[maddy29]

heh heh whammy-we should meet up at the next concert.

gotta love allston dude. once i was walking by Wing It on comm ave, and this tiny little mouse ran out of the wall right in front of me. i was all "EEEKKK". MM, wing it and their "churkey". Awesome

As for getting away, new hampshire is great. you can pick up some fireworks, go hiking, there's so much open space up there, and it's not too far from boston.

plum island in newburyport is great, although some of it may still be closed down because of the birds nesting there. we saw tons of sweet birds last time.

i went on a whale watch last week, that was soooo great! right down at the harbor, it was fun ad they guarantee you'll see whales or you can come back again for free...

have you ever been to the decordova museum? they have 36 acre grounds and there are cool sculptures and stuff all over the grounds.

i'll try to think of more. i'm going hiking at mt. pawtuckaway, it's my easy hike to get me back into it. i'm a sucky hiker but my dude loves it.

[cstars124]

Sorry laurenann, i don't have any ideas about getting away from people. Usually, on the weekends when I don't feel like being in the city, I go to Rhode Island and spend the weekend there.

I'm excited cause my birthday is next Thursday and I'm going to Jillians! I went last year for my birthday and I don't remember a dress code, but their website says you can't wear timberland boots or work boots? Does anyone know how strict they are on those type of things?

[laurenann]

i've been on great scott's outdoor patio once, after my boyfriend's jamaica plain wiffle ball team played the lower allston wiffle ball team last summer. we all went out for drinks and nachos after the game.

i NEED to get out of the city this weekend and away from people. any ideas?

[gumby_cc]

Last summer I was sitting on the Common Ground's outdoor patio when a super gigantic rat snuck out from under the fence and ran underneath all the tables to the other side of the patio. People screamed and stood up but nobody left

[whammy_bar]

cool! hah!! you're making me want to go now!!

I still haven't sat on Great Scott's OUTDOOR PATIO yet though!

Dirty, saggy pressure treated wood and plastic lawn chairs on the large concrete sidewalks, breathing all the exhaust of a major intersection -- how lovely.

[maddy29]

oh no! ick. well i'll be dragging my man along, so hopefully my butt won't get grinded on....i sooo don't miss that from the bar scene.

yeah, i'd just be there to have fun and it's just fun and goofiness.

lol about being bad at 17 when you went to college-me too-i realllly made up for lost time! heh heh

[whammy_bar]

Sorry for my annoying posts. I realize the name of the band now -- the one called Mr. Brownstone is playing at the Paradise but they've gotten pretty lame. The one I have not yet seen is playing at Harper's.

Also, I'm not snotty about how people dress or what they do - banking or finance careers would actually be pretty cool if you wanted kids or something because they have limited hours while still being a well-paid profession.

I'm not talking about snubbing people if they're not "rock" enough, I'm talking about people who get all prissy and pissy at other people in the bar, act like they are at work or on the green line train and stand there with their drinks posing in hand and not talking to people and not --- respecting the goofy fun of the occasion.

Different kinda thing.

Me, I was a sweet little goody two shoes hippie in high school, drawing and reading, but I loved rock, so broke "bad" when I went to college at 17. It was fun. No regrets.

We don't diss the beige slacks crowd unless they diss us, but, be honest, how often does that happen? Pinched, frowny, fussy little faces at midnight in a sloppy beer club. Ack.

Maybe that is the boston disease affecting katiebelle...

but generally a lot of finance people can be a lot of fun...

you'll see what I mean when a short dude with glasses and a backwards white baseball hat tries to grind against your butt unless you stand against the back wall. ish kaBIBble.

I'm hoping I'm wrong and you get some cuties

[maddy29]

I'm actually glad the audience is not like, "cool" or anything, cause i'm just a big old dork who likes GNR. i felt soooo out of place at the concert-i was like this high school dork and everyone else there was a "bad" kid-ya know, tight black jeans, smoking, drinking, etc.

[whammy_bar]

Oh, I love GNR, past and present, I'm just telling your the audience is pretty disappointing. This is a different one that's playing at Harper's.


The one that's now playing at the Paradise relies on wigs a heck of a lot.

[maddy29]

ok, i'm going to that gnr coverband-anyone want to go with? i missed one that was in june, becuase my mama was in town. but i am SO THERE at the next one. i saw the real gnr in concert in 93, and yes they are total pigs but they rock.

[whammy_bar]

I saw the GNR cover band that used to play Harper's and is now playing the Paradise, and the first show was kind of fun, but now I do not see the point. I would dig up my leather jacket and lace-up pointy boots and put on a ton of eyeliner and be stuck in an audience of little geeky junior stockbroker boys still wearing their work outfits, dragging their annoyed reallystraightgirl girl friends into the dance pit so they could try to get their freak on.

It was the wrong kind of disturbing.

[gumby_cc]

There's some GNR coverband at Harpers Ferry sometime in August. My boyfriend saw them last month and said it sounded exactly like Axl during the best performance of his life.
And I'm kind of embarressed to admit it but I want to see Nelly Furtado.

[mermaidgirl13]

Weakerthans and Rancid are at Paradise.

Chilli Peppers is at Garden in October.
Jack White's new band the Raconteurs is at Orpheum in October too.

[cellijenni]

yes, hellotampon.

But, now you'll have to look at the billboard that says:

"come to hartford. i swear its fun"

[crazyoldcatlady]

teehee, hellotampon... that reminds me of Happy Gilmore... the shirt that the one guy wears that says "Guns don't kill people, *I* kill people"

I visited home a week back, and I'm still getting planned parenthood emails about that state and things to do to stop some shitty legislation. and then i realized, it's harder to fight The Man up here, because so far public/legislative opinion in my state agrees with me...

A meet up would be cool, but I have a feeling my freetime is going to die a horrid death very shortly...

[hellotampon]

I just went to Tennessee this week and now I am SO glad to be back in CT, where I will not have to see any billboards saying, "Guns don't kill people, abortions do!"

[cstars124]

I'm living in boston until the beginning of september and then i'm moving back to RI...

Where are the concerts, mermaidgirl? I haven't seen/heard of any concerts that I'm interested in seeing.

[mermaidgirl13]

Anyone going to any concerts/shows this summer?

I'm seeing Rancid, The Weakerthans, and Les Claypool.

[mermaidgirl13]

I'm interested in meeting up!

[gumby_cc]

i went to halbut point yesterday and it was good. at good harbor (gloucester) there were actually like 6 people in the water. there didn't seem to be any more trash there than normal.
sign me up for being interested in meeting up!