Drugs with Richard Simmons

17Nov07

I saw Black Moth Super Rainbow, Blockhead, And Aesop Rock last week.

Things I learned:

1] Blockhead is a less-cool Girl Talk. The addition of DJ Skinhead was cool, but it kind of made the music sound sloppy.
2] People smoke marijuana when listening to Aesop Rock and Blockhead more than they do when listening to Black Moth Super Rainbow and I’m not sure why.
3] Marijuana has a very very strong smell when you’re less than a foot away from people doing it (to the left of you and behind you]. It also makes you smell like marijuana, which is not fun when you have to walk by the six billion cops in Orlando. I’m not sure if I like the smell or not. It wasn’t a good smell, but it’s one of those things that’s weird enough to sniff.
4] Downtown Orlando night life is more busy than downtown Orlando day life. It’s insane how many people were going to clubs and it’s insane how many clubs there were!
5] Large cities make me very sad.
6] Playing crazy 80s videos (which Black Moth did when they were up] is actually very neat. Also, playing a Richard Simmons video to the opening song is a very weird but very neat idea.
7] Aesop Rock was way over-hyped.
8] When an Orlando show says doors open at 8 and you’re late, don’t freak out… The show won’t start for another 2 hours. I had the most frustrating night finding the place and then finding a parking spot. It was terrible and I thought I would be late (I finally got in line at around 9:15].
9] The bassist has a very awesome beard (causing me to have major beard envy]. He was also an incredibly nice guy when I talked to him.
10] The keyboardist girl was insanely friendly too.
11] The drummer’s skills really show on their live show. She was insanely talented and was basically flawless.
13] Aesop Rock fans were quite weird. 1/2 of them were normal, cool black dudes while the other half was pretty much very nerdy white guys. Apparently a lot of mall goth-looking people like Aesop Rock too.
14] Not many people seemed to know who Black Moth Super Rainbow was. That surprised me.
15] I hate downtown Orlando.
16] The number twelve is overrated.

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