Okay so it's a MIRACLE but yes it's true........we
started mixing this afternoon!! Can you believe it?!?
I keep thinking that perhaps I must be dreaming
but nope......looks like I'm not.
I can barely stand it. Am I to finally
emerge from this hellish groundhog day afterall?
Oh sweet merciful power above.......thankyou
thankyou thankyou!!!!!
Check out this quote I read from the testimony
of Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials not long before he killed himself:
"... It is always a simple matter to drag
people along whether it is a democracy,
or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament,
or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice,
the people can always be brought to the bidding
of the leaders. This is easy.
All you have to do is tell them they are being
attacked, and denounce the pacifists
for lack of patriotism and exposing the country
to danger. It works the same in every country."
Rather chilling and pertinent to our times wouldn't
you say?
Eeeeecccch.........how about the shortage of flu
shots in the US? How creepy is that?
I feel like I'm living in the middle-ages all
of a sudden. People queuing and scrambling for the last few shots
that are left.
It's really weird and unbelievably worrisome
and leaves me with a very uneasy feeling in my stomach.
Talking of worrisome.....how about all the provisional
and absentee ballots being screwed up in some of the battleground states
already?
I mean ........this is truly outrageous. We're
not talking about a third world country here. We're talking about the richest
nation in the
whole wide world and it's not as though the current
administration haven't had four years to fix the problems during the last
electorial debacle.
Oh.
Oh wait a minute........now I get it.
They didn't WANT to fix it.
I'm getting rather nervous about leaving for LA
this weekend.I can't believe I'm going to be onstage singing with Blondie!!!!
It's so fucking surreal I can hardly get my head
around it. What if I fuck up and forget all the words of the song?
Oh god.......that would be awful.The idea is
enough to give me the cold sweats.
Okay.......well I've now arrived in LA and I'm
shitting myself.I have a rehearsal tomorrow morning so that should put
my
worries aside but in the meantime I'm going to
have a bath, order room service,watch a movie and go to bed as early as
possible. It feels like forever since I last
had an early night.
Rehearsal went spectacularly well and I am much
relieved.It was pretty cool meeting Chris Stein again after all these years.
The first time I met him was on tour in the UK
when my band "Goodbye Mr MAckenzie" opened for Blondie on their
reunion tour sometime in the late 80's.
I was just a kid back then and I was so in awe of them that I could barely
speak
whenever I was addressed! The very
first time I met Debbie Harry was in a hotel elevator in Liverpool.
When she walked
into the lift I nearly fainted with fright.She
smiled her big cheshire grin and said "hi" and I couldn't even catch my
tongue.
Man..........she must have thought I was a complete
freak.
Anyway.........it was lovely to see her again.
She's so fucking cool and funny and sharp as a tack.
Nothing........and I do mean NOTHING gets by
her.And what's so great about her is she is totally down to earth.
No starry bullshit or attitude and yet she has
this incredible aura about her that is completely intimidating and bewitching.
You just can't keep your eyes off that incredible
face of hers.I was looking at her at times and I got bowled over by
just how much she still looks like Debbie HARRY!!!!
ha ha ha haa.........
I couldn't believe it when we started to rehearse
and I proceeded to sing along with her.
It just gave me the out and out chills.
I swear to god that the hair on my arms stood
on end and all the while I'm thinking to myself
"Holy fucking shit I'm harmonizing with her.I'm
harmonizing with her".
We're doing two songs..........one reggae song
by someone called Wayne Wonder and then at the very end of the show
we're doing "Call Me" which ironically is the
song I sang with No Doubt at the end of their tour a few years ago.
I'm singing the same verse I sang with Gwen except
it's a tad more embarassing and nerve wracking to sing it infront of
the original singer of the song. I just had to
block the very idea out of my head and just go for it.
Eeeeeccccch.......it was excrutiating. Thank
god I've been going to therapy for all these years. I had to employ a whole
variety of techniques to get through the experience
without having a confidence crisis!!!!
As it turns out, the show we're doing is for Breast
Cancer Awareness which is a cause that is extremely close to my heart
considering my own mother is a breast cancer
survivor and so all in all I think this is going to be a very memorable
experience all round.