It's Like Kidz Bop For Grownups
Last weekend I was finally able to go downtown again. Now that I'm all moved in to my new apartment (more on that later) and I got my dad all loaded up and off to New Mexico again I was ready for my three week downtown hiatus to be over. So Saturday I resolved I would go. I called my friend M from work to see if she had plans. She got off work at 8pm so I told her to meet me at my place after and we'd hit the town. I had just got my DSL installed that morning so it gave me some more time to play Halo 2 until then. I love Xbox Live. I was playing with three other guys that I know (in the real world not just online) and after a while we suddenly realized that we were all playing Halo together at our individual homes that are alll less than a mile away from each other. And to think we used to have plan those huge LAN parties. Now we just sit on our @$$es and pick up a controller.
Anyway, M picks me up and after a quick bite we drop into FunkyTown. At first I wasn't sure where to go. 8.0 had a really tight sounding live band playing outside. They were covering NIN and sounding just like them. On the other hand, The Flying Saucer also had a band going. They were covering "Hella Good" so hella well that I thought it was actually coming from City Streets. I mean the bass line and drums were so on. But 8.0 and Flying Saucer? Love em but been there. I was in the mood for something new.
"Let's go to Pete's Dueling Piano Bar."
We had afterall already missed half of the burlesque show. We got right in to Pete's, but it was busting at the seams inside. We were standing half the time we were there. Later one seat, then two opened up. I later gave up my seat for a girl who was standing nearby with her boyfriend. They both thanked me and were so impressed/shocked. I guess mama raised me too good for this day and age.
Pete's is the loudest place I may have ever been. When they stamp you it says "Sing Loud". Actually my stamp didn't take so I was to "Sing Lou". I broke into "Satellite of Love"... not really. Pete's has two piano's back to back so that the pianists *giggle* are facing each other. There are four guys who rotate in two's every hour on the hour. Sometimes all four play with some of one jumping on drums or bass or guitar. You name it they played it proficiently. Crowd singing was mandatory. Of course there was some Billy Joel but they played a wide array. Willie and Waylon, Zeppellin, the Beatles, Bon Jovi, Tenacious D's "FHG"!, even "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix A Lot. They take requests and bring people on stage and offer lots in the way of audience participation. Like guys vs. girls swearing matches (Jimmy Buffet brings out the worst in people I guess). It was all very funny, very fun. FT Worth Weekly named it best place to embarrass an out of town guest. They did make one guy put on a wig and boa while serenading him with Billy Joel's "Just Like a Woman". Though the words had been changed to "That night you dressed like a woman for me."
Drink wise it was two Jamesons & coke and one 7s & 7. M had her default Crown & coke and a long island iced tea. The bartender there that kept helping me (maybe because I naturally gravitated to her side of the bar) was so hawt. So much that it bore mentioning here.
Yeah so Pete's rocked. So much so that I had concert ring well into the morning. Mostly from how loud the crowd got while singing along. Sing Lou indeed. I'm also convinced that on any given Saturday night downtown there are a hundred bachelorette parties going on. I didn't even think half of em are getting married, their just doing the party. Cuz I keep seeing the same girls. Ok, maybe not but the same archtypes. Wait, is big, blonde, and drunk and archtype or a stereotype for Texas girl? No matter. Deep down we're all a little bit party girl...right? Anyone? Bueller?
Looking forward to this weekend. Would really like to make it downtown again. I guess I'm reliving my early twenties or something. If I make it down there I think I will try the Guiness Lifestyle Diet or as I call it, the Rachel Diet. ;) j/k babe. But seriously the link takes you to a very compelling blog that I read from start to finish. Made me want to go back to England. But what doesn't. I think I could live there. Love it.
Anyway, M picks me up and after a quick bite we drop into FunkyTown. At first I wasn't sure where to go. 8.0 had a really tight sounding live band playing outside. They were covering NIN and sounding just like them. On the other hand, The Flying Saucer also had a band going. They were covering "Hella Good" so hella well that I thought it was actually coming from City Streets. I mean the bass line and drums were so on. But 8.0 and Flying Saucer? Love em but been there. I was in the mood for something new.
"Let's go to Pete's Dueling Piano Bar."
We had afterall already missed half of the burlesque show. We got right in to Pete's, but it was busting at the seams inside. We were standing half the time we were there. Later one seat, then two opened up. I later gave up my seat for a girl who was standing nearby with her boyfriend. They both thanked me and were so impressed/shocked. I guess mama raised me too good for this day and age.
Pete's is the loudest place I may have ever been. When they stamp you it says "Sing Loud". Actually my stamp didn't take so I was to "Sing Lou". I broke into "Satellite of Love"... not really. Pete's has two piano's back to back so that the pianists *giggle* are facing each other. There are four guys who rotate in two's every hour on the hour. Sometimes all four play with some of one jumping on drums or bass or guitar. You name it they played it proficiently. Crowd singing was mandatory. Of course there was some Billy Joel but they played a wide array. Willie and Waylon, Zeppellin, the Beatles, Bon Jovi, Tenacious D's "FHG"!, even "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix A Lot. They take requests and bring people on stage and offer lots in the way of audience participation. Like guys vs. girls swearing matches (Jimmy Buffet brings out the worst in people I guess). It was all very funny, very fun. FT Worth Weekly named it best place to embarrass an out of town guest. They did make one guy put on a wig and boa while serenading him with Billy Joel's "Just Like a Woman". Though the words had been changed to "That night you dressed like a woman for me."
Drink wise it was two Jamesons & coke and one 7s & 7. M had her default Crown & coke and a long island iced tea. The bartender there that kept helping me (maybe because I naturally gravitated to her side of the bar) was so hawt. So much that it bore mentioning here.
Yeah so Pete's rocked. So much so that I had concert ring well into the morning. Mostly from how loud the crowd got while singing along. Sing Lou indeed. I'm also convinced that on any given Saturday night downtown there are a hundred bachelorette parties going on. I didn't even think half of em are getting married, their just doing the party. Cuz I keep seeing the same girls. Ok, maybe not but the same archtypes. Wait, is big, blonde, and drunk and archtype or a stereotype for Texas girl? No matter. Deep down we're all a little bit party girl...right? Anyone? Bueller?
Looking forward to this weekend. Would really like to make it downtown again. I guess I'm reliving my early twenties or something. If I make it down there I think I will try the Guiness Lifestyle Diet or as I call it, the Rachel Diet. ;) j/k babe. But seriously the link takes you to a very compelling blog that I read from start to finish. Made me want to go back to England. But what doesn't. I think I could live there. Love it.
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