This Friday and Saturday evening, The Pogues shall be performing their glorious fusion of traditional Irish folk and punk rock at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. I shall be among those present at the Friday gig. You'll be able to identify me quite easily: the brown guy.
Anyway, there's a fairly good chance that I won't make it out of the Ballroom with functioning legs or even a heartbeat. However, I've vowed to myself that if I have to climb, if I have to crawl, I'll make it to the front of the stage, or close to it, and snap a photo of Shane MacGowan and the boys.
I told this plan to Matt, who replied, "It's your funeral."
Well, you can fucking bury me at sea where no murdered ghost can haunt me.
Haha.
Actually, no. But on the chance that I do die, here are some of my real wishes:
- My small collection of DVDs and books will be divided among my cousins and friends. They can work out who keeps what.
- No flowers.
- Play Green Day's "Minority" and "Time of Your Life", The Pogues's "If I Should Fall From Grace with God", and John Williams's score to "Jurassic Park" and "Superman" sometime during my wake.
I actually HAD a teache rin 9th grade who I prayed would ask me to clap her erasers. Never happened to the hormon-riddled young freshman. She was a tasty young blob=nderight out of college... the stuff that dreams are made of.
Enjoy the Pogues. Hope they play my favorite tune.
Was the song you requested by STP "Interstate Love Song?"
I'm sarcastic and sentimental. And I'm feeling all right. :)
THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID AND WRITTEN TO AND ABOUT VINCE
"Since you're being a little shit, I'm going to be a shit too."
"YOU KNOW WHAT? You can call up the rest of these orders yourself! And if you have anything smart to say, I'M SENDING YOU HOME!"
"The fuck's wrong with you?"
"i agree with bill [that Vince is not a dickhead], unless by 'dickhead' you mean 'head that looks like a dick.'"
"You're a devil."
"... that little black kid ..."
" 'Vince for the love of God, just send me messages about anything else other than work. Your a good guy, but please leave work at work. Your Boss'. "
(A good way of killing boredom is doing surveys on social networking sites. Several weeks back a friend said that if you volunteered your name, she would:
1. respond with something random about you. 2. tell you which song or movie you remind me of. 3. say something that only makes sense to you and me. 4. tell you my first memory of you. 5. tell you what animal you remind me of. or thing. 6. ask you something I've always wondered about you. 7. tell you my favorite thing about you. 8. tell you my least favorite thing about you."
So I volunteered to hear the truth about myself. And her answers are below)
"1 -- you're one of the few people i can joke with about not knowing anything and i WON'T get offended. 2 -- song: The Pogues. anything by them lmao and movie: anything with Heath Ledger because you insist on making fun of me for being in love with a dead person. 3 -- morlocks and circus folk =D LMAO 4 -- when you first started working at The Store and you said you knew everything about movies ever, and i was like "oh great, who's this asshole that i have to hate now?" but that has totally changed cuz you're the best, cousin. 5 -- GIZMO =] hahaha that's matt's fault, tho. 6 -- wat do you do when you're not at The Store you kno just about everything about me, yet i have no clue wat you do for fun. 7 -- if i'm having a bad day or i'm in a bad mood, you do your best to cheer me up, and it works just about every time =] 8 -- you don't realize just how fucking cool you are."
I actually HAD a teache rin 9th grade who I prayed would ask me to clap her erasers. Never happened to the hormon-riddled young freshman. She was a tasty young blob=nderight out of college... the stuff that dreams are made of.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the Pogues. Hope they play my favorite tune.
Was the song you requested by STP "Interstate Love Song?"
Later~
Uncle Ernie's Protege
Sorry about the typos- I rarely proofread. Like Kerouac- I'd prefer a continuous roll of paper....
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHA! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm quite sure that the boys will play "Body of an American". I'd be depressed if they didn't.
Who knows -- it might be a most fitting song for me, haha. But I'll get that photo! I vow it!