June 10, 2005

• Ash

  
  

  

  
  

       Saw the Irish pop-punk sensation Ash yesterday with Mixy, Toro, Jarschick, and BabyRuthless.  It was at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood.  Somehow I thought that I had been listening to Ash since 91, but I guess that's impossible since I looked up that their first album that I bought, came out in 1996.  I remember enjoying that album, and seeing them open for Weezer at Lupo's.  I have not become an obsessed fan in the interim time however, as Toro and Mixygirl are.  They have become superfamous in Europe though in the meantime.  The show last night was really cool and high energy.  I like that they play pop punk but without any sort of cynicism or irony.  It seems that most alternative bands are too embarassed to rock out these days.  There was also a decent sized mosh pit going, surprisingly for this kind of music.  I joined in for a few numbers.  Unfortunately in the span of 30 seconds, I twisted my ankle, got my glasses knocked down to the floor, then fell down to the floor myself.  Fortunately as I blindly groped for my glasses on the floor, I was able to find them.  It reminds me of the time I went with Shopping and Frank down to NYC during undergrad to check out Public Enemy, Ice T, and House of Pain.  I think my glasses got knocked off and were pretty quickly recovered, but my shoe was 5 feet away as I lunged for it. 

  
  

  

  
  

       Well Hollywood shows have the added bonus of the mandatory celebrity sightings. We had in the words of Toro, a Tier 1 sighting also.  None other than Quentin Tarantino was at the bar before the show.  I'm not sure if he stayed for the show though, because I looked for him everywhere after that.  I was going to try to convince him to slam dance.  We had just seen Quentin on TV earlier in the evening at the MTV movie awards.  He was still wearing the same hoodie sweatshirt.  He seemed really talkative and hyper just like in all his TV appearances and interviews. 

  
  

  

  
  

       Added bonus for Weezer fans was the sighting of former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp.  Some would argue that it's no coincidence that all the Weezer albums since he left the band have not been as good.  On further computer news, the repair people told me that the hard drive is totally fried.  This means that all our recent Hawaii, Vegas, and Kapono photos have been lost (haven't backed those up yet).  We heard that we may be able to send the broken drive to a recovery specialist to try to get back some files.  Unfortunately it's really expensive cause they have to open the hard drive up in like an airtight room that doesn't have any dust particles in it. 

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