Thirty Three

Uncle Duty officially ended as I turned 33 yet again in another country, this time in Montreal. I slept in (having driven up the night before), I worked on music literally all day, and then of course, I watched STAR WARS. It's a rare day when I can sit poolside listening to a working Ipod without interruption (other than a splashing nephew, which of course is no bother). Then it was a nice family dinner at La Prunelle, the shockingly excellent place G, Lurch, The Kidd and I dined at on our last night during our now-legendary Montreal trip in May. All in all, a damn fine way to spend a birthday. Thanks to all who remembered and called or texted or E-mailed or in some scarier cases, sang. Special thanks to significant other who served up birthday cinnamon rolls with candles.

We're now back in NYC in less crowded and much quieter house. What a month. Tiring, yet rewarding. The nephew is nothing but a joy and I hope his next August is spent with us. I miss him already. I have new respect for parents and a new realization that MOGworld homegrown kids are still a good long ways off. There are albums to finish and get out for fucks sake.

Special birthday greetings to my other male half or 25 years, Mr. Danny Hamill, who gets more handsome with age...Hopefully we will do the mutual birthday celebration this week at some point as we have done for many years and hopefully I will DJ for your listening pleasure.

I want to talk to you about how much I love ENTOURAGE, which I shouldn't and originally refused to watch, but am now addicted to. Whoever can create a show that makes me love Jeremy Piven and hate Mandy Moore should be paid lots of money. Great show. Watch it. I just caught up on the last three weeks of episodes I couldn't watch in front of a 7 year old and I'm still laughing. Awesome.

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Lurchology

See that photo? That's me and this guy Lurch, who I have known for about fifteen years. Though he is my friend, I would never admit that to him in person. He gets points for taking me to see 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN and for being one of the biggest scumbags I know. I love the guy. I socialize with him often, though I think he soley comes over to read my comics so he can save a few bucks every week. Any man who deals with psychos all day and then comes over to watch wrestling at my place weekly is not all there. And while from this photo it seems I refuse worship at the cult of Lurch, there are some who embrace all that is Lurch. In fact, thanks to the Junk Blog, I have found that there is an entire Cult of Lurch out there. Observe the following sign of the Apocalypse:

http://boss.streamos.com/download/xc37dr2/okgo/amillionways/amillionways_v750.mov

It's quite obvious that between the snow, the puke, the poo and the madge on that fateful New Years Eve so many years ago in Anna's basement, someone videotaped Lurch's antics that night and leaked it to the masses. What was once probably a video (like the one used in THE RING) that was passed around at parties to poke fun at some tall dude who knew how to dance to N'Sync and Britney, an entire movement based on the gayness of Lurch was inadvertantly created (in a backyard no less!)

Tom Cruise, watch your ass...

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Back To The Old House

So I've been househunting for a place in LA and I discovered this nice home in Beverly Hills: http://www.sothebysrealty.com/property_4_property_details.asp?propertynumber=0023998&quicksearchyn=Y

Seems nice, right? Sweet location, pretty big, and of course way the hell out of my price range. And what about the owner? Who could own such a sweet movie star home in such a posh locale? Well, it's actually a rock star, not a movie star. He just had a big career revival in the last year or so, has been written about in this blog often, and is probably trading up thanks to people like Brandt and I who buy everything he releases. If you're still stumped, go to www.ashleysaunders.com cause she basically writes about him EVERY DAY. I'm sure she will stalk her way to his new address and keep us in the loop.

Maybe Peter Saintface will go half with me? SWEETEST SOUL did sell a few copies, you know...

Back to music.

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P.S. As soon as I finished typing this, I checked out Junk's above mentioned blog and sure enough, this is her headline article. Insane. Great Minds, my friends, Great Minds.

Someone's At The Door

I was really excited to hear about this:

"Coming on 10/15 is American Gothic: The Complete Series (SRP $49.98) - something I know a few of you have been waiting a while for. The 3-disc set will include all 22 episodes of the series, including 4 that were never aired during the show's original run, as well as over 45 minutes of deleted scenes"

AMERICAN GOTHIC was an incredible and scary series created by former teen star Shaun Cassidy and produced by the genius known as Sam Raimi. It was a southern based horror series that starred the wonderful chracter actor Gary Cole as the devil himself in the form of a small town sheriff who terrorizes it's inhabitants, in the hopes of getting control of a young boy who may or may not be just be his son. The kid was played by an amazing young actor named Lucas Buck, and the chemistry between the two actors was off the charts. There were a lot of great actors on this show and there was even a cameo episode with Raimi-regulars Ted Raimi and Mr. Bruce Campbell. Sadly, the show only lasted one season, and I think they kinda knew it as the show spiralled out of control towards the end and stopped making sense, but now upon hearing there were 4 unaired episodes, I think theres more to this than what I originally knew. It's great to see that this show is going to get it's due at last. CBS really dropped the ball with this show...

Though I have to wait till October for it, I'm sure the UNDECLARED DVD set will keep me occupied till then.

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The Test of Time...

This E-mail made my day...

"My name is **** and I was friends with a girl named ***** here in Chicago. We only met once, so don't feel too terribly bad if you don't remember! Anyway, my reason for writing....there was a song you had that I was crazy about back in the day and I lost my copy. I want to say that the song was titled "arena85" or something like that. How can I get a hold of this one? I wouldn't even know where to start! Can you help me out? Thanks, man....****"

I forwarded the letter to girl she was friends with in Chicago (now a mother of two here on the East Coast who remains a great friend to the MOGpac and even coordinates our musical gear purchases) and she responded "She likes the rage in the cage with the underage song! That's funny. "

Now Jeff Johnson (former aggression label boss) you understand why I changed the lyrics. Victory.

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