Metal Goblin's Cave

“Bigfoot not as confident as might first seem. Most of time not know where am. People think Bigfoot master of woodland navigation. Move through darkness like velvet torpedo. Not true. Mostly just stumbling around smashing head into branches trying recognise where am but every fucking tree look the same.”

I would just like to take a moment to say...

GO, FEARLESS IRANIANS, GO!

Seriously, have you seen the news coming out of Tehran? These people are being beaten and killed, and they're still protesting. Fingers crossed for a full-scale revolution, and at least one dead tyrant.


It's an inspiration to liberty-minded people everywhere.

There's a lot to hate about Alabama, but the summer heat has to be number 1. I work in a factory that makes office furniture, and the specific area where I work is located right next to a giant oven that they use to dry the paint on the metal parts. It's been upwards of 90°+ this week, with the heat index being around 102°, which means that where I work, it's about 110° F. Long hours, too; I've gotten overtime every single week since they moved me over there. If you've never worked a 50+ hour week next to an oven in a factory, in Alabama, in June, trust me, it's exactly as much fun as it sounds.

But it's the weekend, and Thor bless it. And even though, between taxes and Jen's rent up north (where I imagine it's nice and cool), I don't get to keep a lot of the money, I'm not complaining. Okay, I'm complaining, but I'm not quite as miserable as I let on. This job is toughening me up, no doubt about it, and that's a good thing because I'll be the first to tell you that I'm kind of a pussy. And hey, I have a fridge full of Yuengling's, a nice plate of hot wings, Wolf's <i>Black Wings</i> album (highly recommended to anyone with even a passing interest in good old-fashioned heavy metal), and a whole weekend to recover before diving back into the especially shitty work week that's coming on Monday (production is going up... hooray). Life ain't too bad. I'm trying to maintain a more positive attitude than I'm really used to.

One dark element: Lindsay Lohan has apparently stirred up quite a bit of controversy by posting a topless photo of herself on Twitter. I, for one, am shocked and apalled. There's simply no excuse for such naughtiness, and I suspect I'm not alone in thinking a good old-fashioned spanking is in order. And I think I'm just the man for the job.

I just spent a couple of days in the Smoky mountains with the extended family (about 13 of us total, though a couple didn't stay). It did me some good, but the highlight of the trip, for me, was the church near the cabin. It's called Fire on the Mountain Holiness Church, with big red stenciled letters (the font looked like Impact, real blocky and aggressive) on the side of the building reading "GOD IS STILL GOD" and so fort, and a message on the sign out front about how "HELL IS EVERLASTING FIRE." I saw several other churches in the area with "Holiness" in the name, and when I asked my mom about it later, she said those were snake-handler churches.

I just spent two days in fucking snake-handler country, and didn't even know it until I was leaving. Disappointing. I'd have loved to go into one.

Anyway, the trip has inspired me to maybe start hiking on the weekends. There are worse ways to get in shape, and I've got a (fairly small) patch of woods right by the house.

Also, the trip was full of views like this one:



That's me, perched on a rock about 200 feet above some rapids. Pretty sweet.

The 1979 lineup of Black Sabbath (Tony Iommi, Ronnie James Dio, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice) has been touring as Heaven and Hell, named after the 1980 Sabbath album. Their first full-length album under this name is due out this month.

You can listen to the first single, "Bible Black," here. Presumably it's not about the hentai, but one can always hope.

It's okay. It's got some good solid Tony Iommi riffage, and Dio's a hell of a singer, but it's wanting something. Plus, the lyrics are kinda stupid (a common problem in metal). I'd lose the Streissand intro, too - crooning ain't Dio's strong suit, and that's just as well because it's cheesy as hell.

I do like the artwork for the single though:


Even if you're Christian, you have to admit that's pretty badass.