Saturday, September 13, 2003
(6:53 PM) | Anonymous:
I'm Just A Teenage Dirtbag, Baby
I meant to post this a week ago, but I am the whore of babylon and left Adam all alone here in the "blogosphere" (is the the right term?) for an entire week. I apologize to Adam, I apologize to you the reader, and I apologize to brave samurai Musashi for the dishoner I have brought upon our house.
All the same, last week I went to see a showing of The Deathray Davies, Steve Burns and The Starlight Mints. I went only having heard one cd from The Deathray Davies, and not even being overly impressed by that. However, I kept hearing how good the Starlight Mints were, and I was longing for a non-Pigmy Love Circus tainted concert.
But, than, I don't really want to talk about that.
I went all by myself, but as I was walking up to the club I saw this kid from my math class. We hung out for a majority of the night, and one of his friends turned out to be Wayne of The Flaming Lips cousin, who also happened to be there. So that made for some interesting times. But, than, I don't really want to talk about that either.
After that I saw a couple guys from church who I never would have taken to be fans of this kind of music and now feel a closer bond and a greater emphasis to actually go to church. But I don't want to talk about what in the heck that's all about either.
What I want to talk about is Steve Burns. We all know Steve Burns, right? Sure we do. We may know him better simply as "Steve." You know..he hangs out with a little bitch named Blue (And I use "bitch" in it's actual sense there..so I don't think I get swearing points on that one.) He's always writing things in a "handy-dandy notebook." Come on now people, I'm talking, of course, about Steve Burns, former host of Nickelodeon's Blues Clues. Apparently, he left the show a while ago to go out and become an all out rock godlet.
I didn't know he had left because I only watch the show with my cousins (yeah..right), and the new guy "Joe" (whose actual name is Donovan) has been molded to look like Steve.
But, I must say that Mr. Burns put on one fascinating show. He had a full multimedia extravaganza going the whole night with this screen in the background which featured an on-going story. The story was about this Domo-Kun doll (you know..the little monster from the "everytime you masturbate...God kills a kitten" photoshop). At one point, the Domo Kun sprouted angel wings and took off, so Steve had to go find it. He searched the whole city, eventually winding up at a non-descript house which belonged to Wayne from The Flaming Lips. So, Steve and the 3 members of The Lips, complete with their bunny suits so often seen since Yoshimi came out, went gallavanting all over everywhere looking for young Domo-Kun, until eventually they were reunited. It was brilliant, hillarious, and fit in perfect with the songs.
Besides this there were at times some awesome videos of random people "wigging out" to the music in the background and all sorts of other stuff. Brilliant. It was a circus.
The music itself is something like the Flaming Lips, but with a children's educator twist. I didn't realize just who this Steve was until he introduced the songs. It was the exact same motions, exact same inflection as used on Blue's Clues.
All in all it was an amazing show and I highly reccomend all of you go and buy/"obtain" his album "Songs For Dustmites"
I really should have posted this a week ago, I feel the week has sucked out a lot of the giddy energy I radiated the first 3-4 days after the concert. Oh well, I'm on good terms with failure.
-Robb
