Bon Bon Reserve Superthread

[Axver]

Hopefully it won't be too crowded, but yeah, let us know. Imagine we'll be leaving about 7:30.

 

[Alisaura]

Printed!

It's sold out, and the extra tickets went too, so I'm thinking it will be packed. Will hopefully see you in there but I probably won't push to the front if there's pushing needed to get there.

PS: It is weird being at work when it's all dark and empty!

 

[Axver]

Cool, glad you got that sorted!

Given I imagine at least some of the crowd will be your usual apathetic hipsters who show up late, hopefully it won't be too crowded until the second band. I'm very impressed both shows have sold out ... the old days at Northcote are long gone though. Ah well.

 

[Alisaura]

I was thinking how would they go playing a really big venue like an arena... I'm sure they could do it, but having seen them in tiny places, it's sort of hard to imagine! Giant glitter/confetti cannon?

 

[Axver]

Oh god, if they ever got big enough to do that, I hate to think what they might do on the confetti front.

They could honestly just about play the Forum at this stage.

 

[cobl04]

How was/were Alpine?

 

[Axver]

Great! First night will go down as a really special one for me and Charlotte since they dedicated the encore to us "for coming to all of our shows".

Second night was in general the better performance though. Christian (guitarist) told us they'd been pretty nervous before the first show but felt more at ease for the second one. Crowd was more into it too.

 

[cobl04]

Awesome. Was shattered I couldn't make it but I got about six hours of patchy sleep over the weekend I was away and would have passed out at 9pm had I gone.

 

[Alisaura]

Great! First night will go down as a really special one for me and Charlotte since they dedicated the encore to us "for coming to all of our shows".

Haha, that's awesome! I couldn't quite make out what she said.

 

[Axver]

You know what's a funny feeling? That feeling of "I'd have loved this album if I'd heard it five/seven/whatever years ago".

I'm just listening to the new album by Periphery and I can't escape the feeling that I'd have really dug it when I was about 18 or 19 and in my prog phase, but now it's leaving me cold and it's too long. At the moment, the parts that are interesting to me are not the prog or djent parts, but the brief electronic passages.

 

[bono_man2002]

I'm having the same feeling with the new Matchbox Twenty album. You can laugh all you like at that, and I'm going to tell this story for probably the 100th time.

But Matchbox has long been my band, probably longer than U2. Mum and Dad took me to see them when I was like 10. They spent months touring Australia for that first album. I know we went to at least one show at Rod Laver and since then I've seen every tour that has followed at least twice. I'm seeing them twice again in October (possibly a third time if another show is added)

The new album is okay. I hate a few of the songs, I like some of the others. Two songs I think are standouts. Two. It seems they're trying too hard to stay current, in a worse (for lack of a batter word) way than U2 is. But yeah I would have loved this album in 2006 because, shit we didn't have the whole 10 year wait for a brand new full length studio release. Still think they will be awesome live though, they still have that going for them.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

*reminisces of the nostalgia factor of listening to Real World, 3am, Long Day, Unwell*

 

[Axver]

Oh man, when I was ten, eleven years old, Push was my favourite song in the world. That and Real World, Long Day, and Back to Good were the soundtrack to my first year in Australia ... along with some Metallica, U2, and Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

Matchbox Twenty and I parted ways after their second album, and I'm pretty sure I'd have scoffed at them in 1997 had I been a few years older, but there's a lot of childhood nostalgia now in Yourself or Someone Like You.

 

[cobl04]

Haigh's little seminar was awesome tonight. Says they got most of Howzat! right, but they had to leave out (as said by Gyngell) "Kerry fucking Ita".

Met him afterwards, bought his book and he signed it. Stoked. Says in 10 words what would take me 10 pars.

 

[bono_man2002]

Well played interference. I fire up my laptop to do some uni work and I spend nearly two hours here, well played.

Night all.

 

[Reggo]

Yeah, sure, Daniel, that's interference's fault.

I'll chime in on the love for Matchbox 20 (Twenty?) and their debut album. That was the first album I bought with my own money when I was ten or so and the songs have evolved different meanings as I've gotten older and understand more about the world. My college-level algebra teacher in high school would play music for us every day during "working" time, and invariably every day, Back 2 Good would come up in the mix. I think I'm going to need to give it a listen this morning at work.

 

[Reggo]

This is mostly for Ashley.

'Steel Magnolias' Lifetime Remake Trailer (VIDEO)

It seems to be a line-for-line remake, too. the original is my mom's favorite movie. she is PISSED.

 

[Reggo]

On a completely unrelated note, I was poking around TVTropes and somehow ended up at a link to Blue's Clues fanfiction. Don't ask me the breadcrumb trail that ended up there. Anyway, out of boredom, I read it and, you know, it was actually pretty good.

 

[cobl04]

Why do I torture myself reading Bolt's blog? In his latest post he's decided that in two stories about rape, where the identities of the perpetrators aren't revealed, the assailants are Muslim.

Terrorism raids: surprisingly Islam involved | The Australian

 

[Axver]

I've proudly never read a word of Andrew Bolt's blog and I don't intend to start.

 

[cobl04]

Grizzly Bear's Harvest sideshow is at Billboard

 

[Axver]

Huh, that's odd. I was just dying the other day looking at Billboard's forthcoming gigs: Enter Shikari, Cannibal Corpse, At the Gates ... and Boyz II Men.

 

[cobl04]

Hahahahaha, the ACL describes itself as "rigorously non-partisan"

 

[Axver]

I suppose that's true, in the sense they don't take sides between the Liberals, the Nationals, Democratic Labour, Family First, the Christian Democratic Party, and the remnants of One Nation.

 

[Axver]

Everybody on RYM seems to be losing their mind about the new Swans album but I just can't bring myself to listen to it simply due to its length.

Seriously, one of the quickest ways for me to not give a shit about an album is for it to be long. Over 60 minutes and I'm not keen. Over 80 and I've already moved on.

 

[bono_212]

This is mostly for Ashley.

'Steel Magnolias' Lifetime Remake Trailer (VIDEO)

It seems to be a line-for-line remake, too. the original is my mom's favorite movie. she is PISSED.

Holy shit, this is like the best possible thing that could happen.

On a completely unrelated note, I was poking around TVTropes and somehow ended up at a link to Blue's Clues fanfiction. Don't ask me the breadcrumb trail that ended up there. Anyway, out of boredom, I read it and, you know, it was actually pretty good.

Oh shit, son.

 

[cobl04]

the words "fan fiction" and "good" do not in a sentence belong

 

[Axver]

the words "fan fiction" and "good" do not in a sentence belong

Seconded, thirded, and fourthed.

 

[cobl04]

Everybody on RYM seems to be losing their mind about the new Swans album but I just can't bring myself to listen to it simply due to its length.

Seriously, one of the quickest ways for me to not give a shit about an album is for it to be long. Over 60 minutes and I'm not keen. Over 80 and I've already moved on.

I got through three minutes of the opening track.

 

[Reggo]

Holy shit, this is like the best possible thing that could happen.

Mom being slightly racist? Or do I need to recalilbrate my sarcasm detector?

Oh shit, son.

I know, I'm ashamed of me, too. It was about Joe being psychotic and jealous of Steve and his blue puppy, which sounds really stupid as I'm typing this out, but at whatever-time-it-was Tuesday night, it was entertainment.