A morning of minor disappointments. First, my reply to Victoria Regina bounced back. The error message said "user unknown" so she must have typed her address into my form wrong. Which means I can't write to her, though she asked me to specifically. Victoria Regina, if you get tired of waiting for me to write back, I hope you won't write me off as some kind of snob who thinks she's all that just because she has one lousy title in print. Instead I hope you come back here and read this page and see that I did try to write back to you. And send me your email address again. Please?
Next, I heard from another art car driver that shiny "mardi gras beads" are no good on cars, because they fade in sunlight and turn black within six months. This just days after my order of 25 dozen strands of mardi gras beads arrived. D'oh! Maybe I can varnish them or something.
Next, John Wesley Harding has cancelled his summer tour. Actually I found out about this yesterday, but it didn't sink in how much I would miss his performance until today when I visited his website and read his tour diary from Germany earlier this year. JWH is one of those odd pleasures of mine that I can't really understand. I don't like his genre at all -- hate folk-rock, can barely tolerate most singer-songwriters. I never, ever like the music he talks about in his shows or on his web diary. I usually go for music created with a computer. But I love John Wesley Harding.
Why? I don't know why. But I do know that he will not be touring this year, except for a few scattered shows. One of which will be in New York, the week after we will be there for the tarot festival. Argh! Also, Kinky will be playing in New York the week before we will be there, as will Puffy Amiyumi. And there's a club that does Asian Massive night once a month, ten days after we will be there. At this point I asked Georg to stop telling me about all the amazing music we will miss by a matter of days. It's almost enough to make me want to live in a city. Almost.
In brighter news, Georg just wrote and pointed out this story. God Save the Jelly Bean Queen!
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