SCREAM FOR ME, COSTA RICA!
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 at 1:00pm by Vince NeilsteinAfter Continental Airlines threatened to ruin my peaceful week in Costa Rica by delaying my first flight 4 hours then stranding me in Houston, I’ve again set foot within the hallowed gates of the MS Mansion. It’s good to be home!
You should’ve seen the looks on the mugs of the White-Face Capuchin monkeys in Manuel Antonio National Park when they saw MetalGF’s METAL SUCKS t-shirt. They nearly flipped! Upon seeing the same, a band of howler monkeys howled up a storm and totally lost their shit, quite literally, as they flung poo directly at us (I’ll be giving MS Mansion Monkey Higgins a stern talking to about keeping his cousins in check next time). We zip-lined across the canyons of the Monteverde “Cloud Forest”, kayaked through the Mangroves outside of Quepos and ate lots and lots and lots of delicious food. It was quite an adventure in an absolutely beautiful country, though our only metal experiences consisted of seeing dudes in Metallica and Iron Maiden t-shirts.
I’ll be posting a photo recap in due time. Until then, here’s Iron Maiden performing “Powerslave” live in San Jose, Costa Rica, taken from the Flight 666 DVD.
-VN
7 COMMENTS on “SCREAM FOR ME, COSTA RICA!”
I don’t care about your holiday cause I spent xmas time at home and I’m pretty mad at you about this.
Thanks for the vid tho.
Flight 666 is a great movie. I like the Costa Ricans they interviewed – one was so excited that Maiden would come to the “asshole of the world” and another guy said his friend quit his job to be there. They were nuts.
did you have the coffee there? it’s amazing
#=@= Matt if u havent tasted Dominican coffee then u dont know whats good coffe then.. Cafe SanTo Domingo brod..sadly we have never had a metal band come to DR, the only crappy band that was here years a go was THE RASMUS which blows then buch of cover bands or old pop singers smokin cocaine in their backyards :(
no matter what monkeys will sling shit it will never change.
Hah, i’m in Santa Elena/Monteverde right now, looking at your goddamn website and waiting for the rain to cease. There are more critical metalheads around though than the Iron Maiden / Metallica shirts you see. I worked in a tiny untouristed town in the mountains and found a kid who loved Opeth and Cannibal Corpse. He couldn’t remember how he found out about them in the first place.
nice, I went there last spring, did the whole zip line thing, it’s pretty rad