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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: HoyaSaxa03 on November 10, 2004, 11:08:00 am
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great show last night, I rocked out harder than I had in a long time. Unfortunately I couldn't quite enjoy the show as much as I would have liked to because I seemed to be a douche-bag magnet all night.
I was with my girlfriend and her friend (also a girl), both about 5'5" or so, standing stage right, 15 feet or so in front of the stack, directly out from the food bar.
During "slow hands" this 6'3" dude elbows his way into our space and stands right in front of my girlfriend's friend. I tap him on the shoulder and tell him he just stood directly in front of a girl who is 8 inches shorter than him. He got all defensive, said he was only there to watch after his sister, then some other people around us told him to move. He didn't take too kindly to that. Started pogo-ing around and pushing people, then a brawl broke out with him and some other guys around the food bar. All I really saw was this girl wailing away on his head while he was in a head-lock, it was hilarious.
So that sucked. Ruined slow hands for me.
Then throughout the entire show there were these two Night at the Roxbury / Men's Health clones standing next to us. They spent maybe 5 minutes total looking at the stage. The rest of the time they were oggling and harrassing any girl who came within 10 feet of them. I gave them an occassional stare-down when I caught them just blatantly staring at my girlfriend, but i figured it was over when the show was done.
We had to wait maybe 10 minutes to get our tab at the bar and another 5 to get a t-shirt, so by the time we left the club it was pretty much empty. We decided to go to DC9 for a nightcap. A minute after we walk in, guess who shows up? The douche-bags! Now, mind you, they do not seem like DC9 regulars and it was pretty clear that if we were waiting for 15 minutes after the show ended at the club, they followed us to DC9.
I went and put "Left of the Dial" and "The Rat" on the jukebox, and while I was busy they were doing the whole stare-down thing again to my girlfriend and her friend. My girlfriend finally told them to stop staring at them, that they weren't interested, and that they were creeping her and her friend out.
The douches then grab me by my arm, and say: "tell your girlfriend to chill the fuck out, or we'll have to chill her out for you".
At this point, I evaluated my options. I'm 5'10" 160 and in no shape to really start something with these guys, especially without any of my boys with me. There wasn't a bouncer, so I just went upstairs and told the bartender about it. She went and got a couple of guys who were working to talk to the douches.
After the douches and the DC9 staff debating for 10 minutes or so, one of the douches runs over to me and tells me he'll be waiting for me outside all night, and proceeds to call me "four-eyes", which I found absolutely hilarious. Of course, I mocked his choice of put-downs and he didn't take the derision too kindly.
Anyway, we stayed there for another 30 mins or so and left. I guess the douches got a little cold and decided not to wait for me. Oh well.
Thanks to the DC9 staff, if you're on this board, for helping out. It was much appreciated.
I've also never seen the 930 Club so packed (there was a line nearly out the door to the club for the men's room between sets), and never been to an indie rock show so full of assholes.
You think it's because of the HFS sponsorship?
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
(there was a line nearly out the door to the club for the men's room between sets), and never been to an indie rock show so full of assholes.
You think it's because of the HFS sponsorship?
ALWAYS use the upstairs mens room, never never a line. and if you can get to the downstairs one, you're one staircase away form the upstairs one.
and its not HFS's fault...its people being assholes fault...plain and simple...sorry that happened, if it happens again screaming "what? you wanna get cut?" and quickly reaching in your pocket usually gets people off your back.... :)
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cry me a river
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That was me, twinkletoes. And I'm still waiting outside writing to you via my blackberry wireless computer module.
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
After the douches and the DC9 staff debating for 10 minutes or so, one of the douches runs over to me and tells me he'll be waiting for me outside all night, and proceeds to call me "four-eyes", which I found absolutely hilarious.
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Clapton is God.
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Originally posted by Sieve-Fisted:
cry me a river
yeah, now that i think about it.
shut up cry baby.
you're scared of Steve and Doug Boutabie?
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Next time tell them you know Sonick, Redsock and Rob Gee......They'll go running away like little girls.
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Just do what Rob Gee does when dudes are eyeballing his lady -- send her over to get it on with them.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Originally posted by Sieve-Fisted:
cry me a river
yeah, now that i think about it.
shut up cry baby.
you're scared of Steve and Doug Boutabie? [/b]
I wasn't scared of shit, but these dudes were big, and I am, alas, only one man.
if I had anyone else with me it would have been a very different story, especially because I tend to get a bit of a violent streak when I drink hard.
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I thought you were a student.
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
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I wasn't scared of shit, but these dudes were big, and I am, alas, only one man.
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
I thought you were a student.
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
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I wasn't scared of shit, but these dudes were big, and I am, alas, only one man.
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nope, a writer. g'town 03.
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
Next time tell them you know Sonick, Redsock and Rob Gee......They'll go running away like little girls.
LOL. that might have scared away his girlfriend!!!!
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
Next time tell them you know Sonick, Redsock and Rob Gee......They'll go running away like little girls.
LOL. that might have scared away his girlfriend!!!! [/b]
Hey, It's a start. We start off small and work our way up.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?˘:
Just do what Rob Gee does when dudes are eyeballing his lady -- send her over to get it on with them.
I don't think I ever said "get it on with them", but I know what your trying to say.
And damn, you people don't forget anything!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
And damn, you people don't forget anything!!!!!!!
ggw forgets nothing and knows all.
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
I gave them an occassional stare-down when I caught them just blatantly staring at my girlfriend, but i figured it was over when the show was done.
A minute after we walk in, guess who shows up? The douche-bags! Now, mind you, they do not seem like DC9 regulars and it was pretty clear that if we were waiting for 15 minutes after the show ended at the club, they followed us to DC9.
The douches then grab me by my arm, and say: "tell your girlfriend to chill the fuck out, or we'll have to chill her out for you".
Any other lost details...? I can't understand someone following you and actually making an aggressive threat all b/c of a "stare-down".
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Originally posted by Sugartastic Tee Silk:
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
I gave them an occassional stare-down when I caught them just blatantly staring at my girlfriend, but i figured it was over when the show was done.
A minute after we walk in, guess who shows up? The douche-bags! Now, mind you, they do not seem like DC9 regulars and it was pretty clear that if we were waiting for 15 minutes after the show ended at the club, they followed us to DC9.
The douches then grab me by my arm, and say: "tell your girlfriend to chill the fuck out, or we'll have to chill her out for you".
Any other lost details...? I can't understand someone following you and actually making an aggressive threat all b/c of a "stare-down". [/b]
they followed us (i assume) because of the girls, they said that to me because, while i was gone, my girlfriend told them that she and her friend weren't interested.
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strangeness. mike dugan mentioned something about it late last night - i must've just missed the incident.
very weird scene for dc9, which is normally a very chill and relaxing spot for locals.
i say fuhgetaboutit. let the babys have their penis-substitute bottles. shame it ruined your night; don't let it ruin the next day.
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Clapton is God.
<img src="http://homepage.mac.com/m5comp/trekbits/trekpics/menagerie/Menagerie_03.jpg" alt=" - " />
I think it best for all involved if Clapton could be placed in specially constructed electronic chair a'la Captain Pike on Star Trek. He could then do a mid-version of Tears of Heaven.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
(there was a line nearly out the door to the club for the men's room between sets), and never been to an indie rock show so full of assholes.
You think it's because of the HFS sponsorship?
ALWAYS use the upstairs mens room, never never a line. and if you can get to the downstairs one, you're one staircase away form the upstairs one.
and its not HFS's fault...its people being assholes fault...plain and simple..[/b]
I'm not surprised this happened. Of course its not HFS's fault. But usually the bigger, more mainstream shows tend to attract more assholes and idiots that go to these shows just so they can tell their friends "Yea, I went to the Interpol or [insert latest popular band] show." You did the right thing.
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Originally posted by Ikarus:
strangeness. mike dugan mentioned something about it late last night - i must've just missed the incident.
very weird scene for dc9, which is normally a very chill and relaxing spot for locals.
i say fuhgetaboutit. let the babys have their penis-substitute bottles. shame it ruined your night; don't let it ruin the next day.
agreed, i love DC9, especially as a pre and post show spot.
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Originally posted by Sugartastic Tee Silk:
Any other lost details...? I can't understand someone following you and actually making an aggressive threat all b/c of a "stare-down". [/QB]
I don't doubt it one bit. They were there for one reason, they felt like they got slightly dissed and had to try to prove they weren't wusses. But in the end they were wusses and probably felt like that the next day when it dawned on them how stupid they were acting.
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
Originally posted by Sugartastic Tee Silk:
Any other lost details...? I can't understand someone following you and actually making an aggressive threat all b/c of a "stare-down". [/b]
I don't doubt it one bit. They were there for one reason, they felt like they got slightly dissed and had to try to prove they weren't wusses. But in the end they were wusses and probably felt like that the next day when it dawned on them how stupid they were acting. [/QB]
these guys actually seemed like the type who would wake up at 40 and have it suddenly dawn on them how stupid they were acting.
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This was a situation you couldn't have escaped and I think you did the best you could do under the circumstances. It was 2 guys looking to show how big their dicks were. Well, in the end you went home with your girlfriend and they probably went back to the gym to work out their triceps some more.
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I know just which assholes you are talking about. In fact, just before the encore, I had picked up on the ugly aggresive streak in the taller one and was really turned off by him. I tend to be highly attuned to that type and steer clear of them. Sort of a learned self-protective device ingrained in my psyche. Anyway, I remember several times thinking that he's the ignorant high school bully who craves being cool but is too damned violent to be fully accepted by the hipsters. The little one was just the tag-alone bully. And though I was certain they were in their early twenties, they both seemed like they never really made it out of high school, mentalitly wise.
Sorry that they showed their true assiness to you but glad none of you were hurt.
Econo, you hit the Blackberry thing perfectly! ;) I saw it.
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i wasn't working this show, but i came in to check out secret machines (who were quite good) and interpol (who were ok but frankly bore me now that i've seen them five times). i was at the front for a little while hanging out, and in a 20-minute span witnessed a bunch of stupidity. i know i'm an elitist, but to be honest, easily over half that crowd would never be at anything even remotely similar to interpol.
i've seen this coming for a while, since the interpol/calla show in december 2002. it totally makes me disinterested in seeing them again.
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sorry about your night.
i was near the bar, and saw those douche-bags who got into the fight.
i totally think HFS has something to do with it. it was a similar atmosphere for the killers concert a while back.
the good thing about the fight is that it cleared up some space up front, and i was able to see the band better.
btw, interpol rocked!
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I don't have the institutional memory of some of y'all -- was it hoyasax who wanted to sleep with Juliette Lewis?
Juliette Lewis, Acting Like a Singer at Black Cat
Thursday, November 11, 2004; Page C09
The Washington Post (no photo)
In her original career as an actress, Juliette Lewis played bad girls in such films as "Natural Born Killers." Now she's adapted the same role to music, as the frontwoman of a punky rock band called Juliette & the Licks. Tuesday night at the Black Cat, Lewis gave a robust performance, but the script was lacking.
Prowling the stage in a pair of tight, red, belly-revealing, space-age pj's, Lewis lacked neither energy nor shtick. She threw herself to the stage, wrapped the microphone cord tightly around her neck, curled her arm and licked the biceps, and sang with her mouth inches from the face of one of the band's two guitarists. During her final number, Lewis launched herself into the crowd, whose members obligingly held her over their heads until she was pulled back to the stage. As all this was happening, Lewis didn't deliver a single memorable tune.
The Licks' drummer is Patty Schemel, but Lewis is a more conventional rocker than Schemel's previous employer, Courtney Love. The band's songs were energetic but predictable Stooges and Sex Pistols knockoffs, and the lyrics -- to the extent they were discernible -- seemed to blend standard punk attitude with a jigger of self-help sermonizing. (Lewis is a Scientologist, and one of her songs is titled "Shelter Your Needs.'') While the set was a triumph of Method acting, Lewis's material needs another rewrite.
-- Mark Jenkins
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I was at the Licks show and the reviewer is right. Lewis's rock star "moves" all seemed rehearsed and very unnatural. And the stage diving at the end was just lame. I left a bit dissatisfied.
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Bags, that was Tinylil'gee.
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It is hfs' fault....they attract the assholes. If a band isn't played on their station, and I go to one of those shows....people are respectful. If a band is played on hfs, I guarantee there will be a shitload of dickheads there. Can't blame them for liking good music though.......
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Originally posted by Bags:
I don't have the institutional memory of some of y'all -- was it hoyasax who wanted to sleep with Juliette Lewis?
nope, not me.
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Carlos D has Herpes (http://carlosdhasherpes.blogspot.com/)
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Too bad about those douche-nozzles... i guess that is to be expectd at a somewhat mainstream show though.
i can say the faint show had a wonderful crowd, everyone i met there seemed to be there for the music not for the finelookin stargazers (which there were plenty of).
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D'OH!!!
Originally posted by Random Citizen:
Carlos D has Herpes (http://carlosdhasherpes.blogspot.com/)
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Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
D'OH!!!
Heh, Doctor Doom is doomed. :p
The comments left for the guy are fuckin' hilarious.
I think this one is my favorite: Tragic, dude, utterly, hopelessly tragic. A hipster brought low in his prime.
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hey watch it there! I did not have sexual relations with that musician... I was only D'oh-ing because I imagine that when Interpol swung through DC not long ago Carlos may have gotten it on with one or two of our own city's fair maidens... hopefully nobody on this board. :D
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Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
hopefully nobody on this board. :D
*scratch scratch scratch* Yeah, I hope nobody did either. *scratch scratch scratch*
That's a joke, folks. I'm not a groupie, just a fangirl.
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Originally posted by Random Citizen:
Carlos D has Herpes (http://carlosdhasherpes.blogspot.com/)
They must have removed it because the link isn't working.
And NO, don't look at me!
I wasn't with him.
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The blogger's last entry was that he felt he made his point and was going to take the blog down.