My Indie Night

Last night I put on my indie uniform and headed up to Hollywood with a group of friends. We started off with dinner at the indie hipster hangout 101 Coffee Shop. After enjoying the excellent diner food we walked down to the Henry Fonda Theater for the Ratatat show. Because of our decision to walk 3 or 4 blocks down to the theater we ended up paying zero dollars for parking. Yes you read that right, zero dollars for parking. In Hollywood. Zero dollars. For certain members of the party who shall remain nameless, that may or may not have been the highlight of the night.

I had never been to the Henry Fonda Theater before so I was kind of excited. I had heard lots of good things and I was not disappointed.

The coolest aspect of the theater was the rooftop deck for relaxing between sets or getting some fresh air. They even projected the show onto the wall outside. It was pretty awesome.

The Ratatat performance was solid and very enjoyable. Their last song and the two songs of the encore were kind of anticlimactic though. I would have organized the set a little differently so that the show ended with more energy. The place was rocking after Wildcat. Why not finish with that?

After reading this, you may be thinking to yourself "Who is Ratatat?" or "What kind of music do they play?" Well, those are both good questions and a little difficult to answer. While discussing these very questions on our way to Hollywood, the consensus was Daft Punk without the robots and with guitars. This still may leave you a little confused but I promise you it is a much better answer than "it's good music."

As I mentioned before, Ratatat was solid but it would have been maybe 100 times better if they wouldn't have made us wait for like 40 minutes after listening to the sucky Norwegian band 120 Days. I was getting kind of sleepy and a little cranky waiting. Luckily the instant contact high from when the lights went down and Ratatat came out put me in a slightly better mood.

Finally, the opening band that was playing when we first walked in was pretty bad to the bone. I walk into the theater and I feel this pulsing bass in my gut and look on stage and see this white rapper with a giant foam finger just going off. His name was Despot and he was AWESOME. There was definitely some gangsta rap influences with a little Control Machete feel to it. I wish he would have been the act to play right before Ratatat instead of the crappy Norwegians.

So all in all, my indie night in Hollywood was pretty awesome. I bet everybody reading this wishes they were me right now. I'm so hip and trendy. I go to clubs in Hollywood on school nights. Booyeahkai.