Whisky A Go Go

Jukebox: Ministry - Land of Rape & Honey

I was looking through clubs in LA and came across the Whisky's page and I remember something from when I first moved here six years ago. I was driving along Sunset past the Whisky and I looked up and thought, "Hey, it's the Whisky. That's where Motley Crue played and where they filmed the 'Kickstart My Heart' video."

Immediately after or during that thought my eyes fixed in on the marquee and noticed that a band named Rurik was performing there. Rurik was a band that I don't think I've ever heard before but they are from Hawai'i and they've come up twice before. Once was when my friend Olana used to wear their shirt and I used to tell her they sucked. Even though I hadn't heard them before. That was a thing me and this kid Jaycee used to do to her.

Second time was the year following or prior but my friend Ryan Potes was playing with that band. He quit because they were all professional and had a "real" manager and all that shit. I'm assuming they were a rock band because when Ryan quit he said one of the reasons was that while they were playing, Ryan would jump around stage and get all into the music and the band and the manager kept telling him that he shouldn't do it. It doesn't look good. I've seen Ryan in his later band, Unit 101, and he and the rest of the band jumped around and rocked and played flying v guitars and looked good doing it, so it's not as if while playing with Rurik that he was looking retarded jumping and running around; it's just that they wanted this stupid image of them standing on stage playing and looking pretty. They're fucking stupid is what I'm getting at.

Speaking of, one of my main goals today, as a result of yesterday and days of yore, was to call and confirm all the jobs today, tomorrow, and Monday so I don't get barraged with calls all day doing that. My boss (not Bruce Springsteen) keeps calling me telling me I should do all these thing that I already know to do thereby preventing me from doing my plan. So after the last call I get from him, I get a call from this asshole confirming his pick-up tonight.

Yeah. Great story.

Anyone going on the 110 N, don't go. They've closed two lanes or so for construction and it's like a parking lot on there.

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