No joy in guyville tonight
After having my fourth conversation in a week about the provincial pathos of the local music scene, I agreed tonight with Movie Dan that someone needs to make a "Waiting for Guffman"/"Spinal Tap"/"American Movie" film about the South Coast scene around Detroit Bar. What a cast: The skinny, fashionable boys in the mediocre bands, the pretty girls who sleep with them, and the armies of not-quites who end up sleeping with each other instead after the insiders reject them. What a scene: The sadness of an elite hierarchy of rock gods fifty miles south of the real thing. What a golden phrase for the whole mess: "The Costa Mesa 500". What a lot of beer Detroit sells with this genius marketing strategy.
And of course, the people who don't give a fuck, or as Dan said don't even give a fuck about giving a fuck, who are just cranking out music on their own terms.
I imagine it set as the last gig of some local hot-boys-in-tight-pants band, hair dripping into their eyes. They'd lost their clothing company sponsorship maybe, or one of them got in a real band in L.A., so this was their last big hometown hurrah. They think it's "The Last Waltz", but you know it's "A Mighty Wind".
That scene deserves a good long hard sarcastic razor-born look. Some of the music is good, but every time I'm in with that bunch again I keep thinking "What the HELL are you guys going on about? You're not all that! If you are, what the fuck are you doing in Costa Mesa?"
And of course, the people who don't give a fuck, or as Dan said don't even give a fuck about giving a fuck, who are just cranking out music on their own terms.
I imagine it set as the last gig of some local hot-boys-in-tight-pants band, hair dripping into their eyes. They'd lost their clothing company sponsorship maybe, or one of them got in a real band in L.A., so this was their last big hometown hurrah. They think it's "The Last Waltz", but you know it's "A Mighty Wind".
That scene deserves a good long hard sarcastic razor-born look. Some of the music is good, but every time I'm in with that bunch again I keep thinking "What the HELL are you guys going on about? You're not all that! If you are, what the fuck are you doing in Costa Mesa?"