A Damn Fabulous Evening!

Tonight me and my new tits opened the fire set at the Sinsations Erotica Carnival at Red7. The show went really well, and all the acts we got to see before us were lots of fun. Inside were mainly burlesque acts, and outside there live music with Mr. Lewis and the Funeral Five. All six of our performers did a great job, and it looked like a fairly decent crowd, especially considering the event competes directly with both Extravagasm and the Cruxshadows show at Elysium. Immediately after our bow-out, I headed over to the Cruxshadows show, and still managed to get in a good hour-and-a-half of music for the paltry price of $7.

Cruxshadows officially has the best stage presence and showmanship of any band I have *ever* seen. How it's possible their still playing someplace as small as Elysium is beyond me. In addition to the great music and spectacular musicianship, their also *very* interactive with the crowd. All of them are miked wirelessly, so they can come out into the audience, stand on chairs, and jam out in the crowd while performing their shows. If you've never heard of them, I suggest you check them out.

I realized during the show that there is a lot of resonance with Information Society in the 90s, with a much darker, more interactive sound, and about $150k more stage gear. Rogue, the lead singer, definitely seems to channel quite a bit of an updated Kurt Harland from Back in the Day. I'm actually considering heading to College Station in a few days to see them.

Whining...

1) Today, the little bell in my head that says "it's time to go to Cafe Mundi!" went off. I hopped in my car, and headed up I-35. Because of the world's second-least relevant sport, I ended up stuck on the highway for 45 minutes, long enough for Mundi to be closed by the time I would have gotten there.

2) Miffed but unstoppable, I looped around and headed down the the Green Muse off of Oltorf. There was surprisingly small number of cars when I got there. I got inside and discovered that a) their main espresso machine was broken and b) their internet access was *painfully* slow. So slow, in fact, it was *very* difficult and time consuming to post this complaint!

In other news, I may have to go to the Gadjo Disko party as Darth Bobo.