awww yeah so as usual everytime i see the mouse i write up this really long and exhausting account of everything that happened. therefore if you dont feel like reading this you can refer yourself to the shorter version that will most likely accompany this email. it should be in your email box now unless previously deleted by you or someone you love. right then. so me and darred and paul cruise on down to boston, going the "wicked hick way" as i have dubbed it, due to the fact that we took the route straight from keene NH instead of claremont, where i would normally have only minimal hick roadage before hitting speeds in excess of 85 mph on the interstate. woo. so we get to boston and we are wicked friggin early some, but theres these two kids waiting, so we make small talk and it turns out that one of them is on the list, myabe both. but hi john :D and uh, melissa was it? woop. so we go around back to see if the vans have been loaded and they werent so we walked around for an hour and came back and around back we could hear the mouse doing their sound check. but it was just a regular old jam, nothing spectacular. so we go wait in line and its just us five and people slowly trickle in. After being accosted by boston's finest homeless man in the pizza place we claimed our stake in line. yeah so then im inside and i met dusty (pronounced with an usty) insde and we talked for a few minutes while in line for the tshirts. friggin tshirts for the mouse are 15 bucks! and they didnt even have XL. what a gyp. but i got both of them. one is blue with orange, the straight lines spanning from a center point with modest mouse written below, the other either a black or dark blue (im bad with black/dark blue distinguishization) with this odd "half seesaw triangle" thing on it. and oh yeah. i stole a poster of the new cover art off the bathroom door. so i go up front and blah blah blah. so then les savy fav comes out. and i had seen them at the NYC show back in march of 99 so i knew it was a good time to watch but it got soooo much better. my friend amy who used to be on this list, who i see almost everytime i go to the flywheel in easthampton, she loves les savy fav and was talking about some other shows that she had seen of them, and how super friggin kickass they were. anyways, the lead singer from les savy fav has this total rip van winkle meets scary irish guy look? i dunno, we saw him walking around before the show with a black sweatshirt that had "timmy" airbrushed on it. amy had informed me that previously, he had some super "county fair-esque" shirt with an indian and a wolf airbrushed on it. i guess its his fashion niche. so hes got this sampler thing and before les savy fav comes out hes all playin with it and stuff and then they come out and he starts playing samples of danzigs "mother" and hes like "were danzig!" and spews out this half satanic speech about how we meet in the underground after dark and the band starts playing mother for a little bit and then they kick into the set. and dood. les savy fav OWNS you. the lead singer is so charismatic, hes like hanging from the pipes on the ceiling, climbing the monitors. that girl melissa who was in front of us in line, he like went up to her, licked her hair, rubeed it on his face and body. later in the show he ran out into the crowd and got us all tangled up in microphone wire, and we thought he was going to throw the microphone at my friend darren. hes doin all this crazy dancing, running around, sampling hot for teacher. haha, at one point they were having bass trouble... he instructed the entire audience to turn around because it was embarrasing. when some people didnt he was like "cmon guys im serious, this isnt funny!" but the highlight of his crazy antics had to be when he straddled his crotch right in my friend paul's face and humped him then he fell over onto us and paul like half groped him until he got back up onstage. it was classic. so yeah. go see les savy fav. riiiight. so then califone comes out. and the general list consensus seems to be "califone blows monkey wad". and in a way its kinda like "bleh" youre standing there, they are all slow and stuff. the lead singer guy, he comes out and hes like "hey can you turn us up really loud out there so i dont have to listen to these fucking people talking?" thats a great way to win over the audience. but the music was actually quite good i thought. i mean i didnt mind listening to it, even if it was super slow and non-movable. they ended their set with a brian eno cover, a song that elf power covers actually. the one thats called "the needle in the camel's eye" or something. i dont have my cd case with me. and it was a good cover. yeah dogg. then the mouse comes out and hmhmhmhm darren already posted the set list but i will do it again: Neverending Math Equation What People Are Made Of Trailer Trash Broke Perfect Disguise Paper Thin Walls Doin' The Cockroach Dramamine Out Of Gas Life Like Weeds Cowboy Dan Third Planet Other Peoples Lives Breakthrough life like weeds is my least favorite song on this new album and that kinda blew. the rest of it was super top notch. to promote the humpin pumpkin socially engineering experiment i yelled out humpin pumpkin. isaac regrettably informed me that "humpin' pumpkin' had been sent to the pound. we dont talk about humpin pumpkin anymore. he now lives with a good family, the end". heh. they didnt have a setlist made up or anything, they were totally winging it. so then i yelled out crazy gnome. cuz OH YEAH that girl melissa, the one who's hair was sexually violated by the les savy fav guy, she had an actual shirt that said crazy gnome on it. som im like crazy gnome crazy gnome! and isaac goes "crazy gnome got sent to the pound. we dont talk about crazy gnome anymore" later on after someone yelled for a joke he informed us that there were to be "no jokes, no surprises, no antiques, there should only be concentration... on me (thumbs up)". shucks. i was hopin for a crazy off the wall set. other peoples lives was kinda out of the blue but nonetheless the show fucking rocked. super sweaty in there too. lots of great energy. the girl next to me was kinda hot. like in a "hawt" way. yep. so then the show was over after breakthrough because "every fucking state has a goddamn curfew" and they go away but we are all screaming like nuts you know, and the sound guy is taking the mics off the drums yet they wernt turning the house lights up so we arent sure wtf is goin on. and finally they come out and isaac kinda goes "dood whyd you take the shit off the drums?" and the sound guy musta felt like a super idiot :P and isaac said something about how they couldnt play because theres no mics, and we were like like "fuck that yo".... so they were sympathetic to our dilemna, and jeremiah busted out the truckers atlas drum track for about 8 minutes while eric played hi hat and the les savy fav guy played cowbell. it was pretty sweet. then isaac turned on his amp, which was no longer miced through the PA and he played some crazy guitar riff stuff for about a minute and then they called it a wrap. so i went home. the end. and oh, i had shouted out that i had a question and they totally ignored me. i was going to ask him who that new guy was playing guitar. but alas i was forsaken. russ
