Pet Lions are headlining our first show at Metro this Friday night, and we'd more than appreciate it if you found it in your music-loving heart to come out and join us! We've been together for almost a year now, and this seems like a pretty fitting show to celebrate that milestone. This time last year we were opening up empty shows on Tuesday nights. We still do that a lot actually, we just get some sweet shows now, too.
The show is at 9pm and is 18+. Two great artists are opening: Color Radio, and Mark Mallman.
You can get in for free with this flyer. Feel free to print it out and pass it around! You can also purchase tickets in advance at www.metrochicago.com, or they're $8 at the door.
Had an awesome weekend in the suburbs of Detroit attending a graduation/going away party for my cousin, Andrew. He's heading to the United States Military Academy at West Point because he's an all-American badass. I work in soft-core pornography. Kind of puts it all in perspective for you. I also ended up becoming fairly inebriated, so I'm really developing nicely into the black sheep of the family. The party was great though, and featured some of the best ribs I've had in a while. If you saw the dude cooking them, you'd just know right away, he meant business.
While driving home from Detroit, I became fascinated by all the billboards for massage and health spa's along rural I-94. I can only imagine what kind of services might be provided at a place called "Happy Massage", or what one might have in store for them at "Oriental Health Spa- Open til 2am". There's literally dozens of them between Detroit and Chicago, and at some point the advertisements were so persistent, I almost considered pulling over for a therapeutic readjustment. I mean my girlfriend WAS sleeping....
I watched a really cool documentary the other day called "Tom Dowd and the Language of Music". It's essentially about the dude who invited multi-track recording while working as the chief engineer for Atlantic records. It's a pretty impressive story, not only for all the innovations this guy made in recording and audio production, but he also helped invent, AND TEST!, the atomic bomb. It's a really cool film, and available on Netflix as an 'Instant View'.
There's a pretty hilarious story today about American Idol runner-up David Archuleta's dad being busted in Utah for receiving a 'happy ending' at a local massage parlor. I guess this one didn't actually end happily, as the cops raided the back room before services were completed. Not only does this dude have some legal problems now, but he's probably also suffering from a pretty serious case of blue balls. When they busted in on him, if you pardon the expression, he admitted to receiving some additional erotic services, but later, with the aid of an attorney, stated that he was receiving 'legitimate massage' for back problems. Come to think of it, my back has been hurting me. I'll have to talk to my girlfriend about these revolutionary new alternative methods....
I really need to get better about this blogging thing. I'm not sure why I'm so good about updating it for a while, then I just suddenly drop off the face of the earth. My life has always kind of been like that, I guess. I get really into things for a little while, then quickly lose interest. I suppose this is why they diagnosed me with the A.D.D as a young lad.
Also, it's generally hard to provide lengthy updates and posts while working at my 9-5 gig at MrSkin.com. We're pretty busy right now especially with our 10th Anniversary countdown, "The Top 100 Celebrity Nude Scenes of All Time." We're counting down 10 a week throughout the summer, leading to the top 10 and our summer bash. Check out this video me and my fellow Skin Producers whipped up.
I think it's pretty "E!" or "VH1" worthy, but I guess I'm biased. Plus, I'd way rather have Mr. Skin talking about nudity than Hal Sparks talking about how much he loves the Rubik's Cube. Or even worse, any commentary from Frangela...
I don't even really know who Frangela are, except that I've recently discovered them on a new guilty pleasure, "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!". If you haven't had a chance to check this out, it's like all the celebrity reality shows rolled in to one crazy-ass adventure. I was hooked the minute I saw the promo "Bees to Sanjaya." They made it seem almost Truman Show-esque, in that we the viewer could call up at any point and they'd flip a switch releasing any of a number of jungle pests on to the celebrity of choice. It doesn't get better than bees to Sanjaya. Sanjaya, or Sand-gina as I like to call him, has surprisingly won me over with his jungle-boy antics on the show. Even more surprisingly, he's seemingly into chicks!
