Shamless Plug

In the Summer of 2001, the Mogpac took their first ever international trip so the aggression, when it all mattered, God bless 'em, could perform for our friends in the UK. This of course is the stuff of legend, and I'm sure you'll read about it in Tom Whitfleet's book. Of course, being a gang of semi-single rockers on tour at the time, we decided to try our luck and "meet some foreign ladies". So we made our way to Camden, at the legendary Electric Ballroom, to promote our performance to the masses and to socialize with the other bands we were playing with. Ash, being that this man is a chick magnet when we leave the States (due soley to his tallness and state of constant confusion), handed out some flyers to some attractive young ladies. Of course, this being us, we met the only two American girls in the fucking club. Anyhow, these ladies, dubbed Jukee and Ohio (for reasons not to be revealed here), became honorary MOGladies for a few days. Friendships were struck and good times were had (mostly at the expense of some dirty blonde american chick G almost got with and, of course, Brandt). We ate digestives, we drank booze, tried to look cool at the "ultra-exclusive" (or as I was told) Slimelight, and we all hung out on a balcony and were yelled at by locals who were trying to sleep. Then we, being gentleman, walked them to the Earl's Court tube when it opened and we figure that would be that.

While Ohio is probably somewhere in Ohio and hopefully doing well. I'm happy to say that Junkee, aka Ashley Saunders, stayed in touch with yours truly and being from the Tri-State area, this allowed us to occasionally socialize. She joined us for some Depeche Mode, some Saintface, and even a few aggression gigs. I even let her hold the hop once. That reads wrong yet doesn't. Anyhow. She's been through a lot of stuff, yet she remains a big positive vibe and no longer dates douches who aspire to be even bigger douches. She's a lovely young thing and we have many things in common, especially music and the fact that we both have significant others of Asian decent. Her boyfriend, who supposedly is quite quite runs marathons or something seems Ash like in his inadvertant funniness. While we don't see the Junk often, she's good people and we were in the same room watching Morrissey the other night and she texted me to say so. She's more hardcore though as she went both nights.

Anyhow, she's not just fit (though she doesn't know it), but she's pretty funny. And as you've read here, I like women who can write and talk a lot, so I direct you to Junkee's website at http://ashleysaunders.com/ which is is very Morriseey-centric, but clever and witty nonetheless. Check it out and you can aodre her as much as we do. It also helps that she plugs HF on her site as well. She's a good friend and someone I hold in high esteem (despite her small size). Embrace the Junk as some asian dude called Pete does on a daily basis by going to her site.

Also, i would like to state that I love the balls of someone who is not signed to a record deal or in a major motion picture owning a web domain with their own name. While my ego is probably the stuff of legend, I doubt I could take myself seriously on a website called www.FJDeSanto.com. For real! I could only imagine what www.mikevenezia.com, or www.danhamill.com would be like! For some reason, Junkee gets away with this without any sign of pretention. WORD.

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