some home runs for your ass

first we have a band from SF called citizens here and abroad who are playing at Spaceland tonight around 9pm for FREE. they come highly recommended by mr jason shellen who has a strange knack of picking winners, so give them a shot.

then over at Buzznet we have a video of Venezeualian President Hugo Chavez calling George W. Bush a donkey. i think the word he’s looking for is “ass” but you know how complicated english is. lord knows i do. anyways he also keeps calling him Mr Danger which sorta makes Bushie seem cooler than he should be. regardless its a call-out like i havent seen in a long time.

also at Buzznet there is a second-angle of the jfk shooting, oh check that, its a second angle of Pitt being launched, as well as Phil opening beer bottles with his nuts. both courtesy of NY Mike. the videos, not the nuts.

back in blogland, i havent linked Flagrant for a while because her small text is so annoying, but all you have to do is hit Alt + or Apple + or something and it will end up the size that we humans can read. shes still got it. shes never lost it. she is either my #1 or #2 favorite blogger depending on the weather. even though she delinked me, even though she doesnt return my emails, even though she might not love me any more. i dont care. if she reads this: baby i heard Sondre Loche or however you spell it on kcrw and he/she is great and i saw that they were playing at the Troubador this weekend and i hope you went. oh and i love the new morrissey, i hope youve heard it.

down in the heart of texas Leah had a wedding shower that was ultra cute. i know i haave a lot of female readers here, so for you i send you this link.

oh i forgot… rememember on Idol when Mandisa got kicked off, losing to that no talent white dude? rumor has it that some racist yelled out the N-word after Seacrest announced the winner. like the chick said “Good! Ni—r!” well Fox bleeped out the offensiveness but some people swear that if you watch this video you can hear the drop out of audio and you can tell from the reaction of the crowd that someone yelled it out. i cant. but i did a lot of acid in ‘nam.

also if you want to see pics of me and pitt and chad at the blue jays game and nerding around Toronto, those are here, including the pic i took above of Travis Lee blasting the game winning dinger. yeah im a great photographer, you can admit it.

for the rest of youse, we will talk about the Sopranos tomorrow, so keep your comments to yourself until then. until then lets all send chavez little postcards with pronunciation guides as to how to say “ass”.

one day i’ll die.

and when i do and youre not dead, dont cry for me, because ive lived a life. and it was a good life.

and it was brimming over with young bare titties.

friday night i laid down on my couch at eleven pm because i know any time i lay on my couch after eight pm i will pass out. but murphys law, because i had to wake up at 3:30am to get to LAX at 4:30am to catch my 6am flight i had a hard time falling asleep on my couch, in my bed, anywhere.

luckilly when youre as old as i am you dont need a lot of sleep and when i woke up at 3:15am i was refreshed and ready to go. a half hour later i checked my email for a last time before i hit the road and i saw something fascinating in my gmail, i saw Chris Spooney was online.

baby, i typed.

Tony? OMG! she typed back. and indeed it was my true love in Africa who had made her way to the capital of Uganda to check her email and yep that was her on gmail chat with me. so Google, thank you, that was 15 of the greatest minutes that id had in a long long time.

sped to LAX, parked in long term parking, made it through the gauntlet that is getting onto an international air flight these days. and at noon pacific, three pm ontario time there i was for the first time ever in Toronto canada.

i was met by General Pitt, Colonel Chad, and 19 yr old Mikey from buffalo. we all packed into Pitt’s sportscar and zoomed through toronto to have a pint at a croatian bar to meet Pitt’s fiance, the outlaw bitch.

my oh my was she lovely. as were the beers. i forget what i had but it was dark and strong and smooth. precisely what i needed at noon-ish after a long flight. we also had french fries and brichotto. an hour later we were in waterloo.

we ordered pizzas and pitt got beer as i took a shower and we partied and then went to the matt good show in kitchner.

raymi and fil met us at the door and slid us past the bouncers and ticket people untouched and sheparded us to the backstage/sidestage area. matt had just started and the beers kept making their way backstage to us. we politely drank them all. so many of them.

someone stuck their head through the curtains and raymi tapped me on the shoulder and it was a nice young man who said he had read me over all these years and just wanted to shake my hand. hi canada.

i took some pictures but they didnt really turn out. matt told long funny stories, the kids looked at him in awe and sang along with his every word. more beers arrived and were drunk. the kids shouted out requests and matt obliged to all of them except for the easiest “Show us your ass.” if only i had packed my donkey costume.

matt’s opening act, melissa joined him on stage for a beautiful version of NIN’s “hurt” for an encore, and then matt did four more tunes for the encore. it was lovely. afterwards dozens of people lined up to get his autograph on his tourbus and matt was very generous to them.

then we all went back to our hotel rooms. we were partying very nicely. pitt was being launched across one bed to the other. hockey night was on the tv. tsar was on the music machine. but then midnight struck and i remembered that i had told my readers to meet us at the Stinky Dog. so we got cabs. actually Gwen and her dude drove two of us and the rest piled into a cab.

we got to the Dog which was far fancier than i expected. first thing the doorman asked me was if i was planning on keeping my toque on. i said uh yes? he told me that i wouldnt be wearing it, that they had a dress code. we walked in and almost everyone was already drunk, dressed up, and sorta yuppish. it was a huge place. before i could order a very tall drink to forget that i had found the only yuppies in waterloo i was being told that little mikey wasnt being allowed into the Dog because even though Canada is 19+, the club of yuppies had decided to keep the hat wearing crowd out and the 21- kids out too.

so we caught another cab and asked him to take us to a fun place that was 19+, we were dropped off at a fun place that had bowling downstairs and video games and french fries etc but upon further review it had decided to close early pissing off everyone. now it was 1am and we only had an hour to drink.

everyone was mad. we were there for raymis birthday. but we were all mostly boys so i asked fil if raymi would be upset if we ended up at a strip club. he said no, but i should ask her. i asked her and she had no problem with it. so we asked the cabbie if he knew of a nearby strip club and he said The Doll House and it was 15 minutes away. we climbed in and got another cab to follow behind with the rest of our party and at 1:15a we piled into the Doll House to drink with the naked ladies of Kitchner.

interesting to say the least. it wasnt a very big club but it was loud and lively. the girls were all shapes and sizes. the beers were reasonable and there were just as many female patrons as male.

because time was short, after my first beer i went to the atm to get some lap dancing money but the machine didnt recognize my american debit card. very quickly i had a $60 loan from my pallies and i picked out a very skinny girl in an extremely skanky outfit. fredricks of hollywood turned his nose at this fishnet contraption.

the Doll House has a funny rule that in order to get a lap dance you first have to buy a $20 drink. then you can give the girl another $20 per dance. i ordered a baileys as thats what i drink after 1:30am. we went into the back and she sat on my lap and palmed my bald head as we waited for our song to begin.

“you have good friends,” she said. admitting to having seen them give me money.

“i have the greatest friends in the world,” i told her and added that i woke up in LA and there i was with a half naked girl on my lap who was about to show me her cootchie. she kissed my head and got up. she took an axl rose hankercheif out of her purse and placed it over my crotch and started to dance to the music.

it was terrible music, whatever it was, but the little girl could dance. almost immediately her clothes were off and she was skinnier than i thought. i told her so and she said that she really could stand to gain 10 lbs but she has a very bad tummy, i told her that i did too when i was her age and she spread her vagina lips and said that she can barely eat anything without getting sickly. her lips were quite pliable. far more than necessary. she showed me her clitorus and i blew it a kiss.

she laughed and turned around to show me her boney ass. i drank from my bottle of beer and examined it. very clean. very well groomed. the things the women of this hemisphere do to make themselves look the way they do. i said hi to it too and she touched her knees with her nose and i complimented her flexibility.

she got on my lap and took the beer from my hand and placed it on a little shelf and then took my hands and put them on her body. you can touch the girls in canada i asked? oui she said. i apologized for my cold beer hand and she said, no worries, the better to make my nipples hard, and she placed my hands on her breasts.

oh canada. and in a perfect world she would have just laid there on my lap and let me cup her boobies as i smelled her long hair but she had a dance to perform and my sex need to rub up against something so she did and it did and she put her nose on my buldge and then her chin and what does it say about a man who would have just been happy talking and holding for 15 minutes instead of whatever she was doing to me? gay you say, not really id argue. sometimes you just want to look into someones eyes as she sits her bare ass on your hand.

when i got back to our table chad was destroying everyone at arm wrestling and mikey was holding his own at raymi who refused to admit defeat even challenging the poor boy to left-handed arm wrestling even though he was a lefty. raymi looked spectacular, by the way, no wonder girls are jealous of her.

when the place closed we waited outside in the bitter cold for a cab. i talked to a few girls and made some friends, and the boys they were with became my new enemies and one of them squirted ketchup on my pants but i deserved it, i was overstepping the ladies generosity by handing out my business card and telling tales of hollywood. how does a wigger from waterloo with a white yankees hat on sideways and gold earings and white pants compete with a blogger who will steal your girlfriend at the doll house parkinglot in three minutes and have her naked in ten minutes. even with ketchup on his shit.

at 10am mikey pitt chad and i checked out of the motel and were driving into toronto listening to alan cross’s ongoing history of modern rock. because it was the anniversary of kurdt’s death he was doing two hours of that. it was good. real good. we were one minute late dropping mikey off at the bus station so we ate lunch at the mall downtown and got him on another bus and had a few hours to kill.

so the choice was go up the CN Tower or catch the Blue Jays game already in progress. we had heard tell of $2 tickets in the nosebleeds but for some reason the Tampa Bay game was not one of those special days so we forked over $9 and watched the aces Roy Halliday vs Steve Kazmir. there were probably 20k people in attendence because apparently when theres hockey still aboot noone goes to watch baseball in the dome.

it was so quiet in there you could hear the farts of the players even way up in the sky like we were sitting. when the wave came it felt like a gentle breeze. you could hear the heater click on. when someone in the hotel rooms above the centerfield wall stuck popcorn in the microwave you could hear the ding when it was ready. to liven things up they hired break dancers to perform ontop of the dugout roof. i hurled a discarded plastic bottle at one of them but by the time it reached the roof of the dugout the inning had already started. but still we could see fine.

the pitching duel turned into a 6-3 victory for the visitors which was fine with me since Kazmir is on half of my fantasy teams.

then we went to tim hortens for some donuts. funny thing about toronto, theres a tim hortens for every stop light in town. i played a little game where id hold my breath and wouldnt exhale until we passed three tim hortens. it wasnt much of a game.

adn then before we knew it i was back at pearson airport. and then i was in the plane and then i was watching porn on my ipod and then i was asleep. and now im in LA. and now i miss canada which looked a lot like wisconsin. and yes i could live in toronto no problem eh. and yes i had the best 24 hour road trip ever. and may i thank mr pitt for making it happen.

chad + gwen + the outlaw + little mike

Lost and Sopranos Friday

ok this is what we’re going to do going forward.

lots of people like Ken Basart are good people but for some reason they’re behind watching the Sopranos. lots of people like Anna Kornikova are bad people and for some reason they’re behind watching Lost.

they write me and tell me that i screwed them over when i write about these two shows – my two favorite shows – before they get a chance to watch them.

this is what i recommend for everyone – catch up. you have a week to catch up. you need to catch up. that goes for you too mom. everyone needs to catch the f up because both of these shows are in 5th gear right now and since millions of people are actually on the program, properly, like yours truly, we cant really keep dragging our feet for the rest of the world.

what i will do on the busblog is on Fridays (or if i have my shit together – midnight on Thursdays) i will give my take in regards to the Sopranos and Lost.

so for those of you who havent caught up yet, go to my latest Coachella pre-write regarding UK darlings Art Brut and tell me what a great writer i am. and if youre not signed up for Buzznet, what the heck are you waiting for?

ok are we ready to talk about these two kickass shows? good lets go.

Sunday’s Sopranos to me was one of their best episodes ever. Tony was so open-minded regarding the Bible that even though he loves dinosaurs he even listened to the preacher present the very controversial ultra-Christian belief that there is evidence in the bible regarding dinosaurs walking around at the same time as man. and the idea that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.

meanwhile he befriends the soft-spoken old science guy who opens his mind about a lack of Heaven and Hell and a bigger concept of “everything is connected.”

i love the softer gentler tony soprano. still tough enough and boss enough to know to go downstairs and outside to broker the garbage deal – as opposed to in his hospital room while looking like an invalid – and cool enough to scoff when the rap star calls him “the original g”.

and i particularily love that as he gets softer those around him get meaner. namely Christopher and Paulie who even turns his back on his own mother/aunt.

but what really got me wasnt the boxing match where everyone was gathered around the tv as the science guy explained how even the boxers were tied together, but pink floyd being played at the end of the episode.

and as great as the Sopranos were, they werent better than Wednesday night’s Lost which also touched on metaphysics, “whats real, whats not real”, and why would anyone be sexually attracted to the fattest dude on the island.

poor hurley eating disorder was addressed in this episode, and the flashbacks were so smooth that for the first time ever i didnt mind when they whooooshed from the present tense to the past tense. probably because, to me, hurleys past is the most interesting past of anyones, because it seems like its the most present.

his relationship with the numbers and luck and insanity mean far more to me than Locke’s kidney or everyone else’s dark past.

what was interesting about this episode was, for whatever reason it started a few minutes late here in LA. i dont know if there was a car chase on the local news or what, but something pushed back the schedule a few minutes and my tivo stopped recording right when Hurley told the hottie that he was going to jump. so i had to download the torrent and watch it yesterday to see how she convinced him that she was real, and of course we see that she too had been in the wacko ward.

so the question is, does she love him for the right reasons, or is she somehow aware of his riches and wants some, or is she up to something else entirely?

tomorrow, saturday, is april eighth the day kurt kobain put that shotgun to his head

and music was never as good again.

tomorrow was the day i was driving a pretty girl home after making love to her and we heard the news on the radio and we switched the dial but it was being reported on that station too so we just turned the radio off and held hands while trying to stay in our little glow.

the annoying part was the reports that morning werent fleshed out. the wound was so devistating that they couldnt identify the man. they werent sure if it was a fan, or a guest, or the houseboy. thinking positively i kept hoping it was anyone but kurt.

but thinking good thoughts doesnt always work.

what some people dont realize when they talk about 80s music is nirvanas first album bleach slammed the door on 80s music in 1989. sure there was the sweet About A Girl and Love Buzz but there was also School and my favorite Negative Creep.

there were only really three nirvana albums, bleach, nevermind, and in utero.

as great as incesticide is it was b-sides and outtakes and live BBC radio takes, and then you have the unplugged record which was magical and the live record which wasnt.

so of the trinity of real LPs bleach started it off raw and hungry and unpolished and agressive and outstanding. and it was an 80s record, just like back n black was, just like number of the beast, just like bug, just like daydream nation, and doolittle, and tim.

it was alternative nation with kennedy, it was metal meets punk meets pre-grunge. no one knew it was going to lead to nevermind. least of all me, even though i was playing it on the radio in 89-90, just like nobody knew that skinny barry bonds on the pirates would end up being that big fucking monster in frisco.

hindsight is 20-20 but at the time nirvana was a seed that geffen sold the cow for.

and im telling you, when nevermind came out i played it that very day and i didnt get it right away, but i did get it shortly after and it was overwhelming. and awesome. and perfect and insane.

the other day i was in the office of paul tollett the president of goldenvoice and the founder of coachella and he had a illustrated concert poster on his wall. and it said nirvana butthole surfers and tad. and it was right next to his desk. and i said hey i was at that show. forum. december 1994. and it was one of those times when i felt like maybe he believed me maybe he didnt.

so i said without him asking, funniest thing i remember about that show, it wasnt even sold out.

and since mr tolletts whole business is about selling tickets he repeated exactly what i said back to me and he knew i was there. too. it was a nice bonding moment.

much better than the bonding i was doing with the pretty girl who id just made love to when we were driving across the desert and hearing the unconfirmed reports from seattle. for she and i had listened to grunge begin and then blossom while doing our things at ucsb from 87-91. that whole time we hadnt had sex, and how ironic that on the same night that kurt was dying we were living in a way we’d never lived before.

on the drive home i turned on the radio. kroq. and some jackhole prettyboy was telling the bad news and trying to tell us how much nirvana meant to him and i turned it off and i drove in silence, stunned, but not completely because we had all heard about the lame suicide attempt that kurt had done in rome or paris or whereever. and i knew about it first hand because my friends in europe had tickets that were refunded after the band was forced to cancel the rest of the tour there.

and i kept thinking how can you end your career after just three records. and a baby. and the perfect band. and the world in the palm of your hand.

and he said like this.

tomorrow night, saturday, i will be in waterloo canada at the flying dog drinking all night, hopefully with you, and i dont need a ride to the airport because Pitt got my flight changed for 6pm sunday evening. so please join us.

The Flying Dog
341 Marsland Drive
Waterloo, ON
N2J 3Z9
519.886.7730

pitt + mike + fil + raymi

over the last few weeks i’ve been writing

my little booty off, mostly in the Buzznet Coachella pages but in a few other areas as well.

yes im a writeaholic, yes i usually write differently outside of the busblog, yes i probably have more things out there than im linking to but its already 1pm and i havent posted on here today.

so check out the madness:

Madonna Prepared to Pitch in at the Dance Tent

Giant Drag thinks Coachella will be a Giant Drag?

Depeche Mode is no Stranger to Playing to Adoring Fans in Los Angeles

Mates of State Bring Back the Ecstatic Feelings of Pop

How To Tell The Difference Between Wolf Parade and Wolfmother at Coachella

Dear Women of Montreal

Katie Couric hired to sit in the seat of Conkrite

Scottish Mopers Mogwai Rock Their Own Way

and if none of those things float your boat, ive also been editing the Buzznet Spring Break blog of late. which reminds me, if you have just returned from Spring Break and you want to share your pictures and/or stories, sign up for Buzznet (its free and takes about 20 seconds) upload your pics, write your tales and send me an email and i will feature it on the spring break blog if you like.

similarily if you have some good tales to tell or insights about any of the bands that are playing Coachella at the end of this month, post it on buzznet and email me and i will feature it on the Coachella blog.

in LA they always say its not what you know its who you know. well you know someone at Buzznet… moi. and i want your legends to live on.

cat’s outta the bag.

we were supposed to surprise Raymi the sphinx this saturday on her birthday in Toronto. turned out Raymi was going to be in Waterloo with Matt Good the minx on his acoustic tour so the surprise was on us cuz she wasnt gonna be at the party.

fortunately or unfortunately mr matt good told Raymi about the surprise, so im being told, which is actually good news because now we can all try to plan this party.

but its falling apart because waterloo is two hours away from Toronto and i have a 7am flight in the morn. which means i have to be there at 5am-ish, which means i have to leave waterloo at 3am.

its going to be a hellish trip because i have to leave LA on saturday morning on a 7am flight.

basically theres going to be a lot of AMs going on in my life this weekend if i wanna go to Toronto slash Waterloo.

so heres the question i have for my toronto readers… are there any of you who want to party with me and pitt and raymi and fil and mike grimshaw and chad and possibly matt? and is there anyone who wants to drive me back from waterloo at 3am to toronto while i drink rum in your car and hit on you or your sister(s)?

all of this is very bizarre. id like to cancel it because i was supposed to go to a stag party/bachelor party before i found out an airline ticket was being bought for me. you people are far far far too good to me. far.

i suppose there are worse problems than the ones i have. mr pitt for example is going to go back to war in a few months. the lakers still dont really have a center. and the cubs have two guys in their starting rotation who ive never heard of an their last names dont end in ood or rior.

one thing ive learned from the Bush Administration and now mr. delay is theres no problem too big that you cant smile at.