Oh hai you tube

I don't think I've talked about my ridiculously high girl crush on Ida No of Glass Candy in awhile. First time I saw them live (back when they were even more trannyesque with the Shattered Theatre) in...2000? I think I questioned my sexuality. Why? Because she'd wear these ridiculously small outfits like so:



In San Francisco GC played practically once a month so I could get my fix on the regular back then. Not in Chicago :(



When I first heard their remake of Kraftwerk's computer love I fainted.


Aaaand 3 hours of youtube clicking around later I've tripped down memory lane seeing old Lake of Dracula, Locust at Fireside (remember G2K at that one? wowzas), the 1999 version of at the drive-in (my first show at okayz was them and the freaking get-up kids how messed is that)...then of course those lead to watching sets from the michiganfests and columbusfests I went to.

You get Reversal of Man at michiganfest 2000, which is a historical study on screamo white guys doing the pony/bronco move. My fave part of their set was being on stage right just as the dude barfed all over it. Note the total sausage fest at this event. Remember when bands would talk all political before they played? What happened to that? Remember lyric sheets: "uh hey we have sheets of our lyrics and we'd love to talk to you about whats going on because some fucking shit is going on in this fucking world" (pre-9/11 no less!) Then people would stand around and read them and pretend to care?


Michiganfest 2002 - look close enough and you can see me and some other people you know...best to leave this type of drunken stupidity back in 2002.


And then I obviously wasn't at this as I was 12, but holy shit a 1993 Indian Summer show? YouTube u did that (again).


Which dumped me off at a 1996 Shotmaker show at a men's lodge. Do people still play at lodges? This was/is my fave shotmaker song. Too bad the vocals are MIA.


Remember when I like, really, really liked music? I think I can thank those 4 years of avant-garde noise shows for giving me a permanent burning music rash.