Joe's Pub reviews?

[Lowgens02 at aol.com]

ITA/Meet N' Greet Nov. 29th 2006

We,Meg,Joyce,Laurie,Marc and I take two cabs from our hotel 
in mid-town Manhattan and pulled up to the curb in the lower 
eastside in front of the huf*ckingmongous bus parked there in 
front of Joe's Pub.I immediately spot Mikey Cuthbert talking to 
a couple and thus,I begin to start my "casing the scene".

As I case said scene,I spot several familiar faces in line 
such as the lovely and sweet Cynthia and say my hello's 
as my eyes look sideways left to right,I now see my opportunity 
to siege Mikey,who I've always 
taken a liken to.

I then summon Marc to whip it out(his video cam that is)
and start filming as I shake Mikey's hand and make some
small non-sensical talk as usual,then from out of no
where appears the sleak,sexy,glistening and shining
Rachel Fuller dressed in a tight black knit dress curving her
arse into the shape of a moaning Lisa, I acost her like a 
paparazzi without a job (she was looking hot as a cat on a 
hot-tin-roof) and I barreled in and proceed to talk in my usual 
(startling start) in the middle of sentence ways that "I catch my 
twin bro Marc from time to time listening to your CD Cigarettes 
and Alcohol as he works out on the weights in his garage"  

Well,pretty embarrassing moment as her CD is actually
called 'Cigarettes and Housework' so after being 
corrected by Marc,I went back to her and apologized
only to get in return "you're all f*cking mad anyway".
She was sweet and very down-to--earth, made us
feel quite comfortable.

After standing in line for what seemed an eternity
we proceed in and take our seats at a table where
we can see Roger,Heather and Mr.Curbishley seated
to our right in a level slightly above us.Lots of smiles
from Roger,lots of staring from Marc who had a perfect
sightline(he even said that he thought he was making
ole Rog feel a bit uncomfortable at one point with
the unavoidable staring),well,pointing a video cam
at Mr.CSI(kidding) can help that situation grow a bit 
uncomfy dontcha think Mr.Starckarazzi? 


We order our medicine,say hello to William Snyder and
various mates such as Billy Canell(Who's Next guitarist)
and his brother Jimmy.We schlop our drinks and order
food and in moments the lights dimmer and on comes
Rachel who intros Jimmy Fallon who does a hilarious
bit called 'Car Wash for Peace'.Rachel did her gorgeous
songs,Marth Wainright is fantastic just not my cup
of tea(I did shout out,"what no horse pajama's" in which
she made a comment about).You see,at the last Joe's
Pub she was wearing these cute PJ's with horses on them
and to say that those PJ's contoured her body like
permanent tats woody be an underwear....I mean,under
statement.


No comment on Ryan Adams(if there were rope on hand
we would of either hung him or hung ourselves).He's
not bad, just not the right crowd.

Mikey did 'Misery' and 'Plasticine', as Meg noted in her
review,he does sound much better live in the flesh.

Sean Lennon came out looking alot like his dad of the
1971 era decked in specs and beard.He sounded like
him,talked like him and joked like him,it was quite
eerie.His 4 songs were by far the best next to Pete.
Oh,yeah Pete.Who did Marty Robbins! What a
surprise and the best song of the night.Drowned
kicked ass as did In the Ether and Endless Wire.
Watching Pete push out In the Ether was spectacular
to watch.

The nights participants came on for the finally
to do ' Im One' with Jimmy Fallon even having
a part,done admirably and his mini-mic spin
drew a chuckle from good ole Rog from his
seat.


All in all,musically it was a good,not great.
But the fact that we were obscured by a huge
piano didnt really help the overall enjoyment
but then again,meeting Pete was really what
was on our minds more than anything.

Anyway,to keep this short,we were ushered
into a hot stuffy room whilst we wait for our
Peteness,we talk amongst eachother and
organize our stuff we want to get signed.

Pete's then lead in and a friend of Joyce's
named Joe Ganley I believe was the first
to get with Pete.

To make this to the point,since I am the 
writee of the reviewee.Marc and I did
the bookend poses with Pete as Meg
snapped away at her cam,I tell Pete
that we are Mike and Marc Starcke
hoping he heard of us but just "oh'd"
and smiled.(I think the APB has been
out on us no thanks to my stalking
emails to his assistant Nicola.Of
course I may be paranoid too haha).

Pete's hands are big and he gave me
a nice firm handshake(no I didnt kiss
him as my brother did but now I wish
I had.I wanted to know what those
whiskers felt like lol).

Nuther great moment with Pete was
when he remembered my poster
from the Florida show and then
later he signed it and wrote a little
note that said ' YOU NOTICED...
I NOTICED. Pretty darn cool!!

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n153/lowgens02/WHOPETESIGNINGMIKESPOSTERJOE
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Mike S