report on the show last night!

we played pretty good, i'd rate it about a 7 out of 10. only a couple mistakes here and there, forgotten words, missed cues, fucked up guitar solo, missed snare hits, lots of dropped sticks haha, shit like that. we played: cognitive dissonance, fem politique, charisma, get bored, why r u so sad?, my regisnation, the source of my unhappiness, mediocrity, bitterlust. we went third. first was best of the best part 3 (enough is enough - no turning back), featuring members of the pandaboys, and they are also gonna be playing with us on feb 23 @ the lipo lounge. they were pretty damn massive sounding, loud thick distorted bass and guitar and beats with wailed vocals, noisy and thunderous. they were really cool guys and really encouraging during our set. trevor said he liked us cuz we were very esoteric. so that's our new word of the day. esoteric. 2nd was the cupids, and they were three dudes, a bit more accessable, kinda like the cocteau twins sorta in sound, but darker and heavier, guitar, bass, and a third guy on synth and drum machine. they were really cool too. at that point i was starting to worry about following two really awesome noisy bands, especially since our stuff is more formalist in composition, cuz we're really just a lame pop band. anyways, we played, and went for about 40 minutes or so, i almost fainted during the first song cuz i wasn't breathing enough and over projecting my voice, but i managed to not fall over, somehow. tommi was the real star of the show, the meager audience seemed to dig the drums a lot, and tommi's feature on the synth during my resignation was quite popular. and we managed to not scare off the locals! i think they actually liked us more, cuz we weren't so noisy, haha. i recall seeing some old ass drunk smilin' at us at one point during the show. plus people finally got up to dance during the last tune, bitterlust, which was pretty shocking, though it does start off pretty dancy. anyways, after us was raencloud, now known as the laser cats. they have improved so much in the 3 weeks since we last played with them, i was really really impressed! the drummer chris is really phenomenal, and the bass player sean is a real sweetheart. they were all totally tight, and hopefully dylan didn't kill my mic with all his thrashing about and falling over as he was playing. oh yeah, and there were lights and a smoke machine going on for them and best of the best. they had this whole separate dude come in with his own truck full of gear, and he was really cute too! but i didn't talk to him, cuz i'm like shy, haha. anyways, we didn't really do no lights during our set, cuz, like there was one shining right on me, and i couldn't see my strings, so i kept moving it out of the way while setting up. anyway, it was a fun night! and load in and out was really a lot easier, cuz i bought a case for all of our cymbal stands earlier in the day over at evil guitar center (where i happened to witness a street tranny lady wandering about playing a violin). while it's a bit too big to fit comfortably in my shitty corolla, it proved to be a worthy investment, and all in all, at the end of the night, we were able to load back into our studio space in less than 10 minutes! leaving us plenty of time to hop on over the stud for shadowplay and dance for a bit and say hi to tim and dan. so it was a good night, yay.