a portrait of albany NY on a saturday afternoon

[goatschool]

in the midst of a populated streetfest:

the players are, myself (dressed as wallflower), my friend (dressed as pregnant), young mall punk wearing super-obscure t-shirt whose subject matter will remain unnamed (otherwise dressed as tent).

young mall punk walking toward us.

me to friend: "watch make fool of myself"
friend: "no no make fool of yourself"

me to mall kid: "hey. hey. yeah. hey. where you get that shirt??????"
mall kid "WWW.XXXXXXXX.COM"

mall kid continues aimlessly into streetfest, unphased that anyone else within 150,000 mile radius shared a common interest.

the end

 

[goatschool]

and to keep on topic, i encountered a severely medicated skinhead death-metal guy whom i hadn't seen in a few years, an individual always rumored to cultivate hateful tendencies, but never quite confirmed.

he who wears flea-bitten entombed longsleeve: "i was in a band for a while and it was called "Racial Genocide"
me: "oh man."
he who wears flea-bitten entombed longsleeve: "yeah but they (?) couldn't take that so i changed the name to (something i can't remember"

later

he who wears flea-bitten entombed longsleeve, turning his head and looking into the crowd: "fuckin cross-breeders, i don't understand them"
me: "..."

the end v2.0

 

[goatschool]

a prologue to the second passage is when he who wears flea-bitten entombed longsleeve told me i wasn't very grindcore for drinking diet pepsi.

an epilogue, i hope, is that i somehow convinced him he could obtain my phone number via my website, so he could order "shit"

 

[goatschool]

albany. do not tour here.

 

[xfer]

gwahaha!

 

[minxnim]

'flea bitten' is like, the best phrase ever.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

he is right. diet pepsi is SO not grindcore.

 

[Weapon X]

 

[minxnim]

what dudes, pepsi one MUST be then because that shit is serious.

 

[goatschool]

dousing myself with aspartame and greatly increasing the risk of developing several brain tumors is not grindcore?

FUCK YOU

 

[minxnim]

what he said.

 

[xfer]

Eh, he should be drinking MOUNTAIN DEW, because it is the only beverage EXTREME ENOUGH for a real grindcore kid. I mean, how do you get more EXTREME than MOUNTAIN DEW?

 

[goatschool]

I mean, how do you get more EXTREME than MOUNTAIN DEW

MD: CODE RED dude, thus equating me with BLOOD, BLOOD DUSTER, BLOODSOAKED, BLOODSUCKING FREAKS, BLOODSUCKERS, BLOOD SUCKERS (there is a difference), HAEMORRHAGE, and of course, AGATHOCLES for whatever reason

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

ooh damn alex got TOLD (or, what he said)

 

[xfer]

ah shit, you're totally right! i'm going to huddle in a corner and drink Moxie and watch the real badasses get all in-yer-face and crush code red cans on their heads and stuff.