How I met The Dresden Dolls
Well, techincally I “met” the Dolls on a little multimedia LCD screen at the Capitol Hill Sonic Boom Records, as my eyes locked onto Coin-Op Boy playing from across the store. Literally, down the entire length of the store, from the other side of the main aisle. It’s that good a video, innit?
Two weeks later, I soon found out, they were going to have a show in town. What luck! By then I had emailed them that I’d love to shoot beautiful Super 8 film footage of the show, as I happen to be a Super 8 filmmaker, hoping to cut a live clip of some of their songs that didn’t have one yet. Amanda asked for B&W, bless her. And there I was, running around Neumos in my big yellow blazer, little square boxes of super 8 film bursting out of my pockets, my loudly whirring Canon in hand.
It was a glorious night. Too bad I didn’t get to hear much of the show itself, or at least pay attention to what my ears were picking up. I was deep in visual mode.
After the show, I got a little bit of Amanda hugging fans to run out any remaining film. Then, as I was standing outside with a few members of the fanbase / brigade who were waiting for their rides homes, munching on two groot-size cones I got of the wonderful belgian fries the little counter attached to Neumos serves, the Dolls poured out with their equipment headed for the tour bus. The girls poured all over them. Brian was highly appreciative of them fries, as I recall. They’re that good.
