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F*cking drummer from Vietnam tonight... Puppy eyes and attempted intertwining fingers. DENIED. My question: "Do you like your band?" Did not get a straight answer. For that half hour, I was begging, inside my brain, to confirm that he knew his own band sucks. Eventually I gave up on the whole "I ARE LITERATE" thing and decided to drink more.

In other news: Sam Amidon and Elvis Perkins' new CDs rule.

― Andi Mags, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

Keep in mind I have no idea why I'm posting anything. I have had a few.

― Andi Mags, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

just not that drummer, right?

― Mark G, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

har har

― Andi Mags, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

Vietnam are a rock band tried and true. The guitars are thick like the summer air in New York City, vocals, dry like the Texas dirt. The history of what's been played before is revered, but not imitated; Vietnam is everything you'd wrongly suppose. There are stories in these songs. Vietnam will give you something to dig on and get your head around, give you something to feel about. This is failure and strife and conflict and redemption and hope. This is the sound of self-induced suffering, lovers that have lost for loving too much, losers that keep on losing for the love of the fight. This is Vietnam, three dudes, their music, the history, desperation and the dream!

― Edward III, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

I hate them already.

― Laurel, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

are they like erasure?

― 688, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

vietnam sonned by andi in seduction beef

― Edward III, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

webcomic in about ten

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

okay apparently it took 3x as much time as I said it would but whatever

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/406857186_47cce6c04e_o.png

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

for a second i thought this was about vietgrove

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wow.... I go to sleep abd this is what my hangover looks like.

― Andi Mags, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

Here I was all optimistic about maybe meeting girls at gigs this weekend, and then this thread. :(

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

Sssshhhh, don't tell Ed, this is how I tempted him onstage!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Most girls aren't as cutthroat as I am. I live in the East Village and am therefore unimpressed by status in a band. EVERYONE is in a band.
So, yeah, don't worry, you can still get laid.

― Andi Mags, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

why call your band vietnam??

― Ronan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

theres also

Iran

and

United States of America

i actually can't think of any others that are just the name of a country

― 688, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Japan

Europe and Asia were whole continents

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

there truly is something about hanging out downtown a lot in nyc that really makes you impervious to the whole "look at me i play a guitar" style of being hit on.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

was there a Japan?

― Ronan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

why call your band vietnam??

All the good band names are already taken, probably.

for a second i thought this was about vietgrove

Our drummer lives in a little black square box with "Korg" written on it. Plus, no-one gives one fuck about us. Last time someone interviewed me was in 1991 iirc.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

oops x-post, seemingly there was....

― Ronan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

there most certainly was a japan and they were awesome

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

david sylvain ronan!

― 688, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

I refuse to believe that there has never been a band called Ethiopia

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

i've been kicking around an idea with some friends where if we're at a show and it really really sucks we would take over the stage guerilla-style and commandeer their instruments. it was an outgrowth of watching some really bad live band karaoke but after reading this:

Vietnam are a rock band tried and true. The guitars are thick like the summer air in New York City, vocals, dry like the Texas dirt. The history of what's been played before is revered, but not imitated; Vietnam is everything you'd wrongly suppose. There are stories in these songs. Vietnam will give you something to dig on and get your head around, give you something to feel about. This is failure and strife and conflict and redemption and hope. This is the sound of self-induced suffering, lovers that have lost for loving too much, losers that keep on losing for the love of the fight. This is Vietnam, three dudes, their music, the history, desperation and the dream!

i would totally show up wearing black pajamas.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

When I picture this band in my head I picture 3 clones of the American Apparel guy.

― Ben Boyerrr, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

I believe there is a band called Canada.

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

Japan were indeed awesome.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

well you didn't think of them either 688!

― Ronan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

was there a japan?? OH MY GOD YES

theres also

Iran

and

United States of America

i still think United Skates of America beats all

― sunny successor, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

I think my cab driver last night married me by giving me a bracelet with glitter on it and reciting a poem.

― Andi Mags, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

[ii've been kicking around an idea with some friends where if we're at a show and it really really sucks we would take over the stage guerilla-style and commandeer their instruments.[/i]

I have been talking about this for years! Kevin, you must do this.

― Andi Mags, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

According to AMG there have been numerous bands called China and one called Russia. None called Thailand, Burma or Cambodia.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

The guitars are thick like the summer air in New York City

Thick with the smell of rotting garbage? Sweaty sidewalk hustler BO?

― patita, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

attempted intertwining fingers ahahahahahahaha, great

I love the last frame of the OTMBOT comic.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

I have been talking about this for years! Kevin, you must do this.

something similar IS happening in chicago, there is a band whose name i will not mention that bring in their gear and set up while the headliners are tearing down and they play a guerilla set. they also started to set up in the pool room of the empty bottle (non-chicagoans may not be able to picture this) but they got denied.

the best was at club vertigo where the russian bouncer kept yelling "NO MORE! NO MORE!!" and the reply he got was "what? one more? OK!" then the russian took the microphones but the band kept going so then he started taking the power strips. it was f'ing hilarious.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

Me and some bros drunkenly borrowed some dudes' gear and played while they were taking a set break once, granted they were friends of ours, but we were way way fucking ~~drunk~~ better and it was hilarious. I broke dude's bass G string.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

you broke the bass dude's g-string? sexxxxy.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

My band has done this a lot, but we don't need any amps or setup so it's a lot easier.

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

ronan, check out the Giorgio Moroder produced Life in Tokyo, that's some awesome new wave electronic disco right there.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

Aww, man, don't publicly shame people for hitting on you! Especially if it's just fingers and puppy eyes, and not, like, gross. That would be awful if you could never flirt with anyone without them getting all up on the internet and talking about how your no-profile indie band sucked.

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

I think you should humiliate him more. Post a picture, there must be one out there!

― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

andi sonned by nabisco in manners beef

― Edward III, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone knows that adolescence is tough, but with the advance of technology, teenagers today - especially girls - are redefining what's -fair in love and war on the social battlefield. Diane Sawyer reports on how cell phones, digital cameras and personal websites combine in new ways that seems to encourage and amplify the meanness of teenage behavior. From invading privacy and spreading gossip to humiliating one another, some teens have reached new heights of ruthlessness.

So what makes good kids turn so brutal? In an experiment with Brigham Young University child development researchers, Primetime brought nearly a dozen teenage girls together and equipped them with computers, webcams, cell phones and more. The girls, who were role-playing, created made-up personalities to show what can happen when vying for the attention of popular kids. Sawyer reports just how quickly the girls worked - using sexual innuendos and verbal attacks - to reach the top of the social hierarchy.

Although boys and girls both participate in Internet hazing - both in the Primetime experiment and in real life - experts say that girls are more invested in the potential of 'cyberbullying.' "Girls are more sensitive about establishing relationships, and hurting relationships and manipulating," says Dr. Clyde Robinson of Brigham Young. "They're going after the emotional jugular." One girl tells Sawyer, "In middle school, girls would bring their camera phones into the locker rooms, if they didn't like certain girls. That's the way they would get back at her."

Primetime also looks at the difficulties parents face in monitoring what their kids are doing on the web. As Dr. Elizabeth Englander of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center says, "Kids are natives to the Internet and adults are the immigrants." But as the program shows, situations can arise where kids can be naive to outcomes, and severe consequences are the result.

― Edward III, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

ha! in my inbox from the empty bottle i found this:

SAT14 (10:00pm; $10)
The Black Angels (Light in the Attic) // Vietnam (KemadoThe Social Registry)

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

You should go, and find the drummer, and say "Hey, you know that girl you were hitting on X days ago? She's making fun of you about it on the internet." And then if he cries, hold him.

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

I'M PRINTING THIS SHIT OUT!!!

giving it to him before he goes on stage. it will be great. maybe heckle him with lines from this thread.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

please, please do that.

― lauren, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

"applause: DENIED"

― Pashmina, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

wait, wait, wait.... print it out, HIT KINKO'S and let EVERYONE IN THE CROWD KNOW!

god i won't mind paying to get in.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

actually it would be better if you tell him andi was really digging him but her emotions were so strong she was too scared to respond. tell him she's an "old soul" and that she likes flower arrangements and impulsive romantic gestures.

― Edward III, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Funny, that Diane Sawyer blurb makes it sound like kids invented the Internet.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

The Black Angels are terrible

― milo z, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

They equate Peron with Mussolini! Can't think why!

― Latham Green, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

I love love that Black Angels album Passover. I would go to heckle the double bill at the Luna Lounge but really, who HASN'T gotten hit on by the drummer in a bad band. It's like indie rock hazing.

― Yerac, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

i keep seeing this thread title and wondering:
what is it that they know??

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

Just so it's MORE completely obvious: I posted this while incredibly intoxicated. So it was as bitchy and teenager-ish as possible. I just thought it was kind of creepy because he didn't say anything to me besides "I'm kind of intimidated by you," which is among the top pick up lines I get thrown, before getting way too intimate with the finger-twining. There is NOTHING more intimate than the finger-twine. Plus, he didn't do anything but give my male friends the evil eye and gave them the silent treatment even after one gave him a cigarette, which was outstandingly rude.

― Andi Mags, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

Also, my brain is still not working well wiff da lagwitch ting. Tanks Bheer!

― Andi Mags, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

Aren't Vietnam like long haired hippies? Maybe he wanted to braid your hair.

― Yerac, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/andimags/viet_hor1.jpg Dude is the blonde, 2nd down.

― Andi Mags, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

i'd hit it.

― strgn, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:25 (eighteen years ago)

Yr not serious are you, people don't still look like that in 2007 do they!??!?!

― Trayce, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:36 (eighteen years ago)

allow me to play cap'n block-a-zing and say: "um, trayce..."

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:38 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, he's cute though. But being rude to your male friends is totally unacceptable.

Could have been worse, could have been the dude below him with the experimental facial hair. :-{0

I saw Black Angels earlier this week and they were quite good live, actually. Wouldn't hit on any of them, but they put on a good show.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

Been to Fitzroy lately Trayce?

― badg, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 04:13 (eighteen years ago)

control + F≠ asia, north of america, mission of burma, etc

i think the guys in vietnam lived in philly very briefly, where they worked at whole foods. also: this band is horrrible.

― theoreticalgirl, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 04:26 (eighteen years ago)

the idea of a group of dudes taking another band's gear and playing it on stage is so rude to me. if someone played my bass while i was getting a beer they'd get smacked in the face with my ballsack. right in on stage in front of their fat gf.

― chaki, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 04:44 (eighteen years ago)

Been to Fitzroy lately Trayce?

Hahaha :) And no tbh. Maybe thats why I'm missing all this, I only hang around on the southside with the insectoid giant-sunglasses ugly stick women.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 07:02 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

Chaki wins. Wow.

― Andi Mags, Saturday, 28 July 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know, the webcomic was pretty good

― mitya, Saturday, 28 July 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

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