Rant

So the other day I was walking around Wicker Park and I decided that I neither have the patience for OR am fashion forward enough to be down there. When I say I don't have the patience for I mean the people down there annoy me. Not only the hippies mind you, because lord knows I fucking HATE hippies, but these hipster kids that all walked out of this cloning machine one at a time.

Here's a checklist of things you NEED to wear if you are going to be at the 6 corners:

Really Tight Pants

Arbitrarily Placed Tattoos

Deep-V Neck Shirts

A terrible hair cut disguised as fashionable ie. fashion mullet

A fixed geared bike

Black rimmed glasses of any shape


Now I realize that I can check a few of these boxes, but that sort of makes it worse. I'm being scoffed at by these piece of shit dickheads for being a half a hispter. Its not my fault I was born like this; there really is NO need to be condescending.

Part Two of "Rant" (not the Palahniuk book)

We played a show this Friday, which should have been good, but was terrible due to things outside our control. I'm not hear to rant about the hippies that were at the show...I've comed to terms with that. What I will rant about on the other hand is the bands at these shows.

We played with this band called Holding Mercury. Whom, were actually pretty good, BUT didn't bring any one to the show (fans or otherwise). Also while on stage they proceeded to tell everyone that one of their songs, that they were about to play, was on a frequent rotation on Q101. And here's where I get pissed...

I'm EXTREMELY sick of playing with bands that have this huge internet presence or "name drop," so to speak, about being on Q101 and are constantly out drawn by us. Every time we play with a band that we've heard of or seem to be getting bigger we out draw. And who the fuck are we? Just a band that gets kids to shows. So we bust our asses doing our part having people for these pretentious pricks to play in front of and instead of doing their part they leech off of bands like us. It's pathetic and I'm sick of it. Granted we, of course, try to canabalize other bands fan base; that's just how it works. Although, when we do it we actually bring fans of our own. These bands that are nothing but dead weight in this sea of over-polluted watered down scene of shitty harmonies and crappy hooks hurt everyone else more than they help.

Moral of the story is FUCK bands that show up to shows with out trying to draw anybody and PROPS to bands that do their part and help out. Sad reality is that the assholes that have a presence or name drop end up getting paid more on bills than we do because promoters are trying to suck up to the bands that they think are going to draw when they come back and play. The end of the night rolls around and we drew 70 people out of 160 and only get paid 70bucks on 6 dollars a head. REALLY shitty.

Quick side rant:

To all the assholes in other bands that walk out of the show to go hang out in front of the building with your ugly girlfriends and best friends to pathetic or worthless to be in bands of their own so they follow you around hoping for a blowjob from one of the girls that seems remotely interested in the disgusting calamitous shit you call music. FUCK YOU. Its bad enough that we had to listen to your music and you littered the show with your pock marked unsightly girlfriends, who typically like our music better (pst they're lying to you when they tell you they like that "new" song that you wrote about them), but to walk out on the other bands that more than likely out drew you and were polite enough to listen to you. Fuck you in an uncomfortable place (like the back of a Volkswagen).

I need sleep. That's my rant for now.

-Chris

p.s. To all family members that started reading my blog:

Hello. I'm sorry if what you read is extremely vulgar and most of the time wildly inappropriate. It's the angry part in side of me that hates hippies, republicans, neo-christians, mormans, "tech support" from India...., bros, tools, etc. Long story short I'm glad you found your way here and hopefully at least what I write about gives you a chuckle even if you don't agree with it.

p.p.s. Hey Eileen. Heart You <3 ;)