my space with its viral aspect… t-shirts; “myspace ruined my relationship”… is this happening? in twenty years will we have mental myspace whereby we can trot about all day deaking with what songs we want to force on our peers and sending instant messages… all without any unnecessary hardware… steven colbert mentioned a chip to tax sex acts, implanted in the necessary area, when two come in contact, proximity: an upload to the IRS… doesnt bush get that the japanese prime minister is a hippie?

all concerned have gotten the drift by now… tour ‘on hiatus’ i’m told is the official way of putting it… Elliot is a really nice fellow its too bad the whole deal, he did i think four shows with a badly broken collar bone before doctors told him to shut it down… we went to disney world with the kids, what a weird trip, its hard not to be cynical when faced with recreations of the third world crawling with suburban tourists… here we have AFRICA! only this africa has running water all over the place, plenty of food courts, and spotless restrooms (everytime i had to take a piss in ‘africa’ or ‘asia’ i couldnt help but thinking “why arent these toilets as atmospheric as all the fake decaying walls and funky stuff out on ‘the street’) ?so?its?like africa with money… lol ha ha

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now here is a picture of my absolute favorite thing that we ran into… it was in ‘Africa’… see, the whole place is like a film set so there are props all around (all nailed down)… this was outside of a picturesque rotting ‘hotel’ and is like some homeless dj’s gear, complete with old dusty cassette machine and rusted speaker, i just wasnt prepared for this level of weirdass fake reality… i kept thinking this is what we’re fighting for? to maintain this madness? so we can see the world without going anywhere? now just watching the world cup…? kevin spacey is Luthor??!! hahahahahahaha i just saw the commercial ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…. oh and for those of you with extra time to kill (murder) i put up a myspace site which can be navigated to from the blondie myspace page or its at http://www.myspace.com/esxp … another really extreme weird thing (myspace that is)?

so denver in a hotel… very blank here in the down town area, a ghost town yesterday; no people, big modern buildings, lots of ‘homeless’ people in the spaces between things… i hate golf shirts, i fucking hate golf shirts so fucking much it kills me, these things have become the uniform of maybe three quarters of the male population of the US and maybe the western world… there should be a law against wearing golf shirts without carrying at least a putter… the tour is going on as planned, we are enjoying the shows, debbie had a cold in Vegas was off her game… we are trying to figure out what to do next… i am not gonna comment on all of the related issues; the new cars etc, you are all welcome to use your imaginations i switched to a MAC! it pretty much kicks ass, i miss various PC features but the upside is considerable as usual touring means television, i watch almost no tv at home and am always horrified in an amused way at what goes on in the ‘wasteland’… i have been following the antics of the ‘inked’ gang as well as actually watching a few episodes of the Sopranos… mostly i am moved by a lot of the stuff thats finally emerging from the war, its all so sad… i really dont think i have ever seen a split in the country that is anything like whats going on now, its just not a good thing, this kind of division, how can the idiots on both sides not see that? how can we have any real strength while split up like this… people wont believe that one can support the troops and people over there and still be against the war… we saw a film called “the war tapes” that is quite a revealing thing… an’ what about the damn da vinci code… for people like myself none of the big revelations in it are any news… i have always been under the impression that the ancient egyptian and thereafter various pagan cultures were possessed of a balance twixt male and female aspects that was sadly lacking in later forms of orthodox western religions, big deal… but that a pretty poorly written ‘subway novel’ can create this resounding world wide impact just points up the miserable shape education and systems of thinking are in… maybe there will be a shift in theology and how people relate to the world, its just weird to see it spurred on even a little bit by a lot of close ups of Tom Hanks frowning

tour thus far

leaving new york

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leaving new york

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vegas lies

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Lost Wages

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sound man MARK!!!

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pics

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sig for ‘rockwalk’ LA

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“over here”

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sign

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Michael Schmidts car LA

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new building downtown LA

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burrito

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Maxfields in LA

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2 AM

i have to straighten one thing out… about the meet and greets, we just thought it felt sort of exploitative and thats why we are not doing them… now together with some of my comments about sometimes not being able to sign autographs people are coming to some mistaken conclusions… we will of course try and sign autographs, we always do… we dont like to sign guitar pick guards, drumheads and other obvious e-bay items… but beyond that i have signed every fucking thing from clothing to cigarette packs AGAIN! THE BEST WAY TO GET AN AUTOGRAPH IS TO SEND A SELF ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE WITH WHAT YOU WANT SIGNED TO ONE OF THE VENUES BEFORE WE GET THERE!!! i think this is the fifth time i’ve written this here

ok various, despite my previous vow to avoid HOF topics i must devote some more space: Amy reminds me that “there were many fans who wrote letters to the R and R HOF in support of Blondie; I know I did…” so thnx much to her and to all of you who did that… then Ric writes “At the end of the day, having seen you live in England, Blondie play many of the old songs with different arrangements or extended versions… How would the Nigel etc expect to play these versions having never performed them in this way?” (i love “the nigel”…) bravo! some of you are getting the picture, those guys didnt want to play at fucking all, (again, the first step to them actually playing would have been to call one of us which they didnt do) they just wanted to bitch… finally i forgot to mention… i dont know if many of you caught it but i REALLY loved frank saying something about how great it was to be “injected” into the hall of fame… where i come from we call that a “freudian slip”… i guess he was thinking of something else i have had some extra time to write lately even with the babies crawling all over me… i just got a new mac, one of the pentium ones and am going a bit crazy getting used to the transition… as usual thank you all for the comments…

the jfk and rfk assassinations have always bothered me, this isnt much of a statement in the light of world events… i was thirteen when john kennedy was killed… i was in the lunchroom in jr. high school, in brooklyn… i cant put into words how much i hated jr. high school… we started hearing reports about the president being shot from kids coming in from outside… abruptly we were all told by the intercom to go back to our homerooms… in the school (Andres Huddie jr. high, named after some respected old dutch statesman who rumor had it had been hung as a horsethief and was much less than respectable) there were a couple of young very gung ho male teachers who i later realized styled themselves in the kennedy mold… one of these guys, Mr. Prenner, was in charge of our homeroom… it couldnt have been more dramatic; after we were all seated he sat on the edge of his desk and very seriously said “The presidents been shot, he’s dead.” i dont remember him telling us to go home, but that was all he said about the assassination… outside the school i saw him and the other young male teacher whose name escapes me in heated arm waving discussion, i caught a fragment of a line about “the world we live in today…” on the way home people were crying on the streets, i bought a paper with “JFK SHOT” on the headline…when i got home my old man was stalking back and forth in front of our house cursing about “those bastards”… two years later he died and i never talked to him about who he thought the bastards were… so i was deeply affected by it all, maybe an association of father figures even, but this was a heavy transitional period and soon i was paying more attention to the beatles and stones than to current events… maybe five years ago when the band was in Dallas i walked by myself over to Dealey Plaza and suddenly the absurdity of the whole event struck me… this place has a really grim and haunted feeling to it, but most of all it’s so small, the image that i’d gotten from seeing all those images over the years was of a much more expansive place… the plaza was swarming with theorists and for five bucks i took a short tour with an old guy who indicated the points of interest; the grassy knoll, the picket fence with the storm drain behind it, the x painted on the ground where JFK was hit… i think it was after that that while on a flight from europe i saw the most amazing bit of weird propaganda in the form of a half hour ‘documentary’ about Kennedy… i think i may have even mentioned it on these posts someplace; it was on like the discovery channel and reported basically that John Kennedy was so screwed up on steroids and pain killers that he was almost totally non functional, that Khruschev had saved the world from the brink of destruction that Kennedy had led it to… it just about said that he, Kennedy was better off dead… i wish i could find a link to this thing, it was such an obvious bit of disinformation, i wondered who had gotten what on who to have something like this shoved out into the mainstream… just before i was watching the Zapruder film and it creeps me out more than the worst horror film… so without arguing any points i would direct interested parties to this Alex Jones film: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8646306163762195517&q=alex+jones&pl=true&auto=trueit too is creepy… i dont think that there is anyone in the whole country no matter what they think who believes all of the stuff that they are supposed to but some of the things i’ve been seeing about some of the obvious lies are just too mind boggling… in a way some of this stuff no matter how radical it might seem makes me hopeful that some change might actually happen if enough people ask for answers

i dont have much to say right now just thanks so much to all of you who have written in lately with so much support and good feelings… you guys dont know how much it means to me and to us… i just got a bunch of mail in today… and… just thank you all

this is a heavy thing regardless of what you might think of it… do check it out… http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801&q=loose+change this is a rebuttal also worth watching: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7614450509687459999&q=911+theories