New Year's Eve and it's hard to believe
another zodiac has gone around.

While you drank yourself high on hoping
and watched the ceiling spin from the ground.

Counting down from ten it's time
to make your annual prayer.

Secret santa in the sky
when will I get my share?

Then you tell yourself
what you want to hear.

Cause you have to believe.

This will be my year.

This will be my year...Semisonic


Go Ahead Punk: E-Mail Little Squaw @ squawpunch@hotmail.com

AIM: gimletgurl7 (Remember when she used to be here?)

Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Lots of news on the Fountains of Wayne side of things...my irritation with MTV.com and MTVU and well, their general lack of the "Mexican Wine" video have been alleviated by the fact that apparently there are some "clearance" issues. No worries there as I am sure it will patched up shortly.

Secondly, apparently they're playing ANOTHER corporate gig...first pandering to 12 year olds and now again they're dancing for the man. The man in this case being VH1. One of my friends was taunting me today and saying, "If you're nice I'll get you their autograph." To which I responded, "Baby cakes I've got their autograph and I've met them, interviewed them, etc... That's no treat." :) She's so mean to me. She has to photograph them in grip and grins with the elite of the cable world. Wait till they meet the annoying dude who was flash happy at the Foo Fighters show we did in Phili. The guy who wanted to have HIS BAND open the show. UGH.

They're playing for the same kind of people who tried to grope me at the Seattle Pete Yorn show I attended this summer. As I was standing there minding my ps and qs thinking about how Fountains of Wayne would be playing there the next night and I would be packing to move into our new house. Well I am standing there at like 2AM in the morning tolerating the drunk people spilling drinks on my feet and marveling at how a. Pete Yorn had turned into Jim Morrison about five minutes before the bathtub incident and that b. they served beer in a bottle at the club which is a big no no in NYC and I was clutching one in my right hand...

Then a guy lurches at me and grabs my waist. I held up my hands and said, "Hey! No groping!" Then one of my co-workers lurches past and says, "Well he's the VP of *****" to which I responded, "I don't care. There's no groping of INSERT MY NAME." It's important to refer to yourself in third person in times of danger. It makes you sound crazy and people back off.

Enough about the past and on to the future....new East Coast dates announced...two of which are important. One Rutgers Thursday night show. Gill's refusing to go with me. But it's like five minutes away from here. It may be students only and my connection doesn't work there anymore.

And a Roseland show...booooo hissss. Roseland, too high a stage and wack sound BUT it is the first place I ever saw them play almost eight years ago. Hmmmmm, it's a Friday night show in May and within walking distance of my office.

That said I have to block out my work calendar so I can make at least one show. Or maybe I should quit cold turkey?

But a smart girl would think, "Honey child this may be the crest of the wave. Ride it while you can because there's no telling what will happen tomorrow."

Smart girl or cold turkey? Smart girl or cold turkey?

I am very very happy for them and I am thrilled to have had as many opportunities to see them as I have. Plus it doesn't hurt that I have a very well cultivated reputation as long standing fan and not being "Janey come lately."

But then again, what's left? I am after all just a cog. The cutest, most loyal, supportive and generally modest cog but a cog none the less.

Hardy har har. I'd rather be a "sprocket."

4.22.04 Piscataway, NJ Livingston Rec Center / Rutgers University
5.7.04 New York, NY Roseland


posted by JustKeepMum on 9:37 PM