I'm jealous.
That show sounds awesome -- like Yann, I'm jealous. The fact that it was packed is interesting -- I'm glad all of the aging Sonic Youth fans are finding something to do with their time.
In my own personal music news, I tried to sell CDs at Natural Sound today and was largely denied, since the clerk said he had "no idea" who most of the CDs were by.
I wish I could have come down for that. That must have been an awesome show.
Ditto the jealousy. If you haven't heard Machine Gun, you must check it out. It's up there with Alber Ayler's Live at Greenwich for me.
Erik, I believe that you might have career options. Good review!
No. In fact, great review! Too bad so few critics can write this well.
That's a pretty big compliment from someone at Detritus Review. I always feel like an idiot when I write about music.
A third of your review is devoted to your wry observations about the hipsters in audience. If there's a more boring specimen than the austin hipster is the austin hipster hating on other hipsters while disavowing their own hipsterhood. But I guess that's what hipsters do.
Joe, how did you guess that Erik also has assymetrical hair?
And I totally have square glasses too.
Dude, I've been called many things. Never a hipster. Never.
Ask all those hipsters who the show and I bet they'd say the same exact thing...
Erik, will you come out to play in your hipster gear for the show Saturday night? Please please PLEASE!!!!
I am off to buy really expensive shoes and black-framed square glasses this afternoon! Oh, and also to get every Sonic Youth album on vinyl.
Tell me if this ain't annoying hipster talk: "I first heard Brotzmann on Last Exit albums about 15 years ago and was totally blown away. I am generally a non-spiritual person. But I've always thought there was something incredibly and indescribably spiritual about free jazz..."
Oh wait a minute! I forgot that it's pretentious or annoying if you BLOG about it. Puh-leaze! Blogging about it is worse than talking loudly while waiting in line. It totally puts you over the top in the hipster scale.
Erik, the first step to recovery is to admit you're a hipster yourself. Maybe you'll hate less and quit spouting on your free jazz acumen and "non-spirituality" and perhaps hear more about the awesome show we saw last Saturday.
Dude, you are a total tool. Please go away.
Total tool! You're right--you're not a hipster. A hipster would have a far wittier rejoinder...
Precisely.
I'm curious, Joe: How did you find this post anyway? You indicate that you were in attendance and enjoyed the show. Were you looking for outside validation of your opinion, but only from a non-mainstream source?
I mean, who cares if those sellouts at the American-Statesman or the Chronicle liked it, am I right? You needed to get a real review from a real everyman blogger. Enter Alterdestiny.
You like the review at first, it comports with your own positive feelings about the show. Then the darkness descends. You take umbrage at the peevish tones Erik uses to describe the crowd, and say that doing so is "boring" and the mark of a hipster.
You fail to notice the opening to the final paragraph: In any case, the audience was fantastic.
Maybe you were too hurt to finish the review. Maybe your waxed moustaches drooped in the light of unfavorable recognition. Maybe you took part in the Robert Mitchum/Karen Black conversation and now feel ashamed. You are crestfallen, until thoughts of revenge come to you.
"Aha!" you exclaim, twirling your moustaches a la Snidely Whiplash, "I shall take my dreaded vengeance in blog comment form! 'Tis a capital idea!"
Then here you come with your careless syntax, your edgy refusal to capitalize "austin", your forgotten ", it" in the second sentence of your first post, and your marvelously oblivious "hating on other hipsters while disavowing [your] own hipsterhood."
Your third comment is even better with its forgotten "not" in the second paragraph and your very odd inherent belief in the degree of the hipness of blogging.
I have been called a hipster before; there are worse things.
(Actually, I think Erik has been called a hipster before in the comments to one of his "Random 10" posts. The commenter spelled it "hippster", though, which was hilarious. Maybe that wasn't Erik but Lyrad, come to think of it.)
Regardless, as my hipster witty rejoinder, allow me to say this:
You are far beyond a total tool. You are an annoying, unwelcome, ignorant fucktard and asshat. Your comprehension of Erik's review is lacking, and your ignorance of what he is really like is comical. If you wish further to make an idiotic spectacle of yourself, please continue this thread.
However, I'm sure we'd rather you didn't; your buffoonery provided us some amusement, but has since grown tiresome.
Actually, I believe it was Lyrad, which is even more absurd.
"I am off to buy really expensive shoes and black-framed square glasses this afternoon! Oh, and also to get every Sonic Youth album on vinyl."
So, if I have very Sonic Youth album, but only on CD, I'm NOT a hipster?
*Phew*
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