Just snagged 2 general admission tickets to see the Pixies Doolittle tour at the Hollywood Palladium! Who’s coming with me?

A story: Doolittle is my favorite record. It was released when I was in eighth grade, and I bought it shortly thereafter because I liked “Here Comes Your Man” and my 5th grade band teacher’s name was Mr. Doolittle, which is the best reason to buy a record. It totally blew my mind and turned me from a dabbler in rock and roll to a full-fledged music geek. A few months later, my friend Rion wanted me to go see Sinead O’ Connor with him. I was not a huge fan of Sinead, so I said no, a decision I would later come to regret … I am now able to admit that it would’ve been pretty cool to see Sinead O’ Connor when she was still all screamy and angry and not a kabbaleh priestess or whatever she is now.

Rion was mad at me because he was the kind of guy who would get mad at people and then show up the next day at school with candy and give everyone a piece except the person he was mad at. Years later, after we graduated from high school, he told me that he was so mad, in fact, that a few weeks after Sinead, he went to see the Pixies on the original Doolittle tour without telling me. It was like a dagger in my heart. A Pixies dagger.

A few years later, I got the chance to see them on the Trompe le Monde tour, but it wasn’t the same. It was in a seated venue, our tickets were crappy, and the band members hated each other. I also went to the last reunion tour in New York … it was my first date with my now wife … and they were good. But it wasn’t as good as seeing Doolittle.

With this tour, the Pixies are finally giving me the chance to reconcile my years of anger at having been left out in the cold the first time around. Now if Sinead would just do a Lion and the Cobra tour, maybe we could wipe that miserable fall of 1989 off the map forever.