One day I checked my email and I got a calendar list of things to do from Flavorpill, which I get once a month. It is like getting my period--but fun: I never really know when it is coming, but it immediately warrants my attention once I get it.
This issue there was a blurb about this band called Wolf Eyes and how they were playing at Spaceland. There was a contest—if you guessed what the gestation period of a wolf was you could possibly win free tickets. Now, I didn’t know who or what Wolf Eyes was, and I didn’t particularly care, but I did think it was strange that the question could be so easily answered by a quick movement of the fingers and the help of google.com. So, I copied the question and put it in the little box on google.com and sent Flavorpill the first answer from the first website that came up in the google search. I was sure I would be disqualified, in fact I WANTED to be disqualified. I wanted Flavorpill to realize that this question is silly because ANYONE with access to the internet and the knowledge of google.com could answer it in less that 30 seconds. I wanted Flavorpill to be more intelligent than that, and maybe they are because Wolf Eyes turned out to be a noise band.
But they were a pretty amazing noise band. I won the tickets and I went to the show and my friend bought me a vinyl with really great cover art. And they had the best merch—they simply bought used clothes and then sewed patches or painted their own art on them. That is ingenious!! Yay for recycling!
And I got to take one of my favorite friends and he came home with me and then left me in the middle of the night, but all in all Wolf Eyes was worth the little effort.
(This picture is not from the show at Spaceland, but it is Wolf Eyes!)
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