OMG, Eels! LOL ROTFL BRB TTYL :)

Millerman23: I saw the EELS on Thurs. They were weird, have you ever seen them? The drummer was dressed like a Confederate soldier.
xxLittlesis8200xx: I saw them years ago — I don’t remember.
Millerman23: Were they good?
xxLittlesis8200xx: I don’t remember, they were opening for Fiona Apple. I think I enjoyed them … I didn’t know who they were then.¹
Millerman23: Well they are weird. I didn’t really like it. I thought they would be kinda soft bc I heard that’s what their last album sounds like [from Victor], but they were loud and fast. And the main guy was dressed up as an aviator or something.
xxLittlesis8200xx: Interesting.
Millerman23: And they had this guy on stage who was dressed like a bouncer with a shaved head who just stood there with his arms crossed and sometimes danced.
xxLittlesis8200xx: That is weird.²
Millerman23: How’s school?³
xxLittlesis8200xx: Only Sufjan Stevens can get away with random shit at a concert. School is okay … I am slacking.
Millerman23: Ya even if mom was there and threw up in her hands like she did at Sufjan in Aspen this still would have sucked.⁴
xxLittlesis8200xx: Haha. So ur not gonna be at dinner Fri. night?⁵
Millerman23: No. I am going to a Dodgers game, Jessica’s work gave her ridiculous seats. Front room, behind home plate.
xxLittlesis8200xx: Oh.
Millerman23: When you saw them, did the EELS play that song, “Novocaine For My Soul?”⁶ I wanted them to play it cuz it’s their only hit … cuz sometimes you just want to hear the 10 yr. old hit song even if you know the band hates it. Ya know?
xxLittlesis8200xx: Yea like Weezer still plays all the songs from the blue album.
Millerman23: Yes.
xxLittlesis8200xx: I really don’t remember the EELS, just Fiona … except it was a small venue, and someone yelled “I love u” to the EELS guy⁷and he responded with “thanks” or something which was funny/unexpected.
Millerman23: Like in a calm way?⁸ At the show I saw, Mr. E seemed very sedate like he was on drugs.
xxLittlesis8200xx: Haha he prob. was.
Millerman23: Apparently some band of 2 twelve yr. olds opened for the EELS but I got there late.⁹
xxLittlesis8200xx: Wow, very interesting.
Millerman23: Yes, so interesting.¹⁰ Alright I’m outta here.
xxLittlesis8200xx: I like the stuff I have downloaded, but I guess the EELS are weird live.
Millerman23: I can send you a link to download some of it.¹¹ It’s better on the album than live, at least the way they played it.
xxLittlesis8200xx: Yea send it.
Millerman23: Ok. I gotta review it for the website I write for. I don’t know what I am going to say.
xxLittlesis8200xx: Don’t be too harsh, but say ur opinion.
Millerman23: Thanks for the tip. I will do my best. Any other advice?
xxLittlesis8200xx: Uhhh no.
Millerman23: Alright.
xxLittlesis8200xx: I have to go to my last Kappa meeting of the quarter. I’ll ttyl.
Millerman23: K bye.

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¹If I recall correctly, Felicia’s friend Meredith got free tickets to that show because her dad was Apple’s doctor.
²It was really weird, though also strangely comforting.
³Felicia is a third-year at UC Davis, studying English.
⁴My sister and I saw a Sufjan Stevens show in Aspen last summer with our family. My mother drank too much and threw up, but concealed the barf by neatly vomiting into her cupped hands.
⁵Felicia will be in town this weekend, and I was meant to have dinner at home with my family, but bailed. People are unhappy about this.
⁶It is actually called “Novocaine For The Soul.”
⁷Felicia is referring to the band’s leader Mark Oliver Everett, who goes by “E” or “Mr. E.”
⁸ Syntax unclear — what I meant to ask was whether the “EELS guy” responded with “thanks” in a calm manner.
⁹That band is called Smoosh, the sisters in the group are more like 16 and 14, and you can hear about Smoosh here.
¹⁰At this point, I sensed my sister’s boredom with the conversation.
¹¹Legally, natch.