Rev.Speats'Blog Cabin

The other night, the good Reverend's wife revealed she shares a birthday with perhaps the greatest and most underrated songwriter of his generation, Mr.Raymond Douglas Davies. So upon my fastly approaching one year wedding aniversary I'd just like to say to Mrs.Speats:

Girl, you really got me goin’
You got me so I don’t know what I’m doin
’Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can’t sleep at night

Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I don’t know what I’m doin’, now
Oh yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can’t sleep at night

You really got me
You really got me
You really got me

See, don’t ever set me free
I always wanna be by your side
Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I can’t sleep at night

Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I don’t know what I’m doin’, now
Oh yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can’t sleep at night

You really got me
You really got me
You really got me

Last night my TiVo told me that Bono and Brad Pitt had an "important message for me".

Well guys...I HAVEN'T GOT ALL BLOODY DAY!

"It's great to be asked to help Bob raise public awareness on the issues of third world debt and poverty. "The cynics will scoff, screw 'em! "Also, to be given the opportunity to put the band back together, even if it's only for a few numbers, is a big bonus." - Roger Waters

"Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world. It’s crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention then it’s got to be worthwhile." - David Gilmour

Somebody nominate Bob Geldof for the Nobel freakin' prize!

The overwhelming news of Pink Floyd reuniting for the Live 8 concerts takes its rightful place among the Great Floyd Moments In The History of Rev.Speats:

For the curious, here's a partial list:

1. Seeing Roger Waters live in 1985. My first concert, the ticket including handling charges was $14.50.
2. Seeing a double feature of The Wall and Pink Floyd At Pompeii (billed as "Pompa II") the same year at the Baronet Theater in lovely Canoga Park, CA.
3. Camping out the night before Roger Waters tickets went on sale at the Northridge Music Plus in fall 1987. For everything there is a first and LAST time.
4. Buying reunitedPink Floyd tix at the same Music Plus a few weeks later. Getting tix in July for a November show when you're 15 years old is like being told you can't drink until you're 35. Also it is important to note that I helped push Steve Perez's car up Corbin Street after said ticket purchase.
   
5. Getting into a car accident en route to Los Angeles Coliseum to see the Waters-less Floyd in 1988.
6. Acquiring my own copy of "Pink Floyd: A Visual Documentary Compiled By Miles" in 1991 after spending the previous five years combing over my friend Natalie's copy as if it were the Dead Sea Scrolls.
7. Getting chastised by various high school instructors for paying more attention to my copy of Nicholas Shaffner's Floyd biography "Saucerful of Secrets" the same year. Hey...Teacher(s.)..leave that Speats alone!!
8. Writing college English term paper on Syd Barrett in the Spring of 1994. The paper earns an A and brings a close friend to tears after reading it. It should be of note that onion-skin paper was not used for this assignment.
9. Seeing Roger Waters two nights in a row at the Universal Ampitheater in June of 2000....thanks to the modern miracle of credit cards, I enjoy the thrill of paying for those shows to this day.
10. Reading Nick Mason's biography of the band "Inside Out" whilst enjoying delicious complimentary honey-roasted peanuts on a recent Continental Airlines flight to Cancun, Mexico.

Best of all, the legions of emails from trusted comrades who alerted me to the impending Floyd reunion and who will join me in purchasing ridiculously expensive reunion tickets, I salute all of you.

Shine on you crazy diamonds!!

Top Ten Reasons I Haven't Posted Since Ford Was A President And Not An "Explorer":

1. The Runaway Bride of Duluth accused me of putting fingers in her chili, then selling my story to Wendy's.
2. Balding is a full time job.
3. Dennis DeYoung hasn't returned my calls.
4. Went to South Africa for "mental vacation".
5. Lecture tour of Vice Presidential Libraries took longer than expected.
6. Elmer's Glue is a helluva drug.
7. Kim Jong Ill just won't budge.
8. Went to Cancun to forget South Africa.
9. Pope Benedict burned all my notes against my will.
10. "More Than Friends"** (aka "When Laverne Met Meathead") was on Cinemax the other night and nothing distracts like a 1978 TV movie starring Penny Marshall and Rob Reiner as star-crossed lovers.

{**Directed by Jim Burrows and co-starring Joey Pants (Joe Pantoliano to the uninitiated) and Michael "David St.Hubbins" McKean, and featuring Laverne and Meathead arguing about bagels and lox, the Sunday New York Times, Bronx softball games, and the foibles of modern romance; this low-grade-proto-When Harry Met Sally begs the question: when did the good lord choose to make this film, and couldn't he have rested on that day too.}

With that said, I couldn't take my eyes away from the screen. I like my late night TV like I like my trainwrecks, full of Laverne & Meathead.