Sensibility

Well, I'm up early again and today my senses are fully loaded. I'm sitting at my second favorite table at Starbucks on Haywood Rd. in beautiful G-vegas, coffee steaming, SNGs running, and what is surely the greatest DVD ever playing on the upper right corner of the screen. Yesterday brought the release of the much anticipated Iron Maiden: Flight 666. I stopped in a Best Buy and picked up the regularly priced at $16.99 double DVD with enclosed tour diary, for the sale price of $11.99. I would have paid $50, maybe more.

Disc #1 in the box is the film Flight 666 which documents the first leg of the most adventurous tour in rock history, Iron Maiden's Somewhere Back in Time World Tour. No one has ever done what these guys just did. They traveled 50,000 miles around the globe and played 23 concerts on 5 continents in just 45 days. How where they able to accomplish this you wonder? Well, obviously they flew in their very own Boeing 757, aptly named Ed Force One, accompanied by the entire crew and 12 tons of stage equipment and piloted by none other than Airline Captain and lead singer Bruce Dickinson. I haven't watched this yet but I'm very much looking forward to having full access to the on and off stage happenings of my favorite band in the world whilst taking on this great feat.

Disc #2 is what is playing on my screen as I type this. It contains the full set of 16 songs live, but remarkably, each song was filmed in a different city provinding a view of the full power of Iron Maiden and their fans from everywhere. I saw this tour in LA last february. It was the 5th time I saw Maiden live and while every time blew me away, that show surpassed anything I've ever seen. The tour celebrated the release of Live After Death, which had been out of print for years, to DVD. It also gave a chance to tons of newer, younger fans to see these songs played live. The set list included mostly songs from Powerslave and before with a sprinkling of tracks from Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. I'm actually being kicked square in the balls by way of my eyes and ears as I view this. Take a look...

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As far as the online poker thing, I'm just grinding away at the 18 man SNGs. Things are a bit bumpy so far today but that just has to be sometimes. I can't just break every player in one day without an obstacle or two. I'm gonna continue to do work for a couple more hours and then I'm off to visit my very sick uncle who's not gonna make it very long. I'm not looking forward to it because I have more than enough emotional stress at the moment but he's asking about me and I really need to sort of say farewell.

So that's that for now. I'm gonna get a refill and perhaps a scone and kick off more work. God, Maiden rips it up!