Steve:

Lots of kickass stuff has been happenin on Metal Shop lately.  We had local greats HATEFIST in, a week back, and just the otehr day, local greats (TJ and Joe of) BOOK OF BLACK EARTH were hanging out.  Both have new music which you must check out, if you are badass.  There is much in the way of local heaviness, and you’d KNOW that if you went out to shows, like yer s’posed to!  And yes, thanks to all the folks we DO see out and about, be it at a lil show at the Comet or a sold out evening at the Showbox….

CARCASS was amazing, yes.  CoB, the BDM and BTBAM owned the Showbox!  Just saw Book o Black Earth at the Comet AND August Burns Red at El Co this last eve.  All fantastic and mind blowing and you blew it if you attended none of these.  “But I got WORK, Steve.  I got obligatory obligations, maaaan”….  Uh, I don’t care.  So do I!  I show up for BJ’s morning show on zero sleep (yes, he gets mad at the fact) and halfdead to the WORLD, but I am HAPPY.  Happy I made the right choice in rocking as opposed to sleeping.  If ya don’t wake up tomorrow, you’d be pleased….no, wait, YOU may not.  I will be pleased that I did the right thing and exercised my freedom to drink, be merry, support people that I envy and respect, headbang and fraternize with fellow humans that GET IT.

OK, I’m done.  Just, like, go to shows.  AND listen to Metal Shop.  We got Obituary, Opeth, Helloween, Amon Amarth and Overkill tickets!  What whaaat!  And no, you cannot buy my Metallica tickets from me.  Stop asking.  ROCKout

Steve:
Yes, ’tis 9-11 and we should remember the victims of that bad business that happened a ways back BUT (and this is all I have to say on the topic of THIS day) it’s sad that as greedy humans, we are a race that would exploit any one horrific event to better their own personal political agenda…!  But as we know, as any soul vying for power over a coutry, well, NO thing is sacred.  (can you tell my view of politics is kinda grim? yep.)  I’ve been rethinking communism.  Hey, Stalin did GOOD stuff too, ya know.  You just don’t hear about it much….hehheh.  OK.

MS, last weekend was Raaaaad, capital R, cause Kevin was gone!  Out of the state, leaving me HAPPY to be rid of the fool, but MAD cause he couldn’t be there to do crap during a BUSY show.  Lot’s of Nightwish tix, for starters.  Thanks for comin out, by the way, to Showbox SODO.  Many folks were there, getting a healthy dose of Epicness…

Now, personally, (click on that last word to see video of how much of a dick BJ Shea can be to his best Toppy replacer…heh, which I will BE tomorrow and Monday…whooh) I must thank a certain kind of person.  I LOVE love love.  I mean, I love to ride bikes.  Nothing against MOTORbikes but I LOVE pedaling hard and fast for a couple hours on a bicycle.  My roomie, Michael Moore, (real name, cool dude) gives me full reign of his sick $1k plus racing bike, which I just USED to go from here (home in Ballard) to the U. Village, a good 10 miles, round trip.  Long as I have my tunes rumbling deep in my ears, I am GOLDEN.  PROPS to the ol Burke Gilman Trail!!  Love it.  I’ve gotten up to Bothell on it!

SO, the kind of individual I would like to thank right now, who I SEE on this fine trail every single time I take it, to UW and beyond, is the pretty looking ladies of the 206.  Namely the U District.  You are on bike, or, maybe jogging with headphones on too, flashing me a smile cause I headbang even on a bike.  You have dreds and look like you wouldn’t mind chatting about your second year at UW and how HERE is so much cooler than Utah, where you are originally from, but you’re walkin yer little dog and I am headed the other way at 15 MPH.  Or perhaps you are half Japanese and just finally got on the cycling team, though you really don’t need to work out, if you ask me…

I see EVERY kind of person on this trail, (and I do love people watching) but the females of the Burke-Gilman (ages 18-40) deserve props.  If not for just making my usually radical day a touch above what it might have been.  It’s already the premier trail around these parts.  In THIS PIC, you can see how you hit the water a lot!  Amazing views, in many ways.  I go from the red line ALL the way on the left to the top curve, when able.  I’ve felt few things more rewarding than getting OUT and DOING it, man.  Seriously.  (ps, the blog pic is of Kev and me ON the B-G trail, messin around)

There’s Steve Rock’s 2 cents, at least, for the time being.  What is coming soon that I am ultrastoked for?

Ohhhhh man.  My kingdom for a life of endless powder with no wait for the lifts….hhhm.

Steve’s Recommened Webnetintersite:  Please, learn and listen to a Band I Could Not Live Without and will be here on the 21st!!!!!  Never thought I’d see the day they reunited and came BACK!  This is like Christmas.  If Christmas involved Suffocation playing right before the GrindGods, Carcass, that is.  (I was not allowed to go to their last one at RKCNDY with Napalm back in the day…hm)  If you know Metal Shop very well, ya may know I loove Michael Amott and will follow him from Arch Enemy to the ends of any epic brutal or bluesy rock he may ever create.

Kevin:

Sept. 3rd, 2008 – I’m taking top spot this time cuz I can!  I’m pretty excited today because it’s my last day here before I head out to my other favorite place in the world… Arizona!  I have lots of family around Phoenix so I’ve always spent a lot of time there, mostly summers when I was a kid and in school.  I really love the hot weather.  I always say it can never get hot enough for me and ever since I realized that, I haven’t really found many people that feel the same way.  I don’t know what it is… I can’t get enough heat.  Summer is my favorite season and I lvoe being outside.  The only time I don’t like heat is when I’m stuck in my car in traffic, and that’s only because I don’t have air conditioning.  Talk about irritating!

Anyways, so yeah I’m going to Arizona tomorrow and seeing a whole bunch of family I’ve not seen for a couple years. We’re all actually going to head to Sedona, which if you’ve never heard of it, is one of the coolest cities in the USA.  It’s claim to fame are the huge red rock cliffs and red dirt, and the ONLY McDonald’s in the entire world that doesn’t have golden arches.  The city planners thought they yellow wouldn’t mesh well with the color of the rest of the buildings in the city, so they asked them to change it.  McDonald’s agreed and there you have it.  The red rocks and cliffs are amazing and they really are red.  LIke, bright red!  Google it and check out some pics.  Last time I was there (just a few months ago in March, actually) we were driving in and there was road construction going on.  You could see the fresh upturned earth where they were digging and it literally looked fruit punch.  So bright, so awesome… I love it!  I also don’t have to deal with Steve on air this week, so yay for that too!

Maybe I’ll post some of the pics I’m destined to take in Arizona for the next blog.  Until then, check out this hilarious video I just put on YouTube.  Remember Steve’s blog about the camping trip we went on recently?  That would be the origin of this video.  I don’t think Steve’s ever tried to chop wood before in his entire life, but I guess the Infected Mushroom album that we were listening to inspired him to try.  Watch for LOLs!

Until next time….. don’t forget that Cliff Yablonski Hates You!

Steve:

Man, I love Dying Fetus!  iTunes is always on random with five or six thousand songs for it to choose from.  Right now ol iTunes picked me a lovely tune from Destroy the Opposition.  Ahh…wait, damn it!  This reminds me of how I (by minutes) MISSED these dudes the other night at Studio 7!!!  I was working, soorrrry!  I DID make it in time to see Necrophagist, tho,  who ripped the place apart!  Thanks for coming down if you did.  A breúal show it was.  Necrophagist are brutal brutal Germans that are as technical as they are judjud bruuutal.  BUT Dying Fetus shall always remain higher on my list for the years they have served me in my disc playing machines for the last 10 or so years.  Wish they even had older stuff on their Myspace there…

Darkest Hour is tomorrow at Studio Seven.  Pretty cool lineup.  Check out the Thrash n Burn tour!

I am going to try to add a bunch of hyperlinks here so you can actually LEARN stuff.  That’s why we’re here, right….?

(ahh iTunes just picked a fine old Soilwork song.  Good call, iTunes)

So, I wanted to let ya know that Bumbershoot yesterday was pretty cool.  Nothing too metal…  I WILL give props to the random metalheads, like the Judas Priest shirt kid that wanted to “hang out” near the VIP area.  No time, man, sorry.  I was runnin around like CRAZY!  The Offspring were…ok.  No suprises there.  Del the Funky Homosapien was very entertaining and the show was quite…foggy.  Quite.  Saw some film festival action, which was cool.  Saw some good comedy and many moments of crappy indie rock wanna rock bands that well… they ARE trying…they’re just failing.  And in the VIP area…. DICKS BURGERS!  Huge bowls of them.  And bar b q chips.  And cheese.  It was a good day.

Oh, and Flatstock kicks ass!  I bought many rad stickers and ALMOST bought many SICK posters ranging from Mudhoney and Melvins to Danzig and Slayer…

I will let Kevin type some stupid crap now.  And screw you Kevin for messing with and posting my photobucket pics, last blog!!

Good thing they have to do with me, and the exploitation of….or I’d be really pissed.
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