sonic yoooooth

a few weeks ago i saw the reunited jesus lizard with my friend lauren. they played at irving plaza and they didn't suck, but it's always a slight disappointment to see one of your favorite bands on a reunion tour. david yao was a sight to see. he crowd surfed throughout the whole show and was a total maniac. 'goat' is one of my favorite albums of the 90s so it was pretty amazing to hear them play mouthbreather and then comes dudley.

david yao crowdsurfed during the whole song of mouthbreather.

YAO.

then a week later i saw sonic youth @ music hall of williamsburg. this was like my fourth or fifth time seeing them play but i still always take pictures cuz they're so animated that it's fun to photograph them. they were playing songs off their new album, "the eternal", but as always they snuck in a few "classic" ones as well. most notable were catholic block and shadow of a doubt.

my rock god.

awesome photo i took in between encores.

thurston doesn't know the words to his own song, "silver rocket" which i found to be hilarious

kimbo.

they had these beautifully lit backdrops.

lovvers.

at this point i almost feel like sy have done so much it's like, what the hell can they possibly pull out of their slacker jeans now? it's not that i think they're trying too hard, i think it's just that i'm very selfish when it comes to them. the old fans at the shows (and i mean OLD) complain about the good ol' days before the internet, wah, wah, wahhhh. then the new fans either bop up and down to the one or two songs that they know, then go back to texting for the rest of the show, OR they're so obliterated, wasted out of their minds that they ruin the little fun that's left for everyone else. meh. i love sy. they're still my fav band, but i think they just need to reconsider what venues they're playing at and who their audience is.