Greetings from Phaonica

Palace and residence of Pellaz, Tigron of Immanion

Site last updated May 18th, 2012

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Blue Hole page updated with new 2012 roadtrip dates and all pics 'n' vids.

My email address: pellaz1 -at- comcast -dot- net.

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Recommended Sites, Merchants, Places, etc

The following places have earned my recommendation for the reasons shown:
  • Marine Traffic.com -- live realtime ship locations worldwide!
  • Cruise TimeTable cruise-ship and cruise port listings and timetable.
  • SportsMansGuide.com -- I've gotten everything from crossbow pistols and weather radios to leather belts and long leather duster coats from these guys. Outstanding mail-order catalog and website.
  • The End Records, Omega Mail-order -- one of the best places on the web for metal CDs, especially extreme metal, and always free shipping. Service is usually swift as well!
  • The Laser's Edge -- I've been a customer of Ken Golden and the Laser's Edge since before he had a website and published a print catalog. One of the best places on the Web for progressive rock, metal and similar CDs.
  • Frys.com -- great brick-and-mortar store where I've bought several items including my stalwart laptop -- their mail-order service, under the Outpost.com name, has also been a great online ordering shop for years.
  • International Tokamak Fusion Research Project -- one day, power plants using this safe method of nuclear power will provide our energy needs. Until then, keep listening to your media and keep banging the rocks together, guys! Eventually, maybe, we'll wake up.
  • Atlanta Gas Prices.com -- Gas prices for us, by us. This site has probably saved me close to $50 on gas in the last 6 months just from knowing who had the cheapest gas prices in the area!
  • Georgia Gas Prices.com -- the statewide version of the above. (I have to post prices for Auburn and Barrow County on this site.)
  • Apollon Auto Repair, on Shallowford Rd just west of I-85 in Chamblee -- that rarest of rarities, an honest garage. Owned and operated by Greeks (Tassos and George), they've worked on my cars as needed since 1987, with honesty and fairness.
  • Fantastic Contraptions -- build your machine to solve a physical puzzle! Highly addictive and fun! Turn your volume down before clicking on the link, though....
  • WebSoduku -- it even lets you cheat. (I try not to.) Great site, and with minimal advertising.
  • Blue Ball fixed animated GIF -- turn your volume down before clicking this one....which has to be seen to be believed. And then you start tracking the movement of the little balls through this Rube Goldberg contraption, and then suddenly you've lost a half-hour.....or more.....freeow....
  • Perpetual Bubble Wrap -- totally useless since the bubbles regrow after you pop 'em, but if you just HAVE to work out some online aggression.....

UpdatedPast happenings, news, and updated pages
May 18th, 2012 Blue Hole page updated!
I've added the reasonably firm roadtrip dates for Summer 2012, moved the 2011 Roadtrip Diary to a separate file here, and collected all pics and vids here!
May 18th, 2012 Reading list updated!
May 14th, 2012 WREK 91.1 FM WREKage playlists updated!
January 20th, 2012 DVD and Blu-Ray list updated; 555 total, including 75 Blu-rays.
December 13th, 2011 SeismicRadio page updated, sadly for about the last time. The Realserver is now out of action forever, so this is the end of SeismicRadio as we've known it.
August 21st, 2011 CD list updated; 2,500 total.
April 26th, 2011 Autobiographical info updated!
November 5th, 2010 Pics from my first-ever cruise, aboard Royal Caribbean International's Majesty of the Seas from October 25-29, are now posted on my Facebook profile. Click here!
October 29th, 2010 My own personal beliefs updated, after a 2-year hiatus!
18 July 2010 I have finally resumed uploading Dragon*Con videos onto Youtube! Playlists:
15 March 2009 All of my Dragon*Con 2008 videos -- mostly of the bands and performances -- are now posted! Click here for the playlist and choose "view in high quality" if you can.
23 November 2007 After-show pics from Nightwish at the Masquerade on 11/17 are now available!
28 October 2007 All of my Progpower USA VIII pics and videos are now available!
ProgPower USA VIII videos are here on YouTube.
Photos from Thursday night are posted here!
Photos from Friday night are here!
Photos from Saturday night (Pt 1 of 3) are here!
Photos from Saturday night (Pt 2 of 3) are here!
Photos from Saturday night (Pt 3 of 3) are here!
3 October 2007 After-show pics from Cradle of Filth -- including a severed pig's head! -- on Sept. 29th are posted here!
24 September 2007 Dragon*Con 2007 pics and videos index now complete! 3 gigs of videos and photos, largely from the band and Concourse acoustic performances, so dig in!
30 August 2007 Revised list of newly-added photo galleries:
25 July 2007 I've posted several new videos on YouTube, from Glenn's barbecue up in Rome, to the recent Dimmu Borgir show at the Tabernacle, from Blue Hole in Tennessee, the Georgia Renaissance Festival, and Symphony X at the Masquerade.

Music Stuff

  • ProgPower USA: my involvement with this now-legendary metal festival here in Atlanta goes back to its first year in 1999, when I attended as one of only 300 in the audience for its small start in a bar near Chicago. I helped the promoter Glenn Harveston obtain a new, awesome venue in Atlanta called Center Stage and a new chapter in the festival's history was born.
    In 2003 I co-sponsored Devin Townsend for his performance; in 2004 I co-sponsored Finland's Nightwish for their first-ever U.S. appearance. In 2005 I sponsored Sweden's amazing Therion for ProgPower USA VI in September.
    Then, in September 2006 I sponsored Denmark's excellent technical death metal band Mercenary for ProgPower.
    In 2007 I sponsored Finland's power-metal masters Sonata Arctica for ProgPower USA VIII, and in September 2008 we again tapped a band from Finland, as I co-sponsored the seminal death/folk metal band Amorphis for their ProgPower USA appearance!
    In 2009, I co-sponsored the return of Israel's astonishing metal band Orphaned Land, and in 2010 I co-sponsored Tyr, from the Faroe Islands! ProgPower USA XI will again be in September 2011 and I am co-sponsoring [Therion] for their last-ever U.S. performance!
    Pics from all of my ProgPower sojourns are indexed here!
  • I'm a deejay and on-air host here, every Friday night: WREKage (official site). Friday nights, 91.1 WREK-FM, Atlanta's longest-running "tr00" metal show. Starts at midnight, ends when we get tired or 8am, whichever is earlier. :)
  • My archive of older WREKage radio-show playlists, plus a history of the show and my involvement with it
  • I'm also a deejay online: Click here for my SeismicRadio show details and playlists
  • My CD List -- well over 2,500 and growing!


At the old WREK-FM studios, deejaying at WREKage
Mickey Mouse, Mike Miller of Godhead and me :)
At ProgPower USA III in Atlanta, with Devin Townsend, who I co-sponsored for the event
You can also click here, here, here, here and here (in Rennfaire garb), here (at Blue Hole in Tenn.) or here (wearing a suit ?!) for additional photos of me.


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Paul W. Cashman <pellaz1@comcast.net>

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