Superchunk, nyah nyah nyah!
Nov 02, 2001
i saw superchunk
last night at "la zona rosa". for those of you who don't know,
they are my favorite band in the whole wide world. before the show i picked up a sony tape recorder and an audiotechnica lavalier microphone. this is the first show i ever bootlegged. the tape came out surprisingly well. i didn't expect to be able to hear much of anything.
i got there around 9:30pm thinking they would go on soon thereafter. "schatzi" and "the good life" opened for them, both playing good sets. while waiting for superchunk to come on i spotted jim (their guitarist) at the concession stand. i introduced myself as a "big fanboy", yapped about austin for a while, then rubbed his bald head for no good reason. i felt like a lunatic. oh well, i'm sure he gets that a lot.
i just so happened to be standing next to sven, a guy natasha has been talking to for a few months. he introduced himself, blowing my mind, then watched the show with me in reverent silence of "the chunk".
they played mostly their new album, a few oldies-but-goodies, and one that i was never performed in front of people before. woohoo. and i have it on tape. nyah nyah nyah!
after the show i realized that i had lost most of the hearing in my right ear. we walked out into the parking lot and sven showed me his snazzy new honda motorcycle. and his little (like a spy camera) pentax 110 camera i inspired him to purchase. somebody had stolen the "C" from the marquee, so it read "SUPER HUNK". sven took a picture of that.
i grabbed a blueberry muffin from a very dead ruta maya coffee shop and moseyed on home.
the end.