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So I walk into book passage and I'm surrounded by screaming kids and I'm all "fuck this I hate screaming kids" but then Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) and Stephen Meritt (sp?) of the Magnetic Fields walk up on stage and and they're looking for something. They say they're looking for their drummer. Their drummer is Lemony Snicket. So despite the playing-for-kids type of antics (which by the way I thought were hilarious and it made me question my own mental development, but then again I've read almost every book in a Series Of Unfortunate Events and sang their praises to everyone I know) the performance was really amazing. CHECK OUT the Gothic Archies. Daniel Handler plays the accordion (yeah, RUN TO AMOEBA) and good ol' Steve plays the Ukelele (so why are you still reading this?) proving that kid lit can really be translated into amazing songs of darkness and misery. Their "hit single," if you can call it that, is called Scream and Run Away. The thirteen books all have their own track; I'm sorry but can we all drop the cool haircuts for a second and talk about how fucking rad that is and how we would all probably not be alcoholic sluts if their had been an author like this when WE were growing up? Kids are being trained into having a dark, sarcastic humor that we are still trying to polish at like 25 which hopefully will create more VICE-like funny free publications that make us all want to puke, laugh and seizure at the same fucking time.
i was just lurking on Champy's page and reminiscing the show the other night and thinking "Oh geez. Louis deserves a shout out for spitting and rocking so fucking hard." Louis on drums is like, comparable to that muppets music video where Animal is playing drums and covering the Beach Boys "Surfin Safari." He's so rad the show would be worth it even if the other two band members were sleeping which would be impossible because one cannot sleep in the face of rock. Black Fur is really an up-and-comer to look out for. With the whole "early nineties revival" bullshit comes some really good bands, actually, that make you want to break out the flannel shirts and lip-liner. Champy wrote the best comparison, Elastica. Fuck. Republica even. Not only are the two girls good lookin' and funny but it's so refreshing to observe girls that can actually really play and aren't just riding on the "i'm so fuckable" factor. Chick singers have so easily faded into this Donnas-esque persona that is pretty much good for getting them laid like three times. These girls have it and they own the stage.
Plus, between beers and pita bread dipped in hummus curtesy of GAMH, me and Louis decided it's time for us to get married.
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songs about gruesome murders...Nick Cave-ish with an 11 piece band. They're better be a full bar at this Freight and Salvage place. I saw them at the KnockOut, John kept saying how shitty they had played that night and I still had to change my pants.
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"songs about gruesome murders…Nick Cave-ish with an 11 piece band." where do i sign up?
Did you make it to the show? Besides the white bread/granola of Berkeley, it was pretty awesome. And no fucking bar. But still, man, Bob and John are phenomenal. There's really something very present about what they do, and how they do it.
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Did you hear the first Gothic Archies release? I like it even better than this one. No Danny H., but plenty o' Stephin.