May 9, 2005

• The Muffs and Moby

  
  

  

  
  

  Spent the last week recovering from Coachella and working a few times in the ER.  Caught the Muffs Friday night at the Spaceland with Mixygirl.  It was really fun as usual, but I think a combination of OD'ing on live music and being really tired took away some of the impact of the show. 

  
  

   

  
  

  On the left is Donnie the punk.  He's a really weird guy and has been part of the LA punk scene for decades.  He always announces the muffs at the LA shows.  He's also always wasted and looks psychotic.  Kristen Shattuck (Kim's sister) tells me that Donnie has a regular day job of some sort, and never remembers her despite meeting her many times because he's always so wasted.  His announcing style is really dramatic, imagine a belligerent boxing announcer after a twelve-pack.  On the right is a pic of the set list.  My faves of the night were "Little Luxury", "Honeymoon", and "Baby Go Round".

  
  

   

  
  

  Kim as always was fun to watch.  See the bald guy in the bottom right corner of the first picture?  Kristen and I were commenting on the fact that he's at every single Muffs show in SoCal.  We were wondering what his story was, given that he's a bald dude in his late 40's and dresses really straight-laced.  What do you think, pervert? pedophile?  Kristen said they'd interview him if and when a Muffs DVD comes out. 

  
  

   

  
  

  Ronnie's on the left.  His hair is starting to grey a little bit at the temples.  Ronnie has always been the coolest guy to talk to from the Muffs.  He's also the only one who seems to be into a lot of different music.  All in all, pretty cool looking as a bass player still and I think adds a lot of fun to the Muffs mixture.  Imagine if they had a non-descript bassist, that would be totally lame.  Roy's on the right.  In my opinion, one of the best drummers in rock.  He's got a chaotic Keith Moon kind of style and is definitely the best musician in the Muffs.  Thanks to Mixygirl for taking most of the pics!!!  In summary the show was fun.  The Muffs have become kind of like punk rock comfort food for me now. 

  
  

   

  
  

  On Saturday after working a shift, Mixygirl and I caught Moby at the Wiltern.  I've been waiting to see Moby for a longtime.  I saw him once on accident while walking along the Charles river in Boston.  He was playing a free radio concert.  I thought he was great back then, but that was before I got any of his albums.  Well, the show was fantastic.  Moby sounded really good.  The songs translated really well live, and the audience was really energetic.  Even the new songs which didn't sound that great on the album, were pretty good in concert.  Surprisingly I think the songs I enjoyed most were the ones from his more rave-techno period of the mid/early 90's.  Moby also gave a shout-out to David Bowie who apparently was in attendance that night.  Only two low points.  One, I was really tired from working all day, so didn't have maximum energy to enjoy (and again the issue of OD'ing on live music this week b/w Coachella, and the Muffs, and Moby).  Secondly in honor of LA, Moby covered "Break on Through", by the Doors.  Unfortunately he had his guitarist sing vocals, and it was horrible. 

  
  

  

  
  

  I watched The Terminal on DVD today.  Despite getting pretty bad reviews if I remember correctly, I enjoyed the movie.  Its kind of a cute simple little story with the kind of likeability factor that most Spielberg movies have.  Check it out and see what you think.

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