Suicide Machines, From Autumn to Ashes, Small Brown Bike, Glasseater
Fri. Sept 6th The El-n-Gee New London CT

Anyway here's the review by the numbers:
Attendence, estimate, rounded to the nearest ten: 340
Times that I have seen more people than that at the El-n-Gee: 0
Average age of attendees, estimate, in years: 17.2
Attendees over 30, estimate: 3

Number of bands on the bill: 4
Bands that I actually saw: 2
Bands that I would pay to see again: 1

Time the chick at the Glasseater merch stand spent hassaling me to buy merch in minutes: 6
How good this girl looked, scale of 1 to 10: 9.5
Minutes that I put up with her basesd on that: 5.9
How long it took me to leave after I found out she was in high school, in seconds: 1.5

Fights I had to break up that night: 1
Weight of guy I was trying to hold back, estimate, in pounds: 250

Girls dressed up like it was fetish night: 2
Combined score of these two girls' looks on a scale of 1 to 10: 3.4

Ratio of skaish songs to hardcoreish songs played by the Suicide machines, estimate: 1:1
Ratio of Ska kids to hard core kids, estimate: 1:10

Weight in pounds of a guy wearing a Tool shirt that slammed into me while I was dancing to a song that they were playing "for all the ska kids", estimate: 350
Time it had been since said guy in Tool shirt had attempted to shower, estimate, in days: 7

Guys I saw crawl out the side door after getting kicked in the balls: 1
Kids walking though the pit like a zombie all night: 1
Cool points I just lost for using the same number twice: 25

Number of Suicide Machines albums I owened pre-concert: 0
Number of Suicide Machines albums that I own, post concert: 1
Likelyhood that I will buy another one of their albums, now that I have seen them live, on a scale of 1 to 10: 9

Price paid for ticket, in dollars: 10
Actual value I got out of said ticket, in dollars: 8

So there you have it, the first of the checkered_dan "by the numbers" show reviews, stay tuned for The Pietasters, The Speakeasies, and Bubba's Fat Friend at the El-n-Gee Sept 20th. Even better, go to the show yourself and don't rely on my show reviews to tell you what kick-ass time you missed.