A Porcupine Tree Grows in Madrid

This is no rehearsal
- play it back and throw things at the screen
This is no rehearsal -
- somebody interpret this for me
-Porcupine Tree


Happy October! I got a hair cut.

I feel pretty, oh so pretty!



No Mum, i didn't get it cut short.

I feel like letting my freak flag fly
-David Crosby

bang the drum slowly

Young Colin Tietjen is learning how to play the drums! He has my kit. H said they brought the snare and a bag of sticks i had to the shop. The teacher said something about my having Neal Peart 7a models, and then started to explain who Neil Peart is. But Colin, being Kevin's progeny, quickly informed him that he totally knew who Neil Peart is. And thus, a bond was formed between teacher and student! How sweet is that? He's 8 and he knows the scoop.

You can check out any time you like but you can never leave....

Porcupine Tree is playing here next Friday. I tried to buy tickets on the Internet (like in a developed country) but it would have been 15 Euros to mail them! The ticket was only 25! So i went to the FNAC store ticket outlet. It took a half-hour in line. When i finally got to the window it said "agotado" next to the band's name. I pulled out my dictionary and of course it said; exhausted; sold out.

"Bitches Brew!" I said aloud. It seemed odd that it was sold out since they're not that popular. But it would explain why I've seen no promotion - no posters or anything. There were only two more people in front of me, so i decided to roll the bones and give it a shot. After all, this is fucking Madrid.

5 minutes later i walked up and said, "Una entrada por Porcupeeen Tree (as they pronounce it here)."

"Solo una?" She asked. Yes, I told her. Only one.

"27 Euros," she said, and gave me a ticket. Go figure. This entire city is an anomaly in the time space continuum. Good thing i stuck it out. I've been here long enough to know nothing here is ever what it seems. Ever.

Madrid is an entity unto itself. It's like the Island in Lost. And like the Oceanic Six, it doesn't want me to leave.

I need to plan my escape.