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Suffice to say I had an intense week out there in the first frontier of the new world. the snapshots are on the page and the video is in editing, and ask me sometime (when I am sober) to tell you the story about why my hip-hop stage name is "MC Misdemeanor." the man can't take away my laptop, though.
But oh how he tries....
the following is intended to be assumed to be a fictional account of the recounted adventures of a fictitious character. Parts of that character are based on me, Ron Impala. Any relation to anything or anyone else whatsoever is purely coincidental.
This is the part where i drag a bunch of garbled simple-text from my
e@mail, notepad, and desktop calendar files, slap a few html codes on it
and upload it for folks to consider while they are fondling a plastic mouse
with one hand and doing god-knows-what with the other. So here goes:
Nickel $ Dime Productions has confirmed the following bands for
the Free For All III compilation cd, due out in early 1999:
morningwood
deep sombreros
diaz bros.
mittens
prescott curlywolf
meat purveyors
orange mothers
lil' cap'n travis
palaxy tracks
the barkers
pearly gates
kathy ziegler
preverts
shine
claymores
king cheese
futants
claymores
do it now
and more...
jon dee graham, ted roddy, david garza, living pins and others have also been invited to submit original recordings or appear on tracks by other artists. Send lavish cash contributions to: Free For All III Production Fund c/o Nickel $ Dime Records.
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Sunday, May 3 - crystal pistol didn't show again but hubcap fetish
did, diaz bros. overcame their grief about clyde drexler and the rockets,
and tess wiley was damn loud for a solo "waif."
Sunday, May 10 - Seed, Preverts, Ten Percenter
Sunday, May 17 - do it now, sexy finger champs, school trauma flashback
Sunday, May 24 - killing ophelia, atom smashers, lil' cap'n travis
Monday, May 25 - Fastball Appreciation Gala and After-Party at Crazy
Lady featuring Speedy Sparks and the Esquires Burlesque Show (Live Blues
and Strippers)
May 31 - javelin boot says "sayonara austin" with shine and superego.
june 7 - claymores, experimental aircraft, el kabong
june 14 - Hole in the Wall Anniversary Weekend: King Cheese Karaoke
Jam with members of deep sombreros, morningwood, david garza, big game
hunters, orange mothers, earthpig, superego, argyles and more...
june 21 - the eggs, royal towers, the megans
june 28 - hot wheels, jr., robot boy, mainline surprise
Coming September 13-20:
4th Annual Free For All Music Festival
featuring all the usual big name suspects and wacky thematic shows
for no cover ALL WEEK!
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Paul Minor
Nickel $ Dime Productions
4618 Bennett Ave.
Austin, TX
Re: Superego
Paul:
Thanks for sending along the new Superego album. Your supporter, Miles,
let me know it would be arriving soon. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance
to catch your SXSW show.
I think you did a fine job on the Superego album. I particularly enjoyed
the "Shallow Blue" and "Breeze." (and the unlisted bonus track of course).
That said, I'm afraid Superego isn't a band i'm going to sign right
now. I'm an extremely picky fellow, especially when it comes to committing
as much time and energy as it takes to help bring music to the masses.
But best of luck to you, and I'm sure we'll run into each other again in
the near future in Austin.
Sincerely,
(Name Withheld)
Director of A&R
Showbiz Records
To: mr. showbiz@mickey.com
From: Superego@io.com
Date: 5/5/98
Re: rejection notice received
thank you for taking the time to listen to "my bad."
it has gotten some fair reviews and i am proud of the work.
trust me you didn't miss much at our SXSW showcase. Local access taped it and gave me a copy, and I will probably tape over it with the final Seinfeld or something. We had an off night, and half the band has since been put on waivers. i'm digging the new line-up though. We got keys now, less sax and less noise in the guitars dept.
it was especially nice to get your letter in the mailbox right after returning from my vacation with the guys in Florida. i will save it for my scrapbook.
You should check out the snapshots I took of fastball in florida on my webpage:
not to mention some classic video footage, which i plan to edit and show on andy langer's cable show in time to promote the music hall gig.
i am also currently producing and seeking financing for a 3rd free for all compilation cd, and i think some of the bands on it might should be the next team up to bat in the big league.
come down for the austin music hall show with marcy on the 25th. i know a great strip bar with a live music, blues/burlesque show for some socializing afterward.
also, i am considering overlapping my european vacation in late July with a Fastball show or two. I have free tickets for some weird reason. If you know anybody who wants to underwrite my expenses in exchange for some classic footage or photos let me know. i am looking for opportunities in the music business as always.
thanks again for the kind words.
Paul Minor
To: guygalore@aol.com
From: superego@io.com
Date: 5/4/98
Subject: Notes from a Spiritual Journey
i was dreaming when i wrote this, forgive me if it goes "a wey."
i showed langer the pictures tonight in the hole alley at 11:50. he had to run and get smokes before his radio gig at kut, but he really dug the photo of you and the twins.
muckraker.
that blonde in orlando took a great picture of us before she went back to work as bottom feeder at animal kingdom, even though in her addled condition she failed to capture the full majesty of the Z-shaped pool table. check it out on my webpage, i will be one scanning and uploading motherfucker at work tomorrow.
we played "the pinche wey" tonight for a bewildered crowd at the free for all, and jeff john-stone did not miss a note. i also busted it out at a high school prom on the 48th floor of a dallas skyscraper last night.
tonight at the hole jacob did the background vocals and i played the angus lead, note for chinga note. he even hit a synth patch at the break that sounded sort of like the cd track.
every one of the half-dozen patrons at the hole tonight is probably singing themselves into insomnia. that chorus is a bitch. it was funny how in florida i would bust the locals just humming or whistling it unawares standing in the queue at all those sound checks, box-offices, and urinals. please ask mickey mouse to shove a zuni-tune down those kids throats one time so i can get that one AND "out of my head" out of my head.
by the way, fuck that pendejo corcoran and his Yeats quotes.
i hauled ass to the airport halfway through your set at the atlanta festival, and then arrived at the airport to find my plane was an hour late anyway. i could have stayed and done Dino Lee's Eddie Money classic "Waiting for Love" as an encore...
at the prom saturday night the kids appreciated our whitebread rendition of "play that funky music" so much a sixteen year old suburbanite flashed us her bush repeatedly until we had to take a break, during which i showed the argyles' guys the atlanta footage on my porta-cam in the conference room.
my uncle chuck handed down the panasonic omnimovie video camera to my brother who has since bequeathed it to me, and it works about half the time depending on how you wack it, but ALL the footage from atlanta and tallahassee came out great. there is some incriminating material from backstage at FLOYD's music store, but only for the crew and Walter. Sorry Joto.
i looked at the Atlanta stuff in vivid color today on my parents 26 inch color screen during Rockets halftime. quite impressive. especially the footage of you and scalzo harmonizing on "fire escape" with your ugly mugs on the 50 foot highlight screen in the background. also some cross gender moshing and big townshend-at-woodstock style jumps. the best part is you ducking as a bottle whizzes past your skull.
i am going on langer's cable show in a week or two to show the shit and promote your marcy music hall gig.
how about asking disney to send me 100 passes? or ask brad first to fax me an original, or maybe fed-ex it to me with the t-shirt and stickers i forgot to grab, and i will make the xeroxes. i know every DJ, music critic, and dirty dealer in the county. i even know some 17-year old rock critics.
my sources at XL say Ron Impala is the best publicist in town. Uncle Walt (frozen not canned) needs to send me some lagniappe for all this ink.
i had a GREAT vacation. thanks to you guys, i think i spent about 12 dollars total on the essentials:
food, shelter, booze, entertainment...
i came out smelling like a rose. you, scalzo, and walter all kept me company on those long drives and it was much appreciated. tell those guys i didn't mean to harsh their thunderbird high too much.
and even my dark night of the soul in the clink turned out to be surprisingly inexpensive, considering how bad it could have been. my life was not nearly as ruined as i assumed it would be when the man cheekily handed me the shackles and told me to put them on. that night was a real mindblower, especially in juxtaposition with the crazy trip you guys are on.
it's all about FREEDOM, isn't it my friend?
THANKS for managing to display such effortless hospitality. i felt so welcome in your crazy little world, yet i am SO glad to be home to the old lady, the cats, and the plants.
you go girl.
MC Misdemeanor
To: jackandminor@juno.com
Subject: from Paul in Orlando
Date: 4-29-98
Mom and Dad,
Thanks again for the miraculous rescue. You guys are truly my guardian angels.
I am sorry I got so hysterical. i think of myself as a pretty cool customer, but in this instance, i was truly more scared than i have ever been. hearing your voices on the phone really choked me up, but it was SO relieving. when they put us in the main holding area after breakfast, the phones were not working and i felt so far from home, until i got the word i made bail.
the bondsman was a slick and cocky professional and a total racist, but he was a hero to my eyes.
you have my word it won't ever happen again. i really felt like a loser in there and vowed never to go back. i have always wondered what it would be like when i finally ran out of luck and had to call you guys from the slammer, and you came through for me beyond my wildest expectations. my talk with mom later was really grounding, and then seeing fastball was a nice shot in the arm. the first thing they told me was that their record just went "gold." (won't be official for a few weeks). i also had a great talk with KZ and she was incredibly compassionate and supportive as always.
i am sitting on the balcony of the holiday inn overlooking a shakespearan ampitheatre by a gorgeously landscaped lake , while brad the tour manager and walter the keyboardist work out some outrageously complicated logistics. fastball is doing 2 or 3 interviews a day and playing up to 10 shows a week just to meet demand. i walked and jogged around the park earlier and fed the geese. there's a chance they may hire me to drive their equipment truck from phoenix to austin on the weekend of may 23, which is my only weekend off from the argyles this month. miles' voice is ailing so i will play his guitar and check his mic at soundcheck so he can get extra rest.
i don't know why i was thinking it was mother's day this sunday, but i now realize i was a week early. if the rockets are playing this sunday, maybe we can watch it. i can't believe they are beating the jazz, the game was on a HUGE screen behind the stage last night.
i have been having a lot of time to think on this trip, and i think i would prefer to use this sunday for decompression, as opposed to a heavy serious post-mortem discussion if you don't mind. i will have some pictures and video to show you after a few days.
i am now resolved to be more cautious and legal with my recreational and relaxation pursuits. i guess i pushed my luck a little too far, and now it's time to quit pushing.
certain issues seem more urgent after this experience, like getting off my ass and using my precious life to its full potential, as opposed to coasting along with these unchallenging career-slacker pursuits. being with fastball is such a trip and it really makes you think about things.
i'm on a spiritual journey here in the first frontier of the new world. i will see you guys soon.
love your son.
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 10:01:41 -0500
From: criemenschneider@statesman.com
Reply-To: criemenschneider@statesman.com
Organization: Austin American-Statesman
To: superego@io.com
Mr. Impala,
Congratulations on your new job as Fastball staff photographer!
Actually, I'm not sure who took those photos on your website, but I
was thinking about using one (don't worry, not the "double trouble" one).
Probably the one at Atlanta. I'll try calling you, but if you get this
first, please call me, 445-3607. Gracias.
To: XLaustin@statesman.com
Mr. Raminsideher,
I am not fastball's personal publicist. please direct all future questions
to andy langer.
sincerely
Ron Impala
Mike Henry
Under Assistant General Manager
Electric Lounge
302 Bowie
Austin, TX 78701
re: Austin Chronicle Ad, 5/1/98 (Los Magnetos)
DEAR MR. HENRY,
MY CLIENTS FASTBALL ARE NOT PERFORMING AT YOUR VENUE UNDER ANY NAME, ASSUMED OR OTHERWISE, ON MAY 25 OR ANY OTHER DATE IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. PLEASE CEASE AND DESIST WITH THIS SLANDEROUS MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN IMMEDIATELY. LEGAL MEASURES WILL BE ENACTED WHICH WILL RUIN YOU FINANCIALLY AND RENDER YOU MORE OF A SOCIAL PARIAH THAN YOU COULD EVER DREAM.
YOU ARE, HOWEVER, HALF-HEARTEDLY INVITED TO JOIN MESSIEURS GALORE AND IMPALA AT A POST-SHOW GUINNESS BEER AND BLUES JAM AT THE CRAZY LADY THAT NIGHT.
SINCERELY,
RON IMPALA
CC: GUY GALORE