F'in Zeiterion Theater

Oh now wait, "Performing Arts Center". We must get that right. We wouldn't want to think that it's a lowly theater.

M*therf*ckers had no more seats for the Willie Nelson concert tonight. When I checked over the weekend it said that they might have released seats but they wouldn't know if any would be available until afternoon the day of the show (today, Thursday, the 16th). It's not there anymore so I can't prove it but it was there. So I waited til today and went to the box office window just after noon. I asked if they released any seats and she was all "No and I don't think there is going to be any but there is a waiting list." And that's where I lost my mind. You don't have a waiting list that you've been putting names on for a couple of days when your website said that you wouldn't have any information until Thursday. That basically means don't call until Thursday. Which I didn't. Because I can read. But apparently other people who can't read did call and because the people at the Zeiterion are frightened by a ringing phone, they decided to make a waiting list. So I'm #25 on the waiting list because I followed instructions and didn't contact the box office until Thursday afternoon. Unfair.

Now I never expected to get tickets once I saw that they were sold out. Willie's got a huge entourage. If they were family seats they were holding I don't think he'd have any to spare. However on the rare chance that you may be able to score released seats to such an event you need to be one of the very first people there. And now that I think of it, I've never even heard of a waiting list for a concert. Maybe these people used to work in airline reservations or something.

My problem is that I've actually lived in a real place with real people. I've gone for last minute seats at least a dozen times in my life. I got tix to see the Rolling Stones at Madison Square garden an hour before the show on their Bridges to Babylon tour because of released seats. I know how it works. Or I at least know how it's supposed to work. I failed to get tix to see the Beastie Boys because I went to the box office at the wrong time. This is how it goes. But I've never heard of a fucking waiting list. Especially after the venue says the earliest they'll have information is Thursday afternoon and then at noon on Thursday there is a pre-exisiting waiting list.

Do you see why, hard as I try, it's nearly impossible for me to NOT hate New Bedford with every fiber of my being? This bullshit because no one knows anything. I spend so much time dealing with people at front desks and in kiosks and answering phones who just don't know shit.

I was walking down the street the other day and this old man was yelling at this guy in a parked car. Because this guy was parked in the parking spaces reserved for the elederly residents of the building. The old man was yelling at this 20something for parking there and the kid was saying something to the effect of "I didn't know" but mind you he was yelling right back at this old man. And the old man said "You know why you don't know shit? Because you're from New Bedford. That's why you don't know shit!" Couldn't agree more.

Anyone who wants to see a town full of idiots come to New Bedford, but make sure you spend your money somewhere else. :D

I had just seen Mariza at the Zeiterion. I usually go to the shows Mr. Charbonneau and Mr. Marchand put on in the summer. But no more. That shit theater (excuse me, performing arts center *snort*) isn't getting anymore of my money. If you see me there for some reason, that means I won tickets. Not another dime to them.