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February 04, 2008
APPLE AND BLACKBERRY PIE
Whats with naming the hottest pieces of technology after items found in the produce department? And why am I staring at both an I-Phone AND a Blackberry and going slowly insane? Because I don’t wanna get it wrong, thats why. I am full of fear about making the wrong decision. God help the man who picks the wrong device to hold his entire life. What happens if the Pop3 email server doesn’t respond? How can I function if my calendar doesn’t sync? And who the fuck leaves the house these days without at LEAST a TV Show or two to watch on a tiny 3″ screen? I mean, God forbid we actually find ourselves without …… content to devour! And I am sucked into this swirling mass of materialism, becoming every ad man’s wet dream. I sit here as I type this, looking at the Blackberry Curve, my trusty communication device for the past year or so, and the brand new, just activated I-Phone. The new kid on the block. Sure, its a cool toy, and guaranteed to have a few extra people looking over your shoulder in Area/Hyde/Baja Fresh when you’re chilling out browsing the web with its slick touch screen interface and killer web apps. But then that guy will walk past, glance at you with a knowing smile, and drop something like ……”yeah, I tried it too. gave up when I realized you cant send pictures via text. missed the BBM as well. it just isnt that good yet”…… and just like that, you feel cheated. Just like I do right now. I should be thanking the Communication Gods that I have both devices and that I am lucky enough to have the choice. But the sweat is starting to come, the voices in my head saying - “Take the Blackberry. Its a serious phone. The other one’s just a toy” And then I tap the I-Phone YouTube button, watch the ‘Slash Shreds’ video…..ON MY PHONE…… and fall in love again with the completely over the top web features of the I-Phone that I will never use! What ever happened to that OG cellphone that came with its own charger - the huge heavy thing that looked like a car battery? The simplicity of just dialing a number and saying …. ‘hello’ …… I miss it sometimes. But….hold on……I gotta go…..someone’s just sent me an MMS on the BBM with a JPG attached. And my life might end if I dont take a look immediately.
So the keen-of-eye amongst you will have noticed, over on the right hand side of this site, a new button that says “STORE’ ….. yes I finally decided that as part of 2008, I will figure out the inner workings of Online Commerce and actually provide a few nuggets that you might (or might not!) want. I plan on a tee shirt or two, and some more tracks on SNOCAP to tide things over while I write and record this album. And the Circus Diablo album link will be working very soon – so that’s up there too. Hopefully you will enjoy the Stimulator album tracks – they come from the middle to late 90’s and were SO much fun to record. And now finally I can get em out to you. Check out the pic below of us onstage, somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the UK - I'm the one in the middle with the IBANEZ!!!!
Jay… yes it is a PRS. Busted it out for a couple of different tunings at that show. And the setlist was a reduced Diablo set with Ziggy and 1970 thrown in. But we are now rehearsing and writing for this solo album and plan on changing the setlist up and doing a few shows with some of the new songs. We’ll see – we are a way off yet. The NYC DJ gig?…… someone write me a check and I’d LOVE to come out and spin some rock for the East Coast!! Haha!! Oh, and while I remember - BIG shout out to my homegirl Jenny (you know who you are!) - get yer Podcast together and lets get you on the radio!!!
Finally, I want to tell you all to tune in to Camp Freddy Radio this coming Saturday, as I will be joined by my friend, and one of the funniest actors around at the moment, Mr Dax Shepard. Dax, who starred most recently in “Employee Of The Month” and “Lets Go To Prison” will be co-hosting the show with me this coming Saturday. Indie 103.1FM from 6pm to 8pm West Coast time, or stream it live on www.indie1031.fm.
Gotta go – late for life!
Billy
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Posted by vivelerock at February 4, 2008 08:19 PM
Comments
Hey Billy, hope the iphone works out we'll be waiting for your review. I just manually xfrd all email contacts, not fun, know your frustration. Im going browsing in the store now. See ya. Niki
Posted by: Merc957 at February 4, 2008 09:30 PM
P.S. I have always loved the Stimulator look! I think I have listened to Strike Number One at least 2,468 times since coming to this site. Ok, maybe not THAT many but, alot.
Posted by: Merc957 at February 4, 2008 09:34 PM
Billy, seriously scrap the iPhone, they are only 'cool' because they are made by apple. Theyre just really pieces of shit, you can get phones that haev all its functions, but do it 10x's aswell
It's sunny today in the UK! WOOOO
Posted by: Will at February 5, 2008 01:48 AM
Isn't the iphone mostly glass and if you drop it....
It would last a day in my butterfingers.
And um yea well we'll see....I know people....
Posted by: Robin (peebs) at February 5, 2008 03:27 AM
If only I were a promoter...
Or, if I could get my guy to get Live Nation/H.O.B. to empty their pockets on a good act instead of these half-assed shows, we'd be set!
Rock show... Special guest DJ at the after-party... shhiiiiit...
Posted by: Mike at February 5, 2008 10:12 AM
seriously, what's your fee? you want gigs, you got' em. plenty of folks would pay to have you at an event public and/or private VIP stuff. you should be here now for fashion week. tell your booking agent to get on the stick. or call slice.
xo
Posted by: bkslice at February 5, 2008 10:18 AM
Hello,
Are you a Mighty Boosh fan? Do you have any comments about the show or the actors? I may be late getting into this, but it's the best thing I've seen in long time (caught it on BBC America and then tracked down the season 1 and 2 DVDs). I'm not asking because you're from the UK, but because you seem to have a sense for quality entertainment. Thanks and looking forward to the 03/14 Camp Freddy show.
Posted by: Crazy Bee at February 5, 2008 10:30 AM
Can't wait to listen to your show this Saturday.
I'll get in bed early with my vibrator, then turn on 103.1 Woo Hoo
Posted by: Lara at February 5, 2008 11:50 AM
Those huge OG celly's are in musuems now dude, woah! Alas, last time I checked "Slash Shreds" had been removed due to "content violation"
... I take this to mean that the powers that be over there are anit-shred, hahaha. I'll go check again!
Posted by: Spencer at February 5, 2008 03:50 PM
Thanks for checking in. The East Coast rocks!
Posted by: Brady at February 5, 2008 06:12 PM
Have you either decided or put either one down yet?? hehe.
Posted by: merc957 at February 5, 2008 06:18 PM
anyone goin 2 the wiltern 2nite???i ended up in culver city last nite(dont even ask how) and the chick there had the diablo album......good times....nuff said!!!
Posted by: paul at February 6, 2008 12:01 PM
Tell Dave to stop singing Loverboy. That's one band I don't miss. Yikes!
Posted by: Peyton at February 6, 2008 05:39 PM
hey billy, apple confirmed that there will be a new 3G iPhone out this year, so you may want to wait on it. hopefully, they will have some of the kinks worked out on the new version.
i'm sticking with the blackberry pearl until then.
curt
Posted by: curt at February 7, 2008 06:34 AM
hey, wasn't it your birthday!!!!?
happy birthday.
Posted by: ylais at February 8, 2008 03:34 AM
im hungover really bad!!!!
why do i do it????
Posted by: paul at February 8, 2008 11:25 AM
Ever wondered just how Maroon 5 became popular?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TiH9dbAsAp0
Scott Adams' experiment on "how hard is it to write a hit song?" - check the blog as well.
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/
Funny stuff.
Posted by: Slutmonkey57b at February 9, 2008 05:03 AM