March also brings wind, I had a real anxiety or phobia ( Anemophobia it's called, totally self-diagnosed. I might add!) of wind as a kid I think it stems from, get this, The Wizard of Oz. But in Far West Texas it get windy as shit, dust blowing like crazy, trees fall over I mean it can literally knock you over! Where I grew up the houses all sit on a hill or the bottom of the hill the ones on top have steep staircases made of concrete with high walls. Coming home from school one day it was so windy and I was so weirded out that it took me like an hour to walk two blocks! I would run from one set of stairs to the next then when the wind died down a little I'd run to the next stair case, what a little freak! Someone's big brother told me it was ok and walked me home but the damage was done high wind still freaks me out!
Anyway so, I'm broke (like every spring break), no SXSW for the locals anyway, but I missed Motorhead again this week ( missed 'em last year too) oh well Lemmy will out live me so I might get another chance. I saw them in Dallas in like 90-91 on one of those multi-band tours, I think it was Priest/Alice Cooper on the Operation Rock Tour at the Starplex? "Me no-know" as Mia-Tank would say! There is a few years between like 87-93 or so where I was obviously not real aware of my surrounding, but I made it through the other side! I do remember thinking all the dudes in AC are on steroids, I wonder if any of those dude are still alive!
One should recall Motorhead, that reminds me I saw Slayer,Anthrax, Megadeth this summer at the very same Starplex, although now it is named after some corporation or other. This kid (early 20s) was actually sleeping through SLAYER! I mean what the hell! His girlfriend or chick he was with was so pissed she actually hit on me and my buddy Mike! She was trolling for booze but it was still an ego boost to have a 20 year old metal chick rub on you for a free beer! I told her to fuck off cuz nobody interrupts me whilst thrashing to Kill Again! I was so into it, I bent my ring on the rail pounding out the ride cymbals!
March also makes me think of St. Patty's Day (more on that later) and the Ides of March; Idus Martias was just another way of saying the middle or 15th of the month, then in 44 BC, Brutus and the Liberators took out Julius Caesar ( stabbing him 23 times) talk about "homicidal maniac"!
Then Shakespeare got his mitts on some old writings adds some dialog popularizing the "Ides" as a day of foreshadow and retribution. So now every year on the 15th of March I think of two things...Iron Maiden and that band that did "Vehicle" they called themselves The Ides of March.
I also think of Romans and all the shit they invented that we still use....
hmmmm....oh!
Salad! Salads kick ass!
and Showers, plates, roads, calendars, Roman Numerals are cool..... lets see... subjugation, genocide, imperialism,ass-sex, yeah some cool shit.
Not my stub but it's starting to come back to me now....Natural Lite, smoke, Non-pizza 'shrooms, Ms. Patton and a whole lotta vitamin-C. Oh, to be young and stoopid again!
I don't know if the Romans invented pizza but it'd be a lot cooler if they did!
It's a real thing! Midgets weird me out too! Run Dorothy run!
This is a coin issued by the non-dead after the Tyrannicide! It would seem that regime change has always included a little blood shed and freshly minted coinage... Let freedom ring.
This is not Caesar! You cannot look at this picture without thinking..toga, toga, toga.
Maiden, "Ides" w/ "Wrathchild". Spanish subtitles so you can rip some Di'anno en espanol!
The man-crush/bromance I had for Dave Murray when I was a kid was borderline gay for sure...I mean that golden hair, fist in the air, those vests, spandex, black Stratocaster....oh shit I'm gay! Oh well he was hotter than Joan Jett!
PROOF!
These dudes were(are) from Chicago. There must have been some happy grade school band teacher in the wind-city back in the 50s/ early 60s, every band out of there had 10 brass players!
The Ides Of March - Vehicle
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Thanks for hanging in there! Puts some rocks in your pocket and go outside, it's all good!
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