I fucking hate Phoenix. Ian and I went to a bar, fairly newish, called Buddy's. Checked out their jukebox and it's one of those "internet jukeboxes"... cool beans. So we played about six songs. We're sitting there drinking our beer, enjoying our songs, singing along, being non-morose, when Ian's next song, I think it was 5'1" by Iggy Pop shows up. Now, Iggy was not one of the internet downloads, it was actually one of the FEATURED albums on the jukebox, presumably since "Lust For Life", made famous in various movies and commercials, was on it. Apparently some queen didn't care for it ("Oh my God, I've never heard this on a soundtrack, ewwww turn it awwwwf") and complained, and our song was turned off right in the middle. Mind you, when we walked in, they were playing fucking Moulin Rouge for probably the 14,000 millionth time. I was so fucking pissed off I confronted the woman who clapped when Iggy was taken off (and presumeably worked there) and the bartender and said "what the hell is the point of having a jukebox if you're not going to play the songs?" Her lame-ass response was "oh, we had a customer complaint, eeeggghhhhuuuuhhh". Well, what am I then? I'm a customer too, as a matter of fact us two customers were digging on the song (there was like maybe ten other people in the bar at the time) and I saw several customers digging the other songs we had picked - B-52's, Fleetwood Mac, the Guess Who. Besides, the Iggy song we picked was like 2 minutes 30 seconds, so it couldn't have been that unbearable. But apparently we had overstayed our welcome, because it wasn't Madonna or Britney or Moulin Rouge (which admittedly I like, but come on now, we've heard it) so they took it off. Fucking LEMMING assholes. And people wonder why I hate Phoenix so much.

