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I had a good time last night. We met early at Casino El Camino for grease and beer. There were tons of people there, it was great to see so many friends.

Around 9pm, we headed over to the club.

Pocket Fox, the band that started the evening's lineup was really good, they rocked hard. At some points they sounded a lot like the more rockin' parts of Collective Soul. Really good band, lots of fun.

Undersoul went on at 10. Of course Undersoul was awesome--great energy, faster tempo on some of the songs than I remember, they just burned thru their set like mad. I think they got cut a little bit short, but what they did play was great. They closed the set with "Lex Luthor" and we all danced, even some people who were not there to see Undersoul (like, the other bands!) It was so much fun. And then I orchestrated a 'group flash' for Hojo, so that was fun. The look on his face was priceless!

The band that played after Undersoul, "Your kisses cause crashes" sounded sort of like an insane music box. Kinda creepy. We thought they'd be even better if they all dressed up like jack in the box clowns or mimes. I also vote they change their name to "Clown Penis Soup"

The Western Civilization was the headliner. They had an interesting set-up that could have been somewhat Prince-ish if they'd rocked it harder--5 members, 2 keyboards & a Mac, a full drum set plus a...snare?, guitars, 2 girl vocalists and one boy vocalist. But it got pretty repetitive and at one point we were just bobbing our heads and repeating 'na na na' to every song, because the beats stayed about the same from song to song. foo. Potential, but not there yet.

The guys got paid a bit before midnight (their share of the night's take was a princely $36!) and we headed out. On the way back to the car, we found 2 drunk girls and a drunk guy struggling to get a BMW with Washington plates out of a parking spot: one wheel had gone over the curb and they couldn't back out. We pushed and lifted and struggled (amid choruses of "I'm Thor, who are you again?") and finally Thor got the brilliant idea for the girl in the drivers seat to be putting it in reverse (WTF! I'd assumed it was in R the whole time!) and finally we popped that baby loose. That was fun. No permanent damage to vehicles or people, but it was a heck of a workout. Huzzah for heavy European machinery...