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I can not wait until the new Sabbath album comes out. All new songs with Ozzy! m/

Did not even know about that. Nice! m/

Got the new Luigi's Mansion today. It's a pretty awesome game.

Yeah, I've been hearing. Wish I had a 3DS to play it. Oh well, might just replay the original on the ol' Gamecube.

Yeah, I agree. I haven't got too far into it and it takes about 30 minutes to really get going but once it does, it's quite fun.

Ozzy is the man! He played for over 2 hours when I saw him at the Toyota Center. Which ain't bad for such an old fart lol.   This is kind of random, but did you ever eat those Frosted Mini Wheats with fruit in the middle? The raspberry kind are insanely delicious!

I never have actually, no. Only the white frosting ones.

And Ozzy has old man strength, and seems like his brainpower comes back when he starts singing. Not sure how long he played when I saw him in '07 and '08, but needless to say he and Wilde were awesome.

I got the new Luigi game today.  He cracks me up.

I think the professor made me laugh the most in the original. lol

Ozzy!  Im not  too big on  Metal but I did go see Ozzy in concert, and...I enjoyed it very much!

Well that's good, glad you enjoyed it! How'd you come to see him if you don't like metal? Was it a concert with a mix of bands, or just went with a friend who like Ozzy? Or he is just an exception in your case? You got me curious. lol

My drinking Buddies ( 1980?) had tickest and it was Saturday night...Road Trip!

I've seen Ozzy twice.  The first time was somewhere around '96 on his "Retirement Sucks" Tour.  Sepultura and Type O negative opened.  This was when Black No. 1 was huge.  The next time was maybe '03 or '05 ozzfest.  Black Sabbath headlined.  THAT WAS AWESOME !!!  Great day of bands.  I also remember Mudvayne and Shadows Fall on the Main Stage.  Rob zombie headlined the 2nd stage and it was a trip to see Will Smith's wife's band.  She was singing witha Thrash band and did an awesome job.  Thanks for helping me go down memory lane!

No problem. Only Ozzfests I've been to were '07 (free tickets!) and '08 (Dallas, TX only, Metallica headlined and brought King Diamond!) but I saw Type O Negative with Hatebreed and 3 Inches of Blood in one of those years as well; I actually hadn't really heard of Type O before then, but I do like "Black No. 1" and was sad their singer died.

I remember on 1up, riffcompelsme had written a blog about when Will Smith's wife was there. lol Shadows Fall was at Ozzfest '08 as well and had a great set, never saw Rob Zombie, Sepultura, or Mudvayne live, but though I'd especially love to see Rob Zombie live, Hellyeah! (Mudvayne singer, Pantera drummer, I forget who else) and a band whose name I forget that was made up of former Sepultura and I think Soul Fly members were at Ozzfest '08 as well.

I had no idea Type o negative's singer died.  Do you know how?

Rob Zombie was Great.  Very energetic and a great "performer".

This article appears to have been written before all details were in, but I think I remember it was in fact a heart failure.

And I've seen Rob Zombie on Conan or some such talk show talk about how he was raised in a circus pretty much, and learned a lot of his showmanship and strange ideas from that. He performed on that same show, and I really wanted to see him live myself after that.

Thanks for all the Sabbath/Ozzy goodness! And for the mention in your blog. I'm getting The Heist on payday. Gotta have that CD. I really liked your thoughts on Sabbath. I agree with you on the song Black Sabbath. I do think it set the tone for them and the album. But as a song it is not the greatest. Ozzy is one of those guys you can't help but like. He is genuine in his love for what he does and the fans. I think perhaps his best is yet to come. Been hearing that the new album is spectacular. And as far as Jack goes,all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!

I'll go ahead and mention that there's a deluxe edition of that CD in case you're interested. I just received the normal one, and love it, but deluxe has three extra songs: "Victory Lap," "Castle," and "My Oh My" which is his tribute to Seattle Mariners announcer Dave Neihaus. Of course, I don't know how much that version costs, and you can just do what I will and download whichever of those songs you like off iTunes, just thought I'd mention it, cause in retrospect I might have asked for that version. lol

As for Ozzy, he definitely has a genuine love of music that to me seems to almost conflict with the darker tone of the heavy metal genre. He smiles and bounces around and seems to play metal because it's fun and provides himself and others a damn good time, as opposed to doing it cause it's edgy, which is refreshing. And he always was a bit edgy, but I don't get the perception he was trying to be, just that he was trying to have fun in ways that could come across as such.

As for Jack, all work and no play do make a dull boy, as my three years with Residence Life taught me, but now I find myself wanting and needing to work more than I currently do. Hopefully, some warehouse shipments come in or something. lol Oh well, all part of my journey to find balance. Thanks for the comment as always!

Ozzy is the man.  Beck had a song a long time ago on his early albums about him that was so brilliant but I forget how it went. 

sorry, I'm not really a podcast guy, but I like these summary blogs nonetheless.  

I'll need to look up that song.

And it's cool, that's why the summaries are there, I don't expect everyone to want to hear me drone, say "uhh" and smack my lips trying to breathe for fifteen minutes.lol

But I've been trying to get myself to do at least these little audio clips so I can eventually try and do a podcast like I've wanted to for a long time. I kept making excuses like not having the best equipment, but at least by sucking it up and talking into my phone I can start getting a rythm going again, and as is said on the first track of The Heist, "the greats weren't great because at birth they could paint, the greats were great because they'd paint a lot." Having not been on air in any form for over a year, I'm having to start over somewhere to get where I want to be. Don't worry though, I need to improve my writing skills as well, so I can definitely have something more friendly to the podcast averse in the near future.

I think it's great you're trying to do something you really want to do, that's totally on my wavelength.  sometimes, creating stuff -- no matter what it is -- gives us more satisfaction and fulfillment than anything else out there.  

So keep at it!!!