indie rock karaoke

Originally posted by j-money:
id do some guided by voices perhaps…..does anyone else reaaaally wish they were robert pollard?

a 60 year old bald drunk? yeah!!!

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
a 60 year old bald drunk? yeah!!!

bald?

Originally posted by ratioci nation:

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
a 60 year old bald drunk? yeah!!!

bald?

ok, maybe just 60 and drunk … go hoyas…

Originally posted by ratioci nation:

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
a 60 year old bald drunk? yeah!!!

bald?

60?

hey man thats not cool, indie rock would be a whole lot different today without pollard and gbv

Originally posted by SPARX:
60?

59?

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:

Originally posted by SPARX:
60?

59?

Still in his 40's,has been known to sport quite an afro, as for drunk,could be,but then it is rock n roll right?Hoya's looked good down the stretch tonight by the way.Still got work to do if they want to stay out of the NIT.

Originally posted by SPARX:

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:

Originally posted by SPARX:
60?

59?

Still in his 40's,has been known to sport quite an afro, as for drunk,could be,but then it is rock n roll right?Hoya's looked good down the stretch tonight by the way.Still got work to do if they want to stay out of the NIT.

i'm just fucking around about pollard … hoyas looked lethargic all game, finally clicked for them in the last 5 minutes … that's not going to work against Uconn tomorrow night … i'd say we need to beat Uconn in the quarters and get a win in the semis to dance … in other words, NIT here we come!

ok, so this thing was so much fun that this morning i forgot to put my glasses on before leaving for work, discovered it once i got here, have a meeting in 5 min, and now am forced to work drunk, hung over AND vision impaired. It was that fun.

The DJ is some guy from Athens, GA who did the karaoke thing there for fun but is now touring up and down the east coast with it. He'll be at Mojo in Baltimore tomorrow.

The place never got crowded but it was surely a good time… i think everyone was quite drunk by the end. I appreciated the opportunity to sing Modest Mouse's "Shit Luck," truly a karaoke masterpiece.

heh… sorry I missed it. You're lucky, though, I sing like sh*t.

And to molify Chimbly the bald guy even sang 'Take the Skinheads Bowling'

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
The DJ is some guy from Athens, GA

figures …. one of my favorite onion articles lampooning indie rock athens …


37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster

ATHENS, GAâ??Thirty-seven record-store clerks are missing and feared dead in the aftermath of a partial roof collapse during a Yo La Tengo concert Monday.

"We're trying our best to rescue these clerks, but, realistically, there's not a lot of hope," said emergency worker Len Guzman, standing outside the 40 Watt Club, where the tragedy occurred. "These people are simply not in the physical condition to survive this sort of trauma. It's just a twisted mass of black-frame glasses and ironic Girl Scouts T-shirts in there."

Also believed to be among the missing are seven freelance rock critics, five vinyl junkies, two 'zine publishers, an art-school dropout, and a college-radio DJ.

The collapse occurred approximately 30 minutes into the Hoboken, NJ, band's set, when a poorly installed rooftop heating-and-cooling unit came loose and crashed through the roof, bringing several massive steel beams down with it.

Andy Ringler, an assistant manager at Wuxtry Records, sustained head trauma when he ran back into the building to rescue a fellow clerk.

"I just had to help," said Ringler, listed in stable condition at a nearby hospital. "I saw all these people coming out bleeding and dazed. I gave up my vintage Galaxie 500 shirt just to help some guy bandage his arm. It was horrible."

Added Ringler: "I just pray they can somehow get this club rebuilt in time for next month's Dismemberment Plan/Death Cab For Cutie show. That's a fantastic double bill."

Joe Gaer was among the lucky record-store clerks who escaped unscathed.

"I was in the bathroom when it happened," said Gaer, a part-time cashier at School Kids Records. "There was this loud crashing sound, followed by even louder crashing, and then all these screams. If I hadn't left to take a leak during 'Moby Octopad'â??to be honest, never one of my favorite songs on I Can Hear The Heart Beating As Oneâ??I'd probably be among the dead."

"It's just tragic," Gaer continued. "I heard they were going to play Daniel Johnston's 'Speeding Motorcycle.' They almost never do that one live."

Devastated by the disaster, Athens record-store owners are still holding out hope that their employees are still alive.

"All I can do is wait and pray they'll find them," said Bert's Discount Records owner Bert Halyard, who lost clerks Todd Fischer and Dan Harris in the collapse. "They were going to start an experimental/math-rock band together. Dan had a really nice Moog synthesizer and an original pressing of the first Squirrel Bait EP."

As of press time, police and emergency rescue workers were still sifting through the wreckage for copies of Magnet, heated debates over the definition of emo, and other signs of record-store-clerk life.

"I haven't seen this much senseless hipster carnage since the Great Sebadoh Fire Of '93," said rescue worker Larry Kolterman, finding a green-and-gold suede Puma sneaker in the rubble. "It's such a shame that all those bastions of indie-rock geekitude had to go in their prime. Their cries of 'sellout' have been forever silenced."

Originally posted by tbmtt:
And to molify Chimbly the bald guy even sang 'Take the Skinheads Bowling'

molify? i would have said placate.

Sorry we missed the karaoke. We never made it out of the main bar at DC9. First time there - very very cool place.

Originally posted by xcanuck:
Sorry we missed the karaoke. We never made it out of the main bar at DC9. First time there - very very cool place.

agreed, i love DC9, one of the better additions to DC in the last couple of years…

i just like bars that have canned beer for those of us who are members of lower socioeconomic classes.

You mean the people that spend 2 grand or more on bicycles rather than smarter investments, like a down payment on a condo?

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
i just like bars that have canned beer for those of us who are members of lower socioeconomic classes.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
You mean the people that spend 2 grand or more on bicycles rather than smarter investments, like a down payment on a condo?

oh, the assumptions!

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
You mean the people that spend 2 grand or more on bicycles rather than smarter investments, like a down payment on a condo?

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Maybe we could get GGW to sing this to you:

"In 1649
To St George's Hill
A ragged band they called the Diggers
Come to show the people's will
They defied the landlords
They defied the law
They were the dispossessed
Reclaiming what was theirs


'We come in peace' they said
'To dig and sow
We come to work the land in common
And to make the waste land grow
This earth divided
We will make whole
So it can be
A common treasury for all


The sin of property
We do disdain
No one has any right to buy and sell
The earth for private gain
By theft and murder
They took the land
Now everywhere the walls
Rise up at their command


They make the laws
To chain us well
The clergy dazzle us with heaven
Or they damn us into hell
We will not worship
The God they serve
The God of greed who feeds the rich
While poor men starve


We work, we eat together
We need no swords
We will not bow to masters
Or pay rent to the lords
We are free men
Though we are poor
You Diggers all stand up for glory
Stand up now


From the men of property
The orders came
They sent the hired men and troopers
To wipe out the Diggers' claim
Tear down their cottages
Destroy their corn
They were dispersed
But still the vision lingers on


You poor take courage
You rich take care
This earth was made a common treasury
For everyone to share
All things in common
Al people one
We come in peace -
The order came to cut them down"

Like the assumptions you make about people who live in the burbs? :roll:

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
You mean the people that spend 2 grand or more on bicycles rather than smarter investments, like a down payment on a condo?

oh, the assumptions!