CNN.com – Officials: Dad kills neighbor accused of molesting girl – Aug 30, 2006
This is a rough one. On the one hand, I hope that nothing happened to the guy’s daughter, but on the other, I could see killing the motherfucker too, but one would hope that it was justified.
My dad called me a little while ago to let me know that my Great Aunt “Big Helen” is getting ready to have surgery. She has apparently fallen and broken her hip again. Damn. She already has it pretty tough, so this is not good.
I know I have posted about my Aunt before, but I couldn’t find anything relevant doing a search.
I love my real grandmother very much, but growing up I always considered Big Helen my Grandmother. As a kid, she just seemed more “grandmotherly”. My little brother and I would spend weekends with her as often as we could, and we spent a big portion of summer vacation with her as well. It is a pain in the ass for both parents to be working (trust me, I know) when the kids are out of school, so I am sure that it also helped my parents out immensely.
She was the first adult that I ever smoked around, and she was the first person to let me drive as well. I spent my 14th or 15th summer vacation driving her around her neighborhood in Florida. Was pretty cool. Not that I really needed it. Living in Atlanta I mostly used public transportation or walked, so didn’t even get my license until I was 20 or 21. Right before I got married.
Like everyone else in the world she has issues. Since I haven’t had the opportunity over the last few years to deal with her or my grandmother on a regular basis like the rest of my family, that colors my judgement, and she was always bigger than life to me, particularly as a child.
I know that one day she is going to pass away, and I hope that she gets to meet God like she believes. It hurts to think about losing anyone in my family.
The Queensryche show tonight kicked ass. They played both albums, Operation Mindcrime I and II in their entirety, as well as a two song encore. A wee bit over three hours. I will update this whenever the hell I wake up tommorow. I got about four hours of sleep last night, so I am pretty damn wiped out.
UPDATE finally. – I woke up about an hour ago. Just getting some coffee in my system. I have to go out and pick up a computer to fix from someone I know, as well as go to the hated wal-mart to pick up the SO’s prescriptions.
The show last night was awesome. The Tabernacle seats something like 2500, there were probably 2000, maybe less, in attendance. I like shows that are in small venues much better than seeing them at the Lakewood Amphiteatre (or whatever it’s fucking called now). No matter where you sit, you have a good seat. The sound quality usually isn’t the best, but who cares. If you want sound quality, buy the CD, don’t go to live shows.
We took Chris, which was interesting, as it was his first concert.
The band played all 32 songs from both albums. Damn, it was a long show. Stephanie thinks that Geoff Tate was lip-syncing in some of it, but I don’t think so. There is always stuff on the albums that is pre-recorded and inserted in the show, perhaps that is what was heard. I could be wrong though. Don’t really care either way. They did a pretty good job. One thing I noticed is that even though they have been playing the stuff longer (20 years), they did not seem to have quite as smooth a time with the material from OM I as they did from the second one. Maybe it is just the difference between the music. Most of their stuff is pretty complicated to play live, with lots of intertwined (sp?) melodies. They just seemed alot more in sync with each other with the new stuff.
This is the second time that I have seen the OM I show, the first being about 20 years ago. I must say that I really enjoyed it.
I enjoyed checking out the people too. Damn, time has not been kind to some of these fucking people. I loves me some heavy metal, but at some point in my life I realized that I couldn’t walk around looking and acting like Beavis and Butthead. I guess that lightbulb just doesn’t click for everyone. At one point I had to tell Chris “some of these chicks were probably hot 20 years ago”.
There were some younger people too. Some with parents, some by themselves, but mostly it was folks in their late 20’s to early 50’s. Damn, I used to laugh at all of the people that would attend concerts of bands that I considered “out of date”. Guess I am one of them now.
If you haven’t heard anything by QR, you should check them out. They were always considered the “thinking man’s heavy metal band”. Geoff Tate has one of the best voices around, even after 25 years. Even if you are not a metal head, you might be pleasantly surprised by Queensryche.
Since commenting appears to be broken over at That 1 Guy’s site I’ll just post my answer here.
Over the roll, AFTER my wife has gotten irritated because I left it sitting on the sink.
I haven’t ever been to Tits McGee’s site, but now that I found the link over at Libby’s I will be sure to visit every once in awhile.
I did manage to come across this song while I was there. WARNING – DO NOT CLICK if you are at work, although if you somehow manage to get through their firewall to visit MY site, they must be pretty fucking lax. When I heard it, for some reason all I could think about was the Vman. Not sure why though, just there in my head for some reason. Maybe it’s the Zombie Raper post, or Cornholing. Damn.