2003-01-29 - 9:16 p.m.
Just a little souvenir from last night’s Rocket From the Crypt show. I’m not the type of person who goes to shows looking for trophies to take home--climbing onstage after the band has left and scavenging for setlists, dropped picks, broken drumsticks, and anything else that might bring in a few bucks on eBay--but every so often a good one just finds its way into my hands:
Another tambourine gives its life for rock ’n roll. A sobering thought.
Anyway, it’s going into my collection, right alongside my Mike Watt bass string and my pair of Bill Stevenson drumsticks. At this rate, in another 50 years I’ll have enough artifacts to open a chain of theme restaurants.
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So I guess the neighborhood around the Casbah is gentrifying. I get to the show and the first thing I see inside the club are these flyers, printed on bright friendly-colored paper, urging the patrons to be quiet as mice when leaving so as not to upset the club’s new yuppie-scum neighbors. Then, after the show, a bunch of people--including a couple of members of the band--came out to find that their cars had been towed.
Now, I’m not a homeowner, and I have no idea what it’s like to be massively in debt and to have one eye on the real-estate market in constant terror that the bubble is about to burst, but one thing seems pretty damn obvious to me: If you don’t like loud music and loud people, DON’T MOVE INTO THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD AS A ROCK CLUB. Or if you do, suck it up and deal. Especially if the club has been there for 10 years. And you moved into the neighborhood because of its "hip," "bohemian" reputation. And joints like the Casbah are the reason the neighborhood has that reputation. You’re worse than the people who buy a house next to an airport and then start bitching about the noise.
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Did anyone actually watch President Smirky McBeadyeyes’ speech last night? I missed it, and I’m afraid that if I try to play the drinking game while reading the transcript, I’ll keep losing my place and going back to the beginning until I eventually die of alcohol poisoning. Can someone just provide me with a nice capsule summary? Preferably one that goes well with Crown Royale?
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