Siren Songs
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Another Pixies post? Heck yes. I'd like to share one of those moments we sometimes have, like when you realize you've been singing the "wrong" lyric of a favorite song all these years and never bothered to look it up, probably because it suits ya just fine. Anyway, going to see the Pixies summer of 2005 in Boston (where else?) with my best friend of now almost 20 years was a lifetime highlight. We tried talking other fans into going, but everyone thought it too complicated. Silly fools. Just as well, we realized as we set off on the app. 7 hour drive. This was perfect. The Pixies had provided the best possible soundtrack to our lives since about grade 10, thereabouts. Nobody that we knew had as much undying love for the Pixies as us. We had just enough time to check in to our hotel, grab a quick bite and head down to Agganis Arena. I was waiting in line for beers (our 2nd I think?)when they started playing, I had just put in my order - "hurry up, man! they're starting, they're starting!" (this in a friendly frenzy, not a rude way)and I rushed back sloshing beer on the way. Kathleen grabbed me (no,probably grabbed the beer) and said "I was worried! I couldn't believe you were gonna miss the beginning!", or something to that effect. The goosebumps started and remained, well, the whole drive back the next day (worst sleep-deprived hangover EVER). We danced the whole time, and kept looking at each other in disbelief and bursting into laughter, permagrins while singing our hearts out. And ya know I had tears in my eyes at some points, 'cause I'm a sap like that. After the 5th song, they paused long enough for Kim to say her usual "thanks a lot!", and I screamed "KIIIIIIIIIIM!" as loud and long as I could from the back of the arena, up in the stands. I didn't really think about it, I just did it. A wave of laughter spread through the arena all the way up to the stage, and on my recording of that show you hear Charles laugh as he kicks into No. 13 Baby. For a smoker, I have pretty good lungs.Fucking great. Dear reader, here we finally arrive at my original point - Where Is My Mind? was the 16th song they played that night, and as it started I had an epiphany. You see, I had never really thought about it all those years, and somehow I thought it was Charles doing those haunting calls. How could I possibly think it was Charles? He can do really cool things with his voice, and I had never considered how that would play out live. But still - WTF? Weird brainfart. But that's ok, I don't mind looking stupid. Because of that moment when I turned to Kathleen and said "Oh my god! Kim's a siren!" And she smiled back at me, well, we both already knew that.
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