photo by Nick Winterhalter
Well it’s ask and ye shall receive over here. Today is Wedensday. All bruises healed and the white of my eye is again, white. I sold 180 bottle rockets @ $10 a pop and a guy named David McGraw used his frequent flier miles to get me to Venice and back. I [...]
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Wow. Today I got $640 in Paypal of Proxy bottlerockets. That’s funny. $10 at a time. How exciting. I can’t see why anyone would want to shoot a bottle rocket at me…
photo by Neil Berrret
The show is at NIMBY Tonight, Saturday night. Midnight. Sock it to me….
Paypal your $10 to get a photo of a [...]
This Saturday I’m performing at NIMBY For the How to Destroy the Universe show along with my old pals The ART of BLEEDING (LA Cacophony). I’ll be doing 1 Karaoke song. I’m gonna sing: “Come Sail Away” by Styx. In a sailor suit. The song is 6 minutes long. I’ve got 400 bottle rockets [...]
Tonights the last one, this is some of what you will be missing!!!!
Gavin tweeting his intention of global domination, phto by nathan ballet
So. Not that you all already didn’t know that this was going to happen: Gavin Newsom has declared that he wishes to be president of the United States of America, unless Michelle Obama wants to be (you heard that here first, folks). In order to [...]
OK, we’ve got like 6 seats open for tonight’s game if ya wanna play. Texas Hold ‘em is poker, with half the cards face up on the table. It’s a fun game, and it’s easy to learn. Lemme know if yer commin’…
We now say farewell to Caleb Schaber (aka Shooter). Suicide has always puzzled me [...]
This Sunday night, at the Amnesia Bar on Valencia Street… My band from the 80’s is gonna make all those accordian dorks look like Jr. Varsity. I mean really. Sometimes you just gotta rock. I like a ukelele just as much as the next chubby Italian guy from Jersey, but sometimes I just need a [...]
OK. So I put my old band together to do a recording session. I’m trying to piece my past together. Since I put the band together, I figgered why not do a gig. Sounds fun. But now I gotta promote it. So here goes: please looky loo at this video of me from 22 years [...]
OK, so we were supposed to do a Dr. Hal show this week, but Tom Kennedy’s passing has made us all very sad and slow. I was gonna do the whole “It’s really the last show, EVER!!!!” thing. Please be surprised when I do it next week.
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But in other news, we are having a poker [...]
So today is the day that I’m supposed to mail out to you guys a note saying that our dear beloved gravel-voice maniac Flash has made it to the big time.
Tom Kennedy wrote me an email on Saturday. I’ll share that with you now:
Chicken,
The intention of this email is to let you
know that Flash has [...]
Well, I’ve done all I can. I booked this event 6 days ago. The boat project needed a benefit show or two. I’m doing a poker night at my place next Saturday as well. That’s what I got. I hope it brings in some money for the project, but who cares really. I forgot how [...]
Chicken John presents: LOST VEGAS Saturday April 11th @ CELL Casino 9:00 $20ish
The ENTIRE proceeds of this event benifit the Swimming Cities of Serrenissima project: junk boats made of rubbish crashing the hoity toity Bieanalle art festival in Venice, Italy. A project of impossible scale and impeccable timing. Please attend to have fun and [...]
So this boat project has a General. Her name is Swoon. Swoon is a redhead. Inside and out. She’s very sweet for a rotten task master. She’s miss Cut ‘n Clip. She makes things with giant sheets of paper and a scissors and lots, and lots of time. He work is stunning. She wheat pastes [...]
So people are asking how the boat project got started and all that stuff. And it’s pretty simple. The boats are made of foam and plywood. Like 2 coffins, filled with scrappy foam.
The foam has air in it. So there is the miracle of buoyancy. You know this miracle if you ever tried to turn [...]
photo by Tod Seelie
The idea is to take the junk boats to Venice, to this event called the Beinalle. It’s a super high faluton mosters of rock art thing. If your in the Beinalle, you win. I mean, if the Beinalle curates your work. It’s a festival. It happens twice a year. From what I [...]
So the project happened. I brought a laptop with me and it got wet the first day. I didn’t blog once, obviously. It was hard. Super hard. I could write and write about it… someday I will. But here is a video of a film that was shot using the boat project as the set. [...]
