the best show i have ever seen

at the wreck the other night, caroline collier mentioned that she'd heard the stooges are gonna be at sxsw next year -- which i may also be, for the first time since 2003, if fortune (in the form of the filmfest selection committee) smiles on the teen a go go doco. caroline generously offered to let me use her credential from the fw weekly to get in to the show if that eventuates, but i dunno if i really need to do that. after all, back in 2002 (when i still usedta make _pilgrimages_ to see bands; these days i prefer things i can walk to), i saw ron asheton (the guy i was always listening to on funhouse when i was a snotnose) play all those songs at the beachland ballroom in cleveland and the blind pig in ann arbor with scott morgan's powertrane -- an experience which left me so high i was still skying two weeks hence, in spite of having been shitcanned from my corporate slave gig in the meantime. (christ, i was sure longwinded back then, too.) only thing that's better, in my estimation: playing with stoogeaphilia ('cos if you're a player, it's _always_ better to play than to listen, and it doesn't matter to whom).