Head full of rocks

This is Adolf. He's almost six years old. Sometimes I think he's more trouble than he's worth. I couldn't tell you the amount of stuff this dog has shredded, chewed up, destroyed and eaten. There have been times that I have wanted to kill him. The thing about a dog is you can't stay mad at them. At least I can't. Every time I come home he's happy to see me. He usually gets out of his room and greets me at the door, and even though he knows he'll be in trouble for breaking out his tail is still going a hundred miles a minute. He knows when I'm sick. He knows when I'm feeling down. He knows when I'm happy. The dog knows me better than I know myself sometimes, I swear. I could probably write more than you'd care to read about him, he's practically like my kid. A big, dumb, ninety pound kid. I can't say for sure, but I think he'd do anything for me, and even though sometimes I want to cave his head in I hope he knows I'd do the same.
I guess it's weird to have an entry about him, he's not really a possession, he's a member of my family. I guess the only difference is I had to pay for him. But it was some of the best money I've ever spent.

Gangs of New York

Martin what the hell
This had so much potential
It sucked so much ass

Bury me in smoke.

This my ticket from the Down show on February 15, 2008 at Toad's Place here in Richmond. There's also a postcard flyer for the show that I picked up when I bought my ticket.
The first time I heard Down I didn't like them. I don't know what it was. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it, it was so long ago I couldn't tell you what my problem was. I remember being in a used record store and finding Nola among the used cds. I knew it was Phil Anselmo's side project so I figured it'd be a no brainer for me. But after listening to a few songs I just could not get into it. Truthfully I felt bad. I felt like it made me less of a Pantera fan because I didn't like Down. I don't know if that makes any sense to anyone but that's how I felt. I didn't revisit that record for a long time. I didn't have my interest resparked until right around this time last year. I was in California and I was riding with Chucky Edge when Temptation's Wings came on his iPod. As soon as I heard that song I couldn't understand why I hadn't liked it before. There's nothing about Down that I wouldn't like. I guess I realized the error of my ways that night.
Two weeks ago Down played here in Richmond. I had known that they were coming here but I thought the show was in March, and completely by chance I heard a guy on the radio say he had a few tickets for the show leftover and he was giving them away. I tried to call in but couldn't get through, so on the way home I stopped by Toad's Place and luckily the show wasn't sold out.
Down was probably one of the loudest bands I have ever heard. When they came out on stage and started feeding back every bone in my body was vibrating. They had a virtual wall of thunder on stage, I don't know that I've seen a band in a smaller club setting with so much ampage. I felt like I was seeing Kiss or The Who, it looked like one of those old style concerts to me. There were a few times I thought Phil was going to lose it on stage. I don't know what the deal was but the power on the left side of the stage kept cutting out. During the show Phil came offstage and hugged a girl that was only a few feet from me, I have to say for someone who has done so much to themselves, he doesn't look too bad. I mean don't get me wrong the guy's not going to win any beauty contests but I know people who haven't treated their body nearly as bad as he has and they look ten times worse.
They played for right around two hours, and they played all the hits. There are some bands who sound ten times heavier live than they do on record, and Down is one of those bands. It was an awesome show, I'd probably put it in my top 15 of live acts I've seen, maybe even the top ten I don't know.

There Will Be Blood

An oil man by trade

This needed some editing

Average, not great

The Whip

Token Entry is so good. I can't call them underrated, maybe overlooked. I feel like Token Entry is just as good if not better than Gorilla Biscuits, but more people know GB than TE. This is a Token Entry painters cap I got off of Ebay. Without a doubt this is the coolest thing I have ever gotten off Ebay. This is one of those things I had to have, I had never seen one before this one, and I haven't seen one since. Just one of those crazy, weird rare things that the band probably made as a goof and most of them got lost or destroyed.
I love this hat, it's beat up and yellowed but it's something I'm always glad I lucked in to. And no it's not for sale or trade. Well okay maybe for a Warzone hat or a Life of Agony mesh hat.

True love

Do you remember the the first thing you spent a lot of money on for yourself? The first thing that you saw that you had to have, that your parents could not understand whatsoever why you would buy something like that? For me it was the Nike Air Max 95.
I had been working at a shoe store, well not just shoes but a Foot Locker type place since my sophmore year. The manager there was pretty clueless about what was going to sell, so he had us go through the catalogs and pick out the stuff he needed to order. I wish I had some of those catalogs now. God there was so much good stuff in them.
Anyway, I can remember seeing the 95s in a catalog. They blew my mind. I had never seen anything like that, and I knew I had to have them. Now this was the first pair of $150 shoes that I ever paid full price for. For some reason we couldn't get our discount on them. But it didn't matter. I had to have them.
When I wore those shoes to school, I had everyone's neck breaking. Everyone was on me for those shoes, they couldn't believe these sneakers. I don't know if kids did this at your school, but they became my Friday shoes. On Fridays it seemed like everyone tried to look a little more fresh, maybe they thought that would jumpstart their weekend if they were stepping at school dressed to the nines. 95s became my Friday shoes without a doubt, and in the spring they got a lot of rotation too because the looked so good with shorts.
I've got a love affair with these shoes, it's just one of those things I guess. When they came out it was just one of those things I guess, kind of one of those moments in time with shoes and clothes I guess. It sounds dumb when I say it out loud and read it on here, but it's the truth.
The pair in this picture is from the 97 retro, I've managed to keep them pretty clean. I had held on to my ogs up until a couple of years ago, but they were so dogged out I had to powerline them.

Consumer

Okay, so I'm biting off Chucky's style. There I said it, no noone else can say it. You can't get mad at someone for snitching on themselves. I had started this blog back in November, but I didn't like how it was going, so I haven't done anything with it in a month or two. I've really been too busy. But I'm going to give it another try because now I've got a new inspiration.
I wanted to have a focus, but I had a hard time finding what that focus was. Music? Hardcore? Movies? Life? It's all been done. With that line of thinking I don't guess my new focus is much more original.
My new focus is...stuff.
Anyone who knows me knows I have a ridiculous amount of stuff. It's just stupid. I collect way too many things, and as I've gotten older I've gotten worse. Sometimes I worry that my collections are going to overrun my room, my house, my life. I took a quiz out of a book at work the other day. The book was about hoarding, about breaking hoarding addiction. Of ten questions I answered yes to seven of them. That's bad, really bad. But I can't help it. I love my stuff. I love the things I own, but I do worry that they may own me.
So, welcome to Product Placement. I'm just going to talk about the stuff I have, things I love, anything that money can be spent on basically.
I hope you enjoy.