CJ, 5/8/2013 State Street

The weather was swell on Wednesday. It's been a long, rough winter. Wednesday was all sun shine and 70s/80s and glorious. Around 2:30pm or so our own private David Lovering texts our intrepid band of Pixies impostors..."rehearse outside? Ha, Ha." Figures me, well if the drummer is willing who can deny him? And so there we were three hours later caravan-ing to busk (not having even thought enough about the situation to think to carpool).  We played until about 7:45pm and mostly the set from Busking for Books. We made $13. 

I was prompted to post the following the next day in a different venue

"Observation: If you say to a crowd of people "we will play any Pixies song for you" 10% will keep walking. 85% will stare at you blankly and say "just play your best or favorite song". 4% will smile widely and say "hey" or "where is my mind" or "monkey gone to heaven". 0.99% will have an orgasm on the spot and pass out. After you revive them they'll ask you to play something off Surfer Rosa probably. 0.01% will sing along or do something else odd even though they have no idea what you are playing or possibly even where they are. (Note: Not in this list is the one person who knows you and asks for something really hard or that they know you don't really know yet just to be a dick.)"

and also this:

" CJ had a little help during our impromptu busking style rehearsal on State Street last night. A fellow joined in about 5 songs from the end. He did not know the Pixies but he sang along anyway. His rendition of Debaser sounded oddly just like this demo version, only I'm pretty sure he was saying "Da Basement" instead of "Debaser" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnkR4khikh0&feature=share&list=PL66D677C7F9FC9C78 He also, of course, asked us for money after the set was over."

Twas a fine evening outdoors and perhaps the most impromptu thing we've ever done.

I do think that all this pick holding is giving me arthritis in my thumb tho.