Rise, Robots! Rise!

Last night Ex-Straight Boyfriend #2 [ExSBF #2], and fellow blogger Caffeinator X, and I went to go check out the Kraftwerk show at The Fillmore.

It was pretty cool.

Or at least as cool as it could be with four dudes standing behind computers in front of a screen of graphics.

Ha.

The sound was great though.

What wasn't great was that they decided to curtain off half the floor for the show.

So this left the masses all huddled up in front of the curtain and hanging off the side sections.

The floor Nazis kept telling us to move, or squish up against the other lemmings on the side areas.

Which of course made the place hotter than a Turkish bath.

It was an interesting mix of people.

You definitely had your older peeps, but also thrown in were some Goths, and younger kids who seemed to have no idea who Kraftwerk were.

At one point, I overheard a girl behind me go, 'it's like performance art!'

Ha.

Highlights of the set for me were:

'Tour De France'



'Vitamin'



'Trans-Europe Express'



'Autobahn'



and of course...

'Robots'



Like the above video, what was cool about 'Robots' was they actually had robots come down and take the place of the guys.

This was after the break for encore, mind you.

We got a good laugh that they had to take a break for an encore.

It's not like they were running around the stage performing acrobaticly choreographed dance numbers.

Heck, they were probably checking their email and surfing the 'nets on stage.

There was a brief period of darkness/silence which prompted us to think maybe their server had crashed.

Ha ha.

And once some of the crowd opened up that space-splitting curtain, people began to get their groove on.

All in all it was a good show.

What was interesting about this show was that this was the first time I had ever met Caffeinator X in person.

Actually, this was the first blogger I have met in person, that I didn't already know before they began blogging.

Having read his wife's posts about the goings-on of their family unit, it was a weird thing meeting someone for the first time, yet having known a bunch of stuff about them.

[Interesting side note: Thanks to Facebook, I found out the Caffeinator used to work with one of my BFF's, Helen. Small world I tells 'ya.]

But it was cool, and it felt like I had met and known Caffeinator for years.

Speaking of that, a funny thing happened when The Caff tagged along when I went for a smoke.

These two dudes who asked for a light inquired if we were a couple.

Ha ha.

One of them actually made a funny comment that the show was like The Blue Man Group 'minus the blue.'

Or was that The Caff?

I had to tell them that ironically, we just met that night, and he's married with children.

I got a chuckle out of that.

Back to Kraftwerk, since they didn't have an opening act, the show was over by 10.

Which kind of pissed off some of the people who showed up fashionably late.

I couldn't blame them; how often do shows start on time?

Those damn Germans and their efficiency!

We said goodbye to Caff and hopefully if I get my work in by deadline this weekend, I may hang out with The Caff and The Missus this weekend on Saturday.

They seem like a cool couple and would totes hang out with them.

Then, since it was a relatively early night, me and ExSBF #2 stopped off at Charlie Brown's for a nightcap which I was kind of dreading.

[We would have invited you 'Caff but we didn't decide to go until on the way home!]

Back around the Holidays, there was an incident that kind of soured our bromance.

Needless to say, I haven't hung out with him since and conversation has been pretty limited to stuff with The Magazine.

But it was for naught.

The incident has been resolved and we caught up and all, and hopefully things should be back to being copasetic.

Now the next test, is when ExSBF #2 and I hang out with our ex-BFF Friday night.



P.S. - Besides Coachella, they only played two other cities this stint in the USA.]