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I’m sleepy, The Cure, and Sears finale

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Ok, I am wiped out! I’m not used to working all day and then going out until 10 pm. My parents came over and we went to Old Country Buffet for dinner because everyone but me loves that place. I don’t hate it, I just don’t go out of my way for buffets because the food typically isn’t good. This OCB wasn’t bad, though. And the kids love it, so what can you do?

After dinner we went to this miniature golf place that we drive past all the time and have been meaning to check out. It’s fairly new and quite nice. I had a coupon but they had some family special and we ended up saving a bundle. Or I should say my mom did since she insisted on paying for everything. The kids are finally in bed and I’m probably not too far behind them. I have to make sure I’m up in time to buy Cure tickets tomorrow.

Speaking of, the presale today wasn’t much better than yesterday’s. At least it allowed two tickets at a time, but all the seats were lower level in the back. Although now that it’s too late someone informed me that those have a good line of sight. Oh well, hopefully I’ll get lucky and score decent tickets tomorrow. If not, at least I will be able to hear them no matter where we’re sitting. I’ll get tickets one way or another; it’s not like they are going to sell out. I may love them, but I’m realistic about their popularity. Although something has to be said for the fact that they are still successfully touring over 25 years after they formed but Kelly Clarkson had to cancel her tour due to poor ticket sales.

I finally picked up my Sears packages on Monday and wouldn’t you know it, nothing fit but the shoes. Wednesday I took back two shirts, two bras and the duplicate pair of shoes for a refund. Since they credited me for the more expensive shipping, I’m not going to ask that they credit the other one as I would have paid for one order’s shipping anyway. They never credited me the price difference for the shirt, but since I took both back, it’s a moot point now. I doubt I will ever order online again from them because it was such a hassle. Plus it’s too hard buying clothes without being able to try them on first. Even the bra which was my size and a brand I already own was too small. Bleh.

Cure presale

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You know you’ve been domesticated when ordering a new toaster oven gets you all excited. Not bad for $9.99 (after rebate) though, huh?

Do you know what doesn’t make me excited? Dealing with Ticketbastard pre-sales. I tried to order tickets to The Cure concert today via the pre-sale code posted at The Cure’s website and not only could I not find any seats unless I was willing to purchase one ticket at a time, but even that seat, while on the main floor, was way in the back. Who the hell goes to a concert alone? Ridiculous! Even worse is that stubhub.com had tons of tickets in the front. WTF? How do the scalpers get all the good seats?

It sickens me that the true fans, who were bitching up a storm at The Cure’s site (and who can blame them), can’t get decent seats unless they are robbed blind by the scalpers. It’s a conspiracy! I wish everyone would band together and refuse to buy tickets from scalpers so they’d stop the act. It’s disgusting, and I think it should be illegal to sell any tickets above face value. Also, I think Ticketmaster assists the scalpers. I bet they sell the better seats to the scalpers above face value so they can make extra money and then the scalpers just bump up the price further. There are tickets online for over $250 a piece! I love The Cure, but I’m not willing to pay that much for tickets. Especially not to see them at the shitty Allstate Arena. I’d really like to take a survey of all the people in the first 50 rows to find out how they got their tickets.

I really feel sorry for some of those fans. They were so desperate to get what they thought would be better seats during the presale that they bought whatever they could get their hands on. Some even bought the tickets one at a time and now are trying to locate someone holding the ticket to the seat next to them to see if they’d be willing to swap. So sad, and pathetic. Is this what we’ve been reduced to because they can’t come up with a better way to reward the loyal fans who buy every album their favorite band releases? We have to stoop to scalpers and e-bay just to get a glimpse at the band whose pocketbooks we are lining with our devotion? If they truly cared enough about their fans, they wouldn’t allow that shit to happen.

Anyway, there’s a radio-sponsored pre-sale tomorrow morning so I’m going to try that one as well. Not that I expect any better results. I realize they only release particular seats during a pre-sale, but are you telling me the band couldn’t get better choice seating for their fans? I hate Ticketmaster so much, but luckily for them I love The Cure more than I hate them or I wouldn’t even bother.

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me & More

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The Cure will be releasing three more remastered albums with bonus material this year.

The Glove’s Blue Sunshine is scheduled for release on June 5th, 2006 in Europe, and The Top, The Head On The Door & Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me are scheduled for release on July 3rd, 2006 in Europe.

I can only assume the U.S. releases will be around that same time. Oh and the new album they are working on isn’t due until the 4th quarter which means no summer tour. Boo-hoo.

Blue Sunshine

Full track listing as follows:

CD 1

Like An Animal
Looking Glass Girl
Sex Eye Make Up
Mr. Alphabet Says
A Blues In Drag
Punish Me With Kisses
This Green City
Orgy
Perfect Murder
Relax
The Man From Nowhere (Original Instrumental Mix)
Mouth To Mouth (Landray Vocal Mix)
Punish Me With Kisses (Hedges 7″ Mix)
The Tightrope (Original Instrumental Mix)
Like An Animal (12″ Club?, What Club? Mix)

CD 2

Like An Animal (Robert Smith Vocal)
Looking Glass Girl (Robert Smith Vocal)
Sex Eye Make Up (Robert Smith Vocal)
Mr. Alphabet Says (Alternative Robert Smith Vocal)
A Blues In Drag (Alternative Robert Smith Vocal)
Punish Me With Kisses (Robert Smith Vocal)
This Green City (Robert Smith Vocal)
Orgy (Robert Smith Vocal)
Perfect Murder (Alternative Robert Smith Vocal)
Relax (Alternative Robert Smith Vocal)
The Man From Nowhere (Alternative Instrumental Mix)
Mouth To Mouth (Robert Smith Vocal)
Opened The Box (A Waltz) (Robert Smith Vocal)
The Tightrope (Robert Smith Vocal)
And All Around The Mermaids Sang (AKA Torment) (Robert Smith Vocal)
Holiday 80 (AKA Mine Eye Offends Me (Instrumental)

Disintegration

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Looks like there’s a bit of a war going on in the posted comments (under the News section) at the official Cure site after a particularly upsetting rumor was posted to a widely known fan site, Chain of Flowers, regarding members of The Cure leaving the band. So now there’s a blurb on the official site that says “REMEMBER: www.thecure.com deals in NEWS not RUMOURS”. Seems to me like a personal jab.

I was tempted to post my thoughts at the site, but felt it would be more befitting to unleash here instead and avoid all the drama. I tend to be long-winded and have often turned a comment into a full-blown editorial. :)

The thing is, both sides of this little argument have points, although for me I admit I am leaning toward siding with the underdog, Craig. Personally, it disgusts me when some people automatically take Robert Smith’s side because a) they are butt-kissers who think by defending the man he might send them a personal email or become their friend (fat chance) and b) he’s not a god, just a very talented person who has made some great music over the years.

But honestly, who do you think is out there caring more about the fans: this guy running the fan site and investing all his time for no paycheck, or Robert Smith? One fan argued that Robert doesn’t need “us”. Oh really? I think he damn well does need our hard-earned cash or he wouldn’t be in business. Another fan mentioned that Robert must love the fans to be re-releasing past albums with new material. Not necessarily. The man just has good business sense. “Let’s get the fans to pay for re-hashed material all over again. We’ll just slap some outtakes and old live stuff on there to give them a reason to own two copies of Seventeen Seconds”.

Look, I bought the reissues too, and will buy anything else the band releases, but frankly, that bonus material is nothing to write home about. Let’s just chalk it up to what it is: a way to make more money. Call me skeptical, jaded or negative, but that’s what it comes down to. I’m not so in love with the band that I can’t see it for what it really is. Maybe if this was the 80’s and they were still releasing a new album every year, I’d come to their defense and agree it’s “all about the music”. But when they’ve been recording a new album once every four years and from between 1995 to present have put out more live and re-issued material than anything else, it’s hard not to see it being about the financial gain.

So this guy posts something that turns out to be untrue and suddenly the very same people who have his site bookmarked and probably visit it five times a day are jumping down his throat for an innocent mistake. Then they bring up the fact that not everything on his site shows the band in a favorable light. Since when was being a fan about blind worship? This is the very same crap that I used to get into heated debates about on the now defunct alt.music.thecure newsgroup because I had the “audacity” to not like a particular Cure song. Oooo shame on me! This whole “if you can’t say anything good about the band, then you’re not a true Cure fan” shit has got to stop already. It’s really pathetic.

That being said, I hope Craig doesn’t take down his site because of this. Regardless of what people are saying in the posts at The Cure site, there is no denying that Chain of Flowers has been a very informative and helpful site to the many people who love The Cure, and it would be missed. Yes, Robert is correct that the official site only posts facts, but for how often these facts are posted, without COF there would be a large hole left in our quest for Cure information.