Happy Mail

[Little Miss Risk]

I like it when people send us good news. Gone are the days of getting fan mail (at least to us - all the kids are writing to the cast of the Twighlight series these days) but occasionally something pops up on our radar when someone says something nice about us in either an email or a blog. It makes us feel warm and fuzzy and floods us with the feeling of well-being and goodwill towards our audience.

In fact, the only time I can really recall someone ever really saying anything negative about us on a blog was Carolyn Mark who referred to our show as "sludgeabilly with strippers". I took exception to that since it was on the Mint Records corporate site (really pro, guys) and that say what you like, but you must have been mistaking us for another show - to my knowledge we don't have strippers in our show - just demented showgirls and performance artists. However, it all worked itself out in the end.

A few years later Carolyn Mark was hosting the Big Time Out in Cumberland, BC where we were also playing. During the portion of our show where I emcee, preach, and so on, I invited her out onstage, purely with the intention of giving her a few shots of Jagermeister. I have heard that she likes a drink and concluded that Jager would make an appropriate peace-offering. Apparently, I sounded like I was going to rip off her head and spit down her neck, because I was told she locked herself in a Port-a-Potty and refused to come out until after I'd left the stage. I'm guessing that she wasn't familiar with my stage patter and that to the uninitiated, it can be a little scary sometimes. Or kind of sludgeabilly...

So anyways, back to happy mail... John had sent me this and it was a nice reminder that sometimes, we get it right. Cheers, man and we'll hopefully see you again this summer with the skeleton crew.

There's that fuzzy feeling again...

Little Miss Risk