New Cover for Guitar World

Click on the title "New Cover for Guitar World" up above to see who is on it. 8-)

Zombie Squirrel! Forest of The Dead...

IF YOU ARE EASILY DISTURBED OR OFFENDED, DON'T READ WHAT FOLLOWS OR LOOK AT THE PICTURES! I am posting this in such a way that you are warned so you don't have a right to complain and claim some type of offense at this...

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So, I'm on the phone with Ken yesterday and my Son runs down the hallway to inform me that a squirrel is eating a bird. My Son, ever the practical joker, I think, "Yeah right...squirrel eating a bird." I don't even remember what I said to him...

I look out the back window and, to my absolute amazement, there is a common gray squirrel eating a bird! I grab tha camera and I shot a rather crappy picture of this zombified squirrel, who shall from this day forward be referred to as "George" for "George Romero," then I went outside and shot a few more pics of the CARNAGE OF THE LIVING DEAD.

Just a note, this is not a prank, this is 100% true. I have never heard of anything like this. My Wife has never heard of anything like this. Ken, who has actually raised a couple of squirrels and like myself, has watched and enjoyed squirrels for years...has never heard of this type of behavior from Gray Squirrels.

The photos are graphic, so, don't complain.

Zombie Squirrel 2: The Aftermath...

These are the really bad pictures.

Happy Birthday!

And, you know it's your birfday, don't you? You want me to sing you a song Kenneth?

Oh happy birfday to you,
the sky is so blue,
with dead leaves all blowing,
some dirt flies too... 8-)

The DVD Player this weekend?

I tried to make it through the latest Indiana Jones movie and I just couldn't. A neighbor let me borrow it for the weekend and I just couldn't get into it. It comes as no surprise to me, I never really "got into" the whole Indiana Jones thing from years past.

So, I fell back to a good, old creepy movie filled with chilly Octoberness.

Phantasm.

This movie is the Black Sabbath of horror movies, errah, if you ignore the fact that Black Sabbath took their name from a Boris Karloff horror movie titled "Black Sabbath."

What's in the CD Player?

Well, this weekend it was back-to-back listening of Black Sabbath's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and "Sabotage." Looking out the window at the Octoberness of it all, leaves swirling around in eddies of chilly air.

Who am I kidding? Black Sabbath is basically a staple of my listening tastes... I like classic rock, or heavy metal, whatever you want to call it. Sometimes just psychedelic rock...

I can usually be found listening to The Doors, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and more modern hard rock like Metallica.

Black Sabbath's fifth album, "Sabbath Bloody Sabath" has a rather haunting album cover, the back of the album being a family mourning a dying relative and the front of the album showing, perhaps, what is going on in the other realm... Interesting, eh?

"Sabotage" is much more subdued by comparison. Sabbath Drummer Bill Ward's red tights...egad...

Both "Sabotage" and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" are far more artsy in nature than the First Four Black Sabbath Albums. They still have the heavy edge of earlier Black Sabbath offerings, but also have the rather eerie keyboards that you would find in more subdued music. Rick Wakeman, Keyboardist for the band Yes, was brought in for "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", for example.

Interesting music, to say the least. Contrary to the critics and some people who shall remain unnamed, they remain one of the most popular bands in the history of modern music. 8-)