FunFunFunFest

I went to FunFunFunFest yesterday. It ruled. There were a lot of good bands. I went for two reasons: first, I've been trying to catch The Octopus Project in concert and second, Quintron was playing. Quintron! Terrible/awesome! So, I got tickets for a mere $20, parked illegally (in front of a meter without paying), and went to the festival!First off, it was cold as a whore's heart. Pretty chilly. I went to a stand and ordered a cup of black bean soup. It was tasty. Then I enjoyed rocking the hell out to The Octopus Project. They weren't as good as I was expecting, but they were good. This was also the first time I've ever seen anyone play a theremin before. Very interesting to watch and listen to - the theremin is one freaky instrument!I went from there to go check out a band called the Applicators - an all-chick punk band - the name is no doubt a reference to a tampon applicator. I listened to them online before the show and thought they'd be good, but they weren't holding my attention.So, I wandered back over to the indie stage to listen to Dead Meadow (who I thought would suck, but I was wrong!) Dead Meadow looked like a bunch of losers - some long-hair flannel dirtbag and what appeared to be a stoned homeless dude/caveman. I don't even remember the bassist. But they ruled beyond belief! Long instrumentals, stoner rock at it's height, and the stoned caveman drummer was amazing. He looked like he was about to puke or fall off his throne, but his body moved independently from his face and head - it went crazy on the drums. Towards the end of the show, the caveman drummer smiled a few times with this almost infantile expression of delight at his own drumming. It was great. Definitely need to check them out later.After Dead Meadow, I headed back over the punk stage to check out the Lower Class Brats. They were fantastic! The lead singer was some skinny strung-out guy with a shirt that had two arrows on it: one pointing up that said "The Man" and one pointing down that said "The Legend". Hilarious. The bassist was a freakishly huge, pasty white beefcake dude dressed up like Alex from The Clockwork Orange. The show was straight up punk. There was moshing, punk style, with elbows flying and dudes slinging beer all over everyone. This is different from industrial/metal moshing, which is more pushing and charging and very little beer-wasting. In a punk pit, I expect you would get trampled, whereas metal pits are a little friendlier. It's weird - moshing subculture. Anyway, there was even a fight - so I consider that a damn successful punk show! The music was great - very energetic. I need to look these guys up too.Next I saw The Black Angels, but only for a minute. They seemed really good. Another band that I need to research further.I had to ditch the Black Angels to go so Quintron! Now, I got into Quintron through this weirdo that worked at Texas.Net in San Antonio back in the day. I think his name was Peter. Don't remember. I liked the dude. He was a strange duck, like myself. I believe I heard about Quintron through him, and I downloaded a few songs (very hard to find). This guy's music, as far as I was aware, was all super lo-fi terrible recordings with organ-heavy songs about Dungeons and Dragons and other obscure topics. It was great stuff. Terrible but great. So Quintron, somehow, is still around and comes to my town to play a show? Hell yeah I'm going! Fantastic show! The music was amazing. He kept talking about "when aliens invade" - he gave some girl in the audience a drum stick if she promised to use it to beat or otherwise defend the Earth from alien forces at some later date. There was lots of crowd participation. At one point he came down into the crowd and was walking around singing one of his songs to us. I doing a pathetic job describing it, but it was cool. Ya had to be there. Hmm. I guess a blog about music is kinda stupid without actually having music to listen to, so I think I'll end it.Oh, I saw Peaches too - crazy bitch. Somewhat entertaining, but mostly just a horny chick on stage singing about vibrators... eh...If this event occurs next year, I'll definitely go again.