Friday, May 02, 2014

Modest Mouse, You Can Do Better

Modest Mouse show at the Crystal Ballroom. Opening band: Survival Knife. Hubby and I are sitting here trading fables about how this suburban, amateur aggro-Sabbath wannabe disaster ended up opening for MM.

Hubby: It's who you know.
Me:  Maybe it's their punishment for not finishing the album that was promised over a year ago?  "If the album isn't on my desk by March 1, you get Survival Knife, and don't try calling my bluff because god help me, I'll do it."
Hubby: This smacks of something the label saddled them with.
Me: They totally forgot they needed an opening band, and told their agent, "oh, crap, anyone, whoever, just make sure they make us look good."  Or better yet!  "We're still hardcore, right?" "Isaac, you were never hardcore. You're a word nerd." "No way, we were totally hardcore. I mean are, we are! Totally aggro!" "Dude, you wrote a song about what an ass Bukowski was. A poet. Total nerd." Isaac then goes out and finds a band he thinks is hardcore, proving his nerddom.

Ohmygod it's finally over.  Somebody owes me that awful 45 minutes of my life back.