Happy Halloween!

Buh Buh Buuuuh! Woohahahahah!

The Chickens Concert Series #7:Rob Zombie and Ozzy

Oh Man! How much awesomeness was that all in one place?! A lot! That's how much. This might have to encompass concert series #8 too! Rob Zombie put on a highly entertaining show. It had everything you'd want: the drums were set up on top of a giant devil head, movies were playing on big screens, and halfway through superbeast, a giant zombie robot thing, came out and danced (I'm pretty sure it was the two dancing girls inside that suit, they're multitalented). Anyway, excellent show, and Ozzy? Well, Ozzy is Ozzy isn't he!? His show started with a hilarious video with Ozzy in various TV shows (including such shows as Lost and The Office) and ended with fireworks on the stage. Definitely awesome sauce! He was a little unintelligable when he talked but he sung the songs very well and he jumped around and danced and was generally kickass. Anyway, I found a few clips of the concert on YouTube, see below.


Fun Facts: Rob Zombie (aka Rob Cummings born in 1965), went to college but dropped out to follow music. He worked as a Technician on PeeWee's Playhouse (Ha!)! He was in the band White Zombie (named after a 1932 Bela Lugosi movie) from 1985 to 1995 after which he began persuing his solo career. Of course he's made movies and things but also, he made a comic book called "The Adventures of El Superbeasto" which is supposed to become a cartoon later. You can learn other stuff from Wikipedia (just like I did), I just thought those things were neat.

Ozzy (born John Michael Osbourne in 1948) plays the harmonica. Ummm...upon further research there is very little other information available on this relatively unknown musician - I believe he sings mostly dance-funk fusion, likes rainbows and kittens and his pet peeves are swearing and mean people. And once he did a Christmas duet with Jessica Simpson.

An unexpected (to me but not to people who knew what to expect) highlight of the concert was Zakk Wylde's (born Jeffrey Phillip Wiedlandt in 1967, founder of the band Black Label Society) guitar solo. You gotta love this guy! He has this long blond hair and through a lot of the concert he would stand in front of this large fan and play these amazing metal solos, just picture it! Haha! Classic! Here is some of his solo:

p.s. That Jessica Simpson thing is actually true.

¡Cañonero!

Sweet zombie Jebus I love having a car! Like get this, yesterday I drove to school and then I drove to work and then I drove back to school and then I drove home! Weee! I named it my Canyonero. I'll put a picture of it up later I promise, I have to get it groomed first. Good times. Also, cars are better with the Simpsons. My favorite part is how the "Hey! Hey!" is different depending on what language it's in.

En español for little CP:
Sus sospechosos incendios son asunto de los tribunals. ¡Cañonero!


Here's the same clip but in German. Unerklärliche brände sind ein fall das gericht! Ha Ha Ha!

Thanksgiving

The first Thanksgiving, like many European firsts in the New World, happened in Newfoundland. It was celebrated in 1578 (43 years before the pilgrims landed in Plymouth) when Martin Frobisher arrived in Newfoundland and wanted to give thanks for his safe arrival. Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday in Canada in 1879 (before that it was generally celebrated in either late October or early November anyway). Originally, Thanksgiving was set for November 6th however, on January 31, 1957, Canadian Parliament announced that it would be on the second Monday in October. This was because after the World Wars Remembrance Day was set for November 11th and they didn't want the two holidays in the same week. Also, since Canadian Thanksgiving is more about the harvest than about pilgrims it makes sense to have it earlier than the Americans, what with our earlier harvest season and all. Anyway, I just like an excuse to see the family and eat pie. Mmmmm...pie. [Update: I had a clip of the episode "Lisa on Ice" where Homer says, "All right, pie. I'm going to start doing this... makes chomp, chomp,chomp... and if you get eaten, it's your own fault", but the clip is gone now. Oh well such is the internet.]


p.s. I just watched Apocalypto which is what is up with the comic.

The Chickens Concert Series #6: Days of the New

Wednesday night was Days of the New at the Roxy. Not the best venue I know, "skunky" may be the best word for it. Nevertheless the music was pretty sweet. Gravelly base-y vocals (supplied by lead Travis Meeks) are one of my faves. Interestingly, apparently he was on an episode of the reality show "Intervention", which speaks for itself (credit to Tam for that tidbit - HA! No McShanty points for you! Note: See this earlier post for what that means). As an aside I have to say that, upon investigation, Travis was much hotter back when he had short hair. Of course this was the first time I've seen them so I didn't know that, see pic to the right from this website (once again thanks to Tam for pointing that out). The music was bang on though and the basist plays a five-string (also pretty sweet)! So as it stands the list of awesome-ly awesome Chickens concerts continues...next time: Ozzy!

This video is from a recent concert in Texas, note the like 5 skillion acoustic guitars all over the stage.

p.s. Here is the band's website

A Salute to Fall

I love Fall! It has to be my favorite season I think. It's beautiful, it's not too hot, the bugs die off, and there's...um...pumpkins and things. Don't get me wrong - I love Winter (snow, xmas, winter sports), it's right up there with Summer (beaches, vacations, archaeology). Even Spring has it's virtues (no more winter but it's not so hot yet). However, you just can't beat Fall for shear awesome-ness, it even has a few of my favorite holidays in it too. Maybe I just like having seasons? Anyway, how about a salute to seasons then...

[ A year passed. Winter changed into Spring. Spring changed into Summer. Summer changed back into Winter. And Winter gave Spring and Summer a miss and went straight on into Autumn. Until one day...] Note: Unfortunately, I couldn't find an actual video clip but I'm sure other dorks like me can visualize it.