Tuesday, August 30th
| Friday Night Bricktown Adventure - The Orange Guy |
|
|
|
| We pass out an ass load of fliers in Bricktown OKC every Friday night - just for whatever show is coming up. Sometimes strange things happen. Sometimes we meet interesting people. It was an interesting night in Bricktown last Friday (that would be 8/26/05). This night we met Rex. He's the Orange Guy. Read on... |
|
| centurionF on 08.30.05 @ 10:02 PM CST [more...] [13427 Comments] |
|
Monday, August 29th
| Hey Ballista - Where's the New Record? |
|
|
|
| Many people have asked us when we're going to release a new record. After all, our last record was released in 2003. Well... it's a little complicated. We do have eight new songs - some of which we've been playing at shows already. And I plan on whipping out a few more in the near term. So what's the hold-up? The most obvious hold-up is that I need to get off my ass and do some recording. Because, you know, I just come home every night after work and drink beer and flip channels. Get me another beer woman! Right. I work my sweet ass off on this band (take a look next time you see us). But I can squeeze in some recording time nonetheless. So what's the other obstacle to fresh audio bliss on optical media? |
|
| centurionF on 08.29.05 @ 12:42 AM CST [more...] |
|
Sunday, August 28th
| Vandal Scandal Part Tres |
|
|
|
| I said I'd give you an update on the lengthy adventure I have come to call the "Vandal Scandal". For those of you who haven't read previous blog entries (consider doing so as I'm sure you'll be enrapt). I, in fact, was backed into by a guy in a rental car in the Quik Print/Enterprise Rent-a-car parking lot. To summarize: it sucked. But there are a couple of new developments I thought I would reveal to those of you that have been ceaselessly emailing me for MORE! MORE! MORE! Ok maybe nobody emailed me. But here it is anyway... |
|
| centurionF on 08.28.05 @ 11:54 PM CST [more...] [3206 Comments] |
|
Sunday, August 21st
| East Bricktown Music Festival |
|
|
|
| Let me just say that this was a kick ass event. Brewer Entertainment and Billinger Promotions pulled it all off beautifully. I saw a lot of people out there and a lot of great bands. Our set went great as well - but it was very hot... |
|
| centurionF on 08.21.05 @ 07:53 PM CST [more...] |
|
| Foo Fighters - RCA Records' Ingenious Copy Protection! |
|
|
|
| RCA Records has prevented me from enjoying the new Foo Fighters CD I recently purchased. They accomplished this via a poorly devised and poorly implemented copy protection scheme. I have copied in the email I sent to them below. Read on... |
|
| centurionF on 08.21.05 @ 07:21 PM CST [more...] |
|
Tuesday, August 16th
| The Sequel - A Trip to Get Fliers Ends in Tradgedy Part Duece |
|
|
|
| You may remember this story from a couple weeks ago. Whilst minding my own business, a dried up ass nugget backed into my precious van(dal) - the transporter of stuff de Ballista. He accomplished this without even turning around or looking in his mirrors! Such a feat! When last we left our heroes, I had the dude's insurance info and about to dial the phone when... |
|
| centurionF on 08.16.05 @ 09:15 PM CST [more...] |
|
Friday, August 12th
| Bricktown Music Fest Pre-Party - Where Is Everybody??? |
|
|
|
| It appears a few bands didn't get the memo. The pre-party for the festival was changed from Aug 12th to Aug 11th several weeks ago. A nice lady called and told me this. She also called all of the other bands. But apparently not everyone recorded this fact and distributed it to their partners in crime. Out of the 50+ bands that are included in this gig, maybe 15 or 20 showed up... |
|
| centurionF on 08.12.05 @ 10:34 AM CST [more...] |
|
Monday, August 8th
| Kenneth Goes Out of Control |
|
|
|
| So it's practice night. We rehearse (for the most part) every Monday and Wednesday. Lately we've been getting more and more wacked out at practice. The Red Bull runs freely, we have wings - of course, and we run amok. So tonight we had an exceptional rehearsal... |
|
| centurionF on 08.08.05 @ 10:56 PM CST [more...] |
|
Tuesday, August 2nd
| Zombies |
|
|
|
Yes indeedy. With great enthusiasm I would like to introduce you to the Ballista Zombies.
...compliments of the Apologist.
Many have asked what it's like to be a zombie. It's odd. It's really odd. But I like it - in a dead sort of way of course. Because, hey, if you can't be alive you may as well be undead. I mean look at it this way - at least you're still animate.
cF |
|
| centurionF on 08.02.05 @ 10:04 PM CST [more...] |
|
|
|
|
|
