Ghenghis Cohen

Last night a friend of a friend had this folk band playing at Ghenghis Cohen, a place up on Fairfax. The set up was strange, a fairly nice Chinese restuarant in front, and off to the side, a small room with pew-like benches set up to watch a small stage. A single aisle runs through the middle and a waitress goes up and down ordering drinks for people on each side of the row, 4 people to a bench, with about 10 rows. Anyhow, the band was three sisters apparently related to the guy who sang Cat's in the Cradle (I always thought it was Cat Stevens, but apparently it isn't - which makes sense why it wasn't on his greatest hits album) and Wes Crazen, the famed movie producer of Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream series. Wes was their father and step father and the Cat's in the Cradle guy was their uncle on the mom's side, methinks.

The music was not for me. It sounded like the musical equivalent of the Virgin Suicides. It felt like if they weren't singing, they'd be cutting themselves. Maybe they do. I think the last some was called Kill Me Now and the lyrics were about as extensive as the title. Kill Me Now, Kill Me Now, Kill me Now. Good voices to be sure, but come on...a little creatively here, folks...