Tuesday, January 17, 2006
I Don't Wanna Go to the Party Tonight
One thing that remains the same despite what age I am is that I enjoy Robie Food. If anyone would like to go to Robie Food tonight at 8:30, well then I wouldn't be wholly unopposed to the idea.
One thing that remains the same despite what age I am is that I enjoy Robie Food. If anyone would like to go to Robie Food tonight at 8:30, well then I wouldn't be wholly unopposed to the idea.
Saturday morning, Paul, Stephanie, Julia, and I headed down to the brewery market. We were late, which is almost always my fault because I dilly and I daddle. I'm good at both. We ended up arriving with the hangover crowd, so pickings were quite slim. I did manage to make a beeline for the 'Tofu Lady' and pick up smoked tofu and something new to me called tofu breast. I topped my visit off with a crepe which despite the lack of cinnamon was pretty good though I should have got the nutella crepe, I guess there's other Saturdays right? Right?
I had a bunch of cds that I had planned to sell when I thought my life was headed for financial ruin. I guess my life still is headed that way, it's just less so right now. Due to Lachie's advice, I decided to take my cds to CdPlus to see what kind of deal I could get for them. Lachie made store credit sound so attractive, so I declined the money (which I could have used) for cds (which I have enough of).
I ended up with :
The Ramones-Leave Home Am I a loser for owning a Ramones t-shirt? Probably. Am I an idiot for owning Mondo Bizarro? Well it is one of their worst albums, if not the worst. But you're an idiot if you don't own Leave Home.
The Dirtbombs-Dangerous Magical Noise Gerry found this cd at Valu Village in shrink wrap for under 5 bucks, it's a steal at 5 times that price which is approximately what I paid for it.
Gimme Skelter-Buddyhead Compilation A new Cave In song that doesn't suck, a great Pleasure Forever song, a decent Icarus Line song...worth it for the Faint's Blank Wave Arcade.
and 11 dollars in my pocket.
I then proceeded to eat both the smoked tofu and the tofu breast. I was hungry and sometimes I really crave fake meat.
With a full belly, Paul, Steph, and I then headed to Budget to pick up a rental car for 2pm, so I could drive Mark, Adam, and Paul to Sackville so Sharp Like Knives could play Stereophonic. I was pretty sure the deposit was 200 dollars, which was approximately what was on my credit card. Turns out I'm an idiot. The deposit was 250 dollars and it took one trip to the bank, one trip home, two trips to budget, and three phone calls to scotia bank to get everything rectified and get the car rented, then it was four guys, one tank of gas, good music, and the open road.
Sackville was pretty ok. We ran into a bunch of familiar faces before the show which was nice. We went to one store that was selling huge Gizmo pillows. I was tempted to buy one, Mark Gillis tried to dissuade me by saying "How weird would it be if you took someone home and that was lying on your bed?" I didn't think it'd be any worse than my Power Puff Girls pillowcase, but I decided to not buy it because of lack of funds.
The show was alright. The band that opened played not one, but two Pearl Jam covers. We left Paul there to enjoy it while I took Greg, Mark, and Adam to the liquor store. There were lots of great conversations happening there about how fucked up Donnie Darko is. We got back to the show in time to see the Reels, they were good, but the vocals weren't so hot due to sound issues. The bathroom wasn't so hot either. It had issues with the toilet bowl being full of other people's waste. I managed to sneak in there and sneak out without anyone seeing me and blaming me for the toilet bowl issues.
Sharp Like Knives played a really great set. I let them know they were awesome by sending them notes that read "Blaze One Up", "Next Stop : Weed City" and "Winner's? More like PINNERS!"
The bar show up da road was next and it was alright. Tom Fun were simply amazing. I had seen them three times in the previous two weeks so I was sort of thinking "Maybe I will think they suck, maybe I will be sick of them". I did think that, but the complete opposite. They were easily the highlight of the night...except for
Adam Seward. Adam was on stage the whole night, through every band, and while everyone else was getting booted off, Adam was pretty much encouraged to stay. He stole microphones, pushed people he didn't like, pushed people he did like, tied mic cords around his neck, played Matt Packman's keyboard during Windom Earle songs, got in the way of everything and did it all with a smile that was irrepressible. It was amazing. Everyone who came onto the stage got booted off by the bouncer except for Adam. It was kind of beautiful and nothing short of magnificent.
After Windom Earle played the last set of the night and had everyone in the bar dancing, we headed off for what was supposed to be an "awesome" party, but first Mark Gillis had to puke all over the patio of the bar.
The party sucked. I'm sure it was full of very nice people, but the apartment was tiny and no one seemed overly enthused with our presence so we left for another party which also was not much of a party. A girl we recognized from the bar told us that a highlight of a Sackville visit was walking through the waterfowl park and suggested that we do this since the parties sucked. Greg looked her in the eye and said "We're drunk, we're not on 'e'."
We left that party and tried to find our friends. We found one of our friends, but his tongue was in some girl's mouth so we couldn't really have any in-depth conversations with him about causality or any shit like that. We also found a bigger nerd than me and that nerd tried to get in the rental car through the window, feet first. I don't normally tell people to do things to themselves, but I did tell this person to do things to himself. I did this several times because he did not listen and was annoying. I don't enjoy being mean, well overly mean, but I felt obligated to. Anyway with our friend's tongue planted firmly in someone else's cheek we headed off for food and sleep.
We made it to Subway where someone thought it was hilarious to order quadruple lettuce and someone else thought it was funny to order a 12 inch....RECORD! with extra cheese.
We stayed with Greg's sister and there was one condition. We could not make noise because she lived in a building with several dozen tenants, all of whom were geriatric and who would probably complain. Most of us complied, however several of us were too busy yelling "beef sheets" and "quadruple pants shitting" to pay attention. It was kind of awesome, but not really.
"Please guys, don't make any noise"
"Man I think I'm going to shit this couch!"
"Please, please, please keep it down"
"Naw Greg don't worry, these people will understand if he shits the couch, they're all used to wearing diapers and shitting themselves."
"OK, ok please just go to sleep"
"You guys can say one funny thing before bed and then that's it. Just get it out of your system now and go to sleep. OK you first..."
"Beef Curtains"
"Ok, good and I know you are going to say Beef Sheets, so just say it and go to sleep"
"Nope...not beef sheets..."
"Ok, what?"
"COCKSNOT!"
"Ok, great, now go to bed."
This lasted for about five minutes before ol'Quadruple Lettuce let out a trumpet sounding fart that had three distinct notes.
I had a bunch of cds that I had planned to sell when I thought my life was headed for financial ruin. I guess my life still is headed that way, it's just less so right now. Due to Lachie's advice, I decided to take my cds to CdPlus to see what kind of deal I could get for them. Lachie made store credit sound so attractive, so I declined the money (which I could have used) for cds (which I have enough of).
I ended up with :
The Ramones-Leave Home Am I a loser for owning a Ramones t-shirt? Probably. Am I an idiot for owning Mondo Bizarro? Well it is one of their worst albums, if not the worst. But you're an idiot if you don't own Leave Home.
The Dirtbombs-Dangerous Magical Noise Gerry found this cd at Valu Village in shrink wrap for under 5 bucks, it's a steal at 5 times that price which is approximately what I paid for it.
Gimme Skelter-Buddyhead Compilation A new Cave In song that doesn't suck, a great Pleasure Forever song, a decent Icarus Line song...worth it for the Faint's Blank Wave Arcade.
and 11 dollars in my pocket.
I then proceeded to eat both the smoked tofu and the tofu breast. I was hungry and sometimes I really crave fake meat.
With a full belly, Paul, Steph, and I then headed to Budget to pick up a rental car for 2pm, so I could drive Mark, Adam, and Paul to Sackville so Sharp Like Knives could play Stereophonic. I was pretty sure the deposit was 200 dollars, which was approximately what was on my credit card. Turns out I'm an idiot. The deposit was 250 dollars and it took one trip to the bank, one trip home, two trips to budget, and three phone calls to scotia bank to get everything rectified and get the car rented, then it was four guys, one tank of gas, good music, and the open road.
Sackville was pretty ok. We ran into a bunch of familiar faces before the show which was nice. We went to one store that was selling huge Gizmo pillows. I was tempted to buy one, Mark Gillis tried to dissuade me by saying "How weird would it be if you took someone home and that was lying on your bed?" I didn't think it'd be any worse than my Power Puff Girls pillowcase, but I decided to not buy it because of lack of funds.
The show was alright. The band that opened played not one, but two Pearl Jam covers. We left Paul there to enjoy it while I took Greg, Mark, and Adam to the liquor store. There were lots of great conversations happening there about how fucked up Donnie Darko is. We got back to the show in time to see the Reels, they were good, but the vocals weren't so hot due to sound issues. The bathroom wasn't so hot either. It had issues with the toilet bowl being full of other people's waste. I managed to sneak in there and sneak out without anyone seeing me and blaming me for the toilet bowl issues.
Sharp Like Knives played a really great set. I let them know they were awesome by sending them notes that read "Blaze One Up", "Next Stop : Weed City" and "Winner's? More like PINNERS!"
The bar show up da road was next and it was alright. Tom Fun were simply amazing. I had seen them three times in the previous two weeks so I was sort of thinking "Maybe I will think they suck, maybe I will be sick of them". I did think that, but the complete opposite. They were easily the highlight of the night...except for
Adam Seward. Adam was on stage the whole night, through every band, and while everyone else was getting booted off, Adam was pretty much encouraged to stay. He stole microphones, pushed people he didn't like, pushed people he did like, tied mic cords around his neck, played Matt Packman's keyboard during Windom Earle songs, got in the way of everything and did it all with a smile that was irrepressible. It was amazing. Everyone who came onto the stage got booted off by the bouncer except for Adam. It was kind of beautiful and nothing short of magnificent.
After Windom Earle played the last set of the night and had everyone in the bar dancing, we headed off for what was supposed to be an "awesome" party, but first Mark Gillis had to puke all over the patio of the bar.
The party sucked. I'm sure it was full of very nice people, but the apartment was tiny and no one seemed overly enthused with our presence so we left for another party which also was not much of a party. A girl we recognized from the bar told us that a highlight of a Sackville visit was walking through the waterfowl park and suggested that we do this since the parties sucked. Greg looked her in the eye and said "We're drunk, we're not on 'e'."
We left that party and tried to find our friends. We found one of our friends, but his tongue was in some girl's mouth so we couldn't really have any in-depth conversations with him about causality or any shit like that. We also found a bigger nerd than me and that nerd tried to get in the rental car through the window, feet first. I don't normally tell people to do things to themselves, but I did tell this person to do things to himself. I did this several times because he did not listen and was annoying. I don't enjoy being mean, well overly mean, but I felt obligated to. Anyway with our friend's tongue planted firmly in someone else's cheek we headed off for food and sleep.
We made it to Subway where someone thought it was hilarious to order quadruple lettuce and someone else thought it was funny to order a 12 inch....RECORD! with extra cheese.
We stayed with Greg's sister and there was one condition. We could not make noise because she lived in a building with several dozen tenants, all of whom were geriatric and who would probably complain. Most of us complied, however several of us were too busy yelling "beef sheets" and "quadruple pants shitting" to pay attention. It was kind of awesome, but not really.
"Please guys, don't make any noise"
"Man I think I'm going to shit this couch!"
"Please, please, please keep it down"
"Naw Greg don't worry, these people will understand if he shits the couch, they're all used to wearing diapers and shitting themselves."
"OK, ok please just go to sleep"
"You guys can say one funny thing before bed and then that's it. Just get it out of your system now and go to sleep. OK you first..."
"Beef Curtains"
"Ok, good and I know you are going to say Beef Sheets, so just say it and go to sleep"
"Nope...not beef sheets..."
"Ok, what?"
"COCKSNOT!"
"Ok, great, now go to bed."
This lasted for about five minutes before ol'Quadruple Lettuce let out a trumpet sounding fart that had three distinct notes.
