it was holy, felt so holy, i said holy shit.

vicemag:

Jeff Mangum made a scary face at BAM, and Stephen Colbert was there to see it.

“I went to the show on Saturday and had a similarly intense experience, but in different, and highly personal ways. Word on the street is that Ethan Hawk was at the Friday show, and it pisses me off that I missed the opportunity to maybe chance upon him standing near a bike outside of BAM, so I could be like, “hey, that’s my bike,” BUT Stephen Colbert was in attendance at the show I went to, which was even better, but intensely awkward because skinny white boys kept bugging him to touch his hand and smile into his eyes before the show started. Once Mangum came out and started playing, the night turned into a competition to see who could squeeze tears out of their eyes the most, and who could sing/scream lyrics back to Mangum the loudest.

There wasn’t a whole lot of “acting out” on the audience’s part during this show, but a few people kept screaming out song requests (you embarrass yourself when you do this, just so you know), one guy said “nice green shirt!” To which Mangum responded, “thanks, I wear it a lot,” And then some asshole from off to the side of the stage later mumbled something and Mangum said, “What? Did you just say something about an oven mitt?”

I didn’t clock how long his set was on Saturday night, but it didn’t feel nearly long enough. Colbert cried, my date cried, and I enjoyed seeing Mangum play with the Elephant 6 family. Oh, speaking of which, Julian heard what you said about being behind the times, Timur, and he’s pissed. “