"Sometimes things go wrong. Things went drastically wrong. But at least there was a tour for it to go wrong on..."

                                                                                                                          Lips Kudlow

So it's the night after Buffalo and all hungover hands are sitting backstage at the Rhode Island Rythm and Roots Festival watching a great documentary tribute to the kings of canadian metal. A strange setting, you might think, to embrace my inner antichrist but "The Story of Anvil" was not made exclusively for metalheads. It is a classic tale of triumph and despair, pain and hope, dignity and redemption.This movie speaks directly to the heart of the human condition and how hard it can  be to do what makes you really happy even if it doesn't make any sense.

Whether you appreciate their music or not, Anvil have been faithfully slogging it out for thirty years and a lot of bad things have happened along the way but they refused to give up. If "the power of positive thinking" were an official religion, the surely Lips Kudlow would be its messiah. I can see him now nailed to an upside down cross with a big smile on his face.....just happy to have a show to do.

Now those of you who know me realize that I have never been one to naturally go looking "on the bright side". In fact, I am sometimes tempted to bite those that do (sorry Alan). But something about these metalheaded misfits got to me and I am left feeling strangely uplifted and filled with hope.

I am doing what I love again and that makes me very happy.

And that's all that matters.

Now if someone would just please rub my belly.....

Tosh