X-Mas and New Year update
Busy times, drunken times, time for family reunions, for friends to gather and feast. Gotta love the Holidays.. :P
Here's an illustrated Holiday story!
Christmas was full of good surprises this year (not. lol). I knew pretty much what it was all gonna be about, but hell..
Karaoke machine of doom! It's really a family gift though, my parents are enjoying this a bit too much.. I won't even tell you if they're any good, I'll let you figure that out by yourselves.. :P
Coolest gift! I'm so glad I have this baby with me now, I couldn't live without it anymore!
Pretty cool too, I can wake up listening to whatever CD I want now! And I can just listen to music next to my bed, so I don't have to get up to close it before sleep. Sweeeet.
Infamous Canadian money :P
All dressed up and madeup for Christmas eve, oooooooooh!
My Beautiful grandmother. Isn't she pretty???? She's nearing 80 years old!!!!! :O
Me and my doggy :P I love you Charlot, even though you're a stupid ball of fur.
The friends I saw during Christmas time now, and what we do to pass the time.. :P
Lovely Laurie just out of bed :P
Inshtin I just surprised for a pic! Next time I'll get him posing with his lovely daughter ^^
Fred playing WoW, what a surprise.. :P
Pascale, who hates being taken in picture, so of course I'm being a bitch and PUBLISH her picture, muhahahahah! (She won't see this anyways, and she's cool enough to deserve a place here, ffsh!)
Chloee in front of the Chaos last Thursday for Metal Night. Miguel in the background, who was sad not to be in the picture..
..so I had to take another picture with him, too!
Me and Laurence, totally wasted. ^^ She looks like she's hanged!
Me eating a plushie ferret. Because ferrets are good food against cancer.
Kao eating the ferret too, because cancer prevention is important.
New Year party at my place, family thing with friends. Chinese food buffet my mom cooked. Was gooood, and filling. Alcohol flowed.
Laurence being fuckin sexy with gift wrapping hat :P
Now this is the end of the evening.. only a small part of all the alcohol consumed dring the night..xD My dad was so drunk he grabbed Kao's ass during a game. I, watching, was rolling on the floor laughing. I laughed so much I was crying, I swear. I guess I was very drunk too, for that not to disturb me.. xD lol
So that's about it. I'll try and do a recap of 2006, now.. lol
So 2006 was a very busy year! I bought a lot of CDs, lots of shows I attended, travelled a lot too. I'll do this recap accordingly to those three things, then describe a few marking moments.
CDs bought in 2006:
At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Carnival in Coal - Collection prestige
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Children of Bodom - Something Wild
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Dio - Master of the moon
Dio - Holy Diver
Finntroll - Nattfodd
Go Sumo! - EP
Hypocrisy - The Arrival
In Flames - Colony
Kalmah - Swamplord
Kalmah - The Black Waltz
Mononc' Serge & Anonymus - L'Académie du Massacre
Nightrage - Sweet Vengence
Pantera - Vulgar display of power
Sentenced - Cold White Light
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Slayer - God Hates us All
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slayer - Undisputed attitude
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Stratovarius - Episode
Suffocation - Suffocation
Warmen - Beyond Abilities
DVDs
(not a great year, really..)
Children of Bodom - Chaos Ridden Years
La Vie en Rose - Live DVD
The Little Mermaid (New Edition)
Anchorman
Be Cool
Apollo 13 (New Edition)
Hysterical Blindness
One of Them
The Visitation
Shows!
Jan. 21rst - Sonata Arctica, Forgotten Tales, Sequence (Medley, Mtl)
Jan. 22nd - Sonata Arctica, Forgotten Tales, Sequence (Capitole, Qc city)
Feb. 21st - In Flames, Trivium, Devildriver, Zao (Kool haus, TO)
Feb. 24th - Sonata Arctica Special Night with Forgotten Tales (Cabaret du Capitole, Qc city)
Feb. 27th - Dark Tranquillity, Soulforge, Insane, Symbolic (Club Soda, Mtl)
Mar. 24th - Children of Bodom, Chimaira, Through The Eyes Of The Dead (Kool haus, TO)
May 19th - Anonymus, Road Bones Dread (Foufs, Mtl)
Jun. 17th - The Unholy Alliance Tour w/ Slayer, Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Mastodon, Thine Eyes Bleed (Tsongas Arena, Lowell, MA)
Jul. 2nd - The Unholy Alliance Tour w/ Slayer, Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Mastodon, Thine Eyes Bleed (Centre de Foire, Qc. city)
Jul. 23rd - Mindless Self Indulgence, Kill Hannah, ProCon (Spectrum, Mtl)
Aug. 20th - Icewind, Midwar, Anemonia, La Pianiste qui rêvais d'humanité, BodySerpent, Hollow Grief, Stryxvirii (Kola Note, Mtl)
Sep. 16th - Family Values Tour (mainly for Dir en Grey, which was a big dissapointment)
Sep. 19th - Tormentor Allegoria,Homicide, Héritage Mystique, Angstorm (Arlequin, Qc. City)
Sep. 25th - Kamelot, Epica, Sequence (Medley, Mtl)
Sep. 29rd - Stratovarius, Southern Cross (Medley, Mtl)
Oct. 22nd - GWAR, The Red Chord, Municipal Waste (Club Soda, Mtl)
Nov. 13th - Fear Factory, Suffocation, Hypocrisy, Decapitated, Goatwhore (Medley, Mtl)
Nov. 17th - Alcoholica, Opened Fist (Medley, Mtl)
Dec. 9th - Kataklysm, Necronomicon, Atheretic, Ashes of Eden, Profugus Mortis (Club Soda, Mtl)
Dec. 16th - Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Gojira, Sanctity (Palladium, Worcester, MA)
Dec. 17th - Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Gojira, Sanctity (Nokia Theater, NYC)
Dec. 18th - Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Gojira, Sanctity (Metropolis, Mtl)
Dec. 19th - Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Gojira, Sanctity (Metropolis, Mtl)
Now! I look at this, and considering I missed Finntroll, Malmsteen and that Forgotten Tales show in Saguenay, it seems like a pretty empty year.. lol It's not, it just 'seems'.
Travels
February 18th to 23rd - Toronto
February 24th - Quebec City
March 24th to 26th - Toronto
April 14th to 16th - Toronto
May 20th to 26th - Massachusetts
June 17th-18th - Lowell, Massachusetts
July 2nd - Quebec City
September 16th to 17th - Mansfield/Boston, MA
September 19th-20th - Quebec City
December 16th to 18th - Worcester (MA) / New York City (NY)
Soo all in alll, it's been a pretty full year! ^^ Most of those trips were a lot of fun! At the exception of a few, including Quebec city in September, when my car gave its last breath on the way to a Forgotten Tales show in Saguenay.. SO I guess I should highligh good moments now?
All the trips to TO were cool. Always have a good time in TO, no matter what. (or who)
The In Flames show in TO was wicked! I loved it, and I was sad to miss them twice in Mtl because of work..
Dark Tranquillity was one of the best shows of the year, without question.
Unholy Alliance frustrated me, because I only got to see Slayer for about 10 minutes, at one of the gigs. But hell, apparently they're back on the road in 2007, so fuck that! lol I'm not missing them this time around!
Family Values Tour was fun, the place was full of shops, two guys fell on us nosebleeding because of some skinhead trash going on, we didn't see or hear much of Dir en Grey, but fuck that, the road trip with Mylene, Momo and Christine was fun ^^ Had a lot of fun on the road with Mylene and her Ipod, I wanna have her on a trip again! :P
Backstage with Stratovarius was an achievement for me, even though I just had to stick around with Marc and Ernie to get in! lol We had tons of fun, good booze and some interesting pics.. lol
GWAR was.. entertaining. :P Loved getting dirty, and discovered Municipal Waste opening for them. That band fuckin rocks, check them out!
Hypocrisy and Suffocation were AWESOME live!!!! Headbanged myself to death during Hypocrisy, then went in the nicest pit I've been to in ages for Suffocation. Good fun, I'm not mad I missed work for that one!
The Kataklysm gig was DEFINETLY on my top 3 of the year! The gig was flawless, all bands were good, I headbanged myself to death with Laury, then we all went party at the Saphir, Marc, Andrew, Marc (qc), Laury, Pierre, and bunch and bunch of other people! Was a lot of fun, wish I could do that every week!
Bodom was a perfect closer for the year. Saw this band 7 times just in 2006, twice in 2005, and they never fail. Amon Amarth was pure pleasure to hear and see live again, and of course the whole partying around the gigs was awesome. I'd live that life, easily. Always on the road, partying, live shows every night.. Met some very cool people on the road, will miss all of them dearly. Tatiana, Caroline, Kal, love you guys! See you all in 2007, I hope ;)
So that's ABOUT it.. Probably forgot some important shit, but.. Damn! Man, that was long to write! Took me all evening! Thank God I only have to do this once a year.. xD
Here's an illustrated Holiday story!
Christmas was full of good surprises this year (not. lol). I knew pretty much what it was all gonna be about, but hell..
Karaoke machine of doom! It's really a family gift though, my parents are enjoying this a bit too much.. I won't even tell you if they're any good, I'll let you figure that out by yourselves.. :P
Coolest gift! I'm so glad I have this baby with me now, I couldn't live without it anymore!
Pretty cool too, I can wake up listening to whatever CD I want now! And I can just listen to music next to my bed, so I don't have to get up to close it before sleep. Sweeeet.
Infamous Canadian money :P
All dressed up and madeup for Christmas eve, oooooooooh!
My Beautiful grandmother. Isn't she pretty???? She's nearing 80 years old!!!!! :O
Me and my doggy :P I love you Charlot, even though you're a stupid ball of fur.
The friends I saw during Christmas time now, and what we do to pass the time.. :P
Lovely Laurie just out of bed :P
Inshtin I just surprised for a pic! Next time I'll get him posing with his lovely daughter ^^
Fred playing WoW, what a surprise.. :P
Pascale, who hates being taken in picture, so of course I'm being a bitch and PUBLISH her picture, muhahahahah! (She won't see this anyways, and she's cool enough to deserve a place here, ffsh!)
Chloee in front of the Chaos last Thursday for Metal Night. Miguel in the background, who was sad not to be in the picture..
..so I had to take another picture with him, too!
Me and Laurence, totally wasted. ^^ She looks like she's hanged!
Me eating a plushie ferret. Because ferrets are good food against cancer.
Kao eating the ferret too, because cancer prevention is important.
New Year party at my place, family thing with friends. Chinese food buffet my mom cooked. Was gooood, and filling. Alcohol flowed.
Laurence being fuckin sexy with gift wrapping hat :P
Now this is the end of the evening.. only a small part of all the alcohol consumed dring the night..xD My dad was so drunk he grabbed Kao's ass during a game. I, watching, was rolling on the floor laughing. I laughed so much I was crying, I swear. I guess I was very drunk too, for that not to disturb me.. xD lol
So that's about it. I'll try and do a recap of 2006, now.. lol
So 2006 was a very busy year! I bought a lot of CDs, lots of shows I attended, travelled a lot too. I'll do this recap accordingly to those three things, then describe a few marking moments.
CDs bought in 2006:
At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Carnival in Coal - Collection prestige
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Children of Bodom - Something Wild
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Dio - Master of the moon
Dio - Holy Diver
Finntroll - Nattfodd
Go Sumo! - EP
Hypocrisy - The Arrival
In Flames - Colony
Kalmah - Swamplord
Kalmah - The Black Waltz
Mononc' Serge & Anonymus - L'Académie du Massacre
Nightrage - Sweet Vengence
Pantera - Vulgar display of power
Sentenced - Cold White Light
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Slayer - God Hates us All
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slayer - Undisputed attitude
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Stratovarius - Episode
Suffocation - Suffocation
Warmen - Beyond Abilities
DVDs
(not a great year, really..)
Children of Bodom - Chaos Ridden Years
La Vie en Rose - Live DVD
The Little Mermaid (New Edition)
Anchorman
Be Cool
Apollo 13 (New Edition)
Hysterical Blindness
One of Them
The Visitation
Shows!
Jan. 21rst - Sonata Arctica, Forgotten Tales, Sequence (Medley, Mtl)
Jan. 22nd - Sonata Arctica, Forgotten Tales, Sequence (Capitole, Qc city)
Feb. 21st - In Flames, Trivium, Devildriver, Zao (Kool haus, TO)
Feb. 24th - Sonata Arctica Special Night with Forgotten Tales (Cabaret du Capitole, Qc city)
Feb. 27th - Dark Tranquillity, Soulforge, Insane, Symbolic (Club Soda, Mtl)
Mar. 24th - Children of Bodom, Chimaira, Through The Eyes Of The Dead (Kool haus, TO)
May 19th - Anonymus, Road Bones Dread (Foufs, Mtl)
Jun. 17th - The Unholy Alliance Tour w/ Slayer, Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Mastodon, Thine Eyes Bleed (Tsongas Arena, Lowell, MA)
Jul. 2nd - The Unholy Alliance Tour w/ Slayer, Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Mastodon, Thine Eyes Bleed (Centre de Foire, Qc. city)
Jul. 23rd - Mindless Self Indulgence, Kill Hannah, ProCon (Spectrum, Mtl)
Aug. 20th - Icewind, Midwar, Anemonia, La Pianiste qui rêvais d'humanité, BodySerpent, Hollow Grief, Stryxvirii (Kola Note, Mtl)
Sep. 16th - Family Values Tour (mainly for Dir en Grey, which was a big dissapointment)
Sep. 19th - Tormentor Allegoria,Homicide, Héritage Mystique, Angstorm (Arlequin, Qc. City)
Sep. 25th - Kamelot, Epica, Sequence (Medley, Mtl)
Sep. 29rd - Stratovarius, Southern Cross (Medley, Mtl)
Oct. 22nd - GWAR, The Red Chord, Municipal Waste (Club Soda, Mtl)
Nov. 13th - Fear Factory, Suffocation, Hypocrisy, Decapitated, Goatwhore (Medley, Mtl)
Nov. 17th - Alcoholica, Opened Fist (Medley, Mtl)
Dec. 9th - Kataklysm, Necronomicon, Atheretic, Ashes of Eden, Profugus Mortis (Club Soda, Mtl)
Dec. 16th - Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Gojira, Sanctity (Palladium, Worcester, MA)
Dec. 17th - Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Gojira, Sanctity (Nokia Theater, NYC)
Dec. 18th - Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Gojira, Sanctity (Metropolis, Mtl)
Dec. 19th - Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Gojira, Sanctity (Metropolis, Mtl)
Now! I look at this, and considering I missed Finntroll, Malmsteen and that Forgotten Tales show in Saguenay, it seems like a pretty empty year.. lol It's not, it just 'seems'.
Travels
February 18th to 23rd - Toronto
February 24th - Quebec City
March 24th to 26th - Toronto
April 14th to 16th - Toronto
May 20th to 26th - Massachusetts
June 17th-18th - Lowell, Massachusetts
July 2nd - Quebec City
September 16th to 17th - Mansfield/Boston, MA
September 19th-20th - Quebec City
December 16th to 18th - Worcester (MA) / New York City (NY)
Soo all in alll, it's been a pretty full year! ^^ Most of those trips were a lot of fun! At the exception of a few, including Quebec city in September, when my car gave its last breath on the way to a Forgotten Tales show in Saguenay.. SO I guess I should highligh good moments now?
All the trips to TO were cool. Always have a good time in TO, no matter what. (or who)
The In Flames show in TO was wicked! I loved it, and I was sad to miss them twice in Mtl because of work..
Dark Tranquillity was one of the best shows of the year, without question.
Unholy Alliance frustrated me, because I only got to see Slayer for about 10 minutes, at one of the gigs. But hell, apparently they're back on the road in 2007, so fuck that! lol I'm not missing them this time around!
Family Values Tour was fun, the place was full of shops, two guys fell on us nosebleeding because of some skinhead trash going on, we didn't see or hear much of Dir en Grey, but fuck that, the road trip with Mylene, Momo and Christine was fun ^^ Had a lot of fun on the road with Mylene and her Ipod, I wanna have her on a trip again! :P
Backstage with Stratovarius was an achievement for me, even though I just had to stick around with Marc and Ernie to get in! lol We had tons of fun, good booze and some interesting pics.. lol
GWAR was.. entertaining. :P Loved getting dirty, and discovered Municipal Waste opening for them. That band fuckin rocks, check them out!
Hypocrisy and Suffocation were AWESOME live!!!! Headbanged myself to death during Hypocrisy, then went in the nicest pit I've been to in ages for Suffocation. Good fun, I'm not mad I missed work for that one!
The Kataklysm gig was DEFINETLY on my top 3 of the year! The gig was flawless, all bands were good, I headbanged myself to death with Laury, then we all went party at the Saphir, Marc, Andrew, Marc (qc), Laury, Pierre, and bunch and bunch of other people! Was a lot of fun, wish I could do that every week!
Bodom was a perfect closer for the year. Saw this band 7 times just in 2006, twice in 2005, and they never fail. Amon Amarth was pure pleasure to hear and see live again, and of course the whole partying around the gigs was awesome. I'd live that life, easily. Always on the road, partying, live shows every night.. Met some very cool people on the road, will miss all of them dearly. Tatiana, Caroline, Kal, love you guys! See you all in 2007, I hope ;)
So that's ABOUT it.. Probably forgot some important shit, but.. Damn! Man, that was long to write! Took me all evening! Thank God I only have to do this once a year.. xD