with a banjo on my knee
uncle tomdog is gonna housesit fer me while im gone,
so if youre in LA treat him right.
i will take lots of pics of my neice and nephew,
and i hope theyre still as cute as cajun girl
im heading to chicago
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Monthly Archives: September 2009
i cant believe i hadnt seen michael jordans
today was a little sad at the end
cuz i didnt see my boss all day so i wasnt able to say bye
which might have been just as well cuz it would have been sad.
we had a great run. three million to twenty million in less than two years. the hard way.
three blogs in the technorati top 100.
meanwhile the site as a whole became the fastest growing big newspaper site over the last year.
during a time when most big newspaper sites, because of a variety of serious reasons, have either lost audience, or barely increased at all.
it is the end of an era, and a very classy era, all because of her.
speaking of ends, one more thing you should know about my boss. early on it could have very easy for her to say hey i think its in everyones best interest to get rid of the busblog. and i would have totally understood. but she said no the blog editor should have a blog, and she loved the busblog, especially on ask tony days.
i believe the reason i didnt see her today was because they were trying to drain every last drop of magic from her brain.
in which case i hope they work overtime.
video thanks to mark johnson and darryl sweet
no matter what happens i heart you
from my In Box
On Sale Friday! Devo!
night 1, DEVO will perform “Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!”
night 2 it will “Freedom of Choice”. Both albums will be performed in their entirety.
With every online ticket purchase, you’ll receive 3 exclusive, never-before-heard DEVO demo versions of: “Turn Around,” “Whip It” and “Red Shark.”
November 3rd & 4th / Music Box @ Fonda / Doors: 8pm / $42, $52, $102 (includes a meet & greet!) / on sale 9/18 @ 10am
meanwhile god bless the Silversun Pickups for being just enough like smashing pumpkins to harken back past memories, and being just enough original to create new ones.
and videos like the one on top are my favorite sort of lo-budget + humor to make everything go down so smoothly
went to see ozzy this weekend. he played on the street.
hung out with these people
he rocked harder than all of the previous bands on that stage combined
when he raised his hands, the crowd raised their hands. it was an evil, wonderful ballet
even satan himself was there. er, santa. someone.
there were fights. there was slamdancing. there were panicked people. there was love.
there was also a firehose filled with foam. and one ozzy.
the results were hilarious
only bad thing about the fest was if you werent drinking in a club,
you had to drink in one of the beer gardens.
although it would be nice to drink on the street,
this randomly selected woman didnt seem to mind
neither did this fascinating woman
who had stars autograph her arms,
which she then turned into tattoos
speaking of tattoos. if you’re a nice lady with a tattoo like this, i will talk to you.
speaking of the law talking to the miller lite girls, hi.
speaking of learning one thing every day.
who knew that elmer valentine cofounded so many killer places?
most days im lucky to find my car keys.
wanna know something crazy? i really liked the kottonmouth kings
yes theyre just a group of white rappers trying to be hard while yapping about weed
but they’re reeeeeeallly into weed. they got this one guy who walks around with a backpack of it
and they got this guy who’s literally smoking the entire set
he was also in charge of the signs
cute, but after a while youd wonder, why’d they let the guy smoking the weed be in sign guy?
i mean this guy was really inhaling
and exhaling
one minute youd see backpack o dope guy bustin on the megaphone
next minute youd see crazy sign guy smoking another jay
after a while everyone looked high so i bailed.
and ran into my favorite american idol
who told me to say hi to you guys
so, like, hi!
today we threw a little going away party for my favorite boss
because of the climate of the economy, often these parties were sad for other reasons, but this one was sad because Meredith was so smart and nice and perfect for her job.
they laid out a nice spread and there was a small bar for wine and beer and Meredith choked up a little as she reminisced about her time here. And just as is her style she said things like “it was great taking credit for things that I had nothing to do with”, but the truth of the matter is, even if she didnt assign us to do it, or order us to pull it off, we were able to do it because she created an environment where everyone Wanted to kick so much butt.
people provided little gag gifts, and one of our former bloggers (see even EX employees love her!) arranged for an autographed pair of suspenders and an autographed 8×10 glossy would make their way to the party.
of course, CNN security was called when they found out that they were the pair that Larry was wearing at the time, but hey, what can we do, we love her and we’re sad that shes going to our biggest online competitor. its almost like Babe Ruth going to the Yankees. except worse.
i was in hog heaven yesterday
had mike singletary firing up his defense on fox, had the skins giants on some other channel. decided to have ice cream for lunch. prefect breeze is coming in thru the french doors. and after football i went to a coworkers house whose bf is a writer on True Blood and we went over to their house to watch the finale and the creepy evangelist’s hot wife was there. twas fun!
on wednesday i start a week long working summer vacation. meanwhile im uploading photos from yesterdays first sunset strip music festival on the streets.
got there yesterday in time to see the donnas, who for some reason havent been playing with their hot blonde drummer torey, but they were good. ive seen the donnas at the roxy a few times and once at the viper. theyre the perfect band to be playing this fest. actually it was a perfect selection of bands when you think about it.
the headliner was ozzy. opening for him was korn, who was surprisingly good.
on the more poppy dance stage was LMFAO, Shwazye, and the ever delightful kottonmouth kings of whom i will have a large photo essay of tomorrow. just too many funny tales.
karisa and i went into a couple of clubs since all of them were open as part of the festie. the photo is from going into the hustler store as it was only one of the few places with an atm. (keep this myth going.)
so the rock was tremendous, the lighter, happier dance stage was fun. we had some shrimp tacos that were pretty good. was anything bad?
yes, of course but not super bad. parking of course wasnt the easiest but pretty much none of these street festivals in LA can easily afford 5,000 extra cars in the neighborhoods. so i just parked over by Ketchup and walked the 5-6 blocks and considered it excersize.
another irritant was the no beer in the street / no water in the clubs. lets deal with the latter first. if you charge me $3 for water, why treat that bottle of water as the enemy when i want to take it into the whisky?
secondly, we’re in a closed in fenced in place. why cant i drink my beer and watch the bands outside? they can do it at sunset junction, and the people hosting the event are some of the most responsible club owners in town, why not be able to bring your drinks with you where you go?
i know there’s probably some safety theory, being as this is their first outdoor street fest. but the truth is, if you’re in one of the beer gardens, or in one of the clubs, and you decide to motivate elsewhere – when you arent allowed to take your drink with you, you chug it. therefore the rules are actually inspiring binge drinking. if you let a man nurse his beer, he probably will.
best part? getting doused by ozzy’s crazy firehose of foam.
the pictures of people covered in that crap are pretty hilarious.
after the show karisa wanted to get sushi so as she and her pal dave went to his house to drop off his bike, i sped back to my crib to shower and change out of my crappy clothes.
it made everyone late, and the geisha house gave away our table, but man did i feel better. whoops.
my full review of the rock here in a photo essay like no other, on the Pop n Hiss blog
jim carroll, r.i.p.
now maybe the kids will read The Basketball Diaries
tony, how do you feel about how kanye acted at vmas tonight on the mtv
?
i have always loved rock stars who are crazy. i want all my rock stars to be crazy.
i want them to write amazing things, i want them to scream them at me. i want them to light their equipment on fire and i want them to act a fool on national tv.
when they die i want it to be spectacular.
and if theyre going to steal the spotlight from someone, i want it to be from the sweetest most innocent person in the whole room. so that we can see the difference between legendary lunacy and everyman.
even if everyman is a smokin hot blonde chick “who sings country”.
now kanye is one step closer to marrying taylor, which is something we all want.
that, and for beyonce to be our first female president.
far be it from me to tell anyone what to do
especially with their twitter page
but if i was vh-1 personality “Cocktail”, i would deal with the unfortunate abbreviation on her “Web” url thusly:
go into Settings, and add a “www.” before the welovecocktail.com
otherwise the beavis and butthead chuckling will never leave our heads when we visit your official twitter page.