Pedro El Awesomeo needs Bombs's blog: "Encephalon"

Only three days remain until the Deftones come to town.   I bought these tickets over two months ago, closer to three.  Yeah, I'm an excited little girl, fuck you, I'm happy being me.

I was watching "Law Abiding Citizen" the other day and a Deftones song came on.  After I checked to make sure it wasn’t my computer playing it, I then proceeded to get excited.  I didn't dance externally, but internally, I was.

I always set the cable to the Music Choice station, usually their "Alternative" channel, which isnt too bad, but then yesterday they played a Deftones song "Minerva" along with trivia information about them.  Yes I was pumped, and yes the dancing was external. 

I really can evaluate my happiness on a scale of Deftones songs.

Level 1 Happy:  One Weak, Lhabia, Deathblow, Rats!Rats!Rats!, Digital Bath

Level 2 Happy:  SexTape, Pink Cellphone, Bloody Cape, My Own Summer

Level 3 Happy:  Cmd/Ctrl, Mascara, Around the Fur, Battle Axe, This Place Is Death, Nightrider

Level 4 Happy:  Mascara, Be Quiet and Drive,  Dai the Flu, Sinatra (Helmet Cover), Knife Fight at the Niko, Lucky You, New Murder, Change

Level 5 Happy:  Passenger, MX, Simple Man (Skynard Cover), Savory (unknown cover), White Pony

This is not an all inclusive list, and some songs tend to move up and down, but the level 5 happy, they are pretty consistent.  I can play Passenger over and over and over again, sing at the top of my lungs and still get goose bumps.  When I ascribe someone as making me "Passenger" Happy, that is high praise indeed. 

I cannot tell you how many miles I have logged over the years with Deftones music playing as the soundtrack of my life.  It was some of my earliest MP3's and I have been a fan ever since. 

Some may say "Oh the Deftones haven’t had anything good in a while" or "The Deftones Suck"  and to them I have five simple words:  Go fuck a goat.   Seriously,  I happen to love the Deftones, they are one of my all time favorites.  It really kills me that they are playing next week in Toronto with Alice in Chains, another one of my all times, and I wont be going.  Them’s the breaks, but I may spend the all day singing Alice in Chains and Deftones songs...