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2fs - 2006-04-08 23:29:13
You'd probably hate going to shows with me - when I go anymore, what with the smoke and the late hours and the loud loud guitars and the spicy food and what those kids these days wear and I'm all old an' shit. Anyway: all the action's on the inside for me. I'm usually standing or sitting there, focusing on what's going on. I mean, there may be an occasional "whoo!" at the ends of songs, but I'm not a jumpin' and dancin' type of fella. It's my repressed Midwestern Germanic whiteness, you see. Actually, I should emphasize it: I think it be cool to be the kind of guy who, if he raises one eyebrow a quarter of a millimeter, totally blows his friends away with such an overt expression of emotion. "My god - he must really be getting into this!"
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Paula - 2006-04-10 11:05:49
I'm usually standing or sitting there, focusing on what's going on
Make no mistake: the hipster non-movement thing is not caused by absorption in the moment, it is the opposite: palpable ennui and text-messaging. I can tell the difference. So I didn't mean to imply that audiences need to be all bouncy and flouncy--just plain "attentive" would be really nice!
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Alan - 2006-04-10 12:09:42
Congrats on seeing The Hold Steady! I've seen them a couple of times in the last year and they put a great show. They're also regular folks who hang in the bar and actually to people before the gig instead of hiding in the green room, at least in Denver.
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Greg - 2006-04-10 15:33:38
My biggest pet peeve: Smell phones--people insulated in a prophylactic layer of electronic gadgets. And there are definitely some venues/scenes where anything onstage, no matter how good or bad, is just an incidental soundtrack to the private conversations of bushy bearded, pierced narcissists. And despite a couple good performance spaces and cafes, I must admit that Williamsburg was more interesting when everybody spoke Yiddish or Spanish.
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