Joshua and Jason sitting in a tree... while Alanis watches jealously
Alanis Morissette is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S! Jason Mraz is my husband and we are going to be celebrating our Golden Annniversary soon. These are the important lessons I learned last night.
Once I really think about it, Jagged Little Pill was very instrumental in helping to shape the Angry Little Asian Grrrrrl that is a part of me. It truly is a great album, and 10 years later, the songs are still relevant and are still getting backplay in Lite-Rock, Adult Contemporary and "Alternative" radio stations.
A few things popped out at me during the concert:
1. Alanis is her own woman.
She opened with a stirring a capella of Your House, wearing the most unflattering sequin-festooned maroon cowl neck apron with leather pants. A SEQUINED MAROON COWL NECK APRON PEOPLE.
Anywayhow, as she's busting out one of the best creepy stalker songs ever (and I love me some creepy stalker songs, they're very soundtrack-of-my-life-ish), her hands were clamped together rigidly like she was emulating the Captain Baron von Trapp and Maria during their stirring duet of Edelweiss from The Sound Of Music, except more so. She went back to this pose many times during the show.
It reminded me of the symbol for Boys and Girls Club of America for some reason. Hmm, not sure why. Also, during the song Ironic, her dog ran across the stage!! It was totally ironic. Not really, but then again, none of the points raised in the aforementioned song is truly "ironic."
2. The audience got really excited every time Alanis brought up the issue of weight and/or eating. It was almost as though they wanted her to, as Kelly Rowland sang in that god-awful Cater 2 U, "keep [her] figure right."
The line "I might want to marry you one day if you watch that weight and keep your firm body" from Hands Clean gave way to loud cheers. "You took me out to wine, dine, 69 me" from Right Through You was acclaimed muchly, as though, gosh darn it, Alanis should eat only healthy and expensive foodstuff.
In the first encore, Thank You, she pleads "How about stopping eating when I'm full up" and everyone went crazy. By golly, Alanis, you are on your way to beauty and perfection!!! Thank you India! Even when she's directing her question at someone else, as in when she asks Mary Jane, "I hear you're losing weight again... Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?", the audience went up in a roar, clapping and whistling. It was sort of disturbing.
3. Alanis Morissette might just be one of "God's Special Children."
As she ripped through You Learn, I noticed her feet, behind the atrocious sequined maroon cowl neck apron, were doing this really weird shuffle, kick, tap, toe, heel, touch, kick, shuffle, kick, tap, toe, heel, and so on and so forth, movement. This is while her hands were performing Edelweiss and promoting the Boys and Girls Club of America. It sort of reminded me of someone eligible for the Special Olympics playing Dance! Dance! Revolution!.
And I'm sure you are all familiar with how her arms seem to be infected with Polio while she sings. She must be a great supported of youth. Her hands unconsciously remind us of the Boys and Girls Club, while also harkening back to the dark days when a disease such as Polio debilitated many a youngster.
4.If not, then she is God herself.
Remember when Dishwalla insisted in their one-hit-wonder Counting Blue cars that we tell them "all our throughts on God" and that He was actually a She?
I think I know who they were referring to. Dogma notwithstanding, at one point, while singing Perfect, Alanis looked like Jesus, although not really a female version, but like, the male version: goatee, crown of thorns, he-who-died-for-our-sins, etc. It was very unsettling for a non-religious wayward child like myself. There was this Hand Of God Glow surrounding her Christ-like hair, and I swear this gay dude behind me started speaking in tongues.
5. I am in love with Jason Mraz.
His arm was broken, so he was wearing a cast and had some local guitarist play the majority of his music. Although, being prolific and stalwart as he is, he still played the guitar on a bunch of songs. His voice is pure, his lyrics fetching, his humor satisfying, and his self-deprection endearing. And he did a White-Boy dance that included the Robot.
At one point, I turned to Joseph and I was all, Do you realize, I would not only bottom for him, I would let him fist me. To which Joseph replied, Dude, he has a cast on. And I'm like, I know. That is how in love I am.
And this, my friends, is the wrap-up of the show that was Jagged Little Pill Acoustic Tour at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California.
P.S. I TOOK BOOTLEGGED VIDEOS of Jason singing Joshua and I, Oh I mean You And I, and Alanis singing Perfect, Thank You, You Oughta Know, Hand In My Pocket, and a couple of others I can't remember right now.
Poll O, the irony!
Once I really think about it, Jagged Little Pill was very instrumental in helping to shape the Angry Little Asian Grrrrrl that is a part of me. It truly is a great album, and 10 years later, the songs are still relevant and are still getting backplay in Lite-Rock, Adult Contemporary and "Alternative" radio stations.
A few things popped out at me during the concert:
1. Alanis is her own woman.
She opened with a stirring a capella of Your House, wearing the most unflattering sequin-festooned maroon cowl neck apron with leather pants. A SEQUINED MAROON COWL NECK APRON PEOPLE.
Anywayhow, as she's busting out one of the best creepy stalker songs ever (and I love me some creepy stalker songs, they're very soundtrack-of-my-life-ish), her hands were clamped together rigidly like she was emulating the Captain Baron von Trapp and Maria during their stirring duet of Edelweiss from The Sound Of Music, except more so. She went back to this pose many times during the show.
It reminded me of the symbol for Boys and Girls Club of America for some reason. Hmm, not sure why. Also, during the song Ironic, her dog ran across the stage!! It was totally ironic. Not really, but then again, none of the points raised in the aforementioned song is truly "ironic."
2. The audience got really excited every time Alanis brought up the issue of weight and/or eating. It was almost as though they wanted her to, as Kelly Rowland sang in that god-awful Cater 2 U, "keep [her] figure right."
The line "I might want to marry you one day if you watch that weight and keep your firm body" from Hands Clean gave way to loud cheers. "You took me out to wine, dine, 69 me" from Right Through You was acclaimed muchly, as though, gosh darn it, Alanis should eat only healthy and expensive foodstuff.
In the first encore, Thank You, she pleads "How about stopping eating when I'm full up" and everyone went crazy. By golly, Alanis, you are on your way to beauty and perfection!!! Thank you India! Even when she's directing her question at someone else, as in when she asks Mary Jane, "I hear you're losing weight again... Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?", the audience went up in a roar, clapping and whistling. It was sort of disturbing.
3. Alanis Morissette might just be one of "God's Special Children."
As she ripped through You Learn, I noticed her feet, behind the atrocious sequined maroon cowl neck apron, were doing this really weird shuffle, kick, tap, toe, heel, touch, kick, shuffle, kick, tap, toe, heel, and so on and so forth, movement. This is while her hands were performing Edelweiss and promoting the Boys and Girls Club of America. It sort of reminded me of someone eligible for the Special Olympics playing Dance! Dance! Revolution!.
And I'm sure you are all familiar with how her arms seem to be infected with Polio while she sings. She must be a great supported of youth. Her hands unconsciously remind us of the Boys and Girls Club, while also harkening back to the dark days when a disease such as Polio debilitated many a youngster.
4.If not, then she is God herself.
Remember when Dishwalla insisted in their one-hit-wonder Counting Blue cars that we tell them "all our throughts on God" and that He was actually a She?
I think I know who they were referring to. Dogma notwithstanding, at one point, while singing Perfect, Alanis looked like Jesus, although not really a female version, but like, the male version: goatee, crown of thorns, he-who-died-for-our-sins, etc. It was very unsettling for a non-religious wayward child like myself. There was this Hand Of God Glow surrounding her Christ-like hair, and I swear this gay dude behind me started speaking in tongues.
5. I am in love with Jason Mraz.
His arm was broken, so he was wearing a cast and had some local guitarist play the majority of his music. Although, being prolific and stalwart as he is, he still played the guitar on a bunch of songs. His voice is pure, his lyrics fetching, his humor satisfying, and his self-deprection endearing. And he did a White-Boy dance that included the Robot.
At one point, I turned to Joseph and I was all, Do you realize, I would not only bottom for him, I would let him fist me. To which Joseph replied, Dude, he has a cast on. And I'm like, I know. That is how in love I am.
And this, my friends, is the wrap-up of the show that was Jagged Little Pill Acoustic Tour at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California.
P.S. I TOOK BOOTLEGGED VIDEOS of Jason singing Joshua and I, Oh I mean You And I, and Alanis singing Perfect, Thank You, You Oughta Know, Hand In My Pocket, and a couple of others I can't remember right now.
Poll O, the irony!