Well, let’s see, what’s new?  Friday was a full day which started in my hometown of Simpsonville as I was at Wal-Mart for our annual Rock ‘N’ Roll Up Your Sleeve blood drive.  My dear Aunt Pat was there to see her beloved nephew and to keep me in line as she likes to do to me on the air!  Greg and I were fighting with the Planet ape’s big ass as the concrete buckets kept falling over and my aunt had the genius idea of tying the ape to a couple of sign posts which already grounded in the asphalt.  Way to go, Aunt Pat!

The drive was a HUGE success as, not only was I busy for the two hours I was out at the Simpsonville Wal-Mart (which faces my alma mater Hillcrest High School on the other side of I-385), but apparently all our donor locations were as well as we brought in 575 units of blood compared to 560 last year.  And, for those wondering, we should be drawing for the DROWNING POOL autographed guitar and the PROJECT REVOLUTION tickets over the course of the day as well as picking our photographer for the show.

Friday night, Rebecca and I went out to pay tribute to Uncle Jim at the Jim Minchow Memorial Concert at Ground Zero.  We enjoyed sets from WHISKEY MOUNTAIN MACHINE, BOOLOW and got to see GHOST IN THE MACHINE for the first time as a five-piece since the addition of a second guitarist.  They ended their set with “Down for the Last Time” with guest backing vocals from Jay and J-Bird formerly of EVERY MANS ENEMY.  Afterwards, Jay confirmed the strong possibility of an EME reunion!  At that point, Becca and I were both beat and had to leave and miss HEADSNAP’s set being she had to work in the morning.

Saturday, I stepped out to feed and run a few errands, but, outside of that, I stayed in and vegged on the couch and did pretty much the same on Sunday.  Becca did come over so we could watch Dan in Real Life with Steve Carell.  The movie was actually pretty entertaining considering I am not big on indy comedies.  However, Steve Carell can pull them off as he did with Little Miss Sunshine.  Bill Murray, on the other hand, does not as I did not care for Rushmore nor Lost in Translation.

Dan in Real Life  \m/ \m/ \m/ \n

Yesterday, Paige and Nine made the HUGE announcement of the line-up for BIRTHDAY BASH XII!  Granted, they had to do it since Skip and Matt were both (and still are) sick with vacation coming for them next week (I will say no more).  So, the ticket blitz IS ON!!!  Listen all week as we will giving away tickets to see AVENGED SEVENFOLD, BUCKCHERRY, SHINEDOWN and SAVING ABEL at Clemson’s Littlejohn Coliseum on September 30th before you can buy them on Friday (P1s, you can buy yours on Thursday)!

While on the air yesterday, I checked out Best Buy’s website to see if there was anything worth picking up on DVD since all the decent movies have been confined to theaters this summer.  Being tight in the wallet, I really couldn’t have done much spending, but Best Buy happens to be running a killer sale of $5 DVDs!  I zipped over there immediately after getting off the air and picked up Clerks II, Grandma’s Boy and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle all for five bucks a pop!  Needless to say, I spent last night laughing my ass off watching the movies in their respective order as I have listed them but only making it halfway through the second one before calling it a night.  I did, at least, make it through Grandma making tea out of Alex’s pot and the huge party that stems from the ‘herbal’ tea!  “My grandma drank all my pot!”  Classic!

So, go pick up some killer cheap DVDs and tell them Twisted Todd sent ya since I used to work there!  Who says you can’t buy happiness?!