Thanks For The Video!!!! :)

after watching Pablo's video capture it seems like it wasn't edited out. Must've been my connection that lost the first few seconds.

Yeah it looks great, thanks again!

In a Borgesian alternate universe, Thurston is stranded in Argentina. Lonely, mature, and out of control, he embarks on alternately exploratory and self destructive adventures which he himself percieves in a non-linear timeline:

...Working on a fishingboat in a small village, he is overcome by the vastness of the ocean, sees himself from the fish's point of view. Mist enshrouds the landscape and mind, obscuring the path but making all connections possible...

...Looking through a street stall selling cassettes, he finds several Sonic Youth titles he does not recognise. He purchases them, and a cheap tape player at a discount electronics market. Meets a few fans on the street, accepts their offer to smoke. Forgets the bag of tapes on the sidewalk. Later at the hotel, remembers the tapes, goes back to the corner where he left them. The bag is there, untouched. Returns to hotel, head swimming, falls asleep with tape playing. The songs are unmistakably the work of him and his band, yet he does not recognize them. Waking late, the tape from the night before is hopelessly mangled in the malfunctioning player...

...playing alternately ethereal and dissonant yet traditional folkloric guitar among a celebratory seasonal gathering of gauchos on the pampas, the blood from the lamb's neck, smoke from the fire, the wine warm in it's leather pouch, he is both a stanger and at home among friends. How long has he been here, a gaucho? Thunderclouds aproach, lightning/drums?...

...lost and indifferent, roaming Buenos Aires in the rain, several women appear to be Kim, yet they are not. Then later some of them are, each a different age, yet changed. One of the Kims asks for a cigarette, staring intently at him as if in recognition. He gives her one, they do not speak...

...a thousand burning sunsets experienced at once, both in slow motion and accelerated...

...awakened roughly, drunk in the library face down among pages torn from several irreplaceable volumes of sheet music and poetry, he is detained by the police. He finds he can speak Portugese, but remembers only fragments of his experience. He also remembers fragments of experiences that are not his own. In trying to analyse these memories, they become indistinguishable. Finds folded pages in pocket, reading aloud to cellmates, the bird at the barred window is there and then gone...

Thank you so much syouth69! Now I'm not kicking myself nearly as hard for not logging in here that day, and missing the webcast!

watching the webcast, the power of SY is enough for 30 years more...

+1.

THANK YOU!!

Thank you so much for the video!

so you weren't there? It was awesome.. I used to watch SY live performances on youtube and get really pissed off when they play things in a different way or the way Kim sings certain songs (ie The Sprawl) but once you're there you totally lose your mind and get totally into the music, jump and dance....going into a show and getting all analytic-critical its kinda like missing the point..shows are more about phisical performance and phisical response..in my opinion...plus, they played really neat. wish it was a bit louder but it was incredible.

I cant really make out kim comments aboutvip..help?

"it's nice to see that the VIP section is not occupied. and that other people are... [guitars tuning/crowd cheers make it difficult to hear]. maybe... [kim gives up, crowd cheers]. alright, we are sonic youth and this song is called sacred trickster"

I'm glad that you joined the board just in time to share your wisdom with us <3

I WAS THERE, AND UNFORTUNATELY I AGREE WITH YOU.

WTF bunnynoyz..I watched the video and I was stunned! It was really fucking great.

Some lame cellphone-youtube videos don't say shit compared to the pro-video.

But also i think, that the fault was not entirely of SY. The situacion was horrible: the nightmare of calle 13 playing for too long, SY trying to get on stage to play, the low volume, the organization cutting the set and turning the lights on. And it seemed like they werent playing together for a while.
The sound was the worst, since the recording of consol that is in internet is great!
(In part im using google translator, sorry.)

t. after dv69: [laughs] thanks everybody- thanks for stickin around [crowd cheers] for sonic youth most... argentina buenos aries number one [laughs] we haven't played awhile but its kinda kool that we're rusty. this song is called sugar kane.

[quote=hirsute_biped]In a Borgesian alternate universe, ...


that is beautiful and surely signifies a kind of truth

(could it be 'and that other people are into coming into earlier?' like in coming early instead of buying vip to be at the front?)

i think yr right, sir!

Eric Baecht's backpack was stolen from the stage as well.