Fire Hazard
It's Friday. I'm exhausted. I could barely keep my eyes open last night. So what did I do about it? Went to two shows. Tried to see Le Loup at the Velvet Lounge but I was running late and it was already packed by the time I got there. I listened to one song while I was standing on the stairs and decided the 20 people also perched on said stairwell constituted a fire hazard and Le Loup aren't worth dying over. That and some really sweaty and VERY smelly bike messenger decided to start rubbing up against me. Yuck.
So off I went to the Black Cat to check out The Slip. I wanted to like them but in the end I gave up after about four or five songs. Don't believe anything you read about them ditching their jam band past for their new-found pop glory. Lies. They kept doing this "Let's see how many weird sounds we can coax out of our guitars" thing before every song that was just driving me crazy. I wanted to grab the collar of the lead singer's shirt, yank him down to my level and yell "Just fucking get on with it already!" The 20 minutes they made us wait after they set up before starting their set was also pretty ridiculous considering there were maybe 75 people there. On the plus side, they have their own lights as part of their show (their gear was crazy insane, the guitarist and bassist each had two HUGE groups of pedals) so I finally know that it is indeed possible to have some sort of light show at the Black Cat. Although, for the record, the Cat has been much, much better with the lights the last few shows I have seen there. But I digress...
I took some photos with my new lens (happy birthday to me!) last night but decided I didn't want to stay up and edit them. Maybe this weekend.
J. Freedom of the Lake's review of Wednesday's National show is much more eloquent than mine and hits the nail on the head. I'm pretty sure I was standing in front of the WaPo photographer for the first few songs. We have similar photos.
The great blogger mock draft of 2007. Cool idea. yes, I'm on top of the whole KG-to-Boston, wait nevermind, saga. We don't need him. He won't put us over the top (Doc Rivers is still our coach). I'd rather keep Al Jefferson and just make the pick at #5.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh...Don't tell Ms. Smith. We're going to Philly in a few weeks.
Ha. Everyone else can fuck right off, I guess.
While I am very excited that the Furries have added 'Northern Lights' and 'Torra Fy Ngwallt Yn Hir' back into their set, dudes need to retire 'God! Show Me Magic' and 'Do Or Die.' Perhaps next week I will do a post on what I consider to be the perfect SFA set.
Check out Editors perfomring "Racing Rats" on Jools Holland:
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