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Best things to come from a 1 hour radius of my home
1) Miles Davis
2) Uncle Tupelo
3) Bob Heil (inventer of the talk box)
4) Chuck Berry
5) Tennessee Williams
6) The inventer of Pet MilkPerfect Songs (songs I can listen to on enldless repeat)
1) Freak Scene
2) Start Choppin’
3) Jamie-Weezer
4) Letter From an Occupant-New Pornographers
5) I Gotta Be Me-The Banana’s
6) Poked it With a Stick-The Warmers
7) Tango ’till they’re Sore-Tom Waits
Haitian Fight Song-Charles Mingus
9) Promises-The Buzzcocks
10) Shady Lane-Pavement
11) Shakepears Sister-The Smiths
12) Fairytale of New York-The Pogues
13) SugarCube-Yo La Tengo
14) For Want Of-Rites of Spring
15) Mr Weekend-Branch Manager."Fighting on the internet is like running in the special olympics. Even if you win, you’re still retarded"
Soul Coughing-Circles
"I don’t need to walk around in circles, walk around in circles, walk around in circles, walk around in don’t need to walk around in circles walk around in. . .
Have you seen the new GBV video w/local (St. Louis) legend Beatle Bob? I about had a coronory when he popped up.
Quote:hot hot heat – make up the breakdownA pretty good album, girlies (and their gay roommates) love it.
Top Five Sunday Comics
1) The Far Side
2) Calvin and Hobbs
3) The Boondocks
aw fuck, there isn’t anything else worth readingFive fave DC bands
1) Fugazi
2) Q and Not U
3) Circus Lupus
4) The Warmers
5) Branch Manager
6) Hoover/Crownhate Ruin
7) Autoclave
oops. . .Five Bands of whom I appear to be the only existing fan
1) Carrie Nations
2) The Bananas
3) Trusty
4) X-Ray Spex
5) The CleanFive Fave Bands from the UK
1) Belle and Sebastian
2) The Smiths
3) The Pogues
4) Joy Division
5) The BuzzcocksQuote:i wore a garbage bag with notes like, "the check’s in the mail", "i’ve only been with 3" , "sure i’ve been tested" and went as a lying sack of shit.I laughed out loud at that one.
I didn’t dress up, although Charlotte made a very nice nurse.
And I saw a guy wearing a white shirt and pants, with a bunch of fake blood and a stuffed white tiger clinging to him. Best "Roy" costume I’ve ever seen.
Gods Shoeshine summed most of it up.
Oh, I’ve gotten a few girls as well as over myself.
The Malcom Report is essentially dead.Belle and Sebastian w/Rasputina
The Pagaent, Nov 5, 2003Yeah, two bands nobody else in the FreakScene could give two shits about. But B&S are certainly number 3 or 4 on my top five bands list (they compete for postition with Fugazi), and they only tour once every 16 years, so I hadda go.
First downer of the night was having a friends car break down, meaning my favorite girlie and I now were three. I tried my damndest not to make him a third leg, but still. . .
Opening act was Rasputina. Two girls with cellos and a hairy dude on drums. I’ve been hearing nothing but good about this band for the past few months, which is why I was rather dissapointed.
They weren’t bad by any means, when they ‘rocked out’ they were pretty damned good. The singer has a strong voice and the cellos fill out both melody and bass pretty well. But much of the stuff felt like "lets write a song" and "aren’t we weird, we wrote a song about Howard Hughs."
I was a bit apprehensive about Belle and Sebastians set, I’d read many bad reviews describing the benad as "shambling," "messy," and "having ten minute pauses between songs."
The band took to the stage as an absolute fucking army. The core of the band is seven or eight, and on this night there were at least twelve people on stage at any time. The line up was (right to left, front to back, no names because these fuckers never get photographed) Trumpet/Bass, guitar/bass, Guitars/vocals, vocals/guitar (and he sometimes went back to the Keyboards, Stuart Murdoch I presume?), Violin/flute/keys/vocals, Somtimes cello. Behind the guitar army was a drum set, a hammond organ, an old rhodes piano, and another keyboard. Behind that mess was a string quartet. Confused yet?
The band started off with a freeform jazz odessy, and then went into a set based heavily on their new album. They did play "Photo Jenny" (my favorite), "Dog on Wheels," and a few other old ones. Also included was a cover of ABBA’s "Dancing Queen" with nervous guest vocals from a random audience member. The occasional in between song banter was funny enough (possibly because the Scottish accents made them almost unintelligable). The band espoused their love of Chuck Berry and the Cardinals (no shit, they’re in St. Louis), lampooned the venue as looking like a place Elvis would perform in while in Las Vegas, and requested we tell them our party pieces. I think they were looking for requests, although somebody used it as an excues to toss a bra onstage. Which prompted the following exchange
"I’m colourblind, wha’ colour is it?"
(audience yelling) "It’s brown"
"Oh, how indie, tha’s very noice."
The band’s set was quite short, with a single encore of "Judy and the Dream of Horses." I was in the car by 11:00.
All things told, a small part of me feels like I should be dissapointed, but mostly I feel sorta warm and fuzzy.
