Doomsday

Back from seeing it in one of my rare trips to the theater. And considering that the price for a drink has gone up, while the sizes have gone down? They're going to continue being rare...

Anyways, Doomsday. The set up is that a horrible plague sweeps over Scotland and so the entire country is quarantined, with the English rebuilding a new 30' metal version of Hadrian's Wall with auto-cannons. But when the deadly virus breaks out in the slums of London, the government has to send their most bad-ass one eyed maverick cop in to catch a survivor. They give her a crew of soldiers and doctors and a 48 hour time limit to find a cure or London is dooooomed...

And once beyond the Wall they face cannibal punkers and evil Rennies. And the Death Bus. And an exploding gimp. And punker mosh pit/cannibal bbq...

It was pure awesome. My roommate disagrees. He hates it. But then he likes National Treasure and Nightwatch so his taste is in question...

Have a happier day!

And a happy birthday to qraccoon

Flee!

Blimp of Evil!

The Host

Death Fish. Born of man's madness. From the river it hunts! And only one family, driven by loss and revenge, hunted by their own government, will dare stand against it. Death Fish!

The Aristocrats

A documentary where Penn Teller interviews over a hundred comics and entertainers. Having them talk about or tell one of the most tasteless improv jokes. Highlights are probably Gilbert Gottfried, Bog Saget and Billy the Mime...

Flogging Molly '08

Back from the concert. So tired. So awesome. But first the negatives...

The concert had a change of venue from the Mesa Amphitheater (where they were last year) to the Tempe Beach Park. Which has shit parking. And the overflow was about half-a-mile away. So I ended up using one of the many pay garages in Tempe's Mill area. Happily, after losing my parking ticket at the concert, the guy in the box let me slide and didn't bother charging me. So that was cool of him. Also, the Mesa Amphitheater had a large flat area in front of their band area and then a tiered little hill spot. Meaning an easy seperation of the Mosh area from the non-Mosh area. Tempe Beach Park is one big flat park thingy. Meaning one big Mosh area sprung up and several smaller Mosh areas sprung up. Meaning people kept running into me. Next year I wear regular shoes...

Positives: Both opening bads KICKED ASS.

The first was the Cherry Cokes. An all-Japanese Celtic Folk Punk band. Truly the world is more awesome than any have given it credit. Irish Folk songs sung in Japanese. Wow. I mean how the hell did he manage to find SIX other people in Japan who wanted to specialize in Celtic Folk/Punk fusion?

Then it was the Rev. Payton's Big Damn Band. Another Folk/Punk fusion. This time Southern Folk. Again wow. Last year I was impressed how the trombone player for the Voodoo Glow Skulls could just own the stage. This year it was a woman playing a washboard...

But again once Flogging Molly hit the stage it blew everything else away. Yeah those moshing people were annoying. But FM just fires the crowd up. They played several songs off their new album Float. Including the title song and "Requiem for a Dying Song". Both great. And for the official finale everyone from both opening acts came out and started singing with them. Which was just bad ass. Of course King was convinced to come out for an encore after repeated chants of Ole and Flogging Molly. He started with a solo version of "Black Friday Rule", though the rest of the band came out to join in for the final chorus. And then they closed up with "Seven Deadly Sins"...

So. Fucking. Awesome.