“There’s been a lot of talk about Justin Bieber,” said Kevin Drew dramatically towards the end of Broken Social Scene’s free set in front of an absolutely packed Amoeba Music in Hollywood yesterday. “Maybe too much talk!”
The 6 members of the Juno Award-winning Canadian indie band (plus occasional 3-piece horn section and other various guests) could barely navigate the small stage at Amoeba without bumping into each other. But all of that concentrated energy only helped make the show that much better. “Here’s one that got us here,” said Drew as he went into set opener, “Superconnected.” from the band’s 2005 self-titled record.
Drew explained that Broken Social Scene had played Amoeba before. “But it wasn’t like this,” he said, pointing out to the sea of people who filled the warehouse sized record store, “All I see are heads.” The horn section squeezed on and off stage as needed, and made their way to the front for the ending of “7/4 Shoreline,” one of the band’s career highlights. From my angle to the right, all you could see was a line of instruments protruding in all directions from the stage.
Ah, the ol’ C4-plastic-explosives-in-the-backpack switcheroo… Classic! Give me a break.
At this late stage of the game, this whole damn thing ending in three weeks, I didn’t think I’d find myself wanting to return to the mystical Jacob/Man-In-Black tale. And yet, here we are, any hope of adequately addressing any remaining logic/science/pseudo-science threads in the plot all but dead. They can’t get back to the myth stuff fast enough.
The entire exploding submarine sequence was Golan and Globus-level hacky, an unworthy contrivance to wipe out three primary characters’ (island existences). And as we all know, you can’t just hop in a damn submarine and go from a dead stop to a take off like the General Lee. Where the hell are they going to go anyhow? Do they have the secret coordinates they spent 5 years telling us were necessary to travel to and from the island?
Oy, this Locke/Smoke Monster thing. Seriously, WTF is up with this dude. First he can’t cross the water; now he can. He can’t directly kill any of the candidates; now apparently he can, locking and loading rifles, hot on their trail. Bullets bounce off of him, but you can just shove him off a pier into the ocean. And apparently now at this late point he has gained a level of omniscience that tells him some survived the exploding submarine. It’s just a writer’s crutch to keep a character so vaguely defined that they can break or stretch any rule that has been established.
But enough about that. Now, a celebration of the beloved characters of Jin and Sun in photos, on the occasion of their watery death.
Here’s a nice early evening Mother’s Day show with Welsh songstress & Gruff Rhys affiliate Cate Le Bon this Sunday, May 9 at Hotel Cafe. She goes on at 7 pm.
Also on the bill are Honeycombs (8pm), Liz Pappademas & The Level (9pm) & Casey Lee Hurt (11pm) Cate Le Bon | catelebon.com
Here’s a nice early evening Mother’s Day show with Welsh songstress & Gruff Rhys affiliate Cate Le Bon this Sunday, May 9 at Hotel Cafe. She goes on at 7 pm.
