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I saw The Dutchess and the Duke open for some silly group I couldn’t sit through, and why they were opening for them I wasn’t quite sure. Their styles are polar opposites aside from a possible mutual worship of the 1970’s. By their second to last song there was a heckler booing and shouting that D&D were boring. I don’t mean to defend the heckler, but D&D are boring. (This song isn’t, though.) It’s just a guy (who looks a little like Kevin Smith) and a girl (who looks a little like Sweet Dee from It’s Always Sunny, but brunette, and maybe less tore up) and another guy (who looks a little like John Lennon, except not really like John Lennon and more like ‘the early 70s’ as a whole) who play mostly sleepy-dreamy folky-sounding whatever recorded so it sounds like it came straight out of the 70’s.

But the important thing is that they nail it. It doesn’t matter that the only song on the album that I deeply enjoy is Reservoir Park, I went to see them live because their music feels important to me (a lot of italics in this post), as if in ten years we will be hearing about this group spearheading some sort of movement, changing things, doing something important. I’ll get to be there (hopefully in some small European country that didn’t exist prior to 2018) and say, “Hey, I saw these guys get booed in Los Angeles in 2008. I just knew they’d do great things!”

I also saw Fight Club upon original release in theaters (I was 14) and Rushmore (I was 13!) which are also things that, in retrospect, have made me better than other normal people. However I didn’t see Donnie Darko in a theater until the Director’s Cut came out, so, in the end, I am just a poseur.

Site Note: If you’re having trouble seeing the album art on posts, let me know. It’s come to my attention that album art doesn’t display on the T-Mobile G1 web browser. In short: if your browser doesn’t support SSL, you won’t see album art, and I don’t think I can fix this by doing anything other than not being lazy, so…