Adaptation

I saw Adaptation yesterday, and it was absolutely amazing. I give it the highest possible recommendation, I urge everyone reading this to see it as soon as it opens in their area. I won’t be writing anything else about the film here, but I will be contributing to this thread on Barbelith about Adaptation, which so far is just myself and Russ going back and forth about it, waiting for more people to join in.

Why Don’t You Shake It Down For Peace And Love?

You can find excellent movie files of Sleater-Kinney’s spirited performance of “Step Aside” on Conan O’Brien here.

Jicks At The Warsaw, December 7th 2002

* FLY

* JO JO’S JACKET

* WATER IN THE SEA – Very prominent drum/guitar groove, but vocal melody offsets it in a weird unexpected way.

* VANESSA FROM QUEENS – another new song, not previously available as a bootleg mp3 to my knowledge. Midtempo pop, can’t remember much more than that.

* ANIMAL MIDNIGHT – another new song, previously unplayed to my knowledge. Vaguely sinister sounding mid-tempo song.

* VAGUE SPACE

* THE OYSTER (aka Crimson Alligator)

* CHURCH ON WHITE

* DARK WAVE – kinda rocking, with a lot of Malkmus “ooh-oohs”.

* NEVER MY LOVE – cover, original by The Association.

* RAMP OF DEATH – Kinda went right by me in a mid-tempo blur. I didn’t know this one either.

* SHEETS – Another new song, very rocking, one of the best new ones. Some great Malkmus vocals on this one.

* WITCH MOUNTAIN RIDGE (Listed as “prog” on the setlist. may actually be “News From Noisewhere”) – This is song #5 from the Buenos Aires show, the one that starts off “calm me down from new frustration”. I really love this song, I was very happy to hear it.

* JENNY AND THE ESS-DOG

encore:

*US – very nice version, Malkmus played seated for this and the next song. Only SM and John Moen sing on this, Joanna and Mike didn’t join in.

*THIRD RATE ROMANCE – Amazing Rhythm Aces cover, thank you to Hunter. I’m very disappointed that this isn’t an SM original.

*EAGLE ROCK – Memphis Slim cover. Joanna didn’t know it. Malkmus just told her to play mostly A and a “little bit of E”.

*ONE PERCENT OF ONE

I’ll update this setlist once I know what songs were what once I have a copy of Pig Lib. I was very surprised to hear so many new new songs, because I was hyped up to see a lot of the older new songs. I’m afraid that Malkmus may have ditched those songs, which is a real shame because a lot of those songs are better than the less interesting newer songs played last night. I would hate to see “Asp Alert” and “Memory Pulls Me Out Again” be relegated to obscurity, they’re just way too good. I was happy that they played “Jo Jo’s Jacket” and “Vague Space”, as those are my two favorites from the previous record. I was vaguely surprised that no Pavement songs were played this time, given that “In The Mouth A Desert” and “Here” had appeared in some other recent setlists. The performance of “The Oyster” was the highlight of the show for me, especially the newly added extra-long freakout section at the end. Surprisingly, not many of the lyrics to this song or “1% of 1” have been made, though the “Chicago second class, not freight” verse seems to have officially overtaken the “Bennie & The Jets, Eltons wants that early in the set” verse that I prefer in “The Oyster”.

There were waaaaaay too many people with digi-cams at this show.