o, moose...
tonight i went to see dinosaur jr. unsurprisingly it was fucking awesome! i can't remember everything they played but here are the songs they played that i did know-
budge, little fury things, in a jar (i was so fucking happy to hear this one- they might not have played it last time at the metro- i can't remember), the lung, feel the pain and out there (fucking NICE)
the encore was- repulsion, freak scene and chunks
everything else was new songs pretty much. there were about three that i really thought were awesome. two were sung by lou barlow and one i thought was a sebadoh song. probably not a huge surprise...
it was the weirdest mix of people i think i've ever seen at a show. lots of long-haired beer-drinking tall huge dudes but then a bunch of polished and dolled up trixie-types. kylie was there and she found me and was talking to me. there was one girl we were convinced must have been there with her boyfriend because she was about the last type of person i'd expect to see at a dinosaur jr. show. she was wearing a white flowy tube top kind of thing and the high heeled open toed shoes (as were lots of these ladies). i didn't know it was common practice to get dolled up to see dinosaur jr. maybe lou barlow has that effect on women... anyway, i saw this white tube-top lady towards the end of the show and she wasn't there with a boy and was dancing around. *baffled*
oh yeah i also saw a woman puke into a trash can right in the middle of the room along with about 10 other people going 'oH!!!!!'
now, the headline. about five seconds after i walked in and found a place that i liked this guy with red hair walked up to me and just started talking to me about the brian jonestown massacre because i was wearing my bjm shirt. he told me a lot about himself- he was from louisville and had never seen dinosaur jr. before and was incredibly excited. he even introduced himself- his name was moose. this was at the beginning right after lou barlow played his solo set (which i missed most of because i was waiting to meet up with the guy who stefanie sold her ticket to on craigslist- he didn't show up until 10:30 but i thought that awesome colors or whatever would be playing first- i was pretty bummed about this...). later i ran into moose again and he was talking to everyone about how excited he was and he worked his way all the way to the front. when dinosaur started playing i'm positive he was the one yelling for 'chunks' throughout the first three songs. when they played it he jumped up on the stage and attempted to sing it with lou barlow- who didn't seem to have a problem with it since moose knew the words and was sharing the mic with him. someone came up onstage and got moose off. poor moose... it was quite amusing. later when i was talking to kylie outside after the show was over he ran up to me and grabbed my hand and kept yelling 'anton newcombe is jesus christ!!!!!' over and over again. hilarious.
as i was walking to my car i was behind two guys who walked by this group of people by a car who were apologizing and when the two guys said 'why?' one of the girls with the people by the car said 'because i flashed my boob at you' and then flashed one of her boobs at them. as i was walking away i could hear them doing the same thing with everyone who walked in front of them and she flashed every single one.
while i was driving home i was seeing people from the show milled about in different areas. there is some bar at grace and kedzie that people were in and the 7-11 over there. kind of amusing. but then i drove past the diner grill on irving park- which is about a block or so from ashland and which my roommate at columbia, stefan, used to frequent- and saw it packed to the gills with people from the show. hee hee.
i almost didn't go because i was worried about my cough getting worse since it's been getting better kind of slowly over the last couple of days. stefanie got really sick today- and she is getting better quickly, but she wasn't well enough to go. quite a bummer. we were supposed to meet up with kylie at some chinese restaurant that she knew nearby. crumbs.
well, i should get to bed i guess. rest would probably be good for me and i can see tomorrow if the cigarette smoke affected me that much. i tried to avoid the smokers, but it wasn't always possible. i don't smell like an ashtray to the point that i need to wash my t-shirt or jeans- so that's definitely a good sign.
budge, little fury things, in a jar (i was so fucking happy to hear this one- they might not have played it last time at the metro- i can't remember), the lung, feel the pain and out there (fucking NICE)
the encore was- repulsion, freak scene and chunks
everything else was new songs pretty much. there were about three that i really thought were awesome. two were sung by lou barlow and one i thought was a sebadoh song. probably not a huge surprise...
it was the weirdest mix of people i think i've ever seen at a show. lots of long-haired beer-drinking tall huge dudes but then a bunch of polished and dolled up trixie-types. kylie was there and she found me and was talking to me. there was one girl we were convinced must have been there with her boyfriend because she was about the last type of person i'd expect to see at a dinosaur jr. show. she was wearing a white flowy tube top kind of thing and the high heeled open toed shoes (as were lots of these ladies). i didn't know it was common practice to get dolled up to see dinosaur jr. maybe lou barlow has that effect on women... anyway, i saw this white tube-top lady towards the end of the show and she wasn't there with a boy and was dancing around. *baffled*
oh yeah i also saw a woman puke into a trash can right in the middle of the room along with about 10 other people going 'oH!!!!!'
now, the headline. about five seconds after i walked in and found a place that i liked this guy with red hair walked up to me and just started talking to me about the brian jonestown massacre because i was wearing my bjm shirt. he told me a lot about himself- he was from louisville and had never seen dinosaur jr. before and was incredibly excited. he even introduced himself- his name was moose. this was at the beginning right after lou barlow played his solo set (which i missed most of because i was waiting to meet up with the guy who stefanie sold her ticket to on craigslist- he didn't show up until 10:30 but i thought that awesome colors or whatever would be playing first- i was pretty bummed about this...). later i ran into moose again and he was talking to everyone about how excited he was and he worked his way all the way to the front. when dinosaur started playing i'm positive he was the one yelling for 'chunks' throughout the first three songs. when they played it he jumped up on the stage and attempted to sing it with lou barlow- who didn't seem to have a problem with it since moose knew the words and was sharing the mic with him. someone came up onstage and got moose off. poor moose... it was quite amusing. later when i was talking to kylie outside after the show was over he ran up to me and grabbed my hand and kept yelling 'anton newcombe is jesus christ!!!!!' over and over again. hilarious.
as i was walking to my car i was behind two guys who walked by this group of people by a car who were apologizing and when the two guys said 'why?' one of the girls with the people by the car said 'because i flashed my boob at you' and then flashed one of her boobs at them. as i was walking away i could hear them doing the same thing with everyone who walked in front of them and she flashed every single one.
while i was driving home i was seeing people from the show milled about in different areas. there is some bar at grace and kedzie that people were in and the 7-11 over there. kind of amusing. but then i drove past the diner grill on irving park- which is about a block or so from ashland and which my roommate at columbia, stefan, used to frequent- and saw it packed to the gills with people from the show. hee hee.
i almost didn't go because i was worried about my cough getting worse since it's been getting better kind of slowly over the last couple of days. stefanie got really sick today- and she is getting better quickly, but she wasn't well enough to go. quite a bummer. we were supposed to meet up with kylie at some chinese restaurant that she knew nearby. crumbs.
well, i should get to bed i guess. rest would probably be good for me and i can see tomorrow if the cigarette smoke affected me that much. i tried to avoid the smokers, but it wasn't always possible. i don't smell like an ashtray to the point that i need to wash my t-shirt or jeans- so that's definitely a good sign.