Whoa that seems like a busy week!!

I'm sure they didn't mind you as their driver haha Even if you had a busy week, you still got to see the Independents, wich is pretty awesome

Plus I bet you're a really nice person to be in a car with

 

Hahaha, I'm glad you enjoyed it in spite of your tiredness

You're so lucky to have seen the Independents, and been at the Joey bash, I hope I can do both one day too And your grandma's birthday is the same as Joey's, that's pretty cool

But wow, stayed up 'till 2 every day for over a week, I'd be pretty "bitchy" too I guess haha

 

Yuck, being cold sucks Hope you can keep reasonably warm.

Last night, I saw Jesse Malin at the Continental. Good stuff. Didn't like it at first, but it grew on me and I wound up having a great time. He did some songs with HR from bad brains. Unfortunately, I had to miss his last song (this came later,after HR) b/c I wanted to catch the second latest train so I could have a few hours of sleep before my noon job interview, which I had to go back into the city for.

While I was driving to the train station this morning, the bastards called me and cancelled. Would have been nice if I'd had some advance notice. I told the woman who called me to cancel to tell the person who was supposed to interview me that I didn't appreciate the cancellation being so last minute.I'd understand if someone got sick or something, but they said that they had "made other arrangements" If you're looking into making other arrangements, then wait until you know what's going to happen before you schedule interviews with people! Just as well that the interview was cancelled-I'd rather work for someone who has some manners.

Since I was all dressed up and stuff, I went to interview for a semi-classy department store that was hiring and having walk-in interviews. I figured that since they were a bit classier and most of the people I've seen working there were older, my degree, cert and internships would be an asset there, not a liability like they are everywhere else besides the temp agencies. I guess I was right because they hired me at the end of the interview. I still need to find a job that will actually pay the bills, but this will at least give me some spending money that I don't have to pay back to my parents and since I'll only be working nights and weekends, I'll be free to interview for such jobs. Now I just gotta make sure I can get Friday the 27th off so I can see the Independents!

-- Edited by ddfad at 21:09, 2006-09-15

I'm sure you'll get to see the Independents some day...hope it's sooner, rather than later.

I'm starting to wish the store had offered me a shift that didn't involve Fridays (they offered me two options, both had Fridays)...first this show and now the Dictators and the Bullys at CBGB. I see the Bullys all the time, but of the three dates the Dictators have played in NYC since I started school up here 3 years ago, two were during a snowstorm that was bad enough for me not to safely be able to get into the city, but not bad enough for CBGB to cancel (they were back to back) and one was when I was not only on summer vacation, but on a trip to Florida. The Independents didn't go on until 12 the last time they played that club and I get off work at 10. It doesn't take two hours to get to that part of Jersey from where I live and I don't usually like the bands that open for the Independents, so if the Independents are supposed to go on at 12 again, I may just ask for the day of the Dictator's show off and then go to the Independents show straight from work. At least I'm making money to spend on these shows.

Unfortunately, the Continental now no longer has live music, but starting in October, it will re-open as just a bar, so maybe you can visit the bar one day. I'll let you know what it's like in relation to what it was like as a rock club. You may have to wait a while, though. The drinking age in the United States is 21. Some bars don't ask for ID unless you orderalchol there, but others won't let you in unless you're old enough to drink. I'll also let you know which the Continental is when I know.

This place has been one of my main haunts in NYC since I turned 21 (actually since the 18 and up Independents show 2 weeks before I turned 21...thanks again for lowering the age restriction!), so I'm really going to miss it, a lot more so than CBGB.

The last night there was amazing. Charm School, the Bullys (http://www.myspace.com/thebullys), Lenny Kaye, Handsome Dick Manitoba, CJ Ramone, Walter Lure and Daniel Rey all played. CJ, Daniel and Walter played together. Trigger joined in on a couple of numbers too.It all ended with the Rolling Stones song "The Last Time"

The show doubled as a tribute show to the Bullys guitarist, Johnny Heff, who was killed on 9/11. Bullys Alums Beertruck and G-Rod both played songs and G-rod brought sand from a beach near where Heff grew up and spilled it out on the stage. The guitarist who took over for Heff, Danny Nez, sprinkled some of the sand in his guitar case.

Sometime in the near future, I'm probably going repost this on the Joey board and add some details about the other preformances.

I didn't see him the club, but I saw Legs McNeil walking down the Bowery before the show. I also think I saw Donna Gaines a few minutes later. The Johns Holmstrom and Nikolai were both there, as was Babybongo55 from the Joeyramone.com board. And I'm sure I'm forgetting someone.

Unfortunately, as I posted on the Joey board, something really awful happened later that night: http://www.wnbc.com/traffic/9873935/detail.html

That really freaked me out b/c even though I only have to drive home from the train station (part of the reason for my taking the train being all the drunk drivers on the road at 2am, aside from the fact that driving in NYC in general scares the **** out of me), what happened just hit too close to home. I don't usually drink at shows if I have to drive at any later point, but you don't have to drink to be hit by a drunk driver.

RIP Emily


-- Edited by ddfad at 05:35, 2006-09-22

I got both days off! Apparently the days I was supposedly hired to work aren't as rigid as I thought, so basically they just have me working days other than Friday those weeks.And from the way I've been scheduled so far, it doesn't appear that I'm always going to be working the specfic weeknights the person who hired me told me that I would be whether I ask for certain days off or not, which is fine by me as long as I get the hours one way or another. I don't know about the week of the Independents show b/c they haven't scheduled that far in advance, but I know that the week of the Dictator's show, I'm not working any fewer hours than I would be if I hadn't asked for that Friday off.

27 more days!!!!!

Now for the damn Dictators tickets to go on sale. The show's 13 days away, what the hell are they waiting for?!

Yup AND I have a job interview tommorow too! AND I had one tonight! And I got drunk at the new Continental

The new Continental is very nice, parts of it are the same, but most of it is different. But Trigger was classy about the new stuff, didn't try to turn the place into a pop culture haven or any of that ****. And he was doing a brisk business. I think this pleased him b/c, for the first time I can ever remember, he actually smiled at someone other than one of the musicians he was friends with

Thanks for some reason, I wound up getting slammed with a total of 4 job interviews in less than a week's time...hopefully one of them will hire me, although the one other time that happened, no one did. I also got two e-mails from people putting out feelers for jobs, but they have yet to respond to my responses. In the meantime, I need to get off my ass and send more resumes...it's been about a week since I've done that and some job ads are only good for that long.

Two words for the Dictator's set: ****ing awesome. The Bullys were on fire too. A band called the Sick ****s played in between and some of what they did was funny but, even with the new tricks they had (since I last saw them), I think they're only worth seeing once as they're more about the gimmick than the music. I've seen them more than once. I wish they had had the opening slot, not the Bullys.

The Continental was alright, but it was more fun walking around East Village drunk afterwards...it fits with the way I feel when I'm drunk and for me there's just somethingkind of amusing about walking around East Village in heels and a three piece suit...more so if I'm doing it while drunk....more in retrospect than anything else since I don't feel emotions when I'm drunk off beer. For some reason, Long Island Iced Tea makes me detached like that, but also makes my surroundings really pleasent, so I'm also really happy at the same time. ::shrugs:: mind-altering substances are weird. I usually don't drink anyway b/c I have to drink home from the Long Island Rail Road Station at 3 or 4am and fatigue can prolong or increase the effects of being drunk.

Yeah, word of advice for when you get old enough to drink...be well aware that other factors can increase/decrease whatever reaction you have to booze and how you react to different kinds of alcohol before you're in a situation where you have to do anything while drunk other than sit on your ass and do nothing. Also, make sure you have both heavy food and hydrating liquids around in case you gotta sober up.

How come I'm always talking about what I've done? What are YOU up to, Tom?