I have to admit as much as I like music I don't hear enough new music or enough local music. I also admit that I have never made it to Club Diablo. But there is an event there that I'm thinking about going to. Often the problem is on Friday after a long work week I don't feel like going out But this event does sound like it might be fun. Hopefully I make it.

I will admit that the wood carvings that have been made for Carving for a cause I haven't seen all of them, in person. The ones of Jim Kelly and Chris Bermen looked very cool on TV. I guess on Friday they had some thing at the waterfront but I got to see the carvings on Thursday. Here are a few pictures in no order.

































I guess the fact that these carvings are a way to reuse trees destroyed from the October surprise It is only fair to go back in time and put up a few pictures from then.











Ok back to the Marina since the last time I've been there things have changed a little bit. By the way I'm I the only one who thinks it could be used all winter long? Granted I'm not sure what for but it shouldn't be closed at least.

So I have been a little, Ok a lot behind keeping up with (e:strip) between being sick, going out, my sis's whiny cat. But I'm finally kinda caught up today and to my welcome surprise there are sex pictures and a boob in another journal. Maybe this is a new trend I'm not sure but it looks like people have been having a lot more fun then I have lately. Tuesday I was all ready to join in the fun and go out for Pizza and go to the 24. That is until I had a slice of Pizza for lunch and it did some bad things to my throat it was burning and I could taste the pizza in my throat it was gross. It looks like everyone had a great time and I'm glad they did. I think was out cold by about 9pm. The other thing that tired me out was seeing henry Rollins the night before here is a quick recap.

I went to see Henry Rollins spoken word at the Town Ballroom and had a great time. It is hard to sum up 3 hours in a blog really but I will try to hit some key talking points. Henry really jumps around in his stories but it still tottally makes sense. He is funny even though I don't know if he allways means it that way.

-there are a couple times that he mentions that he was in a place where he was more into the documenting what was going on then just doing it and it was like he was outside his body watching what was going on (I found that interesting)
-There was something he said about Comi-con and a few people cheered and then he joked about the people and about how they don't have girlfriends and that was a nice little bit.
-Talks about how he does shows here because of how awesome the manager is and how he has bailed him out of deep snow even in Albany
- He talks about how the tour get named and that he thinks it shouldn't have to have one and gets into why it is called Provoked
- He talked about playing with this group he really liked when they had a Benifit for them Called the Ruts we found out that when we came in the music playing was them. During this story someones pnone went off. I thought he would jump of the stage but instead he started acting out the phone call on stage then went right back into story, that was so funny I almost died right there. That was a long story but it was pretty intersting to see how someone can battle through the pain to play a benifit show
-He flew from Bruit to San Fran just to see Nick Cave and it was tottaly worth it
-He bashes people who won't think and just stay in their ideas some of this was based on people who write him
-When he goes to Lebonon he sees a lot of american type places but then finds some cool places to see
-He went to both dubai and Syria. As long as you don't get a stamp from Isreale you can go to syria . and the serian's were surprised he was there and if you come from there you get extra questions But rollins wanted more then they gave him.
-I forget the country but he gets a iraqi cab driver, he allways talks to cabies by the way. The gist is that when America undid the army they made a mistake and the general crazzyness in iraq. Both guys are sorry that america will never leave the country. Rollins goes into a great example of being on fox news to prove that just because you work someplace and have a boss doesn't mean that you like them, like how the army and iraqis didn't like saddam and where glad when they got rid of him
-Talks about how Bush talks and that runs into a great one about how He meet Christopher Walken that was very funny
-He starts a story about how an aligator tried to eat some crack head and then expands that to how it would be cool to have some predators in the city and how it would change things if when you went to your car you might have to outrace a puma.
-He also talks about how the private sector is going to help the vets because the military says some of these guys where allready messed up.
-Tells eveyone to vote and that he doesn't care who you vote for
- He jokes a few times about how long the show will be and maybe it might be even 5 hours and at the end says 3 hrs 1 min.

I know it doesn't really sound funny, but it is one of those things you kinda have to be there for. It was great and the time flew by.

So for any of you who are fans you know the sabres lost their first two games, to bad I was hoping they would start out strong like last year, but it is still very early and I would rather them finish strong and be week in the begging then the other way around. Not that I believe me passing out on both games has anything to do with them losing but if I does I'm sorry. First game I saw the Banners dropped and the New Scoreboard (looked the same to me as at the preseason game) and not much else. I have been and am still sick. Man there was a lot of scoring I missed in the 1st game. I did see some of the goals last night but didn't make it through the entire game. Hopefully I can get healthy cause the Bills are on Monday night, then Tuesday I'm going to see Henry Rollins, then if my sickness is over on the next night it is the (e:strip) dinner at Casa and then the 24 but If I'm sick still then I don't want to get anyone else that way, hopefully I'll be better by then.

If the above link works correctly (sometimes I have trouble with it) it will take you to my Sabres pictures on my webshots page. There is no way I'm going to post all of them here. Saturday I had a good time. Plus the sabres won. There was hot blond behind me and a Lady with nice boobs to my right. I wasn't trying to look but when play went to my left it was kinda tough not to see them. Even though the Sabres won I wish the Penguins would have let Crosby play. Friday the season starts and they are having that Party at the plaza before the game, I may go but guessing I'll just watch it on TV.

New Score Board



Warm Ups (in No order really)











Game On: (not in order really)



















Sabres Win:





Miller Autographs:




It seems that around this time of the year things get very busy and there are lots of things to do and lots of Shows returning to TV and then cool new shows to watch. With all the stuff going on I still have 3 more Hockey Games I'm going to. I wouldn't mind taking a road trip to go see a game somewhere but I doubt that is going to happen. But hopefully as I see more games I can give highlights of the pictures I take. Hopefully these ones where good ones to pick sometimes viewing them small it is hard to tell.

A few nights ago I went to see Megadeth and had a great time at the Town Ballroom it was a very crowded and packed show. I also liked the two opening bands "The Confession" and not sure of the exact name but something along the lines of "in this moment" my one problem was having trouble hearing some of her vocals. I did like that she wore a dress and head banged.

Tonight the sabres are playing the Penguins (right now I'm guessing) and then I'm going to the Saturday night game in Buffalo, that is there final preseason game I think. Yes I'll be yelling for the sabres but I like the penguins to and want to see if their uniforms look really any different. This year all the teams are going to new jerseys but I don't know if they will really effect the look of them or not.

I had a good time at (e:theecarey)'s bonfire Fiesta. I admit I didn't eat much and there where a bunch of people I didn't know and didn't say much but still had a good time. I will admit I didn't think I would make it there but I have to thank (e:mike) who had room in his car. So here are the pictures. Oh one other thing I wanted to add was last night I saw one of I think the coolest Family guys I've seen in a long time. It was there star wars episode. I think my favorite might have been at the end when Chris (voiced by Seth Green I believe) calls his dad out that Robot Chicken did a star wars show like 3 months ago and then Peter goes on to say something like it isn't a real network and that like only 10 people watch it when he lists the real networks fox isn't mentioned either. Oh yeah on a another side note the new season of Heroes starts tonight. Ok now on to the pictures.















In terms of the fire pictures it looks like most of them came out or will come out good. The thing is that if you use a flash and are able to make it bright enough to see the people good than that most of the time makes it bright so you can't really see the fire. The above pictures where in order but these fire pictures won't be.







Some group shots?































Very soon the fire was going to get very hot when you get to the pictures with the high flame you will know what I mean.



















When we first arrived we heard that later on the donkey would be braught out hey it was a mexican theme we thought we would get to see or maybe even partake in a donkey show but it turned out to be A pinata. After the pictures I got there was some fun had with a donkey head I can't wait to see how those pictures of I think (e:theecarey)'s camera but here are my pictures.

















Those above should have been in order. Once the donkey got smashed opened it was determined that there was stuff still in there so it got kinda put back together and destroyed more. Here is what should be the last set of pictures from Carey's Birthday Bonfire Party.












Sorry (e:ladycroft) to mention how one thing reminds me about something about you again. But this party did a little bit. Of course the fire part did and your graduation party. But it also reminded me of how at both parties there where kinda these two groups of people there that generaly didn't interact with each other that much. But that is kinda natural when you have two groups who know the people in the own group and socialise with each other naturally. I'm not saying that the groups didn't interact at all. I also think that it is more common then people realise. That being said I had a great time and can't wait to see some more pictures from the party online. Hope you all enjoyed my pictures and didn't get tired of all the fire ones.

So saturday I was running late for everything it seems but I still got to see two movies. The second Movie I saw was Dragon Wars. I really liked it and liked that it had a story line. I did find it kinda funny that the one Dragon looked like a huge Cobra but it was part of the story line that it looked like that. If you like dragons then you will like this movie. The first movie I saw was Mr. Woodcock. Maybe it is just me but I did like it but thought it would be better then it was. It seemed like they may have snuck in that it was a date movie. I don't mean a chick flick but I could be wrong about that. So when I got home came on line and asked if I could tag along to Blogtoberfest with (e:pmt) . Paul got back to me and there was room so to (e:Paul) and to (e:Mike) who drove thanks. I will admit that these pictures won't be in order. I also admit that I'm not sure how the pictures will look. On my camera they all looked bright but on the screen they all look dark so we shall see.












































There are a few things that I don't get about what went on. Why was the Blog Tables all the way in the back. If I was going to reserve tables they would be up front near the band. They would also be right near the enterance that way when bloggers walked in they would find it right away I might even put up a sign. I don't think we where the only bloggers there I think that there was no way for use to know the others and vice versa. I wish my pictures of the dancers would have came out better. I'm guessing I wasn't close enough so all the light from the flash just spread out but not sure. After the event Mike got a ticket that so wasn't his fault really. You had all these streets coming together and he did go through a green light but I guess there was a second light that he went through that was red and he almost hit two motorcycles who we later found out where cops. We did get a little lost going to (e:theecarey)'s place but through the use of cell phones got there. That will be my next post. Hopefully Monday Little short on time right now. Hope you enjoy the pictures and hope they are decent hope everyone had a great weekend.

In my previous post I mentioned that one of the things that made me reflect back to other recent events was the Jackdaw and dropkick murphey's show. At the time I hadn't downloaded my pictures yet. So I thought I would put them up here. Not sure how good they will be do to the distance and light but here they are.



















These are the pictures from the Drop Kick Murpheys


















Not sure how good or bad any of those pictures are but I had a good time other then getting crushed by the expanding pit. It was also fun to watch all the crowd surfing to.

I will admit I have been thinking about the recent past lately. It isn't that I have been deep thinking or any thing it just that a few events make me remember other events in the past. It is kinda odd that all the events tie back to (e:ladycroft). When I was at the square it dawned on me that I think the last time I saw Jackdaw seems like a long time ago and I think it was a year ago St. Patrick's Day when I ran into (e:ladycroft) and (e:Jenks), I remember it was a good time I'm not positive that my memory is correct but that is what my mind believes anyway. Then as The Dropkick Murphey's are playing and everything is nuts and I'm get squished by people because the pit got huge and I wasn't in it but was still effected by it I thought back to how I tried to avoid them years ago before (e:strip) at warped tour. Last week I heard an Ad for Trans-sibieran Orchestra and thought back to how fun it was last year and how great a concert it was. Then I thought maybe I should go again and remembered that it would make it 3 years in a row thanks to the awesome ticket (e:ladycroft) gave me since she couldn't go. The third thing is that coming up in October I'm going to see Henry Rollins at the Town Ballroom, that brought up the memories of when I went and picked the wrong side of the stage. See I have this thing where I have this area I like and I pick either right or left and I picked left and then picked a spot in a chair on the floor. But if I would have picked right then I would have been in the same Area as (e:Jason), (e:Theecarey), and (e:ladycroft). I still had a good time and everything but that would have been so much cooler. I kid you not I was just outside on the porch with my sisters cat and the thought hit me that I'm going to some hockey games this year and didn't go to any last year but I could have sworn the year before One of the games I went to was the same game (e:ladycroft) went to with "her Kids" that is if memory serves me right. I don't really like to look backwards I think nostegila can be dangerous and if you think about the good things then that can bring up bad things and things you want to forget. But the thing that is odd is these thoughts are just coming to me, like out of no where. I'm not saying that they are bad thoughts, just something that doesn't happen for me. In any even for anyone who reads this sorry for the long paragraph form and any bad grammar is bad spelling, hope everyone has/had a great weekend.