Amon Tobin @ the Tabernacle

Ended up saying fuck the bug, guzzling down some Nyquil and manning up to hit the Amon Tobin show after all. Which turned out to be one of the better ideas I've had in a very long time. The show wasn't the usual DJ-in-a-box gig filled with recycled beats and nostalgic grooves I expected. Amon Tobin's ISAM rather is a two story cubist installation piece whose surfaces are animated to respond to the rhythm shifts of the DJ 'piloting' within the sculpture's center. The visuals are nothing short of mind-blowing, causing my lone regret to be that I didn't follow the Nyquil with an LSD chaser. The music itself was all new to me. Pure space opera epic, with Tobin laying down flawless the soundtrack to the best science fiction movie never made. This is what I thought concerts would be like in the 'future' when I was a kid, dreaming of living "the good life on the off world colonies."

Drug Facts

Man, I really need to read the back of these medicine bottles more carefully before I start free-basing them with grounded-up howler centipede and stale fruit loops.
Warnings: Stop use immediately and consult a doctor should you experience:
1. E.E.S. (Exploding Eyeball Syndrome) for longer than two weeks.
2. The New Zealand Madness.
3. Repeated acts of self-defenestration.
4. Excessive vomiting of plastic toy dinosaurs and/or army soldiers.
5. Involuntarily chanting in Enochian whenever small children say the word - "Marshmallow" - within 500 yards of you.
6. Post-orgasmic telepathic activity.
7. Blurring of Infrared and/or Ultraviolet vision.
8. Premature Astral Cocoon Emergence.
9. 27% or more of your body mass has been replaced overnight with random machinery parts.
10. Cerebral Arachnid Disorder - or 'Brain Spiders'.

Beat on the Brat with a Baseball Bat:

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