Saturday, December 4, 2010

Unhip Event of the Weekend: Jason Mraz Visits KU

Late yesterday afternoon word started spreading via social media outlets that popular, unhip crooner Jason Mraz would be performing an unscheduled, unpromoted-in-advance gig at the Kansas Union. The show ended up attracting a few hundred students (and a few townie fans) while hipsters, presumably, clustered somewhere far away, complaining about the state of American music.

Chip: "I collect Mraz on vinyl, and I totally got him to sign my copy of Waiting For My Rocket To Come!"

We leave you today with the LJ-World musings of Alceste, who enjoys referring to himself in the third-person:

Alceste says:

"The sheer fact it was a live show done in a throw down moment made it a very enjoyable musical interlude and brought "class" to Lawrence....something this town has not had music wise since before the Bottleneck became the bottleneck.......over priced, super hyped shows by the Grade C likes of "Kelly Hunt" or "Blued Riddims", blah, blah, blah. "Kansas Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"....hahahahahahahahah....that's some funny stuff!!! Even Mike Finnigan knew when the getting was good.....

Add to the fact this 33 year old can actually play and not take himself oh so ever seriously was a wonderful 2 hours of good time music.....

Alceste just has a way of being at the right place at the right time despite being Alceste. There was no Lied Center Blue Haired elite to wade through; every person watching was just "chill" and those that missed this....those that were not there.....they're just square.....a good time was had by ALL......Alceste even had time to, quick like a bunny, go get a taper DvD....YouTube it shall not be....I promised his "people" it was for my private use only and they took pity on this ancient old person. Way cool.....unlike oh so many: $1.00 discount for the Aged to go to Lied? $0.00 discount for Lawrence "Community" Theatre? jokesters....the lot...."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Alceste writes like WS Burroughs: Stream of consciousness that makes hardly any sense. Who is this guy? And why isn't he doing drugs with me? And what has Jason Mraz's career come to that he is playing unannounced concerts at KU Union? Is he a student or something?

Alceste for mayor! said...

We've yet to figure out why Mraz graced us with his unannounced presence, but we'd have preferred a visit from Taylor Swift, whose "bestie" goes to KU.

The Captain said...

Can we get Alceste to write an article or two for the LC? The kid's got promise!