I went from being not so hopeful about us getting new GNR material and thinking at best we'll get one song for the new Terminator soundtrack, to hearing this stuff and being amazed as fuck.  I've always liked Buckethead's music, but the new stuff has me binging on him all over again.  It's great that Slash and Duff are back, but with that comes the tragedy that we're probably not going to hear any Buckethead GNR songs.  Between the new GNR releases and all the solo stuff he released since leaving the band, I'm almost convinced that they should have just had Buckethead come up with a bunch of tracks and then told Axl "Lyrics please!" 

People will rag on how long it took Chinese Democracy to get released, and it definitely shouldn't have taken so long, but with this new stuff we know they weren't just twiddling their thumbs.  The tragedy with that is it took them so long to release songs that easily could have been released years before and they left great stuff on the table at that.  The tragedy with the 2009-2014 lineup is they didn't do anything but play the same damn songs!

Smackdown moves to Fox this Friday and apparently The Rock is going to be on, though probably not in a wrestling role.  I'll probably watch but I have mixed feelings.  I went from being a huge wrestling fan to really disliking the product to being indifferent.  Being indifferent may even be worse than hating it.  Fox has supposedly been having more input and has made efforts to really promote it.  Hopefully with less Vince McMahon involvement this will make things better, but I can't tell you how many times I was optimistic that wrestling was going to be better only to end up disappointed.

I'm not trying to be conspiratorial, but it seems odd to me that when there's been a major leak it happens to be around the time they're touring, and those leaked songs are then found to be on the setlist.  When Better/TWAT/IRS leaked then there was a tour in 2006 and those songs were performed.  Hardschool was leaked and though they haven't played it yet it was on that allegedly leaked setlist. 

This could all just be a coincidence and whether it is or not I'm not complaining.  Theoretically maybe they just want to capitalize on the songs that were leaked by adding them to the setlist for the new shows, but then again if the band was interested in capitalizing on new songs you'd think they'd have toured right when Chinese Democracy was released.

That's both amazing and terrifying.  Not only did he see two of the most intense battles in WW2, but having to hunt for food in such harsh weather conditions with the most sadistic group in the German military after him during it too.  Anyone that wants to complain about how their year went may want to read up on what your Grandpa went through in less than four months!