Saturday, April 02, 2005
cookie mongoloid show + 24 hr mcdonalds
not much was going on last night (friday) so a few of us decided to take a chance on a show at tonic. i say we "took a chance" on the show, but the names and concepts of both of the bands are just so amazing there was really no doubt that is was going to be a great show...
the first band was HAUNTED PUSSY. a sort of metal/vaudeville/opera band with two female singers, a guitar player (using the guitar of the future (from 1980) STEINBERGER) and a drummer (who showed up mid-first song. their set was intentionally limited to 20 minutes, and it was a rock opera centering around the subject of ghost rape.
the whole thing seemed completely improvised.. which made it that much better.
sorry i didnt get more pictures.. i was too busy just kind of staring on in awe.
then on came possibly the greatest live band ever. definitely the best performance i have seen in new york as of yet. the band was COOKIE MONGOLOID from san francisco. they really defy explanation, so ill let the pictures and limited captions tell the story.
yes. a band fronted by cookie monster.
here's him with the "cookie uzi" which was essentially an air gun he would fill up with actual cookies and shoot towards the crowd.. but if you notice all the spots in the picture.. all that really happened was the crowd getting showered in cookie crumbs.
they had about 6 dancers in front of the stage the entire show, either dancing or handing out fake cardboard cookies.
here's the cookie monster in the circle pit during "me lost me cookie in the mosh pit"
as we stood outside after the show, we were all wide awake from the spectale we had just witnessed...so where else could we have gone but the 24 hour mcdonalds on delancey?
kati looked on in disapproval as...
...jason posed with sleeping/passed out hispanic 'road warrior'!
drunk sleeping people is anything but an uncommon occurence at this mcdonalds... i cant find it now, but there's a whole set of pictures at ikeepadiary that show that this mcdonalds is the HQ for sleeping (well, the secondary HQ.. i've never been to a white castle where at least two homeless people weren't sleeping at a table...but white castle is a whole other monster)
lori (from las vegas! and high school!) doesnt realize that when someone with a blog takes your picture, you aren't supposed to acknowledge them..much less wave! ugh lori come on! (see.. maggie's got it.. she even appears to be rolling her eyes! +2 points for maggie).
justin maggie and lori all looking very shocked by the size of kati's ice cream cone (admittedly.. they weren't all that shocked.. i just told them to look like it.. im a fraud)
here is byron (as he put it) "searching through trash like a bear" (this photo really suffers without the noise that accompanied it)
joe decided to one up him by doing some other animal (that i cant remember now.. but from the picture im guessing it was a t-rex)
and here's a picture of joe's AMAZING custom made "neighborhoodie"
UPDATE: Maggie's pictures:
great picture of cookie mongloid
during the song when they described the difference between up and down
great looks all around
jason pulling the shawn michaels in front of sleeping guy
the group picture with sleeping guy (poor lori got cut off)
the first band was HAUNTED PUSSY. a sort of metal/vaudeville/opera band with two female singers, a guitar player (using the guitar of the future (from 1980) STEINBERGER) and a drummer (who showed up mid-first song. their set was intentionally limited to 20 minutes, and it was a rock opera centering around the subject of ghost rape.
the whole thing seemed completely improvised.. which made it that much better.
sorry i didnt get more pictures.. i was too busy just kind of staring on in awe.
then on came possibly the greatest live band ever. definitely the best performance i have seen in new york as of yet. the band was COOKIE MONGOLOID from san francisco. they really defy explanation, so ill let the pictures and limited captions tell the story.
yes. a band fronted by cookie monster.
here's him with the "cookie uzi" which was essentially an air gun he would fill up with actual cookies and shoot towards the crowd.. but if you notice all the spots in the picture.. all that really happened was the crowd getting showered in cookie crumbs.
they had about 6 dancers in front of the stage the entire show, either dancing or handing out fake cardboard cookies.
here's the cookie monster in the circle pit during "me lost me cookie in the mosh pit"
as we stood outside after the show, we were all wide awake from the spectale we had just witnessed...so where else could we have gone but the 24 hour mcdonalds on delancey?
kati looked on in disapproval as...
...jason posed with sleeping/passed out hispanic 'road warrior'!
drunk sleeping people is anything but an uncommon occurence at this mcdonalds... i cant find it now, but there's a whole set of pictures at ikeepadiary that show that this mcdonalds is the HQ for sleeping (well, the secondary HQ.. i've never been to a white castle where at least two homeless people weren't sleeping at a table...but white castle is a whole other monster)
lori (from las vegas! and high school!) doesnt realize that when someone with a blog takes your picture, you aren't supposed to acknowledge them..much less wave! ugh lori come on! (see.. maggie's got it.. she even appears to be rolling her eyes! +2 points for maggie).
justin maggie and lori all looking very shocked by the size of kati's ice cream cone (admittedly.. they weren't all that shocked.. i just told them to look like it.. im a fraud)
here is byron (as he put it) "searching through trash like a bear" (this photo really suffers without the noise that accompanied it)
joe decided to one up him by doing some other animal (that i cant remember now.. but from the picture im guessing it was a t-rex)
and here's a picture of joe's AMAZING custom made "neighborhoodie"
UPDATE: Maggie's pictures:
great picture of cookie mongloid
during the song when they described the difference between up and down
great looks all around
jason pulling the shawn michaels in front of sleeping guy
the group picture with sleeping guy (poor lori got cut off)
# posted by Nick @ 9:27 PM 
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In my defense, one can only look candid and natural for so long when being photographed before it starts to look entirely unnatural. So I just decided not to pretend.
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