Re: Hello...is there anybody in there...? + moshing, the Ring, Ok Go

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: : you want to see moshing? I mean REAL bad-ass, break ya legs, MOSHING!!! You should've been at the Bowling for Soup gig in my local town recently. The pit got so heavy it flattened (ie - knocked over) 2/3's of the audience twice. Jaret - the lead singer, got a boot thrown at him - hit him right in the face. This was an all ages show - sponsered by f*cking clear f*cking channel, and I can't help but think that it was a bit of a mistake. The cheap ticket prices - £10 (about $14) weren't the best idea either. Basically loads of kids came and treated it like a school disco. Loads of people whose only interest was causing disruption also came. Asking for trouble basically. I'm surprised it wasn't any worse. : Such a shame - the soup seem like good people... : Howdy Icky - I've seen the american version of the Ring now. Can I rant? Please... I mean WHAT was the deal with the kid? How'd he suddenly get such a prominat role? I suspect the director had seen the Sixth Sense and Stir of Echos once to often... : : Mr. Tom : p.s - people in England - Ok Go release Get Over It has a single - on c.d. and red 7" - on monday!!! Hooray!!! :) : : ...Just nod if you can hear me... : : : : (Miranda, don’t read this – way too long, honey.) : : : : Is everybody so freaked out that our wonderful, glorious leader is about to set the world back about fifty years, that they don't post on here any more? Is everybody worried, I mean, hysterically paranoid that if the Patriot Act II passes, that the U.S. will become a giant police-state very similar to Nazi Germany or Cold War-era Russia? Or is it just me? I think that right now every one of our Founding Fathers is spinning in their graves so fast & violently, that they're burrowing into the core of the earth. : : : : On a lighter note, has anyone checked out this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts festival lineup? I'm a tad disappointed compared to the previous year's dream bills, but the definite high points are: Beastie Boys, Queens of the Stone Age, Blue Man Group (both days!), Blur, Groove Armada, The Donnas, N.E.R.D., Johnny Marr, Interpol, The Music, Division of Laura Lee, to name but a few. I’m still excited (this event has pretty much become tantamount to Christmas for my girlfriend & I ), but I wish there was more of a concentration on Electronic music, as it was in years past. I’m in fear of this just becoming another KROQ (a local L.A. radio station that engulfs & devours everything in sight until they completely squeeze every last milligram of coolness out of it) Moshpit fiasco. The thing that made Coachella so fuckin’ cool in years past, was that it had a sort of other-worldly, even, dare I say, European flavor to it – much different from the Red-neck, Alpha-Dog-Male, fist-pumping, whirling maelstrom of human flotsam & jetsam that make up most festival in America today. There’s a reason I don’t go to Ozzfest or the recent Woodstocks or Lollapaloozer nightmares – mainly, because I usually despise with extreme prejudice the “music” that’s served up. Secondly, because I really don’t enjoy getting kicked in the head repeatedly while trying to strain to listen to the lyrics of a band I may be interested in hearing by some red-faced, drunk-out-of-his-mind, teen Neanderthal as he body-surfs around the ocean of waiving arms going “WOOOOOOO!”, as if he’s conquered some flesh-wave on the high seas of stupidity. Now I don’t mean to go off on a rant here, but what is the mentality behind this? I have never understood this whole phenomenon (ba-BAA-bada-da!) . And please don’t patronize me with the whole “ Well, Eric, it’s just because you’re getting older ” bullshit - moshing & slamming have been around for many moons, and I hated it just as much when I was eighteen as I do now..at…er, twenty-eight. I mean, the whole thing is as ridiculous as paying ten dollars to see a movie, then once inside, turning on a flashlight and doing a crossword puzzle. If you wanna go mosh, take fifty dollars, flush it down the toilet, drink a six-pack of your favorite redneck beer, put on your favorite record, call up a few of your other Rhode Scholar buddies, and beat the crap out of each other in the privacy of your own home. Let me watch the show, O.K. , Hawking? I just hope Coachella doesn’t slide into that fetid cesspool of human banality. There are few things that still really make me happy in this world. Please let me keep my Coachella. Please? : : : : But that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong. : : : : Icky. : : (who’s really angry about stuff)

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