Now that my brain has settled down a bit, I can talk more about MDF. I had an amazing time! I was stoked that there were a good handful of powerviolence/hardcore bands mixed in with the grind and death metal and black metal. It was great to see a mix of people and mix of music. So often fests just book 100% of the same sound or the same scene, and in my mind metal and hardcore have always belonged together, so it was great to see it.

Highlights:

- Bolt Thrower - Twice. First time I watched them from afar, second time I was right up front getting pummeled from all sides, but it was excellent.
- Devourment - sounded SO TIGHT live. Total bummer that they called the women at the fest "pussys" and "sluts".
- Napalm Death - got the entire outside crowd to yell "Nazi punx fuck off!" - never thought I would hear that at a metal fest!
- BirdFlesh's glowsticks- hilarious
- Rotten Sound - never heard them before, walked in during their set, was blown away
- Spitter - awesome band
- Absu - the only corpsepaint I saw all fest, AND constant trollvoice banter from the drummer made it totally hilarious
- Mayhem - Atilla was doing some serious tibetan throat singing, it was intense! I later saw pictures of their performance in NYC on Thursday though, which involved corpsepaint, prop heads on stakes, and ATILLA SINGING WHILE STANDING INSIDE A TREE STUMP. I am so pissed he didn't do that at MDF. I understand the grind and death kids would have heckled the shit out of them but I felt like I really missed out on the majesty of Mayhem
- Pig Destroyer & Cattle Decapitation - always rad, stoked to see them again
- Sigh - ridiculous stage antics, just what I wanted to close out the fest

There were tons of other awesome bands too, I can hardly wrap my mind around how many I saw!

I also saw a kid in a death metal chicken outfit, and during Cannibal Corpse's set their weed mascot came out, that was hilarious. There were creepy matching triplet girls and sooo many great tattoos and metal vests. And I made one million new friends!

Labels: metal, shows

I am too overwhelmed to type it all out right now but MDF 2009 was the most fun I have had in a very very long time.

This is the only good picture I got the whole weekend, but I wasn't trying to take pictures 99% of the time because I was having too much fun.


MAYHEM!

I also saw 230823 terrible tattoos that I'll post on my other blog.
I'll post more about all of this later when I've processed it all!!!!

Labels: metal, shows, tattoos

In a funny twist of fate, I saw Bonnie Prince Billy last night. He wrote this great song "Death to everyone" which I have had in my head since I decided to go to the Deathfest, which starts tomorrow.

I'm super stoked, it should be awesome.

Labels: shows

To larp or to go to the Maryland Death Fest?

The fest won out but I am bummed about not going to the LAIRE 4-day next weekend.

Labels: larp, metal

I drafted for the first time last night and won! There were only 7 of us, so I played three games, each one best of three. I won 2/0 each of the three games! I was undefeated! I'm stoked about it because really I had no confidence in myself at all. We played with alara reborn and shards of alara, and I decided on red/black/blue (which are my favorite colors, it just happened that I was getting passed good cards from those). I had lightning reaver and deathbringer thoctar, and somehow got one or both of them each game I played, which helped me immensely. The one time I got totally mana screwed my opponent did as well, and I inched out ahead.




I got a lightning reaver when I played the sealed pack tournament too, so I might build a deck around these guys. I have a couple other decent cards with fear and/or haste, which was what I was generally trying to do with this deck, so we'll see if I can tighten it up and have some kind of decent beast/zombie deck or something. Should be fun!

Labels: mtg

I've been really sick lately and haven't felt like doing anything except get tattooed apparently! Probably NOT the best course of action, but the end result is pretty awesome.


Both crows are filled in now. I have one more session to maybe do some blue highlights.

I also got a spur-of-the-moment boneless wolf's head in a medieval helmet. Good photos to come soon.

ALSO: Star Trek was awesome. Really awesome. I made cardboard ears and a cardboard insignia and wore a red shirt. I made friends with the cutest older lady wearing spock ears who was working at the theater and made her a cardboard insignia too.

Labels: tattoos

Last night I went to Three Kings to hang out with Josh for a bit while Myles was working on his sleeve. I just planned to be there for half an hour or so and then head out, but Alex finished his last tattoo of the night and didn't have anything else to do, so I joked that he should do another zombie tattoo on me. Turns out he was up for it!



This zombie is so stoked that he's a zombie that he is ripping his face off!!!!!!!!

I am beyond excited about it. Best spur-of-the-moment tattoo ever! Alex rules!

Labels: tattoos