Amon Tobin shakes his butt!

Oh wow oh wow I saw Amon Tobin at the Grammercy Theater last nite with Jonny and Heather!!!



This was such a great show, and everything was perfect, even down to the minute details, such as not having to wait on line to use the restroom at all, and nobody had peed all over the toilet seat either! Good times! Amon was amazing; it was my first time seeing him live, and I had no clue how adorable he is performing. DUDE, he SHAKES HIS BUTT to the beat! Opening for him was P-Love, who was kind of a n00b, but he did really well, and chatted up the crowd throughout his whole set. It was kinda like how, in college, there was this kinda nerdy audio guy who lived down the hall, and sometimes you would stop by his room and he would spazz out trying to impress you. It felt more like that than an actual DJ set. It was cool.
Amon Tobin played a set with 7.1 surround sound, which was mind-blowing. Like, every so often, you'd hear this small shout, and you'd think it was coming from the crowd, but then it would grow and morph, and take flight and flutter around you. I don't know how he was doing that, but maybe it had to do with this mysterious glowing blue box he had on stage that seemed to have no other purpose in his show other than to fuck things up.



After the show, Jonny, Heather, and I went to this bar at the Chelsea Hotel, where I saw an interesting looking switchboard from the golden days of telephone operation. Only at the Chelsea.



Jonny and I, true to form, got into a drunken fight about the merits of creating software that applies a detailed taxonomy to the myriad sound samples in your library, so you can call them up on-a-whim while improvising. I doubt it was interesting to anyone but us, and maybe to on-lookers totally miffed at these two idiots screaming about file-naming protocol.




My fotos of last nights event aren't really that great, but you can check them out on my flickr if you'd like. So instead, I'll leave you with a picture of this random-ass parade float I found on 116th street and Lenox avenue.



I think it has something to do with maintaining family values in the Community. Wait-- is that an ELECTRIC CHAIR? Hottt.