I decided that the Mt. Tabor Theater would make for a good night shot so I started there. First thing I noticed was the tour coach and RV parked in front and who should be on the other side? Why it's the totally trashed members of Unleashed, the legendary Swedish metal band who combine Norse mythology and death metal! I wanted to take a band photo but was unsure what "UUUGGGHHHHHHUU" meant. See, I held up my camera and said "Fellas?" and they all yelled "UUUGGGHHHHHHUU" at me. Now I'm not really an expert at translating drunk Swedish death metal speak - they could have been saying "Hi kid, we're on tour in America and are glad that you are here. Of course you can take a photo of our band and right at the moment we're actually posing for you by roaring "UGGGHHHHHHUU" in your face". That could have been one way to take it, but judging from how super large they were, how fucking inebriated they were, and the size large bottles of who-knows-what kind of alcohol they all were carrying, plus the slices of pizza that littered the sidewalk around them, they could also have been communicating "Hi kid, we can tell by the way you're dressed that your not here for the show and if your flashbulb goes off in our faces we'll eat you". Unsure, I hesitated, and alas have no photo of the tender and cuddly lads from the land of Swedish Mythic Death Metal. I was wishing though that I could have seen the show but it had just ended.
So I continued on down the street taking pictures as I went. A quiet Friday night on Hawthorne. At about a quarter of 11.
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