Thursday, October 12, 2006
Take a tip from the one, Frank Black...
Ben and I went to see Frank Black at the Gypsy Tea Room in Dallas on Monday night. It was really rad! I have never seen Frank Black by himself, and I've only seen him live once, and that was when he was retouring with the Pixies a couple of years ago.
The show was awesome, and I think as I get older, I appreciate artists that don't give encores for the sake of giving encores. He played his set, said thank you and goodnight and that was it. No waiting around for ten minutes while the crowd chants for more and then coming back out and playing for another 10 to 30 minutes. Play what you are there to play, and then that's it. We all get to go home.
I like that.
Anyway, the show was cool, and we were actually home by midnight, which, on a work night, is very cool indeed.
I put up more pictures of the show in my photo gallery under parties and fun. Click here for the lazy link. You'll get a treat picture of Frank's opening act who was the Kentucky Prophet, who was "interesting" to say the least. Ben and I were late getting there so we only heard two of his "songs", but it was really funny.
In other news, the 20th of October is going to be VERY busy indeed. The Ladytron show at the Gypsy Tea Room is that night (WOOT!), plus a GRIP of movies are coming out that day that I want to see.
First up, the 3-D release of the Nightmare Before Christmas comes out. I'm totally geeking out about it and I'm ticked that I can't see it on opening night, because I'm a dork and like seeing things when they open, plus it's Nightmare Before Christmas and you all KNOW my obscene obsession with all things Nightmare related. Plus The Prestige comes out that day, Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan, enough said for me. I'm also very excited about Marie Antoinette, but I'm also very annoyed that I want to see this. I love every movie that Sofia Coppola has directed, but I can't stand Kirsten Dunst. At all. So I'm torn because I know this movie is going to be awesome, and hopefully I can put aside my disdain for Kirsten Dunst to enjoy the movie for what it is. Thankfully, there's enough other people in the movie that I care about so I don't foresee a problem.
The show was awesome, and I think as I get older, I appreciate artists that don't give encores for the sake of giving encores. He played his set, said thank you and goodnight and that was it. No waiting around for ten minutes while the crowd chants for more and then coming back out and playing for another 10 to 30 minutes. Play what you are there to play, and then that's it. We all get to go home.I like that.Anyway, the show was cool, and we were actually home by midnight, which, on a work night, is very cool indeed.
I put up more pictures of the show in my photo gallery under parties and fun. Click here for the lazy link. You'll get a treat picture of Frank's opening act who was the Kentucky Prophet, who was "interesting" to say the least. Ben and I were late getting there so we only heard two of his "songs", but it was really funny.
In other news, the 20th of October is going to be VERY busy indeed. The Ladytron show at the Gypsy Tea Room is that night (WOOT!), plus a GRIP of movies are coming out that day that I want to see.
First up, the 3-D release of the Nightmare Before Christmas comes out. I'm totally geeking out about it and I'm ticked that I can't see it on opening night, because I'm a dork and like seeing things when they open, plus it's Nightmare Before Christmas and you all KNOW my obscene obsession with all things Nightmare related. Plus The Prestige comes out that day, Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan, enough said for me. I'm also very excited about Marie Antoinette, but I'm also very annoyed that I want to see this. I love every movie that Sofia Coppola has directed, but I can't stand Kirsten Dunst. At all. So I'm torn because I know this movie is going to be awesome, and hopefully I can put aside my disdain for Kirsten Dunst to enjoy the movie for what it is. Thankfully, there's enough other people in the movie that I care about so I don't foresee a problem.
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