If anyone reads all of this, I'l give them a cookie.
A lot has happened since I last wrote a blog these past five months. I met Lamb of God, saw Alexi laiho get trashed on stage, fell in love (for real), played lots of guitar, got into drinking and weed, went aboard multiple mental rollercoasters, made new friends, lost old friends, competed with a best friend for a womans heart, and much more. I'll try to make 6 months of insanity as nutshelled as possible.
The last time I wrote ablog was at the start of this year. Let me say that 2009 has been wild. I never saw that chick that I met at that party again, but whatever. The girl in my last blog (I went to her house and played mario kart) disappeared for awhile, and I'd see her maybe once a week at a party or something, but I didn't expect anything serious to come out from her.
I started talking to other girls or whatever, but the first girl that I played mario kart with (lets say her name is sally, just 'cause) seemed like the best girl. We started seeing eachother more at parties and conversing, little did I know that there was a lot more to this woman than meets the eye, and I mean that in a good and a bad way. This girl is my first love, for real.
So one day, I went to this rave with her and her friends. She was really flirty with me that night, and she's 18. One of her friends asks me randomly "Nikkolai, how old are you?" and I answered, and sally just says "WHAT YOU'RE 16? You're as old as my brother! Well, I Guess I cant date you now". With this girl, yuou can never tell if she's serious or not. During the rave I pulled her outside and I told her I was starting to like her a lot. She looked at me and just said "... I kinda like you too...but... you're kinda weird....... and you're 16..." How would YOU feel, if a girl said that to you? I mean, it's not like I can't collect 3 magic stones, go into a temple, and magically be an adult...
So I go back to peacocks billiards (its a place I go to a lot, don't know if I've mentioned it before... When you're underage, it's the place to be ) and my buddies are hanging out there playing pool. I ususally hang out at the bar table and drink root beer, since I can't drink beer, and talk to randoms. I talked to Julian (don't know if I mentioned him ever, but he's one of my best friends) about 'sally' and what happened, and talked about it to Dennis (he's the bartender) and had a good night.
Two days later, saturday, I head into Peacocks. I see Julian and 'sally' sitting together . Now this pissed me off, because, Julian should be following the GUY CODE! What a dick. Anyways, so I decided to rain on his parade, and I ask to sit down. Sally looked kinda nervous, and she goes to the washroom, more than likely to let us talk things out, she's perceptive like that. Right when she leaves I spazzed out at him, and he said he doesnt like her, which I thought was bullshit. We hung out all night at peacocks and then she stayed over at his house. Basically, for two good weeks, she stayed over at his house. Now, I talked to another guy about this, and he said women will do that, stay over a tguys house for weeks and NEVER lseep with them, he's in the friendzone. So I was okay with that, and Dennis got in on it on his own will and did some detective owrk and found out julian doesnt like her that way anyway.
During those two weeks, I had a lot of good times iwth this igrl. We party at this place called 'The green house', it's just a house, but it's always hotboxed, hence the name. I partied every day, even on school nights, beucase I didn't want julian to get ahead of me. Let's just say I got in a conflict with the girl for awhile, and things really sucked, one monda ynihgt, the firs tnight at the green house, everyone goes up stairs in some bedroom and starts playing their acoustic guitars. There were amps, and I brought my ibanez along, and played my own music downstairs. I stopped playing for a sec and heard them all singing, and decided to go upstairs. I start to sing with them in the room and the damn crazy blonde jumps ontop of me and we started wrestling.
We stumble out of the room and start rolling around on the floor, she goes ontop of me in the sexual position, and just stares at me, and theres this LOOONG silence, and I Coudl feel her sitting on my crotch. After a long silence we continued to brawl, or whatever, and at one point shes like "NIKKOLAI, PUNCH ME IN THE FACE!" and I was a little puzzled, and just said "..wait...what?" "Punch me in the FACE YOU LOSER!" so I was like "...okay" and kissed her . Her face went as red as a tomato, and she was blushing like mad. She says "EEW! YOU WEIRDO!", she uppercuts me and runs out of the room.
I find the funny thing iwth this girl is, she's SO AGRESSIVE! She's very violent, and she's a Taurus. I figured it out pretty fast, but deep down isnide, I knew she was this sensitive girl that goes home and cries. Don't ask how I knew, I just did. She puts on that agressive attitude to hide her pain and her insecurities. I'm the only one that ever figured that out, as EVERYONE thinks she's a bitch.
Her dad's a heroin addict, and I'm pretty sure he abused her a lot, and probably raped her too, or molested her, who knows, but she definitel yhas a fucked up background. She doesn't know how to treat people. She's very mean to me sometimes, especially as her self-esteem goes down, and as her self-esteem would get worse, she'd get even more cruel. If I don't give her any affection or attention for a long enough time, it'll start to drive her insane. One day, I remember I said hi to EVERYONE but her, and I saw her legs start to shake and her anxiety was building up, I didn't tlak to her for about a week. It's quite clear she wants my affection. Basically we had a lot more good and bad times.
I'm leaving out a lot of shit here btw. One night, the sunday before easter. I hung out with Sally and her best friend, downtown and she got wasted. She apparently is in love with Julian, and she went to look for him, I knew he was at the docks, so I went there first. On the way I saw her best friend trying to get raped by some homeless guy, and I saved her. she had to go pee in the pita pit so I let her go do that. I went to see Julian and we got in an argument, he kept saying that sally's a stupid bitch and I got pissed. She appears out of nowhere, and he said to fuck off and to take her with me. We go to the other end of the water and sit on a bench, she sits in a garbage can with her legs sticking out and puts her hood up. I stared out at the water for a good five minutes. I took her hood off and she was crying, and I tried to hug her.
She pushes me away and leaves. I go to bastion square to think. 20 minutes later she comes back with her friend and she slike "NIKKOLAI I GOT IN A FIGHT AT MCDONALDS WITH SOME BITCH" and told me about it. We started drinkign in an alleyway nex tto bastion, and an ARMY OF CRAZY HOES appear out of nowhere and surround us. They started calling sally really vulgar names, you know how it is. One girl was calling her a whore because she slept iwth her boyfriend, and sally says hes an asshole and she hates him anyway, then he pops out of nowhere . Nothing else really happened and the ypeace out.
HOURS LATER (I'm seriously trying to nutshell everything) we're outside the mcdonalds, and sally's WASTED, and she hugs me and starts crying and we were talking about a lot of things, she said she wants a man, and when she looks at me she sees "a kid who's still learning about life", but when I'm older she'll consider me, and then said sorry again, or whatever. We hang out of ranother 2 or 3 hours, it's 1 AM? 2 AM? Her best friend gets picked up by her parents, and sally says to me "Nikkolai...slumber party at your place?" . Obviously, I obliged to such an invitation.
She comes over to my house and we played smash brothers all night, and I kicked her ass, obviously. The whole night was VERY AWKWARD. Every time our eyes would meet, we'd blush and look away. I barely got any sleep.
I find whenever we get too close, emtionally, she pushes me away.
Anyways, April 08, Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, As I Lay Dying, Municipal Waste, and God Forbid!
I got to stay at the front of the bar for lambs set, there was a wall of death during black label. After the show I went to the tour buses and lamb came out (seirously) and signed my congregation shirt. Alexi laiho was trashe dout of his mind, chris said he couldn't come out. I saw him for a sec in the tour bus though. We sang happy birthday to him from outside and saw pizza guys bringing a cake into the bus.
A few months later, Sally's drunk out of her mind again (what else is new) and she starts to brawl with me, and I dominated her it got very kinky, strangling, hair pulling, you name it, we did it. Here's one of the battle scars:
She tore my Congregation shirt that was signed by LOG with her teeth.
That was a good time... lol.
Anyways, one night, she was like "nikkolai... have a beer Jus tone beer...have a beer nikkolai" and I eventually gave in and had abeer, I started drinking shot sof random things, I didnt know what any of it was. I got so trashed that it took me ten minutes to put the key into my door.
On 4:20 I got into weed, which was interesting.
One day, Sally says to me "Nikkolai...do you wanna have sex?" and I was just iwth my friend Gabe, and gabe looks at me and hes like pretty muc hsaying "dO IT!! DO IT!!" and with this girl, you can NEVER TELL IF SHE'S SEIROUS. It's psychology 101 whenever you hang out iwth her. She knows how to controll her body languange to confuse you, so I had to do it a lot too, it was almos talways a mind game. I thought the best thing ot do would be to tease her and leave it open, so I said "I dunno, I think you'd just enjoy it too much". She pauses, and just says "I'd acutally do it...but... just ause your ea virign, and you think you'll blow me away, but then you'd cum in 5 seconds nad I'd be like "haha I told you so". There was a pause, and everyone else showed up.
Sally's Ex from australia appears out of nohwere, and she starts to date him. She disappears for about a month ,and I went insane. If you saw a girl every day (literally) for so many months, you'd star tto miss her a lot.
So about a month goes by, nothing really that interestin ghappens. I see sally with her best friend drunk ou to fher mind, and theres two douchebag guys with them. Sally sees me and quickly turns around and seems kind of nervous. When I went over there she turns around and shes like "...OH...its YOU" (She always tries to play it off like she hates me when others are around, that always bothered me). and she says to one of the guys "This guys OBSESSED with me". She's very unpredictable when she's drunk, she's either very mean, or very nice. In this case, she was a bitch.
She said at one point "You know what? I don't like you, at ALL". I said "oh...yeah? WEll, I don't like you EITHER!" (obviously lieing). She looked kind of hurt. She stares at me for a minute, slaps me in the face, and leaves. I left and cried .
I got really depressed for the next week. A few days ago, me, julian, his brothers, and some other friends go to the beach. Now, I may sound crazy, but when she's nearby, I know... Like, I don't acutally know, but I just kinda feel her presence, i guess, don't ask, but I'll just know if she's nearby. I had a feeling she was coming, and she shows up with some guy, he was this big burly looking musclehead guy.
He never said anything, it turns out he's the boyfriend from australia or whatever. I'm nutshelling this night with the most important part. Keep in mind, me and sally have been in a major conflict for a long tim enow. I said to my friend Tristan at one point "You know, tristan... Don't frown because of what you lost... just smile...because it happened" and Sally says "...What was that? Nikkolai, say it again" and I repeate dmyself, and she turned her head and stared at me. I said "Well, if you can't see someone anymore, you shouldn't frown becuase you can't see them anymore, but you should smile, becuase you have memorie sthat you can hold onto and cherish in your heart." She pauses and says "OMG..Nikkolai...that's the most sense you've ever made, in, like...ever! Give me a hug!" I looked at her like she was from another planet, and she comes over to me and tells me to stand up and so I obliged, and she gave me a REAL hug. I mean, it wans't a bullshit hug, she squeased me really hard (that line oculd be interpeted in so many wrong ways ).
She left or whatever, and I had a good ngiht. I was recently informed that she was crying in the youth centre a few days ago. That poor girl. I got depressed after that, I just felt bad for her, because I seriously do give a shit about her well being. I found out from an inside girl that she doesnt want to be with him anymore, but shes stayign with him anyway. Why do women do that anyway? I mean, he's makign her miserable, so what hte fuck's the point?
I haven't seen her since then, that was a few days ago. She's only been taught agresion and pain, and thats the only way she knows how to be to somebody. So, I think when she says "I hate you", it's her way of saying "I love you" (not nececessarily romantically). I explained this to a few friends and it made sense to them.
SO MUCH MORE HAS HAPPENED, but I tried to nutshell it as best as I could, almost every day was blog worthy, seriously. I'll keep my blogs up to date from here. This girl still isn't mine, and I love her dearly, but I know it will happen. I'll just be patient.
(Yeah I ripped off Star Wars, is there a problem with that?!?)
I have a feeling 2009 is going to be a much better year for me! 2008 sucked... Horribly.
A few days ago I met a really cool girl in the mall randomly. After two weeks of seeing eachother around she invited me over to her house. I was pretty stoked and we took the bus down there. When I entered the apartment her father jus tkinda looks at me and I wanted to make a good first impression so I said "Hi sir, I'm Nikkolai " and put out my hand to shake, and he looked at me for a good 10 seconds or so, and put his hand out and shook it and I nodded. Thinking about it now I tihnk he was measuring me up, but in these days where there are a lot of... bad guys out there, I guess that's how it has to be.
As I entered her room I saw a guitar which surprised me. It was... quite a piece though. There was a painting on a wall which intruiged me. Turns out she's an artist. I saw a grad pic on the wall, so she's at least 17... Older than me.. hmm. There was also her poetry pinned against the walls, which I read. I thought it was pretty decent material. It was interesting to read as well, but I think the most interesting part was the poetry seemed very personal, and she had the balls to put them on her wall, where EVERYONE that goes into this room would see. But I noticed from the way she responded to my comments that nobody has ever commented on her artwork or poetry in her room, which I'm no tsurprised about. I find it interesting when girls have talents or artsy hobbies like that.
... I spoke too soon, however, because she popped in a BRITNEY SPEARS CD to her CD player and we started playing Mario Kart on the n64. Hey, I love mario kart, but when I hear "HIT ME BABY, ONE MORE TIME!" over the damn sterio, it really wrecks the mood. And, no, we didn't do anything sexual. *queue BOOOOOOOO from the readers* We got on the topic of how the dark side of the moon syncs with the Wizard of Oz, and she said we should do that sometime. A few hours go by and it's time for me to leave. Just before she shuts the door, I told her to wait a sec and she opens it back up. I looked her in the eye for what seemed like an eternity and asked her if she wanted to hang out tommorrow, she said she had to go to a party. I aske dher what day was best for her and seh said she doesnt reall ymake plans with people, or osme bullshit like that, and I got UBER CONFUSED, so I said ".......Okay.....So... Is that a fancy way of saying "I don't want to han gout wiht you?" and she said nono not at all. I paused for a minute and said I had a really good time with her and that I Was totally down for doing this again, and ended it at that.
Next day, I get invited to a party, which is coincidentally the same party she was gonna go to. It turns out she never showed to that party, but it was interesting anyway. I don't really remember all the details, but you know those complexes where every house looks exactly the same? It was like that with this house. On my way bnack from walking a friend to the bus stop, i thought the house next to it was the right house, and I walk in and I'm like "...where the fuck did everybody go?" and walk around, and some old lady in the kicthen looks at me like she saw a ghost, and I yelled "OH MY GOD IM SO SORRY" and run away, then I trip and hit my head on the door, stumble up and run out .
Throughout the party there was this brunette girl that kept looking at me, we had some intense eye contact. I thought not much of it, but when I went to he washroom i walked in and she was in there, wihc was embarassing but I waited out anyway. She comes out and shes like "it's alll good " and I asked fo rher name and shook her hand. Now, to let you all know, every girl my age has the worst hand shakes ever, like a fucking fish, but this girls shake was FIRM! REALLY FIRM! That's when I was like "...damn!". After the party I saw her alone away form the house texting. My instinct said to get her phone number. I walked up to her and talked to her fora bit. We had a 'moment' and I said "Holy crap woman, you ahve the most beautiful green eyes I've ever seen" and we have a nother 'moment' of silence and I said "Mine are a lot like yours, except they used to be brown but got greener..." and she said "OMG MINE TOO!" .
After awhile I straight up said "You seem like an incredible girl... May I have your phone number?". Now, ususally, if you say this to a girl when you just having met her, she'll think you're a creeper, and i know this already, but I didn't evne mean to say htat, it just came out. She looks at me again and says "sure!" gives me the number, and then jumps ontop of me and gave me the best hug I've EVER HAD. I even lifted her up and swung her around... I went back into the house and she left to ge tpikced up from her ride.
On my way home (about ten mins later) I'm walking along the ice and I slipped, and yelled really loudly "OW! FUCK!!!". I see a figure appear and say "Are you okay?" it's the girl. I said "No... I'm reall ynot ". She was huddled really close up to me, which was a good sign. She asked me to walk her ot the Macs to get her ride. I said sure, and we walked down these huge stairs. It was slippery, and she grabbed my hand. I'VE NEVER HELD AG IRLS HAND BEFORE! I know some of you readers are probably laughing at me but whatever. We started taling about music and I had my dark sid eof the moon album on me acutally, and I pulled it out and she says "I LOOOVE PINK FLOYDD!". I freaked out and we starte dtalking about music, she's even into metal. We had a really good chemistry and talked for awhile.
When her ride came she gave me another hug and the way she looked at me during ht ehug it looked like she wanted a kiss. I asked her already if she was durnk and she saida little, and I want to amke sur eshe remembers the first kiss so I decided not to, so I just kissed her head. She told me to giv eher a call sometime and I said sure, and she left. I ran into a bus stop about 30 seconds later with two girls from the party and talked to them for a bit. Then I went home.
I went to
an all-ages metal show last night. On my way to the show I had a weird vibe, it
was kind of like when I met those guys when wearing my pink floyd shirt that
night in one of my other blogs, same instinct that something crazy was gonna
happen. I went to the show and found out about it last minute pretty much, so I
was an hour and a half late.
When I got
to the show I walked in and it turns out a really good friend of mine, the
manager of the local metal/rock shop, Mia, is a security guard, and she’s the
sponsor. She let me in for free and I got free pizza and water. I talked to her
for awhile and this kid walks up to me looking shitfaced and he says “NIKKOLAI!!”
and I said “….Where have I seen you!?!?!” and basically his parents are
lifelong friends and I used to hang out with him when our parents would hang
out, his name is Matt.
He said “YOURE
COMING IN THE MOSH PIT, AND THEN TO HELL!” and I thought “oh my god this kid is
insane….AWESOME!”. He went back in the main room and I waited in the lobby
while the next band was setting up. Some ridiculously gorgeous blonde girl in a
pink shirt walks up to me and puts her finger under my chin and says I look
like Anthony Kedis, and winked. I’m not fan of the chilis so I had no idea who
he was at the time. I talked to her for a bit and the band started playing so I
went over there.
I started
rocking out to a few songs, there was a lot of energy. I was right at the
front. I asked Mia where the washroom was and she guided me through the crowd.
I saw a metal chick I knew from my school so as I walked by I tapped the
opposite shoulder and kept walking through the crowd lmfao. Came back out and
enjoyed some more metal. The band was done playing and the next one was setting
up, I talked to the guitarist in the band and he actually remembered my name,
cause I swear I remembered meeting him as well somewhere… Weird. I have a video
on my phone of me playing the Walk With Me In Hell solo because when I say I’ve
been playing for 7 months, nobody takes me seriously, so I wanted that to
change. I showed the video to this guy and he said “Damn dude don’t stop
practicing!”, which was cool I guess.
The
headlining band started playing and these guys were good. The guitarist did
this sweep/tapping solo thing, and I swear I couldn’t even see his fingers
move, it was unbelievable. He’s been playing for ten years. The show eventually
ended and my neck was sore… I decided to walk home with Matt. We were pretty
far out from home so we had to take a bus. We missed two of them so we waited
outside for a good 40 or so. We talked about really random stuff, philosophy, music,
etc. We got on the bus and asked the driver where he would let us off, etc. We
didn’t talk on the bus. When we got off he didn’t have a place to crash, so I
said I would take him to my house. We passed second slice and he decided to buy
me a slice. We sat down in there and talked about more philosophy stuff, I wish
I recorded our whole conversation that night, it was really interesting, a
shame I can’t give you all details.
While we
were walking home, at some point he said “We should start a band” and I was actually
thinking of saying the same thing, and it was weird ‘cause this guy hasn’t seen
me play yet. When we got home we snuck into my room and he asked to play my
guitar, he showed me some riffs he wrote and they were good… Really freaking
good riffs. I showed him my material and he thought it was awesome. We spent…
awhile writing material and altering each others riffs to make them better.
We went to
sleep, woke up, and he left. He said we should write some music sometime and I
was down with that. I have a really good feeling about this kid. With every
successful band, it had to be THOSE people in the band, no other combination. I
was paranoid that I wouldn’t find the people I need, but things are falling
into place. I wonder who the rest of my band will be consisted of? Do I know
these people already? Or have I yet to meet them?
I had a
good night, I kind of regret not taking anything further with that blonde girl
at the show, but whatever. I’m starting to get a band going and that’s
definitely more important.
On December
2nd, I saw Lamb of God, Metallica, and The Sword. I took a friend of
mine along whom I haven’t spoken to in about half a year. We met up downtown
and took the bus to the ferry. On the bus we ran into two guys with Metallica
shirts and talked a bit. When we got to the ferry terminal it turns out our
ferry was cancelled and we had to wait 3 hours for the next one. We met up with
my friends co-worker and he had a laptop with him. We plugged it in from the
outside of the terminal and played music, chillin’ out. A girl had a banjo with
her and I played metal on it… It sounded like two cats having anal sex without
any lube.
I met a lot
of fans on the way there. On the ferry we were skeptical about getting bus
tickets or making it to the show on time. We hung out on the deck of the ferry
and talked to people with metallica/LOG shirts, the whole ferry, at least 90%,
had band related shirts on. It was a great feeling to see so many congregated
together. We got to Vancouver
from the bus and I saw a guy with a Lamb of God Congregation t-shirt (the fan
club). I thought I would be the only one wearing one. I walked up to him and
said “THE CONGREGATION IS HEEREE!” and he laughed and we talked for a bit. I
asked him for his number to jam sometime and he sounded pretty stoked.
My dad met
up with us to pick up our stuff. He gave us each another 40 bucks and we headed
to the GM place with the Skytrain. When we got there I picked up my tickets and
we went up the stairs to get checked by the security guards. What amazed me was
it would be so easy to sneak in a weapon to a show… I mean they just touch pat
your pockets, you could easily put a weapon in your underpants or something… If
anything they should have METAL DETECTORS… Anyways, so we enter the stadium and
walk around. I buy a Lamb of God Tour shirt and put it under my congregation
shirt. We go down to the floor and The Sword starts playing.
Now don’t
get me wrong here, these guys were good, but I was expecting so much more. The
whole time I was thinking to myself “These guys are touring with LAMB OF GOD
and METALLICA? Really?!”. I guess I had really high expectations, but I didn’t
hear any cool solos, and the songs were mostly instrumental with some generic
power-chords. Good band, but not great. Don’t flame me either because it’s an
opinion.
When The
Sword were done I made sure I was standing near where Mark would be. I was
incredibly stoked to see my biggest metal influence walk onto the stage. The
whole stadium went black and all I heard was Hourglass start playing. I started
freaking out! Randy grew out his hair and it was a huge surprise. I knew every
lyric, drumbeat, and riff, etc. I know their music incredibly well. After
Hourglass they played Ruin. What amazed me was EVERYONE was singing, I did not
expect that at all.
What pissed me off was I have
realized why people hate going to shows where Metallica is playing. Most of the
people there didn’t even look like they liked metal, there was chavs, preps,
and skanky looking chicks. During Ruin, right when Chris did the fill before
the breakdown I looked at my friend and he looked at me and we were about to
start a pit. Right away we went at it and people were like “WOAH BREAK IT UP
KIDS!” and started flipping shit. We ignored them and had a 2 person mosh pit…
NEWSFLASH: IT’S A FUCKING METAL SHOW!
Randy
started doing his usual speech after two songs and did the usual “We are Lamb
of God from Richmond Mother-fucking Virginia!
There’s a lot of people behind the scenes here, most people don’t get to see
them, they drive the buses, set up our gear, that’s the ROAD CREW, GIVE IT UP
FOR THE FUCKING ROAD CREW! Because every day, they WALK, WITH ME, IN HELL!”
*Queue orgasmic riff. During the breakdown of the song I started crying and
watching Mark play that solo right infront of me was by far, by far, the most mesmerizing,
inspirational thing I’ve ever witnessed in my entire life.
They played
Omerta next and Randy went to the other end of the stadium (stage in the
center) and initiated a circle pit. My friend and I ran over there and it was
kind of nauseating as my head was hurting a lot from headbanging and it wouldn’t
stay still so I was kinda dizzy but I kept running anyway. I had a blast.
Eventually Randy said “This next song is BLACK LABEL” and I was like “They can’t
be done already…”.
During the
start of the song there was some dumb asses that were already moshing, you
could tell who the fans were and who the morons were. I was in perfect sync
with randy and did a countdown tih my fingers, ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR! And we
all ran in. The mosh pit was fun as shit, I didn’t get hurt at all! When the
song was done I walked up the stairs repeatedly saying “holy shit….holy shit…holy
shit…holy shit..” You get the idea. Near the top of the stairs these guys gave
me the horns and were like “YEAAH LAMB OF GOD” and I talked to them for a few
minutes and one of the guys said he already talked to chris adler and he said
they were coming back in March for their own tour.
When
Metallica were about to start their set, we randomly decided to go for a walk
around the stadium. As we’re walking I see a man with grey hair by a garbage
can. I said “That guy looks a lot like John Campbell…Naw it couldn’t be him”.
Kept walking by the man, and then I said outloud “HOLY FUCK IT’S JOHN CAMPBELL!”
I threw my water to the ground and ran up to him, and gave him a HUGE hug! I
said “ARE YOU JOHN CAMPBELL?!” and he just looks at me and like “Dude… John…
Your band has been such a huge influence on me” and I started crying and he
gave me another hug and we talked for a good 10-fifteen minutes. The most important
part was this, I said “I have that dream that you guys had man, I want to tour
with you guys any kick some ass!” He said “When we started we were absolute shit,
I could barely play my bass and nobody cared about us, but look where we are
now! That could be you one day”. He shook my hand really firmly and said “Believe
in yourself” and I was in complete awe. “I’m dead serious, believe in yourself
, kid”. The manager walks out and John says “This is the manager” and I shook
his hand too and we took a pic. He said “You gotta stop cryin for this pic
though, it’s gotta be metal!”. He said “I’ll see you around kid” and walked
through the door you see in the picture.
My friend
said “DUDE YOU JUST MET ONE OF YOUR FUCKING HEROES HOLY SHIT!” I started to cry
again and sat down by the wall, and my friend said “You look like you just got
laid!!” I started to laugh and Metallica was done their first song. I went down
to the floor and had a blast with Metallica. During Master of Puppets I put up
my lighter on the halfway mark and the whole stadium was lit up. We were all
kinda humming to the guitar and EVEN THE SOLO! I was getting chills hearing the
whole stadium sing along to it. A guy with a VIP thing around his neck shook my
hand during the last half of the song and told me that I reminded him of when
he saw Metallica in the eighties. I looked up near the end of the song and
James pointed THE FUCKING DEVIL HORNS TO ME! I will never forget that. EVER!!
The end result was James said Vancouver
kicks mad ass and he loves us to pieces :haha.
We decided
to wait by the tour busses to meet the rest of Lamb of God. I was determined to
meet them. I asked a security guard if these were Lamb of God’s busses and she
said no. I decided to stay anyway. At 1 am, I see a shadowy face under a hoodie
walk by, and I said “WILLIE!?!/ HOLY SHIT WILLIE?!?!” and he turned around and
stuck out his tongue. He asked my friend for a smoke and I’ll say we talked to
him for a good 15-20 minutes. I wish I recorded it. I thought about it but I
thought maybe he’d be uncomfortable with that. His biggest influence was
Metallica and he wanted to be just like Kirk Hammet. Interesting stuff. We took
a pic with him and when he was leaving I Said “Dude, if someone tried to pull a
dimebag on you guys I would dive on the stage infront of you and take the shot,
I truly from the bottom of my heart wish the best for you guys. Win a fucking
grammy, hit #1 on the board with Wrath, which I WILL contribute to, hell, I’ll
buy 20 records” and he said “30!! BUY 30!!” we started laughing and we had one
of those really long handshakes, yknow pushing eachothers fists back and forth.
I told him he probably needs to sleep, but first I asked him where Mark and
Randy where, he said “Mark should be out soon. Randy’s drunk and I have no idea
where he is… I doubt Randy even knows where he is…”
I just realised how fucked up my hair got... Wow...
He
eventually left and we waited a long time for the rest of the band to come out.
My dad phoned me and SCREAMED at me to get the fuck on the skytrain as there
was one left and my dad lives an hour away, and the skytrain is really fast. I
have no idea where his house was so we’d be fucked. We had to leave, but
thinking about it now, we should have fucking stayed anyway and slept in a
bush. I would’ve done that to meet the rest of my heroes.
They will
be back in March, and if they aren’t they’ll eventually come back. I will, without
a doubt, run into them again, John definitely won’t forget me. I know Willie
looked kinda drunk so he might forget, but I have a feeling I’ll run into them
again in the future.
Hello, Pit
Monkeys! I’m sorry for my very long departure. I have started the mini series
“Nikkolais Night Time Adventures!”. [Also be sure to check my lamb of god
challenge thing... I'm getting close!! /excited clap for self). I will only
be adding nights that are actually epic and blog worthy as I’m out every night.
I would like to show you readers what the hangout place looks like. This is
where EVERYTHING happens. Where countless drunk women make out. Where the Chavs
go to pick a fight. Where the manly men break their strings. Where the crack
heads scream louder than an eagle on steroids. Where the echo of an acoustic
guitar’s sound hole never becomes silenced. Where the sun don’t shine, but the
moonlight glows. Where all details of logic of man and nature are defied. This
is the bastion square:
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z183/Superpalle h/DSC00444.jpg
Okay so I headed to the square as usual at around 5:30. Mack and his friends
are there and Mack is playing a violin while the other guy is on a guitar. Some
other guys who I've never seen around before show up and two of them look
pretty metal, one is a dude and the other is a girl. The girl is decent looking
but they're all in their 20's. I talked to the dude for awhile and he seemed
pretty interesting. The metal dude (his name is theo) and two girls were off
somewhere so I went with them, the girl went to a washroom in star bucks and
then we went back to the square. Theo wouldn’t stop bitching about his cell
phone being dead, so Mack started improvising a song about cell phones which
was incredibly hilarious! I wish I had the lyrics.
Macks brother who lives god knows where shows
up and he seems like a cool dude. I see this guy with a semi hollow electric in
its case around and I said =O OMG I WANNA TRY YOUR SEMI HOLLOW (I Was
getting sick of shredding on acoustics all night). He said later. The guy
was with his girlfriend and they were talking. Some guy from an alleyway thing
in my school starts talking to him and he said to me " YOU GO TO MY
SCHOOL DONT YOU!" so I said yeah and I decided to go in the alleyway in
meet them. There were 3 really pretty girls and they all went to my school, and
they all kept hitting on me but I'll assume that’s because they were drunk. One
girl looked into my eyes and she’s like "wOAH YOURE THE MOST FUCKE DUP ONE
HERE!!" "... I'm sober" "No way you must be on so much
shit" "No I don’t do drugs...".
One guy there said he plays guitar (what else is new) and knows some LOG stuff
which I found interesting. Later that night when he did have a guitar to play
al he played was hey there delilah and some other trendy shit for the girls,
but he had good technique so he probably could/does play metal. Anyways so a
security guard in his car appears out of nowhere so we're like OH SHI-! So we
went into the bastion square and this brunette girl who wouldn’t stop hitting
on me was liek ZOMG GITARZ!!! and I was like "I know all those guys
lawl" so she was like oh cool we should go hang out with them. So we did for
awhile.
Mack was
hitting on her and he’s like "How old are you? and she says "15"
and he’s like "oh damn you should come back here in 4 years" (glad to
see Mack has class , even if he would hit anything that moves) This
homeless guy who is around sometimes who has a REALYL CREEPY VOICE( like a
creeper voice, its all grunged up and shit from drugs I think) starts hitting
on her and I’m like and he whispers to me "DUDE SHES BEAUTIFUL!
Take my guitar, and go get her tiger! I
laughed and sat down and played a bunch of metal for like an hour. What I found
interesting was. EVERYONE had their eyes on me the whole time I was playing,
but the people with crowds were the morons with their acoustics strumming 3
chords over and over again, but I could peer through my hair and litterally
everyone was watching me, but crowding around them... fuck. I'm kinda
tempted to bring my electric with my little amp and play with that.
I've been practicing sweep picking for awhile so I started doing some sweeps
(horribly and macks brother (gabe) is like "dude... you’ve
been playing 5 months?" "Yes.." "Not even in a year from
now you're gona be fucking INSANE!!!" I wasn’t sure what to say to that so
I just thanked him. I'm planning to learn some acoustic music that takes skill
to play. Acoustic solos if you will, just so what I play sounds how it should.
Anyways on with the night. These 3 chavs (which as we know are always trouble) went above the stairs from
the square (to go up to the parking building things other floors, its like a
long stairwell thing that goes up to a platform and then over to more stairs.)
poured beer on one of my friends. He was asking for a fight. He started hitting
on the brunette girl that was flirting with me before that, so he was obviously
just trying to look like hot shit.
He
says "YOU HAVE SOMETHIN TO FUCKIN SAY TO ME EH? YOU GOT BEEF MAN YOU GOT
BEEF?" I wanted to say "This isnt a fuckin barbeque, buddy". But
my instinct told me to stay out of it. One of our friends gets punched in the
face by the guy, and my friend puts him on a headlock on the ground and starts
singing a tune like "I’ve got you doooowwwn down down down... Hows my
blood? and starts like shooting blood form his nose at his face. During this,
they’re RIGHT next to one of the guitars and its getting beat so I’m like
"OH FUCK THE GUITAR!!" so I ran in the fray of the battle and saved
the guitar. The started arguing some more and the guy was telling off even
girls. Everyone crowded around our friend and the guy was like "YOU WANT
SECONDS" and were all like "get the fuck out of here" and my
friend says "Where are you from?" "I was fuckin born and raised
here" "Well this shit don’t go down in Victoria there’s no gangs here
we're a peaceful community, get the fuck out"
He leaves with his friends and kisses the
brunette chick on the head and he asks her to go with him but she says no (and
she was drunk, too!). He comes back again and things get REALLY BRUTAL. Chicks
are pushing him and he’s pushing them. I've got macks guitar around my
shoulder. The preps from my school are in the distance watching so I joined them
cause the brunette chick looked like she didn’t feel well so I decided to
console her. The fight got really crazy and people were grabbing skateboards
but a girl broke it up and the guys left.
I forget exactly how the conversation
with the girl went but it was like "You don’t look okay" "I'm
fine, just really drunk" " thought you said you were
sober haha" "no I lied." then there was a silence and I
said "no you really don’t look okay hun" and she says "If I
don’t look okay, how bout you fix me?" and gives me this "I wanna do
you look" we glared at each other for a long time while I can see people
getting beaten up in the background (not very romantic L) and I was thinking to myself "I want
to do this really badly, but shes drunk as shit, and I dont want to know I took
advantage of a drunk girl, and her friend was behind me a few metres. So I just
said "I don't think you need fixing, you look perfect as you are" she
paused and flipped her hair and said "You just cant fix me" "Oh
believe me... I could, and more " and she bit her
lip. I didn’t want to say it was becuase she was drunk, it could
offend her.
We
just kinda flirted for abit and then I left with the prep kids in my school.
One girl was crying and we found out the guy actually punched her in the face.
I have a bad feeling about him, but I doubt he'll show up again. I walked,
carrying macks guitar to the bus stop and I just talked to the kids there. The
boyfriend of one girl said he was gonna get the two girls a cab. The cab comes
and I ran to the cab to ask for the girls number. I went to the window and was
like "WHATS YOUR NUMBER/" and I hear one number and the cab drives
away. Fuck. But she goes to my shcool, so I will see more of her.
I went
back to the square and we hung out for a bit. Theo got really drunk and kept
trying to make out with a girl that just dumped him. We went to the pizza place
and hung out there for abit. Gabe lent theo his bank card to buy him booze, and
I swear this went on for at least an hour, they kept arguing about who has the
bank card. I even recorded it on my cell phoen becuae it was funny as shit. Hes
like "CHECK ME" and he checks him and he like"oh wow,
look, its my bank card!" and he says “NO MAN NO THAT’S APICE OF PLASTIC
YOURE WRONG YOU ASSHOLE”. One guy in the background was signing a song about
jesus and two drunk girls were being stupid, so I decided to go home as nothing
interesting was happening. It was 3:00 AM.
I
had a great night. In a sense I regret not making out with that girl, I’m sure
it would have lead to more things. But I know I will see more of her.
On Friday, I was hoping I would run into some kids I knew downtown, as I don't have a facebook so I never really know what's goin' down, y'know (maybe I should get on that...). I walked by The Bay and I saw this crazy guy in my social circle that wears clothes from value village all the time and he looks like he's homeless . He led me into The Bay and there was some girls there, I only knew two of them from my school, the rest I've never seen before.
The homeless man (his name is Ryan, and he's not actually homeless, although I wouldn't be surprised if I saw him living in a cardboard box) invited me to a Rave. A RAVE!? WTF? I LIKE METAL DAMMIT! I've heard so many bad things about raves, but then I said to myself "I'm sixteen, I should live a little" and decided to go. It costed 15 dollars to go, so I had to take money out of the bank machine. Then Ryan realised he spent all of his money on acid and had none left to go to the rave (go figure), so I took more money out to pay for him.
There was one girl there that goes to my school, she had this REALLY RED EYES, she looked sooo hammered, so I talked to her for a bit and was just like "WOAH YOU LOOK SO STONED OLOLOLLO". She also had no money so, being the kind, generous person I am, I gave her money for her ticket as well. I ended up talking to this girl for quite awhile. I got hungry so I invited her, her friend, and ryan to a pizza place and we ate there, then went to the rave.
I really had no idea what to expect from this. I wasn't on any drugs. There was a guy playing with a DJ thing and there was disco lights everywhere. We all sat down on these couches and then the girls went into the washroom (I find it weird how they always go to the washroom in huge packs...). When they came out they were all in these fancy clothes, and the girl I was talking to looked really pretty . I couldn't hold it back so I said straight up "You look absolutely stunning", and she blushed, so I guess that was cool. We sat around for awhile and more people started showing up. I decided to go on the dance floor and danced with some girls. Then I decided I would copy everything ryan did and he was doin' these really trippy moves.
I had no idea Raves were rediculously long! It was about 10 hours long. Some other guy showed up and he had cannibal corpse patches of each album across his coat. I just said "I CAME BLOOD INSIDE OF HER" and he lol'd. He gave a guy his msn and his e-mail was something like "fretboard ninja" and some numbers. I asked him if he played guitar and he said yes. I asked how long he'd been playing for, he said a few years. "Do you play guitar?" Me: "Yes, I do." "I WOULD SO KICK YOUR ASS MAN! I PLAY TESTAMENT AND IT TAKES ME DAYS TO GET A SONG DOWN!! ITS SO AWESOME!!".
The first thing that came into my mind was "Wow.. This guys a tool". He started kinda hitting on the girl that I had my eye on and I paid the ticket for, but he never went up to dance once. Then he left after about an hour. The girl that I had my eye on barely ever went for a break, she had some funky dance moves too. I danced with her for about an hour and we took a break. Then I pulled her out and asked if we could talk outside.
In a nutshell I danced with her for the whole rave pretty much, and as the night went on, more and more people that I went with were leaving. When the rave ended, it was just me, her, and her friend (too bad her friend wasn't there ). We left and talked about random stuff. We decided to walk to 7/11 since we could get free hot chocolate as I work there. On the way, this homeless guy walks up to me and he goes "DUDE DUDE I REALLY NEED A QUARTER PLEASe!!" I paused, and since I was in a good mood, I said "Okay, fine, here's a $1.50" "Thanks man!" then he turns to the girl and begs her for money, and I said "Look here buddy, don't fucking take advantage of my fucking generosity, don't push your luck and beg my friends, give me the fucking money back." he obliged and left, and she looked impressed .
We went to the 7/11 and I waved to my co-worker. The hot chocolate machine wasnt working for her and it was just giving her hot water, and I said "I guess it doesnt like you " and she went "", and I opened up the machine and said "...but I like you " and flicked the switch. We went outside to a bench and talked for a bit, I sat across from her and sat next to her friend, I randomly stopped talking and just glared at her with a smirk, and she started blushing like MAD, so that was def a good sign too.
Then a guy in a suit walks up to us and he starts telling us really bad jokes, like "Why did the jew play football?...To get the QUARTER BACK!!". I said "Why was the guy with the Led Zeppelin shirt REALLY FUCKING IRRITATED?" "...becuase...theres a guy...telling him really...bad........jokes" "....Yes. NOW LEAVE". I made her laugh quite a bit. It was one of those "You have to be there" things. Luckily the friend never really tlaked although I tried to engage her in the conversations too just to not seem like a douche.
She wanted to go to the bus stop, it was around 6:30 am now. We were out for two hours after the rave. Her bus was coming at 7:30. We sat out for an hour and talked about random things. She plays bass and her biggest passion EVER is music!! I'm sold! I told her to get into pink floyd said to listen to echoes off the meddle album and she said sure. Just before she left for the bus I got her number! As I walked away I realised I was still holding her resumes and she dropped it like 8 times. I ran back to the bus as it was driving away and kept banging on the door and the bus driver stopped at the light, I jumped on, gave her the resume, and got off .
When I got home there were cop cars outside my house. My dad phoned beucase he thought I went missing. I talked to the cops for about 30 minutes. What a pain! Thank god I had my resume on me, which gave a good impression on them. They left and wished me all the best.
I showered and put on new clothes. It was now around 8:30 AM I think. I played guitar for abit and then went back out. I ran into the kids from my "Crazy Night!" blog, and hung out with them fo ra few hours. Some random girl asked to play my friends guitar and he said sure. She played the Come As You Are intro really really really badly. She was like "YOU STUPID KIDS ODNT EVEN KNOW NIRVANA AND YOU CALL YOURSELVES MUSICIANS? WTF??!?!" and I was like . She names a ton of bands and says "You fucking kids can go listen to your rap or wahtever" and I point to my dark side shir and she's like "PINK FLOYD!! Okay, you're cool, but the rest of you... you all suck".
I found out there was a party they were going to at someones house. I went with them to the party and it was sooo crowded. There were a lot of good looking girls though. While I was sitting on the bench outisde hte portch there was this group of girls that kept galcning at me and I kinda regret not talking to them now... .
We left pretty late and hung around downtown till 2 or 3. We went into the macs and another girl asked to play my friends guitar. We sat outside and she strummed two chords and sang for 10 minutes. I said "...can you pla yanything else?" "Hey dude I've only been playing for a year". The girls asked him to play a song so he played one he wrote, which was, of course, all chords. God damn! PLAY SOMETHING HARD!! . They said "Wow you're really talented!" Then turned to me and asked my my name and shook my hand. You know you're a failure when you have a guitar in your hands and the girls give the guy next to you the attention after. Thinking back I should have asked to play and did a few solos or something. I stayed up all that night too. Sunday all I really did was play guitar. I slept sunday night.
Today I phoned the girl I got the number from at hte rave and she gave me her HOUSE PHONE, and I thought it was her cell, so I thought her mom, was her... Boy that was embarassing! At least I didn't say anything like "You've got some great moves in bed baby!" "EXCUSE ME?!"
I left out a lot of stuff, but I realised this blog was getting really, really long. All in all, raves aren't that bad, although I'd rather mosh to some metal. I had a great weekend.
Oh, by the way, I'm playing two songs for the school talent show. Walk With Me In Hell by LOG (Yeah I'm contiuing my LOG challenge again, so keep an eye for updates there, I WILL COMPLETE THAT LIST!! I SWEAAAAAAR!!, and my mark morton sig should be here soon...), and Comfortably Numb.
So, my mom left
for a few days to Vancouver
and let me stay alone. She gave me a chicken to eat, but I forgot about it, and
I forgot to shoot it out, and she got UBER MAD! So I decided to go for a walk. I
left at ten pm. My Pink Floyd’s dark side t-shirt was dirty, but I looked at
it, and I had this weird feeling. I just said “I have to wear this shirt”. I
had this weird feeling, like I was gonna meet someone… It was really bizarre.
So I went out on a journey around Government
street, around the docks. I saw some crazy kid
with a guitar that kind of looked like Kurt Cobain but with brown hair.
I ignored it and
went around the docks some more, walked around the parliament buildings, by the water. The guy that looks like Kurt Cobain and some
other kids are there and the kid looks at me and says “I like your shirt!” I
said to myself “AHA!!! THIS IS THE GUY!” I knew I was gonna meet someone, and I
did!
So I talked to
these guys for awhile. The guy has been playing for 4 years. Another guy was for 9, whom is close friends with our Kurt Cobain clone. I told him
comfortably numb was one of my big influences to play guitar and he starts
jamming some chords and starts singing it, and I sang along with him. Another
one of the kids also had a guitar with him and he started doing the Another
Brick in the Wall pt 2 chords. I knew right away I was gonna get along with
these guys. Some other guys appeared out of nowhere ALL WITH ACOUSTICS STRAPPED
TO THEM!
We went down to
the main road of downtown and there was a huge group of kids. They introduced
me, and we walked to some other road, split up, and met MORE kids. One kid with
blonde hair said to me “YOO MAN NICE TO MEET YOU” and shook my hand, his hand
smelled like shit but he said its good cologne…
There were a few
chicks in the group and they kept looking at me… It was sort of weird. We
walked down to some random park and chilled by these benches under this roof
thing. Every guy there had a guitar. It was nuts! The two guys that I made
really close friends with were both 21 years old.
People were having
jam sessions. One kid was an emo with the fringe cut and he just strummed the
same 3 chords singing some really cliché lyrics. I asked him if he could do any
solos and he said no… I’m thinking he plays just to get women, but I won’t
assume anything. There was another guy that was sort of emo too, and did the
same thing, but he did do some leads and had some good technique, but he seemed
too “hip” about it, y’know, always grinning after playing something at people.
I find the best musicians are very humble. Which is why I talked to the two 21
year olds the most. I asked the kurt cobain clone kid to play and he was so good! He really looked like he was having fun too. The other 21 year old guy started doing some rhythym chords. I asked if he knew any theory and he says "No theory, man... It's all from the heart". So rad!!
One of the kids
put his guitar down and it was leaning against the picnic table. One of the 21
year old guys (close friends with our Kurt Cobain clone) said “You should pick
up that guitar man”. I looked at it for a minute and was like “… I play metal,
I don’t think it would sound good” and he shrugged… I looked at it for another
minute and picked it up. I did the comfortably numb outtro solo (Never would I
have thought having only 14 frets on a guitar would be SO DAMN ANNOYING!!), and
he gave me some tips on how to play fast easier, etc. Nice guy.
He went to smoke
a doob or something, so I played almost every LOG song I know so far and the
aces high solo, and Achilles last stand. I got some compliments even though I
still think I suck :S it was sloppy playing. These chicks were watching me the
whole time so I guess that was cool. I already told them I’ve been playing for
4 months, so maybe they knew it was sloppy and just thought it was good for how
long I’ve been playing? Hell knows. Everyone there was stoned as shit, on
shrooms etc. They didn’t pressure me into any drugs! They asked if I did
anything and I said I’ve always been clean and they were cool with it. I don’t
dislike anyone in the group, which is a first ever.
So the kid with
the hand cologne or whatever starts playing too, and we sang hallelujah, fun
song! I got a chill in my stomach, it was a very overwhelming feeling to hear
so many people singing along to it! The cologne kid was on shrooms and he looked at my dark side of the moon shirt and hes like "DUDE THE RAINBOW IS LIKE MORPHING WITH THE TREES AND THE TRIANGLE IS IN THE SKY REFLECING THE LIGHT ON EVERYONE HOLY SHIT1!!!!!" :Haha. I had a conversation with some other older
guy that showed up out of nowhere about the Beatles, which was interesting. The
conversation got a little philosophical.
Then, OUT OF
FREAKING NOWHERE, SOME CRAZY PSYCHO METH BITCH starts screaming at us from
like, her house, or something, and she’s like “GET SOME FUCKING RESPECT YOU
FAGGOTS GO PLAY YOUR GUITARS AND TALK ABOUT PROSTITUTES ELSEWHERE” (we didn’t
even say the word prostitute so wtf). For a good ten or fifteen minutes. So the Kurt Cobain clone starts strumming
some chords and singing “THiss…craaazyy biititccch… keeps buggin uss….” And
improving some random shit. She started walking up to us so I was like oh fuck. And we started walking away. She kept screaming some more and we
didn’t care. We were walking through the park back to downtown, and two chicks
started talking to me about random shit. Funny how they both have boyfriends .
I was the only
one without a coat so I was pretty damn cold. I kept jittering lmfao. As we’re
walking up the road, we stopped to talk for about 20 minutes in the middle of
the road. Then THE CRAZY PSYCHO METH BITCH pops up out of FUCKING NOWHERE like
30 feet down the road ad we’re all like “LOLWAT”.
The bitch like
ran away so we kept walking anyway. We got to the 7/11 on Yates and since I
work at 7/11 I hooked everyone up with coffee . Some crazy man
named Joe, or something like that, gave Kurt Cobain clone (his name is Mack
btw) a hot dog for free.
The group totally
split up and it was just me, Mack, and his close friend. I could’ve went with
the other kids but I knew there was something special about these two. They
were the best musicians by far out of the rest and I thought it would be more
wise to hang out with them than some chicks and emo/prep guys.
So we walked
around for a while and talked about pink floyd and evolution, the passing of
souls and all of this other weird shit. Mack had to stay at his friends house
and they said I could walk with them there. Their apartment is literally two
blocks away from mine! HOLY SHIT! Ever convenient. I talked to them outside of
his apartment and got their e-mails and they said they wanted to jam with me!
Ooomgg! Then I went home, and it’s 5 AM. When I go inside my apartment building,
outside of my apartment is a painting of John Lennon…Yeah… wtf? This may sound
weird but it has to be some kind ofsign…
I think it’s too
bizarre how things just tie in together so conveniently. If my mom didn’t bitch
at me, I wouldn’t have left the house. If I didn’t decide to wear that pink
floyd shirt Mack wouldn’t have talked to me out of nowhere. That pink floyd
shirt was FUCKING DIRTY!! I’m REALLY HYGENIC!! There’s no way I would’ve worn
that shirt… But I wore it anyway. Ever crazy. There has to be something out
there, I don’t know if it’s a god, or some other being… There’s definitely
something out there…
The Manager at Aces and Spades (local metal shop) met her gang that she hung out with for 3 years because she lived on the street, at the SAME PLACE. I think it's creepy, but maybe I'm just insane. She was chillin by the fountain and some guys walked up to her and were telling her off, and she was like "bring it on fuckers!" and pulled out two knives each on the side of her hips, between her belt. They paused and were like "...this chicks rad! Come drink with us!" and she hung out with them for 3 years since, but all her gang members are dead now...
FINALLY! I know that took ages, but I got caught up with more technical material, like Necrophagist.
Checklist:
New American Gospel:
Black Label
A Warning
In the Absence of the Sacred Letter to the Unborn The Black Dahlia
Terror & Hubris In the House Of Frank Pollard
The Subtle Arts Of Murder and Persuasion
Pariah Confessional O.D.H.G.A.B.F.E
As The Palaces Burn:
Ruin As the Palaces Burn
Purified 11th Hour For Your Malice
Bootscraper A Devil In God's Country In Defense Of Our Good Name
Blood Junkie Vigil
Ashes of the Wake:
Laid to Rest Hourglass Now You've Got Something To Die For The Faded Line Omerta Blood of the Scribe One Gun Break You What I've Become Ashes of the Wake Remorse Is For the Dead Another Nail For Your Coffin (Would be great if someone tabbed the solo...) Sacrament:
Walk With Me In Hell Again We Rise Redneck Pathetic Foot to the Throat Descending Blacken the Cursed Sun Forgotten (Lost Angels)
"I guarantee that kid will NEVER get a job! " says my dad, as he leaves the house and goes to Vancouver.
I was told to get a haircut, and wear "appropriate" clothes before applying for a job or else I, apparently, would not get one. As the overconfident, and stubborn man I am, I obviously did not abide to this. The first place I went to was 7/11, wearing a Pantera t-shirt with studded wristbands, chains, EVERYTHING. I got the job, and I showed my dad up .
The job is fun so far, I don't work in the till at all, it's all stock/pricing etc. One of the girls I have to work with always hums the darth vader theme and talks to herself. The guy I work with is nerdy and plays world of warcraft, although he's an interesting one to speak to. I've got quite the crew !
I know so many kids that have such a hard time getting jobs, and I got one right away. Although image is important, the bottom line is attitude, which is why I got the job despite my apparel.
I was walking home on my merry way after helping my dad move, when a homeless guy with an acoustic missing a pick-guard strapped on him approaches me and says "How much are these batteries worth, kid?". I said it'd be around 2-3 dollars. He says "BULLSHIT KID! BULL~SHIT!! THESE BATTERIES ARE WORTH TEN DOLLARS!!".
He continues, "I need money kid, buy my batteries, please!" I examined the package and it was taped together, possibly already-used batteries. I declined his offer. He yelled something out as I was leaving... The only word I made out was "Led Zeppelin" (I was wearing my Zeppelin shirt). I walked back "Pardon?"
"Can you play Led Zeppelin?" says the stinky man. "I can play a few tunes, yes." I reply. "Well I can play Zeppelin FOR REALZ!" (he actually said it like that). "So can I?" "I bet I can play it better than you" "...What are you REALLY trying to say?" "I'm saying... that you should BUY MY BATTERIES!"
I asked if I could play his guitar and he said no, then I left. We never had a guitar-battle, but I assure you, if we did, his guitar would've caught on fire from my amazing skills (I wish ).
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With this girl, yuou can never tell if she's serious or not. During the rave I pulled her outside and I told her I was starting to like her a lot. She looked at me and just said "... I kinda like you too...but... you're kinda weird....... and you're 16..." How would YOU feel, if a girl said that to you? I mean, it's not like I can't collect 3 magic stones, go into a temple, and magically be an adult...
) and my buddies are hanging out there playing pool. I ususally hang out at the bar table and drink root beer, since I can't drink beer, and talk to randoms. I talked to Julian (don't know if I mentioned him ever, but he's one of my best friends) about 'sally' and what happened, and talked about it to Dennis (he's the bartender) and had a good night.
. Now this pissed me off, because, Julian should be following the GUY CODE! What a dick. Anyways, so I decided to rain on his parade, and I ask to sit down. Sally looked kinda nervous, and she goes to the washroom, more than likely to let us talk things out, she's perceptive like that. Right when she leaves I spazzed out at him, and he said he doesnt like her, which I thought was bullshit. We hung out all night at peacocks and then she stayed over at his house. Basically, for two good weeks, she stayed over at his house. Now, I talked to another guy about this, and he said women will do that, stay over a tguys house for weeks and NEVER lseep with them, he's in the friendzone. So I was okay with that, and Dennis got in on it on his own will and did some detective owrk and found out julian doesnt like her that way anyway.
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" and put out my hand to shake, and he looked at me for a good 10 seconds or so, and put his hand out and shook it and I nodded. Thinking about it now I tihnk he was measuring me up, but in these days where there are a lot of... bad guys out there, I guess that's how it has to be. 
". She was huddled really close up to me, which was a good sign. She asked me to walk her ot the Macs to get her ride. I said sure, and we walked down these huge stairs. It was slippery, and she grabbed my hand. I'VE NEVER HELD AG IRLS HAND BEFORE! I know some of you readers are probably laughing at me but whatever. We started taling about music and I had my dark sid eof the moon album on me acutally, and I pulled it out and she says "I LOOOVE PINK FLOYDD!". I freaked out and we starte dtalking about music, she's even into metal. We had a really good chemistry and talked for awhile.
Cheers to a better year! 
and macks brother (gabe) is like "dude... you’ve
been playing 5 months?" "Yes.." "Not even in a year from
now you're gona be fucking INSANE!!!" I wasn’t sure what to say to that so
I just thanked him. I'm planning to learn some acoustic music that takes skill
to play. Acoustic solos if you will, just so what I play sounds how it should.
Anyways on with the night. 
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" and she went "
" and flicked the switch. We went outside to a bench and talked for a bit, I sat across from her and sat next to her friend, I randomly stopped talking and just glared at her with a smirk, and she started blushing like MAD, so that was def a good sign too.
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. They said "Wow you're really talented!" Then turned to me and asked my my name and shook my hand. 
So I went out on a journey around 
" says my dad, as he leaves the house and goes to Vancouver.
