ming bu zheng; yan bu shun (Chinese)

I'll start off by doing the review of the Ozzy Osbourne / Black Label Society gig last week.

Black Label Society were pretty much as I expected really. Zack Wylde, strangely sounding a lot like Axle Rose in the early days of Guns 'n' Roses and the band as a whole sounding a lot like (but not as good as) a band called Clutch. It was a bit difficult to work out exactly when they'd finished a song some of the time as they insisted on everyone holding a chord while Zack Wylde posed on the monitors and thumped his chests, then the drummer counted 4 and they went into the next song. None of the songs were introduced, so even if there had been one that I really liked I would have had no idea what it was called (maybe I should have listened to more of their stuff before I went, but it's never really grabbed me that much anyway). Just about every song was well scattered with squeeky notes from Mr Wylde and the whole set left me thinking 'Oh, they were alright I suppose'. Then, after a short break, Ozzy came on. Well actually they showed his now obligatory film of him taking the piss out of films and TV shows, which would have been great if the screens it was shown on weren't just basically 50" plasma screens raised half way up each side of the stage (we were right at the back of the arena so this meant it was like watching TV from the end of the garden). Ozzy was Ozzy, there isn't much more you can say really. His voice cracked a bit a few times, and there wasn't as much energy as there was when I saw him 10 or 15 years ago, but then he is getting old now. Don't get me wrong, I still think he gives it 100% but his 100% now is about 50% of what it was then. He did confuse me more than a little when he asked the crowed to 'go wilder than you've ever gone before' and then played 'Mama I'm Coming Home', not exactly a rocker Things were a little spoilt for me by the fact that Zack Wylde's guitar seemed to be too destorted and he over plays everything. On the whole it was not as good as Ozzy gigs I've been to in the past but it was still good, and the best thing was that I got to go and see him with Scott who'd never seen him live before.

So, back to everyday stuff. I'm still feeling down and don't know why. My visit to the counsellor on Wednesday just helped to make me feel pretty much exactly the same, but at least I wasn't feeling any worse after it. Niki has been a bit uncomfortable this last week and I think will be glad when it's over, well at least the actually pregnany bit will be anyway Apart from feeling down, I've been feeling a bit rough physically as well. I've had back-ache, not sleeping too well, swollen feet, aches, pains, and Niki keeps trying to convince me that I'm pregnant too (or at least suffering sympathetically), I'm not convinced at all

I cheered myself up a bit this morning by arranging and recording a cover version of Paranoid, which I've put up on my Kizlode MySpace site (if anyone wants a listen), but now that's done I'm back to the same fed-upness.

Anyway, can't think of anything more right now. See ya