All the best times ive ever had were the times i've been lost. No shit.
Maybe i'm just lame, but that's how my life turns out to be.
Yes, yes, oh yayChicago's a bitch. There's something about a city such as Chicago that i find both absolutely fascinating and terribly depressing.
By day, the streets are clogged with a billion people, proper dressed in business attire, cell phone in one hand, hailing a cab with a coffee in the other.
Power walking with briefcases or purses or briefcases and purses. Ties, bike messengers, penile-enhancing sports cars and the coolest mug to ever ride a scooter.
It was like the Mecca of the self-absorbed.
And no one's smiling, there's no eye-contact, no apologies.
I can totally dig the anonymity/autonomy of big city lifei can totally get lost within myself in a place like that.
But at night, when the place is to be at it's most magical, it just seemed so damned dead and gutted. So parasitic.
I might have felt different if we werent just passing thru, because i can see the possibility there, i can see the hope and beautyit just went by too fast.
And i've never been so happy to see the Ghetto-Ass Southside of Peoria than last nite.
But, of course, the point of the trip was to see a showand the woman vomiting on the corner, while well impressive, was not the show i paid to seeso before i get wrapped up in the unhinged depravity of the pre-show, post show trek, i should maybe talk about that.
We totally got lost and drove around the city for two hours looking for N Clark St., effectively missing the first two bands. I was lucky enough to see two songs by Nil8, whose music and frontman's ass both come highly recommended.
Then there was an hour to kill whilst MSI was being sufficiently set up, the crowd being worked into a terrible manic frenzy.
This meant, by the time they took the stage, i was thoroughly tired of aggressive drunks, punks, and gothed-up twelve-year-olds. It looked as though the entire loyal Hot Topic community had piled into a theater to, you know, hang out...
I'm entirely too old and too mellow to deal with this shit.
Everyone was playing their part: From the girls screaming anytime LJU removed an article of clothing, to the guys singing along and pushing the sweaty mass forward. Everyone laughed when cued to, everyone cheered after every songno matter how crap it was played.
I went to a show at the East Peoria Legion Hall a couple years back, the bands playing were all local punk bands, and the level of audience participation was brilliant. At one point, one of the bands brought some poor drunken fool onstage to sing a song that they'd never heard.
When a song was shit, the band heard about it.
The level of crowd participation at the MSI show was band sez something, audience laughs; band throws something out to the crowd, crowd pounces on article; fans throw things on stage, etc. etc. etc.
I'm not saying i'm disappointed, i'm just saying i was expecting more from such a crazy bandeverything seemed so programmed, from the mohawks to the outlandish accessories to the funny makeup. It was basically the same shit you'd see at any pop concertonly a little more vulgar, and a lot more black clothing.
More aggression.
The irony of their album You'll Rebel To Anything was completely lost on such a crowd.
But, yes, the band fucking rocked. I will never get enough of LJU smashing out a ciggy on his head, bouncing around, thrashing, etc.
The entire band played their caricatures to pure perfectioneven if their kitsch was lost on some people.
I really, really dig live showsthe energy of bands playing live.
Maybe it was because it was an All Ages show, or maybe it's the fact that my musical taste directly conflicts with my personality trait, but i felt so fucking square.
I was the only one wearing something lighter than gray, the only one not wearing a black T with some band insignia on it, the only one with not-freaky hair or make up, the only one not dancing around like a bell-end.
I'm giving the impression that i didnt enjoy myself, that i didnt have funnothing is farther from the truth. As i said, i love live music, but i also totally love getting lost in conversationwhich i did a number of times. More than anything, i love hanging out, talking, laughing, whatever. I like seeing people's faces change as the topic changes. I like listening to stories and life. I like hearing how people describe an experiencethe words they use, the tone, the gestures. As i've said before, i dont need to be drunk to know i'm having funall i need is an orange and someone to talk to.
Boop.
Hello, Hello. My names Terry and I'm a law abider
There's nothing I like more than getting fired up on beer
And when the weekends here I to exercise my right to get
paralytic and fight
Good bloke fairly
But I get well leery when geezers look at me funny
Bounce 'em round like bunnies
I'm likely to cause mischief
Good clean griff, you must believe, and I ain't no thief.
Law abiding and all, all legal.
And who cares about my liver when it feels good?
What you need is some real manhood.
Rasher Rasher Barney and Kasha, putting peoples' backs up.
Public disorder, I'll give you public disorder,
I down eight pints and run all over the place
Spit in the face of an officer
See if that bothers you
'Cause I never broke a law in my life
Someday I'm gonna settle down with a wife
Come on lads lets have another fight
Eh hello. My names Tim and I'm a criminal,
In the eyes of society I need to be in jail
For the choice of herbs I inhale.
This ain't no wholesale operation
Just a few eighths and some Playstations my vocation
I pose a threat to the nation
And down the station the police hold no patience
Let's talk space and time
I like to get deep sometimes and think about Einstein
And Carl Jung
And old Kung Fu movies I like to see
Pass the hydrator please
Yeah I'm floating on thin air.
Going to Amsterdam in the New Year - top gear there
Cause I taker pride in my hobby
Home made bongs using my engineering degree
Dear Leaders, please legalize weed for these reasons...
[Terry]
Like I was saying to him.
I told him: "Top with me and you won't leave."
So I smacked him in the head and downed another Carling
Bada Bada Bing for the lad's night.
Mad fight, his face's a sad sight.
Vodka and Snake Bite.
Going on like a right geez, he's a twat,
Shouldn't have looked at me like that.
Anyway, I'm an upstanding citizen
If a war came along, I'd be on the front line with em.
Can't stand crime either, them hooligans on heroin.
Drugs and criminals, those thugs on the penny colored will be
the downfall of society
I've got all the anger pent up inside of me.
[Tim]
You know I don't see why I should be the criminal
How can something with no recorded fatalities be illegal
And how many deaths are there per year from alcohol
I just completed Gran Tourismo on the hardest setting
We pose no threat on my city
Ooh the pizza's here will someone let him in please
"We didn't order chicken, Not a problem we'll pick it out
I doubt they meant to mess us about
After all we're all adults not louts."
As I was saying, we're friendly peaceful people
We're not the ones out there causing trouble.
We just sit in this hazy bubble with our quarters
Discussing how beautiful Gail Porter is.
MTV, BBC 2, Channel 4 is on until six in the morning.
Then at six in the morning the sun dawns and it's my bedtime.
[Terry]
Causing trouble, your stinking rabble
Boys saying I'm the lad who's spoiling it
You're on drugs, it really bugs me when people try and tell me
I'm a thug
Just for getting drunk
I like getting drunk
Cause I'm an upstanding citizen
If a war came along I'd be on the front line with em.
[Tim]
Now Terry you're repeating yourself
But that's okay drunk people can't help that.
A chemical reaction inside your brain causes you to forget what
you're saying.
[Terry]
What?
I know exactly what I'm saying
I'm perfectly sane
You stinking student lamer
Go get a job and stop robbing us of our taxes.
[Tim]
Err, well actually according to research,
Government funding for further education pales in insignificance
When compared to how much they spend on repairing
Leery drunk people at the weekend
In casualty wards all over the land.
[Terry]
Why you cheeky little swine come here
I'll batter ya, come here
Maybe i'm just lame, but that's how my life turns out to be.
Yes, yes, oh yayChicago's a bitch. There's something about a city such as Chicago that i find both absolutely fascinating and terribly depressing.
By day, the streets are clogged with a billion people, proper dressed in business attire, cell phone in one hand, hailing a cab with a coffee in the other.
Power walking with briefcases or purses or briefcases and purses. Ties, bike messengers, penile-enhancing sports cars and the coolest mug to ever ride a scooter.
It was like the Mecca of the self-absorbed.
And no one's smiling, there's no eye-contact, no apologies.
I can totally dig the anonymity/autonomy of big city lifei can totally get lost within myself in a place like that.
But at night, when the place is to be at it's most magical, it just seemed so damned dead and gutted. So parasitic.
I might have felt different if we werent just passing thru, because i can see the possibility there, i can see the hope and beautyit just went by too fast.
And i've never been so happy to see the Ghetto-Ass Southside of Peoria than last nite.
But, of course, the point of the trip was to see a showand the woman vomiting on the corner, while well impressive, was not the show i paid to seeso before i get wrapped up in the unhinged depravity of the pre-show, post show trek, i should maybe talk about that.
We totally got lost and drove around the city for two hours looking for N Clark St., effectively missing the first two bands. I was lucky enough to see two songs by Nil8, whose music and frontman's ass both come highly recommended.
Then there was an hour to kill whilst MSI was being sufficiently set up, the crowd being worked into a terrible manic frenzy.
This meant, by the time they took the stage, i was thoroughly tired of aggressive drunks, punks, and gothed-up twelve-year-olds. It looked as though the entire loyal Hot Topic community had piled into a theater to, you know, hang out...
I'm entirely too old and too mellow to deal with this shit.
Everyone was playing their part: From the girls screaming anytime LJU removed an article of clothing, to the guys singing along and pushing the sweaty mass forward. Everyone laughed when cued to, everyone cheered after every songno matter how crap it was played.
I went to a show at the East Peoria Legion Hall a couple years back, the bands playing were all local punk bands, and the level of audience participation was brilliant. At one point, one of the bands brought some poor drunken fool onstage to sing a song that they'd never heard.
When a song was shit, the band heard about it.
The level of crowd participation at the MSI show was band sez something, audience laughs; band throws something out to the crowd, crowd pounces on article; fans throw things on stage, etc. etc. etc.
I'm not saying i'm disappointed, i'm just saying i was expecting more from such a crazy bandeverything seemed so programmed, from the mohawks to the outlandish accessories to the funny makeup. It was basically the same shit you'd see at any pop concertonly a little more vulgar, and a lot more black clothing.
More aggression.
The irony of their album You'll Rebel To Anything was completely lost on such a crowd.
But, yes, the band fucking rocked. I will never get enough of LJU smashing out a ciggy on his head, bouncing around, thrashing, etc.
The entire band played their caricatures to pure perfectioneven if their kitsch was lost on some people.
I really, really dig live showsthe energy of bands playing live.
Maybe it was because it was an All Ages show, or maybe it's the fact that my musical taste directly conflicts with my personality trait, but i felt so fucking square.
I was the only one wearing something lighter than gray, the only one not wearing a black T with some band insignia on it, the only one with not-freaky hair or make up, the only one not dancing around like a bell-end.
I'm giving the impression that i didnt enjoy myself, that i didnt have funnothing is farther from the truth. As i said, i love live music, but i also totally love getting lost in conversationwhich i did a number of times. More than anything, i love hanging out, talking, laughing, whatever. I like seeing people's faces change as the topic changes. I like listening to stories and life. I like hearing how people describe an experiencethe words they use, the tone, the gestures. As i've said before, i dont need to be drunk to know i'm having funall i need is an orange and someone to talk to.
Boop.
Hello, Hello. My names Terry and I'm a law abider
There's nothing I like more than getting fired up on beer
And when the weekends here I to exercise my right to get
paralytic and fight
Good bloke fairly
But I get well leery when geezers look at me funny
Bounce 'em round like bunnies
I'm likely to cause mischief
Good clean griff, you must believe, and I ain't no thief.
Law abiding and all, all legal.
And who cares about my liver when it feels good?
What you need is some real manhood.
Rasher Rasher Barney and Kasha, putting peoples' backs up.
Public disorder, I'll give you public disorder,
I down eight pints and run all over the place
Spit in the face of an officer
See if that bothers you
'Cause I never broke a law in my life
Someday I'm gonna settle down with a wife
Come on lads lets have another fight
Eh hello. My names Tim and I'm a criminal,
In the eyes of society I need to be in jail
For the choice of herbs I inhale.
This ain't no wholesale operation
Just a few eighths and some Playstations my vocation
I pose a threat to the nation
And down the station the police hold no patience
Let's talk space and time
I like to get deep sometimes and think about Einstein
And Carl Jung
And old Kung Fu movies I like to see
Pass the hydrator please
Yeah I'm floating on thin air.
Going to Amsterdam in the New Year - top gear there
Cause I taker pride in my hobby
Home made bongs using my engineering degree
Dear Leaders, please legalize weed for these reasons...
[Terry]
Like I was saying to him.
I told him: "Top with me and you won't leave."
So I smacked him in the head and downed another Carling
Bada Bada Bing for the lad's night.
Mad fight, his face's a sad sight.
Vodka and Snake Bite.
Going on like a right geez, he's a twat,
Shouldn't have looked at me like that.
Anyway, I'm an upstanding citizen
If a war came along, I'd be on the front line with em.
Can't stand crime either, them hooligans on heroin.
Drugs and criminals, those thugs on the penny colored will be
the downfall of society
I've got all the anger pent up inside of me.
[Tim]
You know I don't see why I should be the criminal
How can something with no recorded fatalities be illegal
And how many deaths are there per year from alcohol
I just completed Gran Tourismo on the hardest setting
We pose no threat on my city
Ooh the pizza's here will someone let him in please
"We didn't order chicken, Not a problem we'll pick it out
I doubt they meant to mess us about
After all we're all adults not louts."
As I was saying, we're friendly peaceful people
We're not the ones out there causing trouble.
We just sit in this hazy bubble with our quarters
Discussing how beautiful Gail Porter is.
MTV, BBC 2, Channel 4 is on until six in the morning.
Then at six in the morning the sun dawns and it's my bedtime.
[Terry]
Causing trouble, your stinking rabble
Boys saying I'm the lad who's spoiling it
You're on drugs, it really bugs me when people try and tell me
I'm a thug
Just for getting drunk
I like getting drunk
Cause I'm an upstanding citizen
If a war came along I'd be on the front line with em.
[Tim]
Now Terry you're repeating yourself
But that's okay drunk people can't help that.
A chemical reaction inside your brain causes you to forget what
you're saying.
[Terry]
What?
I know exactly what I'm saying
I'm perfectly sane
You stinking student lamer
Go get a job and stop robbing us of our taxes.
[Tim]
Err, well actually according to research,
Government funding for further education pales in insignificance
When compared to how much they spend on repairing
Leery drunk people at the weekend
In casualty wards all over the land.
[Terry]
Why you cheeky little swine come here
I'll batter ya, come here
well have to head up to the double door next time, its compleatly devoid of 12 year olds and pretention!