xVx or death?
i've spent the last two days at this vegan straight edge house. just becuase you are xVx, does not make you an anarchist. most of these kids arent into anything else except xvx. the one girl who is the oldest (22) in the house is pretty radical and she's into cool shit. i'm not sure how i feel about her yet but i think i like her. she just acts like a teenager sometimes and that really bothers me. not to say that people have to mature all day all the time, but theres a difference between maturity and idiocy. and fun and stupid. there are signs on the front door saying no meat, no drugs, ect. and most members of the household are wearing "go vegan" or sxe shirts everyday. there are some cool things about this house too, i'm just feeling a little bitter about the way that they all project their values so intensely. i feel like a pretty radical thinker and i'm being judged by these sxe kids who don't even know me or what i'm about. not like anyones challenging me, but i can feel it.
we been sleeping out on the porch cuz it's been so cool and breezy at night. the 'sqeetoes only bite at dawn and only if you leave an elbow or a finger poking out of your bag. we had vegan breakfast which is somewhat of a tradition in this house, a lovely tradition. biscuits and gravy. i met some nice kids and most people left to go to best friends day at the lake. i would have opted to go with mo who just left but everything everyone said about the lake AND best friends day in general is bad. the lake is a big toxic bath tub of regurgitated PBR and staff infection. sounds real appealing to me. i'm gonna go swimming at the river today.
i'm not really sure why we came to richmond. i guess we thought this was gonna be something other than what it was. we went to the show at alley catz last night which was a bar in an alley. it was so punk. municipal waste played, paint it black, caustic christ and some other generic punk bands who we've all seen a million times. but for those of us who showed up late and never planned on paying in the first place, hanging out with the distro in the alley was good enough for me. we could hear the bands from the alley and if you wanted to see them, you just stood up on the open windowsills. i met this rad kid who helped translate at daggers drawn into deutch and talked to him a while about insurrectionist zines and other sweet stuff. kids from europe are totally into that shit, but theres not a lot of people who are into it here, which is why we distro it i guess. to get it out there cuz its the bomb. i met a couple nice crusties from new orleans and drank cheap beer and whiskey and smoked half a cigarette. i was feeling really good and had fun. boone was there and i bought him beer. we walked together to the beer store and i didnt get carded anyways. weiz sold about $35 worth of candy and i sold a book and matt sold a bunch of zines. we did well. maybe 60 bucks all together, which is more than the gas money we put in to get here so we're up as far as frogskins go.
everywhere in richmond that i look i see someone covered in tattoos, or a crusty kid, or a traveler with a dog. i mean there was a very professional woman at staples faxing something with both arms 3/4 sleeved. this town is ok. theres one nice part of town where alison lives where its real old and dirty but the houses are made of brick. the wooden ones are really fallin apart. there are a lot of thrash kids here who are really weird and the xVx scene is huge. i dont think we could afford to live here though. rent is a little better but to buy something takes a huge investment i think. i should look it up before i say that, i actually dont know it just seems that way. there are def a lot of kids here, a scene, things going down and it might be fun. its a big city though and its a little far from the opposite of civilization.
i'm trying to keep tabs on the places we visit. we are making a huge decision and i want to remember how i felt about these places, the good and the bad. my experiences are very telling in a new place too. i know i wouldnt live in greensboro after spending a week there, but richmond aint looking so bad at the moment. i especially like the oregon hill neighborhood. the downtwon cary street area was real shitty though. just bar after bar after bar and tons of people i dont like. and cops cops cops everywhere. i think there were a lot more cops in greensboro, but shit. big cities and college town always have a lot of cops. i have to check out the queer scene and see if there are queer friendly places or gay bars.
paint it black is playing with ceremony tonight at a house and i am stoked. its gonna be hecka tight.
we been sleeping out on the porch cuz it's been so cool and breezy at night. the 'sqeetoes only bite at dawn and only if you leave an elbow or a finger poking out of your bag. we had vegan breakfast which is somewhat of a tradition in this house, a lovely tradition. biscuits and gravy. i met some nice kids and most people left to go to best friends day at the lake. i would have opted to go with mo who just left but everything everyone said about the lake AND best friends day in general is bad. the lake is a big toxic bath tub of regurgitated PBR and staff infection. sounds real appealing to me. i'm gonna go swimming at the river today.
i'm not really sure why we came to richmond. i guess we thought this was gonna be something other than what it was. we went to the show at alley catz last night which was a bar in an alley. it was so punk. municipal waste played, paint it black, caustic christ and some other generic punk bands who we've all seen a million times. but for those of us who showed up late and never planned on paying in the first place, hanging out with the distro in the alley was good enough for me. we could hear the bands from the alley and if you wanted to see them, you just stood up on the open windowsills. i met this rad kid who helped translate at daggers drawn into deutch and talked to him a while about insurrectionist zines and other sweet stuff. kids from europe are totally into that shit, but theres not a lot of people who are into it here, which is why we distro it i guess. to get it out there cuz its the bomb. i met a couple nice crusties from new orleans and drank cheap beer and whiskey and smoked half a cigarette. i was feeling really good and had fun. boone was there and i bought him beer. we walked together to the beer store and i didnt get carded anyways. weiz sold about $35 worth of candy and i sold a book and matt sold a bunch of zines. we did well. maybe 60 bucks all together, which is more than the gas money we put in to get here so we're up as far as frogskins go.
everywhere in richmond that i look i see someone covered in tattoos, or a crusty kid, or a traveler with a dog. i mean there was a very professional woman at staples faxing something with both arms 3/4 sleeved. this town is ok. theres one nice part of town where alison lives where its real old and dirty but the houses are made of brick. the wooden ones are really fallin apart. there are a lot of thrash kids here who are really weird and the xVx scene is huge. i dont think we could afford to live here though. rent is a little better but to buy something takes a huge investment i think. i should look it up before i say that, i actually dont know it just seems that way. there are def a lot of kids here, a scene, things going down and it might be fun. its a big city though and its a little far from the opposite of civilization.
i'm trying to keep tabs on the places we visit. we are making a huge decision and i want to remember how i felt about these places, the good and the bad. my experiences are very telling in a new place too. i know i wouldnt live in greensboro after spending a week there, but richmond aint looking so bad at the moment. i especially like the oregon hill neighborhood. the downtwon cary street area was real shitty though. just bar after bar after bar and tons of people i dont like. and cops cops cops everywhere. i think there were a lot more cops in greensboro, but shit. big cities and college town always have a lot of cops. i have to check out the queer scene and see if there are queer friendly places or gay bars.
paint it black is playing with ceremony tonight at a house and i am stoked. its gonna be hecka tight.