It started Friday, February 13th, 2009 with Jeff Dunham, and it's going to end Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 with the Black Label Bash. Talk about a huge 6 weeks with a LOT of metal/country/comedy in the brain.

Here's the deal though:
Myspace has some pretty huge problems with firefox, so I've uploaded ALL of my videos to my facebook profile . I'd LOVE to see people viewing them there, or on myspace (if you don't use FireFox). I'm just not going to keep uploading videos to myspace. The facebook profile has ALL of the videos I've taken, thanks to Mike letting me borrow the camera I gave him over Christmas (wasn't a Christmas present). I wasn't ABOUT to take my video camera in there, knowing it'd get rejected ;)

The shows :
02-13-09 - Jeff Dunham ( no video or photos, didn't bring camera )
02-22-09 - Toby Keith ( photos and video of MOST of the encore)
03-19-09 - Nickelyback (photos and video of MOST of the encore)
03-21-09 - Music as a Weapon IV - Disturbed (photos and videos of ALL of the encore)
03-24-09 - Black Label Bash  - Black Label Society (future, yet I'm going to be grabbing photos and videos of ALL of the encore)

Of course, I'm only going to upload some of the photos, the rest will be placed in my gallery

It's almost over, sadly, but it's been a HELL of a 6 week run, averaging a show a week. Not cheap on the wallet, but ooooh so fun! Check out the facebook and other gallery link for more videos and photos!

Tom

So for the past few days, I've been working on the arcade site (www.php-arcade.net), where you can play this, and many, many other games.

PHP :: Arcade

PHP :: Arcade

I'm fairly certain that I got it right this time, but I need some help advertising this thing. If you are a bulletin person, hey post a bulletin. If you're a blog person, post a blog. Help me spread the word about the place! With 5000+ games, there's got to be SOMETHING there for everyone ;)

If you're looking for blogs and the like from me here, Please don't. For various reasons, I've given up blogging on myspace. That doesn't mean I don't visit, but the blog side of things is done on my homepage, where I retain full control of my material and don't need to worry about silly competition censoring.

Occasionally, I'll write something up here, but for the most part, you're better off looking at my homepage for updated content, afterworld videos, unique stuff, and hey, you never know.

That doesn't mean I don't visit myspace, cuz I'm as addicted as the next guy. That just means that my homepage is the best place to go looking for blogs, pictures, videos, thoughts and ideas, at least from my perspective.

Peace out suckers, and happy new year!

I'm not talking 'britney got divorced' crap, I'm talking YOUR memories, things YOU did that you'll never forget! We've all got 'em, I'd love to see (or hear) yours!

10: Tooth Extraction - It HURTS damnit!
9:   Alice Cooper Live - Sweet show, great company!
8:   Rocking the Gondola, making Mel freak out! (Sorry Mel, oh wait, NO I'm not!)
7:   The IHOP incidents (and why we won't be back to ANY IHOP)
6:   The Taco Hell incident (and why we won't be back to ANY Taco Hell)
5:   Weird Al Live. Yeah baby!
4:   The "How do I get there from here" experience @ Origins. Oh, wait, I haven't TOLD you about that one? Maybe, if you're lucky. Long story short: It involved a cabby, going 10 blocks from where we were, and taking a half hour!
3:   Ozzy and Rob Zombie. Hey, I got to see ZAKK in there too damnit, which made me ALL kinds of happy!
2:   Best Buy, Thanksgiving, and yelling @ staff. never, ever again thank you. I froze my ASS off for what? 10,11 hours from line to home, and we didn't get shit (well I didn't, Mike did)
1:   3 days on the road with the peacemakers. My god, at the end of those 3 days, I felt soooooo dizzy! I wasn't really 'on the road' with them per se, but a group of us followed them around on the NW leg of the tour this year, and it was SWEET! Thanks guys!

Peace out fuckers! Have a safe and happy New Year!

So, Tom doesn't want certain content on his commercial website (hey, it is a commercial site, right, not privately owned?). I won't be contributing anything here any more.

Never fear, I am updating like mad lately (god only knows why) at my home page, but I'm not going to contribute content to Tom's Myspace sellout any more. Apparently he doesn't want individuals to know that alternatives like www dot y-u-w-i-e dot com exist, and that they actually GIVE their contributors something. It is, after all, the contributors that pay the bills, get advertisements up, siteviews up, and all that.

Peace out kids. Check the homepage often, because there's new content for at least another week stacked up!

T

Well, see, there's a reason to catch the real page. Had ya done so, you would be able to see some  pretty decent images , and amazon showing off my library, which I'd picked up for FREE (most of). For those that didn't catch it there, though, here ya be!

What time of the year would that be? Well, fall "tv" season, AKA "This show won't last season". For me, the season began just over a week ago, when I grabbed and downloaded the following from Amazon. Yeah, for FREE bitches! Amazon does crazy shit like give video away for free, imagine that!

Actually, truth be told, this is the first year (AFAIK) that they've done this, but hey, it looks sweet.

Scrubs? Final season :cry:
Not like we didn't know it was coming but scrubs is done with the end of this season. 7 (or is it 8 now?) seasons is great for a show that good though, so they've had their fun and time to move on.

How I met Your Mother:
If the episode title is any indication, Barney should be opening with the required "dary", but we'll see, we'll see. Dunno how they're gonna pull the show out of where they left it, but again, hey, mystery my friends, mystery!

Jericho:
7 episodes? ya GOTTA be kidding me, seriously! Only 7? Yeah, well, who knew right? They've got a LOT of work to do to catch up to where THEY left off last year, and I do hope to hell it's not the LAST season, but hey, we'll see.

House:
What can be said about the man except that he's an ass! Seriously, what can be said? He fires his staff, and (not to ruin the shit), they come BACK to work for him! WTF?!?!?!?!? This one's gonna be amusing.

Heroes:
It looks like they're going to open up where they left off last year, and Mikey was wrong, because they're bringing back damn near everyone. At least for the first episode. We'll see about more than that.

Atlantis:
Not ONLY do they get Carter (sweet) but they get Kaylee as well. mmmmm, that show needed a few more females in it anyways ;)

Smallville:
All I got to say is burn it. Seriously, that show is dead, let it go people. Still recording it just for the hell of it, but it's dead

Bones:
hrrm, no marriage at the end of last season? WTF? Where will it all open up? Welcome to drama gang!


Ok, that's all (I think) for the old shit. Of course I probly left out a show or two, but wth, I'll remember it eventually.
New shit:

My predictions (and I'm rarely right, so keep that in mind)
Chuck, Journeyman, Bionic Woman are keepers
The first two are actually decent shows.  The third I think they'll keep just because people are sentimental that way. The show reeks, seriously, but we'll see what is done of it

Life,  that's iffy. Personally, I'd LOVE to see it kept, but it's got no oomf to it.
I have two more downloaded now to my tivo (thank you tivo,you're my friend), will update when I get those done through and read.

Peace out bitches!

-=T=-

This one's for those of you to read my  Real Blog!. Hey, don't count on me always double posting ;). Anyways, if this works out, there'll be a flash game at the end. Check it out!-=T=-

It seems like only yesterday, I was kicking back, enjoying the summer "heat" (oh wait, can one ever enjoy Iowa summer heat?), and now we're looking into October. Ugh, time flies, especially when you're just working your ass end off. The past month or so, it seems that I've done NOTHING but work. I've even thrown the typical Saturday night Gaming thing off (magic, etc) because I've got to get a bit of work done. Uggh. Thank God for AC I guess, right? I would die without it, and I'm pretty sure this damned beast I'm working on right now would too.

So, speaking of work, what's new? What's up? Why all the work? Well, quite frankly, a LOT. I'm taking the company into a (virtually) new direction, one that will give back a bit to the community (ad supported, of course), for all that it's given to me. Why? Because, shit, I'm a nice guy (no, really, ya'll can stop laughing your asses off, I AM). A little glimpse of the way things are now, and the way things MIGHT be in the future!

Project 1:Simple ForumsThis project was started just before the summer began, and google's got it on a PR1 status, so, I need to bust ass and get it moved up there. No worries, I'm getting there. This is (essentially) a free SMF hosting project. Know someone that needs a forum hosted but doesn't want to pay? We all do! Just point 'em there!!!! No charge to them whatsoever

Project 2:phpbb4free:This one is another "free forum" project, only on the phpbb platform. Just took this one over a month or so ago, and it's a REAL bear having to edit out 100+ templates for mods :faint:

Project 3:Video Upload Service:Fuck YouTube, I've got my own video upload service! This was originally started to compliment the RCPM and Wylde Fans projects, but it's quickly becoming a storage point for (at least my) online videos. Hey, if you want to upload them and put 'em on your myspace (or any other) page, please, feel free.

Project 4:PHP Arcade:2000+ games, can you get enough? I certainly can't! I find myself in there at least an hour a day. Create an account, login, see if you can get more points than me :P

Seriously though, folks, enough pimping my own crap out.  What else have I been up to?

Well, I have to say that summer's been good. Concert season was too short. Let's see, we did Weird Al and Alice Cooper, and that's it? WTF is up with that??!?!?!?!?! Both of those shows kicked ass don't get me wrong, but I just can't get enough live and loud shit! Can't forget RCPM, but that was more of a "bar show", not a concert (though it STILL kicked ass!)

Vacation was good, just very draining. 3 days straight of RCPM and alcohol, I think I did some crazy shit over that weekend (and I'm not talking the NORMAL crazy!)

Origins was great, met Mark (one of my clients), we did some work and hung out a bit, saw Transformers (undoubtedly to me one of the BEST movies of the summer), and just kicked ass!

Moving? Well, I'd hope so. Haven't heard from Josh in a few weeks on this, but the plan is to (hopefully) start looking for shit in November, which is perfect, cuz that gives me time to get things saved up and ready to go. I can't WAIT to get out of this place, it just fucking SUCKS so much.

MTG? Fading away again. Oh I'm not giving up at ALL, I'm just stepping back for a bit. Still doing Saturday night gaming here, but I am doing that more for the company and whatnot than the gaming side of things any more.

Music? Well, those that see my myspace profile know the player was removed (by me). I'm going to change the stuff in my profile in my homepage as well. Gettin tired of the same ol same ol'. Me thinks it's time to put some Mandi Perkins up. Dunno why, seems that I've been listening to her more than anything of late, she's definitely got talent!

What else? Hey, isn't that enough for this update? No? Ok, well, you'll have to wait till I'm ready to post another one, fuckers!

Peace, Love and Jelly Beans!!!
-=T=-

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For those who haven't viewed the entry on my homepage yet:

BTW: The usual after-concert hangover is in effect. 24 hours is what it takes for me to recover from any type of decent show, and it's still there too.

So, in a hell of a way to top out 2k6, which was certainly one of the more concert / event filled years so far (Peacemakers, Gin Blossoms, Pauly Shore, G-n-R, Origins, Kevin Costner/ Netflix Field of Dreams, and a couple others), Tony and I took off to Ames to see the following lineup (known at the time):
Sebastian Bach
Guns -n- Roses

I'd heard rumors about there being another opening act, but nothing was confirmed.
KNOWING full well that this was (probably) a sold out event, and the lines were going to be long (c'mon, now G-n-R AND Sebastian Bach?), we got there about 45 minutes early. Time to check in (tickets were @ will call), piss, find the seats, all that.

As we walk in, I notice that there's nothing going on in the arena area (ie: no concert). Once we walk around a few minutes, and find our seats however (I'm talking 10 minutes), the show had begun. Funny, but it was just a shitty opener.
Yes, folks, there was an opener. Not just ONE opener, but -=3=- openers

First, we had the shitty opener, and I mean these guys stank so bad nobody knew who they were or cared. They were off the stage in a half hour, thank the gods! I can't even remember their name, but they came from St. Louis IIRC.

Next, came these girls. THEY did everything BUT suck, and bought a bit of time at the end. More on that in a bit though.

Thirdly, the man himself, Sebastian Bach. Everything from Skid Row stuff to new Bach stuff was heard, and none of it sounded bad at all. Originally, the idea was just to go and see him. I had NO clue that G-n-R would be playing with him, that just made the deal that much sweeter though, seriously.

As Bach was leaving, we got informed that these guys would be up next. My original thinking was "WTF? WHY would Sebastian Bach put himself BEFORE them, willingly, knowing that's an insult (he should have been AFTER them)", but, it all became clear shortly. Bach didn't want the response they got. By the time they came out, the audience was aware something was awry.

After a gruelling hour of Helmet (god, those guys just suck major ass, and Ames let 'em know), them getting boo'ed off stage, we saw the typical takedown of the stage, and just waited for G-n-R . By this time , we could tell that yes, there was something wrong (it was going on midnight, and NO G-n-R).

Going into tonight, my worry was that Axl hadn't had enough "cancellations" in this tour (so far only one) , and we'd get stuck being one, me losing $100 worth of tickets. Of course, when they didn't show up by 1230, I'm thinking to myself "Shit, he's done it again", and Ames was INCREDIBLY pissed off (wouldn't you be?). We'd been in the arena since 715, and the show was just starting to drag the fuck on.

Finally, some announcer got on and announced the suicide girls were coming back out, that G-n-R was there, there WERE a few weather related problems (expected) and we'd have G-n-R shortly. These girls, I'll give 'em all the credit in the world, came out and danced their hearts out, to 1000s of boo'ing people (men boo'ing strippers guys, THAT'S how bad it was). They took it like champs though, and did a couple numbers.

Finally, close to 1, 115, the lights go back out (again), and the searchlights come on. At this point, it can ONLY be one thing. G-n-R has FINALLY hit the stage, and DAMN did they hit it.

We heard old shit like Paradise City (closer) to Patience, November Rain, You Could Be Mine (still shocked that found it's way in there), Knocking, allllll the shit you'd expect to see in a G-n-R lineup, and new shit (Chinese Democracy really sounds interesting, the only one I could really make out though).

An ass kicking setlist and an encore later, we're through. I've been home about an hour, just now getting ready for bed, and let me tell you, it was ALL worth the wait. Unfortunately, the pictures disapeared from my cell (expected, because I had to remove the battery mid concert), but that's the ONLY regret.

If you were one of the thousands that walked out tonight, TRY to understand that shit happens. This could have EASILY been the weather causing any number of vehicles to break down (RCPM anyone?), or strings to break, and that being the last one, blah blah blah. This shit happens, and getting pissed off and "boo'ing" isn't going to make the band come out ANY damn faster. Being patient and relaxing won't either, but it's not going to antagonize anything or anyone, while Boo'ing WILL piss people off.

Yes, folks, the curse is still in full effect:
Weird Al (dude, I'm really sorry, you got it the worst):
within a month of seeing him, his parents died

RCPM:
A> Within a week, guitar got stolen (show 1)
B> Bus breaking down the night of the show

Metallica:
Deftones lead singer hospitalized the day of the show, serious health injuries (Summer Sanitarium 2k2/3)

Poison:
Bus caught fire while leaving the IA show a couple years back

G-n-R:
Mysterious weather related problems, causing delay of show for 2-3 hours

Gin Blossoms:
Unaffected as of yet

Pauly Shore:
Unaffected as of yet

Black Label Society:
A month before the show, switched out Bassists (not really a "curse" thing, but J. Lo had been in the band for years before leaving for Megadeth)

Motley Crue:
Just a couple weeks before our show, "Mikey" (their midget) got detained in Canada for drugs. Needless to say, he didn't make our show (boooh).
Night of Show, Tommy Lee dropped the "titty cam". Accident/ Not Accident? Nobody knows.

Toby Keith / Ted Nugent:
Uncle Ted got trapped in a storm in MN, day of show, couldn't make it out to the show.

That's a list of the shows I've been to since hooking up with Mike and crew. Note that of all those..- have not had some sort of (minor or major) disaster before, during, or close to after shows. I count BLS / J. Lo as a "disaster", because he'd been with 'em for years and it was a shame not to see them together.

Anyways, IF you get the chance to see the G-n-R / Sebastian Bach tour this year, PLEASE do yourself a favor and DO IT! I'm not kidding, both of these guys put on a HELL of a show, and the Axl/Bach duo (my Michelle) is just sweet!!!!!!

Peace out, fuckers, I'm off to bed!

Most people actually have a clue what this is, but apparently there are a few that don't, so a refresher course is needed here.

Bulletins are not for sending "spam". They are for sending updates, or "news" or a "bulletin", something that you actually THINK about sending, something that those getting that bulletin might give a shit about, not simply something that is sent out to get more comments.

Spam is defined as useless, worthless junk that has no meaning whatsoever. If you can't control yourself from sending spam, then do yourself a favor and remove me from your "friends list", because you won't like it when I do.

The lesson? THINK before you hit that "submit" button, people. Will the individuals receiving this actually BENEFIT from it, or is it just stupid?  Is this going to be something that informs them of something, or is it just some stupid bullshit that means nothing at all to anyone, that tells you to forward it to 500000000 of your friends or you don't get to be on their "friend's" list any more

Yeah, so much for my "nice guy" streak, but damnit people, QUIT sending me stupid shit. QUIT sending me shit that nobody cares about, that you received from 500000 of your "friends". Use just a little bit of common sense there.

Oh, and to those thinking I WON'T remove you because you send spam? Trust me, I will. If I'll remove one of my own family members, I'll happily remove you. Use the "bulletin" option wisely, gang, it's not a right.

Peace out,

-=T=-

When my brother decided  to message me saying I had "two" accounts, well,  I thought he was stoned (or something like that;)), but it turns out that I do!
Not sure what clown would try to duplicate my first, or even IF it was an intentional dupe, but  this will always be my account here. You can also access that by going here or using the username (twhiting9275) to get to me.

Seems like some clown decided to create tomwhiting9275 as well *boggle* which can be seen here as well. Odd stuff. Maybe just a myspace glitch, maybe one of my "friends" is fucking around. Either way, that's not me at all man!

Btw:
Look for NEW wolfstream changes here in the next few days. Yeah, no new content has been added in a while, been working on something. Will be live shortly :)