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August 12, 2006

SIN JIN SMYTH

UPDATE: The Podcast from last nights CFR with Alien Ant Farm and Jack Osbourne is now up in the Podcasts section of the site. If you have subscribed to the Billy Morrison Podcast in I-Tunes, it will automatically appear in your library.

Good morning. How are we all this fine Saturday? Hope everyone is fit and well and smiling. I've had a good week. Very fruitful. I think I am most excited about being asked to team up with Billy Duffy on the movie that has had his name attached to for a while. The film is called SIN JIN SMYTH, and one of the meetings I took last week was over at the Warner Bros lot with the director of the movie. I was contacted and asked if I would like to collaborate with Billy on some music for the film, as well as actually be in it. Now regular readers know that I have a little side penchant for acting, so needless to say I was intrigued. Working with Duffy is something I love doing anyway, and the chance to get more acting under my belt is always good. I went over, saw a 45 minute rough cut of the movie and was sold. Its fucking great!!! The movie stars Roddy Piper, Richard Tyson and Jonathan Davis (yes, he from Korn!) and is a modern horror flick. So I will be writing with Billy over the next few weeks and working on some music for the movie, AND we will be scheduling some days for shooting some scenes as well. My only stipulation was that I got to have a gun. A big gun. In fact, give me a MASSIVE weapon!!!! They agreed!!! So watch out - Morrison is literally about to blow some shit up!!CHECK IT OUT HERE.

I also went to see a screening of Employee Of The Month - the new Lions Gate movie that has a couple of Camp Freddy tracks attached. Starring Dane Cook, Dax Sheppard and Jessica Simpson, it is a comedy set in a HUGE superstore, and is VERY funny!! Andy Dick also appears in the movie, and the interaction between him and Dane and Dax is just hilarious. The movie opens in October and the soundtrack album is also slated for release at that time.

Yesterday was spent in the car. No, I am not exaggerating. I left the house at 11.00am and got back at 7.00pm. Could'a driven to Vegas and back. But where did I go? Irvine. 50 miles away!!! Oh my GOD!!! How do people live there? I mean its nice and all, but the WHOLE journey on any freeway is done at 3 miles an hour!!! I don't make a habit of blogging about the traffic, kids, so trust me when I say that it was the WORST drive of my life!! The day was all about setting up my new In Ear monitor system, and despite the terrible traffic, I am really excited to put it all to the test. Its now all racked up, ready to go, and Diablo start rehearsals for our dates on Monday, so I will get a full four days to dial it all in. I really am a tech geek, right??

Tonight is an all new CFR from 6.00pm to 8.00pm on Indie 103.1FM. Also available online at www.indie1031.fm. Tonight we have Alien Ant Farm popping by to participate in some Freddy radio madness - I believe Donovan is my partner in crime tonight - and rumor has it that I might be joining the band for an acoustic rendition of their hit, Smooth Criminal. WHAT?? An acoustic Michael Jackson song on CFR?? Lets see what happens.

Tina - We obviously have ideas about what the first single will be, but as we decided not to push for an 06 album release, we will save tose decisions for later on. You have NO IDEA how long the run up to an album release takes!! I mean, I didnt either. We will have details at some point, but suffice to say that the people we are talking to explained to us that releasing ANYTIME after October is a waste of time, (because of Xmas) and that they want us to release in the first few weeks of 07. There is no point in shooting ourselves in the foot just because of impatience, so we are taking our time. They are the ones who know about such things, so the decision on what single will be first is a way out yet.

Jay - Oh yes. I most certainly did see S.D.C. live. Many times. What an amazing band. WAY ahead of their time, and stunningly hip. It was always an event when they played - get dressed up, travel 200 miles to the show ...... and then have a fight!!! Good times.

OK. I have waffled on enough for today. Have a great weekend, tune in tonight for CFR if you can (and if you cant, you know that our very own UK Paul will be facilitating a Podcast for you!!) and I'll be back next week. I PROMISE another Diablo Rehearsal V Blog. Yeah, I know, I make some empty promises around here. But I will. I promise!!! !

Peace

Billy

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