a one-act play in which vampire weekend orders tacos
cast: the band vampire weekend, followed by a film crew, and a local sheriff.
setting: Dave’s Tacos, a tiny neon-lit stand in Bakersfield, CA.
Ezra Koenig orders the tongue tacos, everyone else in the band orders beef. A sheriff gets in the taco line.
SHERIFF: what’s up with the camera?
KOENIG: we’re in a band.
SHERIFF: what band?
KOENIG: vampire weekend
SHERIFF: so who’s the guitar player here?
KOENIG: [points to batmanglij] we both play guitar
SHERIFF: we have an acoustic guitar in the truck.
KOENIG: want to sing a song with us?
SHERIFF: [thinks for a second] I can’t do that. I’d need to get express permission from Sheriff Donny Youngblood.
[band starts walking away]
SHERIFF: Can I ask you a question? Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior?
KOENIG: [back in the van] california has a gravity to it.
[and scene]
from a new yorker article (excerpt only) which contains another bizarre scene in which tom delonge from blink 182 tries to pitch vampire weekend on his web startup. both show up at the meeting trailing film crews.
