Piracy

I got a kick out of this story and figured I'd pass it along. It's from the Not LA Times section, a story about Pirates.

Brilliant stuff.

Metallica - the rundown

I wrote about the Metallica concert for a while so I figured it would be good to write about it after the fact. The show was amazing. Energy and intensity were in high supply on Friday night. The best part of the show, though, was the setting itself. Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario is a relatively small venue. We had seventh-row seats and they were good seats but I honestly don't think there was a bad seat in the house.

I was able to secure some audio from the show. Figured some of you may enjoy it.

Blackened

Nothing Else Matters and Enter Sandman

One

ADD:

You may see more links to more songs. I was able to secure audio of the entire show. But for now I wanted to add the setlist, which I copied and pasted from a Metallica fan board; I was trying to remember the songs and then thought about going through the audio but someone saved me some time:

That Was Just Your Life
The End Of The Line
Ride The Lightning
For Whom The Bell Tolls
One
Broken, Beat & Scarred
Cyanide
Sad But True
All Nightmare Long
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Master Of Puppets
The Day That Never Comes
Blackened
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
Stone Cold Crazy
Whiplash
Seek & Destroy

Painted trees

This has nothing to do with soccer... but just wondering...

If you've ever visited Mexico, you probably noticed that a lot of trees are painted white. Well, not the whole tree but rather a portion of the trunk. Anyway, just wondering why that is? Is there a story behind that?

I think it looks good and in fact told my wife that I wanted to paint our trees at our house in similar fashion. She balked, but she may come home one day to a painted tree trunk.

Mandatory Metallica - two days from show

So the concert is a pair of days away. It's going to be at the new Citizens Bank Arena here in nearby Ontario and I've got seventh row seats so you'll have to bear with me and my excitement.

A song that I'm certain to here is One. It's actually the song that got me into Metallica. I was a bit of a late bloomer in that sense as I didn't get into them until after And Justice For All came out. Once I saw this video I was hooked. This song is great, a true classic.

Metallica Monday

When I first started The Touchline, I let it be known that I reserved the right to blog about non-soccer stuff. I haven't done so until today, but dammit I'm flying head first into it. Why? At the end of the week, I'm going to see Metallica here in Ontario, CA, and I must say I'm enthused. Quite a bit enthused.

Now, I wouldn't say Metallica is my favorite band to be honest. I'd have to say Rage Against the Machine is probably still number one and then from there on it just depends on lots of things as to who falls behind it. However, Metallica is up there.

As far as the show on Friday, a friend of a friend got us four tickets, something like within the first 10 rows, for about 60 bucks a pop. Pretty good deal! And he still handed us the tickets even though he was offered $1,000 for the same four seats he got us.

Anyway, I'm hoping Metallica plays some of my favorite songs of course. I'll be posting Metallica videos all week as I count down to the show but today's will be their newest song. I know d asked about the new album yesterday; well, I haven't heard the whole thing but what I've heard I've enjoyed. This song, for instance, starts a bit slow but it gets good and has some of the classic Metallica elements. I don't think this CD is like St. Anger, which really was mediocre.

If you've got any thoughts on Metallica or have seen them recently, feel free to let me know what I have coming towards me.

Here's the song, The Day That Never Comes.