Banked Track Roller Derby at the Cox Center!!!!

The time is nigh! Come join the Red Dirt Rebellion for our second home bout!!!!! We will host the Route 66 Rollergirls from Amarillo.

WHERE: Cox Convention Center
WHEN: Doors open at 7pm, bout starts at 8pm
HOW MUCH: Seats will be $12 at the door, kids $7, pit passes $17. Pit passes are on the floor, up close and personal with the action!

The bout will end around 9:30ish, come watch us kick ass, then go to your Halloween party! I will be going to the box office Wednesday evening to pick up more tickets, if you want me to pick some up for you, let me know!!!!!

We are in the MAIN ARENA for this one! It is going to be BAD ASS, trust me you don't want to miss it!!!!

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Red Dirt Rebellion's Second Home Bout Oct 30th!

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Global Warming

I know I know, everyone is bitching about it and everyone has something to say. Since this is my blog I guess I get to share my opinions. I'm in agreement with the late great George Carlin, if the planet Earth didn't want us here, it would shake us off.

I found this interesting article that supports my viewpoint on the whole global warming "thing":

Contrarian Expert Asks: "Does Unstoppable Global Warming Occur Every 1500 Years?"

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Music Rants

As most of my friends know I'm a huge metal-head. I've been listening to metal for a good ten years now (wow I feel old!) so I've seen bands come and go, been to more concerts than I can remember, and have a pretty impressive t-shirt collection. That being said, I have fallen out of the scene a little bit. I used to care more about the newer bands and finding underground bands. I really am behind the times a little bit in that sense, but I still try and find out and listen to the newer bands that are popping up. Let me step back a moment, keep in mind when I first got into metal, I listened to bands like Slayer, In Flames, Cryptopsy, The Haunted (Marco Aro era), Arch Enemy (Angela had just joined), At the Gates, All That Remains, Dark Tranquility, Dimmu Borgir, Opeth, Vader, Darkest Hour (when they first came out), and many others. All these bands are still around today which is great, but the scene seemed so much different back then, more Swedish, more separation between the genres, not so much crossover. There were black metalers, melodic death metalers (me), hardcore kids, and just plain death metalers. Now bands seem to be crossing all genres, throwing melodies, grunts, grindcore, and double bass into everything. I think it's great, it's really fresh and interesting and maybe not always original. The problem with some of the newer bands is copy cats. There were always copy cats before, but the giants were so above all the copies, everyone knew who started what and who to credit. Anymore alot of the bands sound the same, once one new crossover band comes out, another one pops up, and another, and another.

I am a firm believer in originality and uniqueness. That's what was great about System of a Down, NO ONE sounded like them, there still isn't anyone who sounds like them. They have a totally unique sound. Another problem with newer bands are the lyrics. Granted a lot of metal bands have sh!tty lyrics, but some of these bands it's just ridiculous enough I don't want to listen. It just seems to me that the older bands I used to listen to, the Swedish giants had more interesting lyrics than these newer bands. They are trying I will give them that, but it's just ridiculous in a lot of instances. I mean, look at Opeth, their songs are practically epic poems, compared to say Five Finger Death Punch (whom I'm not a fan of). Even hardcore has lost it's inspiring lyrics. Hatebreed is probably one of the most inspiring bands to listen to (IMO) and some of these newer hardcore bands just don't get. Sure there is no topping Jamie Jasta, but still, I think they could do better. I guess it's that age old complaint, young kids may be able to play, but they don't know how to sing the blues.

lessthanthree,
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Blogging

Blog-a-Mania!

Okay so I'm feeling exceptionally "bloggy" today. C# pisses me off sometimes. There are a lot of great things about it, but in a lot of cases it's just not as flexible as C++. I was trying to serialize a class that contained lists. This works fine in C#, however, the lists have to have public properties to be serialized. I didn't want to make the lists public, I wanted them private. I did a little research and found you can implement ISerializable, which seems straightforward enough, but this still didn't work for my private members (unless I was implementing it incorrectly). I remember in C++ you had to implement a Serializable interface as well, but I don't think it mattered if your members were private or public. I need to do some more research to see if it can actually be done at all in C#. It's not a huge deal for me to make them public, but I don't want to admit defeat! :)

Second thing that was perturbing today, I can't find any Iron Maiden the Trooper Hi-Top Vans in my size. Granted I probably could have looked longer, but I found some low tops in my size for $35 including shipping! That's a great deal so I went ahead and ordered them. I hope the site ACTUALLY has them, because I'll be pissed if they turn around and say they are out of stock (like every other site).

I'm also really excited about our FIRST HOME ROLLER DERBY bout this weekend!!!! Wooooo! I have posts below with the specific details but it's going to be awesome. A great bunch of gals from Arizona are flying in to play us, there's going to be amazing half time entertainment, the only thing that really sucks is moving the track to/from the Cox Center. But for those great events there is usually a struggle so I'm happy to help. I'm really happy to just be a part of all of it. It's going to be great, come out Saturday and be a part of history!

lessthanthree,
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This Saturday!!!!!

Red Dirt Rebellion is putting on their very first roller derby bout! Come watch banked track derby in action! Only $10 in advance at the Cox Convention Center downtown OKC. Doors open at 6pm, bout starts at 7pm. Yes there will be beer, and halftime entertainment!!! Listen people, we've worked our @$$es off for this, so don't bail out now!!!!

If you need tickets contact me!

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