Sexy Results

Pretty good day at work today. We are working at the Clark County Courthouse for the OJ Simpson Preliminary Hearing. It's a madhouse - A MADHOUSE I tells ya. My guys are getting some good stuff as we have a feed recording from the 6 cameras inside the courtroom just like the big dogs like CNN, FoxNews and the like. And with the writers strike right now, we are the only media taking the comedy angle on site.



Pretty sweet. My job is pretty sweet sometimes. Over the past year one of my highlights was doing an interview with MSTRKRFT at Jet Nightclub at the MGM Mirage.



Okay sweet. That worked.

So yeah some of my questions made the cut and some didn't, but one question that didn't because it was a very Canadian in nature regarding their name. I asked them if they had paid a lot of Canadian Tire Money to secure the rights to their name. They laughed and confirmed my suspicions. Al and Jesse got their name from a tool box in their studio from "Crappy Tire" who carry the MASTERCRAFT brand tools. Take out the vowels, add a homage to Kraftwork and voila! A perfectly good name for a perfectly good duo.

I first met Jesse back when he was in Death From Above 1979 when they played the Starlight Room in Edmonton. When I told him where I was from, his eyes lit up and he said "We LOVE Edmonton - city of Champions" and then he chuckled. Anyway, the night DFA played I got kind of intoxicated and by kind of, I mean like obliterated. I barely remember their set which sucks because it was the only chance I ever had to see them and I kind of have a rule, never to get drunk at live shows because I don't want to forget anything. The only exceptions to this rule have been DFA, the smalls last show in Calgary at the old Mac Hall 2001 and Corb Lund at the Powerplant in support of 5 Dollar Bill so that was like 2003. In all three cases I have acted like a total idiot.

At the DFA show I somehow talked my way into the VIP area, wait, no, it's coming back to me now, Roselle and Al were cleared to go up and they thought if they left me I would just pass out in Victory Lounge and miss the show. So we all went up together. The VIP area was carved out of what used to be Oliver's office when he used to run the show so you had to look down and to the left to see the stage. It was like 20 feet above the crowd. Pretty cool spot to watch a show from what I remember. I also remember Lyle Bell (Whitey Houston) sitting down from me watching intently on what was going on down there as his band was also a drum and bass combo. The worst part about the whole thing was that I guess somehow I didn't seem all that drunk, so Al and Roselle kept feeding me beer. Bless their souls. But all good things must come to an end and I ended up accidentally dropping a full bottle of beer which hit my foot and glanced off it through the bars on the railing I was leaning on, and down onto a bouncer below. I almost got kicked out but we all claimed it was an accident and I got to stay for the rest of the show, though I was cut off. Finally.

So yeah anyway, MSTRKRFT, check them out. Fun stuff with I might add, sexy results.