The World As RainMan Sees It

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2010-11-03T21:42:00.001-05:00

i quit

Been A Long Time

2010-09-27T19:09:00.005-05:00

Sorry for the late post but my Internet connection took a shit. So as a ending for my last post Fag fest was not very exciting. But I've come to the conclusion that most lesbians are at least 200 pounds or more. Now onto the next show I worked for Ted Nugent at a casino. This is a really fucked up show if me and ninja Nate were not there the show would have taken a shit. First half the speakers were blown, if not for stealing from the monitors it would have sounded like shit. Now on to the worst lighting tech on the planet this guy did nothing to prepare for this show did not get the gels ready, did hang the lights right, had no idea how to program his dimmers or his counsel. Luckily he had the same dimmers and counsel I use every show. So I saved his ass and got paid for a show I was supposed to just watch. Plus made 100 dollars at the roulette table.

To help out a band I work with all the time I tried to post there promo video but they screwed that up so check them out on youtube Type Tate Rooper in the search box!

OH GOD MADISON PRIDE

2010-08-20T16:33:00.004-05:00

This should give all my loyal followers a good laugh. Tommorow I go to Madison Gay Pride Fest. Will report back at the begining of next week. But until then all I can say is their money is green, and if I could pick my jobs I would be on tour with Trivium!

Wow WTF

2010-07-27T07:24:00.001-05:00

This weekend was interesting I ran lights for Tate Rooper(taterooper.com) and Ask Your Mother. And I think I figured out the greatest mystery that has been set upon me thees last three years. That mystery was why do band guys(ugly dudes) get groupies. Its fucking simple chicks just want to fuck a dude who kind of sort of has rhythm. My point was justified by bogus loser dancing like a moron chicks fled like the plague was set loose. But where grinding on dude running lights just taping his foot and slightly bobbing in time with the music. That's right me (point two thumbs at self)! I did it scored a chick after a show. On a Sunday no less. Fucking on the Sabbath awesome! This calls for a victory song! I WIN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Hero And The Fallen

2010-06-10T23:19:00.004-05:00

The Pop Evil show was awesome their new album is currently in production they are about to go on the road with Godsmack and with any luck I shall be joining the crew next year I had a long talk with their tour manager and after the second album comes out they will be looking for a full crew. Here's hoping.

My annual trip to Ichthus is here again and The Showdown is on my stage. They are currently the best of christian metal in my opinion. Now you might be asking yourself RainMan how can you say christian metal is cool. Because there is no difference between metal and christian metal with songs like "Fanatics And Whores" and "I Am Vengeance" The Showdown might as well be normal metal. Also christian music festivals you get treated like kings Catered Steakhouse for every meal and free food coupons if you don't like what they are serving. You can't beat it.

Now on to the sad part one of the nine has past away Paul Gray the bass player for Slipknot he will be missed.

Also the Innovator of Offense has also died known as "Mortis,Kanyon, and Cris Kanyon" in WCW and a short time with WWE. He was a 2 time tag champ with both Diamond Dallas Page and Bam Bam Bigelow. He was a one time US champ. He created "The Flatliner, The Diamond Cutter", and Rey Mysterio's 619. His feuds with Raven and his flock are legendary, also his feud with Glacier if nothing else was entertaining.

Both Paul and Kanyon were found dead in there hotel rooms. Kanyon left a suicide note and Paul's is still under investigation.

Thank you fallen heroes you will be missed.

I Own Intelligent Lighting

2010-05-10T19:45:00.002-05:00

Now that I'm in year three of being on the road I decided it was time to get some shit to make me kick major ass. I own intelligent lighting, which for you non production people is moving lights. Also I am the proud owner of a Mitchell Custom Brief case. In the near future there will be videos of my kick ass shit.

Now onto this weekends last shows The Tribute To McGraw. This was a average band with a nice figured (not so pretty faced)female fiddle player. Now although nothing truly notable happened I did get to see a flash of up skirt vagina.

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY Pop Evil May 30Th Fon Du Lac,Wis, Caddy Shack Bar Be there for total metal mayhem and crazy shit like maybe Truckasaurus or possibly but not likely Jet Truck Melt Down. Be there or you will be eaten by mutant zombies this I promise.

Back In The Sadle

2010-05-03T21:23:00.003-05:00

Well after about four months of video games (and sporadic masturbation), I have returned to another summer of roadieism. My first show was this past weekend working for a band called Tate Rooper(you can visit them at taterooper.com) it went well other than the lead singer losing his voice. My timing was a little off but for the most part I was on par. As far as weird shit goes there was none. Hopefully this weekend will be a little more entertaining. This weekend I have Tim Mcgraw (i hate country but they are paying me). The next show I am at that is open to he public is May 30Th with Pop Evil location will be posted soon.

Almost Show Time

2010-04-03T14:58:00.003-05:00

Starting in May I will be back on the road. First real show is with a band called Pop Evil. They are a semi national, which means they tour there ass's off just to get noticed. They also happen to be the first band I ever ran lights for, along with Egypt Central. Nothing isane happened at that show other than the showing of boobys. Any way I can't think of any thing to say right now. So I leave you with my favorite Pop Evil song Hero.

This is what makes me smile when I don't have a job.

2010-02-05T15:05:00.005-06:00

I love nWo Japan

Best wrestler in the world!

Detroit Rock City

2010-01-03T20:52:00.005-06:00

This New Years I spent in Detroit making money. Out of a six person crew two were incompetent and I have to use person crew because there was a female on the crew. Now before you start thinking this is a positive I shall stop you there. She was weird looking and scuzzy. She was on the crew because of her boy friend he was the other incompetent member, not because he didn't know anything but because he was the complainer of the group. Now on to the show load in went well (our light guy was Beavis the light guy for Devildriver who toured with Slipknot this past year). So Beavis and me set up the light rig. GBNate and BDNate and incompetent #2 set up the sound. Went to bed about five am. Got up at noon and stood around till about two when the band showed up the bands name was The Vonbondies. In my opinion they are a good punk band. Show started about eight their were two bands before the headliner who I ran lights for while Beavis got wasted he came back really fucked up which showed when it was time to run lights. So over all I am still the light master compared to anyone I've ever worked with because I don't get fucked up at shows. After show loaded up but not out waited till mourning got up and drove twelve hours back to Green Bay(due to a snow storm we drove 25mph for two hours which sucked).Now to the part of the story every one will laugh at during the vonbondies show I got bored so I went into the "DJ room" to watch and make sure no shit blew up so sitting behind the stage surounded by curtains watching the lights go up and down I got thirsty as I am walking out a woman who I would not classify as my normal go to when trying to get laid walks up to me crying she tells me her ex boyfriend said she was fat I lied and said he is an idiot.(while not grotesque in her fatness she was 165-175 5'9) Any way this simple lie scores me a bj and while this is happening lady gaga music turns on, not poker face which would have put my story over the top of awesome it was still funny because that was the song I was singing in my head. Woooooooooo! Ric flair strut all the way home.

my computer took a shit so this will be my last entry for a while also i can't steal a vonbondies video

how ever here is devildriver

Year Roundup

2009-12-03T16:25:00.008-06:00

With my second year coming to an end I thought I would do a retrospect of all the cool shit I did this year. Then I got to thinking that's a waist of time so for now I will tell you what the future holds all the way to the year 2000. First I will invest in some intelligent lighting then I will invest in some conventional lighting fallowed by porn and more of this shitty vodka I am drinking. Then I will start planing for next year festival season which so far I know I am going back to Kentucky and have a shit load of fairs to work at I hope this changes festivals are hard work but pleasant and entertaining because the festival circuits were all the has beens play at like my good buddy Brett Michaels, Great White and Night Ranger(hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha)
But they still draw in the groupies who I lie to and get laid by. Can't forget about the strippers either. So now I sit back pray to my variuos gods for more shows in Chitown and drink to thoughs same gods that ignore me. Now I will show you what I dream about!

This last one is not something I dream about but it is DREAMER DECEIVER old grey whistle test style

Fiasco In Chicago

2009-11-03T10:24:00.004-06:00

In my adventures as a "roadie" I run into a lot of crazy shit, like David Cassidy being propositioned by a house, or watching blow being cut up on road cases with a cop standing two feet away. But this one although not as funny as the two previously mentioned this one is a good one. It all started when Ninja Nate asked me if I wanted to go to the congress to see a show and sit back and learn how to run monitors for a national act. I said "why not(first mistake) what time do we leave" 6:30 am. So I get up shower get in the truck and I am off. We get there at 10 am(by the way I still have no clue on who the band is but the marquee said Insane Clown Posse) and ask the guy in charge of this soon to be complete mess who is preforming tonight and we get Lupe Fiasco. So we go behind the monitor counsel and Ninja Nate starts showing me shit five minutes later the guy in charge tells me he has a job for me all I have to do is help them take down there video wall then I am done. I said why not(mistake two). To keep this two hour fuck up short I won't tell you how this all works. But to start with we are told to unhook it in sections while we are doing this someone behind us is putting the sections back up twenty minutes later they finally decide to take it all down as a whole. Then as it is coming down we were putting it in the cases. After that we tear down the cabling, the counsel and load it in the truck(Somehow this took us two hours). Then as I am walking back to the monitor counsel I am told they need me to help them unpack the new video wall then I am done. Again I just went along with it a little more anoid though. Again to keep it short we bring in the pieces set the first row up and are told we did it the wrong way take it down and put it up the other way. Then we are told we fucked it up again because certain pieces had to go on certain sides. So we change them again finally the first row is done( these pieces we are switching are six feet by four feet and weigh twenty five pounds big but not heavy).Then row two goes up then they decide before row three goes up to test it. Half of the screen don't work but we put up row three anyway. So after sitting around for a while they decide to take down the side that doesn't work and slide the one that does over. While we are doing this they let the people in(this all took seven and a half hours). We are done thirty minutes to show time. 8 pm show time and to kick it off a video is supposed to play before Lupe comes out, five minutes no video, ten minutes no video, fifteen minutes no video, now Lupe is fucking raging mad. Finally the video pops up but the voice to it sounds like the chipmunks then it slows way down then fixes. The show starts no problems till the middle which the video at the bottom shows. Show ends help load out then the guy in charge does not want to pay me for my work because I was not supposed to be there. But Ninja Nate squares that up for me. When I get back home it is 6:30 am. So in the end Lupe Fiasco's show was a fiasco.

Hallowicked

2009-10-26T19:57:00.003-05:00

Well I've got no good new stories so I shall tell an old one never told. Last year at Halloween I had a show at a crummy little bar in the middle of no were running a band for the first time, a band I've come to enjoy their strange choice in music the band is Tate Rooper. But my story is about the vampire hotties. Unlike your normal vampire hotties these were dressed in white bridal dresses or so I thought. I asked them if they were the brides of Dracula were was Dracula(I was sporting my own set of fangs dressed all in black)? They said they were not brides of Dracula but prom vampires. I said that's to bad I just happen to be Dracula and need some brides. One blew me off but the other decided my wit and charm were just to much for her and she danced and grinded on me most of the night(which made running lights rather difficult). After the two did not win the costume contest even after making out on stage she came back towards me and wanted to leave, but this was in between the second and third set, so I was chained to the show thankfully she stayed till the last set was over. We loaded out faster than normal but now I was stuck this chick is in a crummy town an hour away from were I was staying at the time. I thought I would get now vampire ass. Wrong again she lived in Green Bay she was there to celebrate Halloween with her friend. She was supposed to stay at her friends house but I guess my charm was to much because ninja Nate drove home alone and I drove home with a vampire hottie. In the end though after doing things with her for a few weeks I decided she was crazy and I went home. But vampire sex is awesome. Have a happy Satan's Day I know I will try I've got a wedding to go to were I know no one. Maybe I will get brides maids ass. Here's hoping.

RainMan the asshole I think not!

2009-10-12T17:24:00.007-05:00

This past weekend I was at show were all that had to be supplied was extra lighting. Because of in house PA. Now the show was going alright with minor complications like the PA was complete shit. But you can't fix something that is not yours to fix. So sitting in a DJ booth not being able to here vocals and lead guitar the light show was sub par. But in before the second set started ninja Nate figured out that some of the shit was not plugged into the counsel right so I had to go on stage and hit the drums so Nate could make them not sound shitty. On my way to the stage a morbidly obese female wanted to talk to me so being the gentleman I am I said I would talk to her on the way back. So on the way back I stopped to talk and that's when she said and I quote "you look like Jesus and I've always wanted to fuck Jesus". I was less than impressed so I said Jesus must stay celibate. And walked off now was this being an asshole I think not Jesus does not look like a chubby chaser to me he looks more like the Asian hooker type.:)

Now on to part two I was reading the New York Times today which is very rare for me since I hate all news/media outlets but this caught my eye. A six year old boy is sent to reform school because he brought a knife/spoon/fork to school. Now I was all for this kid to not get kicked out until I read the part were the kid says "I think the rules are what is wrong, not me" Now is were I draw the line fuck you and your parents for not teaching you to follow the rules and saying don't worry if you fuck up never expect stupid consequences. This might be harsh to say to a six year old but come on the rules are what is wrong not me fuck off if you would have kept your mouth shut you would have RainMan and his legion of followers on your side and that's a good thing trust me. Another thing the parents were to stupid to realize there son was bringing a knife to school which means he was hiding it from his parents so he could bring it to school. He knew it was wrong and might get him in trouble but he wanted to be a cool kid which is proven by his other comment “I just think the other kids may tease me for being in trouble". Now I must sleep because I am sick and coughing up shit. Rainman an asshole I think not.

this post is fucked up and i don't know why

Ride The Lightning

2009-09-24T17:52:00.005-05:00

Its time for an update the past few weeks have been kind of boring Last weekend was the first show I've been to in a while. Set up sucked because you had to reach out about a foot just to hang the lights on the truss of the stage also they were almost all head level so the musicians had their crouches lit up so not in there eyes. Plus plugging in cords when lights are like that sucks major ass. But when all was said and done it worked out because I am awesome. My timing at show is almost flawless. From what I've seen no one can touch me as far as running conventional lighting. Now to the good stuff At some point in the show three women in front of me decided it was a good idea to show their titty's it was not that great they were saggers :(. It is true most titty's look awesome covered up but not so awesome when out. But a nice set eventually arrived and then I was happy again. Also my hair has proven once again that I can pick up older women and this time she was attractive the down fall was she was so piss drunk finding a good place for a more personable conversation was impossible. But she was rubbing on me while dancing so I still win. To some up the hole night. Set up sucked, bands were good, tittys sometimes should not come out, older women like long hair, women should not get super drunk( unless I can take them some were), and tear down went well.

Also there is a new metal album that would have made Zappa proud its called "FEEL THE STEEL" by Steel Panther it is some of the funniest shit I've heard in a long time pick it up.

DEATH TO ALL BUT METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!