And it’s just getting started — and even though I have to do boring stuff today, I’m still just really happy.

I’ve decided to go to the shooting range on Thursday, when I don’t have anything else planned, because today I have to go get that work done on my Honda, which could take 15 minutes or 3 hours…. and I don’t want to be late for that.

And then I have to go to a mandatory semi-annual event that the Agency is having this evening. And I want to be DON’T want to be late for that…

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Okay!

Not only did Sandra and I get some great work done on the script yesterday afternoon — but we also got my plane ticket!!

So it is official! I’ll be in NYC from July 6th through July 10th, to work primarily with Sandra, the Music Director and the dramaturge. I can’t wait!!

However.

The moment I got off the phone with Sandra, Valerie in Brooklyn texted me to tell me that Sly Stone had passed away.

It’s just not something you ever think of happening, right?

What an icon from my wee bonny girlhood!!

This is how I remember him best —

— in 1974, when he got married at Madison Square Garden, in NYC, in front of thousands of fans.

It sort of typifies those wild days in the 70s.

He had way too many songs that I loved to be able to pick a favorite, but certainly, this one is way up there! “Everyday People”, 1970. What a classic! (I used to play this song over and over and over…)

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So I have some shuffling around to do on the script — nothing too major. No actual re-writes.

And then the rest of my brain is focused on my novel, The Curse of Our Profound Disorder.

I can’t tell you what a feeling this is, gang. When I read over what I wrote 26 years ago, I am usually just astounded by the images I was putting on paper back then. And I have to say that, even though this is fiction, it is — as usual — based on stuff that either happened to me, or someone in my birth family, or to girls I knew in the 70s and 80s.

Life was so fucking harsh. I just can’t believe it sometimes. The book is so raw. But I am just so glad I put it down on paper while I still remembered it all.

Of course, reading over it, it all comes back to me. But I don’t think I would have ever remembered most of this stuff if I hadn’t put it down all those years ago.

I’m going to be posting some more excerpts to my Substack page, starting today, but I won’t post too many more, since the idea is that I want people to actually buy the book…

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All righty!!!

What starts today??? [HINT: In Switzerland!!]

Yes, that’s correct. Nick Cave’s Solo Tour of Europe, with Colin Greenwood on bass. It is sold out but a few tickets for other shows are still available HERE.

And I guess this will be my final photo from my desktop stash. After tonight, I’ll post new photos from the tour!!

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Okay. I’m going to get on to other things here before I have to go visit the delightful guys at the Honda dealership.

Have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Our Daily Feature continues!

Gifts Keith Richards gave me when I was a wee bonny girl!!

Wherein I regale you with “songs Keith loved, that he would talk about in an interview in some magazine, and then I’d go out and try to find the record and then buy it with my babysitting money, and then I’d listen to it alone in my intense little room, playing it on the portable record player that my dad bought me, and the song would change my life. “

Today’s selection!! 

This one is sort of a two-for-one. A Sly Stone song and — yes! — sung by the incredible Ike & Tina Turner!! Boy, did I love them!!

I first saw photos of Tina, specifically, backstage with Keith & Mick at Madison Square Garden when Ike & Tina were the opening act for the Stones. And then I immediately went out and bought the double-album: The Ike & Tina Turner Revue LIVE at Carnegie Hall, 1971, and, honestly, it just blew my mind. I was about 12 going on 13.

Below, they are live at Carnegie Hall, singing a HUGE hit by Sly & the Family Stone, “I Wanna Take You Higher”. I just can’t state enough how incredible all this music was to me back then. Okay, enjoy, gang.