Bomb Enough with the bombing. Enough! E-F*cking-nuff! Quit it quit it quit it! La-la-la-la-la-la-la I can't hear you La-la-la-la-la-la-la Quit it. Now.
Answer my five questions! Madapeden.com has - and then some. Madapeden. Good lord. So, from what I can tell, Madapeden is a blog (group blog?) where they only write with words that are three letters or less. i.e. happyrobot is "NOT A SAD BOT dot com"
Matthew is involved with it, so maybe I should just ask him.
Hey! If you answer my five questions let me know and I will post a link up here.
L-o-v-e Love Oh that Belle & Sebastian. They are so sweet. They played in the park (Prospect Park) at the band-shell and it was a lovely evening. Breezy and the stars were out and people all seemed to be happy.
- My quick reviews - Ben Kweller opened for them which was a surprise because I like him lots and had no idea until a day or two before the show. This is my Ben Kweller time line: Hear his demos - like him. Hear his first band, Radish - like them. Hear his album Sha-Sha - hate it. Way over done. See him play by himself - like him again.
This guy, IMHO, really excels when he is pared down. His live set did have some technical glitches and was a bit sloppy, but the music one guy can make on piano or guitar is much better than what he did on his over-produced album.
Belle & Sebastian were just lovely. They are one of those bands who can reproduce their studio sound very well when playing live - which is quite a task for B&S since they seem to have dozens of people playing on a single track. The great thing is that playing live gives their music so much more energy... verve... kick... spunk... Songs you hadn't paid attention to in the past suddenly kicked you in the bottom. Punt!
The other note-worthy item is that they may be the only band in the hundreds of shows I have seen that played new songs that just rocked. We all know that's a low-point when the lead singer says, "this is a new one..." and everyone's energy kind of wanes. Maybe it was just the fact that John Lawton was standing near me, but the new songs were all totally killer. ("totally killer" - jeez)
Also, B&S all seem like really nice Scottish folks and make me want to go back there and get rained on.
Flash Mob #7 Well, this little goofy post got us a little bit of attention on the web. But, more than anything, the one comment on there... you know the one... that was the best part.
This was no flash mob that is a real event that happened..dont confuse the people trying to figure out what flash mobs are for real flash mobs dont turn of traffic lights or keep innocent people in the heat for no reason. we do what we do for fun. - ???? || 8/16/2003 || 00:34
For better or for worse, they didn't leave a name, which is probably best so that this doesn't come off as a personal attack on them as a human being. My favorite part is the sentence: "we do what we do for fun." Who are you? Are that guy Bill or Bob or whoever he is who organizes these things? Why are you preaching to the converted?
Then there is: "real flash mobs dont turn of traffic lights or keep innocent people in the heat for no reason" um. God. I can't even put the words together.
