September 9

So my wounds seem to have vanished overnight... may be the magic potions I have been taking every morning (V8 original). Today I get a ride from Geoff who has to fix his truck on the North Shore. So we drive out to the North Shore and goto the mechanics. We drive back with Tom and go into the city apparently there is a skatepark in Victoria Park that Tom wants to see. cool. They drop me off at the Skytower and tell me they can get me on Sunday... hmm long time but i can manage

So I get my fill of tacos and apparently the only spicy venue in all of NZ. Jalapeno ooo! ooooo its sOOOOooooo SPICY.... about as spicy as a loaf of bread... I would literally kill someone just to see if blood tastes spicy or flavorful. It is nice however that the owners of MexiCali are from California and are very easy to understand. To kill some more time before the concert I walk 20 meters...

Onto the Disturbed concert! AWESOME simply awesome. Redline (nz band), Alterbridge (Creed minus lead singer), P.O.D., and then Disturbed. Redline was okay.. said the "C" word a lot and swore AT me which was unnnessary. Their online music was good... live... not so much. Alterbridge was good too, even if they didnt play any of their good songs and chose to play more of moshpit songs.... on that note strict rules for No moshing and No crowd surfing... wondering how long that will last at this concert... or in a month with Slipknot >:P POD was pretty good, very neat to hear youth of the nation sung by the crowd and here come the "BOOM" says the crowd. Disturbed started out with David Draiman coming out on a dolly in a straight jacket... crowd goes wild. He is much shorter then I realized. In one of the old videos of Disturbed (down with the sickness) he is wearing tight black leather pants and is always all crotch out in the open, leg up on a speaker screaming to the fans.... that is apparently his "move" as he crowd humps every speaker available and then some. His normal speaking voice is actually really cool, i could totally hear him as a radio DJ.. welcome back Seattle...oooo ahahahah... and now the weather

Awesome show, totally worth it and great seats. Was worried about the mosh pit area so got seats instead, even if the pit was as rowdy as a Neil Diamond concert. Walking back home everyone in their cars are playing Disturbed....you mutha get up... 10,000 fists in the...liberate your mind... neato... also on the way back some yutz is firing his gun out the window. Nobody else seems to worry about it. Needless to say I am uncomfortable. Would be an equivalent of someone shooting a gun in armory square on a saturday night and the general consensus being... meh