{"id":2100,"date":"2011-11-21T02:26:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T06:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2011-11-21T02:26:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T06:26:56","slug":"i-saw-starkids-and-it-was-totally-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=2100","title":{"rendered":"I Saw StarKids and it was Totally Awesome!"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, sorry, that’s their tagline.\u00a0 They were totally pretty good, though.\u00a0 The Human Tape Recorder was not alone at the Fillmore in Silver Spring last night: some of the songs seemed to consist of the folks on stage just holding the microphones out to the audience.\u00a0 I didn’t remember “Karaoke with 2000 people” on the ticket, but hey.<\/p>\n

If you’re not familiar with Starkid and the StarKidPotter<\/a>\u00a0show, I assume that you are\u00a0over the age of consent and don’t have teenagers at home.\u00a0 The music didn’t suck, generally, and some of the standout songs were really good – when this group puts its collective mind to doing an R&B old school blues number, they can bring it down.\u00a0 The parts that came from the college auditorium review still sound like they came from a college auditorium review – not that there’s anything wrong with that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While it’s disconcerting to be among 2000 people at a show and still raise the average age by 5 years, I have to say that makes me glad to see teens at a concert like this wearing Spinal Tap tee-shirts.\u00a0 Another good\u00a0one said “Shakespere hates your emo poems.”\u00a0 On me, that would be rude.\u00a0 On\u00a0the\u00a0skinny goth emo chick wearing it, it was hilarious.\u00a0 I would have bought her a drink, but of course she was\u00a0probably 12.\u00a0
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\nThe HTR had several friends there, bordering on a mob of their own, and one of the other parents loaned me a pair of earplugs for the duration.\u00a0 What little hearing I have, I owe to him.\u00a0 What little sanity I have I don’t owe anyone for, I paid for it – in the form of a Dewers on the rocks, mid-way through the show.\u00a0 The venue is actually great; the acoustics at the Fillmore are amazing in surround-sound\u00a0–\u00a0I got all the songs from the stage, from the sound system, and from 1500 female amplifiers, all aged 18 and under.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The highlight of the evening was being groped by a teenage girl with a Ron Paul for President button.\u00a0 Of course, when I texted this fact to SOBUMD (“My life is getting weirder by the minute!”),\u00a0all I got back in terms of sympathy was “Just lie back and think of the blog.”\u00a0 Heh.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The opening act was a guy named George Watsky<\/a>.\u00a0 He was more than just pretty good – I’d’ve paid to see him by himself.\u00a0 He recalls Bo Burnham, but I mean that in a\u00a0nice way.\u00a0 \u00a0More interesting to me was that when someone shouted something about “do the something something one” he said, “This is a concert.\u00a0 That’s a poem.\u00a0 You don’t really want me to recite a poem to you, do you?”\u00a0 The crowd said yes, pretty clearly – and he stood there on stage and recited a poem (about lisping, and getting past that fact) to a crowd of 2000 mostly teenage girls.\u00a0 And they applauded like crazy – his delivery was great, the content was good, but to me the simple fact that the opening act can still hold a crowd like this steady and happy with a poem…\u00a0 Well, it does my heart good.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But all good things must come to an end, and I got the HTR home a little after midnight – a near-final birthday gift concluded – and it was totally awesome.\u00a0 Just ask her!<\/p>\n

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