Schadenfreude.
December 08, 2003, 11:56 amThe Weekend: a Recap!
Jesse and I went to Lexington to hang out with Jason Z., et al. We went to a show at Mecca (but first missing the venue completely and driving way off course... also getting lost in Frankfort). It was the weirdest show I've ever been to in my life.
The first performance was just this guy with crazy googles on, flashlights in his sleeves, and annoying robot-like effects on his vocals and acoustic guitar. According to legend, his girlfriend broke up with him a few months ago (is there a lot of that going around?) and so he wrote a series of songs to tell the story. Except he didn't just tell the story, it was all about how she was a robot and he was a time-travelling creator. And he sang songs about marrying a robot and after she left him, his search for her on the "network", &c..
He would be telling this story and "acting out" all this shit like a stereotypical drama kid, which I find really annoying (sorry any drama kids reading this, but I think you're lame: being extraverted doesn't mean you're clever). So he'd act out this story for five minutes, then he'd play a crappy song that was mostly repetitive and annoying because of all the effects. And then he'd continue the story for another five minutes.
Anyway, this went on for over 45 minutes and I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one that tired of it. Finally, he finished and just walked off.
Then the second band was a group of five kids, all stereotypical dorm musicians: you know what I'm talking about... kids that just sit around their dorm and play shitty acoustic guitar songs and play with their keyboards, trying to woo drunk girls. The best member was the bassist who was a Gus-version of my old boss, Kurt, except younger and for reasons unknown, wearing a pair of angel wings. There were two kids on acoustic guitars, one that sang all the songs and looked like a dorky Marty McFly. It was their first show and they were super-nervous. I'm not going to go into detail because watching them made me feel so embarassed for them and was excruciating.
The third band was just a guy singing and playing guitar and a drummer. The drummer is from the Elephants and is kinda scary looking and - again for reasons unknown - was wearing a crazy afghan on his head. He also played the same beat for every song. The guitarist was a tall, dark guy wearing a lion-mane-mask thing and weird lion-fur gauntlets on his wrists. He sang stream of conscious, hippy-type shit and danced around goofily. Also, all his songs were the same, but he could play guitar pretty well.