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today is saturday, november 21.

i dont feel well.

last night i went to a punk show at a metal bar. it was terrifying. 90% of the people there were under the age of 20, but i guess that was to be expected. the bartender had dreadlocks down to his butt and he was wearing a slipknot shirt. i am not judging. i am simply making an observation. if you thought that i wrote that to make fun of him, shame on you, you are so judgmental. so yes, the band was not half bad. i kinda know the guitar player/singer, but not his name or anything, we just do the whole head nod recognition thing when we see each other at shows. but anyways. the show was so weird! i mean there was quite a lot of people there, and the place was pretty small, so there wasnt that awkward space that develops between the band and the people listening to the band when there arent a lot of people at a show. the band played a few cover songs, one was for sure parálisis permanente, which was rad cause i love them. and they played something else that people appeared to know which was cool or whatever. and the beer was way cheap, like 2 dollars a pint. okay, so decent music, a decent amount of people, at least a few songs that people probably knew the lyrics to (i mean even i knew the lyrics to at least one song), and cheap beer. so far so good. ok so here is what made it so strange. no one moved! not even a little! its not like, 'oh, there wasn't like a circle pit or anything, but people were still having fun.' no. no no no. people stood totally still, staring straight ahead. no head bobbing, no playful friend pushing, no highschool girls dancing with each other in the front, no pogoing, no over aggressive old dude pissing everyone off. nope. just pretty alright punk music played to a room full of really bored looking kids. LAME. it really made me miss my home sweet home in the way funner than i ever realized US of A. and california. i miss california.

Well, I'm going out west out on the coast
Where the California SHOWS are really the most

USA USA USA