This week has been pretty crazy. I ended up taking some PTO for a few days and with the holiday gave me a nice five day weekend. On Tuesday I ended up driving home after work and hanging out. On Wednesday I saw Borat (pretty good) and Casino Royale (recommended by vanlandw highly). I also bought some new shoe laces.
On Thanksgiving brought the Lions game vs the Dolphins. I was at the game and it was a good time minus the Lions getting obliterated. Joey Harrington ended up being the hero for the Dolphins the Lions fans wish he could have been for us. He took all the abuse Lions fans could throw at him and pretty much spat in all their faces by the third quarter of the game. Some interesting tidbits from the game (R***y/vanberge bulleted list coming)….
- The Lions got introduced to Korn - Blind.
- The Dolphins got introduced to Billy Joel - Piano Man. Clear burn by Ford Field directed towards Joey Harrington who is a “concert-caliber jazz and classical piano player”.
- During the halftime show the fireworks failed twice before working.
- At the start of the second half it was foggy in the stadium because of said fireworks (personally asked twice why the stadium was foggy).
- John Fogerty (halftime act) played for seven minutes.
- For the longest time this was the first year the United Way didn’t have a choreographed halftime show (I don’t believe these are on the net) while the main act was playing. Sadly they just ripped off “people faking going crazy for the act” they do for the typical Super Bowl halftime show.
- In attendance were two women with Pink Kevin Jones jersey’s with fake jems on them.
- Crowd was ruthless to Joey though two quarters. After halftime the place was dead and pretty much empty before the start of the fourth quarter.
- Sadly this year they stopped giving Thanksgiving Day Rally Towels. They gave Lion Tails. I guess lil man has a new toy….
Regardless the game was hysterical and I wanted to share those tidbits. If I remember more I’ll add them. After the game I ate tons of food and watched DiscoveryHD in true amazement.
Friday night I declined on doing true black friday shopping. While enjoying HDTV I came to the point I didn’t want to wait in line for any of the goods and decided on sleeping. After a fantastic breakfast I did make a short trip to Best Buy and made a few small purchases then drove back to GR.
Two hours after reaching Grand Rapids the trip to BATTLE CREEK took place to view the best band ever created…..Disturbed. The drive was pretty standard fair minus Climax, Michigan. Paid to parked and made perfect timing when Nonpoint hit the stage. Myself being a Grand Rapids concert go’er in the late 90’s early 00’s I’ve seen Nonpoint 75 times. Their songs are fun and they put out fantastic effort so they are fun to see. Also I have no idea where “Flyleaf” was. According to THIS they should have been in attendance. Personally I’m glad they weren’t there I’m sure I wouldn’t have enjoyed them. Also read the article it’s an amazing David Draimen interview.
Stone Sour was next and to be honest they were better then I expected. Corey Taylor was pretty much furious but I honestly wished he would have just came with his Slipknot buddies. As vanberge put it I would rather hear Wait and Bleed then anything Stone Sour has ever created. Also Corey’s George Bush tirade was pretty odd but got a big pop from the crowd. Music was good and heavy and fun.
When Disturbed got on stage that is when something amazing happened. They came this time equipped with pyro and bass cannons and redefined pain for the masses. Overall the show was pretty damn fun. AGAIN they didn’t play I’m Alive but the setlist was pretty damn good. It was fun to see the gato just burst every lyric to “The Game” perfectly and lol’ing when Disturbed played their most ridiculous song “Droppin Plates“. Set list time….
Guarded
Liberate
Sons of Plunder
Remember
Just Stop
Overburdened
Stupify
Deify
Prayer
Voices
Land Of Confusion
10,000 fists
The Game
Stricken
Down with the Sickness
They also did like a medley in the middle of the show with Pain Redefined, Dropping Plates and Meaning Of Life and a huge drum solo going into DWTS. Overall a pretty damn good show. Nothing too different from past shows minus a better stage setup. Totally worth the price of admission IMHO.
Tomorrow I will pick up leaves. Please follow every link in this post.
I woke up this morning, got bagels and donuts for breakfast and did my morning internet crawl. Totally not expecting any good news I got some FANTASTIC news. APPARENTLY the second volume of 24 soundtracks are being released TODAY. Normally I’m on top of these type of things but I must be slippin. I already own the 
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