will i ever stop talking about the stranglers? no.

ok, a couple of things.

first of all, yesterday was one week since the stranglers show and i got all nostalgic and shit. ONE WEEK LATER. what is the matter with me? well, anyway, i've made it my life mission to get my ass to england sometime in the near future to see them play. with jet, ideally. they are supposed to come back here in september to make up the detroit gig they had to cancel, so if they do any other shows aside from that one obviously i'm going. but i have to see jet play in my life. so that's that. i am setting aside all the money i make at my other job to save up for a flight and everything. so, hooray! let's hope that all works out.

second- hugh cornwell announced a show in "philadelphia" in december, along with a few other dates for his tour. yeah. it's not in philly. it's at the sellersville theatre. the theatre that is less than 2 miles from where i live out in bumblefuck pa. no, it's not really bumblefuck, otherwise we wouldn't have a theatre here, but it's certainly not philly with its plethora of music venues. not only did i used to go there as a kid when it was a movie theatre, and have gone there since they converted it for many shows, but my band played there in january this year. hugh is going to be on the same stage i once was on. i beat him there! clem burke is going to be on the same drum riser i once sat on! how cool is that? i'm pretty excited. he told me about it a while ago but i didn't want to blab about it until it was officially announced. but i was like "um, you're going to be 5 minutes from where i live!" and he was just like "oh, well, i guess i'll see you at the show, then."

so classy.