and to the nice people who were standing in the rain outside of the paradise club, please don’t let the fact that i was attacked ruin your night. i’m not badly hurt. really. just some bruisesand cuts. so please don’t worry about me, ok?it was a really great night apart from the ending, so please don’t be upset on my behalf, cos i’m fine. just beaten up.
it’s happened before, actually. when i was working at the beat (a nightclub that used to be in port chester, new york) i ended up getting punched a few times. usually by belligerent drunks who were punching anything that moved. there was this one time in particular where i was working and a bar-fight started. i stepped out of my dj booth and this giant preppy guy just smashed me in the face with his fist. i fell down and he looked at me like he was going to hit me again but then the police showed up and dragged him and hisdrunken preppy friend to the police station.
i went down to the station to file a report and these two huge football-playing preppy guys who had attacked me were sitting in the police station crying and saying that they hadn’t done anything. when the police had actually seen them hit me and some other people. the preppy bullies said that the bar staff (me included) had started the fight. the bar staff consisted of a female bartender who weighed 100 pounds soaking wet, me, and a doorman who was asleep.
but i digress. regarding the 3 guys who attacked me tonight, i’m not angry. i don’t feel vindictive. not to sound weird or wimpy, but i’m a pacifist and i believe in forgiveness. i just hope that at some point in these guy’s lives they come to realize that hurting other people is wrong.
and i’m left very confused as to why these guys wanted to attack me in the first place. maybe they don’t like skinny bald guys who play coversongs? i’m sure that’s it. it’s my fault, i should’ve posted a warning on the entrance to the club, ‘warning: tonights show will at time be comprised of cover songs poorly played by moby, a skinny bald musician.’
then they would’ve known and they could’ve avoided our performance and all of this trouble never would’ve happened.
see, we’re all a little bit wiser now, aren’t we.it’s like ‘the lion king’, we laughed, we cried, we ran the gamut of emotions.
goodnight again.
moby