maghq wrote:

when did Norman Fell start singing for Scratch Acid?

andyk

Kathleen Wilson doesn't run anything these days, and let's leave it at that.

I believe the Cha Cha is run by Kim Warnick of the Flashbacks, but that might have changed.

maghq wrote:I believe the Cha Cha is run by Kim Warnick of the Flashbacks, but that might have changed.

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Oh my god, I was really tired when I wrote this initially! Apologies to fans of said band.

What's with the hipster thing in Seattle? My friends have this Capital Hill phobia. Their end of the conversation is always something like,"I don't wanna go down there. Too many hipsters." What difference does it make? All they do is ignore you anyway. They are friends with people who dress like them and have similar interests. My best guess is that you do the same, consciously or not. I go to the Cha Cha for happy hour (which is all day Sun&Mon) because the friendly bartenders pour stiff drinks and play mostly decent music. I mostly see meatboys, hipsters, pretty girls, old perverts, and whoever doing the same.

Well, for instance, I don't really have a social life. But, I'm pretty cool...so, it is easier to stay home and discuss how much cooler I am than, say, your average hipster. Which, actually, does bear out in practice...more as the result of social focus than actual coolness...framed by obvious subjective factors, etc.

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I honestly burnt out on the hill. I worked at a club as a bouncer up there for about three years and after having to spend almost 5 nights a week, stone cold sober, while watching everyone around you getting fucked up and acting the fool I just had no desire to go anywhere near the hill.

I can't tell you how many people I threw out because they were doing the booger sugar in the bathroom, or got too drunk and started breaking glasses or falling down or what have you. The whole experience soured me on live music for a long time, too, and that really sucked because I loved going to shows.

I'm friends with plenty of people who run in those circles, hell even some employees of the Cha Cha, and most of them are really good, funny people who love music but I still can't get over my Hill aversion.

The Hill is being pummelled into nu-Belltown at this point, so the Hill everyone is talking about now is going to be transformed in the next few years, for better and more likely worse. The venues will probably be there, but a lot of the hangouts around the venues may not be there.

This has been going on for a few years. Fallout Records closing was the first "oh shit" sign for me, but people are now really bitching about it because it has crawled south into Pine & Pike, so now it gets attention.

microzyma wrote:What's with the hipster thing in Seattle? My friends have this Capital Hill phobia. Their end of the conversation is always something like,"I don't wanna go down there. Too many hipsters." What difference does it make? All they do is ignore you anyway. They are friends with people who dress like them and have similar interests. My best guess is that you do the same, consciously or not. I go to the Cha Cha for happy hour (which is all day Sun&Mon) because the friendly bartenders pour stiff drinks and play mostly decent music. I mostly see meatboys, hipsters, pretty girls, old perverts, and whoever doing the same.

"Hipsters" (in my book, anyway) are apt to simply declare themselves "rockstars" on nothing but fashion-sense (and, possibly, "outlandish" behavior/lifestyle-choices) alone. Talent is an afterthought.

I can't really knock it 100% as it seems to let them in the pants of many a "hipster-chick". Plus, hipsters seem to be in a constant state of networking and social-climbing which invariably gets them into the "best" shows, etc.

It does, however, become grating to be around the same way jock-behavior was annoying in high-school.

It's been a while since I've actually hung-out in Capital Hill so I'm hardly an expert though. YMMV.

I heard the Tuxedo Killers do a cover of "the greatest gift" on their last tour and I had a permasmile on my face the rest of the night.

I'm actually so big of a fan that as a kid I made my very own Scratch acid t-shirt.

Unfortunately I had to stop wearing it when too many burn out hippies kept giving me the thumbs up and saying: "Yeaaaaah dude... SCRATCH ACID!!!"

-C.