Last weekend I went and saw The Wet Spots perform at Kinky Salon. I was so in love with the venue and The Wet Spots that I forgot to mention that I also adored their opening act - Mark Growden. Since the show was so amazing, I decided to go catch The Wet Spots again last night over at the Center for Sex and Culture before they head back out of town.

The experience was different, of course, because the venue was different. The Center for Sex and Culture is a great important space but it’s not Kinky Salon. nevertheless, The Wet Spots were still flirtatious and fun. The crowd was still sex-positive and excited to be there. And the intro hostess was Carol Queen which is just a treat.

I’ll digress for a moment to say that I was really excited to see Carol Queen in person for the first time. You see, the very first book that I ever read about alternative sexuality was Pomosexuals (coauthored by Queen) which I discovered back in my late teens in my hometown’s alternative independent book store. The book introduced me to the theory of sexuality that was only beginning to form in my own mind. I pulled quotes out of it and pinned them to my wall where I could see them and explore my thoughts more. I remember clearly one quote that about being glad that we’re all really just little kids wanting to stick our fingers in out of sigh places. I don’t remember if that quote was a Carol Queen quote or from some other part of the book (or maybe even from some other book I read around the same time since the book encouraged me to find other similar books to help me define and not-define myself.) It’s been a long time since that time in my life and I see Carol Queen’s name everywhere when I’m looking up events to attend but this was the first time I actually saw her in person and I have to say that it was this moment of really feeling like I’d finally landed comfortably in the life that I’d been wanting to have as mine for a long time.

But, I digress … the point of this post is to mention that I’d forgotten to mention Mark Growden but he was the opening act for The Wet Spots at Kinky Salon and preceded them again last night and I adored everything about both performances. He is passionate when he plays … he makes you want to be the accordion in his hands … and his flirty, sexy, intelligent songs are worth a second listen when you’re back home alone and trying to find something to download on iTunes.

The song that I fell in love with is The Nasty which Growden played at Kinky Salon. It’s an “I Miss You” song that takes this really sweet tune and enhances with detailed lyrics about missing “doing the nasty with you”. Growden didn’t play that one last night at CSC but it lingered in my mind from last weekend and I hunted it down online to add to my own sexy music library. It’s on the same playlist as The Wet Spots “Somebody Else” which is my favorite song of the moment.

Growden has two shows next week - at The Dark Room on the 29th and at The Regency Hotel on Halloween. Go enjoy him.

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