For Jamieken

Less than Jake just played all of Losing Streak. In a row. Exactly like the album, only better, louder, crazier and with some banter between some songs. Amazing. With all the gigs i've been going to I feel like I keep saying 'that was one of the best shows of my life' and seriously, it was. the crowd started off a bit slow, but within two songs or so everyone was bouncing/thrashing/skanking and all the other ska-related verbs you can think of. Inbetween songs some dude came up to me an handed me a shot in a plastic cup (de-rigure for HoB) saying 'this is for you because you're a G'. now the question of course is, what the fuck is a G? now does this mean G as in GAY (i did post a list of upcoming gigs worth going to on some queer site i'm on) or G as in HOMIE-G or some entirely different form of G that the kids are using these days? Maybe he knew i was on the Galena High School speech and debate team 'G!'

...

Or not.

I disgustedly downed the Jagermeister and chucked the cup into the masses. My right contact lens squeezed its way onto my eyelid, i took a moment to try to jam it back in, then took a second moment to realize the danger of sticking fingers near eyes within feet of a pit. chucked my contact and resumed the pain. The revelry continued until they finished Losing Steak and booked it off stage. Started a UC-Irvine clapclap-clapclapclap style Less Than Ja-ake clapclap-clapclapclap and got the whole crowd going. Haven't done that at a proper gig before.

LTJ returned (of course) and rocked out some more tunes.

Bloody nose thanks to Plastic Cup Politics. And you know if you've bled, it's been a good show. Got some recognition on my way out from various punters and (i think/hope) not in the there's that asshole who was being a jackass sort of way...