built in shower seats

OKAY real quick highlights: opening with "have to explode." (weird as i had just been singing that song to myself earlier in the day because it was 9000 humidity i was feeling gross walked into the bathroom was appreciating the coolness of the tiles, so obv.)

"the mess inside." now with motherfucking DRUMS. Super killer. I love how pretty much every song is a mountain goats singalong. Also that j.d just rolls with it like a patient father explaining to his children "no, iapos;m going to play another song instead." ALSO could people PLEASE stop requesting shit? did you miss the memo about how that NEVER works because j.d is going to play what heapos;s going to play or maybe he wonapos;t play something if you wonapos;t stop screaming about it? ALSO requesting "no children" is so gauche, guys. Grow a pair. However the "no children" singalong was as ever v. Fun.

"wizard buys a hat." maybe because it is new but damn; i fell in love with this particular track offa the new EP immediately so i am v. Glad that we got to hear it. (FIRST EVER: there are some benefits to being at the first night of a tour; like the fact that theyapos;re going to sell out of all that limited edition vinyl REALLY fast. Was going to pick up a copy of the new 7" just to have but then dropped all my cash $$ on a new hoodie instead, which makes sense as i wear hoodies every day i donapos;t own a record player.)

i was sad that the crowd wanted to hear "this year" instead of "lovecraft in brooklyn" for the last song (the park west apparently vetoed an encore or some shit? i donapos;t know), but iapos;ve seen them play both of those songs live anyway i understand that all of the people wanted a raging mountain goats singalong for the closer. So whatever. Not like i wasnapos;t into it

the stuff they played with kaki king in the middle was excellent. That woman is a demon on the guitar.

the show was a bit strange--really slow, mostly, slow songs, even the faster songs were slowed down, j.dapos;s been fiddling with his melodic delivery, it was the first night of the tour, c. c. But OF COURSE it was still totally awesome as ever v. Nice to see them. I am happy that this is the first show i bought tickets for in chicago. It seems fitting.

AND i have a hot new hoodie

ALSO the park west is a really strange venue. It looks kind of like the lounge on a 1980s post-disco spaceship . . . Most of the space was seating, with a little dance floor . . . i donapos;t know if it was the acoustics of the place or what but the sound was a little funny, not super crisp, a little reverby.

OKAY that is that.



. . . Saturday night i went to the baltimore round robin showing at epiphany (hosted by the empty bottle). Dan deacon is running it. SUPER HIPSTER DANCE PARTY OF THE FUTURE. Deacon was fun; got to see the death set also, as well as discovering a little band called future island that i am now kind of in love with. Go look apos;em up. After the show i got invited to a house party+DJ (= SUPER HIPSTER AFTERPARTY) but it was in logan square there were four people with me so cabbing would have been a bitch whatever anyway but it was kind of funny to have happen.

now it is time for me to take a shower then listen to the new designer drugs remix of iamxapos;s "spit it out" which is my super-trashy favorite dance pick for the week.

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