JayceLand's Weekly Rochester Events #104: Loraine to Niagra

Thursday, January 4, 2001

JayceLand's Weekly Rochester Events #104: Loraine to Niagra

I managed to not get sick over Christmas, but I really just spent the weekend biding my time until the cold hit full-force. I think it was the partial solar eclipse on that really set me off. Fortunately, it wasn't until Thursday that I started to feel it. Unfortunately, it kinda messed-up my plans for New Years.

The best part, though (aside from sheer amazement at the amount of ... umm ... stuff one can secrete) is the delusional dreams I have. It's my own private acid trip. The other day I had a great one: I was in a dingy basement of Ronald McDonald's house. I was climbing around on the plumbing and stuff when Ronald told me not to mess with the oil tank. I poked at it a bit and someone else told me not to because Ron's wife was in there. Apparently she had been in an accident or got sick or something, so he made this suspension chamber and put her inside. I guess she was sort-of awake inside but there weren't any windows or anything.

That's pretty much it. It doesn't make any sense to me either, but it does make me think twice about going to McDonald's.

Which reminds me (I'm so bad at segues) I was up for the pretty-cool (numerologically at least) 01:01 a.m. on 01/01/01. This is what it would have looked like on my cell phone had I snapped a picture at that point. I just took a picture of the phone around 4 in the afternoon and doctored the picture, but you get the idea. (Interestingly, the solar eclipse picture is for real, albeit through a piece of mostly opaque mylar, with a much-too-short lens, and with a much-too-grainy film.)

Partial Eclipse, December 25, 2000

1:01 a.m., January 1, 2001 à la Motorola StarTAC

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Chocolat - A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in France and find it can actually replace sex.
Traffic - America's new drug czar finds his daughter is a heroin addict and must be put to death.

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Justin's band Build will be at the The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10.

Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will have Spiced Fingers starting around 10:30.

Salsa Lessons continue at Tapas One Seventy Seven (177 Saint Paul St.) tonight at 9.

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Dinner as always at California Rollin' at Village Gate Square (274 N. Goodman St.) This week's specials, straight from the mailing list's mouth are:

2001 Roll consisting of lobster with sesame, asparagus, garlic, butter and lemon...
DELUXE KATANA Roll consisting of tempura shrimp, Japanese mayonnaise, seaweed salad, covered in onion crunchies ...
HIRO Roll (OMG.. this is named after our Japanese Chef who we have mistakenly been calling HOODY! Can you believe that?) ...consisting of eel, avocado and covered in eel sauce ...

The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Also, it's the first First Friday's of the "official" millennium at the Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) It's from 5 to 8 p.m. for $5.

Karaoke with Sugar Bear at Boston Brew Company (251 Exchange Blvd.)

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O'Bagelo's, 165 State Street, noon.

The Sluts with Mid-Air Collision will be at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30. There's a $2 cover. Yet another fun punk band.

Before that, the Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Brazil, the perfect complement to a late-night watching punk music. This is apparently the Americanized "love conquers all" release.

Richmonds (21 Richmond St.) has Gregory Paul and an as-yet-unnamed band starting around 10.

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The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Karaoke with Sugar Bear at The Blue Room (293 Alexander St.) Check out some singers, then head downstairs and regain your hearing.

Glass and Light:

Football
King of the Hill : Rodeo Days - Bobby fails to rope a calf at the rodeo but disarms the crowd with clown tricks.
Simpsons : HOMR - Homer's intellectual curiosity blossoms after doctors remove a crayon wedged in his brain.
Malcolm in the Middle : Old Mrs. Old - Lois forces Malcolm to befriend the meanest old lady on the block; Dewey begins carrying a purse to school.

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Trivia Quiz continues at The Old Toad (277 Alexander St.)

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Tonight at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) is an open jam with Krown Kryers starting around 10:30.

Downstairs at Java's (16 Gibb Street) starting around 9:30 is open mic poetry.

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In lieu of mentioning Danny Liberto again, there's a weekly karaoke contest with Sugar Bear, appropriately at the strip-mall venue Comix Cafe (3450 Winton Pl.)

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