so last night was the covenant/and one show… it turns out icon of coil were opening for and one, which i didn’t know about but was really cool, since i didn’t see them when they played downtime a couple of weeks ago. i met up with spencer at his office around eight, just when this thunderstorm came out of nowhere and it started raining torentially. spencer and i hopped a cab and got to limelight about ten minutes before the show was scheduled to start, but it turned out they hadn’t even started letting people in yet. we headed for the end of the line, but gundam saw us so we waited with him right up near the front [yay cutting in line!]. strict9 and piz0r were also there, and a couple people i hadn’t met before. they kept us outside in the rain for maybe forty five minutes, which sucked, but spencer had an umbrella at least. once we were in finally i had a drink with gundam - a red devil that i noticed at the time as being particularly strong.

icon were great; they have a really impressive stage presence and i enjoyed their set even though i’m not a huge icon fan. they played both shallow nation and floorkiller, predictably enough, but it was overall really cool. spencer and i were smooshed in with the crowd way up near the front of the stage; maybe one person back and three right from front and center. while we were standing around waiting for and one to start, i began feeling really dizzy. i remember my vision started to get all splotchy and everything was fuzzy; i couldn’t really keep my balance so i told spencer i was going to the bathroom and started to push through the crowd. just when i got to the edge, where the stairs to the balcony were, i couldn’t stand up anymore and had to sit down; shortly thereafter i blacked out and the next thing i remember is hearing and one in the middle of techno man. i was still really dizzy and i couldn’t really see anything except these huge splotches of color, and i was mildly hallucenating. it was scary. i stayed sitting where i was through and one’s set; anthony saw me and came over to see if i was okay. eventually i felt pretty much fine, if a bit lightheaded. covenant were just about to start so i made my way back through the crowd to where spencer still was and was okay through the covenant set, which was great. they played all of my favorites [although spencer was pissy they didn't play replicant]. i told spencer what had happened and we figured it was maybe because i’d had alcohol on an empty stomach, although i’ve done that before and never passed out. i decided i should probably eat something, so after the show let out we walked over to cafeteria, this place on 7th ave and 17th street with positively orgasmic mashed potatoes. i had a veggie burger and felt okay, but very tired, so i decided to take a cab home. i didn’t really relish the thought of losing consciousness on the subway. i still don’t know what happened exactly; apparently the hallucenations i was having were very like those i might have had on acid, which makes me wonder if my drink was laced, but i sort of doubt that. anyway, i’m fine now and the show was great, although i have this really awful headache.

thanks to killfile [of #penny-arcade on irc.penny-arcade.com] for a really awesome package that arrived in my mail today - knowing my fondness for the british soda tango, he sent me a box full of tango-flavored crunchie bars, which are very yummy. hooray for british candy!