post-mortem on the show last night

well we played the lipo lounge last night. it was pretty lame overall, but whatever. i had been sick with the flu for a week, so we only had one real rehearsal beforehand. but i thought we played pretty good. it's a cool space, but it's pretty lame that it cost $80 to rent out the spot and we weren't like comped any drinks or anything. it's not like we had much of a turnout anyway. somehow we made money though, like $60 profit, so neat. anyways, best of the best part 3 played first, they had actual songs this time, sounded like mogwai with emo-ish vocal, but in a butch kind of way. i thought they were good, too loud, but i liked what they were playing. but they were all bummed out and shit cuz one of the guy's girlfriends was underage and couldn't get it. that sucked. playing these 21+ shows are kind of a drag. did i mention that only 4 people came specifically for us? totally weak. we're probably not gonna play another show for awhile, at least until i figure out how to get people to actually come or whatever. light and shit. naked dancers. go totally ming and ping and shit maybe. anyways, paleo was second. devendra banhart eat yr heart out i scoffed. nice guy. writing a song a day or some shit. been on the road for 10 months all over the states. me and tommi figured he either had a good IT job that he quit or some kind of trust fund. anyways, didn't seem like anyone was really into his tunes, they all were kind of innoculous tuneless freak folk. i was taking money at the door, so i guess i wasn't really paying any attention at that point. anyways, we decided to go third, cuz no one was there for us. we played: get bored, fem politique, i hate music, why r u so sad?, my resignation, charisma, mediocrity, the source of my unhappiness, no emotion, bitterlust. bitterlust got kinda fucked up, and was not a good one to end on, but we had some good momentum for the first 2/3rds of the set it seemed, then people seemed to get tired of us, i think. the laser cats went last, they were really noisy, and their friends just didn't seem willing to put up with them. it was too bad, but that keytar thing that dylan plays, well it's loud and noisy, and their is just only so much that can be done with it and only so far you can go with that kind of concept of keytar and screaming and such. the drummer and bass player are really solid, they need something more to do than just support song after song of noisy keytar and screaming, mix it up a little. anyway, a weird night. kinda lame. wish more of our friends had come out. oh well.