IF I EAT AN 8TH OF MUSHROOMS AT A HARDCORE SHOW

Is the event straight-edge? If so, the eternal wait between bands might be extra-eternal -- without the opportunity to sit in a corner drinking beer, right?

It will be super weird cause you'll just want to giggle and collapse and everyone else will be scowly and energetic. I say do it, though I always say that.

Also, if you want to see USAISAMONSTER on the shrooms wait until the next night when they're playing with White Mice, Lazy Magnet, Kites, et al.

Also, we should celebrate this soon on a sunny day in Providence. Like... anytime it is nice ok?

Also, wanna go play Star Trek drinking games or something Fri night?

ps THIS IMAGE IS IAN JOHNSON!!

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I don't suppose any of you would consider taking some more of whatever it is that suits the occasion and going to the Industrial Fest tomorrow.

I could take them at the industrial fest, yes. Or Deerhoof?

Is Deerhoof Monday? I'd quite like to go to that.

I think tomorrow I'm going to spend my babysitting money at the record store buying local stuff so that I won't go through withdrawl when I move. Suggestions, Providence people?

Okay, since you asked!

So, me and old high school friends decided to get back together. You know how it is. Everybody is at a different college or city for whatever reason, so you pick one central place and go there. We settled on Boone, NC where Rob is. Rob decided on taking us to a party that night -- with bands playing!

Here's an image of the friends I was with. They're big fans of music, but not exposed to very much. They pretty much only listen to 70's drug influenced things like Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, etc. One of them brought his acoustic guitar and ukelele with him, planning on maybe playing instruments with some of the other musicians there. After all, there were 5 bands!

Little did anybody know the strange direction Rob took since going to college. This party wasn't at all what any of us expected. In the basement of this house were a hundred or so kids watching hardcore bands playing -- a phenomenon that none of my friends had been exposed to before. Who were these kids wearing such tight pants? Why are they screaming in the songs? Is that all they do? Why are we the only ones getting drunk? Of course, since we all did a lot of drugs before the show the questions seemed a lot more terrifying for the rest of them, I'm sure.

As soon as one of the kids startes doing roundhouse kicks near my acid-tripping friend, Daniel, he thinks some random kid is trying to start a fight with him. So, being the sensible person he is, he pushes him down. Obviously this other kid is all, "wtf?" and pushes him back. My other friends, realizing one of these weird fucking kids in his tight pants is starting a fight with Daniel, starts getting in there too. John, being as brilliant as he is, punches someone in the face.

At first the "mosh pit" was just 2 or 3 kids punching the air and doing roundhouse kicks. Now, the entire basement is pushing against each other and it turned into an honest rumble. Slowly all of us are dragged out of the house. John, being the small guy he is, is even picked up and herded out as if he was crowd surfing.

What followed was about an hour of apologies, explaining what "hardcore dancing" is and what it means to be "sXe" and how it is a bad idea to do drugs at a hardcore show. We all went back in and listened to the rest of the shitty bands and tried macking on ugly girls.

So that is what happens if you eat an 8th of mushrooms at a hardcore show.