It seems everyone I know who lives out of town came to Greenville for a visit this past weekend!  My cousin Tonya came in from Portland, OR, my best friend Kenny came in from Atlanta to play a show and my ex-girlfriend Rebecca came in from Savannah, GA to pay her respects to a high school friend of hers who passed away in a tragic accident.  Rebecca and I had been on shaky ground for the past couple of weeks due to an incident where she had an ‘episode’ to put it lightly.  She came by and gave me my Christmas presents early and managed to make peace between us although our relationship is still fairly strained.

We did manage to coexist long enough to go pick my cousin up from my aunt and uncle’s house and go to Gumby’s to see Kenny play with his new project KENNY B & THE FRIZZ.  Opening the show was HEART MACHINE who put on a fairly energetic set before Kenny and the boys took the stage.  They played some MARTIANS SEE RED (Kenny’s former band) tunes as well as some new songs plus an acoustic version of the mellow portions of QUEEN’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” where Kenny demonstrated his truly incredible voice.

After their set, some of the members of HEART MACHINE returned to the stage donning Santa outfits and performed under the moniker BAD SANTAS as they ‘punked’ out some Christmas classics such as “Frosty the Snowman” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”.  It was great but I had to take off during their set since I had to work the next morning.

I dropped Tonya off and got Rebecca back to her car just in time for Kenny to show up with his bandmates to crash at my place.  A couple of them had to leave at six so they barely got in a good nap.  Kenny and his drummer Troy (a former roommate of mine) got up and hit the road when I did the next morning.

After getting off the air Saturday, I came home and laid low for the remainder of the weekend watching football and the second season of My Name is Earl which Rebecca got me for Christmas.