The Arcade Fire played on “The Daily Show” last night, and I’m posting it here (video below) because I like to occasionally indulge my musical tastes. They may be weird French-speaking Canadian hipsters, and yes, lead singer Win Butler looks like the kind of man-child that lives in a shed and tortures small woodland animals, but I don’t care. I saw them live last week, and they made sweet, sweet love to my earholes. It was the closest thing I’ve had to a religious experience since that half-Thai stripper I met at Cheetah’s eight years ago. I wonder where she is now. Probably dead, I suppose.
(The second song, “Month of May,” doesn’t do much for me, but don’t tell Arcade Fire I said that.)
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Not pictured: Fire hydrant dwarfing Win Butler.
The most annoying part about not being musically hip is that by the time I realized this dude’s name was fucking WIN BUTLER all the jokes were played out.
I saw them at Lollapalooza last Sunday and came to the conclusion that the lead singer was the one of the killers from Funny Games…but that could have been the strange Obama pill I took
Pfft, nobody would have ever even heard of this guy if the Bulldogs hadn’t done so well in the NCAA tournament this year.
/still wishes they had beat Duke.
Is he wearing a Hypercolor shirt???
Also for the record, the impetus behind the band (the aforementioned Win Butler) is not Canadian like his bandmates, but rather a Texan, so suck it Canada, Rush is still your best musical claim to fame!
The New Pornographers are the better Canadian band.
He was born Edwin Farnham Butler III in northern California and raised in The Woodlands, Texas with a conservative Mormon upbringing.At the age of 15, Butler started attending the Phillips Exeter Academy preparatory school in New Hampshire.
He’s 30 so there is a chance Drew hazed him at Philips.
When are you moving to Williamsburg?
I like the Arcade Fire, but at some point they are going to have to make a song about something other than being a 14 year old.
I have no joke here, I was at the latter MSG show and they f’n dominated. Just wish they played “Sprawl II” or “The Suburbs” over “Month Of May”.
Oh please, you know she’s dead.
the love child of neil young and david byrne
YEAH! Cheetah’s in Windsor, ON.