OPEN BAR: I see you've come to PD. I too like to live dangerously

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Unrelated (hopefully) but this has been the most grueling week of my academic career. I'm fucking exhausted.

Consider it another step closer to success. Seriously, you're doing all kinds of wonderful shit here.

I got to talk to the lady across from me at the symposium about the honors college, and she tried to introduce me to the President but I was occupied with explaining my research to someone else so I didn't get to talk to her. However, it does sound like there's a pretty good chance I'll get in, because they just got a million-dollar grant and expanded the college. That means I'll have research funding and enhanced support over the next two years.

But right now I feel psychologically wounded.

This is further awesome. Rest up and get a couple of Saturday Nights in. You're earning it.

I am worn too thin for Saturday Nights, but I can do a Thursday Afternoon. And I'm talking tea on the veranda, here.

I need the sun to come out, I'm shivering. Me and the Peters went and had a beer after the exam, and we were all just shell-shocked.

We have the ACS exam in a month, and then I am spending the summer studying nothing but psychology.

[Junkenstein]

Word on the street says there were two women punching the hell out of each other last night.  It crossed my mind that there was a 73% chance it was you...

No, they got pulled out. That one garnered a raised eyebrow and a, "What the Fuck, people?" From Ronan, which resulted in the Dudebro next to me yelling, "YEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Again. I've seen VNV four times, this shit doesn't happen at their shows. I hate children.

Come to find out I knew one of the bouncers, so I probably could have had him taken care of after the first time he "fell on me", but hindsight, 20/20, all that shit. There were a few guys near me that saw this and pulled me away and he left me alone after that, but didn't stop yelling.

What the fuck? Shitty crowd Suu, sorry about that.

[Suu]

Word on the street says there were two women punching the hell out of each other last night.  It crossed my mind that there was a 73% chance it was you...

No, they got pulled out. That one garnered a raised eyebrow and a, "What the Fuck, people?" From Ronan, which resulted in the Dudebro next to me yelling, "YEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Again. I've seen VNV four times, this shit doesn't happen at their shows. I hate children.

Come to find out I knew one of the bouncers, so I probably could have had him taken care of after the first time he "fell on me", but hindsight, 20/20, all that shit. There were a few guys near me that saw this and pulled me away and he left me alone after that, but didn't stop yelling.

What the fuck? Shitty crowd Suu, sorry about that.

I know VNV is pretty popular outside of the usual scene since they get played and remixed at trance clubs, but for fuck's sake, they could have skipped out of studying for their finals at Suffolk somewhere else instead of spending $11 a drink and trying to grind on Goth chicks.

I still had an awesome time, though, so fuck them, even if I was the only one in my section of the crowd that knew the words to Carbon, which was the first time I've ever heard him sing it live, and it was EXTREMELY intense. They still didn't play Legion *grumble,* but they DID play Joy, which, you know, turns the audience into gospel-singing cultists, but I'm okay with this.

[Suu]

It also has occurred to me that this is the Future™. These are the concertgoers our generation has created. While my parents taught me respect and dignity at shows, I apparently am an endangered species. I'm also the tail end of a different generation.

Nobody goes to concerts for live music anymore, they go for selfies and Twitter posts and NO REGRETS and throwing up on Tremont Street. Yeah, I took pictures, but I saved posting them until AFTER the show was over sans a couple. I go to dance, to laugh, to sing and have a good time and maybe one drink with my friends and fellow fans. I don't go to get into fights or look for one night stands. I don't go to end the night crying in a corner because the guy I totally fell in love with during that ONE SONG just left with my BFF Jill. I go to concerts to be moved by the music I've bought and paid for to further support the artists so they continue to make music I will buy and pay for.

That's all bullshit now. Now I know exactly how my parents felt, and probably how their parents felt, when it comes to the daring youth of the nation destroying their sacred music. What a vicious fucking circle.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It also has occurred to me that this is the Future™. These are the concertgoers our generation has created. While my parents taught me respect and dignity at shows, I apparently am an endangered species. I'm also the tail end of a different generation.

Nobody goes to concerts for live music anymore, they go for selfies and Twitter posts and NO REGRETS and throwing up on Tremont Street. Yeah, I took pictures, but I saved posting them until AFTER the show was over sans a couple. I go to dance, to laugh, to sing and have a good time and maybe one drink with my friends and fellow fans. I don't go to get into fights or look for one night stands. I don't go to end the night crying in a corner because the guy I totally fell in love with during that ONE SONG just left with my BFF Jill. I go to concerts to be moved by the music I've bought and paid for to further support the artists so they continue to make music I will buy and pay for.

That's all bullshit now. Now I know exactly how my parents felt, and probably how their parents felt, when it comes to the daring youth of the nation destroying their sacred music. What a vicious fucking circle.

That's one way of looking at it...

[Nephew Twiddleton]

It also has occurred to me that this is the Future™. These are the concertgoers our generation has created. While my parents taught me respect and dignity at shows, I apparently am an endangered species. I'm also the tail end of a different generation.

Nobody goes to concerts for live music anymore, they go for selfies and Twitter posts and NO REGRETS and throwing up on Tremont Street. Yeah, I took pictures, but I saved posting them until AFTER the show was over sans a couple. I go to dance, to laugh, to sing and have a good time and maybe one drink with my friends and fellow fans. I don't go to get into fights or look for one night stands. I don't go to end the night crying in a corner because the guy I totally fell in love with during that ONE SONG just left with my BFF Jill. I go to concerts to be moved by the music I've bought and paid for to further support the artists so they continue to make music I will buy and pay for.

That's all bullshit now. Now I know exactly how my parents felt, and probably how their parents felt, when it comes to the daring youth of the nation destroying their sacred music. What a vicious fucking circle.

Concert venues are temples. If you're not having a religious experience in the presence of the gods on stage, you have no real reason to be there, and should just buy the album.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Or steal it on the internet, or whatever.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It could also just mean that she's too old for the Punk Show.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I mean, when you start complaining that The Kids Are Doin' It Wrong, it's more likely that you forgot how to do it right.

[Suu]

If I had done it right, I WOULD have removed the testicles of the guy who was trying to grope us all night, but noooo, I wanted to be nice and respectful and not kick him into the 200 people standing behind him. Besides, then I could have ended up wearing his vodka and Red Bull. I was told not to start a fight by my friends, and I obliged.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

If I had done it right, I WOULD have removed the testicles of the guy who was trying to grope us all night, but noooo, I wanted to be nice and respectful and not kick him into the 200 people standing behind him. Besides, then I could have ended up wearing his vodka and Red Bull. I was told not to start a fight by my friends, and I obliged.

You are too old for the Punk Show.

[Suu]

If I had done it right, I WOULD have removed the testicles of the guy who was trying to grope us all night, but noooo, I wanted to be nice and respectful and not kick him into the 200 people standing behind him. Besides, then I could have ended up wearing his vodka and Red Bull. I was told not to start a fight by my friends, and I obliged.

You are too old for the Punk Show.

Was not Punk, but same shit.

That's clearly the last time I pretend to be the responsible adult.

[Suu]

And as I finished typing, I just sneezed so hard I locked up my neck. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

If I had done it right, I WOULD have removed the testicles of the guy who was trying to grope us all night, but noooo, I wanted to be nice and respectful and not kick him into the 200 people standing behind him. Besides, then I could have ended up wearing his vodka and Red Bull. I was told not to start a fight by my friends, and I obliged.

You are too old for the Punk Show.

Was not Punk, but same shit.

That's clearly the last time I pretend to be the responsible adult.

Don't forget your geritol and support hose next time.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Punk's a different thing in America, right?