You turned evil a lot faster than I thought you would.

Angel ,'Just Rewards (2)'


Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach  

There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.


Hayden - Dec 07, 2007 7:07:44 am PST #6890 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

When our drummer ran downstairs last night at the practice space to grab some water, I asked if he would pick up a folding chair, too. He said when he came back that there was a new person manning the desk, a youngish woman, who gave him attitude and insisted that they don't have folding chairs, even though I've been getting one from the equipment room for years.

Anyway, a couple of hours later, we were paying our bill and checking out with the regular guy we know, a shredder metal guitarist who's close to my age. The new girl was sitting on the ground behind him. She's maybe 20. She sneers when she looks at me. I'm assuming this is because I'm an ancient fat guy instead of the regular clientele. Then she says to me, "It's really not cool to wear your own band shirt." I look down at my vintage Guided By Voices tee, not getting it at first. She says, sneering even more now, "Someone needed to tell you."

I get it all of the sudden. "Really? Why is that so uncool?," I ask her. Now she stands up, and she looks so full of contempt and pity that I almost laugh, but I'm playing it close, so I don't. I exchange a look with the shredder guy. "That's, like...," she starts. "He wasn't in Guided By Voices," the shredder says, quietly and firmly. She looks at him. She looks at me. "What?," she says.

"GBV rocked," the guy says. "If he'd been in GBV, I'd comp his damn room and get you to take a picture of me with him. But he wasn't in GBV. He's just wearing a GBV shirt."

She looks insecure now, maybe a little embarrassed. I think she should be embarrassed, so I don't talk to her. "Shame they broke up," I say to him. "Yep," he says, "I was at their last Stubb's show. Pollard's a fucking genius."

He hands me my receipt.


shrift - Dec 07, 2007 7:14:03 am PST #6891 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Oh, Corwood. t facepalm The ignorance, it burns. That's even worse than the kids tuning into House after American Idol and asking, "What's that 'teenage wasteland' song?"


Sue - Dec 07, 2007 7:17:29 am PST #6892 of 10003
hip deep in pie

Oh Corwood. Those hipsters, with their attitudes and complicated hair.

I remember going to shows and wondering who those 30-something oldsters were, and when they were going to get a life. And now I'm one of them. (Of course, I don't go to shows much at all anymore. They start too friggin' late. )


Hayden - Dec 07, 2007 7:23:21 am PST #6893 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I loved it, really. I would have strung her out further if the shredder dude hadn't intervened. I mean, I was a little embarrassed for her, but y'know, I'm not the only old fat guy who practices there. Maybe she'll be a little less of an asshole to the next one.


Steph L. - Dec 07, 2007 7:26:56 am PST #6894 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Oh Corwood. Those hipsters, with their attitudes and complicated hair.

And their Zimas!


bon bon - Dec 07, 2007 7:30:59 am PST #6895 of 10003
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Well, she deserved something after actually thinking it was appropriate to snark on what you were wearing as if you, a musician, are too foolish to know some stupid rule about your own band's t-shirts. Also, BANTER!


Hayden - Dec 07, 2007 7:47:50 am PST #6896 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Ha! I knew you'd catch that.


shrift - Dec 07, 2007 7:51:42 am PST #6897 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I guess I get extra irritated by pretentious baby hipsters because I know plenty of people her age who don't make me feel like a lame creep for going to shows with them, so obviously it's possible for Kids Today not to be ignorant asshats.

I guess I also have to come to terms with the fact that I'm never going to be hip again.


JZ - Dec 07, 2007 7:54:28 am PST #6898 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

That's a mythic tale for the ages -- with, like, twenty different morals, all excellent and deeply needed. I just copied it and emailed it to Hec in his little no-b.org-access cubicle at work, because it's just too good to make him wait until tonight.


joe boucher - Dec 07, 2007 8:10:26 am PST #6899 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine

I'm still not clear on why she thought you were in GBV, Corwood. Do you look like somebody in the band? (I know what you look like, but not what they do.) What a weird leap to make. If you'd had a Stones shirt on would she have assumed you were one of the not-Mick/not-Keith members of the band? And she's clearly not in a band if she thinks you shouldn't wear your own shirt. It's called promotion. Advertising. Wear that Parks and Wildlife shirt, my friend! Too proud to pimp your own gig? Find a new line of work.

Did anyone send juliebird the Buffistarawk info?