It's good to be King...

I went and saw the Chicago Kings Showoff last night at the Metro with some great friends (one uber-great friend and several new ones). It was a truly incredible performance that I cannot even begin to do justice with words. It was the Kings' final show and featured the Cuntry Kings from North Carolina. It was sad that this is my first and last chance to see them all rolled into one. I only hope that whatever fills the gap left by these guys comes soon and is as incredible.

The show was filled with some incredible songs (including the Fischerspooner song, Emerge, which was one of my favorites). Each set was filled with hilarious mockery, poignant political jabs, rich social critique, and more. Of course one of my absolute favorites was the Pink's Family Portrait meets Star-Wars-dysfunctional-family-values (yeah I'm a nerd...duh!). I was laughing so hard I nearly passed out.

I was also blown away by the spoken-word performance which was so incredibly moving and potent. It was a very personal poem by one of the performers, Neeve, and dealt with the journey she has been through including interactions with family, friends, and others. It was a sharp stab at the current politics of gender which needs to be stabbed more often. I hope the text of it gets posted somewhere and when it does I will post a link in the comments area here.

I would recommend going to their website and keeping an eye out for some pics of the show. At the time of writing this, there wasn't anything yet (the pic above is from an earlier show), but we are all still recovering so I would give it a week...haha. I won't forget that night for quite a while. Who knew I could still party until 3am and not notice it until I stopped (okay so I was a little sore through the show, but once the dancing started...forget about it)? There was also several cameras running so maybe...if you are lucky...they will sell a video of the show if you are interested. Watch for it!

Bravo, Kings, I'm gonna miss it! A party that good doesn't come around often.

UPDATE (12/18/05): After reviewing the Chicago Kings website, I have come to discover that it has not been updated for about two years. In other words, my proposal that you all go watch their site for images and video may have been mistaken. Please feel free to keep looking, but don't spend too many days waiting at the window...they may never update. You can always go and look at some of the older pics in the meantime. Enjoy!

UPDATE (12/28/05): Okay despite the lack of images on the King's official site, I have a place to view some of the images from that night: http://www.dykediva.com/events/showoff_pics.php. My dear friend, Eli, dropped this link on me. Thanks!