{"id":1609,"date":"2008-07-26T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/26\/my-friday-at-pitchfork-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-09T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T21:27:06","slug":"my-friday-at-pitchfork-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/my-friday-at-pitchfork-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My Friday at Pitchfork"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally published at Kickin’ the new Kuh-nowledge<\/a>. You can comment here or there<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ll do this in three installments.\u00a0 This first one is for Friday.<\/p>\n

I was late meeting Gus, but we finally got together.\u00a0 Gus had flown in from LA where he was attending the E3 conference.\u00a0 We made our way to Longwell Hall, the B&B in Oak Park.\u00a0 Dropped our stuff off and then we went exploring.<\/p>\n

What did we find…\u00a0 why we found a movie theater playing The Dark Knight.\u00a0 SCORE!\u00a0 We bought some tickets for $5.50 each (gotta love matinee pricing) and watched the best Joker\/Two-Face movie ever made.\u00a0 Now I just need to go check out Hellboy.\u00a0 I think I’ll go see it tonight.<\/p>\n

We still had some time to kill so we did some shopping (foldable camp chairs are essential for a good festival experience) before heading off to Union Park for Pitchfork.\u00a0 And off we go…<\/p>\n

For those of you that don’t know.\u00a0 Friday night only had three acts.\u00a0 Each one was to perform one of their albums front to back all the way through.<\/p>\n

Mission To Burma<\/strong>:\u00a0 I was actually really impressed by how good these guys were.\u00a0 I’m sure I’ve heard a song of their’s at some point, but I honestly don’t know.\u00a0 What I do know is they rocked it out and left me wondering why I hadn’t ever really listened to them before.\u00a0 Good stuff… must go find and listen more.<\/p>\n

Sebadoh<\/strong>:\u00a0 Now here’s a band that has some interesting guys that have made some cool music.\u00a0 Unfortunately, they blew.\u00a0 Their performance was understated and boring.\u00a0 According to my buddy Jerome, he couldn’t get past the fact that all their instruments were out of tune.<\/p>\n

Public Enemy<\/strong>:\u00a0 Kicked All Available Ass…\u00a0 and when another ass showed up to talk smack, they kicked it too!\u00a0 It’s possible that Public Enemy benefited from lowered expectations on my part, but I don’t think so.\u00a0 I’ve seen a lot of rap shows and these guys were energetic, funny, educational and just plain awesome.\u00a0 Not only did they perform the entire album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back<\/em>, but then they extended their set and performed a long medley of all of their other stuff.\u00a0 One sorta sad, sorta funny part was when at the end… Flavor Flav didn’t want to leave the stage.\u00a0 He just kept talking on the mic…\u00a0 and finally people just started leaving while he continued talking.\u00a0 Oh yeah…\u00a0 and people booed Flav when he mentioned his TV show…\u00a0 and no… the irony was not lost on me when they did their song “Channel Zero”.<\/p>\n

I’m fairly certain that when the show was over, Gus and I headed home.\u00a0 We got a bite to eat at Bar Louie in Oak Park.\u00a0 Food was good, but sleep was better.<\/p>\n

–sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally published at Kickin’ the new Kuh-nowledge. You can comment here or there. I’ll do this in three installments.\u00a0 This first one is for Friday. I was late meeting Gus, but we finally got together.\u00a0 Gus had flown in from LA where he was attending the E3 conference.\u00a0 We made our way to Longwell Hall,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25,85,34],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-movies-culture","tag-gus","tag-music","tag-pitchfork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}