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[music | Jim Carroll - People Who Died

Whee I got to see David Johansen and I got the photos to prove it. What an awesome show. The audience didn't move around much at all, and those that did were dragged out by their throats, so that sucked, but it was good to get out, hang with my friend, drink some beers and see the Dolls. Highlights were obviously singles (Trash, Personality Crisis, Looking for a Kiss, Frankenstein - in that order). They also did a cover of Piece of My Heart, which rocked. Here are some of the not-that-shitty pics I took, more are at the Flickr set. I wish I hadn't been buried in the crowd, but the Dise was packed, I didn't want to ditch my friend and assert myself to the front, and the balcony was pretty much out of the question. 90% of the pics I took sucked, but some survived, unfortunately, none of the rest of the band survived (as in reality pretty much). I was supposed to meet one of my work friends, but that wasn't happening. Hopefully she got in since the show was sold out by the time I showed up, which thanks to my sucky weekend karma and our general slowness, meant I missed Opening Band.

UPDATE: Oh yeah, and as I was telling Sean. Scrooged is provably full of shit. No way is anyone getting in a cab driven by that guy.

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[music | Ministry - Isle of Man (Version 2)

Once again, the Pats go to the Superbowl. Here are some photos from the game. My camera came with 2 sets of dead batteries, and when they die, it tends to have focusing/speed/writing-to-memory problems, but here are some that didn't come out looking like complete ass.

[music | People Under The Stairs - We'll Be There]

Here are a bunch more pictures of New England snow. There are many more here, here and here, but these are some of my favorites between Natalie's and mine.

One thing that really bugged me a lot is that we seem to be getting "Iron Snow". Some of our icicles are all rusty looking, and our neighbor's house is covered with that stuff. I also noticed several other houses (mostly white ones since it stands out more) looked like they were all rusty. I guess it could be worse.

[music | Sandra Lee's insane boozahol'ing]

Here are some of the good photos from the Reverend's 11/17/2007 Boston show.

Nashville Pussy and Hank Williams III/Assjack opened, and the crowd was really wound up and active an hour before the Reverend came out, which is the highest praise I can give an opener, so let's stop there. If you're unfamiliar with Hank III / Assjack, he does basically two sets, a psychobilly set and a thrash/hardcore set. So we basically got 4 bands for the price of 3, and it was awesome. I'm still trying to figure out the roots of the gg allin & Murder Junkies connection, since he remains a local legend and heroic hardcore pioneer. It was good to see props in a big way. I know they've got allin & MJ family on board, playing with Merle Allin et al, which is great. Here is a good interview on NHPR with G.G. Allin & the Jabbers members, since I'm on the subject.

[music | Big Black - Dead Billy]

After we gave out candy to some of the most polite kids ever, we jumped over to the Lull Farms farmstand.  I had had to make an emergency pumpkin stop on my way home and saw them setting up "some kind of display".  Turned out it was hundreds of jack-o-lanterns, with a few really large pumpkin sculptures as well.  Here are some of the less blurry photos: