Seriously, give it up for the woman who bore me! Without her, I’d be some type of protoplasm, and who wants that? Worse yet, if I had a different mother, who knows where I’d be right now? Kristi certainly wouldn’t be a librarian, I doubt I’d have my profoundly libertarian politial views or innate distrust of authority. I still remember when she blessed out that rent-a-cop who was harrassing her then 6 year old son. So thanks Ma. Thanks for not working until I was 11. Thanks for subscribing me to Nintendo Power when they were giving out free Dragon Warrior. Thanks for kicking me out of the house when I came home from school and not letting me back in until 6. Thanks for not overreacting when the rent-a-cops pulled all us kids in from that minor gang war over who got the best spot in the fort we’d built. Thanks for being understanding in recent years when things have not really gone my way. Thanks for all that jazz. You generally kick ass.

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Well, it finally happened. Kristi and I have seen Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphies and now… THE FASTEST BAND IN THE MOTHERFUCKING WORLD…. DRAGONFORCE. Holy hell they rocked ass. Man, all those kiddies there thinking they were going to be hipsters and gawk at the freakshow… The girl and I blew their minds. We basically anchored the corner we were standing in. Nobody else knew the words to half the songs well enough to shout when called on, and the other half were too sheepish. Geez, if you are at a Dragonforce concert it is time to throw caution to the wind and just scream out ’till you are blue in the face. I mean if you don’t, why the hell were you there? They are coming back. That many sound problems and they’d damn well better. They sold out the Tremont, which holds an even thousand. Their openning acts sucked, but they were local so that’s that. My ears are still ringing. That was sooooo damn hardcore. I’m very impressed that metal has neither died nor become so into itself that it is no longer about rocking out. Lord that ruled.

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