Went to the Knitting Factory on Saturday night hoping to see the electronic pop band Discovery:
But instead saw the jazzy barf-fest band Discovery:
To make matters worse, I was surrounded by people like this:
A new divorcee.
Hardcore raver hippies.
Todd from accounting and Julie, the secretary.
FML. Next time I go to a show, I’m first checking the venue’s site for the band bio.
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Wow Arv, you are so hip and cool.
01.11.10 at 9:38 am
That last photo is definitely an E-Harmony date. PS: He’s going to fuck her.
01.11.10 at 9:48 am
hey Arv here. did you know i sort of know one of the guys from Discovery?????? the cool ones i mean LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
01.11.10 at 10:48 am
It was the greatest day of my life. That divorcee was game in many ways. She does YOGA, YO!!! When did NYC get invaded by Spanish hippies?
01.11.10 at 11:38 am
Man i wanted to do the lead singer of Discovery even if she was a little chunky.
01.11.10 at 12:45 pm
har! this thing is not at all like that thing. @Arv’s Testicles: Correct! Singer is a Boner! Why is this?! What’s with the Peter-Murphy-wannabe dude who actually looks like a really sad Iggy Pop as a Bookstore Manager. God that music is awful.
01.11.10 at 2:00 pm
The joke isn’t that you saw the wrong Discovery, its the the fact you were trying to see Discovery.
01.11.10 at 2:08 pm
one time i tried to watch a Black Lips video online but it turned out to be an asian chick masturbating. it was much better than what i was looking for.
01.11.10 at 2:19 pm
I want to fight you.
01.11.10 at 4:32 pm
I DID THE SAME EXACT THING! looking back at my tweets, i kept counting down the minutes until the save ferris wannabe band was to leave the stage. didn’t catch that they said they were discovery until my ears bled for an hour. left the room to talk to the will call girl and ask when discovery played, thinking i missed them. she told me that i just watched them. and then when i tried to explain that what i watched wasn’t discovery, she told me that was the only discovery there that night. realizing my mistake, i hauled my cookies back out into the cold, defeated.
01.11.10 at 5:01 pm
The ‘cool’ Discovery don’t sound that great either.
01.11.10 at 5:17 pm
oOoh..I get it, You’re cool- right?
01.11.10 at 7:56 pm
hahaha, that show looks like such a bummer, that crowd is so strange, i get a twighlight zone type of vibe anytime I find myself lost in this scene.
By the way dickheads give the dude a break, this shit is well documented, and you can’t deny you’d be leaning against the bar looking at the people around you saying to yourself “where the fuck am i right now?” This scene is weird as fuck.
01.11.10 at 9:41 pm
who knew Liza Minelli likes hipster dance wank
01.11.10 at 9:58 pm
Haha! Oh shit! Was this in Spokane?
01.12.10 at 4:52 am
I want to fight you too.
01.12.10 at 2:48 pm
Some people don’t have fun because they aren’t fun. They just complain about how uncool everything and everybody is around them. There’s a couple words for these people, haters and douches. Don’t go to shows with them.
01.12.10 at 10:58 pm
Look at all these looZers trying to see an emo pop punk band who have no time for local music. Oh hey – Vampire Weekend had a story on BBC the other day. Get a life. Please note: I spelled looser with a Z as to make it cool for your sorry aZZ.
01.13.10 at 5:43 am
Wow, the band you saw is so much better than the band you went to see. Get your head out of the gutter.
01.13.10 at 5:46 am
Did any one ask you to blog? You are nothin’ but a douch blog with fickle tastes probably dictated by other blogs you hilariously aspire to. You are not a tastemaker or breaker…you’re just ignorant…I would be bored to death to see your playlist. Discovery at the KF this past Sat. not only blew the 200+ crowd away…they’re the real Discovery and they’ve been playing out as Discovery since 2005. Learn to think for yourself (and about music) and get off my screen. Loooooooser!
01.13.10 at 8:48 am
I went to see a crappy band and what sucked it I was surrounded by people dancing and having fun. There’s nothing cool about that. Stop whining!
Discovery (That played this night in question) has been playing out for at least the last 5 years. I am a loyal follower. Screw the Vampire Suck end spin off.
01.13.10 at 9:29 am
You’re a faggot. The End.
01.13.10 at 9:58 am
That’s so funny that you went to see some shitty electro-pop band, but instead you were given a real band with musicians that can actually play . . . and now you’re whining like a little bitch. This irony suits your tasteless, naive, hipster facade perfectly.
Here’s the original, good Discovery:
http://www.myspace.com/thisisdiscovery
they’ve been around since 2004. They’re really fantastic. Go see them.
01.13.10 at 2:13 pm
First off get your facts straight, Discovery which played an almost sold out crowd at the knit on sat nite is the real deal since 2005 not the jibberish Vampire Weekend off spring which by the way are a bunch of whiney fucks.
Second of all why the mean spirited attitude toward the audience & the music. If it wasn’t what you expected you should’ve gone to the box office, get a refund & go jerk off in front of your computer like all of the bloggers do.
IT’S ALWAYS THE NON-CREATIVE PEOPLE THAT TALK THE MOST SHIT!!
01.13.10 at 4:22 pm
did someone hire you to write this claptrap?please tell me no one paid you for this tripe…you have the gall to show a picture of everyday people having fun and somehow expect us to believe that they are not cool people?what? they don’t dress cool enough for you or something?you sound like a snob of the worst order;some kind of woefully misguided scenester who thinks he’s “in”.oh but you are using”twitter” you must be cool.show a picture of yourself,i’ll bet you are as ugly as sin.there must be something wrong with your appearance if you are lashing out haphazardly at everyone around you.”jazzy barf fest?” that is hardly an articulate comment.it says nothing about the music played.but i’m assuming at this point you have no musical knowledge whatsoever and therefore have to rely on such lacklustre,vague wording…every picture you showed is of people having fun…you’re egregious…it’s retarded that you have some kind of standard for how an audience looks(a new york one no less)…c’mon i wanna see a picture of you so i can critique you;i dare you. is there one up here? people like you are what’s wrong with this city and this planet…it’s funny you say you know someone from the “real “discovery.but obviously they don’t you like enough to tell you they weren’t playing that night….and for these one or two other fans of the “real discovery” who spouted off.gee…it makes me thing that band’s audience is a bunch of mean spirited deluded people.talkng about how “weird” regular people are.i’d love to see a picture of you people.i’m sure i would be left wanting,but it would probably be good for a laugh-love and peace-davey
01.13.10 at 4:38 pm
correction:you say you know someone from “the real discovery”,but obviously they don’t like you enough to tell you they weren’t playing that night…and for the other one or two fans of the so called “real discovery” gee,it makes one think that band’s audience is a bunch of mean spirited delusional people…
01.13.10 at 4:43 pm
btw i just played your first clip and i slapped it off after about 10 seconds.that’s my opinion about their music(the ten seconds i heard).nothing personal about the people in the group….
01.13.10 at 4:47 pm
and sarah no one cares about your “tweets” ok .are we clear?…
01.13.10 at 4:58 pm
ah one more correction,gee blogging is fun:i meant to write “talking” not “talkng”, my bag…you haters are all about “opposite’s day” i.e. you’ve got it ass backwards…
01.13.10 at 5:05 pm
gee this is fun. really! one last thing(for now):”arv” are you really expecting the general public to believe that if we plopped you in the middle of that first photo that suddenly everyone would say “OMG LOOK AT THAT COOL PERSON SURROUNDED BY UNCOOL PEOPLE!”….i highly doubt it.you would probably stand out as the uncool one.and why were you taking pictures?you must have been hired to do this by a pr team…sad…love and peace-davey
01.13.10 at 5:25 pm
Arvy, GET OUT OF WILLIAMSBURG!!! Dont’ you get it?!? You’re the reason it sucks! Because 25yr old metro boys like you like to see name-stealing bands-of-the-moment made up of other metro boys singing over lazily programmed drum machines! Woohoo!!! I have a camera on my cell-phone, fuck yeah I’m gonna Blog this ssshit tonight Baby!!!
01.13.10 at 11:55 pm
@ Grand Master Daddy & Davey – Well said.
Hey Arv – You sound like a real stick in the mud and I know for a fact that Kathleen (lead singer of Discovery) would not sleep with you, b/c she doesn’t waste her time sleeping with sticks in the mud that generally suck at life and can’t loosen up and have a little fun.
Did you actually say she was Chunky? Are you fucking serious? Have you ever slept with a woman? B/c I’d guess by those standards, you’ve been canoodling with 14 yr old boys.
I was at the show on Saturday night (and many of the past Discovery Shows as I’ve been following them since 2005 or so)- I was dancing my ass off and having a great time (too bad a picture of me didn’t make it to your sorry blog) and by the way, I AM a secretary at a law firm – straight off of Wall St. – you got a problem with that buster? Secretaries need to have fun too ya know. And who the F cares what people do for a living when they are on the dance-floor? Seriously, your idea of a good time is clearly based on one thing and one thing only – yourself. Good luck with that.
@Anyone else reading this comment, Discovery is always a good time and they are one of the few shows in New York you can see where people will ACTUALLY dance. That’s HUGE and says something about the energy they bring to their performances. Great live show, excellent music, and always a good time.
01.14.10 at 10:58 am
It took a while, but the band on the bill found out and really brought the troll food. If you’re going to use so many comment posts to try and redeem yourselves, only to look like bigger tools for it all, suggest some pictures of your audience that won’t make me puke. You could be the next Mozart, but it doesn’t count for anything if the audience is like these pictures. “People dance and have a good time” – No, they are in denial about how futile the whole show is. That is why the only way I have ever read about discovery is because they were written about here. Your claim to fame is not music, it is butthurt. Everything posted here proves it, and nothing more.
01.15.10 at 4:27 am
listen zogistan i mean arv,yeah the bands fans found out about this literary waste of a blog you wrote.where’s the other bands fans? they shut up pretty quick….are you trying to get prosy or poetic or something?”troll food”?what in god’s name are you talking about?is that a veiled reference to your own appearance?well slop it up then;apparently you’ve read every word and gotten your panties in a bunch over what you’ve read…in your world night is day and day is night.in the last picture you posted for example:those people are dancing and having a good time jackass,you’re straight lying…most of these posts are about this half ass blog, not about redeeming anything.but then again you’ve got your head shoved so far up your ass i wouldn’t expect you to understand that.i think that’s what’s causing the “butt hurt”.maybe you should lube your head in the future(that might help)…if YOU read about discovery is the issue? that’s laughable.don’t read about discovery.you’re inconsequential.you’re a tool of the highest order.you’ve proved nothing.”suggest some pictures?” i suggest you make some kind of sense with your writing…so MOZART’s audience has to look a certain way now?…fuck outta here…
01.15.10 at 5:24 am
Zogistan is right. unless a band’s audience is beautiful and on the cutting edge of style, and unless you can provide photographic evidence of this, then the band’s music is not good. I don’t give a fuck how refined your taste is, do not play anything for me unless it was written about in pitchfork magazine.
you see guys, because I am such a fucking idiot, I am incapable of recognizing quality in music based on hearing the music alone . . . I must first see that their music is being played in Urban Outfitters to even begin to nurture any appreciation!
01.15.10 at 4:06 pm
Don’t hate, appreciate!
03.30.10 at 3:23 pm