Infect Me!

So Saturday, Londyn and I went to see Infected Mushroom at Cervantes Ballroom in Denver. It was a total blast!

I went in "Harajuku Style", which is a Japanese street cyber-punk style. I also added a bit of the Lolita thing too. Unfortunately my camera decided to freak out that night so I don't have a picture....well I do....it's just very blurry.

You could heard the bass of the techno music pounding outside the door.

We waited in line and kept seeing these guys with bondage man purses, it was like a cross back strap and then under the arm, a leather purse. Really odd.

We got in and went toward the pounding music. I brought earplugs cause I figured it would be really loud and I didn't want to totally destroy my hearing. One guy saw me pull my earplugs out, and told me "What are those?! Put them back in your purse!" After we got passed him, I put them in. Londyn and I created our own version of sign language because between the music and me having earplugs it was very hard to hear someone talking at you.

Not two minutes into the venue, we are standing near the bar and this girl walks past me and pets the feather boa I have around my neck. I turned to Londyn and we both start giggling. We then decided that it was okay to "pet random people" at the concert.

So we go onto the dance floor, we nearly died laughing watching all the stoned/drunk people attempt to dance.

People we encountered:

• While we took a break outside there were these guys with a case of, I kid you not, rocks. They had Quartz, Amathyst, Sulfide crystals, etc. they were selling. I was trying not to totally crack up. It reminded Londyn of a dream she had that I was in...apparently I had this big trench coat and Londyn asked what was up. I told her I had rocks, and I opened my trench coat to reveal rocks. "You wanna buy some rocks?" "But Steppie that's illegal!"....and apparently "I keep the geods special."

• One girl was dressed in heels and like a kind nice formal dress, kinda weird since most people had pacifiers, face masks, bondage gear, or other typical club clothing.

• Another girl had on red mini short shorts (looked more like panties), high heels, and a bra. Then she put like red and balck lines of paint to make it look more bondagey. But I will talk about her later.

• Another girl had what appeared to be a thin scarf for a top, it was just enough to cover her breasts.

• One lady that loved my outfit, and thought me earplugs were earings. She petted my ear.

• We also had the "Porn Star" couple. She would do a handstand, wrap her legs around his waist and he would slap her ass and "ride her". Lather, Rinse and Repeat. They did this several times. It was very disgusting. Then while they were standing there, listening to the music, he reached from behind stuck his hand up her shirt and started gropping her. EW! Save it for the bedroom you porn stars.

• Then we had "the dealer". We first noticed him as he was dancing on a very small, and very unstable table. The table was shaking and rocking so violently that we thought it would break. Then suddendly he fell and completely disapeared. He then popped up and started talking to the guy next to us. Londyn turned to me and said "I think he's dealing drugs...". I looked over and indeed they were inspecting something "the dealer" had pulled from his bag. After a while he turned to us and tried to put glow in the dark beads aorund our next which we politely refused. He then took off his sandles, put one shoe on the table, wrapped the beads around his ankles. and started dancing. A girl then came up and started talking to him, and he quickly grabbed his things and headed for the door, on the way he bumped into a guy and spilled nearly all of what he had on the floor. Small baggies of what appeared to be 2 ounces of pot each. He also left he shoe on the table.
  
  This random guy came up a bit later, kneeled down, looked around and then pocketed the baggies.
  
  We later saw "the dealer" shirtless, bagless, but with his shoes...and trying to pick up women.
  
  
• "Santa"! Santa is this older guy, maybe 60 something, with a long white beard and a bandana. Londyn said she saw him at The Church with a red bandana, hence...Santa. Santa loved to try to pick up 20 somethings by dancing with them. He was a hoot!
  
  
• There was a guy wandering around with a tray of brownies. Special brownies. He was offering them to everyone. We politely refused. Londyn and I wanted to be really naive and ask what was in them.
  "Do you use Betty Crocker or the Ducan Hines mix? Oh! Do you make them from scratch?!"
  "Magic brownies...does that mean they have chocolate chips in them? Or maybe caramel?!"
  
  
• A chick in a camo Utilikilt. I told her I liked her kilt and that I had one of my own.
  
  
• "Einstein". So there was this fairly dorking looking kid with a button down shirt and a t-shirt underneath. The t-shirt had a artist portrait of Einstein with E=mc^2. I told Londyn that I wanted to go up and say something to him. She said I should, it was a concert full of crazy people, why not join them. I looked for the kid again and he had his shirt buttoned up.
  
  This is where the quote of the night comes...Londyn suggested *rips open his button down shirt* "EINSTEIN!!!"
  
  He did eventually unbutton his shirt again, so we walked up and I pointed and said "I like your shirt!! EINSTEIN ROCKS!!!" and then we walked away.
  
  I almost wanted to tell him Stephen Hawking is way cooler.

There were also plethra of wannbe strippers, people stripping random people they didn't know (one drunk woman started unbuttoning this totally random guys' shirt), etc. Londyn and I danced for a while and then I got a soda and we sat for while, that was when we saw "the dealer" and the "porn stars". Londyn's contacts started to bother her (it was really smokey in there) and so we went to the bathroom. When we walked in, the girl with the bra and red mini short shorts started talking to me. "Hey I really like your outfit! Have you been to a rave before? Your outfit is so unusual, I haven't seen you before..." These other raver girls in the bathroom agreed, apparently I got something right with the Harajuku style. The girl in the red mini short short introduced herself, he name was Tasha. She said "Here, you should have this...it goes with you outfit" and she gives me a beaded bracelet that says "Infect me" on it (sorry it's a kinda crappy photo).

While we watched Infected Mushroom, tons of guys kept hitting on Londyn and a few were hitting on me. We did our best to act like a lesbian couple to get them to leave us alone. This one kid with glow sticks came up, tapped me on the shoulder and said "You should dance!" I just looked at him funny (I was dancing) and turned back around. Discouraged he then talked to Londyn "Are you having fun?!" "Yeah, with my girlfriend." Other guys didn't get the message as easily. A couple of the kids kept persisting, so we moved. One guy named Rob, gave me a friendship card to send to Londyn.

As one kid passed us with a fuzzy hat during the show, we decided to do the "pet random people" rule and started petting this guy's hat. He stopped and we kept petting, I then offered my boa to pet and then he went on his way. Londyn and I laughed so hard.

Infected Mushroom rocked the house for a while, then suddendly the music died. It kinda cut out in "circuts getting fried" like fashion. Apparently a kid near the front with and open bottle of water splashed it on the computer the band was using and killed it. After a while they got everything up and going. They had one chick dancing with fire on one of the platforms. It was pretty cool. Infected Mushroom played a few more songs then left. It was sad cause there were a few more hours to go in the concert. This chick DJ took the stage...and she wasn't very good.

We sat down for a while and (which is when I saw Utilikilt girl and "the dealer" again) this kid was checking out Londyn and he was really funny about it. I noticed him first standing back and checking her out and so I leaned over and told her. We giggled a bit. He walked away and we chatted for a while. He then came back around and then sat next to us. This kid totally reminded me of the "So....do you go to CU?" kid (if you know that story). Londyn's contacts were bothering her again so we went to the bathroom. The kid never had a chance. Ha! (sorry I am not a bitch, I'm just..oh wait, nope. I am a bitch.)

Londyn and I deciced to leave since it appeared that the DJ wasn't getting better nor would Infected Mushroom come back on. As we were leaving Londyn asked and a guy told us that Infected Mushroom had left and then he added with no prompt from us "and she does suck."(referring to the female DJ)

On the way home, we stopped at the gas station and talked to the attendant while we got some food. We seem to have late night gas station adventures. Londyn was so kind as to drive all the way back up to Boulder and drop me off. yay!!

All in all, a fun and funny night.