What Would You Do for Beck

We usually don't like to talk about shows in the past and/or in a completely different city, but this one involves pure comedic gold. Everyone's favorite scientologist/hipster (scientologister?) Beck performed an allegedly secret show in New York City. As Tom DeLay can undoubtedly testify, it's hard to keep a secret these days, so the show sold out almost immediately.

Those unable to secure tickets resorted to the last refuge of the ticketless, craigslist. Perhaps because people were looking for tickets to a show by a musician who once rapped 'my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite who's chokin' on the splinters' some of the posts were a little odder than the usual 'willing to spend an exorbitant amounts for tickets' posts. Music blogger Brooklyn Vegan posted some of the odder ones. Our favorites include someone looking to get their house vinyl-sided in exchange for tickets and a Muslim willing to eat forbidden pork for entry into the show. (By the way, forbidden pork would be a good name for an Israeli-Palestinian hip-hop group.)

On a local note, we recommend the country-stylings of Josh Rouse at the Triple Door this evening. If you want to hear country songs in the vein of Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash and not ick Garth Brooks you might like him.