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I went to see Riesgo at Rubbergloves last night with Dylan, more or less on a whim. I'd not been to a show in a while, and it'd been even longer since I've been to Rubbergloves. I'd not seen the new remodel, and the walls are no longer the electric blue they used to be. It put me in a nostaligic mood, thinking off all the bands I've seen there...the time we saw Modest Mouse and Los peed on the floor and Isaac Brock rolled around in it...the time we saw the Shins and barely got in before the show sold out...the time Tom Foolery opened for Mister Joe (that's the old guy who sings the dirty songs with the keyboard, right)...Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and Dismemberment Plan...the time Les Savy Fav's singer ate a cigarrette he stole from a bored asshat on stage....
I could go on.
Being there, in a mostly empty 'gloves, knowing only the person at the door, the person I came with, and the band I came to see made me feel very, very old. I was particularly amused by a scene couple, standing in a manner that when I saw their feet all clad in Chucks, I thought to myself "Hey, look, it's the scenester with three legs!" Hey, I thought this was funny. But I felt old, because the scene kids still dress the same, but I'm too old to dress like that or even want to (nothing like a fat white belt to mush my chub up and out of my ultra-lowrise jeans...no thank you!), and seeing the X on the girl's hand I remembered being too young to buy beer at Rubbergloves, and now I'm suprised sometimes when people ask me for my ID.
I'm only 24. I shouldn't feel old.
I could go on.
Being there, in a mostly empty 'gloves, knowing only the person at the door, the person I came with, and the band I came to see made me feel very, very old. I was particularly amused by a scene couple, standing in a manner that when I saw their feet all clad in Chucks, I thought to myself "Hey, look, it's the scenester with three legs!" Hey, I thought this was funny. But I felt old, because the scene kids still dress the same, but I'm too old to dress like that or even want to (nothing like a fat white belt to mush my chub up and out of my ultra-lowrise jeans...no thank you!), and seeing the X on the girl's hand I remembered being too young to buy beer at Rubbergloves, and now I'm suprised sometimes when people ask me for my ID.
I'm only 24. I shouldn't feel old.