Derby Flyer

Flyer by Mike Dyson.

No Lip Vol. 2

The song "Fairfax Ave" by my band Bull Lee will be included on the No Lip Vol. 2 compilation CD due out next year on Mohawk Bomb Records. Our track "You Never Had It" was featured on No Lip Vol. 1 and we did two shows with some bands also featured on that album last month.

Henry Rollins

Hank is always a good read and these contributions to Vanity Fair are no exception. Check em out!

Ramirez vs. Gonzalez

Alberto Gonzalez always creeped me out. I was relieved when he resigned. Now I know why!

Click here for some classic creepy Alberto Gonzalez action!

And finally, here's more proof! He's been indicted in the Bush State of TX with... you guessed it, none other than The Angler himself, our very own beloved Veep: Dick Cheney!

BULL LEE Live @ The Derby

My band Bull Lee will be playing The Derby on Tuesday night, December 2 at 10pm. We usually don’t play weeknights but The Derby sounds like a good time and we wanted to do one last show before the end of the year. It’s our 80th show and it happens to be BC’s birthday!

Flyer coming soon…

900 Pound Gorilla

These guys are my new favorite band. Bull Lee did two shows with them to promote a new compilation we are both on called No Lip Vol. 1. Check out "Big Fat Limo" and "Gutterball". They won a well-deserved LA Music Award for "Big Fat Limo" (one of the most addictive songs I've heard in a long time) and are currently being considered for a Grammy nomination.

A week after the shows, Popey and I went to see them perform at an Angel City Derby Girls match (do they call them matches?) and it was one of the most entertaining events ever. They wrote a bad ass song specifically for the gig called "Roller Derby Girl" and filmed a video for it during the event. Their bass player, Don, played an obsessed fan and at the end of the night the object of his affections finally kissed him, and then all the girls piled on top of him. It was awesome. He was in Derby Girl Heaven! Plus, the action-packed derby itself was cool, and the band rocked the house. I'll post a link to the video when it's up.

Introduction

Hello!

I've had a blog here before, but deleted it. It was in response to the 2004 election. I was unemployed at the time and hopeless about the state of the world. I posted mostly political doomsday stuff about how the election was stolen and how the mainstream press wouldn't report it. After Senator Boxer contested the election and nobody paid attention, I deleted my blog.

I used my free time and aggression to write about 50 songs with my good friend, horror director BC Furtney (who handed me stacks of lyrical genius for me to set to music), and we started the band Bull Lee. I play guitar, he played bass. We found our drummer Kevin (or Popey, we call him) in Jan of '05. We looked for singers forever, finally settling on our current singer Trisha after being mesmerized by her drunken “Tainted Love” at a Westside karaoke joint. Turns out it was her first time EVER singing (Trisha also has a fashion business called Redrawn Arts, check it out).

BC left in March of this year to direct more horror in Pittsburgh, PA. He just texted me that his new thing, New Terminal Hotel (starring Fright Night's Stephen Geoffreys, scream queen Tiffany Shepis, The Hills Have Eyes' Ezra Buzzington and Lost Boys' Corey Haim) wrapped yesterday, and we’re all looking forward to his success (I’ve read it and it’s goooooooood!).

Our new bassist is Mo and we’re having a good time jamming with him.

In the waning days of 2007 I began writing and recording my own songs with acoustic guitar. I got the brilliant idea to post a new song per week for all of 2008 on my Myspace page. It’s really good for me, but the year pretty much has been me slaving away in the little home studio I share with my roommate. I look forward to having some weekends free next year and getting out of town to do some performing.

Oh, and I finally got a day gig working at a software co. I’ve worked there over 3 years now. It’s really mellow and the people are great. I feel lucky, and extremely happy that we got it right with the 2008 election. I never thought it would happen. I was sure we were on the path to a police state any day. I feel good about things now, if we can just keep on Obama’s ass to do the right thing I believe he will.

And if he doesn’t, we can throw him out and give Palin a shot in 2012. Ha!

I'll end this post with a quote from Senator Boxer: “I’ve taken lonely votes in my life. I’ve asked tough questions,” she said. “Otherwise, what’s the point of being in the world, let alone in the Senate?”