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My Friends:
-Who knows how many more times I’ll be able to tap her for accompaniment to weddings, but everyone needs to have a friend with whom you can properly deal with homilies that reference people’s confusion over the legality of human-canine unions.

-They tell me things I need to know, i.e., a rare but spot-on recommendation from one to listen to a band (Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles), even if I mostly ignored it until months later.

-They give me things I need to have, like lots and lots of music (including LM and the VLs), even if I don’t necessarily listen to that music until months later.

-Again with the things I need to know: informing me of a late night performance by Ms. Michelle and her Lapelles at the Dakota, which I did attend and thus deepened my love for Lucy. A pretty big crowd showed up at 11:30 to hear them play a fantastic show that included covers of the Bear Necessities and Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right. Yup. Jungle Book and Bob Dylan.

My City:
-It may be very cold, but Minneapolis is the birthplace and/or home of some things that I like, namely the several times aforementioned Lucy, et al and the Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant.

Jesus Books:
-No, not like this, like this and this.

Coffee Shops:
-More specifically having the leisure, albeit briefly, to spend 4 hours in one doing things like this.

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Fear not, dear reader, my zealousnes will soon end. But, for now: Welcome to my first music post on my non-music blog. TV on the Radio’s Young Liar’s, from their EP of the same name, just came up on my iPod’s Genius playlist. (That shit is truly genius. Makes it sound like I have better music taste than I really do. Thanks, Steve Jobs!).

I thought this, than, would be a good opportunity to submit my brief review* of the TVOTR show that was in the mainroom last night. First of all, openers were The Dirtbombs. I wanted to like them. I really did. And I did, at first. Like, right when I walked in the door. Once I could see the stage however, they spent the rest of the night trying in vain (unbeknownst to them, of course), to dig themselves out of the hole into which I had I had thrust them. Why? Two dummers. And they were not good enough to need two.

TVOTR were very good. The set list was a satisfying mix of old and new. Their music has a great dance rock feel that causes me to move in that mildly absurd, white-boy-indie-hipster dance-like manner.

I got really excited when the frontman (Tunde?) grabbed a cymbal off the drum set and a drumstick. I was hoping they might do what OKGO did there a few years ago, and what the Arcade Fire did at Roy Wilkins last year, when the finished their set by playing a few songs in the middle of the crowd. But no, they just played a mostly a cappella version of…I forget what song.

*This is not actually a review. I mostly wanted to mention that I was there, so you realize how cool I am. If you want a real review, you should go to another blog or maybe these guys. They seem to think they know what they’re talking about.

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