Kat is So Hott

Hott with two t’s, hell yeah!

This fine evening, let’s reflect upon the latest offering from Kid Rock, So Hott.

Normally, I am not a Kid Rock fan.  I know his music when I hear it, and I don’t dislike it, but I’ve never been moved to buy anything of his.  I don’t turn Kid Rock off when he comes on the radio, but I also don’t normally turn it up either.

Then along comes So Hott off his upcoming release Rock n Roll Jesus.  Oh me oh my…some reviewers of this little ditty have called this song lyrically weak.  I, however, deem it to be straight to the point and pretty darn great–I shan’t print the lyrics here, just know that the language has to be edited for radio play–and we all know that my opinion is the only one that matters in all things.

This song is nassssssssssssssty.  Everything about it will inspire women from all walks of life to climb up on a table and twirl their undies over their heads.  It makes me want to install a stripper pole in my house because I’m so hott.  Actually, I’m hottt, with three t’s.  The more t’s the better.  The guitar riff absolutely grinds, backed by percussion that slams the message home: so hott.

The first time I heard the song I was driving down I-40.  I had to pull over so I could roll around on the hood of my car like in a Whitesnake video with So Hott blaring out of my speakers.  This week, I have to take my car into the body shop to remove the buttock-shaped dents in the hood.

While this song is not a masterpiece to go down forever as work of art, it certainly works its own brand of magic.  Musical Viagra…what could be sweeter than that on a Friday night?

Just another Friday night in Ashevegas

Friday night was fun, ya’ll!  Where were ya?  All the hot action was going down at Fred’s Speakeasy with a crazy lineup of Automanic, Luxury Pushers and Crank County Daredevils.  Thanks to my bro being fashionably late as always, I missed most of Automanic’s set.  Luxury Pushers were super cool (hunt ’em down on myspace) although I really wanted to give their guitarist a blood transfusion and a peanut butter sandwich; I could pick my teeth with that boy…but any band that opens their set with a few lines from “America” by Neil Diamond is ok in my book.

The crowd was happy as hell it was Friday, friendly and mostly drunk.  There was dancing and flailing for Luxury Pushers, which if you know Asheville’s music scene like I do, is insane–seldom will Ashevillians get up and show love to the headlining band, nevermind the opening bands. 

The bathroom at Fred’s is haunted.  My sis in law announced this to me early in the evening.  My own investigation led me to the same conclusion, so don’t pee alone in the Speakeasy ladies room.  One of the employees overheard us talking and threw in her own two cents of agreement.

By the time Crank County got rolling, the crowd that was drunk for Luxury Pushers was now wasted, but still friendly.  A mosh pit formed in front of the band, and for reasons I can’t understand, the men of the pit felt it best that they pull their shirts off.  Heh heh heh, ok, let me jump in there.  Makin’ friends with shirtless sweaty men, yeah.  One of my new friends felt compelled to give me random shoulder massages between songs.  Had I not been feeling a gentle Jager buzz, I probably would’ve punched him in the nose—no one touches the Katster without permission, especially when I don’t even know your name, but as I mentioned, it was a really friendly crowd, so I was going with the flow.  Good gawd it was hot, and I shouted out to my bro that I needed water, but he dissed me entirely!

Crank County put on their usual high octane show, but because the “stage” at Fred’s is just a corner of the room, the band is on the same level with the audience.  Audience members from the mosh pit are spilling over into the band, singing spontaneous backup vocals, good stuff.  By the time they rolled into their ass-kicking cover of GnR’s “It’s So Easy,” they’d just given up control of the vocals to the crowd entirely.  It was awesome, really fun.

Post show, we weren’t eager to leave Fred’s, we were having too much fun.  Bro, Sis in Law, and two super hottie rock stars from local bands were hanging with me at the bar.  I’m drinking water (thank god for water, thank you anonymous super hottie rock star for getting me water) and high five-ing my mosh pit brothers as they amble off into the night—some of them have located their shirts, some of them are wandering away without one.  We’re all just chillin’, shootin’ the shit.  It’s time for Fred’s to start closing up shop, so we hijack the super hottie rock stars in my brother’s vehicle, the BroMobile, and take our soiree to Denny’s.

Denny’s around 3 AM is a very strange place.  They have security guards in place to keep the peace should a brawl over maple syrup break out.  Everyone else in the place looked pretty cranky and tired, but our table was rowdy and happy—and maybe a little too loud, it’s hard to judge how loud you’re talking when your ears are ringing. 

Food at that late/early hour is good.  Any food at that hour is good…except, apparently, for the bacon (“oh my god, I think I might puke, that bacon is horrible, try it, no, really try it.  I think it’s raw, taste it.”) and some mysterious pancakes of evil (“I didn’t order pancakes.  Why are there pancakes here?”).  My bro redeemed himself for being late and letting me dehydrate at Fred’s by paying for my chow.

We drove our first super hottie rock star home and left him with his box of Satan’s pancakes of the damned…and as we were chauffering our second super hottie rock star home, that’s when the full belly sleepiness started washing over me and I couldn’t sit up straight. 

I was dropped off at home, locked the door behind me and started to strip on my way to the washer to deposit the funky laundry.  The smell of cigarette smoke and the sweat of mosh pit men was pretty gross; I had to wash the clothes immediately.  I wanted a shower, but couldn’t make it another step, collapsing on my bed, instantly asleep.  Good fun, good times, just another Friday night in Ashevegas.

OK, I’ve been told I’ve gone all wimpy

I’ve been too f’ing sensitive lately.  So today’s song lyrics are much beloved to me, uplifting, full of good cheer.  Name that band, and don’t cheat by googling the lyrics, weasels:

And when I get your blood I rip your throat
Your blood I rip your throat
I want your blood, I rip your throat
To drink some blood

or how about this one:

 Black dress moves in a blue movie
Graverobbers from outer space

or:

They pick up every movement
They pick up every loser

Don’t cheat! Name that band, for extra love name each tune.  The first person to get it right gets…well, I guess that depends who’s the first person to get them right what I’d give them…

Off on another tangent…

We’ll start this new tangent with a lyric…mainly because I don’t want to go back to the previous post and explain anything…so we’re off on a new subject.

Oh, I used to be confused
But now I just don’t know
Since you left I’ve been watching
Blue skies come and go

a-ha, The Blue Sky

One summer when I was a teen, I met Johnny P. at an Urban Spelunkers show.  A little bit skate rat, a little bit poet, very much a bad boy that was loved by few and disliked by many.  Smitten smitten smitten.  He was living with Kevin, the local dead ringer for Judd Nelson; I don’t remember why exactly Johnny was holed up at Kevin’s house since it’s been around 20 years, but it would seem that Johnny had some kind of trouble at home.  And we spent some time together, hung out on the long, leisurely teenage days, and then he was leaving, taking off for Atlanta.

I felt like my heart was being ripped in two at the news he was leaving.  Who else was going to call me and speak to me in French? (no one has since Johnny)

He used to wear split rings, like keyrings, in the top eyelets of his Chucks (we all wore Chucks, we couldn’t afford Docs).  On the porch at Kevin’s house the night before he was leaving town, Johnny gave me one of the rings from his Chucks.  (It stayed in that shoe until I wore holes in my sneakers, years I wore it)  I gave him my favorite hat, which was probably some Vision Streetwear something or other.  He told me to go home and listen to The Blue Sky by a-ha.  I told him to listen to A Night Like This by The Cure on the way to Atlanta.

As I walked down the steps at Kevin’s, I told myself I wouldn’t look back, I wouldn’t look back.  But I did, and Johnny was still standing there, watching me go, and he said “bye” one more time and that’s when I had to speed it up, to run actually, to my friend’s waiting car so I wouldn’t burst into tears in front of him.

I never saw him again.

It goes dark, it goes darker still
Please stay
But I watch you like I’m made of stone
As you walk away
I’m coming to find you if it takes me all night

The Cure, A Night Like This

But wait there’s more today: in praise of Justin Timberlake

Yes, yes, it hit me in my bubble bath just minutes ago that I must also praise the Justin Timberlake song in my head.  No rest until I get it out in the open.

Wait-what? Justin Timberlake?  Yes.  Don’t be shocked.  He puts together little nuggets of pop perfection, not unlike Michael Jackson back when he was a cute black man (“Thriller!” “PYT!” “Bad!” you know you liked those songs, too), as opposed to whatever he does these days as a frightening white woman. 

Yes.  Justin Timberlake.  The song that was in my head as I soaked in my fragrant bubble bath was “Love Stoned/I Think She Knows Interlude.”  I think that is the coolest phrase, ever so perfect, “Love Stoned.”  Short, sweet, daydreamy, lost in something fantastic.  Say it. You know you want to.  Text it to someone.  “Love Stoned.” Download it and shake your derriere around in the living room with the blinds closed.  I won’t tell.

Those flashing lights come from everywhere
The way they hit her I just stop and stare
I’m love stoned from everywhere and she knows
I think that she knows

~~Justin Timberlake

Darn you, Diggity–random Suburbia ranting

Ok, I had to watch Suburbia tonight.  It’s been nagging at me since we got on the subject of TSOL and the Vandals and me swapping spit with Bruce when I was 15.  Darn you, Diggity, you brought this whole thing up.

If you haven’t watched Suburbia before, well, I would say it might be too late for you.  Maybe if you grew up as a teen in a trench coat and a tshirt held together with safety pins, you could watch it and get it.  Otherwise, I think it might be lost on you.

I’d forgotten how bad ass hot the character Jack is in that movie!  And how STUPID all the female characters are, oh my god, stupid.  The male characters and the concerts remind me so much of growing up in Asheville and throwing ourselves around the loading dock of the Chesterfield Mill or the Spider’s Web or Squashpile to our favorite bands, and how music and friendship was absolutely everything in that moment.

And crap! I’d forgotten how horribly the movie ends!  Geez.  But at least it’s out of my system for the moment–the movie, not the music.