It's Sunday night, and I am officially a geek.
How else could I characterize myself after spending a perfectly good weekend evening sitting in front of my computer following people's Twitter updates?
It's the only way I could cope with the fact that I'm not one of those lucky (rich) fans with enough fortune to have attended tonight's Haiti benefit show at the
Henry Fonda Music Box Theater in Los Angeles.
So instead of rocking out with my favorite band, here I am following the tweets of people at the show so I can learn of the setlist in real time.
Just like all of the other Radiohead geeks.
Sure, reading about what's happening at an event doesn't even graze the ass of attending the real thing, but it's still a way to feel some connection to it.
Let's just hope I don't get to the point of joining the
message board world -- but with a band like Radiohead, there are no limits to one's dorkdom.
Radiohead setlist, Jan. 24, 2010, The Music Box Theater
1. Faust Arp
2. Fake Plastic Trees
3. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
4. National Anthem
5. Nude
6. Karma Police
7. Kid A
8. Morning Bell
9. How to Disappear Completely
10. Wolf at the Door
11. The Bends
12. Reckoner
13. Lucky (lucky 13, ha)
14. Bodysnatchers
15. Dollars & Cents
This is where took a request: Just or Airbag?
16. Airbag
17. Exit Music (For a Film)
Encore 1
18. Everything in Its Right Place
19. You and Whose Army
20. Pyramid Song
21. All I Need
Encore 2
22. Lotus Flower
23. Paranoid Android
24. Street Spirit
If did pay the minimum $475 ticket price to get in, would I have sacrificed my own experience to provide constant updates to the ladies and gentlemen at home?
I think
timmayb sums it up well:
"While I am thankful and living vicariously through y'all, I cannot understand the need to tweet during a Radiohead show."
Amen.
But in all seriousness, even though us fans at home couldn't afford to support tonight's good cause, there's no reason to complain about it -- not when hundreds of thousands in Haiti are dead, buried, injured, homeless, hungry and grieving.
So stop your bitching, bitches.
I'm thankful there are famous faces out there willing to use their talents, or celebrity, or position to convey important messages to masses of people, to entice the more well-to-do folks to part with unneeded cash.
The sum of Radiohead's efforts tonight: $572,754, for those who really need it right now.
Only 78 days until Coachella, or, 78 days to get schooled on all of the bands I've been heretofore unfamiliar with.
