Doug Van Pelt

Get to the Choppa!

I've been listening to Tim Lambesis' new side project, Austrian Death Machine. It's so ... BRUTAL!! I have a question, though: If you get into this album and then start going out and buying or renting all of Arnold Schwarzenegger's classic movies, does that make you a nerd? Or a freak named Tim Harry?

Speaking of a freak named Tim, he let me stay at his house and even offered me the ability to take Tim Lambesis' cell phone information and start stalking him. See, Tim drove the guys from As I Lay Dying from the Rev Gen fest to the airport and the other Tim, who fronts AILD, left his cell phone in the van. (Hey Tim L: Tim H was just kidding. If I would have jumped up and started rifling through your cell phone's address book, Tim H would have yelled at me to stop.)

I realize that I haven't blogged in forever -- that's a long time in cyberspace. So much has happend since I last posted on August 28th. I have been "twittering" extensively, so I feel like I've still been communicating with a lot of folks, but this blog has suffered. For this, I apologize.

Okay...what have I done?

I flew to New Jersey (Philadelphia's airport, to be exact) and went to the Revelation Generation Festival. Friday night was a half night, but I got to see and hear Leeland. They are so cool, calm and special. When it comes to hospitality and artist treatment, this one ranks way up there (with Minnesota's Sonshine Fest) in treating their guests with first class care. The next day was filled with great hard music, which I'll be writing about soon. August Burns Red, The Myriad, Norma Jean, Skillet, Flyleaf, As I Lay Dying. Wow.

Last night my wife and I went to see the world premiere of Matthew mcCaugnahey's new film -- Surfer, Dude. She won tickets while watching the University of Texas Longhorns pummell the team from Florida Academy last weekend. After showing a brief preview, the "Godzillatron" giant video screen/scoreboard announced that by texting "Surfer (your name)" to such and such number, that you could enter to win tickets. My wife's name was splashed up there, so we had two tickets waiting for us at will call. There was a red carpet and the whole nine yards. It's fun to people watch at events like that, but we just went in and got seated (and then waited almost an hour for the filmmaker and star to come out on stage and introduced the movie). Lots of fun. Pretty funny movie. Enjoyed a small cup of Coffee ice cream with Oreo "crushin's" in it. That's my regular choice at the fine Amy's Ice Cream eating establishment.

Posted by Doug Van Pelt at September 4, 2008 10:34 AM