Bad Taste 2008
So on Saturday, Waiting in Line headed up to MIT to perform with at the Chorallaries' Bad Taste concert. It was AWESOME. I got to see Danny between rehearsal insanity and ran into 3 other people from Blair, including Mike Price. Unfortunately, I blew out my voice when we sang for the long stretches of people waiting in line (get it?) for the show since we had to belt over the commotion. But it was totally worth it. The energy of the crowd was infectious and it was nice to get a few songs in without having toilet paper rolls chucked at our heads.
Yup. People are allowed to/encouraged to chuck the rolls, paper airplanes, and stacks of computer paper at the performers. And at each other. This picture was taken before the concert even started:
The Chorallaries were fan-fuckin-tastic. Even though there was a chunk of science humor and MIT in jokes, the rest of their material was Saturday Night Live (the good years) worthy. They had an entire story arc to the Harry Twatter sketches, with Snape dressed in a full body S&M suit and Dumbledore coming on to Harry (Danny) with a purple vibrator.
And their songs were hilariously innapropriate. I've never seen someone perform a song about constipation with the correct facial expressions until Saturday night. Or hermaphrodites. They even did a parody of Journey's 'Don't Stop Believing' about menstruation- "Don't Stop Bleeding."
At 1:30 am, halfway through the Chorallaries set, Waiting in Line crashed the show dressed as "MIT students" (I wrapped an ethernet cable around my head). We performed 3 songs:
1) The Hardest Part Of Breakin Up (Is Getting Back Your Stuff) with brand new lyrics... The Hardest Part of Gettin Laid (Is That You Don't Get Paid)
2) Issues (Think About It). I arranged it for the group 2 weeks ago, taught it in 2 rehearsals, and barely knew the solo the night before we went to MIT. I had to come up with the majority of jokes on the spot while tipsy. Colin, I made a Portal reference >_<
3) As Long As You Munch Me. Rob seriously kicked ass on this solo. It's a shame we don't perform it at Wesleyan more often, but this campus is so PC and touchy that we can only bring it out once a year.
The audience seemed to love it and everyone in the group was beaming when we finished. It was a great payoff for the VERY stressful planning leading up to the concert. The show was a little under 3 hours, so we finished cleaning up at 5am and had to trek over the Boston Bridge to get to Danny's house. I was carrying one of the Bad Taste signs (a huge poster saying "But I Am Le Tired") and the wind pushed against it so hard I was almost blown into the water. An appropriately ridiculous ending to a ridiculous day.
Yup. People are allowed to/encouraged to chuck the rolls, paper airplanes, and stacks of computer paper at the performers. And at each other. This picture was taken before the concert even started:
The Chorallaries were fan-fuckin-tastic. Even though there was a chunk of science humor and MIT in jokes, the rest of their material was Saturday Night Live (the good years) worthy. They had an entire story arc to the Harry Twatter sketches, with Snape dressed in a full body S&M suit and Dumbledore coming on to Harry (Danny) with a purple vibrator.
And their songs were hilariously innapropriate. I've never seen someone perform a song about constipation with the correct facial expressions until Saturday night. Or hermaphrodites. They even did a parody of Journey's 'Don't Stop Believing' about menstruation- "Don't Stop Bleeding."
At 1:30 am, halfway through the Chorallaries set, Waiting in Line crashed the show dressed as "MIT students" (I wrapped an ethernet cable around my head). We performed 3 songs:
1) The Hardest Part Of Breakin Up (Is Getting Back Your Stuff) with brand new lyrics... The Hardest Part of Gettin Laid (Is That You Don't Get Paid)
2) Issues (Think About It). I arranged it for the group 2 weeks ago, taught it in 2 rehearsals, and barely knew the solo the night before we went to MIT. I had to come up with the majority of jokes on the spot while tipsy. Colin, I made a Portal reference >_<
3) As Long As You Munch Me. Rob seriously kicked ass on this solo. It's a shame we don't perform it at Wesleyan more often, but this campus is so PC and touchy that we can only bring it out once a year.
The audience seemed to love it and everyone in the group was beaming when we finished. It was a great payoff for the VERY stressful planning leading up to the concert. The show was a little under 3 hours, so we finished cleaning up at 5am and had to trek over the Boston Bridge to get to Danny's house. I was carrying one of the Bad Taste signs (a huge poster saying "But I Am Le Tired") and the wind pushed against it so hard I was almost blown into the water. An appropriately ridiculous ending to a ridiculous day.