Stay out till morning, sharp as knives

I saw the Spoon/AMC show with Bob and Matt last night. Now, the boys are both big time AMC fans (I like AMC, but they're on a different level. That said, I did realize I've now seen AMC three times and Eitzel solo twice.), and I am a big Spoon fan. They're pretty much my favorite American band going right now. In any event, AMC was great, even though the crowd was a bit unreceptive and Eitzel was all fat and ugly. Spoon played what can truly be called a blistering set, with highlights including the opening Beast and Dragon, Small Stakes, Paper Tiger, Infinite Pet and the closing Mathematical Mind. They must have played thirty songs, pretty much everything off Fiction and Moonlight, and a few off Girls. mebbe even one or two off Sneaks. It was the kind of show where four years from now, someone will be talking about Spoon and how they're the best thing ever, and I'll say, "You know, I saw them at the Wiltern in '05," and they'll say, "I hate you." The only real disappointments, and keep in mind, these aren't real disappointments, were Camera and Jonathan Fisk. They were both good, but I expect Fisk to be the best song I've ever seen each time I see it played.

Before the show, we ate at Orchid, this Vegas feeling karaoke bar/restaurant right by the Wiltern. It had waterfalls, plush velvet booths, and acid trip mutated orchid pillars. It also had some damn good food. We got Kalua roasted pork nachos with lomi lomi tomatoes as an appetizer, and I got an Ahi tuna Poke with more tomatoes, sweet Maui onion and soy sauce. Both were excellent, and Matt and Bob liked their dishes, too.
Orchid is definitely a place I have to go back to, if only to do booth karaoke.

After the show, I met up with the TNDC, and Nick's supposed to take us to the driving range in K-town, where apparently the balls are automatically teed up from below, and as soon as you hit one, a little door opens and another comes up.