“Hey, Asshole!”: We Tried To Make Them Shut Their Pieholes, But They Said, “No, No, No”
Somehow, we were standing in the Bermuda Triangle of bad concert behavior during last night’s Amy Winehouse show at La Zona Rosa–no matter how we shifted our position, we were in earshot of two people who were duking it out for the title of “who deserves a shove more”:
I WANT A FAMOUS FACE: Behind us and to the left was an inebriated woman who was so smitten with Winehouse, she wanted to eventually morph into the troubled singer-songwriter. (Guess she hasn’t been reading the tabloids lately.) Her patter went from banal (“I want her hair! Do you think I could have her hair?”) to downright weird (“Yeah, I’d have her hips, too. I want it all!”). Expect to see her during the wee hours of MTV2’s programming within the next year or so.
I’VE HEARD IT ALL BEFORE: And on the other side was this guy, who was trying to show off his record-collection bona fides by singing songs that Winehouse had “ripped off” during every song. Okay, dude: You have a big, throbbing … record collection. And you’re right, there’s nothing new under the sun. But! You aren’t all that innovative for pointing this “fact” out–in fact, you’re nothing more than the rock-show equivalent of Comic Book Guy, which means that you, too, are a retread.
To top it all off, there was the battleaxe with the overflowing cup of red wine who, upon brushing past our companion, spilled half of her glass down his shirt, and didn’t even break a sweat to apologize. Although if she’d been klutzier a few seconds earlier, we probably wouldn’t have heard the end of that, either.
(Have you seen someone “acting out” at a SXSW show this week? Drop a line to asshole@idolator.com.)
