Tuesday, December 28, 2004

It's Oh So Quiet

**It's Oh So Quiet is a song by Bjork Gudmundsdottir -- aka Bjork. Now I know why she is just called Bjork. I don't mind Bjork actually. I think she's weird and she's from Iceland, a country I know nothing about. I like the song though. 4 horns out of 5.**

So yeah, it's quiet here. Nix is sleeping in the living room. Poor thing, so tired. I gave him a blanket to keep him warm. I hope he is sleeping well.

2 more days until another glorious 3 day weekend. Woo! Today one of our machines broke at work, so we have to close that treatment room off, meaning we're down to two. I know we're gonna get swamped on Thursday and I'm gonna fucking tear my hair out.

Got a futon today from Keenan. Good times. Hopefully it will provide more seating room at New Years and various other parties. Maybe I will actually get to sit on my couch for once. I always end up on the floor for some reason. Oh well, guess I have to be a good hostess and give my guests primo choice of seats. I can give up my couch for one evening.

Speaking of the New Years party, looks like everything is in order. As long as everyone cooperates, there should be no problem whatsoever. I love parties that go off without a hitch.

I thought I had more to say, guess I didn't.

Oh well. I updated.

HIZZY

Music -- clickety clickety click click
Link -- God Hates Shrimp


Sunday, December 19, 2004

It's My Job to Keep Punk Rock Elite

**IMJTKPRE is by a punk band called NoFX. They're a pretty decent punk band, a lot better than a lot of the newer "punk rock" bands I've heard in recent years. I give this 3 horns up out of 5***

T minus 5 hours and counting until the Scarlet Whore show. Is it wrong of me to just have an overall bad feeling about this show. I feel like something isn't right, but I can't put my finger on it. Maybe it's that it's fuckin' cold outside. That could be it.

T minus about 20 hours until Nix and Scott arrive back from Tex-ass. Can't wait to see Nix and just spend some quality time with him. I miss him.

4.0 GPA, baby! Eye am gud at skool.

I'm wearing my new skull hoody. It's nice and warm and really neato.

God, I really thought I had more to say. I had a whole mind full of stuff, but the minute I saw the blank white page, it all left me.

On that note, I bid you adieu until my next post.

Rock!
HIZZ

Music -- "Under the Bridge" Red Hot Chili Peppers
Linkage -- Bored.com -- fun shit to do online when you're bored

Saturday, December 18, 2004

Who Are You?

**Who Are You is by the amazingly cool rock band, The Who. Listen to more stuff from the Who. I think you'll like it. It's good classic rock**

I stole this from my friend Ross. Neither he nor I know where //series one went.

// series two - describe

-- Your heritage: Northern Italian from my dad's father's side (Cuggiono, Italy), Sicilian from my mother's father's side, German from my mother's mother's side, Irish from my dad's mother's side
-- The shoes you wore yesterday: Black tennis shoes with white stripes
-- Your hair: Brown. I think there's still some red in there.
-- Your fears: Spiders, death, intruders
-- Your perfect pizza: Pepperoni, green pepper, and extra sauce
-- One thing you'd like to achieve: Wow. I guess I just want to succeed at everything I try. Maybe that's a fault

// series three - what is

-- Your most overused phrase on aim: NICE!
-- Your thoughts first waking up: "Fuck work"
-- The first feature you notice in the opposite/same sex: Eyes
-- Your best physical feature: I like my eyes and my ahir
-- Your bedtime: Usually 2-ish
-- Your greatest accomplishment: Graduating college and then having the guts and drive to go back

// series four - you prefer

-- Pepsi or Coke: Coke
-- McDonald's or Burger King: Burger King
-- Single or group dates: Single, but I do enjoy going out with the group
-- Adidas or Nike: Adidas
-- Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Neither. Orange Pekoe or Green Tea
-- Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate
-- Cappuccino or coffee: Cappuccino -- french vanilla
-- Boxers or briefs: Boxers, always boxers.

// series five - do you

-- Smoke: Like a fiend.
-- Cuss: Like a sailor.
-- Sing well: Absofuckinglutely not
-- Take a shower everyday: Always one, sometimes two.
-- Do you think you've been in love: Yes, I have.
-- Want to go to college: Graduated, and then went back.
-- Liked high school: I loved high school.
-- Want to get married: Maybe someday.
-- Type w/ your fingers on the right keys: Always. I type constantly at my job.
-- Believe in yourself: In some instances, yes. In other instances, absolutely not. I'm very self-deprecating at times.
-- Get motion sickness: Not really.
-- Think you're a health freak: Nope.
-- Get along with your parent(s): At times, yes.
-- Like thunderstorms: I love thunderstorms. They relax me. I think it's the sounds.
-- Play an instrument: I played clarinet in 5th grade and sucked. Haven't played since. Though I would like to learn how to play bass, piano, or guitar

// series six - in the past month, did/have you

-- Drank alcohol: Yep.
-- Done a drug: No
-- Made Out: Yes, I sure did.
-- Gone to the mall?: Yeah, had to go Christmas shopping
-- Eaten an entire box of Oreos: No. Oh the humanity, no.
-- Eaten sushi: Yes, sushi is the shizzle
-- Been on stage: Yeah, but didn't perform. Put down setlists and then helped the guys break their set down.
-- Been dumped: No.
-- Gone skating: No.
-- Made homemade cookies: Yep, and they were good.
-- Been in love: I'm getting there.
-- Gone skinny dipping: No. Fuck no.
-- Dyed your hair: Gonna do it eventually
-- Stolen anything: I stole a Sharpie from work.

// series seven - have you ever

-- Played a game that required removal of clothing?: Yeah
-- Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: Of course I have
-- Been caught "doing something": Never ever been caught
-- Been called a tease: Never.
-- Got beaten up: When I was younger.
-- Changed who you were to fit in: I guess a few times.

// series eight - the future

-- Age you hope to be married: I guess by the time I"m 30 would be nice
-- Numbers and Names of Children: If I were to have kids, I really like the name Isabel(la) or Araya for a girl and Jeremiah for a boy.
-- Describe your Dream Wedding: Something small, with close friends and family.
-- How do you want to die: In my sleep or something quick where I don't feel the pain.
-- Where you want to go to college: Nowhere, when I'm done with this, I'm done.
-- What do you want to be when you grow up: I want to teach or travel the world with my band
-- What country would you most like to visit: I want to go to Italy, England, and Australia

// series nine – opposite/same sex

-- Best eye color?: Doesn't really matter. I like brown eyes and green eyes most though.
-- Best hair color?: Dark, must be dark.
-- Short or long hair?: Doesn't matter really.
-- Best height: Doesn't matter
-- Best weight: Weight doesn't really matter. It's really shallow to judge someone on weight.
-- Best articles of clothing: Fuck if I care.
-- Best first date location: Don't care.
-- Best first kiss location: The lips.

// series ten - number of

-- Number of boys/girls I have kissed: God, probably about 10
-- Number of boy/girlfriends I have had: Serious - 1 or 2. Not serious - about 7
-- Number of drugs taken illegally: One
-- Number of people I could trust with my life:3.
-- Number of CDs that I own: I have around 500 CDs (and over 5500 mp3s)
-- Number of foreign countries I have visited: One, Mexico
-- Number of states I have visited : Missouri, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee--so 7
-- Number of piercings: 0. Had my eyebrow pierced when I was a freshman in college.
-- Number of scars on my body: 3 or 4
-- Number of things in my past that I regret: I regret not standing up for myself more often. I regret opening my mouth sometimes. I regret fucking up college my first year. Other than that, no regrets.

Friday, December 10, 2004

Cemetery Gates

**Cemetery Gates is by Pantera. How appropriate.**

Well, it's been 24+ hours since the metal world learned of the untimely death of Dimebag Darrell. I've had time to mull this over, cry about it, bitch about it, be sad, be nostalgic, be drunk. Every rockstar releases a statement when someone dies. What about us average people? Here is my statement.

I've never met Dimebag. Never sat with him and drank or smoked or done whatever. I've always wanted to sit down and pick his brain about music, let him know how much Pantera meant to me growing up a crazy metal chick in St. Louis. I'll never get that chance.

At least I was lucky enough to see Pantera live at Ozzfest 2000. Now granted, at the time, I had a mad crush on Phil "I've got frontman syndrome" Anselmo. But I was always drawn to Dime's amazing guitar crunches and riffs. That dude sure could play.

It's so weird talking about him in the past tense. For the last 36 hours, I've heard "He WAS a great guitarist" "When he WAS alive", etc. I don't think it's quite set in for a lot of us yet. The thought of there never being a Pantera reunion, another Damageplan album, or a show here in STL featuring Dime is a large idea to wrap one's head around.

I know a lot of my friends out there have no clue why I keep beating myself up over this. Imagine if a person you looked up to, that you idolized for so many years was taken from you in the most brutal of ways. Imagine the grief. The entire metal community, which I belong to, is reeling. Hold your smartass comments until we've had some time.

This makes me disgusted to be a human. The fact that another human being could so savagely kill someone makes me sick to my stomach. Dime was shot 6 times, point blank range, in the face, in front of his fans, his bandmates, and his brother. The one thing that sets me at ease in all this was that he died doing what he loved -- playing music, entertaining, shredding the fuck out.

I pray for the family of Nathan Gale, the gunman, that they will be able to come to terms with the fact that their now deceased son took the life of another man. However, I wish Gale an eternity of hellfire and pain. May he rot in the pits of hell for all eternity.

End statement.

December 19, Scarlet Whore will take the stage at Pops, with the spirit and memory of Dime in their hearts and minds. It will be a somber time. The band will be wearing black armbands in memory of Dime. I encourage you all to come out and support not only the band, but the memory of Dimebag. December 19 is for him, not for Scarlet Whore.

With that, I bid you all farewell for tonight. Tonight, tell someone close to you how much you love them. You never know what may happen.

HIZZ

Link : VinnieandDime.com
Sounds : Pantera "This Love" (is, was, and always will be my favorite Pantera song)

Thursday, December 09, 2004

Hollow

**Hollow is by Pantera. I don't need to say anymore**

Hollow

What's left inside him?
Don't he remember us?
Can't he believe me?
We seemed like brothers
Talked for hours last month
About what we wanna be
I sit now with his hand in mine
But I know he can't feel...
No one knows
What's done is done
It's as if he were dead
I'm close with his mother
And she cries endlessly
Lord how we miss him
At least what's remembered
It's so important to make best friends in life
But it's hard when my friend sits with blank expressions
No one knows
What's done is done
It's as if he were dead
He as hollow as I alone now
He as hollow as I alone
A shell of my friend
Just flesh and bone
There's no soul
He sees no love
I shake my fists at skies above
Mad at God
He as hollow as I converse
I wish he'd waken from this curse
Hear my words before it's through
I want to come in after you
My best friend
He as hollow as I alone


"Dimebag" Darrell Abbott
1964-2004

Saturday, December 04, 2004

Metal Militia

**Metal Militia is a song of of Metallica's 1982 album, Kill 'Em All. It's probably one of my favorite songs on that album, which marked the beginning of a long and prestigious career for everyone's favorite sellouts. Anyway, Metal Militia rocks. 5 mega big horns up out of 5. So concludes your music history lesson for the day. There are cookies and punch in the hallway. Help yourself**

There was a metal militia onstage at Pop's tonight. At the end of a dynamite show by all 4 bands, Conquest, the headliner, invited all the bands on stage. Conquest provided the instrumentation, while the other 12-15 other long haired metal dudes, including the guys in the Whore, rocked out to a 7 minute long (approx.) version of Seek & Destroy (which, coincidentally was alson on Kill 'Em All). It was like the St. Louis metal army had converged on Pops. It was one of those 'had to be there' sorta moments.

The guys in the Whore were soldiers too. A militia of 5, who conquered horrid sound problems at Pops (we lost Erk's vocals throughout most of Crawling Chaos). Then Sean's mic cut out. He had to share with Matt, who lives on the other side of the fucking stage. Thank god Sean has a wireless setup. It was terrible. The boys were so disappointed. However, they soldiered through it. That's a mistake that a band can't just cover up. Everyone could hear the sound problems. It wasn't the band's fault and people knew that. They didn't stop the set, they didn't let on that they were discouraged. They played their instruments throughout the entire mishap, Erk sang into a dead mic. They just kept going and for that, I am proud of them. The biggest show thus far of our entire career. Even with the technical difficulties, they persevered and played an almost flawless show.

I'm sitting here. It's 1:30 in the am. My feet hurt. I just took my contacts out. My calves hurt. I still have to take my makeup off. Changed into comfy clothes. Sitting back enjoying a raspberry ice tea and some Cheez-Its. Good dinner, yay! I have to work tomorrow. And sunday. Yeah, go ahead and laugh. Fucks.

Other than that, everything is peachy. I have 'Right Now' by Van Halen stuck in my head. It's been there since I was coming home from work at 3 this afternoon. It's been there all night. Fucking implantation of information in my cerebrum. Fuck you brain.

That's all. I have decided to add another fun thing to my blog, in addition to the music and the link. I am proud to give you, Hizzy's Thought of the Day. Ok, they're not really mine. I'm ripping them off from various humor sites, but still, they're interesting and sorta fun to think about.

HTOTD : Why do they put pictures of criminals up in post offices. What are we supposed to do, write these men? Why don't they put their pictures on postage stamps so mailmen can look for them while they deliver mail?

SOUNDS : Dave Matthews Band - "Don't Drink the Water" (and don't laugh at the Hizz, my Winamp is on shuffle and I didn't download this song. Yoda did. I copied his hard drive. Blame him.) I need that picture from Blender mag with Dave Matthews dressed an a Wookiee, so I can laugh hysterically everytime I see it. Go back to Endor, you freak. (and if you don't get the joke I'm making, you're more lame than I thought).

LINK : Dancing Bush.com -- make Dubya bust a move.

Nite,
HIZZ

Friday, December 03, 2004

Blinded by the Light

**BBTL is by Manfred Mann. It's been stuck in my head for the last 14 hours or so. Thanks a lot, Nix. I think this song is pretty decent. It's definately catchy, that's for fucking sure. I give Blinded by the Light 4 very emphatic horns up**

Greetings, readers! Welcome to another exciting (albeit delayed) installment of the Hizzblog. There's been a lot of really good stuff going on in my world lately. Hmmm...where to start.

1. The Whore is getting mentioned every hour on the hour in a KSHE promo spot for tomorrow's show. Good times.

2. Nix and I are still going strong. I'm really crazy about him. It was so great having him here with me over his break from work. I miss you baby. He' s in Texass for about 2 weeks. Yeah, I know. Texas. Exciting. Woo. Not really.

3. Plans for my high school reunion (another late event) are now seeming to roll a bit. I can't wait to see how many illegitimate children the skanks I went to school with had.

4. Congratulations to Epps on his promotion at Enterprise Rent A Car, PV on his new job, and Chuck on his new job. If you see any of these guys, buy them a beer.

5. Corey has testicular cancer. Dude, you're in my thoughts. Need a band to play a benefit show?

I think that's about it. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Mine was really good. I got sleepy. Fucking tryptophane. Sorry about not updating this blog much. I've been quite the bizzy Hizzy lately. Work is kicking my ass, just keeps piling up on a daily basis. School is good. Got some final projects to work on this weekend. The Whore has 2 concerts this month, just a couple weeks apart, so I'm busy busy busy. I still love you all and haven't forgotten.

I think that's all for now.

I'm on the nighttrain,
HIZZ

Good sounds --> Otep "Blood Pigs"
Good places --> www.joecartoon.com