What is a "Punk Rock Pillow Fight?"Well, it's obviously complete and utter high class fucking entertainment! From the start of the night to the bitter end of it, your brain is wrapped deep within a pillow of pain, your ears are consumed by rock 'n' roll, and your stomach is filled with beer! I mean, c'mon, what more could you want in life? Grab a few friends, pound a few beers back, and most importantly, you will finally have the opportunity to beat the crap out of your freeloading friend who somehow always forgets his/her wallet every time you go out for drinks. Well what better way than a PUNK ROCK PILLOW FIGHT than to really get 'em back and put them in their place!
On this particular December night at Santos Party House (Andrew W. K’s new baby down on 100 Lafayette St), things were starting off with band set ups and the Satisfier sound check.Serious Pillow fighters practiced their moves alongside some of Punk Rock's seasoned veterans like El Macho (my ski bunny Roommate), Chicken Nuts (one of PRPF’s fixture fighter!), and the very “feared” The Duck Down Decapitator!
I grabbed a beer, took the lens cap off my camera, and talked it up with PRPF’s house DJ, Blue Steel Lamborghini
about what new batman-punch-and-kick noises he was able to scramble up for tonight’s much awaited fights, as well as his predictions on who would be named the master and the mistress of the mattress. (We were both wrong! Just wait.)After all the checking and stretching, packs of punk-rockers piled in ready to see some serious bloodshed! Some were waiting to beat the crap out of their unknowing friend, who signed up under names like 'Jihad Jane' or 'Mosh Potato.'
Nonetheless, they were hankering for a fight, and a fight is what they got! Satisfier kicked off the night hard with a blast of metal-rock, blaring out of the insanely large and loud sound system at Santos' (man he knows how to party).
After the ringing in my ears subsided and I re-fueled on beer, Andrew K Thompson (not the other one) appeared: The Host! The Myth! The Legend! The man behind it all started in with the first fight!
Chiken nuts and The New Guy: head to head, pillow to pillow. Now, there was a pillow fight if I've ever seen one!
Kicking out the sound was Rumanian Buck, and man did they deliver some sweet sounds with their leg shaking, mattress jumping, Gypsy-blues-infusion.
At this point, the ceiling actually began to fall down. (No lie!) Many rounds down later, swarms of punk-pillow-rockers hit the mattress hard and crawled away defeated and twenty bucks short (you told them you would make them pay). Others bounced around the mattress high and mighty, gloating in their victory. But all was not over, because something was about to happen to change punk-rock-pillow-fighting history forever.
It was down to the last four contestants: two very intense, unrelenting girls, and two very pillow-pumped, mad men!
Being the gentlemen that they were, the mad men let the women go first. But these two women wanted nothing of chivalry, and challenged the two men to duke it out with them. After a quick discussion with Andrew and the Referee, it was declared that the last person standing would be named both Master and the Mistress of the Mattress!
So it went. And the fight began with pillows flying and feathers falling everywhere; and the fight continued with crys of pain and bouts of laughter.
One down! Out goes "The New Guy"
(he tried so hard, the poor little guy) but the match was not over. Two down! Out goes "Queen of the Gutter."
It was down to "Jihad Jane" and "The Duck Down Decapitator" ( who sat to the side of the mattresses and waited for everyone to tier and fall). Then, BAM!
One hard hit and it was over. The Duck Down Decapitator took both belts home, and he took them like a champ (or lord of the dance, what ever).
After a few runs around the ring while "We are the Champions" played, I was out of film in my camera so I was just enjoying a good buzz. I said my goodbyes, finished my last beer, and left. Another brutal night of pillow fighting came to a close, but it's not at all over yet. Oh no it's not! Punk Rock Pillow Fight will returns In Febuary (ill post date as soon as i know. Its will again be held at Santos Party House. and yours truly will be there camera-and-beer-ready to take down and shoot anything in my way!
To view the complete set watch this slide show or visit my flicker punk rock pillow fights@wackellman flicker.
For further information on PRFP visit ther web sight at www.PunkRockPillowFight.com
Or contact me at mrwackell@gmail.com
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