That was the real name of the tour. Carol booklets were handed out at the door, and every couple songs they'd spin the giant wheel on stage to choose a carol to sing with the crowd. Props, costumes, the whole nine yards. Without question, the best and most unique concert I've ever seen. I caught it December 16, 2012 at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, but I grabbed this photo from the Internet because I'm pretty sure my only photos lived on a flip phone.
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far and out one of the best gigs Iโve ever been to. The composer Emile Mosseri (Last Black Man In San Francisco, Minari) performed his original stuff, called up guests and played a song of theirs, and the night ended with everyone singing two Christmas carols. luckily for you it was recorded and you can cut to my highlight of the night which is 33:15 when Meg Duffy of Hand Habits comes on stage ๐๐
Jan 27, 2024
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Jane Remover at the Local 506
-she had the dissonance and the beauty of Census Designated calibrated to perfection. Ended with an extended acoustic version of Goldfish, an emotional one for me. Someone asked her to play Homeswitcher โno, no hyperpop shitโ lmao
Also shoutout to those early avetts shows. Second concert I ever attended was early avetts. My parents put me on young. They also still talk about falling in love with that punk intensity and the broken banjo strings
Mar 5, 2025
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I love the album ...is a real boy and I was super psyched to see them perform it. I went with some friends and it was absolutely awesome! They rocked the house. AJJ opened for them and it was sick to see them too since I missed them in Vegas last year.
May 14, 2024
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it's basically the highest compliment you can receive as a man
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An incredible, genre-defying film from Johnnie To that uses Judo as the philosophical foundation for its story of three people looking for more out of life. You see them thrown to the ground repeatedly in its 95 mins, but more than anything, it's a film about the importance of getting back up. Over, and over, and over.
It features a deftly hidden twist and a couple incredibly dynamic sequences (the arcade scene and the night club centerpiece) that I had to rewind and watch again. Outstanding cinematography and inventive choreography in almost every scene, whether it's 4 conversations woven together at once or a 1-on-1 Judo match in the tall grass.
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It's 20 minutes of shredding and lyrics about climate change anxiety, and I listen to the whole thing every time. Linked: the live performance I saw of it a month ago in Portland, fittingly, during a torrential downpour.
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