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Getting ready for the show

face_close_iconOk, just about to go home, run the set a few times and go through my standard pre-gig ritual: Drink some tea, sing some warm-ups, freak out that I haven't been running the set enough to be ready for the show, shave all my body hair off clean like a baby, ingest the powdered yak horn for virility, and let my cats eat their evening dinner off my chest. Then it's off to the Knitting Factory. Don't believe their website - apparently I go on around 9:15pm, not 8pm. Here is the planned set:

1. Goodbye (a song I started months ago, and just finished last night)
2. Pay No Attention
3. Half Hearted
4. It's Not Me (Supergrass cover)
5. Beggars and Businessmen
6. Pink Snow
7. Movin' On
8. She Won't Last (a brand new one that was co-written with some friends, but what the hell)
9. Ramona -if I am feeling saucy (or if I play all the songs way too fast out of nervousness, and the set comes in at under a half hour)
10. Side 3 of Physical Graffitti

Hopefully no strings break, I remember all the words, and some friends show up. If not, then I always have a fresh World Poker Tour waiting for me at home on the TiVo.

My blog has been very poorly updated of late - I blew it and didn't pay the SBC bill, and the DSL was cut off at home.. so once it's back up (10 long days - wow, SBC is so great)- I will again continue with the tireless blogging.

Ok, there you go.. I will see you there! -
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Comments

Hi Steve--

Your set was wonderful, and I told you so afterwards. Everyone was too loud, and not paying attention, but your words just captured me. So poignant, so resonant, so real. (Too sad, as I told you too.)

But I know what you mean. Somehow sadness, even tragedy, seems to cause words to pour out of poets. I said goodbye to a dear friend/guy I had a massive crush on this week, and so your very first song just pulled me out of the nonsense that was going on on the balcony and honed right into you. And I'm Sooooo glad about that.

Through most of it, though, I just wanted to be in a quiet club (are there such things anymore?), hanging on your every word (which I was anyway).

You knocked me out. Oh yeah, I guess there were some naked girls dancing around too, but I didn't mind one bit that you didn't have breasts. More importantly, you had HEART. Thanks, man.

--Michelle

Do you ever touch songs like "Haunt Me" again? You never finished recording that one did you?