I said I would write up this show, but once again (and this is my 4th Rattler bonanza I’ve attended) I feel that really:
a. all you need to reminisce about a Rattler show is photos
and
b.if you weren’t there not even photos will do it justice (though FITSUM DID A KICK ASS JOB)
and
c. everyone ends up getting so shitty drunk that writing something is like attempting to retrieve all the braincells you lost during that semester abroad you spent in Thailand.
Anyhoo, in short-
Death by Sexy opened fast and furiously, Kara was in town from LA to keep the momentum going in between and after sets, and the rest can be summarized in:
Some sweaty / beer soaked butt got kicked. The rest is history:
(-svetlana)
I was thinking, even before I saw your comment Lex (so I’m not commenting to be contrary), that I think the people in the second to last shot should all be punched in the face with ceramic gloves.
I mean it’s a good shot. It’s a really good shot. It’s the people in it that I don’t get. Trying to suck down a drop of some dude’s shitty tasting hipster PBR because he happens to be on stage pouring it out?
Stupid.
December 31, 2007 at 1:01 pmbut PBR is so good silly…
&perhaps they were aware of the camera and wanted to give fitsum something to work with = not stupid
December 31, 2007 at 3:01 pmThanks Lexie and Michael. Although I’m pretty sure they only saw me as a nice dry target, especially when it became obvi I wasn’t trying to get soaked.
Seems DCist liked this one tho - http://dcist.com/2007/12/31/whats_that_you_11.php
December 31, 2007 at 3:51 pmsnaps for Michael
December 31, 2007 at 5:02 pmMy problem isn’t so much with the second-to-last pic as with all the ones before it and the one after it. Who the fuck would be caught dead at some dorky hipster shit fest like this? Lame. SO fucking lame. Some dude had on a Stryper t shirt. Come on.
December 31, 2007 at 6:24 pmILU Michael.
December 31, 2007 at 7:06 pm“Who the fuck would be caught dead at some dorky hipster shit fest like this? ”
At least a couple hundred. Looks like they had some fun too.
If you want lame, let’s talk about that hip hop rap shit. I mean, wtf? It’s just a silly fad. It’s not even real music. Dag …
Well, there’s a lot of underground hip hop artists who are damn good and take their craft seriously and warrant a lot of respect. This is a joke. It’s like going to the county fair. But, if people get happiness out of it, so be it. At least 62,028,285 in this country would. But… seriously, would you actually call this real music???
December 31, 2007 at 7:53 pmok. you win.
*snore.
Talking shit in comments on shows where people are being awesome and having fun is so 1997. This year why don’t you negative losers concentrate on moving out of your mom’s basement?
LOL @ Evan in that first picture, so hilarious.
January 1, 2008 at 2:59 pmClamoring over other dudes with your tongue out and mouth open to try and get a bit of PBR being poured out by some dude in a mediocre band is not “being awesome.” Not in 2007, not in 1997.
But that’s just my opinion. If you think it is “being awesome” you are as free to feel that way as I am to feel this way.
Kind of cool how that works.
January 1, 2008 at 5:33 pmc’mon, that vintage Stryper t-shirt was pricey, and I’ve been waiting 4 months for the right moment to whip it out.
…ok I guess that is kind of lame.
January 1, 2008 at 8:52 pmI actually owned Stryper’s “To Hell With the Devil” (1986) on cassette.
January 2, 2008 at 11:07 amThat’s what the shirt is from, on the back it says:
777
To Hell With the Devil
I’m shocked that during the discussion of the 2nd to last photo nobody said “money shot”.
January 2, 2008 at 11:42 ami love how someone just said “dag.”
January 2, 2008 at 2:17 pm:P
looks like Martin didn’t get my joke about hip hop and rappers tho
January 2, 2008 at 3:35 pm
that second to last shot is pretty effin kudo-worthy.
December 31, 2007 at 12:21 pm