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So I went to The Smell last night. It was unusually packed and about a bazillion degrees inside, but it was nice to go after being away for awhile. I went to see the adorable and talented Mr. Bobby Birdman (whose music you can grab from a previous post of mine right here). He was great, despite only playing a very short 4 song set. Before him was a pretty decent yet fairly boring ambient band that I don't know the name of. Before THEM was a fellow by the name of Jacob Smigel, whose mannerisms and pre-song rants reminded me almost exactly of John Darnielle from The Mountain Goats. He played a two songs, including one which got a couple of cute, sweaty hipsters slow dancing like it was a vintage fashion, stringy haired, middle school winter ball. He was also selling a cd full of found music that he had complied from hunting for cassettes at flea markets, thrift stores, garage sales, and the like. It's really fantastic and beautiful. There are tons of different kinds of clips: surreal, sexual, confessional, musical, hilarious, and they all offer a quick, exciting peak into the lives of some very strange people (or,truthfully,people just like you and me). Here are some of my favorites; it was hard to pick. You can buy things on his site. "Eavesdrop: A Wealth Of Found Sound" came with a really interesting, well written booklet explaining the project as a whole and the individual sound clips, as well as a random Polaroid that I forgot to scan for this post because I'm dumb sometimes.
Trailer Couple (An old man learns to use a tape recorder. Dialogue weaves in and out of snippets of music. This might be my favorite clip on the CD.)
Glory AND Honor (Gospel choir practice with a "tough as nails" conductor.)
Nasty Nancy (Teenage girls in the '80s rocking some Biz Markie)
Say Your Prayers!!! (A slightly creepy clip of a mother teaching her very young daughter to say her prayers.)
Reno Mother (This one was really touching; it's kind of an audio diary of an old woman who has no one to talk to, so she talks to her recorder.)
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