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This is my new art piece. Hope you like it.


Laurel

Boredom = ?

This is what boredom wields. A poorly drawn Admiral Ackbar on your stomach.

I spent a lot of the rainy afternoon making hilarious comments ending in his catch phrase:

"IT'S A TRAP!!"

and humming the music playing during that scene.

Examples,
"Don't drink that spoiled milk, it's a trap!"
"Don't use the upstairs bathroom, to take a crap!!"
"Don't sit down on that chair, there's a tack!"

Well, I thought it was hilarious....


Laurel


Ohh another thing, look up "Admiral Ackbar" in Google Image Search. You'll find some hilarious photos! Thank me later.

LAZERfest 2011

The Line-Up: http://www.lazer1033.com/LAZERFEST-2011---Line-Up/9156225

So I originally wasn't going to go, but then I decided that I haven't gotten to do anything really "fun" just for me in a pretty long time. That and I haven't been to a concert/music festival since Cornerstone 2009, so I was jonesing for a live music performance.

The order of bands I was most excited about was this:

1. Queensryche

2. Three Days Grace

3. Black Label Society

4. Seether

I listened to Seether a lot in Jr. High and early High School so I had a few fond memories of them. They played almost all of the songs I wanted to hear from their album "Disclaimer." They also did a cover of Nirvana's "Heart Shaped Box" which was surprisingly really well done and very close to the original. About 65% of the audience were people my age, and I found it funny that a vast majority sang along to that song... you see, they only know it from Guitar Hero 2. That was a tad lame, but I still liked the performance.

Well for those of you who don't know, Black Label Society was a band formed in the late 90's by Zakk Wylde who was formerly the lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne. I hadn't listened to them very much myself, but I'd heard them on the radio and such and thought they were pretty decent. That and it would be awesome to see Zakk Wylde live and see his awesome guitar skills in action. (Please note that I DO NOT like Ozzy Osbourne, I liked him in beginning and in Sabbath, but he got.... kooky to be nice.)

I think I've always like several of Three Days Grace's songs, you know I'd turn them up on the radio, but I never "bought" and album or went out of my way to listen to them. I do really like "Pain," "Animal I Have Become," and of course, "Riot." I also like the lead singer's story of how after the first album the band realized he had an addiction to a drug (not sure what.. Oxi-something) anyway they sent him to rehab and while he was getting sober he wrote the lyrics to several of the songs, two of which, "Pain," and "Animal.." were on the album they published after that I believe was called "One X" or something like that. Good story.

They aren't supposed to play "Riot" at concerts anymore, because actually go pretty insane and literally cause a "Riot." It's happened before. So at the concert, people were chanting "Riot" when the lead singer asked for what the crowd wanted to hear and he told us that due to "security disagreements" and "technically difficulties" or some such, they couldn't play it. So then several people said, "Freedbird," and he said they didn't know how to play it. Then someone said, "Stairway to Heaven," and the lead guitarist started playing it, and he just started to sing along to it a little, and then he just said, "Ohh, Fuck This! WE'RE GONNA PLAY RIOTTTTTTT!!!!"

Everyone went INSANE. It was awesome! I was jumping up and down and waving my Satan's Horns around. [If you aren't sure what I mean, I've included a picture of Dio doing it, and for all of you who don't appreciate Dio as you should, HE was the on who started that. That's why he rocked so hard. Rest in Peace Dio!]




Then when they played "Animal..." the lead singer climbed up the side of the stage, which was insane, because it had been raining for like half of the day! He climbed all the way to the top where the tent was and sang from up there, and then after" Animal...." was almost done, we all just chanted until he got down. It was awesome.


Of course the band I wanted to see the most, Queensryche, didn't get to come because the plane they were on had some serious difficulties and such and they couldn't make it in time. Which really sucked.

On a side note, TicketMaster, where I bought my ticket, told me that if I brought my receipt and all the necessary evils (DL and such) then I could get my ticket at the event, but when I got there, there wasn't a TicketMaster booth or what have you. So I was screwed.

I tried to explain it to one of the staff, but they just told me, "No ticket, you can't get in." I thought at that point I would be thrown off of the blimp... but luckily I was on solid ground.
{ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o39ZuGNaGVg }
At that point my hair was down, I wasn't wearing my glasses, and I was just wearing my moto. canvas jacket. So I put my hair up, put on my glasses and my trenchie, and went to the other side of the row of event staffers taking tickets. When the ones nearest to me were busy, I just walked in.

You can now tell me how bad-ass I am. :D

I kinda wish I hadn't bought my ticket now, because if I knew the security was so lax, I would have been able to save the $56 I spent on the ticket... but ohh well, I'm just glad I got in!

I think in total it cost me $70 for the gas and ticket, but that's not bad for all the bands I got to see and such. Not as awesome as Cornerstone, but still pretty wicked.

Since it rained so much at the beginning there was about 4 inches of solid mud that was everywhere so by the time it was over, there was mud all over my trench coat, messenger bag, Dr. Marten's, and face/hair.
I've included a picture of my shoes, one after LAZERfest, and one after 30 minutes of scrubbing. I say, "Worth the Cleaning!"

All in all it was fun, and just in case you're wondering where I got the money, my mother gave it to me in advance for replacing the deck.

It's hard earned... or " [It] will be..... [it] will be... (said in a Yoda voice)

Laurel

The Subaru's First Mishap and It's NAMING

A little while back the windshield wipers stopped working on the Subaru. Before I would drive the 12 hour drive I need to fix them. So I checked around all that until I deducted that the windshield wiper motor was fried.

Hmmm.... that was on of the exactt problems with my Phoenix as well and I had to replace that too (with my Uncle Sonny's help of course).

Anyway, to sum up my not so exciting adventure, I went to a junk yard pulled a "new" one off myself from a 1993 Subaru Legacy, paid $19.99 for it, and put it in the car. All in a day's work.


Here I am, excited that I am done with the work, and happy I knew mostly how to do it. As you can see, I have grease and grime on both my hands and face.

In other news, THE SUBARU HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN NAMED!!!!!!!!!!!!

GIMME MAGNUS

Green
Irish
Mean
Machine
Extreme

Maximum
Awsometacular
GNarly
Uber
Subaru

Exhausting to remember?
Yes.

Bad-Ass and awesome?
Yes.

Totally worth the hours I put into thinking of it?
Probably not.

Laurel