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Carowinds is far far cooler when you never have to wait in line. Don't think we waited longer than, like, 15 minutes for anything other than the Borg on Sunday. And the Borg kind of sucked. Especially compared to Top Gun. Or even Thunder Road. But not as much as Vortex. Boring. Top Gun is the best. In the front seat. The best.

Have I even mentioned Sin City? I don't think so. But it was great. Being, as it was, a film adaptation of a comic, it couldn't be beat. I think everything I would say has been said before, so I won't say much. As a movie on its own it would have been, perhaps, a little disappointing. But since it wasn't that, it was phenomenal. Acting, dialog, visuals... everything was fantastic. Seen it twice, and I might have to go again. Maybe. But I *am* trying to save money... we'll see.

And Muse. Muse were awesome. Occasionally, Matt's voice faded a bit, but it didn't bother me too much. 2nd/3rd row center. I can't complain. Dispite the mtv cameras in my face most of the night. So I, therefore, spent most of the night with my middle finger expressing my opinion of mtv to the camera for me. I'm still not sure if that's going to make it more or less likely that they'll actually put me in some ridiculous montage. Tried my best to look like I was bored. Dammit. I would have gladly paid twice the ticket price to not have mtv there. Razorlight was...fine, I guess. I thought I liked them at first when their Mic Ronson lookalike opened the set, but I don't think I liked the lead singer. At least not after he stripped for the last song for no discernable reason and brought his smelly ass down into the crowd and stayed about two feet in front of me. Annoying. But I think I was supposed to dig it. Oops. But I did get to yell "Pearl Jam" when some dude came out to talk about mtv and had on the red pj shirt with the apeguy and the gun. Circa Yield, right? I dunno. But good for him.

Audioslave tour = another reason the Charlotte music "scene" sucks.

Just listened to the Garden State soundtrack for the first time since actually watching the movie. Very underwhelmed. And very very disappointed with the Iron & Wine cover of "Such Great Heights." It was terrible compared to the original. But, I suppose, I&W is more depressed than the Postal Service and, therefore, fit the soundtrack better. Boo. Not for me. Not for you. If you hate something, don't you do it too.

It turns out that I kind of dig the Strokes tho. So now I'm kind of excited for their almost complete new album and summer tour. No Green Day on Wednesday either, I guess. Too expensive to buy sold out tickets. Besides, there's a new South Park.

Picked up an old CD the other day... a band called Sticklaw out of Raleigh. Met them through a friend who took me to the Brewery to see them once. And then to Johnson City. Where he got to scream backup during one song. We almost fell off of Iron Mt. during on ice storm on the way there, but we made it. And it was cool. And I still like the CD. The lead singer and guitar player took off years ago, and it was hell trying to find info about them online. Finally found the bass player on ncscene.com and found out that the remaining members have formed a new band called Down Cycle. Kind of fun finding people from years ago. Wish I could find out what their old lead singer is doing these days tho. But I'll take what I can get.