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drove around USC last night because of a bonus
and at first i thought they were paying me right but when i got home i saw that they werent.
i wrote them and they just lied and lied and lied.
so today i showed them that they were wrong and i told them that if they didnt fix it i was going to write to my local newspaper.
but in reality if they are wrong i am going to write to the Massachusetts lawyer who successfully sued them in a class action suit.
this would also be a class action suit because im sure it affects every driver who picks up passengers at USC after 7pm.
i used to say that if i had to do it all over again i would be a guitar player because everyone loves guitarist. but thats not entirely true.
now i say if i had to do it all over again i would be a lawyer
not because everyone loves lawyers but because everyone at least respects lawyers and are forced to pay attention to them if they send you a letter.
it sucks that life is like that but whatever, it is what it is, as they say.
tomorrow i am going to MC a book reading.
my life is over.
The Frogtown Serenaders debuted last night at the Mint in Hollywood
and they were fantastic.
Mr. Hepburn and I had front row seats in part because Mr. Oswald J. Tyler had not sang in front of a live audience since Heather’s wedding
and it’s always great to hear Greg play any sort of guitar, even the acoustical.
this band is a super group of sorts which only is happening because Greg has parted ways with Vaude and the Villians, which was and is a great group, but as a fan, when theres 20 people on stage its hard to hear the rhythm guitarist.
so i was very grateful to see this new combo which contains the trumpet (or is it a coronet) and banjo dual attack of soloists.
this picture also doesnt show off their 24-year-old singer lady whose name escapes me but she was as talented as she is beautiful
even her parents were in the audience last night — awwwww – because they heard about Os
awwwwwwwwww
they play again in a couple of weeks at a Cubs bar in DTLA so i will have better video and pictures from that gig.
last night i just wanted to get wasted because of sads from politics.
whaaaaaa.
hey tony, how come you haven’t been writing about the xbi?
i havent?
and when the planet hit the sun, i saw the face of allison
The Pixies‘ album “Bossanova” came out when I was at UCSB. At the time I was the entertainment editor of the world famous Daily Nexus so I assigned myself an interview with Pixies bassist Kim Deal. She was the sweetest, funniest, most open person I ever interviewed (next to Mojo Nixon – but he was kind of a cartoon). Kim was right there with me. AKA hyper and down for whatever.
Among many many things, I asked her about the barely one-minute long song “Allison” from the new record.
I told her I loved the music but I had zero idea what the lyrics meant. Who was this Allison? And what maniac writes a pop song about a girl named Allison after Elvis Costello pretty much wrote the greatest tune ever about a girl named Allison.
And Kim was all, “yes he did. But ah-ha! Ours is not about a girl. Ours is sorta about this jazz pianist Mose Allison.” I was like Kim Deal you’re blowing my damn mind. She said, you’re welcome.
Today Mose Allison died.
Here’s the Pixies song that’s sorta about him:
today is Licensed to Ill’s birthday, it’s 30
i dont remember if i was still working at the record store or selling car radios at federated group
but i do know that once i did start selling stereos there was no better tape to demonstrate speakers
especially subwoofers than
“slow and low”
(white castle fries only come in one size).
anniversaries like this can make some feel old. but it makes me feel grateful.
im glad i was of age to see this record become the biggest debut ever for a trio or a group or a hip hop group or someone.
but it was also fascinating to watch this brand of rap evolve from Run DMC to LL to this.
and it was so obvious right away how much of an improvement it was to integrate the bells of DMC, the aggressiveness of LL with the led zeppelin and Mr Ed samples and just straight up tomfoolery to make this record
and live: all they did was run around the stage spraying budweiser cans on each other and the fans and sliding around in their adidases.
im so grateful i got to see their first show at the Paladium. im so glad i got to see them in college graduate to Pauls Boutique and then Check Your Head
and what a small world that i was in Atwater Village when they were in Atwater recording Ill Communication.
but it all started with the three bad brothers you know so well.
and they were so so def right from the jump.
happy birthday baby
kristin pony is gonna be a mom
old school busblog readers will know that pretty face. it’s the oklahoma blogger turned lawyer kristin pony who became internet famous many moons ago when she and her sister created the Mad Pony blog.
over the years we have seen kristin go from college to the pros,
shes changed jobs,
and now look, she’s producing a nice young blogger,
who she tells me loves mexican food and hot showers.
kristin and i first met at SXSW (back when it was cool) and she did the sweetest thing, she drove all the way down in her convertible.
and one thing i have always been surprised about when meeting people from the blogosphere:
theyre usually prettier than their pictures and even nicer.
kristin is no exception to that rule.
she tells me that one of the boys’ grampas is a Cub fan and sent the little sprout a ton of Cubs gear so he’s got that going for him, which is nice.
will he ride horses like his momma and his aunt?
will he go to school at Norman or OKC?
so many questions surround this child who has yet to see his first Video Music Award show.
what we know is he will be smart and lovely and well behaved. and his first words will probably be Boomer Sooner.
either way, congratulations to kristin, one of the busblog’s all time favorite people.
no need to name him Tony.
Barack Hussein will be quite all right.
do you know i love you? i do.
westworld was incredible last night.
there was a subplot about robots holding grudges. something that heretofore was unique only to to humans.
but because we are so incredible and influential either things try to be like us or end up being like us.
i have a huge heart. i love so many people. i do whatever i can to help people.
but i can also be super mean. especially online.
and in real life boy can i hold a grudge.
you coulda dissed me in 6th grade and if you didnt say omg omg im so sorry tony
then if i saw your house was on fire and i was in a damn fire truck driving the thing i wouldnt stop.
id say burn fucker burn.
then it comes to ladies. ive been dissed by my share. like anyone. people have let me down. i suppose thats normal.
and then some have just straight up used and abused me – spiritually.
it’s weird how some of em i’ll be all, it’s cool, whatevs and some im like yeah naw.
theres this one who i wanna say baby the end of the world is nigh, ive always loved you
and i hope youre getting the treatment that you need so badly because youre so special
but i worry what that message would mean to her. i wonder if she’d take it the right way.
so i dont send it. i dont send anything. i dont write anything. i think about it sometimes.
but when i was a college kid i realized something very important: people listen to the devil in their head
way more than they listen to guy wearing the cubs hat. so fuck it. just do you, negro.
today i ordered lunch from this one spot and they were all great, that’ll be $27
i was all, the menu says $14. they were like but you ordered a coke.
i said yes, please take that $13 coke and shove it.
i didnt say up your ass because people do put things up there here in LA
and i would never want to disrespect those people.
but deep down i dont wanna disrespect anyone.
because i know how bad that feels.
next sunday i start reading Revelations in the bible.
yesterday i was done with Johns letters and i turned the page and saw Revelations was next and i was like
yeah lets start this next week. shit.
Jon Oliver put this week’s entire episode on YouTube
maybe it’s cuz he knows we can’t just do the same old thing any more
and pretty much says so near the end.
he’s a funny dude and im glad he’s around.
but it’s hard for me to think that if Jon Stewart was still on the air
and if Colbert had his report still, Trump winning woulda been a little harder.
but millions of people wanted him and Trump was his own worst enemy
so who knows, maybe some people just don’t mind when drunk people drive
on the ice
at night
while also tweeting
and looking for the right emoji.
are we all gonna die?
yes.
i would make the worst dad.
is russia gonna invade us?
probs.
is china gonna help them?
if they were smart.
is china smart?
not with all that fucking pollution theyre not.
is the world going to speed up global warming with a republican president and a republican congress and republican governors pretty much everywhere?
we would only be so lucky if the icebergs all melted and flooded florida instead of dealing with the nuclear winter we are gonna have once all the bombs are accidentally and then on purposelly fired off at iran and korea and milwaukee and paris.
is mike pence secretly gay?
no, he’s just an asshole. gay people have style.
is rihanna a slut?
we really cant go around saying that women have the right to do with their bodies what they want and then run around even allowing that word to even exist.
what word?
good boy.