Saturday Night Live Welcomes The Undead

When Saturday Night Live comes a callin’, if you know what's good for you, you had better answer. This Saturday, Vampire Weekend became the newest indie act to cancel scheduled concert dates in order to appear on the long running show. Spoon and Wilco are two other outfits that, just last year, did the very same. It seems it is becoming quite the right of passage, this cancelling gigs thing. However, being seen on SNL has been the staple of a career on an upward trajectory for many years, and so, can anybody really be blamed for passing up a couple of dates? The answer is yes, if you were a ticket holder. Yes, they can, and I have, for your outrage, deduced why: Presumably, if you held tickets to see Vampire Weekend, you are a fan of them. They are an up and coming indie act. Seeing them would be like a hipster checkmate in any conversation with any of your hipster friends regarding Vampire Weekend ever. You would get to say, "I saw them when..." Now, with the cancellations, not only did you not get to see them, but you had to sit through a lame "Weekend Update." You were stood up for the guy that played in Hot Rod and had his dick in a box. Anyway, here is a link to the Vampire Weekend performance if you failed to show up to your TV last night. (Just as well, it really was a pretty lame “Weekend Update.”)