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you hurt my feelings bad man - say you're sorry.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

why did you say i wasn't scary when i tried to menace you? that really hurt man.

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

shoulda said "i am not afraid and i will beat yr ass"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

nah, i was way in the back. any and all etiquette usually gets tossed out the window at those things. someone tried to reserve a spot with a splayed out maclaren stroller and a bunch of patchouli smelling co-op workers chucked it over the fence to make room..

fun performance, but i'm with Morbs, really not a rock show at all. here's an interesting essay on Painlevé and a video example:

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/03/25/painleve.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8604649289441675492

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

if you wouldn't sit down, you should've at least read us the captions. in harmony.

― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

the captions were kind lame i thought - a nature doc in verse wtf?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

the captions shoulda been dropped i think.. bit of a distraction. not that i could even see the screen, being half behind a tree.

also, i noticed Love Life of the Octopus was originally scored by Pierre Henry. pretty bold of them to redo that one.

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

the captions were kind lame i thought - a nature doc in verse wtf?

i would've liked to have made my own decision, is all.

it was a fun show!

― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

agreed - little louder would've been nice. always fun to hang around with friend and listen to music. although the place was teeming - never seen it that crowded.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

tv on the radio was crowdeder, i thought, but yeah. too bad the opener wasn't louder, also

― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

didn't see tv on the radio but every time i've been there's big stretches of the lawn wide open. this was my first prospect park indie rock experience though - that must be what draws around there.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

a little louder doesn't help much when 70% of the crowd is babbling nonstop throughout the show, but I've given up on this getting anything but worse.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

In addition to the octopi-sex score, I like the funk stuff for "Shrimp Stories."

Yeah, that was the next-best part for me too. I wondered why the drummer was so sleepy the rest of the time.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

james mcnew looks like the offsrping of perpetua and ned raggett

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

at right

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/1755/218yola0ne.jpg

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

(What was wrong with the captions? How would you have known what was going on otherwise? But yes, I would also like to have seen the films with the original Pierre Henry and Milhaud scores. I strongly suspect I'd like them better.)

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

there is nothing wrong with the captions.. if your intent is to watch these films as pure documentaries then I suppose the descriptive text is important.

but its by no means necessary to have captions in a film/sound performance such as this, as you're there for the interplay between image and sound. captions distract to a certain extent, but its a minor quibble.

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Friday, 14 July 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Playing the Loews Jersey theater in Jersey City, Friday 9/29.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

isn't that where you saw Bright Eyes once?

― mark grebt (sanskrit), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

that was just a scurrilous Noise rumor. I did see Forbidden Planet there.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah it's gonna be sweet, morbs.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

are the Beat Your Ass t-shirts at the plant?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

From above re Hanukkah shows:
a reunion of the Shams

omg!

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha we've been making handmade beat your ass t-shirts around here. people might see 'em at pitchfork this weekend, i dunno.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Playing the Loews Jersey theater in Jersey City, Friday 9/29.

yeah, i can't wait. bought tix right when they went on sale, so i'll be in the front row!

― rajeev (rajeev), Friday, 28 July 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i am in Row L at Loews Jersey; ads for the show running, so jump if yr buyin.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

isn't there more than one section?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah (?)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

rocks off!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 30 September 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw ylt open for another act about 12 years ago, god that was an endurance test. are they more concise these days?

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 30 September 2006 05:09 (seventeen years ago) link

They are Yo La Tengo these days.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Saturday, 30 September 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.omelete.com.br/imagens/musica/artigos/resenhas_musica/yo_la_tengo.jpg

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 30 September 2006 05:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Georgia's lookin' gooooooood these days!

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Saturday, 30 September 2006 05:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually the last time I saw them was at a festival this summer. They ONLY played songs from "I Am Not Afraid Of Unweildy Album Titles", and it pissed off a good part of the crowd. Lots of nice, short tunes that nobody knew coupled with a few extended jamz that sounded familiar but also happened to be new.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Saturday, 30 September 2006 05:44 (seventeen years ago) link

"are they more concise these days?"

you mean, do they limit themselves to one lengthy noisejam? no.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

and funnily enough, they were called "concise" in the Times yesterday.

Jersey City show was a good one, I liked the "Goodkind" jam, not the... uhhhh... other one.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i liked the 'story of yo la tango' jam a lot. on 'i heard you looking' mr kaplan's (first) guitar was set to jangle mode, which sounded a bit off.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

So there's not gonna be any NY area show before they leave the continent? Maybe I should get on the Chinatown bus to Philly in 2 weeks:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/40706/Yo_La_Tengo_Hit_the_Road

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Yo La Tengo live: the first word that comes to mind is "masturbatory"

― richard wood johnson (rwj), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm gonna see them for the second time next Wednesday. I'd hardly call them masturbatory live; it's more of a long, slow piledriving.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Like playing a guitar onstage could be anything different. :p I think you're thinking of knob-twiddlers.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

There was a NYC area show. It was in Jersey City, and it totally ruled, by far the best show I've ever seen them play.

― M Perpetua (mperpetua), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah (see above), but have been waiting for a return! esp as there was no Hoboken Hanukkah this year.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

They'll be doing the FMU covers/pledge thing again March 16th on air, barely back from Asia. Real troopers...

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Saturday, 27 January 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Spring US tour dates

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Yo La Tengo live: the first word that comes to mind is "masturbatory"

i.e. like Mr. Anastascio; they use the guitar as their instrument of self-pleasure

I saw them live in Boston in October and Why? (who opened) totally blew them away.

― MaGoGo, Friday, 23 February 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i have been pleasured by mr kaplan's guitar on several occasion.

― stevie, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

<i>Yo La Tengo live: the first word that comes to mind is "masturbatory"</i>
point taken but i'd rather say:

yo la tengo live: never has watching and listening to masturbation been so fun, so thrilling, so captivating. they masturbate in so many different ways, it never gets tedious. not to forget their stamina. or did you ever masturbate for half an hour like ira occasionally does on his guitar? when he masturbates thousands of kittens are born. they are the gods of masturbation. and i worship them just for that.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm sure building the new ilx was a lot of work but using different brackets in tags than in standard html is not exactly what i'd call a good idea.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Yo la Tengo live to me (only seen them twice, enjoyed both) is the polar opposite of masturbatory. They strike me as working musicians there to do a job. I get the idea that their very aware of putting together a program for the crowd to enjoy. Maybe even to a fault -- I mean, I can understand why some might find them boring, but to say they are on the stage trying to please themselves without concern for the audience, what the hell.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Friday, 23 February 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

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