Oh yeah baby!!!  It's here again!!!  THE event of the year has finally arrived.  That's right sportsfans, in just a couple of days yours truly will be surrounded by horror, horror, and MORE horror.  Once again the Full Moon Tattoo and Horror Festival will take place in the fair city of Nashville, and if it's even close to what it was last year it will rock.  What is this festival you ask?  I'll be more then happy to tell you.  First off, there's TONS of cool stuff to buy.  Like last year I got that cool Captain Spaulding figure and also a t-shirt, and if that wasn't enough I got this kickass movie poster for the film "Bullitt" starring the one and only Steve McQueen.  Hard to find DVD's, collectibles, posters, basically I had to put a strict limit on my spending or I would have needed to take on a second job.  Now if that wasn't enough, there's a room setup for movie screenings, most of which were indie films and even though most sucked...it was still cool to be able to experience that.  Oh, and did I mention the celebrities?  Oh yes, some of my horror favorites will be there again.  Now those who read my Rum & Coke Buzz at http://www.geocities.com/skullkrusher07 will know that last year I did a daily report of the convention and included a bunch of pictures of me meeting the people there.  It's pretty much the same people this year, but this year I'll be taking my "The Devil's Rejects" movie poster to get signed by Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Michael Berryman, and Ken Foree.  Now THAT is going to look awesome on my wall.  Oh, and did I mention the LOVELY and talented Tiffany Shepis will be there again?  The whole thing is going on this coming Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  You can get more information about it at http://www.lonewolfbodyart.net/index2.html  Trust me, this is one event you DO NOT want to miss.  Three days of pure horror bliss.  In fact, I'm even taking a day off work to go.  When I was telling people I was off work this Friday, they would usually ask "Oh yeah?  How come?" and then I'd tell them about the horror convention which would usually lead to them shaking their heads in astonishment as they walked away....and one time I think I heard the word "loser" muttered but I wasn't positive.  I'm the first to admit I'm a dork over all this stuff, and I really don't care.  I would hope everyone would have something they have a passion for....well unless it's being a serial killer or junkie or something...that's probably not a good thing.  Now remember a couple of weeks back when I announced I was going to lift my self-imposed ban on dating?  Well it just so happens I will have female accompaniment to one of the days of the horror festival.

Yep, I met someone very cool a couple of weeks back.  You may not recall this offhand, but I usually joke about the qualities I look for in a woman is someone who loves heavy metal, football, and horror movies...and someone who is mature and has a brain.  Normally the heavy metal and horror ones work at somewhere like Hot Topic and they hate football and have so many piercings in their face they look like a walking fishing lure.  The other thing I have found, in this area at least, the girls who are really into football love country music...which is ok if they also love heavy metal...hahahaha.  But to find someone with all these qualities?  Never thought it would happen...but it did.  Now if someone told me that one day I'd meet a girl who fit this criteria, I would have said "man, you really need to lay off the crack".  But yeah, it's true, I met someone with all the criteria and she is actually looking forward to going to the horror festival.  It's a slight bit mind-blowing to me.  So either this is all going to go very well or sometime down the road I'll be in a dark room writing poetry about my broken heart...hahahahaha.

Now if all this wasn't enough news, there's more.  Oh yes, things are NEVER dull in this journey for me called life.  My band NoiseCult goes into the studio in a week and a half for an entire weekend starting on Friday night and finishing Sunday night to record the nine new BLISTERING tracks we have.  Anyone who heard the past stuff that thought we rocked...which of course we do...will be blown away by this new batch of songs.  And style-wise it's all over the place, but still rocks.  We have some stuff that sounds like The Misfits and Fear, some Slayer, some straight forward metal, some stoner rock, it's quite a collection of styles.  In fact, I was even able to write a song for the first time that didn't involve a serial killer or a broken heart.  Now THAT is something special.  In fact, if we have time we are going to re-record everything we released on the first CD because I'm doing vocals now.  We've done some rough demos of the new songs and I gotta say, this stuff is awesome.  We really worked on this stuff and threw stuff out that didn't work instead of just going with a riff and trying to make it work.  And...here's the big news...there's one tune I actually have to sing on instead of just yell and growl the whole time.  Oh don't worry, the tune has parts where I do end up yelling and stuff, but parts of it I do have to actually sing.  Yes, groundbreaking new material.  Hopefully we'll have everything down and packaged and ready to sell in about a month or so.  Don't worry, I'll be sure to spread the word when it's ready because if you love metal and hard rock, I honestly think this will stack up against anything out there today...no lie.  How do I know this?  Because one of my oldest and best buds came to a practice last week and heard all the new songs.  This guy is so brutally honest it's unreal sometimes.  After hearing all the new songs he dug them all.  And I tell you what, I can't WAIT to get out there and start playing these live.  I'm really trying to improve on vocals and I think I do a lot more this time around then just scream my head off.  The hardest part about these new tunes was this was the first time ever I had to try and come up with vocal lines without any reference whatsoever.  But after we recorded some rough demos and Don, our guitar player, told me after a couple of tunes that I reminded him of Paul DiAnno at times (original Iron Maiden singer)  I was pretty pleased.  I gotta say, Don has busted his ass putting most of these songs together, and our drummer Vinne has put some awesome stuff in them as well.  I can't wait to record these.  Wow...this weekend the horror convention, next weekend recording the new CD.  What an awesome time.

Hahahahaha....I just walked to the kitchen to grab a drink and on the news they were talking about people experiencing hearing loss due to IPODs.  The news said "experts say by lowering the volume you decrease the chances of hearing loss".  Nooooo...really?  I would have NEVER thought of that.  Thankfully those "experts" are working around the clock to figure out these kinds of problems because some moron like me would never in a million years think that by turning down the volume I would decrease my chances of hearing loss.  Those same "experts" are probably the same ones that come out with such groundbreaking studies as "eating Twinkies all day can lead to obesity".

And finally...my Senate campaign is actually starting to pick up a little momentum.  A buddy of mine emailed me the other night and said he's seen my info on places like MSNBC.com and stuff.  I had a bud take some photos of me last weekend...actual "campaign" type photos, you know where I'm doing stuff like semi-smiling and wearing a suit, and sent them to a guy who works at a TV station in Memphis because they needed them for a story.  I'm also starting to receive a lot of emails from people who are concerned over this NAIS program.  Basically it's another agency the government wants to set up to force people who own livestock to ID and tag them all for monitoring.  Do a search on it and find out the rest of the info, it's a load of crap.  A lot of people have emailed me about it and I tell them exactly that...it's a joke and a waste of money and will penalize livestock owners.  The responses I have received from people all basically say they are livid the government is trying to force this and I couldn't agree more.  They appreciate my honesty on the issues and how I don't hold back on anything.  I asked them what the other candidates have said about this issue and either they never heard back or they got some stock answer of "thank you for your concern on this issue" kind of email.  I swear, if I can get on one debate with these other guys it will make some major headlines.  I'm so sick of politicians...what a bunch of cowards.

Alright...I'm sure next time I'll have cool stuff to tell about the horror convention.  Until then...later Sportsfans!