adventures of a psychopathic magnet

Is Nothing Sacred?!

In an attempt to make up for all those times that she reposted one of my blog entries, I decided to repost one of Kiyomi's...a few days late. Turns out I am really lazy. So here is her retelling of the eventful evening at rhinoceropolis last...uh...friday? saturday? i dont know. one of those days. Anyway, here you go.

okay what the fuck people. seriously, what. the. fuck.

last night's show at rhinoceropolis spun wildly out of control which was just not okay.

lets set this up:

rhinoceropolis is this venue/gallery space which also houses several people from that following. the front part is the gallery and venue space, go through a narrow hallway past the bathroom and you are in the living space. which was built by these kids and is awesome with it's living pods and rooftop life living rooms. the art is great, the seating is functional, and the atmosphere is usually just an over all chill. the guys who run the joint are just really cool guys and its just a great space to meet awesome people and expose yourself to new music.

the show last night was to benefit Breakdown Books, a community space that recently had to shut it's doors due to increasing debt. Breakdown was fucking sweet. it was my favourite place to go to when i was in high school and i still continued to visit for it's various shows and bike in movies. it was just a warm and accepting place that broke my heart when it closed. so this show was a big deal for them to help them out a bit.

everything started out awesome- i finally got to see pictureplane's set which was amazing by the way, and i got to meet quite a few new people. one was our new mascot, an adorable boy who was blasted out of his mind and greeted people by gently stroking their faces "face off" style. ellen williams even showed up who i havent seen in years and is just as pretty as a peach. but then lauren and i noticed super crazy drunk guy, who we've been to a party with. at one point during that party he had jumped a fence with a butcher knife, cut down a windsock and broke the fence trying to get back over it. needless to say he scares the bejesus out of us. during a set he comes over and grabs lauren and drags her over to a bunch of guys. he tries to convince everyone of how he knows lauren and then says "of course i know her, i've tried to rape her a couple times" wtf!!! at that point i see nick II is near by grab lauren's hand, grab nick II's arm and drag us into his conversation. we find hazel and nick and tell them what’s up. hazel's way of handling the situation is yelling "KAKAW KAKAW" every time he enters the back room. it's fucking hilarious. but then super drunk kid starts getting frisky with random girls. he corners super adorable kara of teamawesome and tells her how sexy her earmuffs are making her giggle nervously and try to twist away. her band mates, being dense boys, do not see the problem so we grab kara and pull her into our circle to protect her from further gropings. kara no longer being a target, super drunk guy practically lays on top of some girl who's on the phone. i think that she knows him but stand guard in case something happens. she's a big girl and doesnt put up with his shit and just leaves. later hazel comes up to us and tells us that super drunk guy just rubbed his crotch into her ass and that was not okay. Me, im starting to get nervous. while talking to some other kids a commotion starts not to far from where we're standing. super drunk guy has started randomly punching some kid in the head. this does not sit well with the kids that live here and super drunk guy is tackled and pushed out of the room. nick b. got all commando security guardish and puts super drunk guy into a headlock and throws him out of the venue. everyone is a little shaken but mostly confused about what just happened. we all think its over and try to relax and enjoy the next set.

while sitting in the gallery area i notice a small girl getting in the face of a kid who actually came with super drunk guy. he said something to piss her off. nick II seeing things are getting out of hand tries to pull the guy back, then the guy takes a swing at nickII punching him in the face!! hell breaks lose again and i almost get hit. i run outside to get nick b. but when i get outside i see that super drunk kid hasn't left and there are two fights raging out there. i try to get back in but alexis peeks through and the fight inside is right by the door so she slams the door close. i start freaking out. im not very good in public places as it is and this was really starting to make the crazy blood flow. somehow i get nick b. inside and that fight whirls by me to the outdoors and into the street. im totally freaking at this point and just scream up the stairs "HAZEL, LAUREN, GET YOUR SHIT WE'RE GETTING THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" i must of been loud because in a second they come flying down the stairs and we're crossing the street. nick is still tangled in the three other fights and im screaming for him too. we get into lauren's car and i have cover my ears and put my head between my legs before i pass out, throw up, or start whimpering uncontrollably. after a few minutes of smoking and me freaking out, hazel and nick head back towards rhinoceropolis to see if things have calmed down. lauren and i of course follow.

inside, they're setting up for the next set and groups of people franticly discuss what happened. i was stupid to go back in. i really need to get on medication for my anxiety. its really weird. it's like being lost in a blanket of noise, you cant hear anything. well actually i can hear everything. like i can hear everyone's separate conversation but since everyone's talking their voices start layering and im unable to filter through the noise to focus on one sound. this is something that is progressively getting worse. and is really starting to scare the crap out of me. i practically tore my scarf apart until nick b. noticed and just held me until i found myself again. it was fucking crazy.

but the show must go on and i wandered around making sure everyone involved was okay. nick b. and the housemates talked to the cops and hazel went around apologizing and fixing things up. in the end teamawesome went on and i danced around. we didn't stay through the last set. i realized that super drunk guy knew where the Château was and probably knew that they were having a party there last night too. i got nervous again because i couldn’t call birdy to warn her what was up. so lauren being such a wonderful friend agrees to drive down there so we can check on them. we're all pretty wound up and relived to see that super drunk kid has not made an appearance, but there are a bunch of high school kids there that birdy doesnt know. they start being loud and we start getting nervous. eventually birdy's brother comes over to get them to shut up and birdy just goes over and kicks them out. the kids feel that this is a personal attack on them because they're from aurora. how the fuck would we know that? they yell shit but but dont start anything. nick b. follows them outside to make sure they leave peacefully and we start to say goodbye.

all in all the evening was fucked up but still pretty awesome. i got to hang out with a bunch of old friends and catch up with lots of people. i listened to some kick ass bands play and met some new kids to swap stories with. i'm just pissed that this guy could fuck up something as awesome as rhinoceropolis and disrespect the guys that lived there and breakdown that much. it was totally not fucking okay. people need to grow up and learn to control themselves. everything is not about them, some people just want to hangout. so kids the lesson is, dont fuck yourself up, sexually harass random girls, and start fights with super chill people. it's just not kosher.

quotes for the evening:

"im going to go cuddle with my girlfriend because i just got punched in the face! i havent been in a fight since seventh grade and i just got punched in the face!"

"Oh my god i love this song! (pushes lauren and i into the gallery) KAKAW KAKAW!"

posted by lulu @ 1:40 PM