9.30.2003
Hey, Kids! I'll be at the Loser's Lounge Tribute to George Harrison this Saturday! I'm not even gonna tell you what I'm singin', but it's been a favorite of mine for a long time! It's gonna be a great night! They sell out FAST, so get yer tickets now!
Featuring the Kustard Kings: Joe McGinty, David Terhune, Kris Woolsey, Jeremy Chatzky, Eddie Zweiback, and Steve Goulding; Sean Altman and Connie Petruk (backup vocals), Mike McGinnis (sax).
Guest Singers: Julian Maile, Michael LeMonde, Peter Salett, Josh Tyler, Edward Rogers, Joe Hurley, Wendy Ip, Delphine Gaudin, Moira MacDonald, Nick Danger, Chris Anderson, Lianne Smith, David Driver, The Terhune Brothers.
This week only: Izler, Jeni Muldaur, Jed Parish, Julia Greenberg, Wendy Ip, Delphine Gaudin. Friday: Jason Lewis, Michael Cerveris, Michal the Girl, Mary Birdsong, Tiffany Randol, Eddie Skuller, Mark Rozzo. Saturday: Tom Clark, Phil Shelley, Tricia Scotti, Ivy Markaity, Susan Kerschenbaumer, David Rappaport, Stephanie Seymour & Bob Perry.
Next Week: Eric Paparozzi, Rene Risque, Robin Goldwasser. Wednesday Only: Michal the Girl, Michael Cerveris, Ivy Markaity, Joe Pecarino, Eddie Skuller. Friday only: Philip Shelley. Saturday only: Tricia Scotti, Tiffany Randol, Stew, Stephanie Seymour & Bob Perry. Wednesday & Friday: Dave Foster, Anney Fresh, Amy Miles. Wednesday & Saturday: Fur Coat, Orion. Friday & Saturday: Laura Dawn & Moby, Mary Birdsong, Tony Zajkowski,
Loser's Lounge Tribute To George Harrison
October 3, 4, 10: Doors at 8 PM, Showtime 9 PM
October 8: Doors at 7 PM, Showtime 8 PM
October 11: Doors at 7 and 10:30 PM, Showtime 8 and 11 PM
at Fez under Time Cafe
380 Lafayette Street (at Great Jones)
Tickets available at:
Ticketweb.com
Other Music: 15 E. 4th St at Lafayette, 212-477-8150 (cash only)
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9.24.2003
Here's the nice article by Andrew Giangola, with "nice" accompanying photo, not the evil, evil cover photo. Took a copy around to make sure I wasn't overreacting last night.....I got more laughs than Shelly Berman in the Catskills. Oy Vey. I'm enjoying getting the emails from those who I haven't heard from in a long time......ALL WANTING TO SEE MY MISERY....gee......just when you think you know who your friends are....they all start like this "Tom, long time, no see.....hey, where can I see that cover??? With friends like that..... On a totally different topic......how the hell does something bite you, and you don't even know you're being bitten, until a big lump appears on your hand?
When you are awake and doing stuff???? I'm just sayin'.......I was looking for a particular Petula Clark record (couldn't find it) and suddenly my hand starts itching.....HEY!!!! When did that happen? What bit me??! How did I NOT know something was sucking the life out of me? Weird. Anyway, read away............ Tom "Enter the Dragon, But First Wipe Your Feet" Clark
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9.23.2003
Don't touch it, don't even look at it...AAAAARRRRRRGHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Unf-*&%#-ingbelievable. Finally got the new Resident (luckily, it seems hard to find!) Imagine my shock upon seeing myself splayed across the glossy full cover......as an Asian person with Mascara. What the F&%k???????!!!!!!!!!!!! My God. Some Dumbass at the magazine decides to practice his amateur photoshopping on my mug, just "erasing" the bottom parts of my eyes (making me appear stoned!) then .........ahhhhh, jeezus. Worst hack job ever. If you should come across one of these, compare the photo that accompanies the article, and hey, that's fine, looks like me. Amazing how I was able to change my appearance, and RACE from cover to cover. It's totally disturbing. I earned every on of those lines and dark circles....let me have 'em, I'm proud of them!(my hairline, however, is another story.......)Here it just came out and I can't wait for it to leave the racks!! The article is nice, thanks Mr. G, but fire the computer boy with the Chinatown fetish. They obviously played with the contrast to "highlight" my face, losing the healthy glow accquired from my daily romps over the bridge, making me paler than Robert Smith in the dead of winter. Soooooo pissed off right now. I'll scan the other photo and we can do a "before" and "after" comparison later. XOXO Tom Chung
9.21.2003
Hi Folks - The Beat Club gig has been moved to a later date-you'll be informed when!
9.19.2003
For those of you who pointed it out to me, The Beat Club gig at the Cutting Room is Thursday, October 9th. Doors open at 8 and it's an early night. It will be a cool new thing.
Sadly, very sadly, we lost our good friend, Senior Partner in the Blacksmith Shop, Secretary in Charge of Good Times, local East Village Legend, and all around sweetheart of a guy, Mark "Humphrey" Humphrey.
He went out the same way he entered a room, on the edges of a hurricane. The forever optimist, schemer and dreamer. Poet, Musician, ......catalyst. When Humphrey was around, there was definitely something happening, or about to happen. As I look into the backyard at the leaves and branches strewn about after last nights storm, it truly feels as if it is Humphrey's way of saying "I never said goodbye, 'cause I ain't goin' away!" I don't know what to say, or write right now, but if you knew him, you'll know that it's so hard to cry because every memory we have involves him making us laugh, and laughter is so much more powerful than tears. We're thinking of him, and of his dear friend and partner, true love, Garrison, and his sidekicks Richie and the most famous dog on the Lower East Side, Hoover. Humphrey wrote a song once that challenged the Maker himself stating that "if they don't let dogs in Heaven, I don't want to go". He was currently working on a musical with his friend Dave, crossing back and forth between the states and the U.K. On the hompage of our website you will see Humphrey recording with Dave, Humphrey as human music stand, with Dave's lyrics taped to his sweater ....... Humphrey left us at 40 years old, of a heart attack.....happier than he'd ever been in his life.
-- Tom Clark and the High Action Boys
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9.17.2003
String Cheese. How does it work? Who glues all of those little strands of cheese together to make that one small but incredibly satisfying stalk. Early in the summer, on a snack-food-product run to the deli, I found myself tired and weary of the same old Payday or even beef jerky. Yes.......even Beef Jerky. I heaved a heavy sigh as I was choosing between the Peppered Jerky or the Hot N Spicy. But, alas, like looking at a picture of an old girlfriend,..... the one who spilled wine on your complete Beatle Card collection and uncaringly scratched your mint single of the Hollywood Argyle's "Alley Oop", there was nothing there. Nothing. No desire. No lust. "There must be something else" I said to the man behind the counter, who just replied "You like Noodle?" "No" I said, then "Yes, actually, I do like noodle, but that's not what I need" I put the Jerky down "Let's just be friends" I said (to the jerky, not the man) "and maybe someday......." then I turned down the aisle. Past the healthy no-salt soups, the jelly's and jams with "no sugar" (what's the point?!!), eased by that big block of Tofu that never seems to be smaller, floating in that weird milky water. I thought "beer is good, but that's not the answer".........Hot Pockets are a good idea, on paper, but always leave me sad and regretful. As I worked my way through every aisle, I threw down my quest, defeated, and settled for that Payday by the register, but I told myself "not the big one, cowboy, ease yourself off it with the small one, tomorrow's another day, and there's a new snack around every corner...." and that's when I passed the Dairy Case. Hey, I never thought of that. Hmmmm, Yogurt is just a sneaky thing they tried to pass off as a "fun treat" in the 70's, but I copped on to the fact that parents were waaaaay too willing to let their kids have it, so I knew it was a scam. Then there was that little circle of cheese with the cow on it, cut up and individually wrapped into little wedges. "Who's this for?" I wondered. It looked perfect for an appetizer at an Oompa Loompa dinner party, but not for me. Plus, that cow was laughing at me. Then I saw it. About the size of an El Marko marker, or a small flashlight. Wider then a Slim Jim. But it was cheese. String Cheese. I remember this as a kid, when Ernie the Cheese Man came through town and gave my family some. I was fascinated, but impatient with it. I would start "unstringing" it, and then I couldn't wait, and like the glutton I am/was, inhaled it, like a tootsie pop. How many strings does it take to finish a stick of string cheese? The world may never know. I bought two individual sticks.....and that's what started it all. That's how I spent my summer vacation. I've already told you too much, but if you are truly interested, I'll tell you the pro's and con's of ALL the different brands. Believe me, I know them.
On another note....This Website. This website was kicking ass like nobody's business. I was amazed at how many visits we were getting from all over, then, when we had a little down time due to various outside projects, it dropped a little, but only a little, so I was very pleased with little ol' us. Then, about a month and a half ago, people stopped writing in to the message board and I thought, well, when we start playin' again and the new record comes out it'll pick up, but I still couldn't figure it out. I was starting to get paranoid. "Oh no, did I piss every one off???!! What the...!!!??"
Then....finally.....FINALLY....I got an email, then another, then another (hey, what took you guys so long??) Nobody could get a post on the message board!!! I hurriedly emailed Webmaster Saul " Saul, quit what you're doin'...drop everything....people can't get a message on the board!!!!" He wrote me back immediately after finding out that the server had a crash about....hmmmmmmm....a month and a half, or so, ago, and the message board stopped working! Hallelujah!!!!!! The skies opened. So write in, you lazy bastards. There's all kind of new gadgets to play with, too. I've got a new slew of pix to put up this week, including some of our man Phil from the 80's. Yep. 80's. He's 6'2", 120 lbs., and looks like Peter Fonda. Or the dude that gets killed in Dog Day Afternoon. You be the judge.
JOHNNY CASH............THANKS FOR EVERYTHING.
I don't think I need to say anything about the Man. I'll bet he understood string cheese. We also lost Warren Zevon....he was very very cool. John Ritter.... Craig always thought your version of "Can Your Pussy Do The Dog" was way better than the Cramps' version. Sheb Wooley died, also known as Ben Colder (think about it....Been Colder...classic) whose Purple People eater used to freak me the heck out as a kid. But enough of all this dyin'.........the High Action Boys are livin' again!!!! We've got two things comin' up, other than the new rekkid. First up is a gig at the Cutting Room for the new "The Beat Room" series, featuring us, Mary Lee's Corvette (she rocks, and has been having great great success with her live cd covering the whole of Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" album!!) and a yet to be named act. It will be righteous. Then, Saturday, Nov. 1st, another live recording gig at Arlene's Grocery!!! With George Gilmore and the Giblets, and more, but I'll have to fill you in later on who!! If you were at the last one, you know you won't wanna miss this one! And for those of you who came out to see me and Claudia at Pete's Candy Store, Thanks! There's gonna be more of those shows, I had a great time, and yes, next time I'll send out the right address (some people ended up blocks and blocks and blocks away........ooooops!!)
Oh yeah!!!!!! By the way!!! Be looking for my ugly mug on the cover of the New York Resident this coming Monday, the 22nd of September!!! There's a cover story on The High Action Boys!! I still can't believe I did a photo session in the drizzling rain with a 1956 Gretsch Corvette. What was I thinking???!!! Oh well......rock and roll! You can find it in Glossy Paper form all up and down the West Side of Manhattan...and they might have the story on line......grab a bundle...and don't forget to get a picture frame on the way home. I hear K Mart on Astor Place has a sale on them......... Tom
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