Per the orders of the koala, I am updating. This weekend was interesting - I sped down to NYC on Friday afternoon (well, actually I drove pretty sedately judging from all the people whizzing past me) and caught "Electrofest '05" at Rare down in the meatpacking district.
It was the first time I'd ever been to a club down there, and I enjoyed it. Intimate space (maybe 200 cap tops), nice little stage, good sound (geared toward bands with an actual DJ booth that used to be a freezer complete with the freezer door - I wanted to play!) and a friendly barstaff. They even had drink specials (in NYC?) and I ran a tab and got pleasantly buzzed on three dollar kamikazes and some odd green concoction that came in a bottle.
I was there to see "My Robot Friend" which is basically a guy named Howard who I've been corresponding with since Tim (the spouse) got his album for review at Popmatters.com and fell in love with it. "The robot" sent me copies of all the remixes on CD, and I had lots of fodder for the show, as well as planning them into "Retroelectromix 2" which I will start on by the end of the month. The people at Lift can go hang, but I don't think it's their fault I never got the second copy of "Mayfield remixed" - but that's another story and I digress. SO. Back to the show.
Picture a guy in a plastic suit that encloses lights, all kinds of lights - christmas lights in red, one of those lights shaped like a heart (over where the heart would be, bien sur) armbands with blinking LEDs, and a helmet that looks like the Devo helmets mated and had babies all over it (of course with more lights). Many antics by the Robot, visuals (especially the one he just finished for "The Cut" which will give you epilepsy if you're not careful) including a wireless cam that showed the robot, or the crowd, or whatever he felt like....the list goes on. I can't forget to mention Mr. Bingo Bazingo, who has to be in his 70s or 80s, and is the actual voice for "You're out of the computer" (go to My Robot Friend's site to hear a sample under the music link). Smarty pants me, I thought he'd done some weird processing (and yes, there's a tad) but that voice can only belong to Bingo Bazingo. Awesome show.
Got a lot of CDs from electro bands,which will come in handy on the forthcoming project that has had a setback due to needing a less flaky partner for the promoter. But it's still moving along, and I'm still in the DJ seat. I got thanked for my patience and I said "patience? More time to drop teasers to my friends and get a big crowd when we open!" I couldn't get pried away from this project with a crowbar. LOL
The rest of the weekend was spent visiting friends (Saturday), hanging out with friends and reading poetry) Sunday - and then spending quality time with the spousal unit. Today, I wake up at *two* and spend an hour catching up on all the emails, LJ, etc...
Java Hut gig tonight. Lots of old-school hip hop (by request) and the usual mixed bag of everything including "what the fuck was that?"
I don't think I can update every hour. :D
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4 comments:
I like that blog. It's like a fat cat! :-)
Fat cats can't lick their butt if they're fat enough. My husband's family used to have a cat that got so fat it couldn't get around to the butt to clean it.
They called it shitty kitty..
No, I am not joking, and don't even ask me to change the name of my site. ;)
(thank you, btw)
I just meant every *waking* hour, you know!
This is a nice first step, though! :-)
Devo wore "Power Domes" not helmets. :)
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