Well sportsfans, it was unreal that what I needed to have happen for Georgia to get into the National Championship game happened.  West Virginia lost to Pitt and Missouri lost to Oklahoma.  Sadly I didn't take something else into consideration...I also needed LSU to lose.  I really didn't think LSU would jump above UGA in the BCS standings, but they did when they won the SEC Championship.  Oh well, it's still been a kickass season and UGA will now face Hawaii in The Sugar Bowl.  That game scares me to death!  Hawaii is undefeated and has an unbelievable offense and Georgia is in for a fight.  Hey, I really can't complain, Georgia has two losses and got one of the big bowl games...and at least they've been carrying me through football season unlike by beloved Atlanta Falcons....ugh.

I have to say, this past Friday night was the best gig I have ever done...and the best this band has done.  The mighty Noisecult ROCKED!  Now we were going on last, and normally that means there won't be a lot of people there as bands leave when they get done and take their people with them...so as the night goes on, less and less people are there to watch.  Well this wasn't the case last Friday.  Now let me say that this was more of a punk show than a metal show...and thankfully we have some punk-ish Motorhead sounding songs that we thought would go over well, so we put a setlist together of those tunes.  We take the stage and rip into SHEviL.  At this time, a bunch of people were outside of the side door smoking since the Nazis in this state won't let you smoke in a club anymore.  People started coming up to the font of the stage that were still inside, and then towards the end of that song the people outside came back in.  Up next was "Noisefix", and I get to start this one off so I put my foot on the monitor, raised the bass up...and played it about 100 times faster than I should have...haha.  We tore that song up, and after we finished I turned around to grab a swig of Gatorade, and I could not believe the noise I heard coming from the people there.  At The Muse, the lights are pretty bright onstage, and it's sometimes hard seeing just how many people are there.  I didn't think there were that many, but the applause told me otherwise.  It was awesome...I'm chugging down some Gatorade thinking "man, people are really digging this!"  Another really cool moment was when we played "Swarm of the Electric Death".  I did a lame imitation of Tom Araya doing the intro which got some laughs, and then we launched.  I noticed a few dudes up front who were really digging Don's solos...so much so that I saw one playing air guitar.  After he finished the solo of that tune and goes back into the opening riff where it's just him playing, I go up to the mic and yell out "DON CARR ON GUITAR!" which was met with a loud cheer.  Now one part of a gig that is the most awkward is the in-between song banter.  It's tough to come up with stuff to say outside of the usual "thanks for coming out" and stuff like that...so I try to make stupid jokes.  For example, Ben was doing something on drums before a song and I turned around acting like I was pissed off yelling about how he's messing with my art and it's how I express myself.  Don said "ok Al Gore..." and people started chanting "AL GORE...AL GORE..." which cracked me up, so I said "no, I'm more like Eddie Vedder" which got some laughs.  Another really cool moment was during "Wasting My Time".  I actually mentioned before this one how it was about the screwed up relationships we all find ourselves in, which is something I had never said before.  I could see people really getting off on the tune...and when I got to the line where I belt out "AND THAT'S WHY I'M DONE WITH YOU!" I saw someone raise both arms up and scream "YEAH!!!" after I did the line.  Soon after it was time to debut a brand new song - "Dante's Inferno".  We had only practiced it a handful of times with me there because of work getting in the way, but we were determined to go through with it.  I had a copy of the lyrics printed out on the stage hidden behind a monitor which I've done before.  However, I didn't count on such a large shadow coming off the monitor, so I couldn't see it at all.  Thankfully no one has ever heard the song before, so I kicked it free style...hahaha.  Oh yeah, I was making up lines like "ummm...there's a place that's...you know...hot...and has lots of flames...and ummm...it's a bad place....uhhh....." but I slurred enough out to make it ok.  Plus, Pete from The Creeping Cruds got up onstage do sing the chorus with us since he had heard it and sang it on a rough demo.  Now I did know the chorus, and it came off great.  Ben had a mic for this show and all of us with Pete were belting it out.  To me it sounded like some kind of rock anthem.  We closed the show with "Blood Feast Tonight" and kept Pete onstage to help out on the chorus...but I also noticed people who had never heard the song started picking up the chorus and singing along with us.  It was just an awesome gig...the energy was there and people were getting into it.  Now I know I've said before how shy I get about praise, and that night I heard more than ever.  One of the most flattering was from Jesse of  History of Violence who played on the gig.  He said "man I'm glad we don't have to follow you guys".  People were telling me how incredible Don and Ben were, and Ben told me later that people were telling him how awesome my vocals were because they're raw and gravel-y, but you can understand what I'm saying.  It was just an awesome show, and a great one to end the year on.  I know in January we've got a show in Georgia and I think one in Kentucky...and we MAY get a huge gig in Kentucky at a big theater in a couple of months.  2008 will definitely be a big year from us with out solidified lineup.

If you've read my stuff before, you know how I think this whole man-made global warming hysteria is a bunch of crap and that Al Gore is a complete idiot.  Earlier today I was reading about record cold and huge snowfalls, but confront a Gore lover about this and they'll say that it's due to shifting weather patterns because of global warming.  Carbon offsets, green energy credits...what a bunch of idiots!  Well just when I thought I had heard it all, I saw a story on yahoo.com today that told how divorce hurts the environment.  Yes, a man and a woman decide to get a divorce and now we're all one day closer to either burning to death or being buried under the ocean.  How does this happen?  Well when a couple gets divorced then that means they will now be living in TWO houses instead of one which will consume more energy.  I really wish I was making this up.  Some tree-hugger was interviewed for this article where they talked about how much more energy this new home will use and blah blah blah.  So now I won't be surprised is these hippie freaks who want to live in the stone age don't try to push for some mandate where people aren't allowed to live on their own, and instead have to have community dwellings to save energy.  I can't even put into words what dumbasses these people are, and I can't imagine living each day in such a state of worry that we're on a collision course with the sun...or we'll all drown...they haven't decided yet.  A friend of mine called the other day and left me a message which echoes something I've said for a while.  He lives in Pennsylvania, and told me how the forecast there was for some huge snowfall the next day...and then they only got some flurries.  If the friggin weatherman, oh I'm sorry, meteorologist can't predict what will happen the next day...there isn't a chance I will believe some "scientist" who wants more funding when he says the earth will perish in ten years.  Now I'm all for curtailing pollution, and I think it's up to all of us to take care of what God has given us and be responsible, but to completely alter our way of life because of some half-assed theory that has THE biggest hypocrite leading the charge is ridiculous.  I'll be so glad when the next radical left-wing cause comes along so this one can die off.  I'm so sick of hearing about it.  After all, we are in a war for our very existence against people who want to kill a teacher that named a teddy bear Mohammed, however it's spelled, but I guess that's not important.  Can you believe that crap?  The religion of "peace" is ready to kill a woman who named a stuffed animal Mohammed after a kid in the class.  Wow, they are so tolerant...yet Christians are the bigots.  What a bunch of babies.  I'm serious, for people to get that offended over a stuffed animal named after their "prophet" who was a pedophile and a murderer that they are ready to kill the woman is just beyond my comprehension.  It's just like the stuff that's going on now that it's near Christmas...the assault has begun by the crybabies who whine about how offended they are.  England asked mall Santas to be thinner so kids won't think it's ok to be fat, one town in the northeast told their Santas not to say "ho ho ho" because it might be a racial slur, and then there's the usual mess of companies and towns saying "holiday trees" and "winter parades" and all that crap.  More on this next time because I've got a bunch of stories I've saved about this.  When in the heck will people grow up and develop some balls?  I've said it before, I could get offended every single day very easily if I was some uptight crybaby...but I don't because I'm a guy with a backbone.  Sometimes I wish I wasn't so I could get rich suing people all the time...hahaha.

Ok, I'm done for tonight...time to get dressed like an Arctic explorer to go play with the dogs since it's friggin freezing outside.  Oh wait...shifiting weather patterns blah blah blah blah blah....