  I just looked up Miki Berenyi and found that we were born 3 years apart to the exact day .  And she's under my skin!  It's so weird.  I should say * spooky*  hee hee.
 Miki is amazing.  When I was going through my closet the other day,  I found some memorabilia.  One of the things I found was a post card with her photo on it.  It had been folded and run over by a car -  It had that ground-
in asphalt damage to it.  I scanned it and posted it up elsewhere.  Memories.  A friend back then,  what '94?  ten years ago,
 took me to an " eat and greet"  with her band,  LUSH.  She's pretty cool.  What's scary is I felt like I could relate to her energy I was listening to Split a couple days ago when I found the post card.
 We're from different countries ( London to LA)  we've had different lives but I feel like she can feel me it's weird!  Then to see we're born on the same day is just WEIRD.  LIGHT FROM A DEAD STAR He lives his life in a world full of women And he takes what he wants from their love And he throws the rest away I cling to him and pray But still he slips away And now it's just too late To wish him back again She won't put up with this life so she leaves him And she finds someone else,  falls in love And she travels far away I say that it's ok And swallow all my pain And now it's just too late To wish her back again They left me here on my own in a nightmare And I just can't forgive any more So I smile and turn away Don't listen when they say They wish that I could stay And now it's just too late To wish me back again (
Author:  M.  Berenyi)  *  *  *
 *  The " eat and greet"  was at Prince's LUNA PARK.  I'm fairly sure it belong( ed)
s to Prince.  We were outside on this patio area and she saw my shoes and whispered to a friend of hers that she liked my shoes.  I'd bought them the summer before in London,  ironically.  Made by a Brit designer.  at Shelley's.
 Oh Katherine Hamnett.  They look like Barbie's shoes,  the doll.  That classic 50's pin up thing,  but exactly like Barbie's shoes in black leather.  I remember seeing what appeared to be track marks on her arm.
 She just had this thing about her.  I've been wanting to write about her all week ever since I found the post card and started pouring over the CDs.  I mean,  she had GUTS,  serious guts.  Not so much because of how scarce women musician still were back then and for how she'd step out and be different in her style but for other reasons too.
 Her lyrics for her are deep dark and painful stuff and I'd read them and hear them and think how could she show this to people?  She's got this song about being molested when she was 8 and it's like,  kind of like weirdly shameful but then it's like she's giving her parents a slap in the face at the same time,  what's stronger?  By the way she stands up there on stage and performs you can see in her face she just didn't give a f'ck what people might think.  They weren't exactly the tightest band to play live either BUT what is also so awesome about this is her having the guts to bare the criticism and pressure of f'cking up repeatedly in front of an audience and still moving forward.
 That left a note in me,  I recall when I see her CD's and whatever that she pushes forward no matter what's really going on,  it helped and helps give me encouragement where otherwise there'd be none but my own I suppose.  I remember that particular night she was wearing a tank dress and she didn't shave her armpits ( she's British who cares)  and some guy said "
show us your pits"  and she thought he said .  you know.  and he said it a few times.  She finally said if you say that one more time I'm out of here!  mmmm.
 I have pictures of that night when they played,  I was just looking them over the other day.  Just another strange occurance from My Mod Closet.  What's even creepier?  On our birthday in 1999 they've got a band interview @  the VH1 site.
 what's up with this and that?  http: www. vh1. com/ artists/
news/ 512913/ 03171999/ lush. jhtml Other birthdays ( '99)
 Charley Pride,  61;  Wilson Pickett,  58;  John Hartman ( Doobie Brothers)
 49;  Bill Frisell,  48;  Irene Cara,  40;  Jeff LeBar (
Cinderella)  36;  Vanessa Williams,  36;  Jerry Cantrell ( Alice in Chains)
 33;  Queen Latifah,  29;  Stuart Zender ( Jamiroquai)  25;
 and Barry " B. J.  Wilson ( Procol Harum)  1947-
1989.
