Bunnies, Bands, and Burgers

On Friday evening, the li’l woman and I caught a band from LA called The Dollyrots. I had checked out some clips from their website (www.dollyrots.com), which were okay, so we decided to give them a try. I must admit that we were also intrigued by the awesome cartoon bunnies they use in their artwork – as you may or may not know, we’re all about the bunnies. What’s crazy is that (checking out the tour dates on their website) these kids have played in Colorado 11 times in 2004 – there are probably local bands that don’t do that many shows here in a year! They were pretty fun, if nothing amazingly original - poppy punk tunes with very girly vocals (they reminded me a bit of Manda and the Marbles, but not quite as “new wave”). The li’l woman really liked them, and kept telling me that the guitar player’s stage manner reminded her of Rusty of Flop/Pure Joy fame. It must’ve been the nearly two beers she had consumed talking, as I didn’t see a similarity at all. I did pick up their album, which is pretty decent, and more importantly has an awesome cartoon bunny on the cover.

In keeping with what seems to be a Mootown tradition, the warm-up act was a godfawkinawful punk band called Whiskey Kiss. What is it with this town and lousy punk bands? We sat in the bar during their set (it was an all ages show), grimacing whenever the bassist with the neck tattoos would add backing vocals (“wow, those harmonies really add something” I joked). Noticing how young they were, Emily asked “when you were in a band in high school, were you this bad?” “God, I hope not!” was my reply.

On Sunday, we went out for dinner with my old comrade Mr. Juanish. We went to Spanky’s, an Engleweed spot with great burgers. One whole area of the restaurant was taken over by what appeared to be some sort of junior high school sports banquet. Apparently, they hadn’t let the restaurant know that they were coming, as they were horribly understaffed. It took us forever to place an order and get our food. The staff thanked us for our patience as we left and didn’t charge us for our sodas, so I’ll go back. I’ll just call first and ask “there aren’t any junior high sports banquets there this evening, are there?”

Oh, and on the way out, Mr. Juanish bought 3 dog stickers from a vending machine. They were stickers of that dog that is a spinoff of the more popular Happy Bunny. I didn't have the right coinage to get one myself, which is just as well - I'll save my money until i find a vending machine with bunny stickers. You see, it really is all about the bunnies.