Washington Times Video of DC's Regional Air Guitar Competition

I'm in it, briefly.

Blog Delays

I am having trouble typing because I keep hurting myself while playing Guitar Hero. Fuck you, it's fun. Except for the pain.

That Most Wonderful Time of the Year

AIR GUITAR SEASON!!!!!!

Last night, I had tickets to the DC Air Guitar Championships. I was, and remain, annoyingly sick and only planned on picking up my tickets from the window and giving them to my friends, but I failed. I stayed for the whole thing and I am a better shredder for it even if I still feel sick.

The show was awesome. There were 24 contestants, ranging in age from 17 to 71. Some were brilliant and some less than excellent. My favorite moment was when this one dude comes out glammed out to the yin-yang and beyond and calls himself Blitzkrieg and the older gentleman standing next to me says, "That's my son!" Blitzkrieg was the fourth or fifth contestant and really knocked shit into the red line. I thought he was better than one of the people who made it into the second round, but the judges didn't.

The top five competitors were Goat-Man Grogan, RT "The Soul Man", 'Ed Banger, Lance "The Shred" Kasten, and Couch Potato. Goat-Man Grogan whipped out crazy atheleticism and worked the axe like a man possesed. The Soul Man had a more subdued style but managed to convincingly rock both the left and the right handed guitars. 'Ed Banger played to the crowd with the power stance, heck he practically played in the crowd! The Shred was furious and played with amazing energy to take the DC title. Couch Potato rocked the alt-country vibe with precision and style. Worthy rockers all.

Special praise must go to the 6'10" 300 pound "Metal Coursing Through His Veins" Vlad D.M. Wailer who thrashed out to the Transformers Movie theme. This beast dwarfed Bjorn Turoque and still managed some impressive hops and really got the crowd going nuts. Sadly, he did not make the top five, but he wins special place just for song choice.

I hope to find some clips on YouTube or the Goog soon, but as yet have struck out.

I can not stress enough how much fun this show is. If there is a regional championship happening in your area, definitely go. Get down off your lonely hipster ledge and laugh at yourself as you cheer for someone that is on stage without any instruments. The Air Guitar Championship schedule is here.

The Guitars Are Sobbing Ungently

I am rocking the fuck out of Chicago tonight. The Pretentious Bastard is currently hacking his way through Woman on Medium. We are working our way through medium to get as many songs as possible unlocked. I was asked to do an encore of Sweet Child of Mine. I got three stars. Rather like my college career, I can not seem to avoid fucking up for long enough to secure a score above 88%. We are playing Guitar Hero 2 on an XBox 360 with a HD TV that is approximately .32 Wangs, just slightly smaller than Clif's.

We are stuck on Trgodor as originally performed by Strong Bad.

Please pardon any typos as I am using both a Mac and cramped hands from all the rocking. Earlier, we attempted to engage in some light hearted kareoke. The DJ stiffed us and we left after loudly disparaging the DJ with our compatriots.

Hope remains for further rocking.

Guitar Hero Sited

This is what a guitar hero looks like:

Air Guitar Nation Playing For One Last Weekend in NYC

New York City people reading this should run out and see Air Guitar Nation at the Village East theater. This is the last weekend it will play there. People of Austin, TX will be able to see this awesome and rockingly funny movie starting Friday, April 13th, which is tomorrow for those keeping track.

Go buy some tickets.

Dan Crane/Bjorn Turoque/Jean Luc Retard (Whoops! Haha) will be on a game show called Identity on NBC Friday the 13th as well. I will make an attempt to watch this because I am not going anywhere this weekend as I spent all my money last weekend. I am now the happy, but poor, owner of every DVD of Battlestar Galactica, whether we are talking about the original or the new series.



Sir Charles Rockley