It is not often I meet someone like Stingray.  In fact, I see him as the younger (and hornier) version of myself!  The other main difference is that he spread his roots more towards music, while I stayed towards psychology and computers.  I also see myself as more of a thinker than he is, at least when it comes to conversaions.  Other than that, if you removed those elements, you would never be able to tell us apart.  It is a very unique quality that no one else I know shares with Madd.  I was more than happy to go see him from Maddate 010524.4X to 010530.3X!  There are many MANY more pictures and sounds to upload, but that is going to take a while, ha ha!!  Here is how it basically went on the journey:

[010524.4X waking day]
     The trip up.  I almost got lost, no thanks to my mobile dying on me.  Of course, Stinray has a lot to learn about giving directions, ha ha!!  Had to meet at the gun shop.  Tempted to buy a gun and shoot him dead, but decided not to.  Gee I am nice!  Went to his flavorite place to eat, Denny's.  Has some strange chocolate milk fetish.  We got back to his place, and I thought I was still in Iowa!  Wow!  It was cool, never seen a person have their place half as messy as mine, tee-hee.  After a good teeth brushing, we ended up playing video games until we had to get up the next day!

[010525.5X waking day]
     What DID I do this day?  Well, we sang while we drove, tee-hee.  Learned there is another Laser station.  This one plays more Floyd than the one back home.  I got to met the band "Bakkus", consisting of Jerry, lead singer and guitare player, Shawn, guitare player, Rob, crazy drum boy, and of course Stringray on bass guitare.  I also met Sysaro.  I apologize if I misspelled your name, but you are just a bird!  Then it was off to watch them practice.  This is when I actually met Rob, since we went to his house.  That is where all the music toys are!  Going into the next day, while on the computer, Stingray got to say hello to my Texas friend.  Ha ha, that lead to more interesting things the next day!

[010526.6X waking day]
     It was not easy waking him up, and it is a good thing I finally got his butt in bed!  This was Stingray's first gig with 'Bakkus'.  The drive finding the place was insane.  Good thing I was there, or Mr. "I have no observation skills" would have driven right past Quarters, the bar we were to play at.  The show was okay, it would have been better if we would have heard Jerry's voice, but the sound man did not know what he was doing.  Of course, after all the beers I drank, I was not sure what I was doing either!  We ended up going over to the place where Sysaro was.  He would not let me eat him, hEhEhE!!  Stupid bird!  I was screaming left and right all over everywhere.  Jerry tricked me, we did not go to Perkin's, we ended up at Denny's.  It does not matter if they are closed or not, never trick a drunk Madd.  Jerry learned the hard way.  I ordered the Super Bird, not that I remembered half way since I asked if we had even ordered.  Oh yeah, that was NOT me in the sink, that was some other beyond drunk sicko.  I had the curtisy to make it in the toliet :D.  When we made it back to Stingray's place, he went and showed me exactly what a real friend was.  In my extremely unsober state, the last thing I requested was wanting to hear Pink Floyd.  He made a PROMISE that he would take care of that, and spent two hours searching for Floyd on the net after I was already passed out!  Wow!!  Now that is something I do not always see in a friend.  True dedication.  Imagine my surpise when I woke up the next morning, hang-over free, and Numb was playing from his computer.

[010527.7 waking day]
     Well, this was the second gig Stringray would play with 'Bakkus'.  Before we went to the show, Stingray and I played some Gauntlet on Dreamcast over at Rob's house.  That was a lot of fun!  It is much different than the N64 version.  This gig ended up MUCH better sound wise.  Before Bakkus went to stage, there were two other bands.  They were punk bands.  Yeah, just wait until i get the sound clips of what Rob thinks of punk bands :D.  Well, they all played "Rock You Like A Hurricane", and Bakkus was not to be stood up by that.  The croud went wild when they played a short riff from that, minus Rob, who was still setting his drums up.  I enjoyed recording this show and taking pictures.  Everything about the band was there.  It was beyond great!  Expect to hear Bakkus playing on a local radio station near you soon!

     It was really great spending time with Stingray.  He is the only friend I know who has not passed judgement on me, ridiculed me, made fun of me (without me deserving it), or questioned who I was.  He has excpeted me for who I am, and I shall always be thankful for that.  So, to end the trip, it was great to get on film what started us together, music, and the wonderous place that it came from, video games.  While I have many other things to upload from this trip, this is the most memorable, even if it was only hours before I had to make the sad journey back home.

    So which came first, Lunar or the pSyChO cIrCuS?  Ha ha, a good question.  I would have to say Lunar, which is what really started it all.  That was back many moons ago, like, in 1995 or so when we use to sing Lunar to each other over and over and talk on the phone for 8 hour shots at times.  This was before he got into guitare.


Stingray is the one playing the actual guitare on the left!

No, I am not attempting to eat the camera! He looks like he is getting into the music more here, ha ha.