This is my favourite kid in all the world. He's not really a kid anymore at nineteen and with several million albums sold and world tours under his super fashionable belt, but he's still my little baby brother and will stay that way forever. Despite being a good Barbie doll taller than me, Alfred is always going to be my little buggy and for the record, no one else is allowed to call him either of those thing - Alfred or Buggy - because that is Aubrey Exclusive and he even hates it when I call him that. But I do anyway. I get away with it because I'm me.
So at 7am yesterday I made it to LAX to welcome this perfect little bug to America, waiting with coffee and love, and a tiny I <3 LA t-shirt for my dogniece who also came. Having the two of them here has made my month, and has made all the bullshit I've been putting up with worth it. I don't know how long he's staying, hopefully until after my birthday (which is in 19 days) or actually I'd like to keep him forever but I can't be selfish and do that, the world loves my Bug and I have to share. Reluctantly.
I can't get over how talented my little brother is and I know I am not the only one out here awed by his awesomeness (I check the Soundwave boards every day mostly and none of you ever believe its me but it is!) but I have watched this kid be amazing since he was whacking mum in the gut from the inside and looked like a little beetle on the screen - hence his nickname, Bug. I remember him banging on pots and pans before he could stand up, and sitting between August and I pounding away on the piano before he was tall enough to reach the keys without getting pulled up - and actually somehow making it melodic. I remember when he stole the show at a filming he and I and a few of our other siblings were in for Uncle Murray, and how impressed everyone was when I'd tell them that was my nine year old brother playing Hotel California from inside. I guess what I am saying is, he's always been this amazing at what he does, and it's always blown me away. I was jealous of it when we were little, but now I just feel my heart explode with pride. I'm going to talk him in an LA show while he was here, and America will get to see for themselves what I am talking about. This kid is a genius, and not only is he brlliant, but he is the sweetest person I've ever known - how many rockstars do you know who hold doors for ladies (not just the super hot ones either, all of them) and still live at home because they just love their family so much? Not many - just my Bug, the greatest rockstar who ever lived.
Anyway, I have to awaken the Most Talented Kid In The Universe from his jetlagged beauty sleep now, and know for a fact he is going to punch me in the stomach for writing all this sap about him. Oh well, it's true and he knows it.
