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As predicted, Arcade Fire covered Fugazi’s “Waiting Room” at their stop at the Verizon Center last night. This doesn’t come as much surprise, considering they’ve been covering a song by a famous native band in whatever city it is they’re playing that night. While the crowd at the Verizon Center were stoked (or clueless) about the cover, elsewhere, one particular person was (probably) not amused:
INT. IAN MACKAYE’S BEDROOM – NIGHT
It’s about 10 p.m. on a sleepy Sunday night and all is quiet and dark in the MACKAYE household. IAN is fast asleep in his BED when suddenly, an overwhelming feeling jolts him awake and he shoots up out of BED as if he was woken up by a loud BANG.
IANI just felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if a thousand yuppies butchered singing one of my songs at once, with some band with allegedly boring sex lives playing the music while wearing giant papier-mâché masks.
SMASH CUT TO:INT. VERIZON CENTER – NIGHT
At the ARCADE FIRE show, WIN BUTLER puts on a giant papier-mâché mask of himself and the band begins playing the iconic opening riff of FUGAZI’s “WAITING ROOM.”
SMASH CUT TO:INT. IAN MACKAYE’S BEDROOM – NIGHT
IAN’S head explodes.