a real world intermission

Ok so who would win in a fluff fight between Marneus Calgar and Abbadon the Destroyer? Discuss.

There is my mandatory 40K post and now the rest of my story.
Last night Alice Copper and Rob Zombie played at the U.S. Cellular and me, and my special lady friend went. It was phenomenal!

Alice Cooper has always intrigued me. He has a huge library of songs, has a descent radio show and his stage show is supposed to be pretty fun. It was. He came out and rocked solid for an hour and fifteen; no talk, just show and music.
What a show! It was a riot! Let me see......there was: a guillotine, severed head, decapitated baby, nylon strangulation, metal bikini with metal grinding sparks, naughty nurse wielding a giant syringe, hanging, straight jacket, giant monster, impaled roadie, multiple costume changes, silhouette strip tease, and a magician's sword cabinet gone horrible wrong. Yeah, that is all I can really remember.

As for music it was really good. He played stuff from all over his library. About half of the songs I knew. The rest were a mystery, but really good. There wasn't any drek. I'll probably be acquiring the songs I didn't know, that were awesome, for my collection.

I honestly thought I would only ever see Alice Cooper in his Wayne's World cameo. I concert this guy rocks, especially for an old dude. It was song after song, with high energy and a show to boot. Much like a off Broadway production for the twisted.

Then Rob Zombie followed. He was the Yang to Alice Coopers Ying. Where Alice was props and actors, Rob was flame pots, three multimedia screens and more talking.
However, even with some chatting every second or third song it was still awesome.

Rob Zombie I have always wanted to see, but I either had to work missing shows; or he was part of a larger bill I had no want to pay for just to see him.
The song list played like his greatest hits CD. He delved back into his White Zombie days, ran through his bigger hits and even dropped two songs off the House of 1000 Corpses. The last neither one of us expected. My special lady friend has seen him three times and said he never ever plays anything off that CD. Thank you October and Halloween for that.

The screens he had ran with every song and included shots from: multiple Universal Studio classic monster movies, The Great Pumpkin, Halloween(John Carpenter's version thank you), two unknown anime, The Munsters, some topless go-go dancing (bweebs), lots of fire, Werewolf Women of the SS, and multiple clips from House of 1000 Corpses. There were also some dudes in giant monster suits, ghosts and a giant robot that made appearances. Cool!

It was both money and an evening well spent!

Oh yeah, there were protesters outside the venue trying to get people not to go in and saving souls. It wasn't too off-putting for us, but for others it seemed troublesome. It felt a bit staged, but knowing the area, it might not have been. If it was part of the show, then awesome tie-in. If not, well I hoped they saved some souls. Mine, however, will be forever cursed for going to a phenomenally awesome rock show!