Tell Me Your Stories

So i got my craptop fixed today and one of the first corners of the INTERGLOBESPHEREOFLOVE to which i scurried was Tom from Black Wire's diary-not-blog-because-that-sounds-like-an-australian-toilet. He is funny.

i feel uninspired to write much about the Horror the Horror's gig last Saturday. its not a good feeling. i just did not enjoy this gig that much. Normally i feel this great transfer of energy when i go to a good gig, like i've recharged my batteries. Live music really affects me. Im always in a stupor after a really good gig. But this time...Maybe it was just me? In front of me was a row of headbangers having a grand old time, and sort of behind me were three transvestites jumping up and down to every single song and shouting the words...or maybe just shouting words, i think they were shouting in German... One of the headbangers looked so wasted i really thought he was going to keel forwards and just puke all over the lead singer's new-looking loafer shoe things.

So, THTH have like, four really good songs. And then everything else kind of runs into eachother. Their good songs are really good though, thats what is kind of sad about them. One song in particular was introduced as "our best song!" and then, "it's the next single!" but it really wasn't their best song, which in my opinion they had played two songs before that one. i tried looking at the set list to get names and such but failed. I didn't like the lead singer. Whenever he talked it was insincere bullshit like, "you're so beautiful"...blah blah. It was not very convincing. Maybe he thought it was very rock and roll and ironic. One of the lead guitarists was interesting. He had a facial tic and was sharing the singing duties sometimes, though his voice wasn't that good...he made funny faces (not related to the tic) and moved in sync with what he was playing and i found myself watching him alot.

Towards the end the lights totally went out..Twice!! It was pitch black and the band kept playing. That was exciting. Maybe I wasnt the only one feeling a little disillusioned at this gig. There was clapping for the encore, but probably not too much. The first thing Lindstrom said when they came back onstage was "is that all you got?...we were going to play more anyway. so HA!"

Ok so he didnt say "so HA!". I'm sure he wanted to.

So this wasn't the best gig. I've been pretty lucky so far whenever i've taken a chance to go to a gig of a band that i didn't know much about. now im afraid! there are two dunno-really-who-they-are-but-i-want-to-go-see-gigs this week that i was planning to go to. now im not sure what i will do.