My lovely
kidz:
I know I got a whole bunch of stories to tell you tonight, including:
- my impressions of the show of the band I have liked the most these days (early stages of sound/setlist kinda sucked, but second part of the show was a fucking blast);
- my impressions of the show of the band I would have really loved to hate, which (un)surprisingly did deliver, and in a pretty impressive way (although as a huge Bowie fan, I am biased) -- notwithstanding anything in the foregoing, in the event that MGMT turned out to be the new Killers (which is a possibility), the immediately preceding statement shall be considered null and void and with no force or effect;
- the story behind the autographed copy of the 7-inch of 2080/Sunrise pictured above; and
- many other awesome stories.
I know all of that.
However, I am so sorry kiddos but I can't tell you any of that shit. Why? Well, currently I am shocked, shaking and don't know what to do with myself.
Bear with me for a moment, here's the story.
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I was in line to get my stupid coat right after the show, when I saw that the dude from security, who was yelling at everyone for not doing what he or she was supposed to do in that stupid coat-check line and who yelled at me too, so I decided I wanted to make friends with him (in case you didn't notice I suffer from the Stockholm Syndrome), well, when I saw him I said:
"
Hey, THAT is a very great movie -- I really like(d) it," while pointing to his
Wild At Heart black t-shirt.
Let's face it: how many security guys would you normally think have an IQ higher than that of a turtle? And how many security guys would you normally think watch decent movies, let alone David Lynch's?
As you can imagine, we became BFFs in a sec.
Life was good back then.
But it didn't last long.
Cause then he went:
"Tha direct-ah woh he-ah tha otha nite, on Sund-aye." [sorry, I can't help but love Jamaicans and do the best I can to replicate them]
So I went: "
What? Are you serious? David LYNCH was here???"
"
Ya man, he woh he-ah," he said.
Everything was perfect, seriously: two great shows, a fucking awesome anecdote -- what else in life would I have ever wanted?
Not that much, actually. Save that he added what band David Lynch went to see at the Bowery Ballroom.
"The Counting Crows," he said, this time with a painfully perfect English accent.
I gotta tell you: this still gives me the fucking chills -- I mean, for all my life I have been thinking that Lynch is one of the most freakingscarysmart geniuses out there. And in terms of taste, well, I have always thought the guy lives on another planet. Like, even music-wise, I would have thought the guy might well be considered too avantgardish by a senior editor of
The Wire.
That was what I thought, until I discovered David Lynch made all his fucking way to fucking Chinatown to see the fucking Counting Crows.
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Kidz -- I gotta tell you: this is RIALLY fucked up and I am very sorry to bring such awful news. But please don't do stupid things now, okay? I know this is a hard moment, but remember: