best live shows in 1999? right. (i would list the venue/date, but i don't remember a single date and for half of these the venue would be something silly like "vince's house".) the faint: sexy nice boys from omaha who sing songs about sex and not much else. their live show is absolute rock and roll. atom & his package: people like to make fun of him, but he really does write good songs. when i saw him, kids in the audience wore giant bear heads and danced like idiots. yes! the mountain goats: was that even this year? i don't remember. but this would be up there on a best shows of all time list. over two hours of john darnielle, w. a found photos exhibit preceding. he stretched the quite possibly infamous "the sign" into a 20-minute diatribe on hipsters, kinda. incredible incredible. june of '44: more than i could have hoped for. nothing's changed, they've still got the rock. bauhaus: was that last year? i don't know. but who would have thought that i'd ever get to see them? superchunk: again, nothing's changed, they've still got the rock. bright eyes: this show was in omaha, and wow do those kids respect their local friends. the crowd was utterly silent for the whole set, which was all songs that aren't on any album or 7". conor puts me to shame. trizteza: a mogwai, macha-type band, but their roots are pure punk rawk. a pretty, quiet show, w. one light and shadows on the ceiling. south by southwest: tom waits, the kiss-offs, macha, built to spill, $.50 pizza sold on the street, meeting lots of scary music biz execs, sleeping in a truck for a week b/c every motel within 200 miles was full and SPOON! dub narcotic sound system/miranda july: actually, this show looked like it was a dismal failure for all bands involved, but dancing w. calvin johnson = oh yeah. also: rushmore and american beauty are the two best movies of the year, though i'm still waiting on cradle will rock and the new woody allen. rocktcha! --stephanie ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
