Monthly Archives: January 2006

I’m planning to leave for London/France on Friday, April 28th.

This is the lineup for Coachella on the 29th:

Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros, Common, Damian Marley, Atmosphere, Carl Cox, My Morning Jacket, Ladytron , Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tosca, Cat Power, Animal Collective, HARD-fi, Derrick Carter, Devendra Banhart, She Wants Revenge, The Walkmen, The Juan Maclean, Audio Bullys, Lady Sovereign, Deerhoof, The Duke Spirit, Editors, stellastarr, Lyrics Born, Matt Costa, The New Amsterdams, The Zutons, Platinum Piped Pipers, White Rose Movement, Chris Liberator, Colette, Imogen Heap, Joey Beltram, Hybrid, Wolfmother, The Like, Living Things, Nine Black Alps, The Section Quartet, Infadels, Youth Group, Shy FX & T Power, Infusion.

First of all, we all know how much I love Depeche Mode concerts. The last show put me in a good mood for a week. I was so happy during “Enjoy the Silence” that I felt like I was going to fly up into the Staples Center roof.

Second: there’s a couple of neo-goth bands in there I really like. She Wants Revenge [Joy Division] and stellastarr [The Smiths]. Not to mention Ladytron and Infusion and Imogen Heap. And Living Things and the Editors and The Like. I LIKE the Like!

I’m not going to sacrifice a weekend in London to stay home and go to Coachella, especially since I’m not a big fan of large, crowded festivals. But I am sad I’m missing it.

And now, I have to go sacrifice to the concert gods that I can get to at least one more show on the Depeche Mode tour this time around. I don’t want to have to content myself with DVDs four another four years!

Yes, it’s time to share another choice MySpace unsolicited email with the world! I get one or two emails a week from random guys on MySpace. Some are smart, and write intelligent letters based on the interests I list in my profile. Some, I even go so far as to meet in real life, if I feel they have compatible senses of humour. Of course, I ended that practice for a few months after I went out with one guy who wouldn’t shut up about tickle torture for the entire evening – but that’s a whole other story in itself.

Today’s email comes from a gentleman named “The Poet”. He’s an interesting character in that he insists that his choice of scantily clad ladies for his MySpace friends is because he appreciates “beautiful things”. Which, apparently, includes Jenna Jameson. He would like us to know, he’s the last of the great intellectuals. And he also sent me a lovely poem, which I’m sure he also sent to many other girls in the state of California:

have you ever been kissed by the stars?
looking up into the night sky
vast emptiness
thinking that you are alone
wondering if you are seen
then suddenly it happens
first one
then a dozen
hundreds
thousands
millions
the stars come out to kiss you
wait just a moment
be patient
do not rush away thinking you missed it
sometimes stopping and taking a long breath is needed
close your eyes
count out the slow steadying beats of your heart
then look up
let it wash over you
the kisses as they appear
one by one
inch by inch
mile by vast mile in the nights blackness
have you ever been kissed by the stars?
i have and it is wonderful

Really, I don’t know where to begin with this. I count at least a half dozen cliches. But maybe I missed it. Maybe I need to stop and count out the slow steadying beats of my heart. Maybe I should write him back and tell him how moving I found his poem. It certainly moved itself to the trash can of my mailbox very quickly.

Stay tuned, as I continue to bring you…Unsolicited Emails from Random Guys on MySpace!

(siouxsie, “face to face”)

For some reason I’m hung over out of habit today. I had ONE glass of absinthe at the bar last night, upon arrival at 10:30, and then that was it. Cut off. I danced for three of the four hours I was at Bar Sinister, too, until I realized that the quads which took me thirty-five miles on Friday on my bike, were going to give out from under me – even in the flats I was wearing. Then I stopped.

However, since I have a kickball game – I have to run rather than writing blog entries. But there’s one on Friday’s Critical Mass coming soon. I hope.

http://www.calendarlive.com/cl-wk-upfront26jan26,0,7393654.story?coll=cl-home-more-channels

I was quoted at the end of the Crime Bus article. I was paraphrased, but hey, I’m still quoted. And a friend already emailed me to let me know she caught the quote.

And I am posting daily on blogging.la. Did I mention that? Because, y’know, I’m not sure if I told people that I’m writing over there now. Not that I feel the need to shamefully plug the site or anything.