Between 7:30p and 9p, the power went out on Allen boulevard, and I guess two-piece bass-and-drum electro-rock outfits aren’t usually prepared with a translatable unplugged act for such occasions as a venue’s power being out. So, We’re Wolves and As Above, So Below went back to whatever it is they do on a stormy Kalamazoo Friday night, while The Lorax Tree unfortunately had to make the long drive home to Ohio. Hopefully we’ll get these guys back in the near future, but until then, I guess we’ll just have to sate ourselves with the myspace.

Meanwhile, the myriad late-comers and hangers-on such as myself were treated to a small show on the No-Fun House’s front porch by Benji Puppies and his sticker-covered acoustic guitar. He upheld the newly-formed tradition (developed on Rotten Wood Moon’s most recent tour). Often times the ‘traditions’ that folks develop during strange circumstances (particularly where they must spend a lot of time with the same small group of people) are completely unintelligible to anyone that isn’t directly involved or ‘in the know’, but this little gem of a bit is not so obtuse. It goes as follows: if there’s nothing much else to do, grab a six-string and rattle off acoustic covers while replacing select words with the term ‘bacon’, syntax be damned. I certainly laughed, and a few of us fools even joined in on the thing. Delightful.

It was a pleasant sort of time at the No Fun house (though most certainly, nobody was having any fun). All things considered though, It would have been great to rock it with The Lorax Tree. There’s more stuff coming up here in the Zoo, though, so if you still have some rockin’ to do (and I know I do), you’d best check out Astroline, Doby Watson, and The Daredevil Christopher Wright at the Strutt this Wednesday. Gotta get that led out somehow.