Joseph _Y (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} josephy) wrote,@ 2008-05-14 04:14:00 |
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The Cure and more
Been a while since I've made a personal post here.
Saturday I had traded days off with Chantal so that I could go see the Meatmen at Hell. It was a good bill: Eddie and the Louvers, Intent To Injure, The DooshBags, and then the Meatmen.It was the first time in I believe 12 years that the Meatmen had played Prov. It was an all ages show, in this case I think "all ages" meant that old people were welcome, as less than 20% of the crowd was under 30. It was nice to see tons of old friends and people I'd lost touch with thru the years. During ITI's set I caught an accidental boot from "someone"..ahem.. stagediving and ended up with about an inch long gash with an even bigger bruise in the side of my head. I went to the bathroom to see how bad it was, and of course there's no mirror in the guys bathroom at Hell. Peter Lee sees it and tells me that I should go to the hospital and get stitches. I grab some paper towels to put pressure on it, and go outside to see how bad it really is. I look in a car mirror to see, it's a decent cut, lots of blood. I put the towel tighter, went back inside and enjoyed the rest of ITI's set. After ITI were done, I took a walk up to the shop to clean it up and bandage it. I get back to the club and the Doosh Bags are on. I've seen them tons of times, they're fun silly hardcore. Great people, fun band. I sit back to get my 2nd wind while they play. The Meatmen go on and I'm up front the entire show. Tesco Vee comes out in a white jumpsuit with ABBA in sparkle letters down the legs, and a giant inflatable penis. They started out with Razamataz and ended with Centurians of Rome. They played a decent selection of Meatmen classics and even did covers of Fear(I Love Living In The City) and Skrewdriver(I Dont' Like You).The only thing that could have made their set better is if they had played longer. Some great pics of the show are up on
http://www.returntothepit.com/
Monday Night, me and Kristian went to Boston to see The Cure. I had purchased some great seats (10th row center). The opening band 65 Days of Static, were OK, nothing thrilling but not horrendous. The Cure played a nice blend of old, new, hits, and non hits. Robert was more animated than he's been the past couple of times I've seen them. The sound was a bit hollow without keyboards at times(especially on Inbetween Days). They did 3 encores. It was overall a great show. Saw a few friends before and after the show. Wished I could have hung out longer...Kristian was in a bad mood driving home, that kinda killed the rest of the night. This AM was better, she apologized for being angry, and gave me a ride to work.
My car should be back and running like new by the weekend. Mark from The Automatons is a mechanic by day, and is doing all of the work for me for about 1/2 price. It's nice to have friends that can help out sometimes. I hope that I get to return the favor to him at some point.
One really cool thing that happened today is that old school tattoo artist, Shanghai Kate (friend and former employee of tattoo legend SAILOR JERRY) came into the shop today. She's been doing some work on one of Rodneys regular clients and wanted to stop in and say hi to us. She brought some really cool books that showcased the collection of Sailor Jerrys old stencils as well as 3 huge binders of his ORIGINAL acetate stencils. I purchased the books she had as well as 2 orig. Sailor Jerry acetate stencils (circa 50's). I'm going to have them framed and display them at the shop. I would have bought more than 2 but they're not cheap and in some way I think that more than a couple would be overkill when displayed as an art object.
Thats about it for now.
Been a while since I've made a personal post here.
Saturday I had traded days off with Chantal so that I could go see the Meatmen at Hell. It was a good bill: Eddie and the Louvers, Intent To Injure, The DooshBags, and then the Meatmen.It was the first time in I believe 12 years that the Meatmen had played Prov. It was an all ages show, in this case I think "all ages" meant that old people were welcome, as less than 20% of the crowd was under 30. It was nice to see tons of old friends and people I'd lost touch with thru the years. During ITI's set I caught an accidental boot from "someone"..ahem.. stagediving and ended up with about an inch long gash with an even bigger bruise in the side of my head. I went to the bathroom to see how bad it was, and of course there's no mirror in the guys bathroom at Hell. Peter Lee sees it and tells me that I should go to the hospital and get stitches. I grab some paper towels to put pressure on it, and go outside to see how bad it really is. I look in a car mirror to see, it's a decent cut, lots of blood. I put the towel tighter, went back inside and enjoyed the rest of ITI's set. After ITI were done, I took a walk up to the shop to clean it up and bandage it. I get back to the club and the Doosh Bags are on. I've seen them tons of times, they're fun silly hardcore. Great people, fun band. I sit back to get my 2nd wind while they play. The Meatmen go on and I'm up front the entire show. Tesco Vee comes out in a white jumpsuit with ABBA in sparkle letters down the legs, and a giant inflatable penis. They started out with Razamataz and ended with Centurians of Rome. They played a decent selection of Meatmen classics and even did covers of Fear(I Love Living In The City) and Skrewdriver(I Dont' Like You).The only thing that could have made their set better is if they had played longer. Some great pics of the show are up on
http://www.returntothepit.com/
Monday Night, me and Kristian went to Boston to see The Cure. I had purchased some great seats (10th row center). The opening band 65 Days of Static, were OK, nothing thrilling but not horrendous. The Cure played a nice blend of old, new, hits, and non hits. Robert was more animated than he's been the past couple of times I've seen them. The sound was a bit hollow without keyboards at times(especially on Inbetween Days). They did 3 encores. It was overall a great show. Saw a few friends before and after the show. Wished I could have hung out longer...Kristian was in a bad mood driving home, that kinda killed the rest of the night. This AM was better, she apologized for being angry, and gave me a ride to work.
My car should be back and running like new by the weekend. Mark from The Automatons is a mechanic by day, and is doing all of the work for me for about 1/2 price. It's nice to have friends that can help out sometimes. I hope that I get to return the favor to him at some point.
One really cool thing that happened today is that old school tattoo artist, Shanghai Kate (friend and former employee of tattoo legend SAILOR JERRY) came into the shop today. She's been doing some work on one of Rodneys regular clients and wanted to stop in and say hi to us. She brought some really cool books that showcased the collection of Sailor Jerrys old stencils as well as 3 huge binders of his ORIGINAL acetate stencils. I purchased the books she had as well as 2 orig. Sailor Jerry acetate stencils (circa 50's). I'm going to have them framed and display them at the shop. I would have bought more than 2 but they're not cheap and in some way I think that more than a couple would be overkill when displayed as an art object.
Thats about it for now.
