A Tale of Two Concerts

[goodolmike]

Yesterday afternoon, I spontaneously decided to pop this bad boy in to the DVD player. (Note the $2.99 price tag. Thanks, Amoeba!)

Beastie Boys: Awesome I shot that! is a very creative concert film in which the director handed out something like 50 cameras and asked people to film whatever they felt like filming (One guy filmed himself peeing...). After the show, all of the footage was masterfully edited together.

It came out a few years ago, and I wasn't dying to see it. Mostly because I had read a bad review of it.

Turns out, it's great! Not only was it extremely creative, it was also very immersive. I really felt like I was experiencing a Beastie Boys show. The Doug E Fresh appearance alone, about half way through, is worth its weight in gold!

Speaking of concerts, that night I saw the Pixies in real life. Yay!

They put on a great show. This tour is a celebration of the 20th anniversary of Doolittle, so they played the entire album in the album's original sequence. They also played quite a few rarities and a handful of hits.

I love Frank Black (the singer) so much...

kingfuraday was there, too. In the picture above, he's super tall and in yellow. We talked after the show, and I got to meet his cute friend Dan. :)

No more concerts for me for a while! (Psst...this Friday, Matt and Kim at House of Blues)

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Comments

[rckdjbear.livejournal.com]

I'm depressed. My concert season is starting to slow down too. A show here and there, but nothing 'Important'. And it's going to be 105 here today and we are just a few days from October.

[goodolmike.livejournal.com]

I had a random cluster of shows, but I think it's going to slow down a bit for me as well. I could use a break anyway.

[titoagogo.livejournal.com]

My friend Alfredo plays drums for the Beasties and he's all over that DVD. It's cool having semi-famous friends.

I wish I could have gone to that Pixies show. I love them so much.

[goodolmike.livejournal.com]

The guy with the afro? If so, yeah, he's in it a lot!
Cool.
Oh, didn't know you were considering the Pixies show. I would have encouraged you. It was great, but I hate that venue, mostly because it's at UCSD.

[titoagogo.livejournal.com]

Yup. That's him. He's still rockin' the afro. He's a groovy cat.

I considered making a weekend out of the Pixies concert in SD but my man had tons of school work this weekend.

I saw the Pixies last year at the Palladium and it was UH MAY ZING!