We move through weather
On Friday I saw Gogol Bordello (also Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), probably the only only band in history to have two members whose sole purpose is to assume striking poses in costume and occasionally rock the washboard. (It's the washboard-rocking that differentiates them.) Need I mention that they were awesome? And that Eugene Hütz's facial hair is awful, in the positive sense? Maybe I do need to—I can never tell with you. (You're so difficult.)
On Saturday I meant to go out, but instead I didn't. I had intended to see Lukas Ligeti in a trio with Gianni Gebbia and Massimo Pupillo, but when the time came I stayed inside playing nethack. I would like to say it was because of the specific tenor of the day (weather especially; it was the sort of day in which neither weather nor air seems to exist, which conduces to laziness), but that would require more writing ability than I have. Besides, it was probably just because of nethack.
BUT THEN last night: Faun Fables and Spires That in the Sunset Rise! If there were justice in the world, weird southern-gothic type goths, or pseudo-pagan type goths, would listen to Spires and not Fields of the Nephilim or Faith & the Muse (if that's even what they listen to), because they are really creepy. Several songs call for one or another of them to yowl like a cat, but not in a "I am Iva Bittové being sexy" way, more like a "I was actually raised by feral cats that taught me to play the banjo [with a bow!] and autoharp" way. FF were, of course, great. They did a skit halfway through with two volunteers from the audience, which they didn't do the last time I saw them, and opened with a song sung in a character (Dawn donning a blonde old-lady wig—I think the last time I saw them she had light hair, and now that it's dark I was greatly disappointed in her having dyed it, since it looked so much better before. But then I saw that her armpit hair is also dark, and I doubt she bothered to dye <em>it</em>), and narration with props before doing "Mouse Song". I predict that by this time next year they will be a variety show.
Comments
on 2005-05-03 19:55:25.0, bitchphd commented:
It is possible to have light head hair and dark body hair, by the way.
and, further, on 2005-05-03 21:02:12.0, ben wolfson commented:
Really? Crap. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised since the hair on my head is a different color from that on my face.