note to self: stop frying foods while naked.
who wants to hear a story? it's not about being naked. unfortunately.
in mid-2000 in chicago, i saw the catherine wheel play. it was my fourth time seeing them (& is in all likelihood the last - they've been unofficially broken up for several years now). as usual, i'm right up front & am singing every word along with the band. they break into "sparks are gonna fly", which opens the new album released only a week previous. it has some of their fastest lyrics, & no one in the audience seems to know it except for me. rob dickinson, the vocalist, glances at me a couple of times. then, seeing i'm keeping up with him in lyrics, he actually turned a step, FACED ME, & we sang an entire stanza eye-to-eye. then i winked at him & he smiled & turned back to the crowd. it was pretty fucking hot.
immediately after rob turned back to the crowd, my friend dave yelled in my ear, "oh my g-d, did that just happen?!" dave seemed to look at me a little differently after that.
i'm reminded of this because i'm finally seeing the catherine wheel's music videos for the first time, thanks to lewis slade & the long-standing texture-l mailing list. (texture also put out inexpensive tshirts to its list members in 1996, & these shirts have served as permanent backstage passes to every CW show. nice.) anyhow, the first videos came out in 1991, & many of them i'd missed seeing over the years. i realized while watching them that it's taken me THIRTEEN YEARS to see the videos made by a band i've always loved - that's MORE THAN HALF MY LIFE i've been waiting on these. wild. (thanks go also to gareth for converting them from wma to dvd for me - if i had to wait until i had a windows machine running to watch them, i may as well have given up for good.)
anyhow. rob dickinson is teh sex, but it's still strange to watch someone age in chunks through eleven videos spanning nine years.
in mid-2000 in chicago, i saw the catherine wheel play. it was my fourth time seeing them (& is in all likelihood the last - they've been unofficially broken up for several years now). as usual, i'm right up front & am singing every word along with the band. they break into "sparks are gonna fly", which opens the new album released only a week previous. it has some of their fastest lyrics, & no one in the audience seems to know it except for me. rob dickinson, the vocalist, glances at me a couple of times. then, seeing i'm keeping up with him in lyrics, he actually turned a step, FACED ME, & we sang an entire stanza eye-to-eye. then i winked at him & he smiled & turned back to the crowd. it was pretty fucking hot.
immediately after rob turned back to the crowd, my friend dave yelled in my ear, "oh my g-d, did that just happen?!" dave seemed to look at me a little differently after that.
i'm reminded of this because i'm finally seeing the catherine wheel's music videos for the first time, thanks to lewis slade & the long-standing texture-l mailing list. (texture also put out inexpensive tshirts to its list members in 1996, & these shirts have served as permanent backstage passes to every CW show. nice.) anyhow, the first videos came out in 1991, & many of them i'd missed seeing over the years. i realized while watching them that it's taken me THIRTEEN YEARS to see the videos made by a band i've always loved - that's MORE THAN HALF MY LIFE i've been waiting on these. wild. (thanks go also to gareth for converting them from wma to dvd for me - if i had to wait until i had a windows machine running to watch them, i may as well have given up for good.)
anyhow. rob dickinson is teh sex, but it's still strange to watch someone age in chunks through eleven videos spanning nine years.
