Random Top 10 Redux

[Mary]

Ryo,

Honestly, there definitely are people in this city who at least try to talk nonstop throughout shows. Especially at smaller, local shows, which draw the scenesters in spades. Because half the scenesters don't give two shits about a particular band, but they just want to be seen in the right clothes drinking the right drinks at the right little rock and roll bars. They're all totally insufferable. I swear, the fact that none of them have ever been struck by lightning in a freak accident on their way out of the Bottom of the Hill pretty much proves that God does not exist.

Tunes,

Sounds like you had another fabulous weekend at home! How far is the trip back for you? I still have no sense of Canadian geography whatsoever

Erm. I'm not even going to touch the farts post. Yech!!

Well, my two-day break from excessive drinking ended gloriously last night. Full-on regression to high school. Got so drunk some guy I barely know had to hold my hair back for me while i threw up in his toilet. Ahh yes. And yet somehow I'm still having a fantastic time! I guess my detox will just have to happen after I get back to SF.... good thing the boy really isn't much of a drinker....

Cheers,
M

[tuneschick]

Good for you Mary - the hair-holding back is always a nifty way to make friends.

(I haven't been the recipient of this service since my 20th birthday, and last PROVIDED the service when I was 21 and a bartender - it was my staff Christmas party, I had only just met this girl, I was barely coherent myself and I didn't realize until two hours later that she had thrown up on my shoes. Yech.)

Er... wow, memories. Good times, good times. But seriously Mary, sounds like you're having an absolute blast!

My hometown, by the way, is about 250 miles from where I am now. Four hours by car... unfortunately, it took nearly six by bus on Thursday night, ugh.

[pissin2]

Erm. I'm not even going to touch the farts post. Yech!!

You don't have to, it'll come touch you.

[PC]

Tunes, I'm glad you had a great weekend. ;D Maybe you read this on one of the other boards, but I bought the Undertones' self-titled debut, and I love it! So you should be happy to know that I have fallen in love with one of your favorite bands.

Scenesters are so annoying, and they seem to get younger and younger every year.

[tuneschick]

PunkChick said:

Tunes, I'm glad you had a great weekend. ;D Maybe you read this on one of the other boards, but I bought the Undertones' self-titled debut, and I love it! So you should be happy to know that I have fallen in love with one of your favorite bands.

Aw PunkChick, that's great! I'm glad you love it - it really is one of my favourite debut albums of all time. (actually, it's just one of my favourite albums of all time, ever.) I love when people fall in love with bands I... er... love.

(ok, that sounded all wrong, but you know what I mean.)

[bowiglou]

tunes and punk......I'm getting overwhelmed with emoticons!!...please, can't you use some discretion ;D

[bowiglou]

as for talking through shows, last year when Lou Reed was doing one of his spoken pieces during The Raven, two guys behind me, who probably associated Lou solely with"Walk on the Wild Side" , were nonstop blathering.....it really did piss me off, but quite frankly, I'm not a big guy, and seeing bigger guys + alcohol just may not be the optimal context to drive home my point................but seriously, they barely shut up for one moment...........

Also, Billy Zoom was wearing a very cool Ramones t-shirt under his black leather jacket...............very very cool............and Doe still sweats up a storm like he did 20 years ago.....................and in part, I have X to thanks for getting my into the Replacements...they were playing the Universal Ampitheatre about 20 years ago (or so) and at the conclusion of the show Exene says "come join us at the Club Lingerie to see the Mats".............not knowing who they were, a short time later I bought Let it Be and hence stated my fixation on the Mats!!..............wouldn't that have been cool to share a couple of drinks with X whilst watching the Mats at some small Downtown LA shithole!!!!!!

[PC]

Oh, bow, you know what we mean. We just love the music. I mean, it's pretty obvious that the Undertones weren't exactly a bunch of Johnny Depp look-a-likes.

[bowiglou]

actually punkchick "teenage kicks" has seen many revolutions in my car or recent, so though I have a couple of Undertones LP's I have never owned the debut, which Now I realize I just gotta have...........................

[Matheus]

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

I don't really want to go on about this stuff too much, because it's kind of a drag. I just got back from the wake, which was a lot easier to deal with once I got there. I never go to that stuff too often unless I'm really close with someone, and that mostly has been for family members. I don't have to be proper around them, I can just go off by myself and then chat it up once I'm over the junk. It's different when you're trying to be supportive.

I dunno, funeral's tomorrow. I need alcohol, but I'm broke.

Anyway, yeah, thanks again y'all. He's usually the one I go to for support, and while I support him it's nothing like I've had to deal with here. Best friend was a douche when I called to talk about it, talked to me for like a whole minute then said "well, i'm going back to bed."

I have such empathy for people that sometimes it's fucking hard to cope.

Peace out.

[RocDoc]

BTW:

www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/24/x.music/index.html

(excitedly)'The Mats, The Mats! Ohmigod!'

~

(*yawwwwwn*)

[Meursault]

Whats this about The Mats?

[ueb]

Mary said:

and ueb, I'm sorry to hear you had a lousy week!! I hope that things aren't going badly in Columbia?? I was curious how you were liking your new city and school!

Thanks Mary. The trials and tribulations were just...accumulative, I guess you could say. It all started last Monday morning when my back sort of went out on me and I still had to sit through an 8 hour day of training for teaching my English 101 class. Then on Tuesday I finally got my syllabus and discovered that I needed to do some MAJOR revisions in less then 24 hours. Wednesday was spent stressing about my syllabus some more. Thursday started off with being 30 minutes late to the first class I'm taking because it took me over an hour to find a parking spot. The day ended with me accidentially burning my arm while painting my toenails (the incident actually involved a bug and my bathroom lighting). Add on top of all that having a low self-esteem week and worrying about not hearing from the boy before my visit to Charlotte, and things were not good in my world at all.

This week is looking slightly better although I am still lost with organizing my lesson plans to fit what the department wants me to do and what I actually want to do. I am still behind in all my homework due to my non-productivity over the weekend. And finally, this evening, I discovered that my Financial Aid is on hold. I did have some really good parking karma today though which made life a little easier.

So, yeah, right now the whole transition process is a little rough but I'm working on it.

As for Columbia, I think I like it even though the Confederate flag is REALLY flown outside the capital building (I actually saw it today). I know I still have a lot of exploring to do, however, before I can have a true opinion of the city. Overall, the city is very Southern but right now I like the effect it's having on me. So, we'll see I guess....

[Dwazee]

thanks about the hair comments--tho im going darker asap. this is fun, but i miss it. and mary...i cant figure out boys. ever. i just dont bother anymore...id like one to play with, but i just dont get em. and they dont seem to get me--and when we both get each other, im not interested in them. ugh.

slark, im sorry--im totally like you, i have no idea what to say when something like that happened. my best friend lost her gradnfather, and he was like her dad--and all i could do was just be there. thats all you can do. so good luck.

i want mary's life.

i hate hate hate people that talk through shows--but my biggest peeve are people that smoke pot RIGHT NEXT TO ME. why, you might ask? i dont care bout drug use generally, but for some strange reason, pot smoke makes me violently angry. i dont know why--but it always has. and everytime someone smoeks it at a concert, it takes every last part of me not to rip the joint out of their mouths and stab them in the eyes with it. boo.

[ueb]

Dwazee said:

and mary...i cant figure out boys. ever. i just dont bother anymore...id like one to play with, but i just dont get em. and they dont seem to get me...

No shit.

Although I should mention I did get to see my boy for a little bit this weekend but I still don't understand where things actually stand. Granted, I'm really not sure I want anything defined...oh well.