17 posts tagged “metal”
Well, im at home and having a great time, except I need a haircut later today.
I have never particulary liked haircuts, and what is worse because my graduation is coming up my parents have offered to take me to a proper hairdresser so I can look good for my photos and so my grandchildren won’t be able to laugh too much on seeing these photos in the distant future. I don’t really want to go, but as restrained and person who knows how much it means to them (damn you British reserve and stiff upper lip, what have you done to my mind!) I was too polite to say no.
But the problem is I have always had my hair cut by the same person, a friend of the family, for as long as I can remember and would trust with my life. And my hair. She knows exactly what I mean when I say "um, can I have it a bit like it was last time but not quite?" and peacefully trim by hair whist I sit their tharn.
And yet in three hours I will find myself in a hairdressers/barbershop, with big glass windows so I am on public display whist some total stager wields sharp bits of metal around my head and tries to make small talk, something I have never been good at unless with a peer of similar interests. (”So, what’s your favourite element of archaeological science then?” or “What did you think of Wales’s performance in the six nations this year?” does not sound like hairdresser friendly conversation….”What’s your favourite Prog-metal band?” is frankly not even worth considering).
To be fair, I would rather anyone waving scissors in the vicinity of my ears would not talk but would instead pay utter attention to what he or she is doing. Also I hate mirrors; I use an electric razor and shave by feel, not sight and I have never quite trusted mirrors. Oh yes, and I don’t know whether or not I will shave my beard of, so any haircut that looks good with a beard may look stupid without it, I hate hair gel, like long hair but have a receding hairline I ideally need to hide, and need to look respectable enough for my grandmother. Help!
Well, today lorry drives, truckers and hauliers protested in London and Cardiff to try and ensure a tax rebate to keep diesel costs down. I am sympathetic towards them, but i don't feel that threatening to blockade refineries will help anyone. I'm also sympathetic to the government for trying to make Britain more environmentally friendly but frankly their policy of taxing existing polluting cars rather than only new ones wont encourage anyone to by environmentally sound motorcars nor help the transportation industry; even Greenpeace says their tax policy is helping no-one. I just hope Britain can avoid the sorts of protests we had in 2000. The government has put up the pressure on oil producing countries in opec and on Russia to up oil production. No doubt as I type this more oil and gas is flowing towards Europe via the Ukraine, and will continue to do so as long as Russia wins Eurovision. It annoys me that the former soviet republics are all still so dependent on Russia for gas and electricity and so largely friendly towards Russia despite Putin's medaling in the Ukrainian elections that if Russia put three ugly people on stage for two minutes of fart noises they would still win Eurovision. At least when Britain looses we lose fair and square because our music is awful. Latvia, on the other hand, was brilliant, as were Finland and Azerbaijan. The world needs more Pirates, hard-rockers and weird Gothic singing angel people, its only too bad Dustin the turkey didn't make it to the finals...
On the subject of the UK in international competition I would like to congratulate Ricky Hatton on his come back after his first ever professional loss. Juan Lazcano was as hard as nails and it was good to see Hatton bet him decisively. Also on the professional fighting theme I would like to congratulate BJ Penn and Wanderlei Silva for their wins in UFC 84.
And to finish on a lighter note, my DJ friend had got his hard-rock and metal night back after having it canceled. Well done mate, glad to see they are giving you free rein over the music again!
Black crusade gig in Cardiff-International-arena. I missed the first act, Shadows Fall, but i got to see Arch Enemy, my favorite Swedish Death-metal Supergroup, followed by Dragonforce, an old Metal favorite, Trivium, which was ok but which i spent most of their act drinking through, and Machine Head, who as the main act just Rocked. Seriously, they were great.
TTFN!
You're the DJ: what are the next five songs coming up after the break?
You Can Call me Al, Paul Simon.
Behind Blue Eyes, the Who.
Family of Me, Ben Folds.
Anthem, Rush.
Rockin' in the Free World, Pearl Jam and Neil Young.
Do you own all the albums of any particular musical artist or group? Who?
Submitted by dutterman.
humm, i dont per say own all the albums of amy group, but am in the prosses of loothing my dads vinal colection and he's got a good set led zep, yes, pink floyd, all the good stuff. I am working on getting all the rush, metalica, black sabath, iron maiden, clutch, opeth and suns of thunder albums
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