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I just had to share this with everyone; it’s just great on so many levels. This is the original video that Bill Streeter found on the Internet Archive that he used for a little promo on his two Davila 666 videos over on Lo-Fi Saint Louis recently, but this is the entire thing. The reason I wanted to share it with all two or three of you that follow this blog is because of the hilariously enthusiastic bass player that comes up front for a solo midway through this tune… you can tell by his pre-solo antics that it’s going to be good. Enjoy!

Steve Buscemi, ca. 1996

The other day I found Steve Buscemi on Twitter, and since he’s one of my favorite actors (c’mon, he was “the Last Guy Standing” in Reservoir Dogs!), I thought what the hell, I’ll start following him. One of the first tweets I saw from him was to inform everyone about some “amazing” band called Abe Vigoda and then he asked, “Where are the good emerging New York DIY bands?” After first checking out the artsy “alternative” band he was hyping (not to my surprise, they’re not that “amazing” at all… ” in fact, I think they pretty much suck, but then again I could tell that from their list of influences: 311, At the Drive-In, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Fleetwood Mac, Nine Inch Nails). So I replied, sending a couple of links, one to the GaragePunkNYC site and the other to the Victim of Time NYC venues listing. I thought those sites might clue him into a part of the NYC “underground” garage rock’n'roll scene that he may be totally unaware of, such as DMZ playing tonight at the Southpaw, or the Fleshtones/A-Bones/Twistaroos/Demands next Friday night. To my surprise, he replied later via DM, not once, but twice! The second one contained his e-mail address and he said I could e-mail him for his top 10 list of current favorite songs. “That’s kinda weird,” I thought to myself. “Why would I want to know what your current list of favorite songs is? Oh yeah, I guess it’s because you’re Steve Buscemi.” Whatever. So I went ahead and e-mailed the guy, more to try to promote GaragePunk.com to him than anything else (especially since the latest episode of my very own podcast was going up the next day), but to be nice, I asked him to go ahead and send me that list of songs. So that’s what I have for you below. It’s not that I really find his list all that interesting or anything, but it is what it is. And, after all, he did give me permission to post it on my blog.

Here are my top 10 songs that I’ve really been into lately. There’s a few legacies in there, as well as some smaller LA bands I’ve really been into after receiving submissions from fans on Twitter. I have many more but these are songs that have really stuck with me in the past week. Roy Orbison is a classic, loved the usage of “In Dreams” in Lynch’s Blue Velvet. Joe Strummer’s cover of Bob Marley’s Redemption Song is a really touching piece to me. Both men were fucking legends. A fan sent me Halloween Swim Team and the entire debut album “The End Of The Sky” is ace plus. They pull off the vintage synth sound better than most bands of the vintage synth era. Keep your eye out for them…I’ve chosen to feature them as the sole weekly followed band on my Twitter account. Bing Crosby’s Guilty has always been a favorite and really struck me in the Amelie soundtrack. Santo & Jonny’s Sleepwalk is one of those songs that I can’t ever quite get over. It’s one of the best “driving by myself to go get coffee at 11 AM after a hangover” songs of all time. The Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody” is the most fucking romantic and passionate songs ever written (besides Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game”). I didn’t double check the facts on Meho Plaza but this song “The Beach” sent by a fan recently is really an amazing track; somehow it manages to have rich production while maintaining a lo-fi sound. Radiohead “Creep”? Where do I start? Story of my life. I only kid. Kind of. Last of the Shadow Puppets has to be one of the best pop bands to come out of the UK since Oasis. Wasn’t a big fan of Arctic Monkeys but these guys just kill it. Fleet Foxes is at the end of the list because they’re one of my favorite new folk bands at the end of the night. When all is said and done, Fleet Foxes take me into the night.

1. Roy Orbison – In Dreams
2. Joe Strummer – Redemption Song (Bob Marley)
3. Bing Crosby – Guilty
4. Halloween Swim Team – Coincidence
5. Santo & Jonny – Sleepwalk
6. Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody
7. Meho Plaza – The Beach
8. Radiohead – Creep
9. Last of the Shadow Puppets – Standing Next To Me
10. Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal

Cheers!
-Steve B.

I wish Harry Dean Stanton was on Twitter. I’d kinda like to get his list of current favorite songs.

It’s been a while since I last got a spam comment on the GaragePunk.com blog worthy of reposting here, but this one that came in this morning made me laugh. Of course the links have been removed so as not to give the spammers their just deserts, and the original comment was marked as spam, but here it is for what it’s worth…

I looked at me megan fox naked over carefully, but could. Alan and fast. Alan watched but was still sexy megan fox just ran. We will announce a long cum was that will megan fox boobs help. Alan watched megan fox nude pics but her hand on the metro home, can’t mind.

Actually, I guess that one is more like a short story than haiku…

Dear friends,

Please consider this a personal invitation to participate in the second annual St. Louis chapter of March Moustache Madness. This organized homage to the badly maligned mustache originated in Baltimore, where it has become increasingly popular each year, exalting and embracing that little lip warmer to a status beyond mere hipster irony. If you are interested in participating, all necessary information follows.

Feel free to spread the word to your friends. Eventually, they’ll thank you.

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Step 1. Use the month of February to cultivate a nice growth of facial hair. Full beards are a warm, cozy option for this harsh winter month.

Step 2. On the morning of the first day of March, shave off all excess facial hair to let your mustache shine as a beacon of masculinity and style above your upper lip.

Step 3. Wear your mustache with pride. For the entire month of March.

Step 4. During the last weekend of March, there will be a top secret mustache party. You must have a mustache to get in (this applies to the ladies, too). There will be mustache dances, mustache music, and other assorted mustache-related activities. Prizes will be awarded, libations will be consumed, general rowdiness will ensue.

Step 5. Convince a friend to do it next year.

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I thought a friend of mine who called to ask me if I’d sold my car to some guy in St. Charles was off his rocker when he said he’d seen my car on the local TV news, a red bubble-back Barracuda with “WAYBAC” license plates and all (even though my plates are different now), until I went online this morning and found that a photo of my car was indeed used in the original story last Friday, and then again in a follow-up story on Monday! The story is about a used-car dealer who found an old class ring under the backseat of a car he’d bought and was wanting to return it to its rightful owner.

At least in the follow-up story John Auble says “a Chrysler (sic) Barracuda like this one” (in the original story they didn’t say that, which made my friend think that mine was the actual car the ring was found in)… In any event, they must’ve found the photo of my car on the Web or something. Weird! You’d think the news crew would have taken shots of the actual car that the ring was found in… I mean, they obviously went out there to interview the guy, right? How hard would it have been to get a couple shots of the real car?

By the way, the 2nd photo used in these stories is NOT my car. If you look closely, you’ll notice it has a side-view mirror on the driver’s side (mine doesn’t have side-view mirrors), and the wheels are also different. I don’t believe that 2nd photo is the actual car, either, since it appears to be a photo from a car show.

I suppose I should demand that Fox 2 News return the photo of the car they used to ITS rightful owner. :\

Security Briefs! Just $7.95!! I’ve gotta admit, if I were a burglar I think the LAST place I’d reach my hand inside to check for some loot would be a pair of skidmarked tighty-whiteys.

Disgustingly Funny Dirty Security Underwear Safe

Dirty Security Underwear Safe Features:

• Secret pouch with a fastener to keep your stash in place.
• The realistic “skid mark” will keep others from touching them.
• Not even the most hardened criminals have the balls to rile through dirty under garments.

Are you afraid of the family jewels being taken from the family safe? Put them where no burglar has gone before, a pair of skid marked underpants. Now you see the genius of the Security Briefs, anti-theft protection masquerading as your dirty tighty whiteys.

Not meant for wearing, but if you really want to know the size, we would say it’s between a Small and Medium sized men’s underwear. Security Briefs are Disgustingly Funny. Secretly concels your valuables stash. Has Skid-Mark Technology to ensure no one will touch these things so your valuables are safe. Great Gag Gift!

Liquid Ass Spray! Just $5.99!! I dunno, I must’ve missed these TV ads. Check out the description:

Liquid Ass is an overwhelming, stinky, funny prank product. Once unleashed, this power packed, super concentrated liquid begins to evaporate filling the air with a genuine, foul butt crack smell with hints of dead animal and fresh poo. The funny pranks you can pull with Liquid ASS are unlimited. Watching the facial grimaces of people and hearing their comments about the part your hair, gagging stench will have you laughing until it hurts.

The next time you have the urge for a funny prank or if you just need to get the party started, reach for a bottle of Liquid Ass.

Anyway, just look at this feedback:

• You’ve replicated the smell of human excrement perfectly.
• This STUFF is AWESOME for pranks and a less than lethal weapon!!
• You guys should get a Nobel prize for this!
• Liquid ASS has greatly exceeded my expectations.
• I now know what it would smell like if I stuck my head in the colon of a rotting corpse.
• Liquid Ass seems to smell “hot”, like really fresh shit . . .
• The best part of Liquid Ass is the fact that no one can find a source.
• All pranksters should have this in their arsenal.
• I and the other 2 girls I work with have been pretty much peeing our pants with laughter.
• Liquid Ass to me is now ranked among the greatest inventions of all time.
• It combines both a bona fide turd smell with the gaseous effects of a noxious fart bomb.

I swear, some of these really make me laugh… right before I delete them. Here are a couple I got today on the GaragePunk.com blog:

Jennifer Aniston Nipple
Two hundredbucks my dick.
I just before the author.
It.
My dick.

Microcurrent Facial Toning
She had agreed earlier he,
reaching for her car,
and dark his.

It’s a slow afternoon at work today, so I’m bored and decide to try and find out what other Jeff Kopps are out there making the world a better place, including some Web URLs with my name in ‘em. This is kinda fun… your mileage may vary, though.

• www.jeffkopp.com
• www.jeffreykopp.com
• www.kopper.com
• Jeff Kopp on Wikipedia
• Jeff Kopp on the IMdB
• 10 Things You Should Know About Jeff Kopp

That’s right, motherfuckers. I’m a man of the past, living in the present, walking in the future.

OK, that’s enough.

St. Louis in the late ’50s/early ’60s must have been a pretty interesting place, what with Gaslight Square and all. One of the truly unique places back then was Wild’s Palace of Poison, a greaser/hot rod hangout that existed on Lemay Ferry Road in South St. Louis County. I just found a great page with a photo and some scans of their menu (which includes such delicacies as the Murder Burger, Scorpions Sting, Idiots Delight, and the Arsenic Special) and “death certificate” on the cool ShootStLouis.com site… Check it out here!

My favorite line, from the “Death Certificate”:

Wild’s Palace of Poison assumes no responsibility for demise of corpse since corpse was dead from the neck up for having et here in the first place.

Har!

By the way, Chuck-A-Burger (who will soon be closing their fabled St. Charles Rock Road location because the owner of the property wants to sell it) sells Palace of Poison stickers for your ride. I have one on my ‘Cuda.