Dancing to the music, all night long
Well, OK. Not quite
all night long. I was home by 5. This is Friday we're talking about here. After catching the Ramones movie
End of the Century at Paramount, I headed on up to
Atomic at Indigo. The movie was great, lots of live footage, interviews with all the major players (all band members, including all three drummers and CJ, as well as Seymour Stein, Debbie Harry, and more). Sad to watch Dee Dee storming out of the band reunion at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, knowing that he'd be dead in a few months. I went with Keiran and Johnny, who seemed to enjoy it, which is good - I'm always half nervous of inviting people to things in case they don't like them.
Keiran joined me at Indigo, stuck around for an hour or so while we chatted and enjoyed the music. First time I'd been to
Atomic and I was quite impressed (I still think Indigo needs a new sound system though, as Keiran said, it sounded like the speakers weren't really up to the job and were overloading). We walked in in the middle of a set of oldschool punk/new wave tunes ('Ever Fallen in Love', 'Gotta Getaway', 'Peaches', I can't remember the rest) which mutated into 80s pop via 'Kids in America' - a nice segue. Keiran left, I danced away the night, they played some Ramones which made me very happy, and some dodgy 80s hair metal that had everyone shouting along to 'Living on A Prayer' and 'Paradise City'.
So back home to bed, slept through much of the day but got up in time to catch
The Battle of Algiers again at the
Paramount. A fantastic film. Here's what emailed to a friend:
... a good, well-filmed account of Algerian resistance to the French - very interesting watching it with thoughts of the Iraq war - the evil done by both sides, and at the same time the realisation that what they were doing might be wrong (resistence members hesitating before placing bombs in cafes filled with French civilians; the French troops giving out food or helping young Algerian children, but also torturing prisoners). It was a powerful film, I'm glad I've seen it.
(OK, so I'll never be a film critic).
Way too tired to make it out that night, so missed Echo's party, and stayed home Sunday as well. Ah well, laziness is sometimes OK.
(And I did have a late boozy night on Thursday playing pool and avoiding karaoke with Drake, Casey, Billy and Rob. So I don't feel too anti-social).
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