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hapticbackup ([personal profile] hapticbackup) wrote2007-02-04 02:08 pm

to all we stretch the open arm

I can't decide what to do so I'm drinking chocolate milk. I went to a pretty glacial concert on....Thursday! It felt at first like we weren't going to get in because who knows what those college kids we bought our tickets from over the phone have been smoking, and we got there late (on purpose), and how easy is it to enter ice? Not very. It worked out. Man, it was great. It was a feminist concert. Person, it was great! Something similar to this happened at the concert, actually. The opening act was Scream Club, the #1 lesbian feminist rap funk dance duo group. Grandmothers of the movement. I bought their t-shirt after the concert. It is glamorous and too small. Every member of the audience had experimental hair.

The main act was Mirah.

She's in our collective Top 10. She's the #1 herself. According to what happens when I type "mirah" in the URL bar of Firefox, Mirah has a big homo heart, is modest and deliberate, prefers privacy to invasion and reconciliation to war. Her middle name means good day or holy day in Hebrew. I read somewhere and can't stop remembering that she is "a terrific songwriter when she bothers to finish her songs." I don't care to meet the person, poisonous and frustrated, who said this. But it is true that most of Mirah's songs are very short. 2 minutes, plus or minus.

It was a good concert. Her songs are full of small ironies. Of this I am unsure, not really knowing what I mean by it. I wasn't left wanting. I woke up a couple times. It's possible that I never would have been able to see Mirah in concert, since she has been on hiatus for the last recent while. Instead I saw her concert for $7 on Thursday, and it was terrific. It was just such a glacier, flattening, holding, tinting, teething, falling over.

[identity profile] ariellabella.livejournal.com 2007-02-05 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
on a scale of one to gay that concert is a 12. and really good.

scream club sometimes annoys me but they are the beginners of a whole movement. if you liked them you should check out nicky click and team gina and basically everything on crunk's not dead.

mirah is one of my favorite musicians in the world. she's so good. her songs are tiny and perfect.

[identity profile] haptic.livejournal.com 2007-02-06 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
I enjoyed Scream Club a lot more in concert than on the record. I feel like a lot of the time their music emphasizes message over listenability, which becomes much more entertaining live, as opposed to when I am sitting by myself going "Yeah! Don't fuck with my babies!"