it’s such a lonely place for you to be.
10 May 2006 | maura dot com | 1 Comment
i’ve been listening to a lot of guns n’ roses tonight — blame it on my emp paper or the weather or whatever, but there’s something both comforting and, yes, empowering about doing so. yes, i am fully aware that i’m a 30-year-old woman. yes, i am fully aware that i’m living what you might call the ‘comfortable’ new york city lifestyle. that doesn’t change some things — like just how solid the bulk of the use your illusion double-shot is, with ‘locomotive’ and ‘don’t cry’ and ‘november rain’ and yeah, even ‘coma,’ for all its proggy faults, standing up where songs like ‘my world’ (seriously, axl, wtf — this electro-pity shit didn’t even hold up for fred durst on first listen) and ‘get in the ring’ (because right now, who gives half a crap about the guccione scion?) get gummed up in the poor-me works. i must have given the empty room that i’m sitting in now about six fist-pumps tonight, a ridiculously jeter-esque level for a band that’s had a ‘coming soon’ sign outside its operational door for, what, six years? so ok, yeah, i’m tantalized by the prospect of izzy sitting in for a few one-off shows next week at the hammerstein. and even if mr. stradlin didn’t show up for either show, i’d be hustling my way in, trying favors on for size just to feel some of that dust that i had sprinkled on me when i saw them back on their ill-fated, buckethead-accompanied jaunt a few years back. never mind that even matt sorum didn’t show up; i was in madison square garden, i sang along with ‘paradise city,’ and i felt like someone was going to please, take me home. is this how aging never becomes your friend?
(plus, not for nothing, but wtf is axl doing at misshapes?! the door-fuhrers there would have kicked him out sans explanation when he was dictating his nickname as ‘a-x-l-click,’ back when the mtv rockumentary was but a gleam in kurt loder’s eye, and hearing that he’s showing up to hear shitty mp3-collisions at a crummy west side club now … well, i mean, it just makes you wonder where everyone is, socially, in relation to where we might have been back when we were all aspirational and shit.)
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Have you heard Aqueduct’s “Growing Up with GNR“? (It played on XMU while I was eating breakfast this morning, so it’s fresh in my mind.)