& spend at least some of today listening to Green Milk From The Planet Orange’s mp3 excerpts of their super-long songs as loud as possible. We saw them at 710 last night and they were great.

There was a lot of standing on chairs, laying down on stage, and whistle-blowing, screaming, and playing solos in the crowd.  My favorite part was when Dead K, the guitar player, recreated the one-sided, apparently hilarious japanese phone call from "A Day in the Planet Orange," complete with sampled phone ringing. Then he pulled out a bull horn and ran out into the crowd again to scream some more.  I imagine that snail will probably be the only one to bother to check out the songs, which is probably ok, because he is also most likely to enjoy it.

I was pretty excited to see the headlining Rubble as well, an Austin band I’d never seen before. They took a long time to set up, hanging a cloth in front of the stage that, before I relized they were going to project stuff on, I thought was the most pretentious thing in the world. Who plays rock and roll with a gauzy lace curtain separating them from the audience?  I felt like a total dumbass when the light show started. They finally played at around 1:15 or so, but it was pretty much worth the wait. They play heavier MBV-, Bardo Pond-, or Loop-style stuff, and it’s nice to have something to look at other than a bunch of dudes stomping on effects pedals for that kind of a performance. It was getting late (Kelly had left me behind), and most people were just kinda standing there nodding along to the songs, but the bass player from GMFTPO was really getting down.  I have no idea where he got all his energy after their set. I left once they played Grey Baby, which is posted on their site. Another good loud one to start the day with.