Nick Cave!

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We managed to score babysitting on Wednesday night so we could see Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at the Kool Haus. Cave was one of the things the Sweetie and I bonded over when we first met, and we never miss an opportunity to see him live.

The set Wednesday was a lot sloppier than usual--the Bad Seeds are usually an incredibly tight outfit, but Cave seems to have entered a phase where he's going for energy over finesse--but even so, it was a pretty darn powerful performance. (I still miss long-time Seed, Blixa Bargeld, though. Blixa left the band a few albums ago, much to my chagrin. Blixa and Nick on stage together was a wonderful, wonderful thing.)

Anyway, to celebrate, here's a link to Cave performing Red Right Hand at Glastonbury in 1998. It is possibly my favourite Cave song ever (I'd love to vid it, but the bastard is 6:30 long) but even better is the fact that I was in the audience for this performance. (Squint really hard and maybe you can see me and the Sweetie, over there, off to the left. *g*)

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If you bailed season three, you would actually have seen the ep in which it played. It was used during Scully's abduction arc (which is my fav story line in XF's admittedly convoluted mythology). It's the song that plays when Duane Barry, the delusional, supposed abduction victim kidnaps Scully, with Mulder hot on Barry's trail. If I recall (and I'm doing this entirely from memory), it's playing on the radio when Barry is pulled over by a trooper for driving erratically. He sadly kills the trooper after murmuring, "Please don't stop, Duane Barry." Steve Railsback played Barry, and he was creepy as hell while being at the same time oddly sympathetic.

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That sounds slightly familiar, but only just. If it's a third season ep, I only made it through about the first month or so before I gave it up as a bad job. (This is the same impulse that kept me from commiting to Fringe, the suspicion that the show runners don't really know what they're doing and they're going to jerk me around for the duration.)

Mind you, I do have vague memories of Scully getting abducted...

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

It would have been early season two (it worries me how even when I haven't been involved in a fandom for six or seven years, I can still spout that off). If you recall, the abduction arc was created to camouflage Gillian Anderson's pregnancy. It basically starts with Duane Barry and goes through my fav episode of all, One Breath (where Scully comes back in a coma).