SHÖNEN
KNIFE
Yes, I finally made it to a Shonen Knife concert. It was Amazing! For one thing, I have never heard anything that loud before. I have been to concerts, some of them were, I thought, loud. No. Until the Shonen Knife concert I had not heard Loud. Allow me to reiterate: it was Loud. We were, the crowd, about a hundred or so - difficult to tell exactly - in a little underground "theater" in which the stage had a whole like, you know, a railing in front of it. So I was about 10 feet from NAOKO YAMANO - aka: musical genius - for the whole thing.
They played a lot of songs, since this was a special Shonen Knife 712 day tour 2008. It was grand. And at the end of the concert, everyone - okok, everyone was CRAZY at that concert... guys were jumping up and down (I was too) when they came out and pretty much all the way through the show. I know you don't really appreciate Shonen Knife because there are three kinds of people who may be reading this post: 1. Those who have never heard the beautifulness 2. Those who have about seven Shonen Knife CDs and who are saving up for more 3. Those who have heard and could barely get through one song. I know that about 98% of the readers of this post are in group one, 1% is in group 3, and the last person is me. I still will continue, because everyone else at that concert was in group 2. CRAZY! When we got to the part of "Riding on the Rocket" that goes ukabu ukabu (float, float) everybody ukabu ! etc.. people were like, picking up those who were around them and everyone was jumping around and... man! - yeah, so anyway, at the end everyone was still so pumped up that we just started clapping all in time and like, going "Shonen Knife!" "Shonen Knife!" etc. etc. and after about a minute or so ~ we didn't stop ~ they came back out! YEAH! and then they played two more songs, we clapped, again, they came back out, again, and did a last one and that was the end.
(That last one was really only one sentence that had a long bit in the middle of it. Examine the - - )
EXCEPT that wasn't the end the end because after that they all three came out and signed the cd that I brought with me for that purpose.
I had the perfect Shonen Knife experience.
The ticket was pretty cheap too. Only 3,000 yen. But when I got there I found out that buying one drink was required in addition to the ticket price. So I did. I payed 500 yen for the tiniest cup of coke ever. And when I got it, I wasn't even sure if it was coke or some off brand. Anyway, it still wasn't that bad for an awesome party.
BUT, and here's the point, for any of you who may still be reading, BUT, as I was there I realized that - I realized in the midst of all the celebrations and hands raised and jumping and all - it's really great to be at a concert, &c. and that this is a really good thing that people do, especially gathering around music that's, you know, pretty happy and up-beat and makes you want to take care of endangered animals and enjoy choco-bars and stop global warming and eat broccoli and take a bath and sing about barnacles and and andeverandever etc... But really what hit me is this: we should be worshipping God. I was kind of like, thinking, I miss a David Crowder concert because there it's almost scary most of the time how much people love Jesus and the way everyone gets into it. Moments like that are why we are able to get all psyched up about something in that sort of group way. So like, we should have been praising God and someday we will be and I got all happy about that. Eschatology, yeah!
I got a little glimpse. See "Vision" for more of what I'm talking about.
Anyway, I had a really good time, and God met me there.
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