Are you ready for another episode of ON THE TIP OF MY TONGUE?
PC is standing next to me as we are surrounded my my superb crew
Steve Keller, yours truly, Rod and Scott in the control room.
Leigh Gregory and friends, my crew and I
Austin and I
Andrew Handrick, my crew and I
Austin Willacy, my crew and I
The Sort Outs
Kyra Brown and Brian
She'll Come Back for you Tomorrow performed by Marty Willson-Piper and Ricky Maymi 
From the top: 1, 2, 3, 4...
Lullaby for the Lonely
So if you were a tree what kind of tree would you be?
Establishing shot, before I head into the booth to direct
Marty Willson-Piper, Ricky Maymi, the crew and IMexican Cracker 
Estamos trabajando hard to get this together We ask that you show us some paciencia with this site. It'll be bien chiro when it's done. Todo el mundo likes the cartoons, no?
Meanwhile, mira que bonito background!
I really wanted some piñatas, folklórico dancers or artesanias, but por mala suerte, they didn't have any. Ni modo.
Stay tuned for Lalo el Mariachi, Mami La Chancla Feroz, Carlos El Intelectual, La Gringa Super Escooter y muchos mas. Maybe even a cameo by Juanes, sin que el sepa!
Cosas to note:
Mexican Crackers do listen to the gringo band, Cracker. Their canción favorita is Novias de Neptune. Ay!
What Mexican Crackers find triste is finding out that most of the guys in Ozomatli no hablan Español, que pasó mijo? Uli does, amamos a Uli!
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I recommend you read The Blair Warner Project first, then Tootie's Journal.
I wrote this during many MUNI rides into San Francisco's Financial District during April 1999, ouch! that was 12 years ago...Edward Sanchez what have you done for me lately?
SOME BLAIR WARNER / TOOTIE'S JOURNAL SITE HISTORY FOR YOU:
This site, along with Tootie’s Journal went up in April 1999, and was featured on MTV's 1515 news program Memorial Day weekend 1999, making us the FIRST Blair Witch parody site. Shortly thereafter Rough Cut ran an interview with me plus linked my site. Entertainment Weekly followed with a mention in their July 23rd issue, page 77. SPIN online also mentioned the parody and over the July 31st weekend (1999) the Boston Globe ran an article where my site is mentioned as well. Newsweek mentioned my parody on August 9th, so I had a pretty good media coverage, sweeeet! Other mentions appeared in Suite 101 and Savvy Frog.
Quote: "Riotous mix of The Blair Witch Project and The Facts of Life, from fan Cecilia Populus.
The Blair Warner Project
Eastland School is 2 hours from Peekskill New York.
February 1985 - Several Eastland students accuse Blair Warner of luring them into her room, performing home perms and make-overs whilst force feeding them bad caviar. The girls show their scalp burns, where the perm solution was left on for too long. Blair is found guilty of practicing beauty techniques without a license and is expelled. Molly Parker hides the "do it yourself beauty tips" article she insisted Blair Warner read.
February 1985 - Blair Warner leaves during a particularly harsh winter. In shame she decides not to return to her rich family but, decides to hop a train to Lubbock, Texas instead. Unfortunately, Blair's mascara was running so heavily (due to her tears and the rain) that the train she hops is actually a prop used in Eastland's production of "Plains, Trains, and Automobiles the Musical!" and is going nowhere fast!
Late February 1985 - The local garbage men pick up the train prop and immediately press it into a compact hunk of metal. Blair Warner is never heard from or seen again. She is presumed dead.
November 1986 - On the night of the first snowfall, the daughter of the headmaster, Steven Bradley disappears. A week later, Blair's most serious make over disaster victim vanishes. By the end of the winter, more than half of the "poised for success" class goes missing, including several full length mirrors, all of the curling irons, and most of the copies of "How to Marry a Millionaire". Later, Molly Parker's body is found buried under a pile of discarded copies of Elle magazine. On her chest, in red lipstick, the words "I suck as an actress" are scrawled. Everyone is shaken, but no one argues the point.
November 1988 - The Blair Warner Cult is published. This rare book, commonly considered fiction, tells of an entire clique of once popular teens cursed by acne, crunchy bangs and clumpy mascara who due to their current misfortune turn to murder and witchcraft.
August 1989 - Eleven witnesses testify to seeing a perfectly manicured hand holding a lip liner reach up, stab, then pull Sue Anne Weaver into the Tappy Eastland Creek. Her body was never found from a stream only two feet deep. For thirteen days after the drowning, the creek was clogged with chalky pumice stones, and the water gave off an odor very similar to Alberto V05's deep conditioning treatment.
March 1990 - Twelve year old Cindy Webster is reported missing and search parties are dispatched. The girl returns to her Grandmother's estate the next day. She is in shock and has Lee press on nails cemented to her fingernails. All but one of the search parties return. Weeks later the equestrian club finds the search party at Trust Fund Rock, a peculiar formation named for it's similarity to a safety deposit box. The five men of the search party had been dead for several days. Their hair teased into grotesque beehives, their feet crammed into size 5 espadrilles, and this time, written in the same shade of lipstick as before the words: 'Alan Thicke sucks as a composer.' Cindy Webster claims she had been lured into the forest by "a young woman holding a Flo bee".
November 1990-May 1991 - Starting with Nancy Olsen and ending with Boots St. Claire, a total of seven Eastland students are abducted. A young handyman, George Burnett, walks into a local Starbucks and repeats over and over "you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life". Burnett gets louder and louder, finally the authorities are called in. When authorities check the cellar of the "Over our Heads" novelty shop they find the bodies of the seven missing students. Each body has been given a manicure, pedicures and a full body wax. The cause of death, as close as it could be determined, was horror at having to stay in a cellar with George Burnett who knows nothing about body waxing. Written all over the bodies the phrase "when the boy you used to hate you date" was found. Burnett admitted everything in detail telling authorities he had done it for a "young woman ghost" who occupied the surrounding woods around Eastland. He said he couldn't stand the whiny debutante voice any longer and did what he was asked to make her leave him alone. Burnett was found guilty and sent to a prison in Chicago where he escaped after 10 years and resurfaced as a doctor in a local hospital. Nobody seemed to notice.
October 20, 1994 - Eastland students Natalie Green, Dorothy "Tootie" Ramsey and Jo Polniazek decide to interview locals about the legend of Blair Warner for a class project. Natalie interviews Mrs. Garrett, an old woman who used to be a housemother at Eastland, she is now quite insane and residing at the Martha Stewart's Home for the Has Been Homemakers. Most townspeople have learned to run screaming at the sight of Mrs. Garrett less they be subject to an endless ranting about Blair Warner. She claims to have seen Blair Warner one day near the Tappy Eastland Creek in the form of a half deb, half student beast. She also tells of her many calls into George at the Chicago Hospital.
October 21, 1994 - In the early morning, Natalie interviews two equestrian instructors who tell her that Trust Fund Rock is less than twenty minutes from the stables and accessible by an old logging trail. The girls get a ride to Trust Fund Rock from groundskeeper Willie and are never seen again.
The Poets Have Left the Building
...however...
Poets Against War
A variety of poets are featured here.
Anthology of Spanish Poetry.
Some are in English so don't fear this link.
Federico Garcia Lorca
Spanish poet, playwright ...learn more.
This just manifested:
Estaba temblando, te lo digo en serio, temblando
mi anatomía zumbaba gracias a la cafeína
ó fue por el impacto de tu voz?
ó por la fuerza de tus palabras?
ó por la entrega de tus melodías?
ó por la violencia de tu guitarra?
ó por las lágrimas en mis ojos?
ó por tu sabor en mi boca?
July 21, 2000
...listening to the Monkees singing Daydream Believer followed by Ratt's Round and Round,
I have a nectarine sitting on my desk just staring at me. It has a little bit of mold on it and I'm wondering if I should cut that bit off and eat it anyway. The nectarine is daring me to do it, bastard!
I feel a little weak as if I couldn't raise my arms above my head but I fully know I truly can. I'm smelling Rebecca's cinnamon roll and lusting after the smell only, I have no desire to eat a cinammon roll at the moment. Cinnamon rolls remind me of the Ren Faire and bees!
I need to go across the street and buy my lunch salad though I know that eating a bunch of raw vegetables is going to make me explode. This is where I am at the moment. What does your side of hell look like today?
03/31/00
Happy Birthday Ewan!
August 25, 1999
embarrassing moments...here are two of them:
ONE: I jumped on stage during a Cure gig, (Primary was playing) and I walked over to Robert and kissed him on the cheek, he didn't freak (really!), he just looked at his feet and smiled. I then spun around to leave the stage when I accidentally bumped into Lol's keyboard! I just froze, watching the thing rock back and forth!! Fortunately Lol stepped up and steadied it, I looked at him, muttered something and got the hell off the stage!
TWO: I jumped on stage (don't learn do I?) during a Circle Jerks show. I was planning on doing a quick stage dive (this was before the mosh pits were populated by violent creeps and people actually rushed to catch stage divers so it was relatively safe for women). So there I was, I circled the band, I came up to the edge of the stage and then...the song ENDED!! I stood there staring at the band, and they were staring back. I couldn’t stage dive, there was no music! So I daintily sat on the edge and had a couple of cute punk boys help me down. I think I ran to the bar after that!
July 29, 1999 More muni stories for you:
It's 4:45, the bus is already five minutes late and it's not even Friday, ok, deep breath it'll be here soon. It does, I prepare to board thee 31AX Express baby, and being the 26th person in line (yes, we line up at the bus stop after work, after all it IS the Financial District and we're all so bloody civilized! )and as a result I miss out on the antics dished out by the 25 people ahead of me. So I climb on and flash my pastel bus pass to the driver who ignores me because he is going on about how MUNI is going to go out of business because of whatever stunt one of passengers had just pulled. Then the almost incoherent but LOUD driver informs us that he's not going to leave! I'm thinking to myself "Just put on your headphones, get your book out, the bus will move."
For the next five minutes or so people are still getting on the bus and are really confused by the driver's ranting, as am I, but here is where the magic of cell phones comes in to rescue me out of the pit of mystification. There was this woman behind me on her cell phone and she was providing a play by play description of the happenings on the 31AX Express!
Cell phone woman says "Yes, this woman got on the bus and told the driver she had lost her pass and wasn't going to pay the fare, then she just sat down! No, she didn't pay! No, she doesn't care, apparently she thinks it’s alright to state that you have lost your pass and just sit down and now the driver says he’s not going to drive the bus! Yes, some people are just horrible!”
Then I see this young guy get up and goes to the driver, cell phone woman says to her friend, she says “Oh wow, and now this man just paid this woman’s fare!” cell phone woman turns to horrific 31AX Express bus rider “You REALIZE that he just paid for you don’t you?” Bus moocher says nothing, cell phone woman continues with her description of the goings on and finishes with “No, she never even thanked the man! I believe anything at this point!”
I make it through chapter 19 in my book.
On another disturbing note: getting off the bus on Friday, right there on MY STOP, I'm waiting for the doors to open so I can get out, and this man, this BIG man who has a wee crop of hair on his head and when he stands his feet are completely facing outward on the floor, you know like clown feet, anyway he starts screaming "STOP IT! STOP ASSAULTING ME!!" I'm about to walk off the bus but my brain goes "what the hell...?" and I look over towards the front of the packed bus and mr. clown feet is loosing it just yelling for someone to "STOP IT", he goes on to say: "You stepped on my feet (clown feet) and now you're mumble, mumble, STOP IT!!" I see this other creepy guy that rides the x-press as well, close to mr. clown feet and wonder if he's the one accused of the assault, he seems un-affected though, so who bloody knows...I get off the bus and cross the street, the screams are still audible, I hear a final "YOU SON OF A BITCH!" and mr. clown feet exists the bus. Crossing the street with fellow commuters I just sigh and say "Aren't you glad this was OUR stop?" Nervous smiles agree with me as we make our mad dash to the safety of our apartments. COMMUTING, YOU GOTTA LOVE IT!
4/30/1999
Ah, the good times!
About nine months ago, I had the grand experience of jury duty in San Francisco where every trial is a criminal trial. After the run around of "come into the court room" "now go back to the waiting room" and endless waves of people being interviewed for the jury, I had the honor of being in the jury box, eeek paranoia began to creep into my heart as I considered developing a twitch or just faking a fainting spell. As luck would have it another potential juror beat me to that move as one of our days ended early because the paramedics had to be called in to care for a fainting victim, dang!! Come back the next day I must, so armed with my paperback and very sloppy clothing I sit in chair number five listening to the eleven around me speak of their fears, prejudices, medical conditions, criminal records, favorite ice cream flavors, etc...my goal is to sound as unstable as possible but always telling the TRUTH less a bolt of lightening leave a mountain of smoldering ash in my place.
I get to hear the case, it's assault with a deadly weapon. Apparently these five men were accused of going on a rampage at a tenderloin hotel (tenderloin is synonymous to skid row), beating people up, waving a gun around, and stealing stuff. The first thing that flashed in my head was, ok, five young men in the tenderloin, late at night, obviously they were up to no good. How's that for prejudiced? But I swear on my record collection, that was the first thing that crossed my mind! The day that they actually brought the defendants in to the court room, we had to respond if we thought they were guilty without hearing any testimony, I raised my hand (thinking: this ought to excuse me, no doubt) and said looking from one defendant to another "Now you must understand that I thought this BEFORE I laid my eyes on any of you. I figured 5 men out at 2 am in the loin were obviously into something evil." I tried to see if any of the accused flinched, but they didn't, they were busy throwing me the lightening bolts I had feared earlier! Guess what? That didn't get me off! The day went on. After lunch one of the accused said he felt sick, so we were excused at 1:30. As the court room was adjourning, I watched one of the defendants slip a note to another and though this really freaked me out I didn't say anything, because the way things were going I wouldn't be excused anyway. As a matter of fact I bet they would've decided to keep me seeing how I was blessed with the hawk eye and all.
The next day, we turn up, the defendants turn up...surprise!! One of them is wearing a Trader Joe's T-shirt!! Now Trader Joe's t-shirts are given to employees only, and I had said that my husband worked for TJ the day before, so is this guy trying to make my head explode or what? I write a note to the judge about this...I don't get excused! Second round of questioning is taking place, they want to know if I have a problem with law enforcement. I re-tell my adventures as a punk rocker in Los Angeles and the abuse received at the hands of the LAPD. I tell them that this has left me suspicious and sometimes fearful of the law, I receive sympathetic nods from the defendants. I realize I'm playing both sides here, this HAS to get me off or someone is going to take me O-U-T!
The District Attorney shared my name and she dressed like k.d. lang, so I'm sending her the mental message that basically states how sucky I would be as a juror, apparently she got it because as she is calling names I see her flinch, pause, look up at me, look back down and then say my name! I wanted to run out of that court room as fast as I could, but I didn't, I calmly picked up my belongings, thanked the court and walked out confident I wouldn't be needed for two more years…guess what I got in the mail yesterday? Jury duty summons! Ah, I love this city!
Wednesday August 10, 2005
The scene so far:
Good friend and co-producer Steve Keller passed away on July 16th already miss him terribly, I have the picture that was taken in the control booth and have it up at work, helps tons. The blogs have gong by the wayside as predicted, but I did begin a myspace.com/ceemoon profile, gods, will this continuous signing up for online profiles, blogs, journals ever end? Probably not! Maui was incredible as time was spent snorkeling, kayaking, swimming, boating and yes eating and drinking as well. Interesting fact was that we crashed every night around 9PM and were up and buzzing around by 7 in the morning, nuts but loads of fun. Going back for certain! Going in for oral surgery on Monday the 15, good gods! Spent the 4th of July with Joy and John, had a great time hitting the wineries in Napa, Cosentino became a favorite. Went to the Renaissance Faire in Novato on the 7th of August and it was great fun, shared the experience with Kate and Sean. Going to the second annual (how sweet) Golden Gate Park Renaissance Faire on Sunday August 27. Saw Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus, Fantastic Four, Willie Wonka, Finding Neverland, Secret Window –hey I had a Johnny Depp festival without meaning to. Working with Shocko on getting more folx to register for myspace.com/thedevlins. Began shooting Sound Check for Newsroom. Lane finally taped some songs for On the Tip Of My Tongue and he brought James Nash along for good measure, it was a great show! We’re painting the bedroom during Labor Day weekend, oh and the bathroom too! We’ll be in Carmel by the Sea in October.
Tuesday May 10, 2005
Happy Mother's Day to all the Mexican mom's! May 10th is Mother's Day in Mexico!
The scene so far:
Been in a car wreck (first and last time, y’hear?), moved to digs in Laurel Heights which means better weather but less economical places to eat, started 2 blogs when I swore up and down I wouldn’t, become addicted to LOST and Battlestar Galactica, loved the Motorcycle Diaries, saw Trisha move back to San Francisco and into my building, broke my toe (first and last broken bone, y’hear?), going to Maui, had a blast with The Devlins, had Austin Willacy on my show, along with The Sort Outs, Lisa Mandelstein and I’m working on Lane. Cut my hair and dyed it way too dark – Kim isn’t sure how to proceed! Saw Ozomatli, Stereophonics but never made it to any of Hickman’s shows. Went to Park Chalet and will be going to Sociale soon. Still going to the chiropractor and will be filing the claim with the city this month. Will begin shooting San Francisco Spotlight in June, may work with Katherine’s friend Nora for a news segment. Marty is in Spain, still touring with the Saints, to date their only U.S. dates are 3 gigs in New York and no, I am not going. There is talk of a trip to Las Vegas in October with Rene and Iris. Going to see Kingdom of Heaven on Monday, and Star Wars I’m not sure when, after Maui? In Maui? Almost got to interview Ingram Hill but their bus broke down and were going to be 2 hours late, we bailed. Going to the gym and doing my best to get back to 5 times a week, c’mon toe, let’s speed up the healing!
Wednesday July 23, 2003
So far this summer: I won a pair of birkenstocks, I went to a Giants vs A's game, I found out that POWER13 broke up, I saw Finding Nemo and Pirates of the Caribbean, my parents came up from L.A. for a visit, I wrote up 2 reviews for Newspapertaxi.net, I sent some cd's to Liam and Fiachna via my friend Beth, I applied for a new job, I've crewed on about 4 shows at the station, I discovered I like champagne with mango juice, I got a haircut, I filmed a memorial service for a friend of Steve's, I sent some black and white musee mechanique photos to Colin, I sent an email to Dave from the Sun's and he's sending me their ep, I got the first issue of Loop from my friend Clare, Rafael is working at ClubOne, Shonna got a job, Melissa is working in Chicago and talking a lot of golf, Trisha has a wolf spider in her apartment, Lisa went to the desert, I met Julie and Barabara during the chat with Liam, I went to Chapeau! and to Clementine wth my sweetie Rafael, we took Joy and Johnny to Eldo's where the wait staff amused all by crashing into each other, I read the first Harry Potter book, I made several healing pouches, I found another dragon at the Haight Street faire.
Monday June 16th, 2003
So whilst on camera 2 at the studio, producer Steve (who was directing producer Barbara's show says "OK camera 1 check your framing because we have the guest's boob in the shot." Camera 3, a lesbian activist (so they tell me) immediately piped in and said, "You don't have to call it that!"
Steve "What do you want me to say?"
Camera 3 "You can say breast."
Camera 1 "Well, I can say 'beeeeyotch' but it still means 'bitch'!"
Oh man, I had to suppress the laughter because we were taping but when I went home and told Rafael, I laughed for nearly 5 minutes! Ahhh, the good times!
Wednesday March 19, 2003
So before Yoga class Rafael and I decide to run down to Ocean Beach and dip our jewelry into the freezing water for purification purposes. This was on Monday night. The wind was blowing like mad, it was amazingly cold and the tide was out so we had to run, and run, and run to the edge of the sea! At one point the wind blew R's cap off of his head so he was running in the opposite direction for awhile, I tried to keep up with him but I was laughing too hard and screaming "get it! get it!" while the wind howled around me! Finally, facing West we made it to the water, all of this foam was being launched from the waves and tips of water streamed across the dark sand, it was surreal to say the least! The man that makes the mazes in the sand had been there earlier and we stumbled upon his swirls. Before we left and after I yelled for the blessings from Goddess and God (and my Dragon Dawn), we walked the maze of light and dark.
Despite the still howling wind and coldness of the night, I felt this comforting warmth take hold of me. Yoga was good that night.
Monday March 17, 2003
I'm not commenting on the war, ok? I'm just not. It's the same situation where I don't comment on bands I don't like, waste of energy, waste of cyberspace. That said, hope everyone has gone out and bought their electrical tape, or is it masking tape?
One of the things I enjoy about San Francisco is the diversity. Really and truly! Yesterday, I headed out on the 31 Balboa to 6th Avenue and walked up to Clement Street. Sixth and Clement put you in the heart of little Chinatown, the main Chinatown being sandwiched in between the Financial District (check out the panoramas!) and North Beach. It was sunny, breezy and people were out in force.
I knew I wanted to stock up on incense and I always go to Kamei for that purpose. Kamei is this little store packed to the ceiling with almost anything you can think of, using every corner of space to display items as diverse as origami paper to toe nail clippers, rice cookers to those hand held sparklers we'd burn on the fourth of July. Kamei is the whole world wrapped up in one little vending space...or so I thought! A few blocks down I turned into a similar store but perhaps double the size as Kamei. They had Chinese pop songs blasting through their speakers and the displays of merchandise was indeed a visual assault. I was immeidately surrounded by Chinese good luck plants, hanging lanterns and those ceramic good luck cats that you see at the doors of almost every Chinese restaurant. But get this, these ceramic cats were electric and their paws went up and down!! I stood there chucklng simply charmed by uniqueness of it all.
I found the same incense I had just purchased but it was 80 cents more expensive, I did end up buying a bread loaf tin ($2) so I can make Irish Brown Bread and a pocket journal (also $2) that I'm using as my dream log. They had some crystals but they were over priced. Still in sheer mass and quantity this place, which is called Household "something" has Kamei beat hands down. Yet, Kamei is a better organized and provides a quieter, more tranquil experience.
Happy Autumnal Equinox!
I think this was the only time we have ever gone to the Ren Faire with more than 4 people. It was a riot. It was the first time for Ryan and Cedar, maybe Eric's too. Most of the garb Cedar and Ryan have on was leant to them by my husband Rafael. Doreen made her costume because she is a goddess seamstress! She also made Jason's centaur costume.
Left to right, top row: Eric, Rafael, Ryan, Jason. Bottom row: Cameron, Me, Doreen and Cedar.
Wednesday September 11, 2002
Suggestions regarding things to do this week:
Hold your loved ones close
Call your Mom and Dad (on the phone or through your heart)
Call on your goddesses, gods, spirit guides, ancestors, runners, angels, or whatever you call your higher powers and ask them to stay close
Chant over and over: Only good shall come from me, only good shall come to me
Donate blood, clothing, food, time
Smile
Be nice to people on the bus
Give thanks for your fingers and toes
Take a deep breath
This is when I was young and full of grace...ok, ok so I took those words from REM, if you notice that's an REM poster in the background, oh wait no, you can't see it, but TRUST me there is an REM poster behind me in this picture, PLUS I'm wearing an REM t-shirt as well. I had severe REM damage back then...practice, practice makes perfect, perfect is a fault and fault lines change...me taking a picture of me taking a picture of me...you get the idea...
January 14th, 2002 This little gem is from one of my truly inspired friends:
"your subject line reminds me of an inane little poem a friend and I used to repeat endlessly while taking a mental vacation."
Stalker for Jesus
Listen, it’s fine to have a set of religious beliefs. It’s fine to honor your god/goddess in any way that you feel like it. It’s fine to chose not to participate in the decadence of the world and to call those of us who drink, smoke, curse occasionally and have sex for fun sinners. I may even let you get away with giving me a pamphlet hot off your Jesus presses.
However
It’s not fine to continue to pelt me with salvation!
Have no fear, if I want more information from your sect I will ask for it. My silence indicates my disinterest. This goes pretty much for anything unsolicited.
My stalker for Jesus is Cesar. He gives me Jehovah’s Witness newsletters (in Spanish) on a regular basis and, apparently, is on a mission to see me saved.
But what if I don’t want to hang with the JW’s? What if I want celebrate Halloween, Birthdays and New Year’s? What if I want a Doctor to administer antibiotics if I’m exposed to anthrax? Do I go the hell for that?
Let’s not even talk about how there should be different levels of hell and how you should be assigned to the appropriate hellish eternity depending upon your sins. I mean really, I am not spending eternity with Osama (& Bert) or Hitler, but I wouldn’t mind hanging out with Janis, Jimmy and Jerry. IF they’re even in hell.
So yes, my point is: have your beliefs but don’t shove them down my throat because chances are I’m going to react very negatively towards you and your organized religion.
For those of you who know me, when this is all over, I’ll be in hell, over there at the bar, mixing the drinks…only, where the hell are we going to get the ice? Hell indeed.
Sung to the tune of Old Macdonald Had a Farm:
I LIVE IN THE TENDERLOIN
RUN Y'ALL, RUN Y'ALL, RUN
AND IN THE LOIN WE HAVE SOME CRACK HOS
RUN Y'ALL, RUN Y'ALL, RUN
WITH A CRACK HO HERE
AND A CRACK HO THERE
HERE A CRACK
THERE A HO
EVERY WHERE A CRACK HO
I LIVE IN THE TENDERLOIN
RUN Y'ALL, RUN Y'ALL, RUN
AND IN THE LOIN WE HAVE SOME PEEP SHOWS
RUN Y'ALL, RUN Y'ALL, RUN
WITH A PEEP SHOW HERE
AND A PEEP SHOW THERE
HERE A PEEP
THERE A SHOW
EVERY WHERE A PEEP SHOW
I LIVE IN THE TENDERLOIN
RUN Y'ALL, RUN Y'ALL, RUN
AND IN THE LOIN WE HAVE SOME CRAZY BASTARDS
RUN Y'ALL, RUN Y'ALL, RUN
WITH A CRAZY BASTARD HERE
AND A CRAZY BASTARD THERE
HERE A CRAZY
THERE A BASTARD
EVERY WHERE A CRAZY BASTARD
Hey kids! About 3 weeks ago or so I emailed those on the forum who have their email addresses listed to contribute a question or 5 for Peter and Colin. Some of you took me seriously and participated. Here is the first round of questions submitted and answered by Peter Devlin himself! Peter has passed on the questions to Colin so we may hear from him soon.
The idea here is to have this become a semi regular happening, so contact me offline if you’d like to have one of your questions addressed. Enjoy and thanks to all who came out to play!
Of course, a few thousand "thank you's" to Peter Devlin!
Note: Peter's responses are unedited.
Cee xox
********************************* From Shonna in Vegas (now Montana):
How has becoming a father influenced your music?
(P) I don't think it has influenced the music (by all accounts 'Waves' should have been a very mellow record ?) but it probably has influenced the way I work. Making time available to spend with Emelia means being more organised in every other way, which means making decisions quicker in the studio and moving on to the next thing. So, that should mean making more records in less time!
Favourite non-Devlin music please?
(P) Off the top of my head, in no particular order, some of the music I’m listening to today.......The Who, The Blades, Ravel, DJ Shadow, The Specials, Gorecki, Wilco, Sparklehorse, The Roots, Grant Lee Buffalo, The Undertones, Arvo Part, Bob Marley, Chet Baker, Daniel Lanois, Whiskeytown, Kings of Leon...Haven't figured out tomorrow's playlist yet....
Is there any music you simply can't stomach?
(P) I can listen to almost anything, at the right time and in the right place, apart from Anastasia of course.
Is there ever a time you can see yourself not making music? (We need to be warned, you know, I'm afraid we're all Devlins junkies and as much as the music of the likes of Damien Rice, David Gray and that lot helps, it just wouldn't fill the void (lol)
(P) No. My daughter is one year old and already we're planning a side project together. She provided backing vocals (well, sighing noises) on a track on 'Waves' ("Feel It When You're Gone"), and now she has a mini drum kit, harmonica, maracas, synth giutar......I'm going to be the pushy stage father, like Beyonce's and produce all her pop hits. She'll be addicted to calpol by age 3 and jaded by age 5.
********************************* From Maggie, Canada (now Australia)
From all the places you haven't toured in yet, where would you like to tour the most?
(P) We met some people who live in Florence at a show recently and told us there was a strong Devlins fanbase there. It's a beautiful part of the world, so I'd like to play Florence and then tour through Tuscany, down to Rome and on to Capri. Failing that, put me on a plane to Japan and Australia and I’d be happy.
Is there anything you guys collect?
(P) I try to collect bottles of fine red wine, but it's not going to well. Just when you think you have a good collection, bang! it all goes in one weekend. I still have a great collection of pre-'80's punk/new wave/ska/ picture cover vinyl singles, and a jukebox to play them in.
Did you ever consider collaborating with someone on a track for your album? If so whom?
(P) We've been very close several times. Tori Amos agreed to sing on one, but our schedules didn't allow it. Tony, the organ player for the Charlatans was supposed to play on 'Waves' but the recording of their new album went on for too long. We did work with the brilliant Lisa Germano on 'Drift' - she sang and played on 'As Far As You Can Go' and a B-side - Electric Storms. We've also worked with The Blue Niles' Robert Bell on 'Drift' ("Be Like This") and 'Consent' ("Static" and "Consent"), Luke Doucet (the best guitar player in Canada and leader of tex/mex/rock band Veal, Ashwin Sood and Dave Kershaw (drummer and keys in Sarah McLachlan's band), Bill Dillon (guitar player with everyone), Jon Brion (producer/musician with everyone from Rufus Wainwright to Fiona Apple).
What's your favourite track from Waves?
(P) This week it's "Everything Comes Around", just because it's so good live.
********************************* From Cecilia, San Francisco
Have you worked or mucked about with a 5 or 12 string bass? Any preference?
(P) No I haven't got the qualifications for operating such heavy machinery and anyway, those instruments can be dangerous in unskilled hands. I also have bass vertigo - the higher the bass goes the more nauseous I become. Even looking at that bloke in Level 42 makes me uneasy.
We haven’t seen you PETER, in the U.S. in ages, what are we going to be surprised most about when we do see you again?
(P) Apart from the tired, gaunt, emaciated, drawn complexion, less hair, black rings around red eyes and an unhealthy looking loss of weight I haven't changed a bit!
Why don’t we read about the two of you fighting like the Robinson brothers in the Black Crows or the Gallagher brothers in Oasis?
(P) I'm too tired to fight with anyone. We go to the studio, work and then go to our separate homes. We spend a healthy amount of time apart. It might also be something to do with the fact that we've been fighting the business of music together for the last decade. All for one! The Musickateers!.
Are you getting the U2 iPod?
(P) I'm not. I prefer listening to music on speakers. When I travel on a train or plane I prefer to read. I was never really into the whole walkman / discman thing either.
Lord of the Rings or Star Wars?
(P) After the last Star Wars, it has to be Lord Of The Rings all the way.
Tea or coffee?
(P) Coffee preferably. It all depends where you are. Really good coffee is so rare in Ireland.
Showers or baths?
(P) Showers. Power showers.
Yes or no?
(P) yes, all lower case, no exclamation mark.
******************************** From Johnny, Britain
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Describe the most beautiful thing that you've ever beheld.
(P) My little girl's smile when she points at me and says "Dada", the sunset on the vineyards beneath the Balcon de Rioja in Northern Spain and the first time I saw "The Devlins - Sold Out" sign in lights outside the Olympia Theatre, Dublin.
******************************** From Lisa, Texas
Which song will be on the "Closer" soundtrack?
(P) "World Outside".
What are the words during Colin's falsetto on "Five Miles to Midnight"?
(P) To be completely honest I have absolutely no idea and I really doubt if he does either, but I'll forward this on to him.
******************************** Andy, Kent England
Apart from the obvious question, are the Devlins planning to tour in England?
(P) Yes, but we have to wait for the record company to release the record, the press department to get press coverage, the radio pluggers to get airplay and then the booking agent will book the shows. I wish it was easier but that's the way the business works. Spring '05 I think, but I know there is a London show being scheduled for Jan / Feb.
I know there is some sampling going on but can Peter or Colin tell me what instruments, that sound a bit like bagpipes, are used on “Kill With Me Tonight” and, “People Still Believing” for instance.
(P) Those are Colin’s bagpipes! Actually they're electric guitars I reversed and chopped up in pro-tools and then looped. We did the same thing with Lisa Germano’s violin on "Electric Storms" and probably a few other tracks I’ve forgotten about. Sometimes reversing guitars, or drums or bass can give a weird, spooky sound that organic and original, but there is a lot of trial and error and you have to be careful not to overdo it or else it sounds like an gimmick. (now we'll never be able to use it again).
(P) To everyone on the forum - thank you for your questions, kind words, presents support and enthusiasm. It is very much appreciated by Colin, Guy, Mark and myself. As long as you're into it, we'll keep making the music. I know the record and impending tour have been a long time coming but thank you for your patience. Hopefully we'll see you very soon. Take care, merry Christmas and happy New Year. Peter.
December 5th, 2002
Right, time for a new show, however since we love him so much Ireland's Colin Devlin is once again opening with Consent, then we're adding some Lisa Mandelstein because she is so talented, followed by L.A.'s Walking Wounded - great show so don't miss it!
November 21st, 2002
Hey, there was a power outage at my casa on the 7th so we are re-airing the previous show. So tune in for some Colin Devlin action, Kyra Brown and Wire Graffiti! Why? Because life is too short to watch crap! But you already knew that!
November 7th, 2002
Because we got about a dozen emails regarding her, more Kyra Brown; a very intimate rendition of Consent by Colin Devlin; a fantastic interview of Colin by Liam of the Hot House Flowers and finally the wonderful Wire Graffiti performing Liquid Sugar.
October 17th, 2002
Kyra Brown Recorded at the Accessf Studios. We are featuring four magnificent songs from this very talented singer/songwriter and musician. Her drummer Brian joins her!
Haven also makes an appearance. Three videos by them are presented this week on FEAM! See Haven at the Justice League (415-440-0409) on Sunday October 20th.
October 3rd, 2002
Tommy Castro, Authority Zero, Mojave 3, Gorillaz, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci -live at the Great American Music Hall!
September 19th, 2002
Biffy Clyro, 54-40, Simon Stinger, Casino Royale, Lane and the Badass Chicken Bones, Alfie
September 5th, 2002
Biffy Clyro, Under Cover SKA, Mr. Lucky, The Tragically Hip, ...I'd play Cracker and Superchunk videos but they won't send us any - curses!
August 15th, 2002
Lane and the Badass Chicken Bones, The Hives, International Noise Conspiracy, Tim and Carmel who is an activist for Workspace, Badly Drawn Boy with the fun Once Around the Block ditty.
August 1st, 2002
Footage from the studio performances of songstress and temptress Carmel and accomplished musicianTim, plus the acoustic stylings of Josh Almond
July 18th, 2002
Oh! We had The Hives, and Kate Regan of InViolet , Tommy Castro, the Gorillaz and just radical, radical stuff.
4th of JULY, 2002
celebration! Really? Well, kind of...
Intro is a merry collage of most of the bands that have been on the show, funny thing though, I can't remembr if I used SuperFan by Cracker, or a Sly and the Family Stone song, or something completely different. I guess you'll have to tune in now! Tune in for some Left Out Lamont, Lane and his buddies, 54-40, Hives and mucho mas. Oh wait, is the band called Flaw and the song called Whole, or the other way around?
June 22nd
Orixia takes care of the intro this time. The footage is provided by I Love Lucy. Lot's of HIVES courtesy of Paola, more cool stuff. Tune in! I believe the station will play the RIGHT show because they only have one tape, then again there are 2 shows on that tape so it's a 50% chance that they fuck up again. Oh! The suspense!
June 6th
KICK ASS SHOW!! Is the station playing the right show? Hell, my mind is so shot I have not a clue.
May 23rd
SPECIAL AIRING OF THE SHOW THAT WAS SCHEDULED FOR MAY 16TH INTRO: Some strobe and some Stooges. Caught in the act at the Endinburgh Castle: InViolet, some serious question asking by: Aw Yeah. Lovely song courtesy of: Marty Willson-Piper, one of our favorites: Plavu, mad fun from Beggar's: Super Furry Animals and Cornershop. Wrapping up the show with class the talented and outrageous: Casino Royale. Remember: Life is too short to watch crap, so watch FEAM! Batman said so.
May 16th Encore Presentation CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? They aired the April 18th show again! - The station kills me sometimes, ay caramba!
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May 2nd Encore Presentation - Due to Station blunder!
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April 18th
INTRO: The Honey Bee's from a Gilligan's Island episode, remember Bingo, Bango, Bongo and Irving? Well, you'll be able to see them too as they go ga-ga over Lovey, Ginger and MaryAnn! Live footage of Carmel and one of her Bi-Polar Bears, Kate Regan one third of InViolet and a duo simply named Scott and Jules. Footage is from The First Annual Benefit for Workspace. YOU MUST WATCH THIS SHOW!
April 4th
INTRO: The Church and more Church. Show dedicated to them since they're going to play Slim's on April 7th! Gorillaz and Simon Stinger thrown in to mix it up!
March 21st
INTRO: Haven't decided yet, maybe Moulin Rouge done to the tune by friend and local musician Brian King. Some live Gorky's Zygotic Mynci filmed at the Great American Music Hall on February 28th. Some live Lane and the Badass Chicken Bones filmed at the Parkway on March 3rd!! More musical coolnes, APOLO-gize!!.
March 7th
INTRO: The ending of Shallow Grave. Then the cool vids: Undercover SKA, Mr. Lucky Experience, Lane and the Badass Chicken Bones, Wendy Woo, Blood Sugar and "Stood on Gold" by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
February 21st
More Alfie and some Gorky's, some Austin Willacy and a dash of Ben Harper.
February 7th
First brand new show of 2002. See some Alfie, Sponge Bob, and more, more, more.
January 17th
Starting off with some George of the Jungle and Ratt! Tune in to see what I mean!
January 3rd- MY BIRTHDAY!!
Llama Farmers, MWP, Delgados, Hefner
