Modest Mouse @ The Pageant

There are two points that should be made before I go on.
1) Modest Mouse puts on a live show that rivals My Morning Jacket and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs as the best.
2) I think I am two years away from not being able to deal with people in social settings.
I saw Modest Mouse a few years ago and I thought it was the best show that I had ever seen. Isaac Brock goes fucking nuts on stage...I am always amazed by guys who do it every night and do it with an element of crazy.
They play too much from their last two albums, but you can't blame a band for doing such a thing. I don't hate We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank, but I don't like it nearly as much as their earlier albums. Regardless the show was great.
I have come to the conclusion that if you go out and I notice you (because you are doing something to be seen) then I really verge on hating that person. I have enough self awareness to realize this is a problem, but I don't think it is going anywhere so I will just have to get used to it.
The four blond mannequins that sat in front of us spent most of their time looking around to see if anyone noticed them (nobody did but me because I am an old man and am irritated with everyone) and text messaging pages and pages of notes on their word processor telephone. I don't know why they were there and I guess that shouldn't be any of my concern... If someone told them that it was cool to be at a Neil Diamond concert they would be there text messaging their way through Sweet Caroline. (It is, in fact, very cool to see Neil Diamond)
Then there were the frat boys sitting a few rows up. Huge Modest Mouse fans right. Standing up and giving lots of "knucks" to buddies they are making throughout the show (upwards of 73 knucks in all). They looked like they were dancing to Crazy Town singing Butterfly...giving the overhead gun point. Huge Modest Mouse fans.
At times I wish I was down with the kids mosh pitting around. They looked like they were having a good time...without trying too hard.
The concert was badass though. Tiny Cities Made of Ashes was awesome and they rocked out for a long time. They played Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset which was thrilling. I wish they played Trailer Trash, but they didn't and I wish they played some other stuff from old albums (Building Nothing Out of Something, Lonesome Crowded West, Moon and Antarctica) but really everything they played--Float On (not my favorite), Dashboard, and Fire it Up were all pretty great.
The show I saw before was better, but I could watch them perform at their best or at their worst. They are the opposite of the New Pornographers. They look like they are happy to be there and they play like they like their own songs.
Modest Mouse is awesome. I don't like people in social settings anymore. I am a 92 year old man.
Set List (I have heard much better from them...Still pretty sweet though)
1. Dance Hall
2. Black Cadillacs
3. Satin In A Coffin
4. Here It Comes
5. Dashboard
6. Trucker's Atlas
7. Education
8. Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes
9. Bukowski
10. This Devil's Workday
11. We've Got Everything
12. Wild Packs Of Family Dogs
13. Float On
14. Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset
15. Satellite Skin
16. The Good Times Are Killing Me

Encore:

17. Bury Me With It
18. Fire It Up
19. Spitting Venom


Modest Mouse [mp3] Trailer Trash