As the fours of you who read my blog on Friday already know, I went and saw the Rentals in concert on Thursday.

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(The Rentals, c/o therentals.com)

The show seriously rocked, and I felt happy with the show, despite the entire show going too long with the Rentals going overtime and ending up having their stage shut down due to too long of an entire show. 

Before the show Cheese and I casually made our way to the front center of the stage, and in doing so happened to pass two young Asian gals.  When Cheese and I got settled in, these two gals decided that THEY needed to be in front of Cheese and I, and pushed and hard elbowed their way to stand in front of us.  I haven’t a clue as to why these gals were so full of rage, but it isn’t the first time that I’ve witnessed young Asian women rage at concerts.  In fact, most of the unnecessary pushing that I’ve seen at concerts that are traditionally considered “non-fighting” concerts has been at the cause from young Asian women.  Maybe they feel way too repressed living in some suburban New Jersey Korean community or something, I don’t know, but I find their consistent anger at casual and relaxed concerts quite odd.

Now for those of you who aren’t familiar with the Rentals music, they make what most people who classify as nerdy, geeky, emo music, and that most of the people who went to the show as an audience member was an obvious nerdy geek - myself included.  So after those two angry and raging young Asian had violently pushed and shoved their way through the crowd, and after the Cheese went to the concession stand to get a fill up, I got to thinking….

What if I actually got into a fistfight at a nerdy geeky concert like the Rentals or a Weezer show?

I had a couple of thoughts on this:

  1. I would mop the floor with the nerdy, dweeby, geek that made me look like Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street.
  2. I would be horrified about getting into a fight and thrown out of a show that I really wanted to see.  And lastly,
  3. I would be terrified that the fight would be caught on someones camera phone, and then uploaded to youtube, with the label “Geek Fight” where I would become the laughing stock of the world for a week with 8 million views all due to my geekiness and weak form of physical defense that somehow beats the crap out of someone with lamer physical defense skills.

I’m just glad that THAT didn’t happen.