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February 20, 2009

OMG the stray cats in melbourne

hola from melbourne……

jetlagged. confused. but so, so fucking happy to be back here in my favorite city on earth ok besides new york….

i landed at 9 am and went straight out to breakfast with mr tom dickins (who will also be joining me at the pajama party tomorrow) and then got a glorious massage from his mom, who gives the best massages in australia and was a huge part of why i wanted to come to melbourne for my three days off in oz. i am on my 4th cup of coffee to defeat jetlag and was in the process of crossing the street when i almost got hit by a tram because a big glorious marquis announced that the STRAY CATS were playing at the forum in melbourne tonight.

i collapsed in glee and got tickets. i am going. please understand, before there was robert smith, before there was prince, before there was ANYBODY – there was brian setzer.
the stray cats were my first favorite band.

my very first record album – the FIRST one, the cherry-popping sacred first piece of vinyl that i bought in a store with my own money, was this:

rant n rave

and, to make things even more fucking nostaglic, my second cassette tape (the first one was ) was built for speed, which lived in my super-proto-1982-silver-walkman-on-a-leash for the better part of 3 years:

built for speed

i had a poster of brian setzer above my bed that i ritualistically HAD to KISS before going to bed every night.
this drove my mother crazy. i think she preferred it when i had to ritualistically arrange my stuffed animals.
she said she liked their music but did not like their outfits.
i did not care. i was eight. i wanted to marry brian setzer. he would understand me.
he was, of course, later to be ousted by prince…then george michael (who knew he was gay back then? i sure didn’t), then robert smith…then it gets too dangerous and i have to stop.

anyway, i’ve never seen them live. i’ve heard rumors that brian setzer wears a hairpiece. i do not care.

i called tom a few minutes ago to ask if he wanted to be my plus one.

he had never heard of the stray cats. he’s 22. now i feel fucking OLD.

fuck old
fuck jetlag
fuck everything

i love life

and

what am i going to wear.

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