Exodus, or: HEALTH at The Smell//Monday, July 28th, 2008

First of all, let me preface by saying this: i legitimately thought i was going to die at least twice during HEALTH's performance on Monday. I have never been to a more intense, more outrageously loud, more unbearably hot show in my entire life. I was certain i was going to pass out and fall to the floor, where i would be trampled by the blind masses as HEALTH dealt the rest of the living their undeniably unique "blend" of loud, scratchy, eardrum-shattering, pissing-in-your-mouth, ambient death blasts. It sounds like a cat wrapped in saran wrap stuck in a blender, in the best possible way.

Before HEALTH even came on i was frightened near half to death by Mid Wife, easily the scariest anything to come out of Washington or h*ll or wherever they came from. At the time i hated them because between each "song" they had an ear-splitting feedback squeal coming from a horrible little grey box that made my world horrible for each eternal second they kept it on. However, after they were done, i realized they were quite alright. The best part about them was their James Chance-style saxophone playing (used for two underwhelmingly short songs).

Foot Village played before Mid Wife and were easily the night's most intriguingly stunning act. Four drummers screaming and chanting into megaphones is always a good thing. And they were incredibly drummers. Truly talented.

i would mention the first guy who played, but i couldn't explain to you anything further than his use of popular songs and transforming them into the loudest blasts of pure noise you've ever heard. My heart had a hard time keeping it's rhythm and i'm not just saying that.

Anyways, HEALTH was amazing and i realized i am too weak and scrawny to be in the same pit as people twice my weight or at least body fat percentage. I was scared and rightfully so. I loved HEALTH, but when one kid told them to keep playing, i had to ask him to stop saying anything, because i couldn't handle one more song. I was exhausted.

After the show the bassist//whatever sold me a shirt and a cd for only 20 bucks! SICK!

HEALTH - "CRIMEWAVE"

Genesis

s- "i knew islands was a band, but not arms"
lets start a blog with that name
haha

m- let's do it!
why not?
we realy don't have much to lose, right?

s- lol alright i guess because its summer there is more time for one so yes lets do it
but this one cannot end up like the last 3
haha
oh
a better name is needed
i say we keep in line with making fun of rediculous band names
something with Wolf in it as 100 bands seem to use that in their name
or something....

m- Horse Wolf

lots of bands use horse now

and bear, too i guess

horse wolf bear
horse bear wolf?

haha i don't know

s- ur forgetting the most common word of them all!
THE
THE Horse Wolf Bear
i would of said The The but thats taken already by perhaps the indiest band of all

hmm The Horse Wolf Bear sounds like a 3 headed creature
we need an adjective asap

m- indie
or indie-est
haha

hmm,
what adjective were you thinkin of?

s- hm Indie is an adjective right?
its alot of things i guess
in some ways it is also really nothing
i digress
lets leave out the adjective
The horse wolf bear it is. unless u see a way to improve it. maybe the horse bear wolf?or The bear horse wolf or Horse the bear wolf???

m- hahahha horse the bear wolf
funnyness

i dont care
haha
whatever you want
yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo

s- Horse the Bear Wolf it is!
i can totally see a picture of a bear wolf with a my name is Horse name tag attached to its chest area. ill work on that in photoshop sometime.
well i guess we are familiar with the procedure of setting one up
u should receive an email of sorts in a day or so.

s- ohh another idea for our macot Horse the Bear Wolf
a flanel jacket and black rimmed glasses! what else would make him the cliche of indie?

m- an ipod or itouch or something

hahaha o indie kids

so this blog was created on the 31st of July in the year 2008 of someones lord or something....