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"I Am Still Just a Rat in a Cage."

October 9, 2008 11:19 PM

uck yes!

So, The Smashing Pumpkins are playing in Chicago next month for their fucking twentieth anniversary. That's fucking insane. But what's even fucking better is that I get to go. I don't have tickets yet, and no one's committed to going with me--RPM, Mr. Vice, pH, I'm looking at you guys here--but it doesn't matter. I don't care if I have to go by myself and wrestle some teenage girl for tickets, I'm going to one of these shows. I say "one of these" because they're playing fucking FOUR SHOWS in a week. I swear, if I had the money and the time I'd fucking to all four. I. Want. To. Go. So. Bad.

This has me thinking two things. First, it's been a long time since I've seen the Pumpkins. I last saw them on their tour for Machina when Melissa Auf Der Maur was their bassist. That show was pretty sweet, but it was in college. And towards the start of college, at that. So it was, like, seven years ago. So seeing them again is just about the most exciting thing I can think of.

Also, it sort of made me realize that I'm fucking old. The Pumpkins are twenty years old, having started in 1988. That's fucking crazy. And it was thirteen years ago now that they were really, really big. They're almost certainly completely irrelevant to today's teenagers. That's fucking depressing and wacky.

Mostly because I have no idea how you can be a teenager without the line "And nobody nowhere understand anything about me and all my dreams, lost at sea."


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