Brief piece in yesterday's Red Eye about the Suicide Girls Burlesque Tour, which is coming to Metro tonight. And was at High Dive in Champaign last night; um, guess I could'a mentioned that before it happened, huh, Jamie? Well, you can drive up here for the show, right?
Mind you, not sure I'm going. Neo, you said the one in Columbus was pretty good?
Anyone know anything about Threefold, one of the bands what'll be playing?
Let's see, what else? Must have done something horrible to the poor wee Gateway laptop, which has gone back to totally unresponsive mode when I turn it on; the hard drive spins briefly, but other than that, nada. Last time this happened, when I idiotically let it go into suspend mode, the email I got from their tech support suggested disconecting the power cord, pulling out the battery and the RAM, letting it relax for a bit, then trying it again. And although that worked then, it ain't now. Guess I can take it into the local Gateway Country store, or see if the nearest Best Buy has some in-house Geek Squad types to have a look at it.
Maybe if I hadn't deleted the swap file Windows uses for suspend mode when I was in Linux that one time, trying to free up space. . .
Nah, that's crazy talk. Must be gremlins. Or maybe the magic smoke got out somehow.
Heard from my friend Jonathan that the SG show in Austin was a disaster, but that seems to have been the fault of the venue and the promoters. They filled Emo's to capacity, which basically meant that no one except the lucky folks near the stage could see the girls' performance. And, y'know, no one gets testier than a drunk Sixth Street crowd who can't see the near-naked girls they were promised. Brawls ensued, words were had, etc.
Hopefully that mistake is not being repeated elsewhere.
Karin, oy. Just. . . oy.
Think Metro is set up better for a show, but don't think I'll be finding out tonight. Seeing as I fell asleep at a Ween show a few months back, I'm pretty sure I could do the same thing at a burlesque show, and the way I feel now. . . yeah, that'd be $12 badly spent.
The cheesy, campy fun was sold out here as well- some of us bought tix ahead of time, & one of our friends got in on style alone.
Warning: these folks start on a Chi-schedule- doors at 8, show start at 9, the FIRST opener band [there were two] didn't go on until almost 11 [when we got there- by OH calculations, that shoulda been when SG went on]. Tough to see past 1/2 way into the venue here, too- & the front rows got liberally doused w/beer, whipped cream, & chocolate sauce...
Fun, nice to go out, won't kill you if you miss it.