Album Art Cover

Fresh from www.noworldfortomorrow.com.

This is the cover art for the CD.

Winners Snort Their Daddies

We knew he was crazier than a crap house rat, but here is the proof.

The nominations for this year's Classic Rock awards have been revealed, and whilst Jimmy Page is set to receive the Living Legend Award, Keith Richards is nominated for his father snorting antics.

The magazine's third annual awards - which are due to be held at London's Landmark Hotel on November 5 - will see Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page honoured as the Living Legend on the Roll Of Honour.

But it is the Event Of The Year category - awarded to the greatest tour, reunion or 'dropped-me-bacon-sandwich-moment' of the past 12 months - which will be raising the most eyebrows.
Undoubtedly fitting into the 'bacon' category, Keith Richards has been nominated for his headline grabbing claim that he snorted his own father's ashes when interviewed earlier this year.

Despite what seemed to be an initial retraction of his comment Richards later told the NME that he did indeed snort his father's remains, but that he certainly didn't (heaven forbid) mix them with cocaine first. That's alright then.

Scott Rowley, Classic Rock editor in chief commented, "We came up with the Event Of The Year category after Pink Floyd closed the show at Live 8 in 2005 to cover those sort of dropped-me-bacon-sandwich moments. Keith Richards confessing to snorting his dad's ashes is more of a dropped-me-bacon-sandwich, trod on the cat and ate the carpet moment.

"Keith snorting his dad has totally upped the ante for bad boy rock star behaviour - and from a 64 year old, that's quite impressive. I'm sure that Ozzy Osbourne's sitting stewing in a corner right now, wondering how he can top it."

Here are the nominations, and I will pick my winners in italics.

Album Of The Year
Buckcherry '15'
Ian Hunter 'Shrunken Heads'
Porcupine Tree 'Fear Of A Black Planet'
Rush 'Snakes & Arrows'
Velvet Revolver 'Libertad'
The Who 'Endless Wire'

Band Of The Year
Aerosmith
Heaven & Hell
Muse
Rush
Velvet Revolver

Best Reissue
Def Leppard 'Hysteria Deluxe Edition'
Kiss 'Alive! 1975-2000'
Whitesnake '1987 20th Anniversary Edition'
Manic Street Preachers 'Everything Must Go 10th Anniversary Edition'
The Pretenders 'The Pretenders'
The Travelling Wilbury’s 'Deluxe Collector’s Edition'

DVD Of The Year
Bob Dylan 'Don’t Look Back'
Free 'Forever'
Metallica 'The Videos 1989-2004'
Man of the World 'The Peter Green Story'
The Police 'Everybody Stares'

Event Of The Year
Aerosmith at Hyde Park
Genesis reform
The Police reform
Lou Reed Berlin concert
Keith Richards snorts his Dad- There is no way he will lose!!
Saxon on Harvey Goldsmith

Best New Band
Black Stone Cherry
Damone
Priestess
Rose Hill Drive
The Trews

Living Legend Award
Jimmy Page

Back to Being Back

First week of school. Yuk. It was terribly busy and there was so much going on. Having taken a year long hiatus, I got a part in the second show this semester, The Cherry Orchard. We start rehearsals October 8th, so I have a little time to work and get adjusted to being back at school.

On another note, The Foo Fighters are getting ready to release their follow-up album to 2005's In Your Honor. The next album comes out September 23rd and is called Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace. Here is a video for their first single The Pretender.
http://www.mtvu.com/video/?name=mostviewed&id=1567142&vid=169364

Quite a Sunday

So last Sunday, Third Eye Blind was playing at The Venue in town. Anyone who knows me knows I hate this place. It is a festering whore house with horrible people screaming and dancing to shitty rap music. YUK! Nowhere near my cup of tea. The only time I go there is when they have a concert in The Venue, or in The House of Rock, which is a smaller stage in the bar part. I will only go to the Venue because they have an upstairs bar where you can get away from disgusting middle and high school girls who think all lyrics can be summed up with screaming. I really do prefer the smaller House of Rock stage, but I sometimes settle. So you're thinking Third Eye Blind? I know me too. I happen to rather enjoy their 3rd album called- "Out of The Vein"- which never had any hits, but nevertheless, that's what I think makes it better.

I was expecting a mild show that would be disappointing in the long run, but I was wrong. They played for 2 solid hours. I have never been to a show where one band played for so long. They damn near played their whole catalog. BUT- (yeah I know you're not suppose to start sentences this way but who gives a shit really?) - about 4 songs into the show, the lead singer starts telling everyone about how this is their last tour stop and they were only touring for a month. Then a bunch of camera crew guys came out and he said how they were filming THIS show for a live DVD and CD for something to hold fans over until he finished the lyrics to their fourth album. Kinda a cool experience.

So being Sunday night, I headed over to everyone waiting for me at BWW's. They were a little bit pissed I late, but we had a great time. After that, we walked next door to Big D's. We were seated in a booth and this lesbian behind me said, "Hey, Annie!" Now I start to wonder if she is talking about me, so I turn around and say, "Are you talking to me or your friend somewhere?"
She said it was her friend, but then confessed they were talking about me. So I, being nice (and thinking I wouldn't kill her there) sang the lyrics to "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" They followed by laughing their heads off at me. I then turned around and laughed with them because I didn't know what was going on. So later, everyone told me what had happened and laughed even harder at me, so now I have a new nickname.

Here We Go Again

My name must not be worth shit when it comes to mail service. I ordered a pretty big poster online last week. It is about 4 feet by 5 feet. It cost me about $22 with shipping and all that jazz. I go to the post office to get it today. What did the postal worker bring me you ask? AN EMPTY TUBE WITH A PACKING SLIP!!! Somehow along the way from California some fucking asshole opened the tube and carefully stole my poster. Whoever packed the thing did such a shoddy job that they should be fired. A tiny plastic cap and one piece of packing tape. I know it was done poorly because I could see where they taped and by the looks of it they barely covered the end. Great. You know it is starting to really stop me from buying something that I can't even see before I go to the checkout.

Updates

Well well. BIG news from Coheed. They have just put their new song "The Running Free" on MySpace and it is pretty cool. I was just a little disappointed with the vocal's on the verses, but it's growing on me. Check out the song here- http://myspace.com/coheedandcambria

Travis Stever of CoCa has, a little while ago, put out a album- "The English Panther" It is pretty good stuff, espically "Rusty Knives" and "Storms" so check out his page too.- http://www.myspace.com/theenglishpanther

We had the last softball game of the season on Tuesday night. I have offically learned how to score baseball games having done almost all of them all season. It is really quite fun and is something that can help pass the time at boring ass games. So I have my stats from the season:

Innings Played: 10
Hits: 0
Got on base: 2
Hit by Pitch: 2
Runs Scored: 1 (and the winning run that game)
RBI: 0
Balls Caught In Outfield (They stuck me out there): 0
Games Spent Sober: 0

Pretty fun way to spend my Tuesday Nights. Everyone cheered when I got hit and got on base! With friends like this, who needs enemies!

Slash: I'm No Guitar Hero

Shocking news from former Guns ‘n’ Roses man Slash today who says he isn’t the guitar god we all thought he was.

However, don’t throw your vintage t-shirts in the bin just yet as he wasn’t talking about being onstage but playing computer games, but playing computer games, reports GIGWise.

You see Slash stars on the latest edition of Guitar Hero but it seems he hasn’t quite conquered the games axe just yet.

He told Rolling Stone: “And a lot of that has to do with the fact that it’s hard for me to get rid of thirty years — whatever it is — twenty-some-odd years of playing in a certain way and then all of the sudden become accustomed to pressing some buttons and stuff.

“I have these little things that I’m so used to doing that when I’m playing Guitar Hero it sort of screws me up.”

HEY HACKER!-Looks like he can't handle plastic 5-button mayhem like us!

Study Why?

That's right everyone. It's a cheat sheet. Our teacher so graciously allowed us one side of a piece of paper to put any notes or hints for our test today. Me? I managed to put 30 pages of notes on one side, and most of that is word for word. She might as well have made the test open book. I couldn't help but feel like some one crafting an important document at the end of the 1700's. It also reminded me of the contract that all the kids sign in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder. You could barely read the bottom part and no one knew what it said. That is kinda the same here.

But, I'm damn glad to be done with summer school. I couldn't help but feel like the kid in grade school who actually had to attend summer school because his grades the previous semester were absolute shit, and he could see all his friends playing together on the playground from his uncomfortable desk by the window that didn't open, and his friends were passing around cheap beer. It almost feels like I have a summer now.

I got a raise two days ago, but due to some BS, they could only bump people up 3%. So that means an extra $0.32/hour in my pocket. Whoopee

The Running Free

Here was a secret message I found for No World For Tomorrow along with a new picture (possibly album cover?) Check it out

Photos

I just took the time to figure out how to add photos. Look out. Everyone. Scroll down and you can see what Paige and I looked like when we went to the book release.

In an attempt to find something to fill the void of Harry Potter, I bought the Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1 and 2 and so far I'm pretty impressed.

The next big thing coming out for me is The Golden Compass on Dec 7th. This is the first book in a trilogy by Philip Pullman called His Dark Materials. Check it out it is an awesome read.