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| concerned citizen | The drunk ogre who kept yelling "brooks and Dunn" at Run CHico Run should enter rehab. GLand Factor ruled: best band in city. Except for that shitty jaywalker song. - Mon, 17 Feb 2003 3:27pm | ||
| genevieve | it was really too bad to hear so much yelling and unhappiness. throwind bottles and glasses at the band is a cowardly thing. next time a friend gets horribly drunk and starts to act dangerous, be a good friend, give them a hug and take them home before everybody feels highly uncomfortable. - Mon, 17 Feb 2003 8:28pm | ||
| Anonymous | usually those people dont have friends, thats why they7 need to get plastered - Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:22am | ||
| Gleamer User Info... | I was dissapointed I couldn't make it out there but by the sounds of it there was some disturbance. Anyways I hope people had a good time anyway. Angus - Tue, 18 Feb 2003 1:06am | ||
| Doug Terries User Info... | True Dat Miss Vieve. Just because he looks like an ogre doesn't mean he has to act like an ogre. He should sell his old skool hot rod and trade in his CAA membership for an AA membership. He should have just stayed at home and galliantly utilized thehun.com - Tue, 18 Feb 2003 2:48am | ||
| Ryan Bill Beattie | I wasn't at the show, but that drunk guy was Reg. He is a warm loveable ogre that maybe gets a little confused in public once in a while. - Fri, 21 Feb 2003 2:18am | ||
| Ryan Bill Beattie | You leave Reg alone!! - Fri, 21 Feb 2003 2:23am | ||
| genevieve | the day after the show, we all were puzzled about what proper behaviour is when you have to take care of someone in that state. i was laughing my head off because i thought he was only yelling, then carey told me to keep an eye on him if i didn't want thomas and matt to get another glass in the face. i sat down next to him but i figure i should have convinced someone to take him home because we found two broken glasses and a broken bottle on stage. i know reg is a big teddy bear, his friends keep telling me, i also know that he likes to throw glasses at his very favourite bands... but i wouldn't want to get a glass thrown at me when i'm on the spot. - Fri, 21 Feb 2003 1:57pm | ||
| dr. purple track suit | for your information silly genevieve, run chico run is not reg's favourite band, they are his second favourite band. His favourite band is grand funk railroad. - Fri, 21 Feb 2003 2:10pm | ||
| -- | the older scene kids get, the more they regress to engaging in infantile behaviour - poorly fitting clothes, funny hats, not washing themselves, gaining baby fat... - Fri, 21 Feb 2003 2:56pm | ||
| Steven Parker | I like reg and all, but what an ass! He totally knows what an ass he can be too. - Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:46pm | ||
| Anonymous | After watching "Run Chico Run", it's amazing he didnt go on a shooting spree, let alone hucking bottles. - Sat, 22 Feb 2003 1:46am | ||
| ho hum | amen. - Sat, 22 Feb 2003 2:06am | ||
| you know | yo pricks, since when should dudes not get drunk in bars, if you have a problem with drunken behaviour don't go to a bar sucker 'cos that's where people drink - Sat, 22 Feb 2003 2:22pm | ||
| Anonymous | give them a hug and take them home, get fucking real, if the band sucks that fucking hard then they deserve every thing they get, all glass and bottles and a punch to the solar plexis no one should get on stage if they don't expect to be heckled herman's isn't the fucking opera you people act as if you're fifty five - Sat, 22 Feb 2003 2:28pm | ||
| Anonymous | Actually, you shouldn't throw shit at people. - Sat, 22 Feb 2003 2:36pm | ||
| Bunch of pussies | Yeah ya should. Why? Cause its fun. Admit it. - Sat, 22 Feb 2003 9:40pm | ||
| Anonymous | Yeah, fun. Throw. Bonk. Ow. That's time well spent. - Sat, 22 Feb 2003 9:47pm | ||
| Bunch of pussies | Yes, yes it is... - Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:48pm | ||
| Ryan Bill Beattie | bicker on my punkish (sort of) children. Live Victoria is your venue to be anonymous - Sun, 23 Feb 2003 12:17am | ||
| Gleamer User Info... | I love how people advocating the behavior of drunks seem so confident. I wonder how they can conjure such self-determination and grit without the use of... oh... ... oh. - Sun, 23 Feb 2003 8:49pm | ||
| Ryan Bill Beattie | I advocate nothing. Calm calm calm... - Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:41pm | ||
| you know | throwing shit at the band is totally acceptable behaviour at a punk show in a bar. bands who want a calm atmosphere and a sedate audience should play coffe houses in the middle of the day (or only their own living rooms in some cases) ps. before reg showed up at that show to make a scene, you were a so fucking bored you were ready to slit your wrists, you should be thanking him for giving you something to talk about on the internet this (and last) week - Mon, 24 Feb 2003 2:50pm | ||
| Wreaker of Havoc User Info... | if im not mistaken, getting punched in the face after throwing something at the band at a punk rock show is totally acceptable behaviour too. I would also like to add this is totally acceptable at metal shows too..... - Mon, 24 Feb 2003 3:19pm | ||
| Your Mother | It's all fun and games kiddies, until somebody loses an eye. - Mon, 24 Feb 2003 3:19pm | ||
| carey mercer | As Reg's life long ambassador, I feel that my voice has for too long remained silent in this incredibly profound and illuminating debate about proper composure in night clubs. Firstly, trying to find a reason for his actions that night is analagous to trying to find the moral point in a tornado as it tears through one's little God-fearing town, or trying to find meaning in the ebb and flow of history. There can be no rational, no causal explanation for his raving, his constant invocation to "Brooks and Dunn", his tempo-perfect mimetic rendition of Thomas' drumming. Reg was not a rational human agent that night, but a FORCE OF NATURE. My second point is to state a secret truth known to a select few in our Garden City: Reg is a genius, and like all of our geniuses, his actions and statements are best understood through lengthy contemplation. Nabokov dismissed Dostoyevsky's entire body of work, allowing only one sentence to survive his purge (something like "the glass left a wet spot on the table." [I mention Nabokov because it should also be stated that Reg has beaten every level on the KASPAROV 2000 computer chess board]). The actions of prophets (yes, indeed, prophets) are enigmatic; the mystery which exudes from their every pore is what draws us lesser creatures to their brilliance, and as the biblical parable suggests, we cannot gaze upon brilliance without being partially blinded. I know the gentle-hearted (God bless them) will no doubt refer to the actual threat of injury to Matt and Thomas. In response, I would like to refer to our oldest, most brilliant text concerning strife: Homer's Iliad. Consider Hector, whose only crime was to stand against the wrath of Achilles: in this light, a few glasses thrown at the band (who clearly were protected by microphone stands and drum kits) is inconsequential in comparison to Hector's feeling the heavy bronze apex of Achilles' spear pierce his body. I anticipate the tired, cliched, response here that it is easy to defend Reg, as I "wasn't up there, I don't know how hard it is to, you know, be up there, and bands need to be given more respect." I have indeed felt the crippling pain of a pint glass thrown by Reg: once the pain of my chipped tooth and my swelling hand subsided (he chucked another one at me later, and then stole ten bucks from me to get a pitcher), I realised that the ways of Reg are mysterious, and clearly the blame lay on my shoulders (literally, in the form of a hurtled mug), and in the future I mustn't take the audience's passivity for granted. I hope this plea clears everything up, and I am confident that Matt and Thomas (after reading this post) will bury the hatchet in the ground and not in Reg (or his devoted ambassador), and join us in THE FIRST EVER CHARTED TOOBIN' TRIP TO COWICHAN RIVER, to be paid for in July by the 50-50 arts collective. - Mon, 24 Feb 2003 5:33pm | ||
| Raphael Nostos, chess master | I am a chess expert, and I can verify that anyone who has truly beaten the Kasparov 200 chess computer board exists outside of the moral stratosphere. - Mon, 24 Feb 2003 6:21pm | ||
| genevieve | isn't this subject getting a little old? i would like to salute my comrade carey mercer for taking part in this ever so challenging discussion and terminating it all in a beautiful way. i agree, reg is a missunderstood genius and so are you carey, except people understand you more, because, you know, you do get "up there"... on a different note, i would like to use this opportunity to invite you all (especially carey and angus and their friends) to the bigfoot celebration that will happen on march the eighth at second story. there will be a great big bunch of pussies, a sedated audience and no drinks, so no drunks, and people of all ages that do not get real and do not live in the real world. plenty of hugs. i can assure you that there will be at least one authentic hippy and he might get in the mood a lot and do a hippy dance and sing hippy songs. it will be very early, like at seven. the performers are: LITTLE WINGS (speed metal from california) THANKSGIVING (gothic industrial from oregon) PIRATE MORCEAU (black metal from quebec) and also there will be a fake norwegian forest, with fake battles with fake axes and fake severed heads and real witchery, too. it is five dollars. - Mon, 24 Feb 2003 6:50pm | ||
| Troutbreath | I don't care how good this guy is at playing chess there is no excuse for throwing beer glasses at people on stage........none. Genius can manifest itself in some odd behaviour it's true but this is not mensa it's sociopathic. Genius can never be used to excuse such idiotic action. From what his 'ambassador' has said I'd say this person has some serious personality problems. carey mercer what you are doing is called 'enabling' , you are allowing this person to continue to be an asshole. This obviously hasn't been very healthy for you and you should stop before it gets worse. This person 'Reg' needs some professional help and as a friend you need to see that he gets it. - Mon, 24 Feb 2003 7:03pm | ||
| thomas | dear carey, we are totally there for toobin, giv reg a noogie for me. hugs and kisses p.s. i couldn't even beat one level of kasparov 2 but i thought outside the box and smashed the goddam screen with a bottle. - Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:46pm | ||
| Wreaker of Havoc User Info... | Well all this fanfare about Reg still makes him sound like a fuckin idiot in my books. I would like to see how well he does playing chess when I stuff a beer glass in his mouth. I have a freind that will write a story on my behalf about how I spend time with the elderly and often feed the ducks and that the pain a beer glass in the face of Reg pales in comparison to Voltaire's pain experienced for his critism of the blah blah blah I have to take a shit.... - Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:50pm | ||
| Yar, homie | Whatever. If reg spills beer on my disks one more time, I might have to become a bit of a genius myself, if you catch my drift. g - Tue, 25 Feb 2003 2:21pm | ||
| KnifeGhost User Info... | I don't know Reg, but I think we can all agree on one thing... It's Menudo time.... - Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:42pm | ||
| you know | clarification: beat Kasperov 2000 in every beginer level (1-8), we're not talking about gary himself here genevieve: stop name-dropping, you're better than that - Wed, 26 Feb 2003 7:18pm | ||
| Anonymous | getting old?!? this barely begining, the serious lack of party in this town must be addressed! - Wed, 26 Feb 2003 7:26pm | ||
| Doug Terries User Info... | Let's get serious for a second here: none of this spazzfest would have even started if it was a Patriotic Filth show. - Thu, 27 Feb 2003 2:53am | ||
| has anyone | Has Anyone met a musician that would like to have a glass thrown at them? - Thu, 27 Feb 2003 3:10am | ||
| Wreaker of Havoc User Info... | No but i do know that Gallows End love to have panties thrown at them while they play.......(not big ones though heheheh) - Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:33pm | ||
| Anonymous | not big ones? that's too bad, i was going to throw you back the pair you left at my house last weekend at your next show. - Thu, 27 Feb 2003 1:57pm | ||
| Dane User Info... | Whatever. I love Run Chico Run. I don't think throwing things at Matt and Thomas (or other musicians or performers) is acceptable. + They are some of the nicest guys I know. And I've known them for many years. If I don't like how a band sounds I leave the space. If the guy was drunk he shouldn't be a nuissance to others (especially throwing a glass at those guys). I don't care if he is a regular drunk or whatever or if someone is trying to make up other defence for his actions. That's bullshit. If Matt and Thomas are reading this, I hope you guys are alright! God Bless. Peace - Mon, 3 Mar 2003 7:41pm | ||
| Anonymous | It fun to huck shit at people - Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:31am | ||
| Anonymous | Despite the thousands of glasses and bottles that Reg (believe it or not, a dead-on marksman, despite being so tanked that incoherent babble was what all that his mouth could create) hurled directly at the eyes and throat of Thomas and Matt during the show, they (barely i'm sure)escaped unscathed. So your concerns (buddyacouplepostsaboveme) can now be laid to rest. I know you will find this comforting as you are an extreamly close and long, long, long term friend of their's. Also, if you read a bit up you will see that all has been forgiven last week. - Tue, 4 Mar 2003 6:56pm | ||
| Anonymous | baby fat? that's what pre-adolescents get not aging hipsters, or scenesters, or what ever. also, low blo, why are you so angry at these agers? i think they are babes, i'd rather fuck them than some twiggy jailbait ghosts fan - Tue, 4 Mar 2003 7:17pm | ||
| Jay Watts User Info... | I'd like to be directed to the jailbait Ghosts fans. Immediately, please. - Wed, 5 Mar 2003 1:30pm | ||
| Anonymous | isn't your girlfriend 16 or so? that's a bit wrong. - Wed, 5 Mar 2003 1:56pm | ||
| Jay Watts User Info... | TAKE IT BACK TO CHURCH, BIBLE-THUMPER! - Wed, 5 Mar 2003 2:13pm | ||
| Jay Watts User Info... | God-damn anonymous posting - I'd like to clarify that I (Jay Watts) posted that last comment and will gladly stand by my current relationship throughout the attacks by puritans and internet nerds! - Wed, 5 Mar 2003 2:15pm | ||
| Gmang | I think we are getting a little off track here Jay. Start your own thread already, man. I beat Reg in Speed Chess at Pancake and Chess night at the 5050 last week. Therefore, from this day forward, it will be I who is lobbing said glassware and shouting incoherently at shows. I hope I can live up to the expectations of masses of Reg-Lovers, if you know what I mean. - Wed, 5 Mar 2003 4:25pm | ||
| dps | so I have a question: if Gordon Campbell plays computer chess is it ok for him to get wasted and drive? If I sit in the corner smoking crack all night, then gouge your eye out with a potatoe peeler is it ok because, hey, I'm really smart you know? Or is it only OK if I lunge and miss? Will Carey Mercer spring to my defense and spew out a steaming heap of pseudo-intellectual claptrap in my defense, or does this tolerance cushion only extend to the glory of alcohol, our drug of mass acceptance? I guess I had several questions. I'm a curious guy. - Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:31am | ||
| sophist | "Alcohol, our drug of mass substance." I smell a melodramatic puritan whose own cliched husk of a self cannot come to grips with Heraclitean partying gestures... - Fri, 7 Mar 2003 3:11pm | ||
| Anonymous | i mean acceptance. - Fri, 7 Mar 2003 3:16pm | ||
| Jay Watts User Info... | I'm simultaneously a repressed Puritan and a Dionysian indulgent! - Fri, 7 Mar 2003 3:41pm | ||
| dps | sophist - best get your nose checked out. - Sat, 8 Mar 2003 4:20pm | ||
| Anonymous | Who let the fuckin book-worms onto the chatroom??!!! Fuck, what the hell are you guys TALKIN about? I drank til I puked last night, anyone else? - Sat, 8 Mar 2003 5:36pm | ||
| GangBang Girlie | Nope but I drank my buddy til he was under the table. Left him there pukin and cryin like a baby. Anyone else hot for a sambuca guzzling contest? - Wed, 12 Mar 2003 8:59pm | ||
| GangBang Girlie | PS. My question is, what if Reg was sober, what would you all think then? I am not so sure if Boozin' is an excuse. Who even said that Reg needs to have an excuse. It is a PUB after all, a public place, and I for one always wear my helmet when I am in public. Personally, I don't give a shit if he is throwin stuff, and I wouldn't be making excuses for him. I am glad that Reg and Thomas worked it out between themselves and that is really all that needs to be said about it. Humans Do weird stuff all the time....and in public too...GET OVER IT ! - Wed, 12 Mar 2003 9:07pm | ||
| Anonymous | Uh, that's why we have laws, police, drunk tanks, and the courts. Stop doing the wierd shit and it all goes away. I guess that would be too simple. There is still no excuse for throwing objects at people, we are just too fragile a life form. - Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:01am | ||
| Anonymous | some news for you-reg was sober - Tue, 25 Mar 2003 8:46pm | ||
| Nooz 4 Euuuu! | When? 1978? - Wed, 26 Mar 2003 2:13am | ||
| -what- | Well? Was it 1978? Or maybe 1977? - Fri, 28 Mar 2003 3:30pm | ||
| Goof | Why is this fucking post still going? - Fri, 28 Mar 2003 3:33pm | ||
| Threads... | 'Cause Reg is still mixin' it up, yo! Shoulda seen the Action at the P:ano/Frog Eyes/Boring show at Thursday's on Saturday! "Reg, if you provoked someone to punch you in the head, would you be upset?" "No!" 2 mins later, sure 'nuff, he's *just about* getting punched in the head. Yar! - Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:57am | ||
| Anonymous | Punching people in the head is great times had by all. - Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:21pm | ||
| Pantsed! | Reg didn't actually get punched although he *may* or *may not* have swung at John. Probably not. Probably, he was just pouring beer on John. The beer that he had just whipped at the Frog Eyes van to illustrate his argument about getting punched in the head. Holy crap what is happening in this city? - Wed, 2 Apr 2003 4:50pm | ||
| Amber | Reg wasn't "pouring beer on John", he was attempting to acknowledge John's superiority in both wit and physicality. In Reg's home country, the tradition is for the defeated to share food and drink with the victor in order to pay respect, as well as unite the warring factions through a type of gastrocoalescence. I think Reg is owed an apology by each and every person that has chosen this space to express their bigotry. Your ethnocentrism is appalling. - Fri, 4 Apr 2003 2:07pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | you're using the wrong type of language for these parts sweetheart. - Fri, 4 Apr 2003 2:44pm | ||
| carey mercer | Amber, I was just going to write a similar explanation of Reg's behavior, but with a theological twist (please notice that I abstain from using the term "defence"). The Christian ritual of communion serves two purposes...the first purpose is so stultifyingly obvious that I won't go into it. The second purpose of communion is, as the term suggests, to enact out through ritual the building of a church. Reg is a kind-hearted believer in community, and I would venture to state that he purposedly drew John into his sphere so he could offer up a sort of communion (brilliantly using physical gestures and actions in the same way that old Socrates would rhetorically manuever his opponents [especially Thrasymachus] into a position in which they would be forced to concede to the foxy Athenian's argument). Reg, a Polack through and through, likely decided to substitute beer for wine (it's the thought that counts), and inspired no doubt by the lights of the neighbouring church, offered up to John Logan a special beer. The problem here is that John thought Reg was trying to baptise him (no doubt inspired by the lights of the neighbouring church), and he poured the special beer all over his own head. Then Reg, not wanting to explain to John his mistake in front of everybody, lured him onto the shrubs, where he calmly and compassionately explained to John the difference between Baptism and Communion. After that Reg and John had a good laugh, and promised that next time they would let their father of priest do the Baptising. So, in response to "what is happening in this city?"...well, I would say that what is happening in this city is called community building, plain and simple! - Fri, 4 Apr 2003 2:52pm | ||
| Rebma | That's not Amber! As if she would say shit like that! Pfff - Fri, 4 Apr 2003 2:58pm | ||
| amber eckhardt | who is this other amber? - Fri, 4 Apr 2003 6:55pm | ||
| Gman | Carey: I would have read past the first sentence of your reply, but you misspelled "defense" so I stopped. G - Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:50am | ||
| Anonymous | la tee da grayson - Mon, 7 Apr 2003 3:43pm | ||
| Amber | if I ever find that ross bay fucker who just called me sweetheart they'll get a fucking LARGE dose of sweet right in the fucking face via a beer bottle or broken glass to the heart (or face, I'll ask Reg's advice on this matter) - Mon, 7 Apr 2003 3:44pm | ||
| Anonymous | Geez Amber, relax, take a pill. Being called sweetheart is hardly cause for violins. Now if he'd called you "dearie" I'd plant the mutherfuck my self. - Mon, 7 Apr 2003 4:32pm | ||
| Anonymous | Amber is a huggly-wuggly bear, she is sooo cute when she get mad. She is a pretty, pretty princess. If Amber was a care bear, she would be the one about love. So, nice, kind, gentle, giving, unabraisive Amber. Ahhhhhh - Mon, 7 Apr 2003 4:45pm | ||
| Anonymous | She'd be even sweeter with my cock in her ass - Mon, 7 Apr 2003 7:34pm | ||
| "cock" | I don't think you get to refer to it as a 'cock' until you are older than 18. Certainly, at 13 you do not have a cock. You have a wee wee, little man. - Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:34am | ||
| amber eckhardt | Some of you are confusing the Amber who is calling for ?violins and ass raping with the princesslovebearpretty amber. Do not focus on this. This is about Reg, not Amber. Please stick to your real mandate with more thoughtful and caring advice for Reg and his drinking problem as the purpose of this document is to have printed word for when the intervention takes place. - Tue, 8 Apr 2003 6:27pm | ||
| Anonymous | he sounds like a jackass - Tue, 8 Apr 2003 8:20pm | ||
| Holmes | Apparently, he sounds more like Barney from the Simpsons than a donkey. Or is a Jackass a mule? Donkey vs mule. hmmm. - Wed, 9 Apr 2003 5:24pm | ||
| Anonymous | try harder:Mercer's an idiot,Reg's a dork. - Wed, 9 Apr 2003 6:37pm | ||
| Holmes | The word dork is great - it is perhaps my favorite euphemism for cock. - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:54am | ||
| Bored | Anyone got any new news in this regard? - Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:59pm | ||
| Anonymous | the weekend is coming - Fri, 11 Apr 2003 2:01pm | ||
| not in the know | the weekend is over. any news??? - Wed, 16 Apr 2003 7:33pm | ||
| Jay Watts User Info... | Reg and Carey. Sketch comedy. James Bay. - Thu, 17 Apr 2003 3:49pm | ||
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