[November 15] London: Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

When I bought tickets for Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, I should have known that I would end up going alone. It was a really lonely night but it's my own fault for buying tickets anyway. Besides, when else will I ever get to see him, I wasn't doing anything else that evening, and it's his last London show, under the name CFTPA anyway.

No one told me this was not only going to be a concert, but a meet-up headquarters for London hipsters. But I was still the only one cool enough to stand RIGHT next to the stage. I had a really perfect view and danced and felt quite happy. There was also a very cute young man standing nearby who was also alone and I had fun stealing glances. Tee hee.

He played my two favorite songs, so I was satisfied. One of those songs is called 'Scattered Pearls', which I thought he wouldn't play because on the album a female voice sings.

the clasp broke at the disco Mom I'm sorry

& the older men who hit on Becky

nearly broke their necks on scattered pearls

& we searched the best we could

for two entire songs we knelt & felt along

the place where we had stood

but we only found 7 of Grandmother's pearls

& as we rode the bus home I thought surely

I'd wake up tomorrow just to find

that I had dreamed up everything

there'd still be pearls on a string

I wouldn't smell like smoke & I'd still

have the cash that I had spent on drinks

oh I feel as scattered as Grandmother's pearls

Mom don't cry they're only pearls