Hey Back again !!! the Shinedown show was awesome !!!! I couldn't believe how small the Tabernacle was, I guess it holds maybe 2000 people, but it totally rocked !!!! we saw Number one contender, Halestorm, and of course, Shinedown !!! NOC is a band from Charleston, and they were pretty good, the lead singer came out with no shirt on from the beginning, so the girls were with him from the get go. They also had a guitar player who wore a shirt and tie and a sweater vest and looked like Lance Armstrong, we called him the professor. !!!! Then Halestorm came on, and they totally rocked !!! my wife was not a big fan, what a shocker since Halestorm features Lzzy Hale as the lead singer !!! her brother is the drummer, and the band did something I have never seen- the drummer (Arejay) did a solo, and really got the crowd going, and then when he had 'em going good, he pulled out a pair of drumsticks that were like 3 feet long, and he kept playing with them !!! THEN, the rest of the band came out and set up a set of 4 drums in the front of the stage, and the whole band played drums together, Lzzy and her brother and the 2 other guitar players, all together, VERY COOL!!!!!!! PLUS , when Lzzy came out, she had a white Flying V, and she later also played a explorer guitar, and I think she really sings very well, she also gets the crowd into it, which is VERY big !!! i just checked out a youtube video of halestorm , in a radio station, Lzzy sang Heart's All I wanna do is make love to you, one of my favorite all time heart songs, in an acoustic version, also super cool!! Watch for Halestorm, they will be big one day !!! Then, Shinedown came out, no pyro, no big intro, very litttle lights, they just kinda showed up: Barry the drummer came out and took his spot, and then Brent and the guys came out, and they just started playing and rocking, and the whole place was really INTO IT , ya know?? I LOVED IT !!!!! they rocked the place, we were on the second floor, and we could feel the floor bouncing up and down, A LOT, we were a little worried, but we just said, screw it and we had a fantastic time !!! I would easily say it was one of the best concerts i've seen yet, (EVER!!!) just from the energy and the love for the band, it was something special being in an old building that now just lives to rock it!! I truly hope the belugas and the rest of the fish at the georgia aquarium were at least feeling the music and , Iknow they would enjoy it !!!! the belugas love to dance, you know ?? we got a Halestorm cd, and I got the wife a Shinedown t shirt, and she had a really great time, maybe even more so than the Nickelback concert!!! my wife made friends with a woman behind us, and she didn't know Shinedown before, but she likes them now !!!! SD didn't play Simple Man, which was a letdown, but I watched some stuff on youtube where Brent said they basically said they just didnt feel the same playing the song now without Jasin, and that it was kinda a tribute to Dimebag Darrel when they did it. I can understand that, and I think it's so cool they are a band that actually has that much feeling and attachment to their songs and the music and the people who inspired it, to them, ya know ??I would easily pay to see the show again, tomorrow, a month from now, a year from now,whenever!!!

ps , Shinedown announced they are touring this summer with Halestorm,Chevelle (another very cool band) and Staind !!

pps ROCK SO LIVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

listening to : Audioslave, right this second!!! ( so awesome!!!) also, Halestorm (duh!!) (I GET OFF !!) and Seether (check out the videos, they have some awesome ones, a great use for youtube, Seether is really great !!!!) as well as metallica, Kill em all and Death Magnetic !!!! both are awesome

lifelong shooter, dr pepper's biggest fan, Jack Reacher fan !!!

ok so it's been a bit of a while since the last update, so here it is!!

I am within an eyelash of level 20!! woo hoooo !!!!

went to a BIG concert with the wife last week, Saving Abel, Seether, and Nickelback, and it was awesome !!!!

that was thursday

went to a LITTLE concert saturday with Eleven Standing Still, and it was also Awesome. Check them out at myspace.com/elevenstanding still

the lead singer, Johnathan, came over and said hi and spoke to me and my wife for a few minutes between sets. we were very happy to see them, I had been a fan since I heard about them in the summer of last year, and now my wife is a big fan too. we will probably go see them again tomorrow at a different bar. it was actually a benefit concert, and the band is a really cool bunch of guys.we bought a cd sampler and 2 t shirts, and the guys played like 30 songs or so-- their own stuff as well as other stuff, one nickelback song, a Bob seeger song, 3 Metallica songs, and some I dont even remember. But we enjoyed it a lot. we also met Jamie the lead guitarist. The nickelback show was very cool, the loudest concert we've been to yet, and they had tons of pyro, 5 different colors of flame thrower, huge video screens, fireworks, and a extra guitar/keyboard player named Timmy who was awesome!!!he played a 12 string acoustic guitar with a single neck !! Seether and Saving Abel were also great, and Shaun from seether came out and did a song with Nickelback!! very cool.. I think Seether could headline a concert themselves, and they probably will sometime soon !! Seether didnt do my favorite song tho, fmlyhm...... look it up if you don't know it, gs would kick me out if i told you all the words !!! COOL FACT: during the Nickelback show, Chad, the lead singer, pointed out a guy who was fetching beers for his friends, up near the front, and it turned out, we found out 2 days later, that it was Johnathan of ESS that he was talking about !!! cool huh ?

So, tomorrow night is more ESS, and on Cinco de mayo, we FINALLY get to seeMY favorite band, Shinedown !!!! (We saw the wife's favorite band , Three Days Grace, last year- they are my second fave !!!) I can hardly wait !!! .45, Devour, Save me, Sound of Madness, and more, and I heard on the radio that this show will be Shinedown's next live DVD !!!!!!!!!!! woo hoooo ps i am a bit excited

on the game front, i preordered and finally got guitar hero Metallica, and I am thoroughly enjoying it !!! I also recently found GH: Aerosmith with a wireless guitar new at Best Buy for $31.99, but it actually rang up for $23.99, so I got a new GH game and a new wireless GH guitar for $25 bucks and change , with tax !!! the guitar is a Kramer Striker wireless, and it works great !!! my scores are going up already with a new guitar that has all the buttons working !! they also had the guitar alone for $15 bucks, which is pretty good also !!! One of my favorite songs, which is badly overlooked by radio, Albatross by C.O.C., is on the Metallica game -- awesome !!!

til next time, War Eagle, and oh yeah SHINEDOWN !!!!!!!!!!!!

ps I hope to go see Metallica in October, should be a helluva show !!!!

I am still playing the first God of war, and I still Freakin love it--- not as good as RE4 was in it's time, to me, but it's still a freaking awesome game !! I'll beat it soon, but I hate those freakin medusas !!

I'm still kicking myself for not buying the RE4 chainsaw controller when I had the chnace, that thing is freakin awesome !!! i can get the ps2 version for $25 bucks, but then I also hafta buy the PS 2 game...............

also- I was thinking about buying a used orig XBOX, just since I never had one, and since I have never really played halo, and since the games ofr it are pretty cheap, and I really liked the original big controller, WHATCHA THINK ?

Well hey kids !!!

sitting here in the wife's snuggie, and it's not a bad item when its 20 degrees outside and the heat pump can't keep up, not bad at all..... the dogs LOVE it since it's soft and all---

I am listening to Eleven Standing Still right now, which is my Favorite Band You've Never Heard of--- they are from the Atlanta area and they rock !!! I currently have tickets to see Nickelback,Seether and Saving Abel April 23rd, and I can't wait!!! 3 great bands in one night !! (gee, ya think there might be some sex -related songs sometime during the evening ??? ????)

And speaking of the snuggie, in case you haven't heard , we had a SNOW event here in the south a couple day ago , and I would hafta say it was the most snow I have ever seen actually fall, having lived south of Atlanta my whole life!! The really shocking part was that it was like 66 degrees the afternoon before, and I and everybody else was kinda like Yeah right, sure its gonna snow in the morning, but ya know what?? it frakkin snowed like crazy, which was really bad since it rained REALLY FRELLIN hard for the 2 days before!!! I mean Friday it rained so hard I was thinking Ishldve built a freakin ark, and then it was still raining Saturday morning early and then by 10 am it was snowing like crazy, and it kept snowing until like 6pm or so, and so I had a solid 4 inches of snow on top of the Tbird and my truck, and a big frakkin slush puppy everywhere else !!!! I was not amused !!! it was quite a mess but we managed ok, except that my truck doors were frozen shut the next morning !!!!

OK so I currently have the Wii, 2 ps2's a gamecube with game boy player, a DS lite and a PSP 1000. the first ps2 still works somewhat, its a first gen model so the blue discs are not a great idea. I also have 2 NES's, a Dreamcast, and a Super Nintendo , all with games and accessorie, and all not going anywhere. Also have a game boy micro I like a whole lot. I really really wanna play little big planet and MGS4 and Resistance and afew others, but I dont yet have a HDTV, so I cant really see me plunking down the bucks for a ps3 until i have the HDTV, know what I mean ?? But then, Guess what I found? the MGS 4 ps3 bundle, NEW, for $500.00!!!! I kinda want it, ya know ?? I love MGS, there really isn't a game experience anywhere to rival it, but I can't really justify $500 when I know it won't have much value beyond an amazing single player, after I play it a couple of times, ya know ??? what do you guys think? PlEaSe let me know ok ??

Also, I still wanta copy of Baldurs gate, Dark Alliance 2 for the ps2, but can anybody explain to me why it costs $40 bucks used ?? I have the first baldurs gate, and champions 1 and 2 for the ps2, which are all very similar games, so I dont see why BD:da2 is like the most expensive used PS2 game ever made ???? anybody know ??

ok so I have this game I love, it's an old game, called Nox, and it's kinda like Diablo, but to me it's easier but has a lot more personality. I played through it once, and then my old computer, which had windows 98, died. I bought a brand new computer with windows xp, and ever since, I can install Nox, but it refuses to run or play. ANY HELP anyone can give me would be much appreciated, since I really liked the game, but I only completed it with one of the 3 characters. I should say that my new( 4yrs old) computer is a Dell, and that i have the service packs, and am now running Zone alarm for antivirus, and I have all the service packs and stuff, but I am also not very good with computers. Anybody got any ideas? the help would be much appreciated... Nox was made by wastwood, the guys who once did redalert and C&C and I like it !!!