As if last night wasn’t enough fun?
The Fiery Furnaces with Ki:Theory & The Tapeworms at the Satellite Ballroom, doors at 9. Video above. I’m an instant fan. Anyone who sounds that good and uses a pop-up book as the base for their music video, rock. And I swear I saw Ki:Theory at least four years ago and they were… memorable. In an alley off University on the corner.
Dance. Yeah, you. DJ XSV spins mashups at Club R2, inside Rapture. Downtown Mall.
OurSpace 2 at Dust, 10:30 to (get this sheeit) 3:30. Four bands and Videonics. oy’s told us about it. Rock. Meade and East Market.
Because you’re not gonna find them at IHOP. Ambient pancakes at the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative until sunrise. Across from Spudnuts.
More music venues tonight, courtesy of c-ville.com: Durty Nelly’s, Fellini’s #9, Gravity Lounge, Hamilton’s, Maya, Mono Loco, and the Outback Lodge.
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What? You are all weekend e-vampires and don’t post during the day?
Or do you have actual lives? Or are you all hung over bastids.
*crickets*
Anyway, thanks to the many villains that popped in to say hey, (and especially that to those that danced the whole set!). It was a weird ass night, and I was not at my best in the beginning, but I was by the end cuz of your friendly faces. I appreciate the curative villain effect it deeply.
The true villains just got back from helping indie dork build a house. I can now install wood flooring. Booyah!
Are the good folks who get kicked outta lounges on weekdays also doing good deeds on the weekends? yes, yes they are. villain flooring at your service.
I forgot the Bridge!
as they say in some parts, “big up” to the villain habitat crew. you rock. hopefully we will see you again sometime soon. you are welcome anytime.
(that goes for the ones who couldnt make it out today, too)
Definitely a great use of a Saturday. As Tim said earlier, we definitely earned our fun for tonight! Not to mention I’m now probably twice as employable as I was yesterday.
oops, forgots it too!
Just checked my mail and got a letter from AIDS/HIV services group - thought “oh noes, did I catch teh ghey from escafe?!” (feel free to use that on a poster, Yo, no charge!).
Nope - was a thank you for the donation to the Jayne McGowan fund. Have to admit I was a little worried the proceeds were actually for Thor’s pectoral implant fund. Go Villains!
So not vampires, but volunteers…
I tip my hat, just like that, to those that helped the habitat.
@1: no, b’yo, thank you. i had a blast dancing the night away. i was going to tell you this earlier, but i’ve been climbing on scaffolding and coating myself in glue at live arts all day. and now i must take a nap.
dust left ya’ll in said dust.
i passed through mastanvaganza…
too crowded, too pretentious and too ” i gotta be cool while i look good. am i cool?”
my answer was that i obviously wasn’t nor did i want to be.
so i went to Dust.
fun, good djs-stuff no one would otherwise dare to play in c-ville, lights, completely random folks hangin out from all over virginia…dancin’, not worrying about cool factor ond chillin’ while getting down.
then after the bars closed, more came and even more crowded on the dance floor.
i reccommend it. but maybe it isn’t for you. i liked it. i would still be there, but alas i work a double tomorrow.
enjoy your day off;).
(smooches and happy dancing feet to all of you).
If you think the crowd was worrying about you being cool, you probably shouldn’t be in public with your lack of self esteem. Mas 5 year went off like a bomb, and everyone with the balls to stay enjoyed.
Can I post a whole-hearted ‘thank-you’ to the cutie at OXO who had me buying her drinks all night till I uncovered her ‘practically engaged’ status? Nice. I love doing that. Thanks for re-affirming my faith in woman-kind.
done.
@11 I think you’ll find a lot of people who agree with you, but they lurk until something finally irks or excites them enough to comment. For example, umm, you. Welcome to the party, help yourself to fondue.
i wanted to go to mas, but didn’t. i assumed it would be too packed by the time i got off of work (12:45), therefore preventing me from being able to order as many drinks as i needed to get to my ideal post-work level of intoxication. so i went to x instead…typical.
doof (or anyone else who was at OXO last night): how was it? are they still doing the cover charge/no drinks on the dance floor? are people still going?
jools, what was happening at X Lounge? They had the clear tent out, so I thought it was a private event.
SNL had rented X Lounge out for a private party until 11 or 12, after which they opened back up to the public. there were still a good number of SNL folks there late night, as well as a pretty good dj (don’t know who it was, but there was a lot of dancing going on) and an entire hockey team from canada that i had the pleasure of meeting.
None of your biz: Did you come on here just to be a jerk?
Doof: ahahahahahaha!
Jools: OXO was packed last night, the cover charge pays for a much needed extra bouncer, and I saw drinks on the wall around the dance floor.
The usual dj at X (least as far as I understand) on saturdays is Stroud, and he is amazing both in terms on knowledge and technique. He can rock it six ways from sunday.
I played he second half of the mas party, and I thought it was pretty fun and pretty loose. Wish it had gone on later than did, but hey… never played only an hour long set before. taught me to “pack it in”.
Every venue has its pretentions, just as we all have our insecurities. They just come in different flavors. Lots and lots of flavors. Welcome to humanity.
Relax. I know I need to.
there i go breaking up a party and sticking my feet in my mouth.
i don’t even know if any of you were there(Mas)- and i meant it, i didn’t feel cool enought to be there, and it was more my scene at dust.
i don’t really think the folks there were pretentious.
looking back, i think i got there when everyone else had been whooping it up a while, so the spilled drinks on the floor and the aloof stares were probably just bad timing, and i am not always up for pushing through crowds.
my friends had fun and i trust thier judgement- so i apologize for and misunderstandings from words above. @10.
and as for djs’ music at dust- what i meant was that it seems in a space like that with no “club/bar” trying to develope a certain clientele/bar crowd in combination with the only reason people would go to the place being specifically for the music, it seems djs have a little more freedom. from my conversations with djs i hold in high artistic regard, it seems in the usual places in the ‘ville, thier palette is limited- as on radio shows or personal compliations, the music seems freer. thus: i think dust is a nice place to start perhaps encouraging some sort of open space for the folks who put in the research, time, energy and money to bring us all something to dance to.
hope this is better written and maybe someone out there with the means will begin to consider having a permanent space to let the dj’s be the focus.
then we all can kick it. i know i would build it if i could (where’s an empty cornfield near the downtown mall when one needs one?!)
have a good monday, all.
I was so impressed with Mas! Thank you for belly dancers, truffles, cava, b yo, and yes, Like A Prayer. MC Gil, it’s okay, I didn’t know many people there, but once I started making convo and introducing myself, everyone was so cool.
Had a great time at Mas……..met some nice folks too.
MC G, have no reservations about expressing your true opinions on here. Pissing people off can be part of the fun.
There are at least two that I know of in the works, albeit at a snails pace, and with additional alternate purposes. Whether or not they ever come to be, is of course yet to be seen. At least one I know, for sure has the means… I even played there once (test run) - 16,000 watt system baby! Lovin it.
i wish dust would more often put on the types of things they did on saturday - if i recall correctly, the last time they did one of those gigs was in september. it was amazing. would i go every week? probably not, but once a month, sure. i certainly hope the space gets more use, in any event.
What is dust?
And was anyone at the sleeping bag party at The Bridge on Saturday? I’d like to know more about what was going on in that room. I was there long enough to know that I was too drunk to be there.
“sleeping bag party at The Bridge on Saturday? ”
really? a sleepover party?
i wanna…
Yes, McGilli, if I may call you that, it was the Ambient Pancakes party. See above.
That’s not a huge space– Gobbler, how many people were there? But if I might add, it is the coolest painted building in Charlottesville.
Ooooh… a challenge. Just you wait and see lillith…
i saw that coming
Dust is a small place down by the / in the Utz Potato chip building on the cornr of Meade and East Market. They have a knack for bringing in very eclectic acts / performers / dj’s / events.
Its like Pud House 2: Electric Buggaloo.
It is very difficult to find when I look for it, but it’s always there by accident. Also, I think I need an “in.”
Not at all hard. Second Door on the old loading dock on the SE corner of that intersection. Little window on the upper right of the door.
But I’d be happy to be your “in”… ahem. um.. yeah.
There were maybe 30 people in there at the most. There’s a link to some flickr pictures from the Bridge site. (I’d post it, but don’t know how to do that. How about a hyperlink posting lesson?) Except when we walked in, all the lights were out. It was like some crazy acid test party….except not at parlie’s house.
right. i do have those all the time, though.
you should drop by sometime, internet.
hahaha
nicely done, parlie