If I Was Your Face I'd Kick Your Ass

Since I started a new job I've been nodding at people a lot lately, which is what you do when you don't really want to bother getting to know someone that you just met, so you just nod at them when you walk by, like "Hey, what's up, motherfucker, okay, cool", instead of actually getting into a conversation. So now I'm doing it everywhere, even when I'm not at work, I can't get rid of it. Like last night I'm at The Whitney House, and in the road there was a big rat the size of a shoe that had just gotten run over right in front of Whitney House, and as I'm looking down at the rat a neighborhood kid walks by with his hood up, and I look up at him while I'm looking at the rat and then I nod at both of them like "hey, what's up, okay, cool, motherfucker." Then when I bought the new Gowl 7" from Seth he said "Cool, Dave, thanks for listening", and it almost seemed like he meant it.

Gowl -

"Escalate This..."

Misanthropic Noise -

"Who Cares"

Pizza HiFive -

"Bathsalt Bloodbath"

It Ain't My Fault If Things Go Wrong

Consumption -

"Abandoned To Desolation"

No Tomorrow -

"Nothing Left"

Misanthropic Noise side of split cassette with Violent Gorge

For A Minute There I Thought You Said Something Smart

I got to The Whitney House at around 9 last night and was outta there by 10:30 without missing any of the bands, so overall I'd say things went pretty well. Hey, giving credit where credit is due. Misanthropic Noise's set was pretty excellent, even as their shit kept breaking (obviously to me a couple of patch cord glitches and a floor tom flopping over = "shit keeps breaking"). The last time I saw Misanthropic Noise -- which I think was one of their "battle" sets with Gowl -- I remember thinking that their drummer was pretty good; now I've upgraded that to thinking he's one of the top 5 or 6 drummers from around here. I mean, last night he was half the band, at least.

I wasn't all that into the second band and thought about leaving, but I ended up sticking around anyway for Aspects of War which kinda worked out because they were totally fucking nuts. It's been a while since the last really crazy fucked-up punk show I've caught at The Whitney House (probably Warning//Warning at the end of last year), but this was another one of those, with the singer knocking people over and throwing himself into the crowd and stuff. I mean, there was only about 5 people there besides the other bands so there was only so much that he could do, but I can appreciate the effort at least. Non-stop raw d-beat noise stuff (don't tell me where to put my commas, asshole),, shoulda known they'd sound great in a basement. I think the guitar player used to be in Fuckheads, too.

Aspects of War -

"Bombarded For Days"

Misanthropic Noise -

"Where's The Party, Party Man?"