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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: lily1 on October 03, 2003, 03:59:00 pm
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anyone going? anyone have an idea of set times by chance? thanks kindly.
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I was hoping to, but I'm not so sure. Today I'm not in the mood to go a show alone. Maybe I'll get some friends drunk and drag 'em along.
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is that tonite?
grrr
i'm going to go see 'school of rock' and i have a race int he morning...so it needs to be an early night
for some reason i thought that show was later in the month...oh well
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omigod this show rocked my sweaty socks off! and they played the song i asked them to in the encore!!
but it's the first time i'd heard denali -- the lead singer sounds like the singer from splashdown.?
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Breakfast of Champions, Tinfoil, Artificial Light? Did they play those? I was at Built to Spill.
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Breakfast of Champions, Tinfoil, Artificial Light? Did they play those? I was at Built to Spill.
You fool, i went to built to spill the next nite!! yes, they played all three, thanks to me!! (i yelled out for them to play tinfoil and caithlin said "yes, ma'am...but later" and they played it in the encore, along with rise). You missed a killer show, buddy.
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Rainer Maria
Poor Rainer Maria Rilke. As a child, he was dressed as a girl by his mama and made to answer to the name Sophia; he died, still relatively young, at age 51, after being pricked by a thorn.
Now the German poet must suffer the indignity of having his name appropriated by Rainer Maria, the most painfully earnest emo band to come along since Dashboard Confessional. Rainer Maria -- former name Ezra Pound -- sets poetry-workshop lyrics to emo's trademark soft-loud dynamics. Depending on your tolerance for unflinching sincerity, the results are either A) moving and cathartic or B) more affected than Madonna's English accent.
Friday at the Black Cat, Rainer Maria played to a crowd belonging to category A, the category B people having fled the District in accordance with Daniel Defoe's dictum that the best preparation for the plague is to run away from it.
You can't accuse Rainer Maria of lacking punch. On songs such as "CT Catholic," "Mystery and Misery" and "Breakfast of Champions," drummer William Kuehn and bassist Caithlin De Marrais plowed formidable furrows for the hyper Kyle Fischer -- who darted about the stage like a politician ducking a subpoena -- to fill with his frenzied guitar. But if the ground was fertile, De Marrais' vocals are a rainless sky; stunning, yes, but fatally arid. They don't exactly radiate humor, either, though humor would seem to be a prerequisite for uttering such Monty Python-worthy lines as, "No one defies artificial light." Right. And nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, either.
-- Mike Little
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49500-2003Oct5.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49500-2003Oct5.html)
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I just realized that I was at Built to Spill on Saturday, October 4th. Leaving Friday, October 3rd wide open. My loss.
Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Breakfast of Champions, Tinfoil, Artificial Light? Did they play those? I was at Built to Spill.
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i must admit that i'm too dumb to understand whether Mr. Little was calling Kyle annoying, but if he is, I'd agree. if Caithlin and Bill weren't so damned great, i'd never be able to stomach him...especially given the fact that i'm forced to see that lame picture on his solo album at any place rm albums are sold.