it's my party...

tomorrow, i'm turning 21. staying typical to 20-year-old angst that didn't wane with the loss of my teen years, i'll be spending the entire day alone. kinda by choice, kinda not. i've already managed to piss off a bunch of people here in hollyweird, and i'm pretty indifferent about the whole thing. besides, birthdays have never been the balls-out event for me that they have been for everyone else. another year, whatever. at least now i don't have to use a fake id to see most of the shows i wanna go to. i don't drink, so it's not gonna be drunkfest 5000 over here, but i will prolly go to a couple of bars just 'cos i can now. anyone know of a place where the gin is cold but the piano's hot? and by gin i mean coca-cola. and by piano, i mean jukebox. yeah, i'm square.

in celebration of my upcoming non-birthday, i've decided to post a fucking rad promo video of "nick the stripper" by none other than nick cave and the birthday party. watch as nick goes off at some pre-burning man bon fire rave.



they don't make music videos like this anymore. oh yeah, and fuck you, mtv.

...and in case you were wondering what nick cave is up to these days, he's in a sick new band called grinderman, which features current members of the bad seeds. it's pretty rad, 'cos their website featured the "grinderman podcast" which is a series of recording fragments from the band's writing sessions.

check out this awesome clip of them performing "honey bee (let's fly to mars)" live on bbc2's later... with jools holland on may 11.



yeahhhhhh, he's still got it, 25 years later.

their debut self-titled album is OUT NOW. check it out. seriously. no, i'm serious. do it. now. go. seriously.