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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
MF Doom's New Album
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
GWAR Show - Follow Up
I was pretty excited for the show, I was hoping/wondering if they had anything special planned 'cause it was the night before Election Day. It didn't look they did anything unusual, but the word "unusual" is very relative when speaking about a GWAR show.
I can't give a set list other than they closed with "Sick of You," but what I can do is give a pretty good recap of kills during the show. I have some pictures, but I don't anything about photography and I have a pretty basic camera so getting good shots with strobes and explosions was beyond my skill level.
The show starts with Sleazy P. Martini giving a stump speech on-screen with a timer that's counting down "Time until Death."
They show a bunch of clips of the "Steve Wilkos Show" and then bring out "Steve." Sleazy joins him on stage with several large GWAR-esque wrestling belts slung over his shoulder and explains that these are the "Frank Sinatra Belts of Total World Domination" and the holder of the belts gets to rule the world. Sleazy goes on to say that McCain and Obama have no belts and Steve [wait for it] has no head! First decapitation of the show.
The belts are the center piece of most of the rest of the "interludes" for the rest of the show that take the form of wrestling matches. Here's the quick and dirty on who bit the dust tonight and how.
Kills:
1. Steve Wilkos - decapitated
2. Baby - Impaled on Oderus' shoulder spikes
3. John McCain - Chased and then beaten with the skull of a VC by Bonesnapper
4 & 5 Obama & Hillary - Killed in a match with Bonesnapper & Oderus Urungus, Hillary is cut in half
6 & 7 The Reaganator & Dead Rosslyn Carter- 12 foot high robot run through with a sword, re-killing Dead Rosslyn Carter who introduced the Reagantor and is in his chest cavity.
8. Hippie - Head shot by Sleazy P. Martini
9. Artist - Face peeled off by Bonesnapper
10. Dog - During the encore
Wounded:
1. Techno Destructo
2. Bozo Destructo
Here's a pic of the Reaganator, I'll see if I can get this fixed up later.
Monday, November 03, 2008
GWAR in Fargo
A couple of weeks ago I noticed that GWAR was going to be playing in Fargo tonight. Originally I hadn't though much of it because when I first noticed the date of the show, we had planned to be in Montana today. But due to a change of plans we're not leaving for Montana until tomorrow night which means I am available to see GWAR tonight.
Having already seen GWAR 3 or 4 other times, I was actually thinking about not going to the show. But then when I started thinking about it, I realized that it's the night before a Presidential election that has been going on for almost two years. Add the fact that GWAR is mad political (in a funny and satirical way, not the annoying way like Sean Penn) and I'm in Fargo and the decision got a whole lot easier.
It's not like GWAR is known for subtlety in their shows. I've seen the Pope decapitated, Mike Tyson get his hands chopped off and then devoured by a dinosaur, and the list goes on. I have to wonder what bits of comedy gold GWAR is going to mine from the permanent campaign. Will they have McCain in a tiger cage being tormented by Karl Rove, Obama dressed as a suicide bomber, or perhaps something Palin related? The possibilities are almost endless.
The thing that sucks is that I don't have anyone to go to the show with here in Fargo. I'm gonna call Slayer (MSUM rugger) to see if he's down, but I'll probably end up going by myself. I'll take the camera tonight and hopefully I'll get a couple of good shots of something funny.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
I'm in Fargo on Saturday Night, Here are Some Links
If TC’s stuff wasn’t always so on point I wouldn’t constantly link to him; but he is, so I do. Maybe I’ll just ask him if I can be his publicist.
And here I was thinking this kind of stuff only happened to us Black guys.
Ha, ha! Wanksta rappers get brutally clowned
Here I am stuck in Fargo for six months and the first band worth seeing (the SuperSuckers, at a small venue to boot) comes around on a weekend when I gotta head back to DC. So. Fucking. Lame.
Also harshing my mellow; the Points are playing at Memory Lanes on August 11 in the cities while I’m going to be at the lake with the whole in-law clan. I’ve been warned not to write anything about how badly a certain in-law was annoying me earlier tonight.
Just downloaded Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair the other day, can’t believe I missed this album the first go ‘round. Attention Avril, Alanis, and all of you other angst ridden grrrrls: you will never get close to doing anything this good.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
R & R Hotel
Show was supposed to start @ 8:30, so Dr Mayhem and I rushed out of the house (after downing a glass of absinthe) so we wouldn't be too late. Got here and everything is running late; I'm more surprised than annoyed because the last half dozen or so shows(@ RnR and other venues) that I've been to have gone off on time.
Stinking Lizaveta
A Day Without a Murder, Zeitgeist the Movie, Truth Movement, Vicious Circle, (missed one), and LBJ.
They didn't start calling out the songs until a few songs in, I would love to know what the song was right before 'Murder'; please leave a message.
Also, shocked and grossed to pay $9.50 for a PBR and a shot Jim Beam; that shit is $3 @ Bob & Barbara's.
Torche
Someone has jokes because Dokken was being played between bands.
Torche was louder than the Big Bang. I think they started with 'Little Champion', that was all I could make out. Seriously, their shit was turned up to 11; I'm sitting here with my ears ringing an hour and change after their set ended.
The Sword
By the time they took the stage I was pretty tired, we stayed for what I'm guessing was about half their set. They were a'ight, but nothing too special IMHO.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Review: The Black Lips @ The Black Cat
I didn't know anything about the Black Lips past what I read on DCist until I went to the show on Saturday night.
Ian was working the merch table before they went on, when I walked up he immediately introduced himself and started talking about how much he loved the Points and the Selmanaires. Kind of cool that one of the headliners was flacking for the opening acts IMHO.
I also had a chance to rap with Jared before the show. Usually when you see someone rocking those micro OP shorts from 1983 and a John C. Holmes mustache to match, it's some sort of "look at how cool and ironic I am" thing but I didn't get that vibe from Jared at all. I'm not sure what the backstory was, but he played their set with a bass borrowed from the Selmanaires.
Apparently The Points have been having some "Behind the Music" kind of drama over the last couple of weeks, but it didn't show on stage. They played a very tight set, one of their better performances according to Dr. Mayhem. I thought the sound was a little muddy, but that could have been because I was directly in front of the stage or I might just not know what I'm talking about.
I missed most of the Selmanaires set while downstairs eating a falafel, what I heard was interesting but not really my speed.
There were tons of kiddies, I can't remember the last time I saw so many people under 21 at a show. It looked like every one of those kids knew the words to just about every Black Lips song. At one point a particularly enthusiastic youngster with a blond afro was flopping all over one of the monitors at the front of the stage and was in the process of getting ejected by a very skinny bouncer, but Ian intervened and demanded that the kid be allowed to stay.
The Black Lips set was very high energy, but I couldn't really figure out what to make of them for the first half dozen songs. At first it struck me as the same kind of garage/punkabilly played by the Woggles or Thee Crucials, both are great bands that put on a kick ass show, but nothing I hadn't heard before. Then the Black Lips kicked into high gear and made it impossible for me to stand still any longer. Not knowing anything about the band I don't know the name of the song that really got me; it had a kind of Stone Roses feel to it, with like a sitar kind of sounding intro to each verse. Afterwards I turned to Dr. Mayhem and announced, "I'm sold!"
I already burned through my 90 downloads for the month, but the new Black Lips album Good Bad, Not Evil is available on eMusic with an eMusic only bonus track.
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