another weekend of fun in tampa......
i wish we had brought a camera but nope, we figured we wouldn't have time to use it because we were just going over to tampa for the night to see the VNV Nation and Imperative Reaction show.....boy were we wrong. Haha.....we got the date wrong and headed over across the state a day too early.....good thing though, because we would have been late otherwise.....stupid I-4 traffic....they really need to do something about that road.
So yes, we ended up spending the weekend in tampa again.....it was great. we had lots of time to look around in all kinds of little shops and saw all kinds of antiques that might have a use as props in future photos....too bad everything was overpriced....but it all gave me some pretty interesing ideas. We also went to a museum which was pretty much just the building, but it was worth the time because it was just so beautiful. I wish i had brought my sketchbook so i could have captured some of what was in there.
which reminds me i have a new painting that i need to put up for sale.....later....no time now.
....anyhow, we also went to "the castle" on friday night. that was only my second time going. the first time sucked ass, but this time they redeemed themselves.....except for that fatass bitch of a bartender who just ignored me.....she did that last time i went there too, only this time it really got to me.....doesn't even want to do her fucking job.....see if she ever gets a tip from me......grrrrrr
also, the last time i went the dj pissed me off because every song he played sounded the same.....noisey industrial with the same exact raspy voice distortion in every band......but this time around the music was awesome.....i danced to so many of my favorites like the revolting cocks "do ya think i'm sexy", some beborn beton, vnv nation, skinny puppy, enomine, covenant, and even....dare i say.....cruxshadows.....haha but it was my favorite from them. I danced almost the whole time i was there and i never got tired.....hell i even danced to the lords of acid....it was just a great night nothing could bring me down. And oh yeah, because i got frustrated with fatty not serving me i went over to the other bar and there a really cute asian guy served me.....mmmmm indeed.
later i heard a story about that uglyass bartender that made me laugh.....suposedly she used to be huge into roleplaying.....admitedly hey, i used to too but she used to just take it a step further.....you know....she was one of those annoying people who had to share their character stats with everyone......i mean everyone....even though they have never roleplayed or had any interest in it. There were some other things too but the D and D nerd part was what cracked me up the most.....no wonder she's so angry.
The concert was great too.....we got there early enough to get on the main floor and relatively close to the stage too. i had bought a new sketchbook that day so i brought it inside and started sketching different people right away. people had some interesting reactions to that. a lot of people came up to me and started up conversations because of it, while others kind of walked away in a sort of uncomfortable manner when they noticed me drawing them.....haha....i also noticed some others kind of posing trying to look natural but failing. it was interesting.
the band who opened (who's name i can't remember) was just a guy on stage with an i-book.......looked almost like a mac commerial or something. i suppose he was okay but it was just too repetative....and went on way too long.....i felt like i should have been waving glow sticks around or something.
next was the band i really was there for.....Imperative Reaction...... and Oh eM Gee!!!! was that show awesome. i think every song they played was my favorite.....and there was just so much energy.....and who knew the singer was so god damned hot........not what i've come to expect from electronic musicians....haha take the headliner of the show even, vnv nation. ronin is was just such a horrible suprise to me the first time i saw him a while back.....but the imperative reaction guy was just something else.....i just melted when he looked in my general direction. hahaha
for those who don't know of them here's their myspace account
http://myspace.com/imperativereaction
then finally vnv nation played.....but they actually kind of sucked so we left....sad really because i really like a lot of what they do.....they just played a lot of stuff that didn't really go well with a concert.....besides it was way too hot in that place and the music was actually so loud that it made me dizzy.....odd.
anywho, that was just a great weekend all around....i hated going back to work on monday
p.s. - woooot!!!!11!! i just got a call................ i'm going to see peter murphy on thursday.....yay!!
i wish we had brought a camera but nope, we figured we wouldn't have time to use it because we were just going over to tampa for the night to see the VNV Nation and Imperative Reaction show.....boy were we wrong. Haha.....we got the date wrong and headed over across the state a day too early.....good thing though, because we would have been late otherwise.....stupid I-4 traffic....they really need to do something about that road.
So yes, we ended up spending the weekend in tampa again.....it was great. we had lots of time to look around in all kinds of little shops and saw all kinds of antiques that might have a use as props in future photos....too bad everything was overpriced....but it all gave me some pretty interesing ideas. We also went to a museum which was pretty much just the building, but it was worth the time because it was just so beautiful. I wish i had brought my sketchbook so i could have captured some of what was in there.
which reminds me i have a new painting that i need to put up for sale.....later....no time now.
....anyhow, we also went to "the castle" on friday night. that was only my second time going. the first time sucked ass, but this time they redeemed themselves.....except for that fatass bitch of a bartender who just ignored me.....she did that last time i went there too, only this time it really got to me.....doesn't even want to do her fucking job.....see if she ever gets a tip from me......grrrrrr
also, the last time i went the dj pissed me off because every song he played sounded the same.....noisey industrial with the same exact raspy voice distortion in every band......but this time around the music was awesome.....i danced to so many of my favorites like the revolting cocks "do ya think i'm sexy", some beborn beton, vnv nation, skinny puppy, enomine, covenant, and even....dare i say.....cruxshadows.....haha but it was my favorite from them. I danced almost the whole time i was there and i never got tired.....hell i even danced to the lords of acid....it was just a great night nothing could bring me down. And oh yeah, because i got frustrated with fatty not serving me i went over to the other bar and there a really cute asian guy served me.....mmmmm indeed.
later i heard a story about that uglyass bartender that made me laugh.....suposedly she used to be huge into roleplaying.....admitedly hey, i used to too but she used to just take it a step further.....you know....she was one of those annoying people who had to share their character stats with everyone......i mean everyone....even though they have never roleplayed or had any interest in it. There were some other things too but the D and D nerd part was what cracked me up the most.....no wonder she's so angry.
The concert was great too.....we got there early enough to get on the main floor and relatively close to the stage too. i had bought a new sketchbook that day so i brought it inside and started sketching different people right away. people had some interesting reactions to that. a lot of people came up to me and started up conversations because of it, while others kind of walked away in a sort of uncomfortable manner when they noticed me drawing them.....haha....i also noticed some others kind of posing trying to look natural but failing. it was interesting.
the band who opened (who's name i can't remember) was just a guy on stage with an i-book.......looked almost like a mac commerial or something. i suppose he was okay but it was just too repetative....and went on way too long.....i felt like i should have been waving glow sticks around or something.
next was the band i really was there for.....Imperative Reaction...... and Oh eM Gee!!!! was that show awesome. i think every song they played was my favorite.....and there was just so much energy.....and who knew the singer was so god damned hot........not what i've come to expect from electronic musicians....haha take the headliner of the show even, vnv nation. ronin is was just such a horrible suprise to me the first time i saw him a while back.....but the imperative reaction guy was just something else.....i just melted when he looked in my general direction. hahaha
for those who don't know of them here's their myspace account
http://myspace.com/imperativereaction
then finally vnv nation played.....but they actually kind of sucked so we left....sad really because i really like a lot of what they do.....they just played a lot of stuff that didn't really go well with a concert.....besides it was way too hot in that place and the music was actually so loud that it made me dizzy.....odd.
anywho, that was just a great weekend all around....i hated going back to work on monday
p.s. - woooot!!!!11!! i just got a call................ i'm going to see peter murphy on thursday.....yay!!