The Shpongletron Experience

I saw this show last night in Madison. It was a great show, although frankly I am a bit too old for this kind of thing anymore. But it warmed my heart to see kids smoking DMT on the street outside the theater. And it was a nice bonding experience with the friends I went with.

Tour is heading to the West coast, dates at the link. Seattle seems to be the last stop, May 8 at the Showbox.

This video mapping thing is cool. There was a posting here last year with a video of an art installation with a room with a bunch of boxes with video mapped onto them, which was quite cool. This concert uses basically the same technique, to good effect. I guess it's a "thing" now.

One thing I realized, being in a show full of high kids with clever, trippy visuals is that at this point, pretty much no matter what happens at a show full of high kids, the high kids are probably already so media-savvy that they'll just take it as more obvious eye candy. No matter what it is. The second coming of Jesus could burst forth from the clouds and people would probably go "whoah, cool show!" Sort of like how at the Station nightclub fire in 2003, many people assumed the fire was part of the special effects, which probably contributed to the huge body count of that fire (although the blatant fire code violations are obviously the main culprit).