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May 25, 2005 at 14:24:38 (EDT) |
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They have monkeys like we have squirrels
Lightning Bolt was, as usual, fantastic. The show was sold out,
but even despite their use of the floor for their set, it wasn't
overly packed. Best of all, it didn't get as horrifying hot
as it was at their Asterisk show (I'm sure I would have fallen
out if I hadn't taken a breather on the sidewalk at that one).
I'm still amazed at some New Yorkers' ability to stand stock
still in the face of such lively music. Then again, some other
folks were more than compensating for the formers' lack of movement.
This always pisses off the people who don't dance, and while
I sometimes feel their pain, most of the time I'm thinking,
"Well, if you were dancing a little, you wouldn't notice
that dude bumping into you and wouldn't have to pull that I-smell-onions
face."
Right in the middle of "Dracula Mountain" I saw
a girl drop to the floor in front of me. Immediately a circle
opened up and everybody peered in with concern. My first thought
was that somebody had been injured in "the pit,"
and were trying to get back up again. But eventually I realized
the woman's glasses had been knocked off and everybody was
trying to find them. Just when it seemed hopeless, they emerged,
unbroken. What are the chances of that? So the lesson learned,
kids, is that if you're gonna bop around up front at a show
like that, you must remember the rules:
- No glasses
- No watches or bracelets that could scratch or get caught
in somebody's suspenders
- No rings
- No "Elbow Dancing"
When will the chillun learn? Well, now you know, so why not
put this wisdom to good use at the Motico
show tonight at Sin-é? We're going on at 9, and this
time, we mean it. Come early to see UTAH, this band from Denmark
we just got on the bill with us. How exotic!
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Tuesday, May
24, 2005 at 17:12:41 (EDT) |
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He shot me (but it felt like a kiss)
Oh, that's it. He's guilty. 
[via Buzz]
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Monday, May
23, 2005 at 13:14:30 (EDT) |
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No more wood on the fire
It's been another exhausting weekend of seeing bands. At some
point I should probably find something else to do in this town.
But Broadway's too expensive
and I don't get this whole neo-Burlesque
thing. So in the meantime, lucky me, there's lots of bands to
see. This weekend's award would have to go to USAISAMONSTER,
who played Sin-é
last night. I can't remember if I've ever even seen them play
Manhattan before. It's a little odd to see them at a regular
New York club. True to form, they set up on the floor away from
the stage, which I realize is for more than just the increased
intimacy of a floor-show. Not only did it allow them to start
almost immediately after Face
Down in Shit's set (who were so loud even Sin-é's
famously overloud vocal mics could not keep up), but also because
USAISAMONSTER brought its own PA. That's right, despite having
a fairly good sound system at their disposal, they chose to
run their vocals through a small mixer and one of their huge
amps. The sound quality was not great but at least you could
hear it over the din of their music (which is more than I can
say of the sound guy for FDIS).
More and more I have to admire this band. Especially amazing
is Tom the drummer, who not only does these incredible percussion
bits but can play a keyboard strapped to his set, sing, and
play a set of organ bass pedals with his left foot. You gotta
see it when he does all of this stuff at once, it's quite
unbelievable. And then after these most amazing feats/feets,
he says "This next song's about when we went camping
and took acid." I talked to him after the show about
an interview for the Press, and he lamented the fact that
the doesn't have internet access at home. "I wish we
could do it," he said. "I wish we could, like, be
computer people, you know?" He mimed tapping on a computer
keyboard. Yeah, like I'm really disappointed in the guy's
computer skills.
Coming up this week, it's a full schedule: Lightning
Bolt is back again for two nights in Brooklyn. First is
Tuesday at North
Six and then Thursday at The
Hook. What to do on Wednesday while waiting around for
the next LB show? Come back to Sin-é for Motico's
repeat performance! We're gonna try to recreate everything
about our last Sin-é show, the songs, the passion,
the free records,
the light show. But there'll be one change: we'll actually
go on when we said we'd go on, so some people will actually
have the chance to see it. Like we told you last time, we're
going on at 9 PM, but this time we really mean it! Actually
we might go on a little earlier than that, so come early and
get yer money's worth!
Friday we return to Sin-é for Big
Bear and Fresh
Kills. And oh yeah, some guy with the unlikely name of
Kyp who apparently is in some band called TV
on the Radio.
Also, happy birthday to Decatur! She's five years old today,
which seems somehow impossible.
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Tuesday, May
17, 2005 at 13:28:53 (EDT) |
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I'm proud to be old Obi Wan Kenobi
 So who else is seeing the new Star
Wars movie this week? Honestly, I think if somebody hadn't
offered me a ticket for a Thursday afternoon show, I wouldn't
bother seeing it until it was out on DVD. But now that I know
I'm going, the old habits have begun to resurface. Not that
I was ever that big a Star Wars fan, but I was a small child
when the first movies came out, and therefore the Lucasfilm
seed was planted in my mind, and so I shall forevermore be
at least mildly concerned with this stuff. Buzz likened it
to following professional sports, you can get all wrapped
up in it, but if you take a step back you realize how silly
it all is, how little depends on who wins the Pennant (whatever
that is). It is the same with this stuff, but after so many
years of waiting, the prospect of getting these last few questions
answered still has enough oomph to get my attention. I've
managed to watch all of the movies in the past week, so I'm
up to date on everything that happens on the screen, more
or less.
Of course, George Lucas futzed with all the old movies and
added a bunch of crap that was completely unnecessary,
but I can remember enough about the old ones to suit my needs
(come on, Han shot first!).
Considering how disappointing all the new movies have been
so far, I'm not exactly optimistic, but despite the poor judgment
exercised previously, I'm betting there will be enough stuff
to keep my attention.
But one thing still bugs me. The Empire, against which the
Original Trilogy heroes fight (and defeat) starts its stranglehold
on the galaxy right around the same time Anakin Skywalker
becomes Darth Vader. Isn't that just a little on the nose?
For something to truly be an "empire" doesn't it
have to be around for a long time, gathering more territories
along the way and creating a history of powerful manipulation?
This means the Empire of Darth Vader is only around as long
as he is, which must only be about 20 years, since, as we
know, his son will grow up to destroy it all. In a region
the size of a galaxy, then, it is probably safe to assume
there would be plenty of star systems who never even knew
the Republic had converted to an Empire. It's like Italy under
Mussolini, the average Italian standing around saying, "Eh?
We are Fascists now? Okay, ciao!"
And then I step back and realize how dumb it is for me to
be spending this much time thinking about this. I could have
baked a cake or written a song in the time I spent contemplating
this stuff! Alas. But I'm still gonna see the movie.
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