Okay, so I changed the look of the blog and I’m not sure how I feel about it. Comments are welcome.
While doing some rearranging on the page, I happened to notice that all the google ads at the bottom, which intuit from blog text, are for detox or rehabs. This is perhaps not the best of signs for me, although I do think it’s kind of funny. It has dawned that maybe I should stop writing about my party moments all the time, since I’m not actually out as often as it may appear, but then, whatevs, it is what it is and my mom is used to reading my silliness by now.
And so, rehab ads be damned, and because many of my tens of readers seem to like the going out blogs, I thought I’d give you a state of the union address on the social tip.
Last week found me at Don Hill’s for one of Drew’s gigs. His band played with Mick Jagger’s son’s band; I have been told he is a very nice kid, although he was recently lambasted in this somewhat entertaining article. I have listed numerous complaints in here about the “scene” in New York City that Drew often finds himself gigging in, which in my mind consists of spoiled dilettantes, vacant models, pointless coke-fiends, and gross guys who chase the models, none of whom give a shit about the music that is played around them. So I’m never really super excited about these kinds of events, although they’re good for the band and Drew is very good at keeping me feeling safe and at being “in it but not of it”. I am also fully aware of the fact that I am of a different age and mindset than the target audience, and thus my opinion is automatically skewed to the skeptical, and not one that they would, or indeed should care about.
But, I do like Don Hill’s as Don has been a friend for 20 years and I know that I can always sit with him and gossip at the end of the bar while the shenanigans rage on around me. I call it the old people’s corner and I know I’m going to be relatively happy when he’s there.
Drew is an extremely talented drummer and I like to watch him play, and I also like his current band, so I did go up front to watch. And this is what went on in my brain:
“Wow, this is a new song, I like it. I have to remember to ask what it’s called…Hey, that girl standing in front of me looks like Dyan Cannon. She’s adorable, I love her big hair. God, could her legs get any longer? Just what New York needs, another model…I’m sure she has absolutely no idea who Dyan Cannon is….Ouch, gross guy! Stop shoving me to get to baby Dyan!…Oh look, there’s Lizzie Jagger, she’s cute too…Wow…hmm…there is a lot of self-congratulating going on in that bunch. It’s like the popular table in high school, only skinnier. No one is even looking at the band…Oh, and that’s charming, Lizzie is “headbanging” by flipping her super long hair into the faces of lesser mortals. Boy, that is really obnoxious…Aaand there, we go, gross guy just knocked my beer out of my hand in an attempt to grope baby Dyan. All right, running back to Don now…”
I lasted all of 5 minutes and then spent the rest of the night in the corner, where I belong, swilling free tequila and bitching about the kids today. Sometimes I worry that this will be the way it is to my dying day. I’ll be 90 years old with my eyebrows drawn on crooked and a plastic flower in my dyed black hair with inch long gray roots, shouting about the lack of subculture today and pointing at my empty glass while winking at the frightened bartender.
A few days later the lovely Cid and I got on one of those fabulously cheap Chinese buses and headed to Philly to visit Kim Montenegro and to see my former bandmates Vas and Loopy play in their current band Hanzel und Gretyl. When we got to Kim’s beautiful home, she promptly poured copious amounts of red wine and we retired along with her friend Alexandra to her backyard for a mini girlie barbeque. We drank, pigged out and danced to the Black Crowes while the fireflies blinked around us. This is so much more my speed and happiness these days.
We did pull it together to make it to the club, where HUG put on a hugely entertaining show. For those of you who are unfamiliar, they are an industrial metal band who sing their songs in their own brand of German. They have a great sense of humor, Loopy wears a helmet and goggles and races around the stage and the shows are scary, funny and loud. My current favorite tune is Bavarian Bierhaus Blood.
The crowd was a funny mishmosh of gothy types, hardcore HUG metal fans, and weirdly what I think were a couple of prostitutes, and everyone was pretty chipper and friendly. We met a lot of random people and when Kim saw a girl at the bar get her credit card refused, she paid for her drinks. The girl was very sweet and grateful, and told Kim she loved her jeans (Kim has a denim line called MOTOR) but that they’re too expensive. So of course, I, being the most obnoxious person on the planet when drunk (except for maybe Lizzie Jagger and her hair), launch into a conversation that goes like this:
ME: You are adorable, and you have a really cute figure.
UNSUSPECTING GIRL: Thank you!
ME: But those jeans you’re wearing right now are awful. Really, they’re just horrendous.
BLINDSIDED GIRL: Oh God, are they?
ME: Yes. They look cheap and they don’t do your great ass any favors. You need to stop wasting money on cheap jeans, and buy one good pair and just wear them constantly.
SUFFERING GIRL (wailing): But I can’t afford Kim’s jeans! I need a sugar daddy!
ME: No, goddamnit, you don’t need a man, you just need a good pair of jeans. Stop looking so sad. C’mon, I’ll buy you another drink.
I have no idea what her name is, yet I’ve probably scarred her for life. Yay, Mary! And while this fashion assault is going on, there’s a man next to me in a full Nazi uniform, complete with hat held under his arm in proper uniform style, trying to get me to take a picture of him with Vas and his girlfriend, who is also in a form of Nazi regalia, although hers was completely done in shiny vinyl and she had those ridiculous white goth contact lens in her eyes. The downside, apparently, to playing really heavy music with German lyrics is that you get the occasional fan in offensive ensemble.
And that is my report from the frontlines. The rest of the weekend was pretty mellow, we got up the next day and brunched with HUG, dragged Loopy shopping and into one of our favorite Philly clothing stores called DELICIOUS (where I spent money that I don’t have on a top that I don’t need), and then Cid and I caught a ride back to NYC with them, which was, along with the backyard girl time, a highlight for me. I have to admit openly that I am mellowing, and lately just want to be with a few good friends in a backyard or on a road trip, rather than in a crowded club with people spilling shit on me. I’m not out of the game completely, but it looks like I’m leaning towards some version of addled adulthood. How did this happen? I blame Lizzie Jagger.
PS. Lizzie, if you have a google alert set for your name, I apologize for outing your bad headbanging, and, as they say on your side of the ocean, am really just taking the piss. I still think you’re really cute.
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Your blogs really do make me laugh—this one actually made me cackle…….I also fear I will be the old lady at the bar with the bad eyebrows. (I also see bad lipstick creeping into the lines around my lips as well) Whenever I see one of those old women walking around I always look at my sister and beg her to make sure when I do turn into one of those crazy old broads that she drags me to a bucket full of pitch black dye to dunk my head into. =P
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Yes! The smeary lipstick is coming too, with a big glob on one tooth. I'm so glad it's not just me. =)
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You know how sorry I am for you both.You mention a quote”“Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.” I had the opposite experience. When my mom was stricken with sudden incurable brain cancer she had a min pin that was 2 years old, who I happily took as my mom passed away. From that moment she brought life into my life…for the next 16 years. Her last 2 years she was both blind and deaf as i happily became a seeing eye person for her, though I had friends tell me she lived a long life and i should put her down. You don't do that with blind people. Though she couldn't see me she always knew when i came home as her little tail would wag and wag away and god forbid if she missed a meal…always hungry. It was the least i could do…to take care of her as she gave me such unconditional love for over a decade, aside from being a direct link to my mom. My vet said I would know when her time had come, and i did, just before she was 18.I felt I was no longer doing what I lived for all that time to do…make her happy, safe and her life better and that she was by then suffering. I wrapped her in a blanket (it was a December morning) and took Bonnie a block away to the vet to send her on her way, with a friend as support. Kissing her goodbye was the hardest thing I've ever done, but I left the room, as i wanted to remember her as alive. This was 6 years ago and there is not ONE day that goes by that I don't think of her and you know I have Kona now for 5 1/2 years who I love maybe even more…but i have pictures of Bonnie in every room in my apartment, including a minpin clock in my bathroom to this very day. I would never get a minpin again as I would always be comparing Bonnie to the new dog……and that's not fair to Bonnie, me or my new dog.
Her leaving this dimension created such a gap in my world and I filled it very quickly. I still miss her so much. Bonnie will always have my love and i give it to Kona now.
Funny how they both speak or spoke back to me in the same voice. I asked Kona why that is. She said “Daddy, of course we sound the same. You taught us both how to speak!” (smart alec)
Bless both you, Drew, and Monty and Bonnie too. Never did Bonnie bring death into my life. She brought love, affection, and unconditional loyalty and forgiveness to me for 16 years…something I'll never get from any person….except Kona.
Peace & Light,
Electric Dave & his animal family
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