mark kozelek, or how to bore me to tears
gregor | May 19th, 2006 - 8:58 amdear mark
please for the fucking love of god, stop! stop whatever you are doing right now and go back home.? it saddens me to no end to put it so bluntly, but you need to stop fuckin around.? your performance at the variety playhouse, last evening, was the closest thing i have ever seen to a corpse performing what are otherwise magnificent songs.? stop with the modest mouse covers, you dont do them justice! you are talented as hell, we all know that.? so, seriously mark, what the fuck?? i want to know, we want to know!
here is what you should do, and its really fuckin easy.? if you arent willing to tour with a full band then at least bring an electric along to liven shit up a bit.? your constant willingness to pluck everything is fuckin annoying.? every damn song sounded the same, at least to my ears.? pancho villa, one of my favorite songs, sounded like a shell of its original self.?? “make like paper,” the ode to crazy horse on blue guitar, was the closest you came to recreating any kind of studio magic in a live setting.? even that was a pretty lame attempt, i am sorry to say.
so, please, please, please stop with the bullshit and bring the ROCK!? even if your show contained only 20% ROCK it would be worlds better than 100% boredom.
love,
greg
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in other news, the night was a not a total loss.? we got to meet and share a drink or two with rich of cable and tweed fame – which i might say is a super cool dude.? my only problem with rich is that he is a line of vision hog.? meaning, at the giant drag in store at criminal his ass was obstructing my near perfect view of the near perfect annie of giant drag. god damn, she is cute as a button.
the family unit is going to a renaissance festival today, for some reason.? so, i leave you with two live cat power tracks from 2.21.05 from the knitting factory.
Great to meet ya! I’ll work on that line of vision thing. Heh.
I felt about the same way re: Kozelek. Obviously a talented dude with a great voice, but I enjoyed Giant Drag’s in-store much more. And that opener? I was trying to find excuses to get up and walk around before I slid out of my chair drooling on myself.
Eat a giant turkey leg for me!
haha, I saw him here in Dallas a few years ago and I felt the same way! I almost fell asleep standing up. Luckily this was before the lame Modest Mouse covers.
Sawing my balls off would have been more pleasurable. Times eight.
Oh god I saw him last tour dragged along by friends, he was so incredibly boooring, i wanted my money back haha never again!