Thursday, August 09, 2007

rat heaven

Date: 8/3/07
Location: Hotti Biscotti
Bands: The Hatemoms, Eavil, William Sides Atari Party, Megan on her guitar
Cost: Roving donation bucket
Things I missed to be there: Gay Beast, Social Junk, NIMBY, and Stressape at Blog Cabin; Social Junk and Unknown/Unseen at Enemy
Reason for going: I had a feeling that the Blog Cabin bands would be better, but I would be around more friends and loved ones at Biscotti
If I wasn't working the next day: I would have skipped this and just bounced back and forth between the show all of these bands were playing at The Viceroy, the MEAH/Michael Michael Motorcycle show at the Flower Shop, and the OCDJ show at Les Beaux on Saturday




Now that I've thought of it, I don't think I will ever not think of it. Sir Vixx should program himself into that old videogame Lemmings. Imagine it, a hundred Sir Vixxes, dreadlocks flying as he holds out his hands like a traffic cop, digs holes with his hands like a dog, floats down through tunnels in parachutes, and generally does cute things. He is a very eager breakcore motherfucker, and it's cute, and funny, and cute.



Meanwhile, The Hatemoms have the world's greatest gimmick. They built a theremin where the wire loops into a box. Inside the box is a cute little rat named Mr. Steven. Wherever the rat sits in the box, no matter what she (yes, Mr. Steven is a girl) does, she affects the theremin, which one of the other band members switches on at the appropriate moment.



The human contingent of the band is two dudes who switch off on drums and keyboards. Together their music sounds like a cross between the Descendants and Quintron. Live, they sound more like the Descendants, and other bass heavy poppish punk bands. Recorded they sound more like Mr. Quintron. With Mr. Steven, however, they sound like a cross between The Descendants and Quintron THAT FEATURES MY FAVORITE TWO THINGS IN THE WORLD!!!

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