I don't know if anyones interested but we (popularity contest) are playing a show with some really good bands this Thursday. The other bands are: Preppy Relatives Essen (probably) State Champs Tim Robbins Experience. The show is at the Khyber on Barrington street and is licensed but I don't think they check ids too much. They are too desperate to make a little money. The kyhber is an amazing place and we really should try to support it, as well as the show being good.
By the way, I noticed something that really made me feel bad downtown yesterday. On the board in the window at Cafe Ole I saw a band listed called "Date Rap". I cant understand why the guy who runs that place feels like its acceptable to have that band advertised so fucking prominently. I cant imagine that the girls and women who go there as part of their social scene will feel safe there at all with that kind of tolerance of physical threats against them. I'm sure lots of people will say I'm overreacting and that its just a band name. The fact is its not. Its something that those girls will feel like is part of what it means to be cool. If they don't get it, if they feel threatened by it, its because they are not cool enough. If they let it go then the boys who called their band "Date Rap" think its fine and that they will never meet any resistance. It seems very fucked up to me. Emily.xxxxxxxxxx
