fffa (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} fffa) wrote,@ 2009-10-28 22:34:00 |
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Launch: Fail!
Last Thursday was the launch for Garbage Truck Failures, Kagemono, Everything Ends In Tears, and supposedly Yuck! #2.
It was held at Loop. Possibly the worst bar in the existence of bars anywhere in the world ever. I could write a whole post on how ridiculously gay Loop is, and I may well do one day, but let's just leave it at - I'M NEVER EVER GOING BACK THERE.
So I put on my best cowboy shirt and moseyed on down to the launch. Things looked promising when I got there with the books covers projected on a big screen at the back of the bar. All the covers looked shit hot on the big screen.
After knocking back a few cold ones - of shit beer, because they only had shit beer at this shit place - it was time for the speeches.
The MC - didn't catch his name - was great. He knew his stuff, and took time to write cool intros about the creators of each title. My only problem with his MCing was, for some unknown reason he kept on saying he had more stuff to say, quotes from the books and the like, but he didn't have enough time. Why didn't you have enough time MC? There wasn't anyone standing there with a shot gun and stopwatch telling you to get on with it. The speeches in their entirety couldn't have gone for more than ten minutes at the most. Why no time? Why?
Then each creator would get up and said thanks, and what not, for about five seconds then ran back into the crowd. Shot gun-stop watch man earned his keep that night.
Then for some reason Yuck! #2 wasn't even mentioned. At all. That's the whole reason I went. Not one fucking word, mind you.
Then more drinking of shit beer, until shot gun-stop watch man kicked everyone out. And everyone did leave all of a fucken sudden like. Except me and a few others who decided we weren't drunk enough yet.
I tried to take a bunch of pics, but they all turned out as shit as the time I had there so I'm not going to bother posting them.
In the final analysis, there was some rad books on show, good speeches, I met a few cool people, so why did I have such a shitty time? I think it was in part because the book I contributed to wasn't even mentioned. Not one fucking word, mind you. But mainly I think it's 'cause Loop is so terribly, terribly, fucking gay.
(Apologies if I got any of the other books names wrong.)
Last Thursday was the launch for Garbage Truck Failures, Kagemono, Everything Ends In Tears, and supposedly Yuck! #2.
It was held at Loop. Possibly the worst bar in the existence of bars anywhere in the world ever. I could write a whole post on how ridiculously gay Loop is, and I may well do one day, but let's just leave it at - I'M NEVER EVER GOING BACK THERE.
So I put on my best cowboy shirt and moseyed on down to the launch. Things looked promising when I got there with the books covers projected on a big screen at the back of the bar. All the covers looked shit hot on the big screen.
After knocking back a few cold ones - of shit beer, because they only had shit beer at this shit place - it was time for the speeches.
The MC - didn't catch his name - was great. He knew his stuff, and took time to write cool intros about the creators of each title. My only problem with his MCing was, for some unknown reason he kept on saying he had more stuff to say, quotes from the books and the like, but he didn't have enough time. Why didn't you have enough time MC? There wasn't anyone standing there with a shot gun and stopwatch telling you to get on with it. The speeches in their entirety couldn't have gone for more than ten minutes at the most. Why no time? Why?
Then each creator would get up and said thanks, and what not, for about five seconds then ran back into the crowd. Shot gun-stop watch man earned his keep that night.
Then for some reason Yuck! #2 wasn't even mentioned. At all. That's the whole reason I went. Not one fucking word, mind you.
Then more drinking of shit beer, until shot gun-stop watch man kicked everyone out. And everyone did leave all of a fucken sudden like. Except me and a few others who decided we weren't drunk enough yet.
I tried to take a bunch of pics, but they all turned out as shit as the time I had there so I'm not going to bother posting them.
In the final analysis, there was some rad books on show, good speeches, I met a few cool people, so why did I have such a shitty time? I think it was in part because the book I contributed to wasn't even mentioned. Not one fucking word, mind you. But mainly I think it's 'cause Loop is so terribly, terribly, fucking gay.
(Apologies if I got any of the other books names wrong.)
