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1/17/2005
EAR PLUGS
The more details that surface around the closing of Echo Lounge, the more it
looks like mismanagement of the liquor license may have been to blame for the
closure, though I’m sure if they were making enough money they would’ve been
motivated to handle the situation better. But the reasons don’t really matter
any more, the place is gone.
In other news, we have more responses to our Underground rants:
I'm laughing my ass off about your Cobb County yuppie scum comment in your rant
about underground!! I was just the other day thinking how hysterical its going
to be to put my Degenerate Press sticker on the back of my newly acquired
mini-van with my Cobb County vanity plate that reads "MYRUBY1"!!! Oh the HORROR
of it!!! Being dragged into the "establishment" really DOES suck; I'm still
resistant but nonetheless resigned. Really, we're not all yuppie scum but rather
those forced to grow up, rear children responsibly, and purchase a home bigger
than a bread box upon which we're not levied intown sewer taxes. Damn the bad
luck! Frankly, I don't consider myself yuppie scum at all; more along the lines
of displaced intowner!! So, here's hoping there's ANYONE besides myself living
in Cobb County that reads Degenerate Press who can appreciate the irony posted
on my back window! Meanwhile, love your rants and stay out of way of my ruby red
"DP stickered" Chrysler minivan (yes, even complete with DVD)!!!! LMAO!!
Peace
Degenerate TD
I agree that they are all yuppie scum. No one hates Yuppies more then I. But I
just got back from Orlando, partying on Int. Blvd. and as from a tourist
standpoint it was nice to be able to get in a cab ask for a safe enviroment
where there are lots of bars that I can walk to without having to pay outrages
cab fees to go from one to another. Yes it was scuppieville but at the same time
there were 20 bars/restaurants to walk to. I hooked up with some crazy English
chap's who were supposed to go to Phukkett and a half loon Canadian and we had a
ball tossing back Bass(the only good beer you could find) and talking about my
fav. sport football(or soccer to the rest of you). So that was nice from that
aspect, just like Underground will be for others. Let's keep the tourist and the
scuppies in one place away from the rest of us. But overall a nice experience.
Oh and let's lay blame the closing early on the shoulders to whom that blame
belongs, Urban young african americans(although probably more american then
african) who cause trouble. Let's not forget in Athens the same thing happend.
The Fifth Quarter a bar was a bar that catered to the thugs in Athens. Frist it
started out with girls getting harrassed as they walked by, then came the
stabbing and finally the shooting and this is what closed the bars in Athen's
from 4 to 2a.m. I know I was living there in a loft above Rocky's pizza when it
was happening. So all the other 100 bar's that didn't cater to this clientale
paid the price. Do not lay blame on the city, lay blame on the degeneRATS(to
borrow a phrase) from the idiots with guns, phat wheels and no parental control,
and maybe even hip hop itself. That is why we have to go home early and you are
kidding yourself if you believe otherwise. So do not band Underground or you are
just letting those same thugs ruin even more fun and places to go for you. And
that is sad indeed!!! Plus if all of us punkabilly goats start showing up in
force and demanding good bookings well we can only imagine how many Drive By
Truckers shows it will take to run the hooligans out, probably not many...
Degenerate KH
And degenerate JH said of Underground the other day, “I’m not going to let
principle stand in the way of a good time.”
As I recall, the Atlanta City Council was supposed to revisit the closing time
issue after a year’s trial run. Anyone know if they’re actually going to bring
this up again, or already have?
We also got this in response to last episode’s Ear Plugs:
As the former bassist for both the Ditchdiggers and Motor 76, I
think I am qualified to tell ya what's missing...
Being out to impress just to impress never got my attention, and was
one of the reasons I left back when I did. I wish the guys well, and
miss playing out more than I can say... but I couldn't go they way they
were going. If you know anyone who's looking, give me a shout.
Otherwise I'll see you at Fantasm I imagine...
John Paul Stout
FILM FLAM
A couple degenerates and I caught House of Flying Daggers on Friday. We were
hoping for heaps of kung fu action but instead got loads of slow mo shots of
guys on horses riding through colorful forests raining flower petals a la
Crouching Tiger or Hero. The plot is interesting, sort of a Greek tragedy or
Romeo and Juliet love story, but I could’ve used 50% less slow mo scenery and
75% more people beating the crap out of each other. A fine film, really, it just
wasn’t what I was in the mood for. A good date film, since half the scenes look
straight off the cover of a Harlequin romance novel – lots of
shirts-being-torn-to-the-shoulder seduction scenes, and just enough flying kicks
and swinging swords to keep the action junkies interested, if not excited. But
it is subtitled, so you and your date have to be foreign film tolerant. It is
distracting to have to pull your eye off the lush scenery and good acting to
read the dialogue.
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