Thursday, November 1, 2007

Athens, Commander Riker, Purple Rain, et al.....


Last night's mission to see Of Montreal in athens was a complete success. I had my picture taken with cookie monster, which has been a lifelong dream (it appears to me the girl scout on his arm lured him in with promises of delicious Samoas cookies). Kristin misplaced her costume, but otherwise all went according to plan. Rickles and Weylin went from casusal indiffrence, to best friends, to sworn enemies all in the matter of an hour or two. Heavy boozing was the name of game and we all played our best hands- i'm proud of everyone's performance.

If you'll follow the jump you'll see all manner of unsavory photographs, plus fun stuff like show footage. Why do all this? Because i love us.


First and foremost, the show was without a doubt the coolest halloween party i've ever been too. It was my first time at the 40 watt, and in athens for that matter, and i was impressed by both town and venue. Our hotel was a two minute walk from show, thanks to kristin for the smart pre-trip internet hotel booking. We pulled up to the 40 watt around a quarter past nine- rick and i jumped out to pick up our pre-ordered tickets while kristin and weylin were tasked with finding the hotel. Securing the tickets was no problem, so rick and i proceed to find the hotel on foot; unfortunatley poor directions made us walk a bit out of our way, but the hike gave us a chance to become truly giddy with excitment. There were drunk people in costumes walking in the street, falling off the curb, dropping out of trees.


Kristin and weylin were already at the room by the time rick and i found the hotel, and after donning my red star trek command division tunic (handmade by kristin) we four made our merry way to the 40 watt. We stood in line with all manner of costumed freaks, meeting up with natty e (tastefully dressed as young harry potter) in the process.



Once inside we were quickly 'booze in hand' and made time surveying the costumes...robots, quail man, the pope, mojo-jojo, and a half-man, half-lady were all present. MGMT began their set around our second drink, and after that everything becomes a blur best told by pictures and video. my only regret was not getting a picture of one of the robots using the urinal. I had my camera at the ready, but the half-man, half-lady suggested that perhaps using flash photography in men's room was a bad idea.


12:10 am- I meet one of my literary heros. my only regret- that i'm dressed like a complete dumbass.

1:30 am- Of montreal close there main set with purple rain. Our party descends into chaotic, orgiastic dancing. Check below for video of said song.


Thanks to the pasty quail for the video. there are several more videos here.


2:10 am- we fail in our attempt to meet the band. Weylin kiss-closes with cleopatra, but is ultimately rejected.


2:40 am- Weylin and rick bicker like children. i have to buy them hotdogs to get them to stop.


4:00 am- rick and weylin make up. and out.


Well there you have it for now. Of montreal are an amazing live act, and there support was terrific. Grand Buffet had a candy snake, and they threatend to kick somebodies ass. Also, of montreal were dressed as the blue man group, with kevin barnes being tobais fumke specifically. Awesome.

3 comments:

Rickles said...

we never kissed but we did love on each other and bit.

Danger Duck said...

excellent story, number one.
There appears to be some smudging that starts to appear on the lens starting at the time of 2:10.
If anyone has an explanation, I will note it in my log.
Otherwise, please clean it before continuing to photograph any and all festivities.

For halloween, C-omander Rock dressed me up like W. Axl Rose, and I loaded up the Scolari's Office karioke program on computer. Fortunately for my standing among my peers, no photographs were taken. The occurance was noted only in the captin's personal log.

Number One, you have the blog

dRchunkerton said...

yeah i noticed the camera smudge too. frankly i'm suprised that's all that happened to it given all the dancing.