Interpol - DOUCHEBAG CENTRAL

[eltee]

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".

[HoyaSaxa03]

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.

[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.

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.

[andyrichter]

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.

[HoyaSaxa03]

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.

[Guiny]

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.

[HoyaSaxa03]

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.

[andyrichter]

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.

[Jaguär]

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.

[snailhook]

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.

[han]

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!

[Bags]

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

[andyrichter]

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.

[Jaguär]

Bags, that was Tinylil'gee.