probably why he's so good though. When you are unable to speak because you have no mouth, then you have to learn how to communicate through music.
And here you go. A prime example of his Goddery. Remember, my phone recordings are pretty shitty.
You're welcome.
The last band who played was The Contortionist.
I liked them.
I was unable to get any good pictures for some reason (remember I am not a photographer. Deal with it.)
These guys were really interesting. It was like... well... this...
It's just beautiful. Follow them on facebook.
So that concludes the Emerson experience part of Mega Metal Weekend.
Stay tuned for Part 3 where I talk about the Mayhem Festival at Deer Creek.
Read Part 1 here.
Anyway... Part 2!
When we left off, I was about to review 7Horns 7Eyes. I thought they were pretty good, although, I probably wouldn't rush to go buy their CD. They just weren't my thing. However, the cool thing about them is that they reminded me a little bit about Dethklok. They just definitely have that classic metal Metallica, "everything is black" look. The lead guy, totally reminded me of a really skinny Nathan Explosion.
Also, check out that guy's beard! It is so cool!
It has a will of its own. I'm pretty sure the beard is actually the one playing the guitar.
7Horns 7eyes also had a pretty good light show. You can see the different colored lights in the two pics of them.
Next, Jeff Loomis (Nevermore)! WTF! Fucking Guitar God!
This man does not have a face! I seriously took like 7 or 8 pictures of him and there is nothing but hair and hands.
That's probably why he's so good though. When you are unable to speak because you have no mouth, then you have to learn how to communicate through music.
You're welcome.
The last band who played was The Contortionist.
I liked them.
I was unable to get any good pictures for some reason (remember I am not a photographer. Deal with it.)
These guys were really interesting. It was like... well... this...
It's just beautiful. Follow them on facebook.
So that concludes the Emerson experience part of Mega Metal Weekend.
Stay tuned for Part 3 where I talk about the Mayhem Festival at Deer Creek.
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