Fillmore Auditorium, Tech Difficulties, Attention Center Mic

Alright, alright, now I know I was going on about some dream... (which by the way, wasn't even my dream! It was Monaca our merch girl's dream that I overheard her telling at dinner, which I misinterpreted to be a punchline-less joke. I told her she was a horrible comedian, to be corrected, "no! That was my DREAM!") So when my guitar pedal short circuits on stage and someone yells "tell a joke", immediately the first joke that springs to my mind is Monaca's dream, which is not at all a joke. And agree, you can't go telling someone else's story in front of a thousand people, so I lie it my own, and Monaca is up on the balcony shouting "that's MYYYY dream!" And I'm trying to tune her out and get through it, and I can't remember the details, and then I realize that the dream is about getting the manager of plus44 to smoke pot, and looking at Monaca, I see my grandma beside her, and so I think I throw in some disclaimer about it JUST being a dream, or maybe that it's not MY drugs, or something to ease her mind that the money in the birthday card she's about to give me isn't going to be spent on the corner of Broadway and 20th.
It's a blur in my memory, and I did notice there's a clip of it on youtube, which I can't bare to watch. By the way, I was looking for clips of the performance, and ALL that I find the day after is this dream clip?! Priorities people! Really? I know the person who posted that video must have more of the show! The music! But no, we are sadly defined by the stupid shit we do when we hope nobody is paying attention.

Yet however loose-screwed some of the shit is that falls out of my mouth, and as hazy as those memories return, there are some things I just don't think I would forget. Take the following for example, which came to Ben Triangle Man Young via email for a fact-check. Anyone have a video of this happening on stage?

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OK, I hate to be the bearer of "bad" news, but I think you should know this.
Shawn's NOT the single guy in the band. At all. At the Fillmore show last
Saturday, he pointed out his girlfriend to the audience; she was sitting in
the VIP balcony with his parents.
Here's the kicker: it's , my daughter. Seriously. They've been
together awhile but kept it under wraps for lots of reasons I'm sure you'd
understand. But he put their relationship out there...to the point that a
radio station in Tucson commented that he'd introduced his girlfriend at the
show. (She was incredibly embarassed, by the way! But that's Shawn.)
Shawn is the reason is in San Francisco for a month. Because the band
is "off" they have LOTS of time together, which is so hard when they're
touring.
They're pretty serious, and I figured you should know. I'm staying
off the boards just now, but I bet they're talking SOMEWHERE about how
everyone now knows who "Doll" is.
Don't hate me for keeping quiet. It was important at the time. And nobody
can blame you for wanting Shawn, the Pretty Boy Harris! LOL He's a marvelous
man. This from 's mom...moms never think anyone's good enough for
their child...but I really think he is.
Write back and let me know how this went over, cause I want to stay friends
with you, my International Child. :)

New Works

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Them Fillmore Apples

Thank you thank you for making June 14th 2008 the best day imaginable.
Love,

Chip Shop Chop Shop

Emilee and me in the paper world that ties London together in the Yankee In a Chip Shop video. It was another one-take fiasco, a la Salty Eyes, at least on the budget we were shooting- there was no affording double prints even, of the paper models we were destroying. And again, it worked out- by the skin on our eyeballs.