What up blogger? So earlier this week I blogged about how we beat the Canadaians in hockey but now we are in the gold medel game. As I write this I don’t who we will play, but I am hopeing for CANADA again. Hey if you read this this weekend and are going to see the Trailor Park Boys on Sunday night then come by the nightlite and say whats up to Ben and I. Tomorrow is the rock girl gala and it’s going to awesome I hope you got some tickets. USA USA USA

“Hola sober and drunkolas,

So today, Friday, February 26th was designated “Clean Your Goddamn Office” day by the powers- that- be here at KISW.  Hell, not just KISW, but the folks at the End, the Mountain and the Wolf all had to clean up today.  Needless to say, there was a lot of junk (and porn) being thrown away, recycled and traded, etc.  Since the Men’s Room office was far- and- away the most disastrous office, every amateur comedian roaming the halls here offered us some variation of the “it’s about time you guys cleaned up your act” line.  The reference, of course, was about our extra- curricular activities and nothing to do with the condition of our office.  Clever.  The sad truth is, you probably wouldn’t like us if we weren’t degenerates.  Yes, really.  Now, we’re not here to encourage self- destruction or whatever… BUT, you know Aerosmith just got back together and, quite frankly, they haven’t been any good (don’t argue with me about it, just accept it) since they cleaned up.  They were much better (as a band) when they were junkies.  Would Ozzy have been as legendary as he is if he HADN’T been high for 40 years in a row?  No.  On the other hand, there are people who are the exact opposite of this.  Robert Downey Jr. was an idiot nightmare during his days of ill- repute, but now that he’s clean(ish) he’s enjoying more success than I think he even anticipated.  So it goes.  Today we wanted to know:  WHO DO YOU THINK NEEDS TO CLEAN UP THEIR ACT AND WHO NEEDS TO GET DIRTY AGAIN?

I always prattle on about this but, my musical heroes are the guys I wish would stay dirty.  I won’t name names, but it just seems that once they ‘clean up’, they suck.  I get that maybe your lyrics won’t be as esoteric or whatever, but it seems like the drive to be original, or to really play your instrument disappears with the habit.  Don’t know why that is.  I’ve been high, I’ve not been high, but if I’m gonna play my bass, whether I actually play it well or not, I’m gonna bring it.  I don’t know, I get irritated watching people half- ass it.  STAY ON DRUGS!

We’ll start with those people who wish would clean up their act:

Kirstie Allie… the guy is sick of hearing “woe is me” spiel every time she adds 100 pounds to her frame

Charlie Sheen… it’ll never happen

Dave Mustaine… he’s been stuck on crazy since 1983; it’s time to get it together

Congress… the criminals, liars and lap dogs

Artie Lange… addiction jokes are funny when people don’t think you’re actually going to die

Seattle Seahawks… stop playing like 7 year old girls and play like men.  Get some swagger, get some attitude and kick some ass

And now the people who need to dirty it up:

Terrell Owens… sure, he’s still a whiny moron, but he’s been less whiny and less moronic and people miss the debutante

Ted Nugent… doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke and he doesn’t do drugs… meaning he doesn’t even have the excuse to be as asinine as he is

President Obama… playing “too nice” with the ‘people’ he has to deal with.  Does it matter?  Nothing gets done either way.

Al Sharpton… guy wanted to see what skeletons we’d find in his closet.  Why?  Don’t you have to care about someone’s opinion before you worry about what’s in their closet?  Al Sharpton is irrelevant.

ROCK GIRLS

Here is a quick pic of rock girl hopefuls Jen and Kristina. Can’t see enough? see ya at the Rock Girl Gala tomorrow night, you’ll see plenty more.

Like I’ve been doing all week, I’ve been spacing (drinking) through most of the show, so time to say adios.  Adios.

Until Monday, do what you do best and STAY BEAUTIFUL!”

The show started off with us talking about how excited we are for team USA in Olympic hockey.  If they beat Finland today, off to the Gold Medal game we go.  I am so excited.  Plus if Canada wins their game…it will be a USA vs. Canada finals…how awesome would that be?  In Canada too!!!  Vancouver would be rocking on Sunday.  Double R mentioned that he is going to try to make it up to Vancouver to try and go to the game on Sunday…he said I should go with him.  I told him that I wish I could, but I don’t have a Passport or a fancy I.D. to get me in 7 out of the country.  So his brilliant idea was this…we take separate cars…so that if I don’t get in with my I.D. & passport, I could turn around & go home…which sounds like a great reason to make a long drive for potentially nothing.  Also, let’s just say I do get in…what if I can’t get back into the US after the game?  Double R had it all figured out… “We can figure it out…you can jump a ditch or something.”  Ok, that’s a great idea…I’ll just leave my car at the Peach Arch, and try and make a run for the border.

Big thanks to Rex Navarette for coming in…he is one funny dude!  Check out Rex at the Parlor Live this weekend.  Go to www.parlorlive.com for details.

While Rex was on the show, we got a phone call from Kevin Smith…it was so cool…especially for rex as he is a huge Kevin Smith fan.  I shot Kevin an email earlier this morning with hopes he might call in, but doubted that he would, but Kevin did & what a great interview once again with Kevin.  His new movie, Cop Out, is hilarious…if you love films like Lethal Weapon, Beverly Hills Cop, and Fletch…you will love it.  Tracy Morgan & Bruce Willis kicked ass, but I have to say…Sean William Scott (Stifler) stole the film!  Go see it!!!  Kevin spent some time chatting about the incident on Southwest Airlines, he was so passionate about getting the truth out…if you missed our interview…be sure to check it out in our interviews section.

Thanks to comedian Doug Benson for calling in this morning…sadly, Dou wasn’t calling in for laughs like he usually provides when we have him on.  I was chatting with Doug the other day, and he mentioned that he is friends with Andrew Koenig, who was unfortunately found dead yesterday up in Vancouver.  Andrew was known for his role as “Boner” on Growing Pains, and was battling with depression and went to vancouver (his favorite place) to take his life.  It’s truly a sad story, and watching his dad Walter speak to the media yesterday was heart breaking.  Doug has known him since the Growing Pain days, many years ago, and Doug was surprised by all of this as Doug didn’t see him as a depressed person.

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Walter Koenig (Chekov from “Star Trek”) and his wife have been going through a nightmare. Their son Andrew (who played “Boner” on Growing Pains) disappeared on February 14th, the last place he was seen was in Vancouver B.C., and yesterday his friends and family searched Stanley Park and sadly found him dead.  Andrew has been battling depression, and based on all of the steps he took before disappearing; it looks like he took his own life.  The Koenig’s held a press conference yesterday with hopes of reaching out to those that are battling depression, what a display of strength by Walter and his wife, my heart goes out to them.

Many people say that suicide is a selfish act, but it isn’t. Some people jump off bridges and block traffic, or go on a mass killing spree and then shoot themselves, but that was not the case in this situation. Andrew felt a lot of pain and he just wanted the pain to go away.

I really hope Andrew isn’t shown in a negative light because of this. He didn’t want to hurt anyone intentionally, it just seemed like he was so low that he couldn’t take it anymore.

If anyone needs any help or advice, before making that final choice, please talk to someone.

The Suicide Help Line 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

“Hola pass the eye- bleacholas,

By now you’ve heard about Tilikum… that’s the killer whale at Sea World that grabbed the trainer by the hair, dragged her underwater and killed her.  I’m talking about the incident that happened YESTERDAY, not the time Tilikum killed his trainer in 1999… or the time Tilikum killed his trainer in 1991.  Yea, yesterday marked Tlikum’s third victim, thus, putting the ‘killer’ in killer whale.  We suppose whale trainers are well aware of the dangers presented when you think you have the upper hand on a 12,000 pound carnivore, but most spectators were probably just looking to have a little fun when they unsuspectingly witnessed Tilikum f**k the trainer up.  That’s a scene that is unlikely to leave their memories.  Same could be said for the people who wanted to enjoy a little drag racing this past Sunday at the NHRA Arizona Nationals in Phoenix when a tire from the cars flew into the stand and into a woman’s face, killing her.  And then there are things like Vern Troyer’s sex tape.  You can’t unsee what you’ve seen… but sometimes you really want to:  WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN IN YOUR LIFETIME THAT YOU WISH YOU HADN’T?

So what visual do you wish could be erased from your cortex?  Read on and find out.

His wife giving birth… I’m glad someone finally admitted that it’s gross and freaky looking.  Yea, yea, yea, I know, it’s the miracle of life and all that sh*t, but it’s creepy

Avatar… amen to that.  It’s a love story with blue people… whoopee

Found a body floating in the water under the Aurora Street Bridge… which is not that unusual of a place to find a body

Saw a guy with a bag with a bag over his head… masturbating  (???)  Good thing I wore that paper bag!

Saw a guy on a motorcycle spill his bike and then get run over by a truck

Saw a tree fall over on top of someone… said it looked like a hammer driving a nail into the ground in one hit.  Not cool

Used to work in an ER and had the privilege of seeing an entire green apple removed from a patients rectum… fruit salad, yummy, yummy

In Iraq he saw a detainee with elephantitis of the testicles

Once glanced at autopsy photos and wishes they hadn’t

Pulled HALF of a human body out of the water… incidentally, the legs were in a pair of Levi’s, which is a testament to the durability of Levi’s… just sayin’

Walked in on his father orally pleasuring his mother

Used to work at a funeral home and once had to deal with a drowned baby

Witnessed his buddy having a tick removed from his penis

Saw a guy hanging 16 feet off of the ground, impaled through the back of the head on a telephone pole

Once again we had some Rockgirl hopefuls in today, here is Autumn and Stacey.

Aw crap.  Sorry, lost track again.  Gotta go, bitches.

Until tomorrow, hey, hey mama, STAY BEAUTIFUL!”

Today we talked about Miss Beverly Hills, Lauren Ashley, and how she spoke out against gay marriage and homosexuality and is now facing some backlash.

Lauren first said that marriage is between a man and a woman. Then, because Laruen is an idiot, she did something that most Christians wouldn’t even do and quoted the Bible’s book of Leviticus and said, “If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.”

Seriously? This girl has the I.Q. of a partially thawed fish stick! Ashley basically said that if you are gay you deserve to die.

We wound up reading some other “choice” quotes from Leviticus:

“If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.” (Leviticus 20:10)

So does that mean we should kill Tiger Woods and all of his many mistresses?

“For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon him.” (Leviticus 20:9)

Can anyone be alive on this planet at this point?

“Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.” (Leviticus25:44-45)

So I can go to Canada and Mexico to get myself some slaves? 

Why is it that people are still dumb enough to believe in only sections of a book that has been altered so many times in history just to fit people’s own personal agendas?

Damn I woke up with a horrible headache, and it didn’t get better as the show started off with the Rev & BJ arguing, and then it didn’t get better when we talked about a beauty queen from Beverly Hills that took shots at homosexuality & used the book of Leviticus to justify her opinions.  BJ read a bunch of quotes from Leviticus, and wow…there are some crazy things said in that, which is why Christians have dismissed this book…but the fact that there are people out there that use this book to justify their opinions make my brain hurt.
 
The day got better once we had Lzzy Hale on the show.  Lzzy is the lead singer of Halestorm, who will be at our sold out Rock Girl Gala.  Halestorm have that great song “I Get Off”:

I shared a story with Lzzy about how a few weeks back we were talking about Halestorm, and I thought the best gig in the world would be the drummer of Halestorm…because you get to sit & stare at her backside for 45 minutes a night…and the fact that the drummer is her brother is a waste of a great perspective.  She told us a fun story of how a lot of guys after the show go up to her brother to echo my sentiment, and when he tells them that she is her sister…the fans freak out & apologize for that.  Too funny.  Lzzy was honestly an awesome interview, and seems like a real cool chick.  I’m stoked to see them live on Saturday at the Rock Girl Gala!!!  Lzzy invited me up to play the cowbell on “It’s Not You” – that would be hilarious if it actually happens!

Huge Thanks to Mike McCready from Pearl Jam & Duff McKagan for coming in this morning.  This Sunday they are doing a benefit show for the people of Haiti.  They are calling it the Hootenanny for Haiti, and it’s at the Showbox at the Market.  This sounds real cool, as they are performing in true hootenanny style…all together – acoustically.  There will be a bunch of local rock stars on stage…like matt Cameron (Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam), Kim Virant, Kim Warnick (formerly of The Fastbacks & Visqueen), and many more.  Duff & Mike brought in Jeff Rouse (from Duff’s band LOADED), and Gary Westlake (from Mike’s UFO Tribute band – Flight To Mars) to give us a taste of what Sunday will be like….here they are playing cover of the Rolling Stones “Wild Horses”:

Here they are playing another Stones song “Dead Flowers”:

 
It was such an awesome experience to have these guys in.  like I was telling BJ during commercials…if I could go back in time to my senior year in High School, and tell the 17 year old version of me that one day I would be in the same room with Duff from G N’ R, and Mike from Pearl Jam, as they perform acoustic right in front of me…I would have thought I was crazy.  Plus I would have thought I got really fat.

Duff & Jeff are playing tomorrow night, as LOADED is in Aberdeen. It’s an all ages show at the D & R Theater.

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2/24/2010

Deftones, AC/DC and Rock Girl Gala baby!!

Were rolling into our final two days of Rock Girl Gala Week here at the Rock!

Speaking of rolling…..I somehow don’t think the new Deftones song “Rocket Skates” is a tribute to Rollerderby….but it would be awsome if that was the case.

I premiered the new song from their forthcoming cd Diamond Eyes (out May 18th.) In the Cockfight….it put up a good fight but lost to the new Megadeth “The Right To Go Insane”.

However you can currently get a free download of “Rocket Skates” by going to the bands Myspace page.  I would hop to it as we don’t know how long the free download will last.

Ok so everyone loves to argue about Nickelback….on both sides of the fence….you may know about this via Facebook.

A group on Facebook that asked the question “Can this pickle get more fans than Nickelback?” got its answer on Sunday — when the cucumber pulled ahead of the Canadian band, one-point-four-million fans to one-point-three-eight-million.

And lastly a buddy of mine Stevie…(She used to front The Valkyries) anyhow she is currentley living Down Under and attended these shows…..GO AC/DC!

A-C/D-C now hold the record for the most tickets sold for an outdoor show in their native Australia. They sold 212-thousand-729 tickets for their three concerts at A-N-Z Stadium in Sydney, surpassing U-2’s tally of 211-thousand-747 tickets. A-C/D-C start a two-night run in Brisbane, Australia tomorrow night.

Alright….gunna wrap this up.  Screaming headache.

Good luck on Gala tickets tomorrow,
Jolene

“Hola too coololas,

So we had the opportunity to interview Canada’s “Trailer Park Boys”… Ricky, Julian and Bubbles today, and truth be told, while Miles and I had only HEARD of them, Ted and Ben went ape- sh*t.  They’ve been fans for quite some time while Miles and I just watched our first episode this morning in our office.  Its one funny- ass show and we became instant fans… only 11 years AFTER it first aired.  Yea, we were a little late to this party.  Speaking of being late to the party, outside of New Orleans, in my 41 years of life I’ve met exactly ONE New Orleans Saints fan.  Well, the Saints won the Super Bowl and now EVERYONE is a Saints fan.  Sure, it was the “feel good” story of the season, but are you REALLY a Saints fan?  Really?  Didn’t think so.  That’s how it goes; sometimes you’re on the cutting edge of something that ends up becoming a global phenomenon.  For example, ever meet a Nirvana “fan” who’s never heard of ‘Bleach’?  Makes you wanna slap someone.  Well, today was your day to be all self- important and hipster- like; we wanted to know:  WHAT WERE YOU A FAN OF BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE JUMPED ON THE BANDWAGON?

My answer is much cooler when I’m NOT in Seattle, but bear with me.  For me, Alice in Chains, Mother Love Bone, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Guns and Roses, Janes Addiction and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.  Those are the bands that my friends and I were rocking out to long before anyone we knew had even heard of them.  No big deal, it was just how it was.  Otherwise, I’d just say tattoos.  Sure, everyone’s got ‘em now, but when I first started getting tatted, it was akin to declaring that you never want to work again.

Here are the things you were one of the first to discover:

Glass blowing… you know how they offer classes for novices and it’s all the rage?  This is the guy who would teach the class.

Hip hop and dating white guys- she’s black and Puerto Rican and loves white dudes

The soul patch… I’ve always attempted to grow the soul patch, but my body’s inability to produce hair makes it impossible

Tech 9… as in the rapper, not the gun

Us, the Men’s Room… thank you for that

3 Sheets with Zane Lamprey

Sons of Anarchy

The New Orleans Saints… he’s from New Orleans

Green Day… her brother used to be roommates with them

Deep fried turkey… I’m assuming he’s a southerner

Has been a Nickelback fan since 1996… and we can’t believe he called to brag about that

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Ray Bans

MMA

There were a few other things here and there, but as has been the case all week, I’m running behind and need to bring this to a close… or Ben will kill me. But before that, here is the Rockgirl hopefuls who came in today, Christin & Elisa

Until tomorrow, ain’t no rest for the wicked so STAY BEAUTIFUL!”

Our intern Annabelle mentioned that she was bummed that my son, The Prodigy (Joe), never requested her as a friend on Facebook.  If you don’t recall, moving to Seattle and becoming our intern, Annabelle was an intern for the Kevin & Virginia show in Florida.  Annabelle and the producer of their show, Heather, came to Seattle to double date Joe & The Rev.  Annabelle was Joe’s date, and Heather was The Rev’s date.  Annabelle was hurt that Joe requested Heather as a friend, but not Annabelle.  I chalked it up to Joe being nervous around her (plus Heather is a gamer, so Joe probably hit it off with her because he is a gamer too), but then someone pointed out that maybe he is so shy around women because he is actually interested in men.

Now, I truly don’t think that my son is gay, but for the sake of this discussion…if he was, how are you supposed to approach your child with that kind of a question? I don’t know what goes on in my son’s life, he doesn’t tell me anything. Now that he doesn’t live under my roof, I have absolutely no idea what he is up to, which worries me. I have no problem if either of my kids turned out to be gay, as long as they are not doing anything that might hurt themselves or others; I’m fine with everything that they do.

Autumn called in and told us that she is gay, and has not told her parents yet because she comes from a conservative family. It’s sad that she has to hide this around her parents. I never want my kids to think they can’t approach me about anything.

She said that the best way to approach your child is to be indirect; hint that you are ok with it. Even if they are not gay they will feel closer to you and will feel safe to come talk with you about stuff.

I’m just a frustrated parent who wants to make sure his kid is ok; I’m not asking these things to be a jerk. As long as my son is happy and not hurting anyone…I will support him in everything he does.