went last night with the Special Lady Friend and saw what may have been the greatest band in the world; The Legion of Incredibly Strange Superheroes. they were having a cd release party thing, and playing a couple of sets. we walk in, and the singer, Captain Moodring (a.k.a. zombo, a local radio fixture) was wrapped up in that flexible cable christmas-style lights. the best part is that he was plugged into a surge protector because of said lights, so he couldn't move very far. their songs were campy and fun; very much like cartoon hero theme music. they also did this fun thing were anytime anyone in the audience yelled out "The Flam!", the band had to sing The Flam's theme song, which was a short little ditty that sounded like the batman theme: (descending tone) "nah-nah-nah-nah-nahn-nah-nah-nah-nah.... THE FLAM!"

the other really fun part of the night was for their last song (besides an a capella rendition of "The Flam" since they had unplugged their guitars), when they grabbed someone out of the audience, had him don a wrestling/gimp-style mask, and play on the band's theramin, and dubbed this individual "The Thera-man". they did a whole song with this guy wailing away on the theramin... it was good stuff. i'll have to check them out again in the near future.