For those of you who haven't heard, one of my favorites of 2009 was arrested a couple weeks ago. A few days before he traveled to Tennessee for the Bonaroo festival, Scott Mescsdi was arrested in New York for criminal mischief and possession of a controlled substance. Apparently that controlled substance was liquid cocaine and the criminal mischeif involved breaking a women's cell phone and breaking her apartment door off its hinges. And while the police report does not say whether Cudi was intoxicated at the time, I can't imagine that is something a sober person does. He managed to post bail on Friday and make it to Tennessee on Saturday.
The reason I care about this story is entirely selfish. Kid Cudi is currently number one of my list of people I want to see live. He is scheduled to come to Chicago in September, which I actually got ina email and haven't seen on any of the websites run by his management, but I still trust it. If a hearing or trial or whatever interferes with his planned trip to Chi city I'm going to be thoroughly disappointed. I had been planning on seeing him in the Spring when he was opening for Lady Gaga. I wasn't even that interested in seeing Gaga, even though those shows are supposed to be as artistically interesting as Michael Jackson or Elton John. What I really cared about was Kid Cudi. That show didn't happen because he left the tour after he jumped off the stage at a show in Vancouver and punched a fan in the face. The fan found a wallet that was not his, through it on stage, Cudi thought he was throwing things at him, and took action. Since then Cudi has blamed alcohol for his actions. Once again I don't really care about the reason, more that I have not gotten to see him live. So this is a plea for Kid Cudi to get a control on his substance consumption, or at least a control on his actions while taking those substances, because even though you were able to play Bonaroo, you haven't been to Chicago in a while.
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