Slint

ok, I've given up trying to somehow manage to tell you that I was blown over with joy by the Bob Dylan concerts last week. Alright? No matter what I said, how I said it, or even when I did... The fact remains *BLOWN OVER WITH JOY* ... man, i feel bad 'cause I like to recommend people to give The Bob Dylan Show a viewing but I feel like a doofus with zero credibilty. It actually gives me a stomach ache thinking about it. But I can be a bit high strung, so it's all to be expected.

Now to Slint at another great place in Seattle to see live music, The Showbox. The Bocce Crew + Bones. We missed most of the opening act the all of us wanted to see... as it turns out, from what I saw, I don't care that I missed them... but if any of Slint woulda been skipped, I'da been upset. The short lived Slint recorded 2 albums and disbanded in 1992. I guess we're living in the time of reunions, perhaps spurred by the wildly successful Pixes tour of last year (saw that, too... 'hotdamn' worthy). If you don't know Slint here is a description that will make any SLint fan cringe. Math Rock: Imagine Nirvana with much more abrupt transitions between loud and soft with vocals that just aren't that prevelant but certainly contribute to the aesthetic (not asthma, which I've had for my entire all I can remember whole life, thank you all very much). They played for nearly 2 hours, which I thought was unusual and very generous.
*One outside note on SLint: I listened to Slint well before I obsessed over Hank Williams, Sr music. For years I had no Idea that my Favorite Slint song overlapped with one of my Hank Williams songs. "I can settle down and be doin' just fine, till I hear that ol' freight rollin' down the line" Ramblin' Man is buried in "Nosferatu Man" by Slint