Let Them Eat Cake...

I am so fucking depressed. CBGB's is going to close next year on October 31, 2006. It's a great idea they're closing on Halloween by why oh why do they have to close. This so fucking sucks. I need to get my ass on an airplane and get to New York and go to CBGB's NOW! I want to see a really good band when I'm there. I have to go to the joint that launched a 1000 bad punk bands. I have to go and see the stage that Blondie, The Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Television and last but not least The Ramones graced with their prescence. Why isn't more being done to keep it open? Opening in a new location isn't going to be the same. CBGB's should be above money and rent and politics. It's an American institution. I just can't believe this. I have to get to New York. I love New York (from a comfortable distance). I need my CBGB's t-shirt which I have held off of buying to get it at CBGB's. It's just not the same to get it at a Hot Topic. I need my I Heart NY tee too.

Read all about this bullshit at:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1517676/20051207/index.jhtml?headlines=true

here are some excerpts:
By this time next year, CBGB — the iconic hub of American punk-rock — will cease to be on the Bowery. Through an agreement reached between the club's owner, Hilly Kristal, and his landlord, the Bowery Residents' Committee, CBGB will
continue to operate in the same space it has occupied for more than three decades until October 31, 2006. Kristal has agreed to leave after that.

Muzzy Rosenblatt, the BRC's executive director and Kristal's nemesis throughout the entire lease dispute, said in his statement that the "BRC is pleased that we were able to reach an agreement and can now concentrate on helping the needy and homeless of New York City."