Oh you're going to think I'm real ungrateful.

OKAY. I saw the Flaming Lips live in concert at my /least favorite place in the world/. Lupos Heartbreak Hotel, I'm talking at you & you specifically. You fucking suck. Your tickets are overpriced, your venue is a small death trap that's trying to pretend as if it's got any bit of class. You sell Bud Light in PLASTIC BOTTLES for almost $5 a bottle. I understand the idea of inflation for the sake of it being convenient for everyone, but still, nearly $5 for something I'm going to need to drink /several/ of to even feel anything? I'll just show up stoned instead I suppose.

I don't really care that the beer is overpriced, why the fuck would I, really? With the exception of going to shows I very rarely, if ever drink. It's not to say that I /need/ booze to enjoy a show, but it certainly makes being around tons of fucking people a hell of a lot easier to tolerate. The people at this show, however, I'd had to have been on heroin to even remotely tolerate the people around me. I don't hate hippies, ravers, hipsters, scenesters, or even metal dudes, but if there is one thing I do fucking hate, it's yuppies.

How many yuppies did I see at THE FLAMING LIPS? A metric fuck-ton.

I mean, I get it. They've been around for some time & obviously that means people of all ages are pretty much going to show up. I still don't care. Fuck fuck /FUCK/ the other side of 30-year-old assholes going to big shows, getting drunk, standing on chairs & couches, shouting obnoxiously to the performer on the stage. Hello, we're in the back, lady, he can't fucking hear you & I'll tell you a secret: anyone who /can/ hear you wishes they didn't. I'd tell these people to go kill themselves if it wasn't so frivolous. Seriously, I didn't think drunk driving was such a hip thing to do when you're a "responsible adult". Either way, I'm going off on yet another tangent.

For those of us who were there for the music & overall experience, it was very entertaining. My friend who took me said that they've pretty much played the same set, complete with visuals & etc the last few times he's seen them, but don't let that deter you. It was really freakin cool. Now, we're hip & everything so we like to show up /late/ to shows. We got there about 20 minutes before the Lips were about to play. Enough time to see where we could get on the floor, but it being Lupos has a GOD AWFUL layout.

Because Lupos also doubles as a dance club with DJ's & all that gay shit on the weekends they decided to spruce it up. The original Lupos might've been a pretty big shithole, but you know what, for the most part it worked as a venue. So where did they go wrong?

Well you see kids, when you used to go into lupos there was basically a line room & then the show room. The show room was pretty much just flat with an elevated stage to your right & a bar to your left. Now you enter into a large mezzanine area with couches, as well as merch booths or other stupid shit. I went to see Polysics there one time & since the show was sponsored by myspace they had computers pretty much only to go on & check your myspace. It was stupid.

The only good thing about Lupos can be accessed only from the Mezzanine. It's the Balcony area, aka the only place you will be able to see ANYTHING, if that's what you're there for. For larger shows Lupos likes to charge even /more/ money for Balcony seating almost as if they know that their venue is complete shit downstairs.

Okay, so lets go inside shall we. Alright, looks like we've got some bars in the back, three bars? okay.. Oh how cute one is a big circular bar in the MIDDLE OF THE VENUE. Okay lets just walk down a few stairs- Wait, stairs? What the hell, oh FUCK. Basicaly the way the floor goes is that there is one "dance floor" thats right in front of the stage. Before that theres just standing/sitting areas with two separate stairs onto the dancefloor. So, as you can imagine there are railings that prevent you from getting fucking anywhere.

Impossible design aside, it was still a really cool show.

Also, I wrote most of this a month ago & just never posted it. Better late than never, amirite?