i am just a worthless liar, i am just an imbecile, i will only compicate you, trust in me and fall as well. why can't we not be sober?

so i really only have one thing to say:

I SAW TOOL!
*happy naked dances like a mother fucker all up and down blog land*

and it was **awesome**, so fucking awesome it deserves two of those gay little shift-eight start thingies...because two is better than one, and my ears are ringing so fucking loud i can't hear a fucking thing.

that is also **awesome!!**

i've been meaning to see Tool since around, ohhhh....lets say the mid 1990's when i first heard "prison sex," but i kept on missing them, so i was beyond stoked to see them, and i was beyond orgasming the entire two hours they played.

i've seen a perfect circle twice, but never tool. so, this was huge for me!

the opening band pretty much sucked. the name of the band is isis, i think, and it was just a bit too much going on at once. it was like pink floyd and pantera mated, and isis was the product..and to me it just didn't work. you can't go from all these intricate melodies and harmonies to gutteral screaming into the microphone and insanely heavy guitars over and over again each time you shift from a chorus to a verse. it's either one or the other, or pull the uber metal cliche and start out all whimsical and awesome and then float on into the gutteral bullshit. the ping pong match betwene gutteral and harmony is just haggard, in my opinion...which really doesn't count for much to begin with.

but tool! ohh sweet glorious tool! how do i love thee! let me count the ways:

1. they started with my absolute favorite tool song, "stinkfist." yes, i know that is probably the most cliche song you could ever have be a tool favorite...but, you can fucking blow me. that's the song i play whenever i'm in my dark place, and it takes me to a less dark place. regardless, a band playing your favorite song by them at a show is awesome, but playing it first is like some devine sign that this show is for you...or at least that's what i'm going to tell myself, so back off bitches!

2. maynard quickly took off his shirt shortly after appearing on stage. scrump-dee-lee-ump-tious! for that i will totally forgo the horridness of the cowboy hat and the giguntor belt buckle..for seeing chiseled abs in awesome mood lighting while that voice is filling the room is just pure sex.

3. the show was not about anything other than the music. half the time maynard had his back to the audience, most of the time the stage was lit by a dark-ish color with lots of vivid lasers going around the room so that you weren't really looking at the stage, but at the lasers and absorbing the entire experience. i like that. i like the no frills shows. don't get me wrong, they had a pretty intricate light show, but even still it wasn't overbearing or insane. it was there to enhance the music.

4. they played what they wanted. i hate it when bands just play their "hits" so-to-speak. i never in a million years thought they would play the entierty of "10,000 days" but they did. it's an amazing song, but it's not really what i would call concert material, but they played it anyway. they played all of "rosetta stone" as well. also didn't think they would play that either. i mean they played their more known songs like "aeinima," "schism," and "parabola," but as far as the new cd goes they totally played whatever the fuck they wanted, and that rocks my socks.

5. they sounded perfect. i swear, if i wasn't staring at a stage and watching them perform, i would have sworn it was just the cd playing. they jammed, and rocked out, but everything sounded flawless. his vocals were dead-on. *sigh* it was so dreamy!

6. they never left the stage. you know how most bands leave the stage before the encore? nope! not them! they put their instruments down, and sat down on the stage and were just kind of looking out at us. everyone had a lighter lit, so they all pulled out their lights and were waving them. say it with me: awww!

7. at the very end, they actually applauded us. the four of them also engaged in a giant group hug before they left the stage. say it with me again: awww!

anyway, i actually snuck my digital camera into the show..but of course i was seated by where the policemen were chilling. fucking figures! i got some decent shots though. if you want to see the larger image click it! [click it real good!] most of them are of maynard..but he is the main guy, and he was the only guy that wasn't always lurking in the side shadows...which the other band members seemed to do. here are a few of the better ones:

and for those playing at home, no i didn't end up sitting alone. my friend derrick who initially said he would forgo his front row ticket to sit with me actually did it. i'm shocked. why would anyone give up front row seats? lord only knows, but i was happy i wasn't sitting there rocking out all alone.