Greetings from Phaonica

Palace and residence of Pellaz, Tigron of Immanion

Site last updated February 8th, 2010

I will not be working at the Starfire Swords booth at the Georgia Renaissance Festival this Spring

One of GARF's handcrafters from the very beginning, Starfire is pulling out of the Faire after 24 years. A triumph for cheaply-made Pakistani imports and the overall "flea market" mentality of the Georgia Faire. But, thank you for supporting Pakistani terrorism......

New direct link: my FaceBook profile

My Dragon*Con 2009 band/performance videos are going up on YouTube!

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

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Upcoming Events For Me

Upcoming EventDate(s)Comments
Nile, Immolation, Krisiun, Dreaming Dead at the Masquerade Wednesday Feb. 17th, 2010 I want to go, mostly for Nile. Since Abigail Williams has dropped off this show it has lost a bit of its luster, but Nile should make up for it.
ConNooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee (Sf/fantasy convention) at the Chattanooga Choo-Choo Hotel Fri-Sun February 19-21, 2010 I am hoping to attend this convention, in part because my friends in the band Bella Morte are performing there. This would be my first time attending this one. If nothing else it's another excuse to visit Chattanooga, McKay's Bookstore, Genghis Grill restaurant, and pay my respects to the choo-choos at the Choo-Choo. :)
Epica, Threat Signal, Blackguard at the Masquerade Sunday February 28th Strange bill, but hell, it's Epica with Simone Simmons!
CAGE, Destroy Destroy Destroy, Halcyon Way, Eclipsed By Sanity, Arktide at the Masquerade (Hell) Saturday May 1st Pathfinder Promotions "Metal Mayday" festival

Recommended Sites, Merchants, Places, etc

The following places have earned my recommendation for the reasons shown:
  • DeepDiscount.com -- DVDs, CDs, even books, and always free shipping (even on heavy things like media storage shelving!). Quick as hell delivery, and competitive prices and sales on DVDs, especially box-sets. Always worth a price-check before buying anywhere else. About a third of my DVD collection has come from this excellent merchant.
  • 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.
  • Warehouse 23 Basement -- go ahead, open a box. You might find the Ark of the Covenant.......or the polar bear from Lost.... (From the cool, if insane, people at Steve Jackson Games)
  • 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
February 8th, 2010 SeismicRadio playlists updated!
February 8th, 2010 Reading list updated!
February 8th, 2010 WREK 91.1 FM WREKage playlists updated.
I was on for the first half-hour, then Tim with a band in-studio, then Jordan, then me to close out the show at around 4am!
5 October 2009 DVD list updated; 405 total.
5 October 2009 CD list updated; 2,327 total.
22 September 2009 I am uploading Dragon*Con videos onto Youtube! Playlists:
30 August 2009 Blue Hole page updated!
Click here for the first batch of pics, taken with my underwater-capable Pentax Optio W30, and click here for the second batch from July 1-3.
2009 videos -- mostly underwater vids -- are in this playlist on YouTube! (Sadly, the four vids I took on July 16th were munged by the camera and don't appear to be playable.)
15 March 2009 All of my Dragon*Con videos -- mostly of the bands and performances -- are now posted! Click here for the playlist and choose "view in high quality" if you can.
9 May 2008 My beliefs updated, after a 5-year hiatus! More to come!
7 January 2008 Condolences -- and yet, congratulations -- go out to two people I know, Kynt and Vyxsin, who were one of the teams competing on CBS's popular show The Amazing Race. (They were the "dating goths" couple.) Although they were eliminated on the 12/30 broadcast, they still got to see parts of the world most of us will never see, and will always have amazing stories to tell of their worldwide journey.
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

  • In 2005 I sponsored Sweden's amazing [Therion] for ProgPower USA VI in September!
    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 went to Finland, where I co-sponsored the seminal death/folk metal band Amorphis for their ProgPower USA appearance!
    ProgPower USA X will again be in September, in 2009!
    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.
  • 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 2,000 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.

Thanks for stopping by!

Paul W. Cashman <pellaz1@comcast.net>

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And now, a sad wrap-up for the bottom of the page. I helped sponsor the amazing Finnish metal band Nightwish at the ProgPower USA IV festival back in September, 2003. This marked my second consecutive year as a festival co-sponsor, my third year of being involved in some aspect of the planning (I helped hook founder/promoter Glenn Harveston up with the Earthlink Live venue in 2001) and my fourth year attending the event in the States.
Why sponsor? Why help out the festival? Because it's the finest and best-run progressive music event in the Western Hemisphere, if not the world. Glenn and his crew run a tight ship and deliver a quality festival for fans and bands alike. I'm proud to be an ongoing part of the festival now for 8 years.
And now, the sad part.... I'm even more proud to have helped fulfil the dying wish of one very special Nightwish fan: to see them perform live...a magical, yet sad event that has since been immortalized by the band on their CD Once. R.I.P., Marc Brueland! May the ships carry you West to the Undying Lands.