Demon's Child

So I took an extended break with this entry... but hey, I'm entitled to a break during the weekend, aren't I? Oh, well, here's the lowdown of the Revolution pub crawl:

At the Hancock we met this guy (I played pool with him and he beat me and then we started talking) and among different conversation topics, I asked if the band playing at Trillians was any good. He told me it was the best group he'd seen play at Trillians which I of course took as an exaggeration. Come Trillians, they were actually quite amazing. Not quite amazing, but Amazing! (that's right, capitalised) The guitarist (who was only 17) was a white version of Hendrix (not only because he played some of his songs, but his overall style and feel was very Hendrixey), the drummer (who was 18) was kickarse (he played Moby Dick's live version which includes a 10+ minute drum solo... and nailed it!) and the bassist/singer was cool (and significantly older than the other two blokes). I couldn't believe they played Led Zeppelin's Moby Dick, but when they played Gallows Pole/Stairway to Heaven (both Zeppelin) as an encore, that just blew my mind. The kiddo nailed the solo! So, if The Brew are ever playing near you, go see them! It's highly recommended for any person, but especially if you're into the whole Hendrix meets Zeppelin thing :) They'll be the supporting act for Dragonforce next year, so you could see them then (I most definitely will!). So yeah, the guy wasn't exaggerating one bit... they are hands down the best I've seen at Trillians.

The rest of the night was also good. No overly odd things happening though(Geordies coming in and headbanging with you are now standard things, as are spontaneous trensitos... okay, maybe not the last one), so I'll just say it was a good night.

On another note, I saw the Dutch Guy in the Metro when I was on my way home last week. You thought you'd never hear about the Dutch Guy again, eh? Well, you were wrong. Although that's pretty much all I can say about him... I just hid from him in case he recognised me from laughing at him during his lectures... but he did look confused (surprised?).

Now, on a very different note, we found a spider in our bathroom yesterday. If you know me at all you'll know I'm the biggest arachnophobe (translate: wuss) in the world. Vadim found it on the bathtub and called me over. Neither him nor Jimmy would kill it for me and I really needed to pee so I didn't know what to do. Jimmy made me watch some disgusting things on the web, promising that he'd kill satan's creature after I had done that. He didn't. So well, I figured since it was in the bathtub maybe I could drown it. So I grabbed a pint glass and filled it up to the top on the tap, slowly walked into the bathroom and saw it was near the plug. I gathered my strength (you see, you have to be careful when killing spiders... you don't want to miss and then piss them off... they'll take revenge later on and there's nothing worse than a mad spider) and finally threw the water at the demon. The pint of water rushed towards it like a huge wave and washed it down the drain--it seemed. Just to make sure it did drown, I kept refilling the pint glass on the sink and washing it down the tub. When I stopped I had washed down at least 12 pints of water... it's a good thing we don't pay for water. But I did kill it, so I was able to pee in peace.