Meet Me In The Bathroom - Please Kill Me but if Iggy was Julian Casablancas

i don't remember them but that's not saying much. these are the bands that played the year after:

‘OUTDOOR PARKING LOT’ Last summer, when the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Liars played a show in this same vacant lot, it was a total scenester media circus, yet still ended up being the coolest show I saw all year. This time the bands are way less hyped, which means it will probably be even more fun. The Numbers and Measles, Mumps, Rubella play damaged, herky-jerky new wave, Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue are neo-garage royalty, and the Rogers Sisters throw a punky girl-group party. SATURDAY AT 2 P.M., corner of Wythe Avenue and Broadway, Brooklyn. (Phillips)

Dammit, my partner and I have been brainstorming a band called Measles Mumps Rubella for over a decade now

I remember seeing Liars play Brownies and then the closing night of some weird punk club run by Portuguese dudes in Connecticut in January 2002 - they were **amazing**. At Brownies, both Bob Bert and Jim Sclavunos were at the bar - half of Sonic Youth's drumming alumni.

you know i think i was at that "parking lot" event, though i don't recall it being a parking lot. it was, like, a vacant lot on the corner of a block in williamsburg. there were lots of big rocks. really big, like you could climb on them.

i was there and i think it could've been both. the classic vacant lot being used as an outdoor parking lot until some developer figures out what to with it. i remember it being fenced in, as an outdoor parking lot generally would be. i remember seeing gideon yago there, because these are the stupid things you remember 20 years later. that glorious moment right before *every* developer in williamsburg figured out what to do with their lots. across the street was the gretsch building, which had just gone on the market or was about to, which was the beginning of the end of everyhing.

Watched this the other day - tldr: it's not v good - but was intrigued by a clip of the moldy peaches doing karaoke at what looks to be olde London ilx hangout the King of Corsica. I know that Beth Ditto came along once, did the MPs too, and I have repressed the memory?

City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg (xpost to myself on a memory that required patience - may not be worth anyone else's time!)

Whenever the strokes come on at the bar it’s such a drag

Now on Showtime streaming

Ugh

Opposite reaction to interpol. Love dem

Is Carlos in costume?

As someone who never watches many videos and stuff, nor lived in NYC... fun throwback. Not sure it needed 9/11 footage. Good work getting the Courtney Love flashing/napping with half the Strokes footage though. That's relevant.

Sounds like you’re just as qualified to comment as everyone else here so uh go ahead

i may not have been posting here so much at the time but i think you'll find my GAPDY credentials are all in order

Carry on then

There’s 9/11 footage? Is it, like, the graphic kind?

Gross

No not really. Probably it was only there because they had footage of Interpol walking around in the dust. No one really talked about it.

Oh ok cool, thx

There is some 9/11 stuff in the Other Music doc, but it’s pretty relevant for various reasons.

I saw that. Yeah it made more sense.

Does Meet Me In The Bathroom work better as a book?

No not really. Probably it was only there because they had footage of Interpol walking around in the dust. No one really talked about it.

I’m so NYC myself that I…well…um…references provided upon request.

+1

More like Carlostars, amirite?

Lol.

Does Carlos still love Interpol though?

Just watched the doc; there’s a lot to like about it. They have a ton of great footage, and put it together really well.

There are for sure things you could critique (context, chronology, narrative, Ryan Adams)—but I was impressed and enjoyed it overall.

(Side note: I didn’t know James Murphy was the long-haired guy in that band Pony!)

A few more thoughts: it's very artfully done, kind of an "impressionistic" rock doc. I can see this approach not working for everyone... but I'm generally not a big fan of documentaries, as I tend to feel like they're "manipulating" me/the viewer (even when they're good), and this is at least somewhat subtle in its semi-manipulative Julian C boosterism (lol).

I also liked the strategy* of not showing what any of the folks narrating look like now... i.e., there are no "talking head" shots, you just hear their voices as they reminisce. This way, the spell isn't broken, and the doc isn't framed as a look back from any particular moment in time.

(*this approach also may have been forced by lack of $$ to fly around interviewing ppl in person – some of them are audibly even "phoning in" their narration.)

I mean, I would not have wanted to see Paul Banks' sallow, syphilitic expressions.

I just drove past Carlos’s high school this morning. There is a picture of him on the wall alongside other notable graduates like Joe Torre.

Wow I expressed some anger last night. Sorry to whoever it was that I was replying to

I enjoyed this well enough. Not particularly good, not particularly bad.

Didn’t realize what dorks Interpol were. And James Murphy.

And calstars.

No one in that so-called scene had any sense of humor. There’s no Iggy, no Debbie Harry, no David Byrne, no Ramone. This is why people don’t care about them.

Are those artists you listed known for their senses of humor(?) Byrne, I guess

I think so!

If Blondie is not funny. I don’t know what to tell you. If the Ramones are not funny I don’t know what to tell you.

Josefa otm

Iggy is fucking hilarious. There are so many funny lines in his catalog.

Iggy’s idea of a joke is: “This one goes out to all the Hebrew ladies in the audience.” If you’re talking about song lyrics, I guess it’s subjective… I like the Stooges but don’t think I’ve ever found them “funny”

(but plenty of “humorless” bands, like U2, have huge followings… so I don’t think it’s a big factor in popularity)

james murphy the most insufferable person on planet earth

Feel like all the bands that Josefa mentioned are extremely witty in their concepts even if they are not telling jokes of the Beatles Command Performance variety. Whereas with say, Interpol, who I actually kind of enjoy, it’s sort of like “hey wait, what if we could sound like Joy Division but more pompous and even more like The Doors?”

Fwiw I knew Carlos D and had no problem with him as a person but I never thought he was funny and was never interested enough to see his band. My grand tally was, I think I saw the Yeah Yeah Yeahs once, saw the Strokes once, saw the Moldy Peaches perhaps one and a half times, and never saw Interpol or LCD Soundsystem.

xxp

lol Brad. That was kind of my biggest takeaway from this thing.

The Strokes getting invited overseas and being treated like royalty vs. Interpol forcing themselves overseas to play a third rate nu-metal festival in a dive bar on Easter.

I like the early Interpol stuff fwiw, but their portrait in this is pretty funny.

New York cares

this is disgusting lol pic.twitter.com/ADUeum0BfE

— Nick Boyd (@NicholasBoyd) November 26, 2022

tfw you lose your edge so much you become a sphere