Conceptual Genius

GUEST EMO REVIEWER EZRA on the Jealous Sound show:
“You missed the drunk (and very sexist) Adidas rep who was hooked them up with $400 of free shoes the next morning. He was so wasted that he complimented me on the show, asking how long I’ve been playing an instrument. ‘My whole life,’ I answered.”
Ezra has in fact held a guitar only once, when we visited the interactive soundlab at EMP. By the way, watching the Earth Wind and Fire/OutKast extravaganza on the television was a million times better than the now-eradicated “Funk Blast” ride at EMP, even with hologramic platform boot and James Brown impersonator. I mean, Big Boi had a DJ, EW&F, Sleepy Brown, a dance troupe with flames painted on their pants, a different dancer guy using a giant umbrella as a prop, a huge collection of speakers and rims piled like a mound of diamonds in a junkyard! Although less overt, it did equal the absurd chaos/performative exaggeration as Dre’s (somewhat questionable) Afro-futuristic teepee/’70s-style funk w/USC marching band dorkxtravaganza.