MSTRKRFT!!!
man, you would not believe the night i just had. i still can't believe it happened. so mstrkrft announced a couple of nights ago on their myspace that they were going to throw a free show tonight and that it was going to be filmed for the video of their latest single, bounce. my friend, greg, and i got in line a little bit after 8pm. thankfully, the line only stretched along the front of the roxy.
we were standing there freezing our asses off when jfk of motherfucking mstrkrft walks out of he alley adjacent to us. with his handlers at his side, he turned around to survey the crowd. he was about five feet in front of us and i was trying my best to be cool and not stare. he then came right up to us and said, "you guys come with us." as we walked into the alley with him, he asked if we'd do him the favor of being in his music video! he wanted us to play the part of the bloody beetroots and said he picked us specifically because we were their heights.
while waiting to film our part, jfk chatted it up with us for a while. he's such a cool down to earth fellow. well, with us at least. his manager, a.m., even gave each of us his business card and said he'd hook us up for life to any future mstrkrft show. HAHA, can you believe this shit??? we spent about an hour hanging out and filming our parts.
greg didn't even know who the hell jfk was when the three of us were hanging out before our shot. i explained everything to him later when we were getting ready to put on our masks.
the show itself was pretty lame, but of course the whole point of having the show in the first place was for the crew to shoot party footage. they played bounce over and over and over and over again. la riots, felix cartal, and lazaro casanova rotated shifts on the decks and they kept fucking up. despite this, the crowd was completely nuts with crowd surfing galore. i think they were all working themselves up to a frenzy in anticipation of mstrkrft's turn. as it turns out, jfk came on to man the decks towards the end of the night and he only spun one song before handing the reins back to the other dj's. yeah, it was an anticlimactic way to end the night, but oh well...
after the roxy, we went to get our grub on at denny's. i checked my email on my phone and found out i won a contest i entered a couple of days before. it was a contest for a bunch of signed cut copy and presets cd's and goodies. shit, i never win anything.
i think i should buy some lotto tickets tomorrow to continue my lucky streak...
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I wonder how many people that happens to!
hecks, you probably don't even need to sneak in a suitcase to get to Europe; just enter a couple of traveling contests.
p.s. tentacle hentai? i don't even want to know what that entails. tentacles, probably. wait, have you had this kind of experience with a japanese business man??
god. i hate being too tired to do ANYTHING!!
That night I was like i'm going to call kevin in an hour... and then I feel asleep.
But we were fortunate enough to have a little Asian man reach out his hand to us and say, "Do you trust me?", so it was worth the magical moment that followed.
Also, sorry if those all seemed like non sequiturs.
Also, I don't think I've ever asked you your name--unless, of course, Bernard Albrecht is your given name, and thus a natural love for Joy Division/New Order followed you from birth.