Just when you aren't sure how much you love a band anymore, you should attend a show of theirs...either you will realize you've outgrown them, or you will do what I did tonight...which was fall in love all over again!
While watching the punk-rock, Irish band from Boston called the Dropkick Murphys, the band who have such memoriable songs such as "Kiss Me I'm Shitfaced," and "The Black Velvet Band" among many other greats, I realized several things:
1) It isn't every day that you get dosed in both beer and holy water on the same day...on the bus on the way to my friends to get high before the show; some wierdo threw "New Orleans Voodoo Holy Water" on me...I commented on how he had something that smelled nice...(in fact, he had just purchased a big box of all sorts of voodoo potions from some store that apparently relocated from New Orleans to Portland after Hurricane Katrina..) anyway, he said "yeah, it's the voodoo holy water from New Orleans" and threw some on me. I guess it was apparent that I needed some holy water.
Later, at the show, beer got dumped on me from the balcony that was above me; this happens at every show I attend at the Roseland. I love the Roseland theatre...it is the grittiest, most punk-rock place to see shows in Portland besides people's basement shows...and unfortunately bands like Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly don't play basement shows. Also, my friend Kim says both of her kids where concieved at the Roseland Theatre bathroom...I just love that about her!
2) While watching crazy mohawked thirtysomethings jump around in the mosh pit; (oddly enough, the crowd last night wasn't your typical ra-ra high school punk crowd; these where the die-hard older punk-rockers,) I realized I am still young enough to have the time of my life...which got me thinking...why am I working the soul-less, minium-wage job I've been working since December? So when I went into work at midnight, (ears still ringing from the last song,) I annouched that this is my last weekend working for the God-damned Salvation Army...I'll live off my refund check for a while and enjoy sweet freedom once more! I say I'm an anarchist sometimes; now I need to live up to that and say "fuck work!"
Fuck work...I have one life and I refuse to be anyone's wage-slave...but we'll see what I say when the money runs out and I need to pay rent again....
Love ya,
Carrot
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Fuck work...I have one life and I refuse to be anyone's wage-slave...but we'll see what I say when the money runs out and I need to pay rent again....
Ex-Workers Collective
What is the Ex-Workers Collective?
They are definately in my top five bands. It's not everyday a band makes me wish my last name was McHaggis. <3 : ) I can't WAIT to see them play