The Just Thought I'd Share Thread

[Zombie]

So that's me and the Best Boyfriend in the World at the Grinderman show in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, which ended up being one of the best nights of my life. I just found that pic on the Grinderman site last night, which made me squee.

So, why is he the Best Boyfriend in the World? Lemme tell you - as many of you know, I've been having some major financial trauma and landlord issues and madness, which is slowly starting to be resolved now, but a couple of weeks ago, was really a bad, bad mess. And as many of you may also remember, I bought tickets to see Nick Cave & Company when they went on sale several months ago, and I was so. damn. excited about that. Because I love Nick Cave, and Warren Ellis is basically my hero. I've been a huge, HUGE fan since I was about 14, and have only managed to see the Bad Seeds in concert once in all that time, and I was not able to catch Grinderman when they came 'round for their first album a couple of years ago.

But when all that other junk started happening, I knew there was no way I was going to get to go, because all of the money I had was being poured into getting the hell out of my old house and into a safe place for the kids.

Cue Best Boyfriend in the World, who somehow managed to scrape together the gas money to take me to Chicago to see Grinderman. But not only did he get the gas money, but he braved the 6-ish hour drive and the ridiculous rush hour traffic on Lake Shore to get me there early enough to be first in line, so I could then be in the front row. And he also scraped together enough cash to get me a t-shirt & a copy of the new CD at the show because I had been previously too broke to buy the album myself. So there's me & Mike in the front row, right between Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Nick is Mr. Stripey Shirt and Warren is Mr. Spotty Shirt.

During the show, Nick came over and grabbed my hand and held it for a bit, which made me blurt out "Thank you!" at him, for some reason, to which he replied, "No, thank you, thank you," and later on, he came back to sing the "But I waaaaant you" bits from "Kitchenette" at me, which made me squee. I mean, I know he doesn't actually want me, but WHATEVER, I HAD A MOMENT. Nick interacts a lot with his audience, so there were other miscellaneous bits, and he also sang at Mike a few times, and used my shoulder as a support when he would step off the stage to balance and dance and sing on the security rail (seriously, one of the top fun things I've experienced at a show is now Nick Cave singing the "tippy-toe! tippy-toe!" bits in "Kitchenette" while actually doing an exaggerated cartoon-like tippy-toe walk on a one-inch wide metal railing. I've seen video of him falling off stages and such before, and now I know first-hand why that happens - he has no regard for personal safety in his pursuit of being awesome.)

So all of that would definitely qualify for Best Night Ever, BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE.

After the show, Best Boyfriend Ever waited patiently with me in the cold for an hour and a half out behind the club, and I actually got to MEET NICK CAVE. And before Nick came out, when it was discovered that I had forgotten my pen in the car because I am a doof, he ran all the way back to the car (a couple blocks) to get it for me.

The actual meeting was really brief, because it was so late and so cold, but I don't care. He signed something for me and I got to say hello, and that's enough for me. So I'm going to print out the picture above and frame it along with the picture Nick signed and put it on my damn wall, because...yeah. Brilliant.

JTIS.