I was at a certain bar and grill for the 3rd year in a row to see some friends play a show. They moved to Toronto a couple years back and come back for Christmas and play every year, it is usually the only time we see them. I usually have a blast dancing, and it is a good scene for people who are into heavier music. This year I was PINNED up against the stage. Couldn’t move. I am still debating whether to take pictures of my bruises and send them to the bar, as my mother in law suggested. It was all dudes, bending me over the stage. When I told my boyfriend I was uncomfortable, he started pushing back… and someone tried to choke him out. When I finally made my way out, I noticed the back of the dance area was relatively uncluttered, so your cramming up into me was unnecessary, and meant to make me uncomfortable. Whether you were being perverted or not, if you wanted to be by the stage, you should have waited like we did. Then leaving the bar later to find someone, I was told I wasn’t allowed back in, even to wait for my friends who had my ride, when I was in a dress and it was freezing. Young gun at the door needed to calm down on the power trip, k thanks.Then I got home to pipes burst under my kitchen sink RUINING my lower bathroom ceiling. A big fuck you to ringing in the new year, I wish I stayed home and worked on the 6th bottle of wine with my group of friends. FUCKIIIING DICKBAGS. —Little black dress
This article appears in Dec 26, 2013 – Jan 1, 2014.
Years back my friends and I were at a show and this one dude was getting really physical towards a couple of the girls we were with. This was a punk show so at first we figured that it was no big deal – people are rowdy at these shows and the girls we were with knew that and expected to be pushed and shoulder-checked like everyone else. However, this guy was clearly singling them out and being rougher than normal. So I threw my whole body into him shoulder first and knocked him off his feet, his face collided with an amp and he got a pretty nasty gash on his forehead, there was blood all over the place. Then we all ‘chased’ him out of the bar. I have similar stories about people showing up to shows wearing swastika’s. My buddy used to wait until they ordered a beer then he’d go over and sit down next to him and say ‘Leave your beer and get out.’ It never failed.
Sounds like you had a pretty lousy NYE OP, sorry to hear it. I don’t know what you should do regarding the pervs up front, unless you know who they are it might be difficult to track them down, particularly if they came to town from TO with the band. I’m sorry they ruined your evening with their piggish behavior. At the very least 2014 has nowhere to go but up hill from here!
Reasons I don’t go to bars on NYE or much anymore in general.
Did your dog die too? When does the country song come out? So you go out on a cold night in a flimsy dress and turn the heat off in your place so your pipes can freeze. Maybe your resolution this year is to think logically.
Not sure the release date for OP’s country song but I bet it won’t top your tunes “Young People Voting Liberal” or “Police Are Sometimes Bastards? (Say It Ain’t So)” on the billboards, so not to worry.
It’s expensive to heat your home, not everyone can afford to keep oil in their tank all the time – especially younger people. In my earlier 20’s we had to hang up blankets by the entrances, sleep in sweaters and put space heaters in a few key places. The increase in our electricity bill still wasn’t as much as we’d have spent in oil.
Little Annie Fanny’s New Year’s Eve? Gah! Prunes!
Cue the music……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo
Brotim’s new album ‘Dippers got me down’ is expected next month. The leadoff single is called ‘Holy Fuck, look at all the conclusions I am jumping to, I hope I don’t do the same with my police work if I am actually a real cop’
re pipes, probably older place with pipes running up an outside wall. inside a cupboard which cuts it off from ambient room heat. that could happen to just about anyone who didn’t already have that happen once before. or twice. this was a VERY cold snap.
i still have a few windows/doors in my old hovel that i seal up at start of each winter. good thick plastic, stapled tightly then sealed with (god i love this stuff) duct tape. such a treat in spring to open them all up again.
i won’t comment on going out on new years eve. no comprende
Red Green would love you for that comment Molly, lol.
Hey Prom Queen, your mother in law is an idiot. Therefore, don’t embarrass yourself any further by actually following her advice. Your welcome.
Cranky is right. Taking pics of bruises and sending them to the bar will do nothing nor prove anything. I could bump my arm against my own door frame, have it bruise, then go out for a few pops with Ivan, and then be all, “SARSAPARILLA CAUSED DEM BRUISES!”
People can be stupid at band shows and at bars. You’re talking as if The Fates are out to get you personally or that there is some unbalanced universal conspiracy against you.
You must totally own an iPhone and take pictures of your meals/drinks/fingernails/selfies just to share them on social media sites. Probably have an iPad too. And fake blonde hair.
“They’re not freaky, they’re not weird” depends on your mindset.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-…
If you genuinely feel someone violated you, by all means, make a complaint. But it sounds to me like the band, not you, was the center of attention. Who the fuck stands next to the stage at a hardcore event??
I’ll actually tell you who does that. People who want the entire world to be all like “zomg, I bet they know the band.”
You would have never survived a mosh pit.
Holy Fuck , Baz – can anyone remember a time when Monty Python was gleefully absurdist satire? Now it’s become prophetic, FFS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixrQcGQ6o-w
… or the fact that it’s what ‘usually’ happens….
what a dickmitten.
Anyways… I think it’s probably time to take up a new tradition.
That one sounds like a pretty shitty one.
montrealman – What a piece of trash you must be in your personal life.
Think of the elegant spoonerisms that could have resulted from a meeting between Montrealman and noted Canadian feminist/social activist Laura Sabia.
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: James Purcell (01/06/ 6:07PM)
Well I’ve often wondered about that myself, James. You might have a point.
: Col. Ivan Sonofabitch (01/07, 6:30AM)
I’m trying to think of some spoonerisms Ivan but my imagination has failed me. Perhaps you could drop a couple of jewels for us. I must say I’m not familiar with the feminist/social activist Laura Sabia but something tells me that she would not be pleased with my comment, not pleased at all.
Sadly however, I was expecting an outraged retort from Oceanchick which didn’t materialize. I had my reply ready. It goes like this: “I’m glad you were outraged by my comment, Oceanchick, because I can see it succeeded in its purpose. What was that purpose? I wanted to highlight the mindless, orgiastic nature of the type of “event” which Little Black Dress attended, one where rape would seem to be just another part of the package.”
Maybe Laura and I have more in common than first meets the eye. Who knows, maybe even James might modify his charge.
New Avatar Alert!
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
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Col. Ivan Sonofabitch (01/07, 6.30AM)
I believe it wouldn’t bode well for MontrealMan to meet with Laura Sabia as he would be so tongue-tied and flabbergasted with her to call her Laura Labia instead….. all the while fantasizing how magnificent her labia would be.
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Klyde (01/07, 12:13 PM)
I was rather thinking he would come out with something like, “Saura Labia”, the inevitable result of being bent over the teacher’s desk whilst preoccupied with a bulletin board full of post cards.
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Col. Ivan Sonofabitch (01/07, 12.24PM)
It could also play out this way as well….MM, I love what you’re doing but my labia is so saura.
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Klyde (01/07, 12:56PM)
Yeah, but you just know the old pedant would respond “Of course it is, my dear. But you must explain why”
Some types just can’t take a compliment for what it is.
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Col. Ivan Sonofabitch (01/07, 3.32PM
You know it goes without saying that she will have to give the philosophical and ontological reasonings behind why her labia is sore….plus the subcontexts as well. Then MM will want the literal, figurative and metaphorical aspects of why labia get sore….The floor is yours MM.
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“I wanted to highlight the mindless, orgiastic nature of the type of ‘event’ which Little Black Dress attended, one where rape would seem to be just another part of the package.” Montrealman (01/07, 10:00AM)
I think my intended but undelivered reply to Oceanchick stands on its own merits, completely exonerating me from all the suggestive, slanderous, salacious and malicious comments made by Klyde (12:13PM; 12:56PM; & 4:11PM) as well as Col. Ivan Sonofabnitch (12:24PM) & 2:32PM). There can be no doubt that my purpose was not only honourable but, indeed, laudatory.
However, I must admit that the continued reference to the feminist/social activist Laura Sabia’s labia perked my interest. I’m sure they are magnificent. Do you think she might also attend events similar to those at which Little Black Dress was present? Do you think she also might bend over the stage? Do you think that if I approached her from behind I might…? But no, I can’t go on.
Maybe James Purcell might put in an appearance and save the day for the dudes but, since his personal life is just a piece of trash, I doubt he has the gumption.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
This reminds me of the Woody Allen line from his 1970s book ‘Getting Even’:
‘She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.’