You could totally see her nipples

Veruca Salt with Juliette Lewis and the Licks seemed like an odd bill. And it was. Juliette tries to look like Iggy Pop, but she actually copped her moves from Hedwig (who copped them from Iggy.) Strange that she constantly reminded me of a fictional character, but then again, Iggy Pop will soon be a fictional character. (Seriously, there's an Iggy Pop biopic with Elijah Wood set to star. What terrible casting.)

Her voice was pretty decent, and her contortions were professional, but the songs were noticably lacking. The best/worst moment came during the set closer, Search and Destroy, yes, an Iggy cover. On the one hand it was the only really good song that they played, on the other, possibly sensing that the rock gods had not been appeased with this performance, J decided to send us home with a memory so iconic that we couldn't help to look back on this show as a great moment in rock.

She dropped the mic with a big amplified thud and launched her ninety-eight pound frame onto the masses, for some fairly wild crowd surfing (explicity banned at the metro--read the sign.) Then she's dropped back on stage just in time to haul up the mic and finish out the song, lookin more than a little disheveled.

A pretty surreal experience, it played out exactly as it would have in a movie--it was the rock show scene in a high school comedy starring you, not only because of the stilted recreation of a cliched rock experience, but also because it was that one girl from Natural Born Killers.

A little later i got a little out of hand dancing to Jimmy Eat World's The Middle and i think i might have bumped into a waitress or something. I tried to be nice about it and apologize, but there were like four people giving me the stink eye. And i wasn't even dancing that hard. So much for having fun at the Metro.

Oh yeah, Veruca Salt played too. I hear that they used to be better.