Josh Homme is a homophobic piece of shit

So...Queens of the Stone Age. Let's see...waited in line for about 40 minutes due to the obvious ineptness of the staff at the Empire. You don't wait in line that long to get into the Fillmore or the Warfield or the Great American, and they're all much bigger. I had plenty of time to check out the peeps in line. A somewhat varied crowd, but a lot of metal dudes. At first I thought that maybe there were so many giant guys becaue Josh Homme is so tall and that seemed weird, because I don't seek out bands with tall ladies in them, but then I figured that big dudes are attracted to metal music the same way that smaller dudes are attracted to indie rock. I know, I'm a genius. I saw more than one guy that had a sunglass tan on his face, usually in the shape of Oakley Blades. I saw one indie rock/hipster looking cute young girl that was wearing a dress that was basically open to the waist and that revealed every square inch of her breasts but somehow no nipple slip. If you were at that show I'm sure you saw that. I tried so hard not to look but I couldn't help myself. Grace did too! I'm not just a perv.

Missed at least half of the Eagles of Death Metal just because of the long wait, but they were really mediocre so I didn't care. The lead singer had a look that was so macho that it crossed over into Freddy Mercury territory (reflective aviator glasses, handlebar mustache, super tight clothes), and he seemed a bit sexually ambiguous in a way that probably made some of the bros in the crowd uncomfortable, which I thought was great. I started thinking that maybe he's gay and that that's rad that the Queens of the Stone Age crowd is a bit more open-minded than your typical metalheads and that maybe Josh Homme is a cool guy.

Waited a while in between bands, I must confess I was having the same sharp stomach pains that seem to be plaguing me for the past week (I bet I have some repulsive parasite, that would happen to me) and I had to sit down. I only include that because it contributed to my later actions. QOTSA came out to the strains of "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf" and they played some song that's from the new album that I haven't heard. They were really swaggery and pose'y and they had this weird keyboardist chick who was trying to look tough by smoking a lot without using her hands but she really just looked tore to the bone. Anyway, blah blah, they play another song, Homme says "We're Queens of the fucking Stone Age" in a way that seemed dumb and not tough to me. They were definitely trying too hard. People that are really tough don't have to make such a big deal of it. Anyway after maybe the third song he says some bullshit about "Who wants to get laid tonight?" people cheer and then he says, to paraphrase, "well, if you want to get laid then quit slamming into each other up front like a bunch of homos". Everyone cheers, I see red, exit heckasac stage left. Sure, the stomach pains were about 20% of the reason I wrote it off so quick, but I won't have anything to do with music that's made by an asshole like that. Unless someone lets me know that he gave a long speech after I left on the evils of homophobia, or presented an oversize novelty check to fight AIDS, then I won't listen to that band or give them one cent of my money ever again. That's part of why I don't listen to any rock (except glam rock). I don't relate to that mentality. Worst 26 dollars I ever spent.