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June 4, 2003

Brilliant Shining and Nasty

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Last night X were transcendent. I think they played the entirety of their first three records, as well as “Devil Doll” and “True Love” from the fourth, which was a nice surprise. Everyone in the place was sweaty and dancing and happy, exuberant even. The band played three encores, which is some rock and roll bullshit I usually don’t have any truck with, but last night I was just happy to be there, happy they kept playing. X is, after all, the best band ever. And last night they were just plain brilliant.

In a thrillingly unanticipated maneuver, one that sparked a serious bout of super self consciousness in your humble narrator, when the band came out for the first encore, Billy Zoom came out and walked past the left side of the stage where he had been playing all night. He crossed all the way over down to the right side where I had been giddily watching the band and snapping pictures for the last few hours. He came and stopped right in front of me, flashed that inimitable grin and then pulled a camera out of I-don’t-know-where and took my picture. He reached down and shook my hand as I suddenly turned a million shades of red and then ambled over and picked up that beautiful, sparkly guitar as the band went into the opening chords of “White Girl.”

And then I died a thousand times. And grinned like a maniac for the next 24 hours. And perhaps week.

Posted by pogo at June 4, 2003 8:04 PM

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Comments

that’s so cool! i remember at the last show he was occasionally scanning the crowd for cameras during their set. whenever he’d find one he’d suddenly start grinning, then you’d see a flash come from the crowd and he would go back to blankly staring into space or his feet.

also: the new site design is very good. i especially like the background.

Posted by: sean on June 5, 2003 2:50 PM

I’ve been meaning to publicly thank Jacob for his kindness, patience and smarts in getting me the new design. All compliments are due him; he did it all. He’s swell.

Posted by: tam on June 5, 2003 3:55 PM

I wish I could’ve attended the show, but I was beat.

Thanks for the background graphic must go to squidfingers.com for sharing 126 beautiful patterns: http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/

Posted by: jacob on June 5, 2003 4:47 PM