Black Cat musings
I worked until 3 last night after a full day at this office and a short trip to the gym. I'm damn tired but this is what I asked for so I'm not complaining.
The show last night was headlined by the Animal Collective. Now I'm sure that some of you guys love them, but I have to say I just found the show to be embarassing. The performance itself wasn't bad. Basically if a band is performing enthusiastically and I don't HATE what you're doing I'll enjoy live music. The music is very abstract so feel free to tell me that I don't "get it." Most of it was silly though occassionally a 30 second chunk of the nonsense would appeal to me.
When you figure in the crowd, however, suddenly you have a situation that was so pretentious I found it to be somewhat embarassing to be a part of.
Their merch guy was doing needlepoint.
I saw 2 members of the crowd standing less than 10 feet from the stage furiously writing poetry during the performance. The guy was writing in what looked to me like hebrew (it may have been another middle-eastern language), and the girl was writing a numbered list of phrases.
In the cafe meanwhile, a bearded geek in inch-thick glasses was condescending our adorable little cafe cook because he didn't approve of the soy sauce we used. He ended up eating white rice and hummus.
Most of the crowd were friendly hippies but a few a few bad apples ruined the aural poetry experience.
Meanwhile, the opening band was awesome. Stórsveit Nix Noltes is an Icelandic 9-piece (!) band that performed regional folk music with umm... modern weirdness thrown in. It was irregular drums, some horns, some strings, an accordian, an electric guitar, and an instrument that looked like a banjo but sounded like a sitar.
Check out a review and mp3 here, I might have to pick up a copy from Bubblecore Records if Chaz doesn't already have it in stock. ;) I'm not sure how often I'd break it out but I'd like to have it on my iPod for special occasions.
Mmmm ... hotty accordian player!
BTW, still waiting to hear from W&M before I make any moves regarding MBA school.
The show last night was headlined by the Animal Collective. Now I'm sure that some of you guys love them, but I have to say I just found the show to be embarassing. The performance itself wasn't bad. Basically if a band is performing enthusiastically and I don't HATE what you're doing I'll enjoy live music. The music is very abstract so feel free to tell me that I don't "get it." Most of it was silly though occassionally a 30 second chunk of the nonsense would appeal to me.
When you figure in the crowd, however, suddenly you have a situation that was so pretentious I found it to be somewhat embarassing to be a part of.
Their merch guy was doing needlepoint.
I saw 2 members of the crowd standing less than 10 feet from the stage furiously writing poetry during the performance. The guy was writing in what looked to me like hebrew (it may have been another middle-eastern language), and the girl was writing a numbered list of phrases.
In the cafe meanwhile, a bearded geek in inch-thick glasses was condescending our adorable little cafe cook because he didn't approve of the soy sauce we used. He ended up eating white rice and hummus.
Most of the crowd were friendly hippies but a few a few bad apples ruined the aural poetry experience.
Meanwhile, the opening band was awesome. Stórsveit Nix Noltes is an Icelandic 9-piece (!) band that performed regional folk music with umm... modern weirdness thrown in. It was irregular drums, some horns, some strings, an accordian, an electric guitar, and an instrument that looked like a banjo but sounded like a sitar.
Check out a review and mp3 here, I might have to pick up a copy from Bubblecore Records if Chaz doesn't already have it in stock. ;) I'm not sure how often I'd break it out but I'd like to have it on my iPod for special occasions.
Mmmm ... hotty accordian player!
BTW, still waiting to hear from W&M before I make any moves regarding MBA school.