You were pretty gross, but I had some good times in you when I was younger. Have fun in Manhattan Punk Club Heaven with Coney Island High and Brownies and all those other dives.

xx

They are playing a free, outdoor show tomorrow afternoon practically up the street from my apartment. This is very exciting!

I hope it doesn't rain

I'm gutted I was not there to see him play "Panic." I teared up fully just listening to the audience recording of it. Seeing "Stop Me..." in Tulsa/OKC was very moving, but "Panic" is one of two Smiths song I have for years most wanted to hear live. Here's to hoping it will make its way to North America.

I just finished a mix tape for a friend. Twenty seven songs, all taped from vinyl. What do you think?

Side A:

1. The Supremes "Whenever the Lovelight Starts..."
2. The Searchers "Needles and Pins"
3. Nancy Sinatra "In My Room"
4. T. Rex "Metal Guru"
5. Siouxsie and the Banshees "Hong Kong Garden"
6. Sandie Shaw "Hand in Glove"
7. Arthur Conley "Sweet Soul Music"
8. Prince "When You Were Mine"
9. David Bowie "Moonage Daydream"
10. Roxy Music "Beauty Queen"
11. Gang of Four "I Love a Man in Uniform"
12. The Jam "Town Called Malice"
13. Fleetwood Mac "The Chain"
14. Brian Eno "By This River"

Side B:

1. Morrissey "I Know Very Well How I Got My Name"
2. Leonard Cohen "So Long Marianne"
3. The Temptations "I Gotta Find a Way to Get You Back"
4. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "Your Funeral, My Trial"
5. Klaus Nomi "Simple Man"
6. Nico "You Forget to Answer"
7. The Smiths "Well I Wonder"
8. The Only Ones "Why Don't You Kill Yourself?"
9. Angelic Upstarts "Woman in Disguise"
10. The Ramones "She's the One"
11. Redd Kross "Bubblegum Factory"
12. Patti Smith "Redondo Beach"
13. The Rolling Stones "Under My Thumb"

Moz looks tres sharp in the GQ spread.

16 June 1904

...Know all men...time's ruins build eternity's mansions. What means this? Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time. Mark me now. In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall now pass away. This is the postcreation. Omnis caro ad te veniet.

-Stephen Dedalus