Morrissey takes his shirt off, the people applaud.
How can you not be in awe of Morrissey? His career is based around the irony of songs that insist "there is nothing I could do to make you mine" when in fact most everyone in that audience would probably carve "Moz" into their chests if he wanted them to (off topic: new metal band idea? Do Anything for Morrissey?). The girl standing next to me at the concert kept turning her phone camera around to film her boyfriend. WHY? MORRISSEY IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU AND IS A MILLION TIMES THE MAN YOUR BOYFRIEND WILL EVER BE! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!? At one point he did such a good job of standing on stage looking cool I applauded him just for that. And for his hair. Great hair. His encore was "Irish Blood, English Heart." I love that song.
(Sidenote: there appears to be a video on youtube of t.A.T.u. singing "How Soon is Now." That would be fake Russian lesbians singing The Smiths. I know some of you people will find that vaguely enraging, but also quite arousing as well.) (All right, watching it, I'm not thinking the lesbiansism makes up at all for their voices singing this song.)
At the show we ran into one of Ashby's friends who lives in D.C. and ended up going with him to Penny Lane Pub to play pool. Which we are all pretty horrible at doing. One of my old high school classmates recognized me, then had a discussion with Ashby's friend about guys shaving their heads as they go bald. And, very coincidently, Stephen showed up (Stephen being my friend who's moving to Chicago today). Very happy I got to see him one last time before he left.
So all in all, a satisfying evening.
(Sidenote: there appears to be a video on youtube of t.A.T.u. singing "How Soon is Now." That would be fake Russian lesbians singing The Smiths. I know some of you people will find that vaguely enraging, but also quite arousing as well.) (All right, watching it, I'm not thinking the lesbiansism makes up at all for their voices singing this song.)
At the show we ran into one of Ashby's friends who lives in D.C. and ended up going with him to Penny Lane Pub to play pool. Which we are all pretty horrible at doing. One of my old high school classmates recognized me, then had a discussion with Ashby's friend about guys shaving their heads as they go bald. And, very coincidently, Stephen showed up (Stephen being my friend who's moving to Chicago today). Very happy I got to see him one last time before he left.
So all in all, a satisfying evening.