fuxing

I watched this last night… it made me cry. Very sweet.
young at heart cover sonic youth’s schizophrenia. this is too weird. (courtesy of my friend, Gage)
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My crappy iphone pic of Sonic Youth from my perch backstage (thank you to the Sic Alps, who sounded awesome with a huge sound system btw, for making that happen). I’d taken the time to get to know the new SY album, The Eternal, enough that I enjoyed hearing it live. I’ve been reading people on the internet complain about not hearing enough old stuff but I hope that the experience gave them enough satisfaction to shut up now. It’s classic SY sound/style and it sounded superb live. I was stoked to hear Shadow of a Doubt for one of the two encores, as I had hoped. I didn’t get to meet Kim, she seemed as stoic (not in a bad way) as I felt, but I did manage to awkwardly shake Thurston’s hand. I’ve never had any desire to “get backstage” for any bigger band that I admire, but having the opportunity to do it for the band that floored me, in a way that no other band had the first time I saw the Teenage Riot music video (remember those?) 22 years ago, was AWESOME.