*HIZAKI swirls and leaves the stage*
ah, so yes...the deftones played a blistering show at Harrah's last month. A set with oldies and live-show staples mixed in with new tracks off KOI NO YOKAN, their second album without Chi, which is debuting in just a couple of days. That's fate for you. Anyways, rollingstone.com has their entire album available for streaming and I must confess that it is phenomenal. Why the fuck is the Foo Fighters getting all the awards these days. Show these motherfuckers some love.
Stalker Mark landed some serious swag that night. Before the show he scored everyone's signature on his custom ONE LOVE FOR CHI banner (thanks Maria) minus Stephen's. I assume we didn't notice him walk by because he was in a cloud of pot smoke. Go figure.
Still trying to find video evidence of Chino taking Mark's banner and holding it up for the crowd to see during a break between songs. So far, no luck.
We had gambled a little before the gig and respectively lost around $40-50 each so we didn't bother going back after the show. Instead we finished the night with "after-concert-McDonald's".
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DS
AKA:
"Baby Thang"
"Black Ass"
White Foot-Black Foot"
"Old Man DS"
(2007-2012)
In early 2007 our Nos-ferret-atu passed away right before the Inward Scream tour. Which started mine and Maria's superstition of bad shit happening right before or during trips. We didn't consider filing the void of our lost pet because we still had Mysterious, Vicious, and Lily...which was plenty :p
But one day in early Summer we set out to go buy a DS Lite from Game Stop but before that we stopped in Petco to purchase some FerretVite. Low and behold was this ferret in the display cage that stood out right away. I remember him being so active in there, running around and jumping at the top of the cage trying to bite our fingers.
We realized that the ferrets were the same exact price of the DS we were going to get. There wasn't any hesitation in our decision to forgo the DS and pick up the ferret. Later that night we thought it would be funny to call him DS to always remember that day.
He had the coolest looking coat ever. Super black ass with a white thin line right down the middle of his head. He had one dark colored foot and one white foot hence one of his nicknames. He also had white fur on his belly and we would call him Panda Belly from time to time. In his later years his coat became much lighter and eventually he took on a striking resemblance to Vicious but you could always instantly recognize him from the white stripe down his head.
When DS took a turn for the worse last month, we expected the long drawn out painful experience we have had previously before with our other ferrets. Luckily, he did not have to go through the agonizing stage of the death process where they seem to go delusional.
Old Man DS left us on my birthday which was a surprise but like I said, I am thankful it was not as terrible of an experience as it could have been.
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Once again Maria, down to the fucking wire, came through with a costume for her family's Halloween party. She scrapped a lot of it the week before the party and still was able to finish in time to her liking. It was somewhat weird trying to have a good time that night because we had taken DS to Wayside Waifs the day before.
She was a hit that night and also on Halloween night for the neighborhood kids. I cannot even imagine what she will attempt next year.
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Can't believe it's almost time to bring home another turkey.
fin
