It Can No Longer Be Said That I Am Not Famous

My name was mentioned in the Albany Democrat Herald for a benefit I'm hosting with Kermet Apio and the always-funny Dax Jordan in Sweet Home, OR!

Postscript: I was approached after the show by a lady who said, "Can I get your picture? I'm not stalking you, I'm with the newspaper!" and I said, Oh, sure, anything for the Albany Democrat Herald! And she said, oh, I'm with the Sweet Home New Era. So I kicked her in the teeth.

Really a pretty bad time all around

My Jetta is being questioned in an attempted double murder.


If any family members are interested in me saying not very much on television, here is a clip of Thom commenting on our neighbors, one of whom has shot the other two. Allegedly. Check it out here.

Duck, Duck, Annihilation

Well, it's not the first time a duck designed for suicide has made its way around the internet.

Well, maybe it is. It does remind me of one of my friend John Freeman's dozens of bands, Duck, Duck, Annihilation- see a loving write-up of the Freeman phenomenon on Direct Hit Records, here.

As to complaints that the duck is too well-built to actually electrocute, (this is one product that never considered hiring a customer service staff) please consider either of the two easy backup options, given that you could hang yourself with the cord OR in dire straits, eat the duck, which if you are any kind of celebrity or known entity will result in a six month period where the phrase 'eat a duck' will be hipster shorthand for any suicide, which will confuse the heck out of people in food sales.
Eventually, it will end up in Cockney rhyming slang as a euphemism for sexual intercourse, which everything is.

P.S. Mom, I'm sorry my posts have been on a bummer lately. I'll try to be more "up" in the spring, I promise!

Behind the Mask: The Famous Mysterious Actor Exposed!

For those of you wondering about the shadowy whereabouts of the Famous Mysterious Actor in between his show being pulled from Lippman's and resurfacing at Berbati's, here is an informative clip.

Additional World Domination: The Famous Mysterious Actor is featured in Dark Horse Presents' latest issue! See it HERE!

The World Is Changing! Ask Per Mo How!

Peroxide Mocha are all about love. The love between a boy and a girl (but not in THAT way) and the love of that boy and that girl for music - love that has seen them through highschool, poor jobs, better jobs, military service, competition level video game playing, inter-state relocation, being cool, being uncool, being completely beyond caring what is cool or uncool any more and many, many other adventures that have got them to this, the eleventh year of their existence as a band. And through all of this, Pete and Rachel - for they are Peroxide Mocha - have created a series of home-made records that sound like nobody else, and which have winged their way around the world through post and internet and recommendation into the collection of a diverse and loving set of fans.

Pete and Rachel met in highschool in Sequim, Washington State, in 1997 and recorded their first EP that very same week; after rejecting names like Salmon-Cherry Casserole and Don’t Touch My Moustache, they decided on Peroxide Mocha, and a musical era began. Their creative gelling was total from the beginning and quickly led to the album Sit Down And Wait To Be Seated the following year. Vital Peroxide Mocha themes were mapped out there, including sex, drugs, sarcasm, Japanese confectionery and what it's like to think someone is neat - themes that were to be developed over a series of albums that would fall together over the next few years each time Pete and Rachel managed to simultaneously find time in their tangled-up lives to sit down for a short while, fire up the PC and let the songs pop out.

Though Pete's quirky beats and Rachel's nonchalant but moving and often gut-tuggingly funny lyrics were limited at first by the simple fact that neither had any idea whatsoever how a record should be made, people who heard the results of their work tended to love it, and to play it to yet more people. The duo discovered that there were kindred spirits all over the world - people who think pocky is important and recycling is funny; people who got such a collective crush on the music that each new Peroxide Mocha album has now become a keenly-anticipated event for that small but very lovely club of people who Know.

Which brings us to Making Out With Strangers. Now in their 11th year as a band, Pete and Rachel are older, wiser and a bit more educated in how a record should be made - but they are still as nonchalant and natural as ever, and have managed to avoid building any desire to sound like anyone other than Peroxide Mocha. So while the sounds on this record might be a bit tougher, a bit slicker, the kind of thing that electro and eclectic DJs all over the world will find perfect for rocking a wide variety of dancefloors with, this is still the Peroxide Mocha we all love, the Peroxide Mocha who remind us that the tiny details of life can be stranger and more important than we'd imagined, that horrible things can be funny and funny things can be horrible, and that the word "frigidaire" deserves pride of place in the construction of popular songs. This is Peroxide Mocha, and they bring you love.

swiped from their CD Baby Write-up!

My Favorite Emotionally Damaged Things To Do On The Internet

Peroxide Mocha ponder the fragility of our existence.

1. Flickr-snooping: I like to look at picture sets of friend's parties that I was not invited to. Alternate Name:*Snort* THAT hors d'oeuvre does not look very delicious.

2. Ex-Boyfriend-Googling: A classic, although I was sad to find that an ex had killed himself. Breaking up *is* hard to do.

3. Find My Own Death Announcements: When your name is Virginia, you die several times a month. My family's OK, really.

4. Myspace Hatin': Not possible on Facebook, which is why it is still inferior in my eyes. I don't want to be your friend, I just want to look at you and feel better that you don't want to talk to me ever again!

5. Taking mental illness quizzes: I know for certain that I do not have a shopping compulsion. Everything else depends on the day.

6. OTHER STALKING VARIATIONS: Now, we all stalk enemies and exes, because it's fun. But have you considered checking your own Youtube clip, obsessively, to see if people are watching/commenting on it? How about commenting on someone else's clip that you like, and then checking back to see if other people think you comment on something you thought was funny was ALSO funny?

How about writing a review of a product or service and checking on that, say, a hundred times? Just doing the cyber version of riding your bike past its house, all day- "Do other people love Kindle as much as I do? Do they like my parody song, Kindle in the Wind?"

It's a big Internet! Get creative! What else can we do with free time, a negative attitude, and a 3G connection?