Category: atlanta

Deep in the night…

When you find out Günther & the Sunshine Girls are playing your town, wait “playing”, how can you not go? And if it wasn’t for Kevin’s obsession with Günther (you can thank me later) I probably would have never found out about the show. Thank you soooo much for that. No really!

So it was pretty much what we expected in terms of performance. Günter moving from catalog pose to catalog pose while blonde chickies danced it up. All lip syncing of course. A little crowd chit chat in between. I think they were a little surprised that the crowd consisted largely of dudes. It was particularly amusing when they asked the crowd if there were any golddiggers out there and a bunch of dudes are shouting “YEAHHHH!!!” Someone else took a video of Pussycat that really captures the sausage fest aspect of the evening:

I got a partial video of the Christmas Song, but it’s not nearly as good since I wasn’t all up in the nest of dudes down front:

I’m sure a ton of videos will show up on the youtubes. There were plenty of people taking them.

Also part of the entertainment for the evening was a couple dry humping before and during the show. What made it even better was that the woman was wearing a spandex dress reminiscent of the best Contempo Casuals had to offer in 1988. It was essentially backless with a band around hold the top up at about bra level then material started again just above the ass crack. Or just below the ass crack which was the case much of the evening for this woman. Fabulous! Here’s a crackless view for you:

dry humping at günther & the sunshine girls

Anyway, I didn’t get very good pics, but the rest are here.

“and these are the people in your neighborhood…”

Pretty much daily I get an email from Scan DeKalb that lists people from my zip code that were admitted to DeKalb County Detention Center. (Shout out to 30316!) And bonus, it includes the mugshots. Every once in a while they’re pretty funny. Today I thought I’d share. The first one was from my email. The second I saw on the site and had to include. Sadly, that one isn’t a neighbor. Darn it!

dekalb mugshot 1

dekalb mugshot 2

Kitty and Stumpy

So Kitty, the juvenile possum, has apparently put me on his (or her) regular evening route. Every night as soon as it gets dark, he eats whatever the grey lover kitties leave. But there’s another possum that comes by. Tonight I let Kitty eat some, then chased him off. Not 10 minutes later Stumpy was chowing down. Stumpy? Yeah, that was a no brainer. He’s had some sort of accident and only has about an inch or so of tail left. He’s bigger and probably an adult. He’s also a bit more skittish and ran off before I could even consider a picture. So no scary, pointy critter pics. But hey, they’re North America’s only marsupials! Way to go, Kitty & Stumpy! Maybe I should just put a sign out on my fence “East Atlanta Petting Zoo” and start charging admission.

Gogol Bordello

gogol bordello at the roxy in atlanta, ga 10/19/07

Wow. Let me say that again….WOW! Non-stop, high-energy, great bunch of bouncy fun. I don’t care what kind of music you like, if you get the chance to see Gogol Bordello, do it. I was with a group of people who have all been to many, many shows and we were all basically in agreement that this was at the very least in our top five shows of all time.

Since we’re old, we got to the Roxy early and nabbed the front row of the balcony so we could sit on our asses.  The sold out crowd did Atlanta proud by being every bit as energetic as the band. I’ll have to say that Atlanta does seem to give good crowd compared to some other cities. And I was able to get a few shots with my iPhone which didn’t come out too badly.

There was also an afterparty at Lenny’s, so, what the hell, we headed over there. The band showed up and Eugene Hütz, the lead singer, was the DJ. Good stuff, but since we’re all old, and the smoke was getting to us, we left around 1:15AM or so. I was driving, so there was no drinking enough to get me dancing anyway.

Herbivore Magazine Release Party Tonight

Herbivore Magazine editor Josh Hooten will be in town tonight for an Herbivore Magazine Release Party at Cosmo’s Vegan Shoppe. The fun starts at 6pm October 8th and I hear a rumor that there’ll be nummy vegan treats there. Also, a portion of sales all day will go to Good Mews so you can load up on goodies and help kitties. Yay!