As Emlyn K Helicopter put so well in another topic, "despite the name of this forum, its about more than just Voivod." And you Mez have been an integral part of it all so I salute you on your 29th. If I had a gun I would shoot off 29 rounds in your honour, but as you know I'm a pacifist so you'll have to do it for me. With just a year to go before your slow decline into hell (your 30's) I thought it would be amusing to take a look back at your 28th, here on VVF....
Famous last words from Mezcalhead -
ON ANGEL RAT:
"So I'm sitting here in my boxers (please restrain yourselves ladies), listening to Josh Wink, drinking AmberBock, and my cat Spike wants to say hello. He is a big AngelRat fan. I know, that ain't funny."
"How about a huge photo of Terry Brown playing air guitar (I'm sure there are some laying around from the AngelRat recording sessions when he was showing Blacky how to play his bass) on your introduction page?"
ON KING KULA:
"Load your weapon you Texas bastard, we'll meet at dawn."
"That's it Kula, I'm picking up the phone now and calling W. We've given you free rein for too long.
Yeah, W., he's at it again, send the boys down to pick him up. What, you want to make him do the cactus run? Ok, hahaha...yeah, I believe that would straighten him out."
"Every time I think I'm the number one crazy on this forum Kula always seems to come up with something to blow me out of the water. Well, here we go again. My ship is sinking."
ON GUNS:
"I need to go out and shoot my gun."
"I just own a couple of rifles and shotguns. And then there is my baby: A 1911 .45 automatic I got from Grandpa. Everybody say ahhhhh.... "
"Anybody know where I can get a bazooka? Now that would be fun. Find my ex-girlfriend driving around in her Jetta, Hey baby, BOOM!"
"I found a bunch of 50 cal ammunition in Grandpa's gunroom and always wondered, where is the gun that these big bastards were made for. I know he's got it hidden away somewhere on the property. Aw yes, the secret bunker. Dream on, Mezcal, dream on...."
ON GEORGIA:
"Did someone say mullet? That's the Georgia state haircut."
"Augusta, Georgia. Land of fat, rich, white guys who play golf."
"Look me in the eyes and say, dude, come rock with me.
I think I will make this the motto of the new Georgia Chapter of the Chophouse Street Team that I've just started."
ON WOMEN:
"Yeah, these guys are a riot. What's funny to me about it is that they try to come off as SERIOUS-MINDED, INTENSE SPIRITS WANDERING THE BARREN DESERT OF LIFE TRYING TO FIND THE "TRUTH". Dude, that is not the way to get chicks."
"Went to a family cemetery function where I hit on my cousin. She doesn't seem to mind."
ON TEACHING:
"Teaching the youth of America:
Okay, today class I want us to hold off on the Gettysburg Address and focus on the third album of the Canadian Metal band called VoiVod. Somebody tell me what the Order of the Blackguards is about. (As I throw up an overhead of the cover art)"
ON BEING DRUNK:
"sorry mez is a liitel drunk
yess iv had one toom nay so forvagive me alrihtg its been aling woeek alsdight!!!!!!!
Yes, I;ve be nnn listgneng to OUter limmts an d Im in Jacxk lumdinous righ now this is a goreeeta tune"
ON GEORGE JONES:
"And don't tell me a tear won't come to your eye when he belts out that ballad of ballads, He Stopped Loving Her Today.
Shit, where's my kleenex. "
"And the way he puts his emotion in a song. WOW. Listen to 'He stopped loving her today' and if you're not crying by the end of that you've got to be dead.
Remember also that when they asked Elvis Costello and Nick Cave who the world's greatest singer was the both responded in unison saying, George Jones."