Like a lot of you (probably?) I find New Year's Eve to be generally quite stupid. I have actually stopped looking at the Internet because of all the articles and status updates popping up about resolutions and feeling shitty because you ate some cheese balls over the holidays and quitting smoking and going to more spin classes and spending 2011 hating yourself. I'm not really sure what purpose this entire clean-slate, start-anew methodology serves other than to make you regret the nice times you spent over the holidays with family, friends or what have you. Actually, I would prefer if this time of year was completely wiped off the calendar and we could move quickly and efficiently into the 2011s.
Anyway, that was a longish, grumpyish, cold-riddled way of saying that there's a metal show this evening that will probably blow away all the simpering feelings of guilt or fake-guilt that the world tries to make you feel at this time of year. Also, the pre-New-Year's-Eve drunk is a really good way of lessening your drunk on the actual evening of the 31st, which will enable you to stay up later and do fun stuff, like pulling people's Christmas trees out of their garbages and throwing them down the street (and yes, The Coast does not this condone this, but I do - with great enthusiasm.)
If your New Year's resolution is to get blasted and listen to more metal, you should hit Gus' Pub tonight for Burnt Church, Cottus, Soviet Crowbeak and Napalm Raid. It is worth noting that this is Burnt Church's first headlining show and features their brand-new guitarist Dan Jamieson, formerly of Thy Flesh Consumed. Burnt Church already sound insane as a three-piece, so the addition of a fourth member terrifies me a little. In a good way. The festivities will begin at 9:30pm.
