Wow. I had a pretty eventful weekend. It started with my friend’s fiancé’s 26th birthday party. This group of friends love their theme parties and this time it was “Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp.” I bought an afro to be Jimi Hendrix, but didn’t feel like finishing the costume, and I looked exactly like Andrew Stockdale of late Wolfmother with the wig, so I went as him. Nobody knew who I was but no matter…I still kicked ass. Fun night, a pic or two will be on Flickr soon.
Warriors…Come out to play-ay
Saturday I went to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Arts’ BAM Takeover Festival. The event went really late with tons of films and music performances and djs, but considering the length of each activity we only got in 3 things….but they were definitely the best things at Takeover. We started with Leeroy Greene and Sho’nuff in The Last Dragon (who’s the master!), danced along to The Budos Band (Tower of Power funk), and ended the night with a showing of The Warriors. Win, win, win.
Rising Sun!
And Sunday night I went to the JapaNoodle Fever Tour 2008, featuring the best in Japanese punk rock. Unfortunately this ran a lot later than I had thought it would on a Sunday and I had to miss the last act, Peelander-Z, but we did get to see TsuShiMaMiRe, Zazen Boys, and Quaff.
TsuShiMaMiRe were these 3 insane chicks that rocked out. Bass player was crazy, but also freaked on the frets. They also did the Powerpuff Girls theme song for Japan. Zazen Boys were like Hella meeting Ben Harper with awful lyrics, but I appreciated their musical talents and speed. Quaff pretty much tore up the scene and brought back 80’s hair metal. Crazy solos, covers, dresses, hair, flutes…They killed it. I would see 2 hours of just them. Its unfortunate that I need to rely on Japan to satiate my punk rock tastes when it pretty much originated here or Britain, but, we do what we must.
Well, that makes up for last week’s laying around all weekend…
Cheers,
Matthew Lettini
