Best live show you ever saw

[dave from knoxville]

Stay strong with me, JFM! Oh, wait, it's time for my heart pill.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

aw, you know i'm joking. I'll be 30 in 6 months, which I believe makes me in the upper echelon (sp?) of FOT

I took no offense, I was just too dense to get it. 

I actually hadn't noticed that I was chatting online with a bunch of people about 10 years younger than me on average.  But you, know, I really am about 4 years behind in terms of emotional/personal development, and always have been.  It was a much bigger deal when I was 10 or 15 or 20. 

I pretty much do have the life of a 33-year-old: married, graduate degree, respectable job with benefits and a 401(k), and an emergent artistic career, but still a renter, no kids, and a shitload of debt.

Oh, and Yesno, I watch my neighbor's 6-year-old kid every so often while his mom hangs out with my wife, and I have to say it's awesome to have an excuse to hang out at the playground and skateboard and go on swings and stuff.  And everyone looks at me admiringly, thinking I'm a good dad, instead of calling the cops.

[justinline]

I saw Ratatat last night at the Henry Fonda in LA...a  pretty good show, but I felt really old there.  I ran into a bunch of my 12th-grade students ("See you first period tomorrow, Ms. Grossman!") and was grumpy about getting home past midnight on a weekday.

The band is good, but it's sort of as if the members of Tortoise were all replaced with Andrew WK clones...in theory, it's great, but somehow...it doesn't quite work...

I was at Ratatat the following night and it was the best show of 2008 for me, just beating Mudcrutch (and I've seen plenty this year).  However, the very next night it got surpassed by Built to Spill playing the entire Perfect From Now On album at the Troubadour.  Yeah-yuh!  And you're never too old to go to a show you want to go to.

[Steve of Bloomington]

Having a kid does a lot to balance out the otherwise boring and predictable nature of post 30s life, I have found.  Gives life meaning, hope for the future, all that sappy cliched stuff...

aw, you know i'm joking. I'll be 30 in 6 months, which I believe makes me in the upper echelon (sp?) of FOT

I took no offense, I was just too dense to get it. 

I actually hadn't noticed that I was chatting online with a bunch of people about 10 years younger than me on average.  But you, know, I really am about 4 years behind in terms of emotional/personal development, and always have been.  It was a much bigger deal when I was 10 or 15 or 20. 

I pretty much do have the life of a 33-year-old: married, graduate degree, respectable job with benefits and a 401(k), and an emergent artistic career, but still a renter, no kids, and a shitload of debt.

Oh, and Yesno, I watch my neighbor's 6-year-old kid every so often while his mom hangs out with my wife, and I have to say it's awesome to have an excuse to hang out at the playground and skateboard and go on swings and stuff.  And everyone looks at me admiringly, thinking I'm a good dad, instead of calling the cops.

[Susannah]

I saw Ratatat last night at the Henry Fonda in LA...a  pretty good show, but I felt really old there.  I ran into a bunch of my 12th-grade students ("See you first period tomorrow, Ms. Grossman!") and was grumpy about getting home past midnight on a weekday.

The band is good, but it's sort of as if the members of Tortoise were all replaced with Andrew WK clones...in theory, it's great, but somehow...it doesn't quite work...

I was at Ratatat the following night and it was the best show of 2008 for me, just beating Mudcrutch (and I've seen plenty this year).  However, the very next night it got surpassed by Built to Spill playing the entire Perfect From Now On album at the Troubadour.  Yeah-yuh!  And you're never too old to go to a show you want to go to.

Hey-- I know you, Justinline!  Just wait until I see you at the Sloan show next month.  Way to advertise yourself on the FOT board.

[Poughkeepsie]

Mogwai at Irving Plaza in 04.

[Lint Brush]

Did anyone else go to The Hold Steady show last night at the old Emigrant Savings Bank?  It was an awful venue acoustically . .I know it's for the Artist Den broadcast on Ovation, so maybe they didn't care about the mix for the live audience.  Frustrating . . .and I didn't see PBR there either.