Damn, but the kids sure come out to check out the tattoos and boobies! It was packed last night at the Knitting Factory for the Suicide Girls Burlesque show. Showed up a little after 9pm and started playing at 9:30pm. Started off with "Goodbye", a song I started a few months ago and finished the night before the show. When Elliott Smith died, I got really into learning some of his songs, and became committed to getting some fingerpicking down. "Goodbye" is the first song from that phase,  the first time I could fingerpick and sing at the same time. A minor victory for me. I thought it would be a nice opener, quiet and sad, and slowly get people's attention, then kick in with song two. Well this was not the crowd  for my master plan. They were chatty, and it was a fight to get through the number, I even cut out the whole 2nd verse to get it over with. Then played "Pay No Attention", "Half Hearted", and my Supergrass cover. Then played two from my Pop Opera "Strawberry" : "Beggars and Businessmen" and "Pink Snow". Then played a new one (written last Saturday) called "She Won't Last", then closed with "Ramona". I cut out "Movin On" cause I didn't think the audience would feel it - they were too pumped up for boobies. All told, I wasn't really on my game, felt self conscious and never really felt dug-in and steady with my performance. Had to fight the audience a bit. No biggie. Got to see some friends who came out early to see me: my man Eddie Fladung from Mostasa, Poker Pals Leigh, MJ and Ann Moneymaker, music afficionado Kristen Lauck, Skycyle manager Mr. Gary Helsinger and his lovely fiance, and one of my favorite drummers of all time from one of my favorite bands of all time who told me a story about the lead singer of Iron Maiden taking a header off a riser while onstage that had me crying from laughing so hard. "Thank you L.A., I 'm gonna go get an X-Ray"...

Muchas Gracias to my friend and world conquerer Sean Suicide for putting me on the bill, I hope the Suicide Girls Burlesque show is a massive success, and that none of the girls catch cold.