Music is a Question with no Answers

     The extreme animals performance began with Jacob Ciocci reviewing some of his favorite moments of 2010 on youtube, in order to better understand the essence of 2010.  Some of his favorite 2010 youtube moments include videos from the noieemsshow, Lady Gaga, Eminem, crying Justin Bieber fan, and Sun Chips.  Then Jacob introduced the beach ball earth, the green hand, the death skull, Taz, and the other member of the Extreme Animals, David Wightman.  Jacob described the era of 2010 as, "an era of confusion and new intensity."
     The first song and video montage called, Question of the Ages, played for about ten minutes.  The montage included several moments of television shows from the 70's and 80's.  The second song and montage was longer and was called, Fortress of Amplitude.  The song and montage had three parts and dealt with the process of deciding to do something, doing it, and then evaluating what you've done.  David played and sang along with the melancholic and techno sounds of the song while images of dry ice, desert, vampire orchestra, wind dolls and driving dog appeared in the background...over and over and over.  The whole montage was a bit unsuccessful, and a bit too long, in my opinion.  The point was seemingly two puzzled statements:  there is only one rule, there are no rules.
     I enjoyed most of the music and videos done by extreme animals.  The interaction between the group and Extreme Animals was amusing, but also really uncomfortable and awkward.  I feel the whole show would have been so much more professional and interesting had the focus been solely on their work and there message which seemed to be philosophical questions like: who are we, why are we here, and what are we doing?
     The end of the show included two shorter five minute songs and video montages that were pretty humorous and amusing, followed by an incredibly awkward project created by Jacob and involving Justin Bieber.
     I had two questions during the performance, that I never asked.  1.  What's with the costumes and how do they enhance your show?  2.  What is the meaning of the green hand?