the concert log continues...

went with a few friends to see van she tech at vanguard a few weeks ago. i was nutting all over myself in anticipation for their set but they were a complete letdown. the only remix they played was feist's 1234. i was supposed to see ladyhawke the next day at the echo the next day but she had to cancel her u.s. tour due to visa troubles. another cock block...

last week, i went to see girl talk a couple of times. it's funny how the crowd has fully transitioned from the indie/hipster set for last year's two shows at echoplex to the frat/bro crowd for this year's two shows at the fonda. my brother was sooooooooo faded during the second show. my friend later told me he saw my brother in the lobby staring at some dude and his big bag of doritos for the longest time.

thursday - white lies at the roxy // i've only heard a few songs + 1 remix, but decided what the hell, i'll go see them. this was the best rock show i've been in to in a while. i guess you could say they're interpol-ish. they were impressive, i must say. every single song was good. at the end of the show, i got one of the roadies to give me a setlist and stole one of the posters. the crowd was stiff and lame save a few fans in the front.

i heard there was supposed to be an ed banger secret guest spinning at the heist in hollywood so we drove by after the white lies show to see if we could find out who it was. the front and side of the club was ridiculously packed and overflowing with mexican hoochies and i heard that multiple fights broke out outside. on friday, word got around that the special guest was daft punk! there were a few grainy pics and youtube videos circulating to support this. i'll come back to this topic in a bit...

friday - hard haunted mansion at shrine expo hall // my god, this was possibly the greatest collection of electro artists in one place. justice, soulwax, boys noize, deadmau5, crystal castles, simian mobile disco, sebastiAn, 2 many dj's, and "special guests". to my knowledge, the only festival with a better electro line up was the i <3 techno fest in ghent, belgium last year. tickets sold out the saturday before hard and i didn't have any because i had my thumb up my ass and i couldn't be bothered. i checked ebay. nothing. i checked craigslist and all i found were requests for tickets from other desperate fans. tickets listings started appearing the next day. people were selling them for $150 - $400 each. i had to bite the bullet and buy a pair for $300. soulwax or die.

with the talk of daft punk at the heist the night before, many people assumed one of the secret guests would be daft punk. as it turns out, one of the members of daft punk did appear for a performance. 50 min into the set, he took off his helmet revealing himself to be dj am. so lame, i'm glad i didn't bother to check it out.

during the justice set, i ran into my doppleganger. i knew he'd come to hard, but i didn't think i'd run into him in the midde of 10,000+ people. i recognize him, and he recognizes me, so it's become rather uncomfortable when we run into each other. at the time, there was no way i could kill him to restore balance to the universe because i didn't have my shank with me. i would've been caught during the pat-down upon entry had i tried to bring it with me. he was dressed as a giant chili pepper. that was probably a strategic move. the padding would've softened my blows had we gotten into a fight.

we left around 3:30am which means somone had about a six hour window steal my ipod from my car. fucking bastards. all that good music in the hands of some dip shit candy raver thief. such a shame. on saturday i went to fry's and bought a 120 gig silver iPod and it took me over an hour to load all music from my external drive. i'm still missing about 200-300 songs i downloaded this month. what kills me is that i lost all my play counts and playlists. at least i have some of my listening history on my last.fm page. the shitty thing about my listening history there is that it's only for the past year. it looks like i don't listen to anything aside from electro.

saturday - eric prydz at avalon // over the past year prydz and soulwax were the two acts i've anticipated seeing the most. soulwax delivered and prydz turned out to be another disappointment. this guy makes some of the best tracks and it kills me that he barely plays any of them in his sets. he only played f12 that night. another thing i hate is going to avalon. they only sell half the tickets online so they can sell the other half the day of which ensures that most everyone doesn't know who the hell he dj is. the dance floor is also filled with fobby couples in their 40's high on some drug or other. i gave up seeing yelle down the block at the fonda for all this. i tried selling my tickets to a coworker, but in the end i couldn't even give my tickets away to any of my friends who knew who she was.

sunday - dj falcon, jfk (of mstrkrft), busy p, so me at lax // dj falcon was billed as the headliner that night with another "special guest" teaser. the guests turned out to be jfk from mstrkrft and busy p, fresh off their shows in vegas the night before. jfk actually came on to play a few songs and busy p closed. this was the most fun i've had at lax. a few months ago, we met some people while waiting in line for 2 many dj's. they turned out to be pretty cool people so we ended meeting up at cinespace, lax, and vanguard for other electro shows. one of them is a geeky music nut like me and we took the first step in our budding bromance by going out to lax together for this show because all our friends bailed on us. oh yeah, we saw my doppleganger at lax too.

monday - the last shadow puppets at the mayan theatre // they brought the orchestra with them to duplicate the sound from the album. i wonder how much it costs to bring that many people along. they did a pretty cool cover of, "i want you (she's so heavy)". i hear they're working on another album so i suppose the next arctic monkeys album isn't coming out for a while.

i had the most bizarre week. random make outs, getting into fights (haven't been in a fight since 4th grade), one girl i'm making out with getting into a fight (i don't know when her last fight was).

sunday - goldfrapp at the orpheum // this was hands down the best concert i've been to in a while. i can't believe her voice sounds the way it does live.
sunday - does it offend you yeah? at lax // disappointing dj set and crowd
monday - css at the mayan // lovefoxx is getting kind of tubby. i wouldn't say anything if she covered up, but she invites these sorts of criticisms when she wears spandex body suits
tuesday - css at the mayan // yeah, confirmed it.
wednesday - css at the glasshouse // this show had the best crowd. how does the glasshouse make money if they don't serve alcohol?
friday - mstrkrft at the fonda // i love mstrkrft but the quality of their remixes is going downhill. i'm surprised they still play one more time, but i'll take it!
saturday - mstrkrft at the san diego house of blues // yep, the girls are cuter down here. this was the craziest night of the week. backtrack a little bit: when i was down in sd a couple of months ago for the crystal castles show at the casbah, i met a girl and danced with her the entire time. i got her number at the end of the night and never called her. i sort of bumped into her at this show hahahaha.
sunday - mstrkrft at the el rey // half empty venue, but still loads of fun.