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Re: ! (Reply to this comment)
by brendan2
I hate that I went to their concert before the album was released because I was jumping around like an idiot the whole time pretending to know all their new songs.
Yeah, I know what you mean. The concert I went to was ten days after the new album was released, and I still didn't know all the words. Of course, I knew a lot more than I would have without the ten days bonding with the cd.
Alex stripping completely naked and playing at the same time is a dream we all have, isn't it?
Damn right! And maybe, if enough people continue to have that dream, one day it will become a reality. It's only fair, right?
Nice review. :)
Thanks!
~Liz
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Oct 26 '05
8:42 am PDT
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! (Reply to this comment)
by chaseatwister2
Ahhh, I'm so glad you had fun. I hate that I went to their concert before the album was released because I was jumping around like an idiot the whole time pretending to know all their new songs. :) Well, Alex stripping completely naked and playing at the same time is a dream we all have, isn't it? Heck yeah!
Nice review. :)
xx allison
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Oct 24 '05
6:01 pm PDT
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Re: you want your outsiders to be so much more easy and fallen (Reply to this comment)
by brendan2
Sorry to be late to the comment party, but you do make the concert sound fun.
Good! That was my intention, cuz if I had to sum up the night in one word it would be "fun", or "nightmare", but only when describing the journey back home.
I totally endorse their choices of songs from the first album, even if "Auf Achse" - the song with the most synthetic synthesizers, and thus the best song - should been there too.
Yeah, I was disappointed they didn't play that one too because it was during an MTV performance of that song that I decided Nick was my favorite Franz-er. This was before I noticed how grumpy and angry he looked as he pounded the keys, almost prompting me to choose Bob instead, but then I realized, hey, I'd be grumpy too if I were forced to perform in front of an audience that was either non-existent or asleep. (Fortunately, the audience at the Philly gig was both existent and awake.)
I have to find it suspicious that Franz only urged y'all to burn the city _after_ they turned the hall into the maximum possible fire hazard.
I suppose it could have been a coincidence. Or maybe the guys just think fire is really pretty. Or maybe they wanted to exercise their power and see if they could convince people to burn an entire city using only words and a catchy riff, thereby setting in motion a plan for world conquest which, they should have realized by now, will be thwarted by my own dictatorship.
I have a Sons & Daughters MP3 that's kinda catchy.
Ok, maybe they just don't translate well live (although I didn't like the sound samples at their website pre-concert either). If you want to investigate them further, go ahead. But check out Cut Copy first.
good opening acts rule. Wait, no, actually they're serfs.
That doesn't sound right. Shouldn't the serfs be the roadies, and the opening bands can be fiefs or something?
currently taking applications for new serfs,
~Liz
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Oct 20 '05
1:12 am PDT
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you want your outsiders to be so much more easy and fallen (Reply to this comment)
by voxpoptart
(Alternate comment title: "we burned this suburb on rock'n'roll")
Sorry to be late to the comment party, but you do make the concert sound fun. Starting with your mention that Franz Ferdinand were playing! But then continuing from there too. I totally endorse their choices of songs from the first album, even if "Auf Achse" - the song with the most synthetic synthesizers, and thus the best song - should been there too.
I do think crowding everyone close to the stage is really cute (and you should send me photos of you beating people up) - but then, i'm used to attending concerts with like fifty other people, some of whom are close enough (though usually not rude enough) to reach out and slap the band's guitars. I have to find it suspicious that Franz only urged y'all to burn the city _after_ they turned the hall into the maximum possible fire hazard.
I have a Sons & Daughters MP3 that's kinda catchy. It may well sound exactly like all of their other songs, in which case it's not _that_ catchy. As for Cut Copy, good opening acts rule. Wait, no, actually they're serfs. But some of them rule in the end.
cheers,
- Brian
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Oct 20 '05
12:12 am PDT
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Re: Re: Re: I Went To Summer Camp With Upper Darbians (Reply to this comment)
by brendan2
Beats teaching the world to sing, doesn't it?
I don't know; I think as long as you had the right material, you could incorporate subliminal messages into catchy pop tunes and create a subservient group of workers who would obey any order you gave them. But of course, I'm only kidding here. I have no intention of carrying out such a plan. No, no, of course not...
what are corruptive-influence friends for if not to make sure you're exploiting your vices to the maximum level of their potential for guiltless depravity and carefree self-debasement? You'd do the same for me, wouldn't you?
But of course! I've been telling people for years that a life of depravity and destruction is the only way to go, but no one's ever listened before. i was instead sent to an institution, where I actually got on famously with the staff. Sadly, I had to leave early due to an unfortunate fire which destroyed the entire building. It was tragic.
If I could find a way to bottle and market that amusingly adventuresome spirit of reckless abandon, I'd make us both millionaires.
Maybe, but how do I know that once you held the secret of my adventuresome spirit you wouldn't sell it and keep all the profits for yourself?
I'm no stranger to dangerously-reckless oubursts either, or did you think the abusive, in-yer-face ravings of my "rap" review were a product of my sound reasoning, cautious discretion, and reserved sensibilities?
Hey, maybe I did. I wasn't thinking too clearly when I read it. And here I thought i was the only person whose best MC skillz only emerge while intoxicated. I've even recorded one of my rhymes. Of course, it consisted solely of "Dead! it's what you are! Corpse! Yours, in my car!" and was recorded to be my voicemail message, but that counts for something, right?
Say what? "CAUSE OF... all of life's problems?"
I was merely quoting the words of one Homer J. Simpson, but I suppose i could have altered the phrasing. Even so, just imagine the problems that would arise if the world's alcohol supply suddenly became limited. One that comes immediately to mind is the increase in cannibalism-- people who were suffering from the deficit would kill others and eat their body/drink their blood to get a taste of that alcohol.
it has always been my view that people, not alcohol, are the cause of all life's problems. If it weren't for alcohol and abusive humor I don't see how it would be possible to tolerate them.
Well said! And I forgot to ask you if your comment title is true. If it is, I'm disappointed. Summer camp with Philadelphians is just so much more fun than summer camp with Upper Darbians... well, only if I'm there.
Reppin' Philly (not Upper Darby),
~Liz
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Oct 19 '05
8:33 am PDT
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Re: Re: I Went To Summer Camp With Upper Darbians (Reply to this comment)
by 29th_Candidate
["Aw, that's alright. I'm sure the concert would have been even more fun that way, and if you've already paid $35 a ticket, why not throw in an extra $5 or $10 to see (and cause) some fiery deaths? Just as long as I had a safe way out of the theatre. It's all about me, you know."]
My thoughts exactly. Beats teaching the world to sing, doesn't it? -- I'm glad to see you using your nihilism to its best advantage. Nero would have beamed with pride watching you fiddle while Philadelphia burned.
["Thanks for letting me know."]
Di nada. ... Hell, what are corruptive-influence friends for if not to make sure you're exploiting your vices to the maximum level of their potential for guiltless depravity and carefree self-debasement? You'd do the same for me, wouldn't you?
[". . .Or maybe not, cuz i'm not sure I wanted to be reminded of that. Somehow leaving drunken review comments seemed like a good idea at the time."]
Nonsense, Liz. Stop being so hard on yourself. What a fun drunk you are! If I could find a way to bottle and market that amusingly adventuresome spirit of reckless abandon, I'd make
us both millionaires. Trust me, I'm no stranger to dangerously-reckless oubursts either, or did you think the abusive, in-yer-face ravings of my "rap" review were a product of my sound reasoning, cautious discretion, and reserved sensibilities? [I doubt the 8 or 9 trusters I ended up eating on that review would fall all over themselves trying to lavish me with props and praise for the sound judgment and discernment I exercised in my communication of that review's content.]
["Ah, alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."]
Say what? "CAUSE OF... all of life's problems?" Bite your tongue. Poor little Alcohol always gets blamed for everything. "Solution to . . . problems," I strongly agree, but it has always been my view that people, not alcohol, are the cause of all life's problems. If it weren't for alcohol and abusive humor I don't see how it would be possible to tolerate them.
--jim
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Oct 18 '05
8:05 am PDT
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Re: I Went To Summer Camp With Upper Darbians (Reply to this comment)
by brendan2
Too funny, Liz.
Thank you, but it's true too.
I think I would have paid a few extra bucks to experience the "with flames" rendition of that explosive finale... (Can you tell I'm an incurable pyromaniac?)
Aw, that's alright. I'm sure the concert would have been even more fun that way, and if you've already paid $35 a ticket, why not throw in an extra $5 or $10 to see (and cause) some fiery deaths? Just as long as I had a safe way out of the theatre. It's all about me, you know.
I responded to your recent review-comment.
Thanks for letting me know. Or maybe not, cuz i'm not sure I wanted to be reminded of that. Somehow leaving drunken review comments seemed like a good idea at the time. Ah, alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
~Liz
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Oct 17 '05
8:09 am PDT
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I Went To Summer Camp With Upper Darbians (Reply to this comment)
by 29th_Candidate
["I wouldn't have guessed that urging a bunch of Philly natives, many of them drunk, to scream "I'm gonna burn this city!" before sending them back on the streets was a good idea, but it apparently was, as it made for an explosive finale with nary a flame in sight."]
Too funny, Liz.
I think I would have paid a few extra bucks to experience the "with flames" rendition of that explosive finale. I'd have even loaned'em my lighter. Things always seem brighter when they're several hundred degrees hotter, don't you think? (Can you tell I'm an incurable pyromaniac?)
--29th_Candle-date
P.S. I responded to your recent review-comment.
*bows modestly*
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Oct 16 '05
7:18 am PDT
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