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April 05, 2006
WEDNESDAY
It's midway through the week, and so far its been pretty good. This morning, Circus Diablo are doing a feature interview and cover photoshoot for a new magazine that will be hitting the streets in June. The magazine will be called "Strutter" and it will be a glossy monthly rock and roll type affair. Afterwards, we have a business meeting with someone, and after that, I'm gonna hit the new addiction in my life - the Chiropractor!! This guy does some wacked out shit to me - acupuncture, electrolysis, suction cups .... followed by an adjustment. You know, that thing where they grab your neck and violently twist it so that the bones make the sound of a man falling down a ladder!!! I've recently started going, and its pretty cool - I come out feeling high!!
Monday night was Hedwig And The Angry Inch at the Roxy Theatre on the Strip. Our boy Donovan is starring in the production, so Ricky, Duffy and myself headed down to see him do his thing. Everyone was out, and the Roxy was buzzing. The musical itself is great - the songs are really cool, Bijou Philips does an awesome job as Dono's sidekick, and Donovan was just born into the role of Hedwig .... a transexual singer with a botched sex job that leaves him with an 'angry one inch' of skin between his legs!!! If you wanna see Mr Leitch sing his ass off, wearing nothing but a pair of Calvins and some angel wings, get your tickets now!!!
Oh - before I forget, todays pic is a scan from the current issue of 944 Magazine. There is a really cool feature on Rock And Roll photography, and the pic of me and Brett is very cool. Lots of other great Rock pictures, including Donovan, Dave, Slash. And the magazine is a good one too - just FYI. And another random thought while I'm at it. Earlier this morning, we had a weird time anomaly ..... at two minutes and three seconds past one oclock this morning, the date and time read like this - 01:02:03 04/05/06 ...... that will only happen once every thousand years. Dont ever say that this blog isn't educational!!!
I'll be getting my music together later today for the DJ gig I have down in Santa Monica tomorrow. I am actually really looking forward to it. I've never done it before, and will probably need to figure out the technical side of it (I've seen Public Enemy shows .... how hard can it be??!!!) but I have tons of good music lined up, and I've been practicing tucking one side of the headphones between my ear and my shoulder!!! "Boo Yakka Shah me breddren .... massive respec' to the Mailibu Massive in da House!!!"
Thumper - Circus Diablo will tour, yes. But it will be towards the end of the year, when we can fit it in with everyone's schedules. Glad you are enjoying the Ants Invasion track. There's more where that came from !!
Spencer - I dont really have a pre-show routine. I stretch a bit, smoke tons of cigarettes, and warm my fingers up if I think about it. Its more about just getting up onstage and getting things kicked off. Post show routine is get outta there as quick as I can, grab some food, and get back home or to the hotel!
Matt - All news of New York is now off limits!! We have been told we are not allowed to talk about it, cos its a private party, and they have permit restrictions etc. So its back to not being able to confirm or deny, blah blah blah!!!!!
Shit. The time ran away from me - there's more I wanna say but I have to get ready, so it'll have to wait. Have a great day and see y'all soon.
Peace
Billy
Posted by vivelerock at April 5, 2006 08:35 AM
Comments
Morning all!
Hedwig this Sun nite for me Billy - woohoo!
Looking forward to seeing your mad DJ skills tomorrow nite - who else from the BillyBlog family is going?
Hey, the 'weird time anomaly 01:02:03 04/05/06' will happen next month in Australia! After that it can relax for the next millenium. lol
Posted by: laurie tuttle at April 5, 2006 09:25 AM
Paul (answering your prior question about Kurt),
I don't agree in any way, shape or form with suicide, but it must be a terrible thing to be that desperate, where it seems like it's your only option--god forbid any of us get to that point. However, in my mind, when someone is gone, no matter how they went, it's cause for reflection if I cared about them, or respected their work. I can't be in his head, so who am I to judge his actions?
And, how can you be sure (stirring up controversy too) that he REALLY killed himself?
:)
As for the fame part, once the train is running, so to speak, you can't go back. Maybe it felt like it would be fun in the beginning and got out of control--no privacy anywhere. Billy, what do you think? How does it feel to have such a lack of privacy?
Posted by: sue at April 5, 2006 10:50 AM
About the 01:02:03 04/05/06, in Europe and other places that date reads May 4th. So it will happen again on 4 May 2006.
Have Fun In NYC :)
~Muse
Posted by: Musemelodic at April 5, 2006 02:49 PM
1:02:03 4/5/06 damn I was up at the time and didn't even notice!
1:02:00 3/4/56 I wasn't even a egg in my Mother's ovary!
Posted by: Robin at April 5, 2006 06:29 PM
Hey Billy, the time thing is pretty cool, cut you dont ahve to wait another 1000 years. Here is will happen on the 4th of May...
Cheers
Posted by: Simon at April 5, 2006 07:19 PM
Billy,
Rad insight and news! Strutter is rad and coming soon,as you know, should be dope! Have a great one!!!
Posted by: Spencer at April 5, 2006 10:27 PM
Circus Diablo live towards the end of the year - AWESOME NEWS !
Dreaming is for free right ? then here it goes : São Paulo, Brazil, one night, total blast !! Ok I said it was a dream...
Posted by: JRoberto at April 6, 2006 07:53 AM
Too funny, I was oout on Monday wondering why there was such a hoopla at the Roxy. I knew that Hedwig was showing, but is it like that every night! We just celeb watched for a minute, then went into the Rainbow for some pizza. I didn't see you but it was definitely buzzing!!
Anyway, I think I'll be seeing you tonight, Mr. DJ.
Posted by: Abby at April 6, 2006 01:13 PM
Hi Billy, hope you are well?
Not posted in ages. So much has happened over the last few months with exams, tours, a death in the family ... life gets pretty hectic but goes on regardless.
The pitchshifter tour was great to do, all the guys are quality people (and I see Jon sporting the longish hair look).
Hope to keep up to date and hear from you soon
All the best
Kim
Posted by: Kim at April 6, 2006 03:02 PM
I was reading about some of the nifty party favors at Hedwig...did you and the boys get some nice sparkly eyelashes applied??? Is there photographic evidence??? ;)
Have a great weekend Billy...TGIF!!!
Posted by: Cori at April 7, 2006 08:44 AM
Saw you at Headwig and the Angry Inch. You looked hot. Love those baby blues! Hope to see you out again. Maybe the Rainbow for a bowl of chicken soup!
Sazzy
Posted by: Sazzy Varga at April 8, 2006 12:10 PM