It's rare to get a 'wrong department' SC...

[ZedOmega]

Our door girl decided to call in last night. I'm really starting to hate that door again.

Our New Year's celebration was off to a good start: two of the five bands decided to call in (the first band's singer caught strep throat, which is actually kind of viable since one of our bartenders caught it a couple of days ago), but the other band just flat-out said 'we're not going to show up'. Here's hoping the combination hangover+sunlight ruins their day... Going on at the same time as the show, though, was a human suspension act. As in, 'hang themselves from the ceiling like beef' human suspension. Take a moment if you need one...

In fact, that very same suspension act was being protested by the parents of some of the band members. They were offended that their teenage sons (yep, one of the bands playing last night are all teenagers, the oldest one's about 16 I think, but they're good) would be exposed to something so graphic. Taking into consideration that if they have a cable subscription, they've probably already been exposed to something like that makes me both laugh and worry about these parents.

Now, here's the problem: they were complaining to me like I was the one that put the show together. I talked to K about this later and he told me that he made sure that all the bands playing last night knew what was going on that night. They knew a couple weeks in advance that we were going to be having people hanging off of meathooks for a good chunk of the night. And they still complained. Maybe 'human suspension' meant 'trapeze artists' to these parents?

I dunno.

[MoonCat]

They...wha..? What's the point? Of the suspension thing, I mean?

I will never understand performance art, I guess.

[bainsidhe]

Shows how naive I am when you wrote that people were suspended from the ceiling and the first thought I had was "Like Mission Impossible?". Then I reread it and realized....ew.

[Argabarga]

I will never understand performance art, I guess.

If you COULD understand it, then it wouldn't be artisticly valid!

[Andara Bledin]

Maybe 'human suspension' meant 'trapeze artists' to these parents?

I dunno.

I would suggest that next time you have a situation dealing with human suspension, you be a bit fuller with your warning.

I strongly suspect that most people would assume you were talking about aerialists or the like.

But still, why the hell would someone complain to the door guard about that? It seems to me that, say, the booking agent would be more appropriate.

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[ZedOmega]

They...wha..? What's the point? Of the suspension thing, I mean?

I will never understand performance art, I guess.

If you did, you could give courses in it to us, trust me.

Shows how naive I am when you wrote that people were suspended from the ceiling and the first thought I had was "Like Mission Impossible?". Then I reread it and realized....ew.

Thankfully, they had tarp laid out under their performance area and made sure to disinfect it when they started packing up. Being near that kind of thing squicks me out a little.

I would suggest that next time you have a situation dealing with human suspension, you be a bit fuller with your warning.

I strongly suspect that most people would assume you were talking about aerialists or the like.

But still, why the hell would someone complain to the door guard about that? It seems to me that, say, the booking agent would be more appropriate.

K had told them about the suspension act as well as what kind of suspension it was a week or two prior to the show, so they knew already. Plus, the fliers for the show had a couple of pictures of the performers hanging off of the hooks. The only real theory I have about that is this.

[laborcat]

I actually had to look it up to know for sure what you were talking about. In my mind, it was totally grosser (blame my weird kinky friends and acquaintences) (don't ask)

[South Texan]

Going on at the same time as the show, though, was a human suspension act.

I recently was doing some work for an attorney whose office is in an old mansion in what has become a really funky kind of neighborhood, and saw a club called klubATOMIX (go figure) advertising something like that. I must admit that I am "sheltered" enough to never have dreamed it was what you described. I thought it was something like an aerialist act.

[Legal Eagle]

i'll be honest when i read human suspension act, i wasn't thinking of that, and i would assume neither would most people.

K really should have made it clear what the act was to stop any problems from occuring.

[thansal]

i'll be honest when i read human suspension act, i wasn't thinking of that, and i would assume neither would most people.

K really should have made it clear what the act was to stop any problems from occuring.

hehehe

When I first read Suspension I honestly didn't go to the body mod version but something else where it really would NOT be appropriate for minors to be there.

I think that Zed made it fairly clear that K made it fairly clear just what Suspension meant. My assumption would be that the kid's reaction was "Cool!" or at least "Whatever, we get to play", and probably didn't inform the parents or something.

That all said though:
What type of place do you work for that have teenage garage bands and that type of suspension? I mean, I have zero problems with either (I actually find suspension really damn cool), they just don't seem to be in a similar genre for a bar/club.

[Food Lady]

Shows how naive I am when you wrote that people were suspended from the ceiling and the first thought I had was "Like Mission Impossible?". Then I reread it and realized....ew.

Me, too. I was thinking, "Why would they have a problem with that?"

[ZedOmega]

I recently was doing some work for an attorney whose office is in an old mansion in what has become a really funky kind of neighborhood, and saw a club called klubATOMIX (go figure) advertising something like that. I must admit that I am "sheltered" enough to never have dreamed it was what you described. I thought it was something like an aerialist act.

If it's the one I'm thinking of, my girlfriend and I were there one night. I think it was a Sunday. For a club to advertise itself as being goth and underground and all that, we found out the hard way that Sunday nights ended up becoming J-pop nights. We never went back.

What type of place do you work for that have teenage garage bands and that type of suspension? I mean, I have zero problems with either (I actually find suspension really damn cool), they just don't seem to be in a similar genre for a bar/club.

We're mainly a metal bar. Most of the bands that play here have a heavy influence from bands like Slayer, Cradle of Filth, Slipknot, bands like that. Occasionally we'll have some sort of theme other than that; some of the bands that play here cover the older songs (though we had one show where three of the bands covered the JP version of Diamonds and Rust...) But mainly it's heavier music.

[laborcat]

hehehe

When I first read Suspension I honestly didn't go to the body mod version but something else where it really would NOT be appropriate for minors to be there.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Glad to see I'm not the only perverted one in here.

[auntiem]

I think that Zed made it fairly clear that K made it fairly clear just what Suspension meant. My assumption would be that the kid's reaction was "Cool!" or at least "Whatever, we get to play", and probably didn't inform the parents or something.

I'd agree. The kids probably told them and the parents didn't understand until they saw the poster.
Is there something wrong with me that I knew exactly what human suspension was but don't know what J-pop is? What the heck is J-pop?

[Andara Bledin]

What the heck is J-pop?

Japanese pop. It's music.

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