Just ordered room service.....
me - "Can I get a pizza please?"
"What kind of pizza, red, green, or white?"
me - "Uh....just a normal pizza....it's red and white and I guess the crust is kinda beige....."
"What kind of cheese on that?"
me - "You know, pizza cheese! Just like, regular mozzarella or something.
"OK, parmesan OK?"
me - "No, PIZZA cheese. It's mozzarella."
1 hour later - large roll arrives covered in parmesan.
Does pizza exist in Texas?

Last day of SXSW. Fat Mike from NOFX gave me the wrong cell phone number to call him today but I got to interview Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse which RULED. They're one of my favorite bands.
And I'm going to The Hives show tonight.
RRRRRRRROCK!

My interview with NOFX couldn't happen tonight cause Fat Mike said they were too wasted to do it and they wanted to do a good one. But I have his cell phone # and I'm gonna hook it up tomorrow come hell or highwater. Their SXSW show tonight is the BEST show I have ever seen in my life. I can't believe I have never seen them before. If you don't know NOFX, you need to. Their bassist plays accordion. Need I say more?

OK, could not have asked for better day. Covered an all ages punk show where I got to interview mostly teenage fans. Passed out 1000 Stupid buttons, stickers and samplers. All the kids I passed out stuff to freaked OUT on them, loved the fact that everything we do is hand made. Felt really good. Sparta was the headliner and they ROCK. I mean, really, really ROCK live. In an hour I am going to interview NOFX which, given that they are political and today is the "anniversary" of the bombing of Iraq, should prove to be very, very interesting.
Feeling cocky.
Ready to come back to NYC so STUPID can rock all your worlds.
xo
p.s. Jury is in and Gabe from Midtown is actually really, really, really nice. Lesson to self: Stop judging people prematurely. Sigh.

4AM
Just got back from The Stills show.
Their show was kick ass and my interview with them went really well.
Call time tomorrow is 8AM.
Fucking OUCH.

Dude,
Maybe if you took off your SUNGLASSES when you're inside (and it's cloudy out), you might actually be able to SEE that there was a person in front of you. And acting like I am the one who should have moved because you are carrying a guitar to go play in your overrated buzzzz band tonight makes me want to go Kung Fu on your ass.

Oh look, I'm cranky. What a surprise.

So I'm in Austin, TX right now for the SXSW festival. Was hired to co-host a show for Fuse TV. I am interviewing all these bands through Sunday including Raveonettes, Von Bondies and The Hives. The Modest Mouse interview fell through tonight. Kinda bummed cause I studied so hard for it but it's probably for the best as I would have just ended up saying something stupid like....."So Isaac, uh, you're like one of my like, IDOLS. Uh......do you wanna make out?"
But I get to plug Stupid. Oh yeah.
Tomorrow morning my co-host (Gabe from a punk band called Midtown....jury is out on him still cause he hasn't said much to me yet, boys and bad manners, what's up?) and I go to the local radio station to be interviewed. And I've been wearing a Stupid sticker on camera at all times. Shameless.
I like the crew the best. I helped them carry the gear around Austin even though I am the talent for this. Once a producer, always a producer I guess.
Oh yeah, and the crowd here is still as lame as it was last year....since when did Members Only jackets get cool? Sorry, but there's a boundary crossed there. Too cool for school hipsters. I wonder how many pair of Converse are in this town right now. I'll bet THOUSANDS.
I should talk as I'm wearing Converse right now and have a new shag haircut just like the rest of them. I'll shut up now.

Had a good time at the Punk Rock Cooking show shoot yesterday despite the fact that I managed to slam my head into the camera lens while pogoing during a take of "But You". I almost nearly knocked the camera person down but we all just kept going.....hope the shot is funny as the knot above my right eye is not amusing me at the moment.

Went to bed in a good mood but woke up feeling foul. Uch. We have a video shoot today though so I got to get my game face on. How do I do that when all I want to do is hit people?
I hate everything.
WHINE WHINE WHINE
I should just shut it.