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LIVE REVIEW Joe Jack Talcum & Pleaseeasaur 2005-10-11 It's a night of serious weirdness at Great Scott, in honor of the Derby Dames, Boston's own new all-female roller derby league. For real. And then things get A LOT weirder. Seriously. The next act is Pleaseeasaur, for which a screen has been set up across the stage with a silver lamÈ curtain in the center, through which the one visible performer enters and exits for his frequent costume changes. The other performer is behind the screen, operating the ultra-low-tech (but well done and effective) slide show comprising two overhead projectors and the often hilarious things he displays on them, and occasionally displaying other props over the top of the screen. The guy out front sort of raps, shockingly badly, these incredibly dumb songs over simplistic prerecorded pablum. As music, it's appalling. Just incredibly terrible. But the moment when I start to get it is when, just as he says, "...get laid..." a lei comes flying over the screen behind him, and he catches it apparently without looking and puts it on while continuing to perform. That's just one of a hundred such joyously odd moments. It's all so thought-out, so incredibly stupid, and so fully realized. What a huge amount of effort. It's one of the worst musical performances I've ever seen, but it's a really entertaining piece of performance art.
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