RSS FEED

April 3 - Amputheatre!

Listen to the Show

Recap by Fire Eater Wizard; Gotta say that last night was probably the most enjoyable I've had on the show since I returned back in January. Roc City Roller Derby announcer Gil Monster joined us, and while he proudly promoted the upcoming Roller Derby season, he was also on hand to promote something just as cool!
Now, I'd seen photos of some of Gil's handiwork. The guy makes some awesome little figures out of pipe cleaner, all kinds of fun creatures and creepy characters. What I didn't know was that these characters were part of something much larger in scope. Seems that Gil has patented a board game, and these little pipe cleaner critters are actually game pieces!
Awesomeness...
So, the game is called "Amputheatre", and the game board represents a futuristic battle arena where our fuzzy little pipe cleaner pals fight it out. Seems that each character (and there are literally dozens of them, all hand crafted by Gil) is a hardened convicted criminal, and what they're battling for is a full government pardon. Random dice rolls represent a number of things, including the initial placement of your character on the game board. Now, as each character has a detachable head and arms, some attacks allow for dismemberment or decapitation. Of course, severed body parts have to land somewhere, so another random roll of dice determines where these pieces end up on the game board.
Prime example: I'd chosen a character called Sunderella, a child-eating circus bear who, instead of rolling around on a giant ball, can roll around on severed heads for a movement bonus. Yeah, it's pretty gruesome...
Speaking of gruesome, there's also blood. Lots and lots of blood, represented by little tokens made of pieces of red felt. Blood spatter occurs after successful attacks, and once again, a random dice roll determines where the blood falls. This comes in handy if you're low on life, as you can absorb any blood that occupies a square that you land on.
Of course, there are also little surprises scattered about the board. Little cards that represent weapons to be picked up, or spells, and even a couple of traps that are truly best avoided. Loved the Yeti In A Box! (If you've ever seen "Creepshow", you know what I'm talking about.)
There's much more to it, really can't fully describe it here. I will say that Josh and I were in game geek heaven as we played in between talk breaks, with Gil and his wife, RCRD's Dee Fenestrate playing along and guiding us. Seriously, it's a blast!

Speaking of games, during a brief visit from Jim Schreck we somehow got on the subject of song lyrics being sung by assorted celebrities and/or public figures. Can't honestly remember how this came about, but it reminded me of a conversation I'd had with my brother and a mutual friend.
About three years ago, Bill had been lamenting about not being able to beat a song on Guitar Hero 2, and we'd told him "It's not the end of the world". Now, it's well established that it doesn't take much to plant a given song in my head, so this, combined with an earlier discussion about Cradle Of Filth, made me ponder how Skeeter Davis's country classic "The End Of The World" would sound as sung by Dani Filth...
Needless to say, I did my impersonation of just that on the show last night...
That sparked an idea for a game to be played on the show, combining well-known rock lyrics with impersonations of random celebrities or characters.
Guess who's seriously considering running with this idea? Given a few weeks, I'm betting I could concoct something fun, and I'm sure the other guys on the show would love to provide some input. We'll see how it goes!

March 27 - Jeffie Returns and Antagonizes Wrestlers

Listen to the Show
Pictures



Recap by Fire Eater Wizard; Wrestlers from Ultimate Wrestling were there, Mean Mike (who is Barry Hardy's Bodyguard), Pretty Boy Jay Flyer, and his security. Jeffie arrived. Jeffie insulted Mean Mike, saying what he's been saying for weeks, only now saying it to his face, that Mean Mike is afraid of him. Mean Mike gave Jeffie a severe beat down, throwing him into the CD rack a couple of times, lots of elbows and knees, and putting him to sleep in the sleeper hold, and choking him out. But Jeffie still kept insisting, even after all that was over, that Mean Mike was afraid of him, that that was why he finally left, and that those choke outs had been love hugs. Then Jeffie insisted that part of Jay Flyier's hair was detachable, even though Jay said it was not. Jeffie said he would prove it, and tried to pull it off. Jay brawled with Jeffie. Jeffie went "Husk! Husk!", and turned into a good wrestler for a moment and took on Jay, but that was short lived. Then Jay called on his security, and his security beat the crap out of Jeffie, again, throwing him into the CD rack, again... Jeffie also would try to hide behind Joe a lot. All and all, Jeffie got beaten down a lot on this night... www.myspace.com/jayflayier502 is the website where you can find Jay Flyier, who holds the Ultimate Wrestling tag team title with his partner, Dave Evans...

March 20 - Jay Flyer Stops In...

Listen to the Show

Recap by Metal Wulf; Things felt just a little strange, especially in the early portion of the evening. Something was missing... Oh yeah, it was Josh! Yup, seems Josh is getting some things out of the way as he prepares for his departure to grad school this fall. He'll be absent on the next show as well, it seems.

Now, keeping this in mind, an early discussion centered on who was going to replace Josh and how we should go about finding this person. Joe had suggested a dunking booth with Josh as the dunkee, with the person sinking Josh being a probable replacement. Of course, being a metal show, we'd have to come up with something suitable. I suggested a SPIKED dunking booth, although I think Joe had a different kind of spiked in mind. He was thinking alcohol and I was thinking, literally, of spikes! They wouldn't have to be terribly long spikes, just enough to break a little bit of skin, and with alcohol in place of water, well, just imagine the fun sounds that Josh would make within seconds of plunging into the tank! Then, of course, the dunking tank would be filled with a combination of alcohol and Josh's blood!
Hmmmm, I could run even further with this! The person who succeeded in dunking Josh could then be thrown into the tank as his initiation into the Onslaught ranks, where he could be bathed in the unholy mixture of alcohol and Josh blood!
Any takers?
Oh, we'd also mentioned including Foul Mouth Girl in some capacity. I mean, it sounded like a good idea at first: A dunking tank, FMG in a bikini perhaps...
Then, of course, we realized that FMG would probably destroy us all for even thinking of it, so yeah, the idea kinda got scrapped...

Another topic of discussion centered on the lack of good major rock shows coming to the area as the season begins to shape up. Seriously, after that amazing show that Judas Priest and Whitesnake put on in Canandaigua last year, you'd think someone would be looking to book at least one hard rock/ heavy metal show! I think we all agreed that we'd love to see Scorpions come through, as their upcoming world tour is going to be their last before going into retirement.
C'mon promoters, Central New York needs their metal!

No sign of Jeffie on this particular night. Seems he was down with another dose of the plague...
So, no Jeffie, no Josh, and no guests scheduled to appear...Perfect chance to further focus on music, which we did! I'd have to say the most memorable tracks I heard from this show were from Triptykon's upcoming release, "Eparistera Daimones". Triptykon is the latest offering from Celtic Frost's Tom G. Warrior, and I've gotta say that this is some of the heaviest, doom-laden music I've heard in a long frickin' time. Sincerely, this stuff will rattle your bones, and I have a feeling it's going to find it's way among my personal top 10 for the year.

Surprisingly, we did have a guest drop in unexpectedly. Jay Flyer dropped by to talk about his success in gaining UWF Tag Team gold with his partner David Evans at the last event in Phelps. He also discussed the next event in Phelps, which is on March 27. He and Dave will be defending their new belts against previous champions I.B. Greene and Kage, collectively known as Degenerates Of Society, or DOS for short. Gonna be a good time!

Not much else to say about this particular night, outside of the fact that from time to time little snippets of the "Hamster Dance" would play at random moments, confusing the hell out of Joe and Rick. Wonder who was responsible for that? Heh, heh, heh...

Seriously, it's amazing what you can find just wandering around Wal-Mart...

March 13 - Roller Girls

Listen to the Show

Recap by The Metal Wulf: Well, we weren't sure if we were ever going to pull it off, but we managed to get some of the Roc City Roller Derby girls to drop in for an off-season visit.
Wasn't that long ago that they held what they call Fresh Meat Clinics, basically a series of try-outs for new girls to join the team. So, in addition to the return of Karma-Lized and Cuss Muffin, we had two of the new girls on hand as well: Bionic Bombshell and Mystery Meat!
Seriously, ya gotta love those derby names!
Speaking of which, those of us who are on the show regularly recalled the derby names we chose during one of their previous visits back in August. I had chosen WarWulf at the time, and Rick had gone with Rick N' Roll. I honestly can't remember what Josh had picked, although the name had come up in the discussion...
Sigh...
Joe couldn't remember his at all, and neither could the rest of us. This led to a discussion of whether Joe should pick a new derby name, and somehow I don't think we determined one...
Hmmm...

Discussion came up concerning Joe wanting to take a turn tossing shirts to the crowd at one of the upcoming events once the new season gets under way, which actually sounds like a lot of fun.
From there, we discussed other options of things to throw to the crowd, taking into consideration some of the local sponsors. Cuss Muffin seemed to think that throwing Zweigles Hot Dogs to the crowd would be a pretty cool idea, which melded into a slightly different conversation altogether.
Let's just say the idea went from Weiner Tossing, to Salad Tossing, to Teabag Tossing...
It doesn't take that much of a sick mind to run with that, now does it?
Of course, my suggestion was Back Wax, something that may confuse those who aren't familiar with some of Anvil's more recent material. I'd prefer not to elaborate, really...

Eventually Karma and the new girls took their leave, but Cuss Muffin stuck with us almost to the end of the show. Cool by us, she's a fun lady to have on board!

Here's where things get hazy for me...
Jeffie arrived with FMG, and to be honest, the only thing I remember from the later segments of the show are further discussions of the "infection" that Jeffie passed onto me. Something about the symptoms making me a happier MetalWulf, explaining why I'm likely to break into song at the drop of a hat...
Hmmmm...
I'm starting to think there's more to it than that. Maybe another side-effect is the blocking of moments on the show that may be considered embarrasing for Jeffie, keeping me from sharing them in the recap each week!
Seriously, this is killin' me! I KNOW there was some pretty funny stuff discussed after his arrival, and I can't think of a thing!!!
Of course, it could be that in that last couple of hours that lead to 2 a.m. my brain just turns to jelly, affecting my memory retention...

Nah, this is all Jeffie's fault!!!
Return top