Son, confront me... The Road To Devastation...

...Kneel before me... The Road To Devastation
Inhale, exhale... The Road To Devastation
This is my life... The Road To Devastation
~Kataklysm - In The Arms Of Devastation - The Road to Devastation

Tonight was the first session at National Bartender. I'd have to say, it went pretty well. Our instructor Tim lectured for about 90 mins, then turned us loose. The idea was to practice the count during free pouring, but as most of us knew that fairly well most of the students went on to double pouring, shaking, etc... They started us off with cream drinks, all fairly easy. I figure between the practice at class, studying my flash cards on BART and killing time at work; I should have the 200 or so recipes down pat fairly soon. Hell, outside of the weird fruity things and the creams, I already know a lot of them and have drunken a lot of them. Still, it's nice to have a full bar to practice at and I popped my speed gun cherry tonight as well. Heh, those things are fun. Our instructor is pretty laid back and is a long time career bartender. I'm definitely looking forward to this class everyday.

This last weekend was a fucking blast. Neurosix on Friday was tight, it was a shame I had to catch the last O bus back cause they played some damn good sets the whole time I was there. On the plus side, since it doesn't seem like its quite caught on yet it wasn't packed. Julie's is really a small club, but I like the ambiance there, it's very retro modern, it almost has a art-deco feel to it.

On Saturday, I ran over to Berkeley and got my other ear pierced. It was cool, no appt. needed and no wait. After that, I chilled at home for a bit then went over to Club Gossip. I'd have to say I was disappointed. It obviously was a very popular club, but they had very little seating. On the plus side, there was tequila tasting going on. That was cool. It was some new stuff called Tezon, very smooth. Much smoother then the Milagro that I usually drink. The music there was a little off to me, they pretty much just piped 80's pop/synth music videos onto a couple projector screens.

Sunday was supposed to be my kick back and relax day, but alas. I went and saw 28 Weeks Later... over at Jack London Square. That film fucking rocks. After that I headed over to SF again to catch The Invaluable Darkness Tour @ The Warfield. That gig was fucking awesome. I'd never heard of the main band, Dimmu Borgir, but the rest were known to me. The opening set was by Kataklysm, followed by DevilDriver, and then Unearth. The first three sets were fucking intense. The when Dimmu Borgir came on it was fucking crazy. Two hours after the show and my ears were still ringing. As for other shows, VNV Nation is going to be playing at the Fillmore on June 25th and of course OzzFest in Mountain View in July.