Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Great Moments in Bad Taste: Ohio State Fair

This past summer Devo came to Ohio. They were playing the state fair in that cow pasture/strip mall known as Columbus. We decided there would be no better place to witness De-evolution(what their name references) than amongst the actual de-evolution of man kind at the state fair. I had been to the state fair once before. Think of your local county fair and multiply it by 100. 100 times the muffin top, 100 times the rat tails, 100 times the consumption of Pepsi. It was awesomely scary. Then we went to the show. They came out very energetically for men their age, while being backlit by bizarre art films they had made. The question loomed...would they play Mongoloid? You can't say that word any more let alone sing it. I thought for sure my favorite song(about a blue collar schmuck who punches a clock and manages to feed his family despite being completely brainless) would not grace my earholes. Then lo and behold they started into it. The hardcore fans went nuts. Even the deaf interpreter off stage rocked out. She had been signing on stage during the opener to what I'm assuming was a large deaf contingent. At a concert. Whatever. Maybe the fact that no one knows that word, thanks to our dumbed down schools, aids the band in getting away with such an offensively titled salvo of genetic blunder bashing. Hearing this parable of the puny minded at that hay strewn venue was truly a Great Moment in Bad Taste.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZDl_R8Zp2E

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