there's a hand from behind and it cups my mouth

So I finally got around to packing and took a cab to the airport and now my Southwest flight has been delayed at least an hour because of bad weather and I figure, hey, I might as well use this free wifi connection they have here, and then I start to think about the YouTube video I posted here a few hours ago and start to wonder if maybe, just maybe some performance of the Sisters has been immortalized here in this corner of Googledom Rupert Murdochdom, and then ...

Oh. My. Fucking. God.

I'm fainting. I need to lie down. I think I might have the vapors, whatever they are.

Watch. Just watch:



Update: My apologies for initially maligning YouTube by insinuating they were part of the Murdoch empire. I was thinking of MySpace. YouTube, of course, is part of the Google empire, which is collecting an enmormous database on all our web surfing, searching and purchasing habits, no doubt leading someday to some massive data leak that will embarrass 86 percent of the sentient beings on earth. Yes, I'm expecting lots of shamefaced questions about why I seem so interested in pee shyness.

Anyway, I still can't get over this clip -- many, many thanks to the person who posted it. Midway through watching it I realized with a shock that I was finally getting a chance to see the Sisters perform. The last time I witnessed Cindy slinging that accordion she was in Pee Shy, and it looks like she's picked up a few more moves since then (I don't remember her swinging it like a pendulum, for instance). Wondrous, wondrous, wondrous stuff.

in is the opposite of out

Believe it or not, I've had a lot of things to say here, just haven't been motivated to say them. But I hate doing what I really should be doing right now, which is packing, so here goes:

• American Laundromat got a new website a while back. Yay! But apparently they're running out of Say It With Fire, so y'all better hurry and stock up.


• Um, what's the deal with the Sisters' official site?


• Kristin's probably been on tour with Gloria Deluxe in support of the new show, Must Don't Whip 'Um, although I'm really just guessing about that.


• The amazing Gina Vivinetto has a a blog of her own to showcase her musings and let the lame-ass St. Petersburg Times know once and for all what sorts of coolness it's missing. What, that's not enough Vivinettiness for you? OK, go listen to Gina sing in her wonderful band The Peabodies, or go listen to her sing in her wonderful early-1990s band Bullwinkle (what? no 400 Blows? or Oh My Stars? and did anybody else here not know that "Mess" wasn't always a-capella?), or hell, go hassle Boulevard magazine to see if they still have any copies of that back issue with her award-winning short story "Avert Your Eyes." Still not enough? Well, in that case you might be out of luck.


• The current issue of Magnet magazine includes XIII, by Pee Shy's old stablemates Home, in its cover story on "Lost Classics," the "75 underappreciated albums that have graced our pages over the last 14 years," blah blah blah. Uh, didn't the cable channel TNT used to brag about having the Lost Classics, or was that something else? Home's mention is very appropriate and deserving, and kudos to the editors for noticing XIII and not mindlessly joining the usual critical stampede for XI. But ya know, I keep looking and for some reason still haven't found the item about Pee Shy. 'Cause you know there's got to be one.

And best of all, best of all Vegas Hat Man, someone here posted the most tantalizing of rumors several weeks ago:

rumors are flying
they are in the studio weekly now
april 2007 will spring

I wonder: was that intended to be a haiku?

Finally, a treat. I never got around to posting anything about that magical, joyous event that was Come The Freak On 2006 in St. Pete, but here's some video from the second evening of Jenny performing "It's the Love." For anyone who never saw Pee Shy back in the day, it's a tiny glimpse of what you missed. Just squint and pretend that Cindy's somewhere off to the side holding an accordion, and that it's Mary instead of Eric holding the guitar:



By the way, Jenny totally rocked the clarinet on the Homehunters' song "Burden," too.