Beer, SevenStock, Music

Posted by Robert on the 9th of October, 2005 at 8:19 PM GMT0. Permalink.
Tags: Cars, Drinking, Music, Personal, SevenStock

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When I posted this, I was listening to: H.I.M. - Poison Girl

Ok. So, I'm a bit of a beer drinker now.

Friday, I went down to Orange County to crash at Erin-n-Adam's. He bought a mystery box of beer from Bevmo. Basically, they just put 24 random beers in a box and sell it for cheap. I ended up drinking a lot of pale ale. Not a big fan of it. I like plain-old-beer. I still don't know what the difference is. I guess I'll look it up one day.

Saturday was SevenStock. We headed over to Mazda around 1:00 PM. This years event was quite a bit smaller than last year. I guess it didn't sounds as important because it wasn't the last one. But last year was much more of a production. More vendors were there last year. Mazda even showed off more interesting vehicles (e.g. X-Men RX-8, a supercharged Mazdaspeed RX-8, etc.). This year they had two things they lacked last year (or at least I didn't notice): two not-quite-hott models walking around and a DJ.

Most of the people that brought cars were there last year or didn't do any heavy modification to them. There were a few RX-8's with the Autobahn kit, and one that had ricer lambo doors. Nothing impressive.

The vendors were pretty lacking. In retrospect, I wanted to as RacingBeat about a turbo or supercharger project, but I asked about their ECU project instead. The guy told me everything I already knew. Other than the Mazdatrix booth that has a small rack of RX-8 parts and RacingBeat (which had two RX-8s on display, one with their kit and one with 2/3 of their kit and some weird front nose that may be a new prototype), the rest was pretty RX-7 based. I was pretty damned disappointed to not see any of the turbo projects come to fruition. I'd love to see a CARB certified turbo or supercharger kit on the market. It's been two fucking years. The groups that started two years ago should have SOMETHING for us now.

I guess I'll put my money on Richard Paul or Hymee to come out with a viable supercharger first. But, I doubt Hymee will CARB certify his, since he is based in Australia. Oh, well. I digress.

The point was that SevenStock was lackluster this year. The only pictures I took was of a car outside of the event. It was a Callaway Cars Corvette-based whatever-they-call-it. The entire body was blue carbon fiber. It was pretty slick.

On the way back Erin and I scored some Chick-fil-a. Mmmm. Orgasmic.

After the long-ass drive home, I stopped by Bevmo and got Oregon Honey Beer and Strawberry Blonde Pete's Wicked Ale. Both are pretty good. Still not what I wish beer tasted like, but its pretty good.

I couldn't find the Sweetwater Blue that Daniel suggested. I'll have to keep looking.

I made a few mixed CDs of Rare / Unreleased / Covers / Live tracks by NIN and Marilyn Manson for Caroline.

The NIN CD is as follows:

Let's Hear It For Nine Inch Nails (from the Head Like A Hole single)
Now I'm Nothing (intro song only played live during the PHM / Lolapalooza tours)
Memorabilia (from Closer to God)
The Perfect Drug (Aphrodite Mix)
Head Like A Hole (Copper) (Because I like the ending)
Maybe Just Once (unreleased from the PHM Demo)
Twist (from the PHM Demo, which eventually became Ring Finger on PHM after some slight changes)
Get Down Make Love (from the Sin single)
Dead Souls (from the Crow Soundtrack)
Down In It (labeled as v IV; It's very deconstructed and I have no idea where it originally came from; I downloaded it from a website that was going to post every NIN-involved track ever before it got shut down)
Suck (labeled v 2 from the same website, equally deconstructed, and probably more of a direct cover of the Pig track by the same name that was supposed to go as-is on one of their albums but didn't make it due to record label shit)
No You Don't (Version) (released on NIN.com)
Last (Butch Vig Remix) (very low quality, as it was leaked from the studios in some archaic audio format, eventually find it's way to MP3; if you listen to Throw This Away on Fixed, the end is taken from that remix; Trent didn't include the full remix on the album because he didn't like it)
La Mer (Version) (released on NIN.com)
Hurt (Live with David Bowie)
Puff Daddy's track Victory (Nine Inch Nails Remix)

The Marilyn Manson CD has the following track list:

Mechanical Animals Media Intro (I ripped it off of the SWF file with Sound Recorder in Windows back in the day)
Golden Years (from the Dead Man On Campus Soundtrack)
Mother Inferior Got Her Gunn (Trent's remix of Get Your Gunn)
The Suck For Your Solution (from the Howard Stern: Private Parts Soundtrack)
Long Hard Road Out Of Hell (Critter Mix) (from the LHROOH Single)
Five to One (from some Holywood Promo)
The Horrible People (from the Tourniquet single)
Tourniquet (Prosthetic Dance Remix) (from the Tourniquet single)
Working Class Hero (from some Holywood promo)
White Knuckles (Live at the Snakepit in Slidell, Louisiana)

I wanted to put Marilyn's cover of Sick City on it, but the P2P searches came up with nothing and I've somehow lost my copy.

I also bought H.I.M.'s Razorblade Romance and their new album Dark Light. I'm officially a fan of the band now (instead of a fan of a couple of their songs).