Persuasive Sound Team Argument
Sometimes one of your friends puts forth an argument so delightfully inept that it kind of makes you want to agree with them:
10:15 AM Jake: are you going to see mountain goats on thursday?
10:20 AM do you want to see sound team on wednesday instead since you've already seen MGs?
10:21 AM well what else are you doing on Wednesday night? nothing, that's what
it's only $12, are you some sort of cheap bastard?
10:23 AM What's the matter with you? Too indie for you? You knee-jerk anti-hype hipster-hating cooler-than-though Stella-and-Pabst-are-terrible I-don't-like-music asshole.
10:24 AM is it their name? it's a stupid name, I know, but maybe it's ironically stupid. Don't even try to pretend like "We Play Guitars" wouldn't be an awesome band name
I hear radiohead is opening for them
10:25 AM Adam is going. So is Adam.
Come on, you know you want to
If not for the fact that the instant messaging program keeps reminding us that it is 10 AM and not PM, you'd think the man was drunk. But no, it takes a special kind of talent to rebutt and counter the imagined responses of someone who would not read the collective convincing effort until 8 hours later. The kind of effort that makes you wonder if maybe this Sound Team is worth checking out...
Well let's take a look at the postiives and negatives:
Positive: Big Heads
Negative: The singer's name is Matt Oliver. Matt Oliver was also unfortunately a guy who drew a comic for the UVA college paper who told me "You have no soul. You are so cold and so empty" after I called his 9/11 tribute comic "trite."
Positive: Tickets are only $10
Negative: I am going to the Casbah on Thursday night as well.
Positive: Adam is going.
Negative: So is Adam.
Neutral: These guys have been getting quite the buzz lately. This could mean any number of things, either positive or negative.
I guess it is my job, nay, my duty, not to dismiss these guys outright becuase of the flavor or the month potential, or the disturbing manner in which they make my PhD student friends write at 10 AM, but rather to go see them and form my own opinion about them, so that when I scoff at the hype, I scoff with authority, and when I berate people for not buying into the hype, I berate with authority.
Sound Team, Casbah, Wednesday June 14th: Here I come.
Tickets here. Four MP3s to download at their myspace, plus tons more at the Hype Machine.
Comments
awesome. I already had a ticket for you
Posted by: Jake | June 13, 2006 09:36 PM