MidMo Movie night is TONIGHT! At The Verge, starting at 7:30. We'll have some brew for sale. Donation, you know the drill. We have couches! I might make popcorn.
How was the Wild Flag show?
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5 comments:
i'm making mulled wine!
The show was cool. Actually it was really hot in that steamy gross way that shows are. Wild Flag are very, rock. And the base player in the first band went to h.s. with me. I missed Grass Widow chatting with him at the Round Corner, but I think Conwad bought an album so maybe she'll let me listen to it.
Also I didn't know anyone there except for Conwad et al and members of the bands. I think the audience was alot of Davis college lesbians. Just my observation.
jamattack!
I was very happy with the show. Wild Flag was pretty "rock", but they had a surprising variety of styles including some raw garage (solid "Dirty Water" cover) and splendid psych moves, as heard in "Glass Tambourine", the best song of the night which borrowed a riff from Thin Lizzy and expounded brilliantly on it in a style veering toward West Coast '67, but more epic. They seemed to have a lot of fun...as much as the crowd.
One guy in the crowd was a dancing idiot. I generally encourage dancing with your hands above your head at The Hub, but this guy seemed unaware of how much dry-humping he was forcing on anyone standing in front of him. The only negative energy of the night swelled up when a couple of ladies started kicking his ass. He ran out covering his head. It was awesome. He deserved it. But I wish it didn't hafta come to that.
I feared that my stress level would soar during the show, but everyone was so nice...great crowd, great night!
And yeah...probably half the crowd were from Davis. Hence, so little applause when the W.F. ladies announced "SACRAMENTO!"
Not that it matters, but I worked for ten years in a real shock corridor (sans the ECT -- tho' that is administered in other psych hospitals around Sacto), so this movie annoys me. It's hard to suspend disbelief when you're watching a movie about your career field, ya know?
The movie about a mental institution and insanity that I really like is Peter Brook's Marat/Sade. It's a musical, and I find that mental illness is much more akin singing and dancing than it is to sweaty method acting.
In fact, my fondest memories of my old job at the treatment center was when the Recreational Therapists would bump some R. Kelly and all the patients on the unit would dance. For a few moments, the craziness actually made sense.
--Knowcebo
the humping dude got beat up? riot grrl is not dead!
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