Bauhaus and NIN were awesome the other night! I have never seen Bauhaus bafore– for a bunch of old dudes, they can rock! Peter Murphy was properly goth-esque in a ruffly suit. He had this 6-foot bamboo pole that he carried around and waved at things, and threw around. in fact, there was a roadie whose main function was to fetch his pole whenever he chucked it someplace. He would do these sort of goth-robics where he bowed, and acted like he was flying, and other dramatic bodily contortions and then chuck handfuls red rose petals around. he even put a rose on the end of his pole and presented it to a chick in the audience. They teased us by starting to play “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” and then not finishing, which was kinda cool. They also did “Ziggy Stardust” which is always fun. Basically, Bauhaus was awesome, although the audience didn’t pay the proper respect it should have. Because they were the opening band (and maybe because it was still light out, which was weird– Bauhaus is definitely not a daytime band), everyone was talking ans walking around and being annoying. The proper reverence was not shown.

That brings me to another weird thing– the audience was full of jocks and meatheads. The number of actual goths was probably somewhere around 2%. There were a bunch of Lilith Fair-oid hippie chicks as well. The meathead quotient was amazing, though. I saw shaved-head dudes wearing t-shirts ranging from Slayer and Slipknot to Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. Many went shirtless, and many more were sporting witty slogans such as “drink until I’m cute” and “Ny Name is Your Daddy.” The amount of testosterone in the air was pretty overwhelming, though. Robin was looking fabulous in his brand new black goth-kilt, and apparently he got threatened with bodily harm from various jocks about 6 times on the way to the bathroom.

I blame Trent’s new-found Rollins-Stump neck and shaved head.
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and still retain the same angsty fans? By being The Vice-Principal of Mope (he’s still not in league with Morrissey), that’s how. Wouldn’t you think that all the meatheads at the show would
1. think that beating up ROBIN (who has to buy pants from the kids’ section because he’s so skinny and short) wouldn’t be that much of a challenge, since one little flick and he’d be flying across the oparking lot
2. find someone who sings stuff like “gray would be the color… if I had a heart” and used to hang out with Marilyn Manson just a little too gay for them?

Apparently not. The jocks were hollering and making that whooping noise that jocks make when you get them around beer the whole time. There was this one kid who was wearing a Red Sox shirt with “Nixon” on the back (a red sock pitcher for those of you not from MA) and some meatheads saw it and started yelling “NIXXXXONNNNNN!!!! WOOOOOOOOO!!!! YEAHH! NIXXXXONNNN!!!” I thought it was strange behavior for a meathead not in his native habitat. Robin made an astute observation, though– meatheads make everyplace their native habitat. If there are too many weird goths around, they just start whooping and hollering at a Trot Nixon shirt and make everywhere their own. I suppose it’s a good survival mechanism.

As for threatening my little scrawny concert companion, I suppose it’s natural for animals to shun the weak– I mean, if a fish is sick, the healthy fish will smack it wround and gang up on it until its dead. Birds and I’m assuming other species do this as well. It makes sense– it elimaintes the weak from the gene pool. Is that is the animal base instinct that dudes sporting mullets and Slipknot shirts are tapping into? I mean, you don’t see goths going up to people wearing Bauhaus t-shirts and saying “BAUUUHAAAUUUUSSSS!!! YEEAHHHH!!!! PEEEETER MURRRRRPPPHHYYYYY!!!!! WOOOOOO!!!!!!!” Are they less animalistic? Are having good manners and being respectful of people (OK, scratch that last one, since Robin and I made fun of our fair share of rednecks at that show) more evolved, or just fooling themselves by being more removed from what we all are– animals?

I knew something was up when in between Bauhaus and Nine Inch Nails, a dude came out with a jumbo vaccuum cleaner (it had headlights!) and sucked up all the fallen rose petals. Anyway, the show was awesome, with or without the high hick population.