REAL TALK: LAST WEEKEND

Soooo – what a weekend. Haliburton annouced it is moving to Dubai, the guy from Boston died and that movie that was so kind enough as to increase our MySpace photo quota took the top spot at the box office. What else? OH YEAH – NOISE AND SMOKE.

You know, we were going to do a big hefty write up of all the who’s and what’s – all the notes and all the bands and the this and that. But – whether through a combination of laziness and neck-breaking subsequents or just plain old scatterbrainery – we just can’t seem to set aside the post-performance bliss and compose anything that would do the humid memories of it justice (props to Ramon Medina’s write-up of Friday Night on Nonalignment Pact, though). Every draft we’ve penned to describe how Bring Back the Guns and Satin Hooks played the most convincingly aces sets we’ve ever witnessed them do comes across as clichéd cheerleading. Our attempts to explain how Jana Hunter could unintentionally reinvent honky-tonk happenings or theories on why the Ka-Nives don’t even need to play at their shows anymore (showing up is enough - photos) just sound like foolspeak compared to the actual experience.

And so, we hope you were there – we hope you have your own summary to walk away with. And we hope that organizers Joey and Liz, though now both sporting area codes states and counties away, find their way through the frustration and the footwork to do it again. THAT, would be worth writing about. Thanks again to the organizers, the bands and the people that showed up. SMOKED!