A post dated March 14th, 2008 on Bob & David’s official website reads:
What the fuck everybody!
Big news from Bob and David HQ. We finally have an HQ! After seven long years and over four different shifty Irish contractors, our Head Quarters has finally been built and then immediately condemned! It has a stripper pole, a water fountain that uses chocolate milk and a homemade laser light show set to the music of Coldplay!!
What the fuck everybody!
Big news from Bob and David HQ. We have an HQ! After seven long years and over four different Irish contractors, our Head Quarters has finally been built and then immediately condemned. We sold the land back to ourselves and are going to establish a community chest inspired by the Monopoly Game! Huh? What the hell was that all about?
I don’t know, but I do know this; HBO has officially picked up the pilot Bob and I pitched them and wrote. We should be shooting in LA in the beginning of MAY. We’ll keep you posted on exactly when and where (we’ll have room for 150 audiencers). We are both very, very excited about it and feel it’s really strong and important to the health of America. We know that America is hurting right now and old people like to say that “Laughter’s the best medicine” So, keep hope old people, an injection of 10cc’s of funny is about to be shot all up in your funny bones!
The show is supposedly a sitcom, which kind of sucks, but it will have a “sketch comedy feel,” whatever that means. The tentative title is, David’s Situation. Always the self-promoting motor-mouth, David said he’ll play himself living in a gated community with one severely right-winged roommate and one hippie liberal roommate. I hope that’s not true; on the surface it sounds brutally dumb. Like Three’s Company meets American Dad? I don’t know, I guess I shouldn’t be worried, most of the projects they align themselves with turn out well. Except for maybe Tom Goes to the Mayor. I never got into that show. I have gotten to see Bob’s stand-up act twice out here in L.A., and apparently he’ll be at UCB this Monday night with Brian Posehn, Paul F. Tompkins, Matt Besser, Andy Kindler, Jay Johnston, Eric Hoffman and Gary Rudoren reading the book “Comedy By the Numbers” for a book on tape. If you’re in the neighborhood, you should go! I just might be there…unless it costs money. Then I most likely won’t be there.
I don’t know if I pointed to this David Cross interview before, but I remember reading it one morning at the golf range when it was zero degrees outside and I helped nary a customer all day. For Issue 15 of Chunklet Magazine, Henry Owings met up with David at a bakery in Atlanta and conducted one of the most depressing interviews I’ve ever read. It made me look at David in an entirely new light. Roughly halfway through the discussion things suddenly spiral out of control and he starts to talk about his anti-depressent regimen, being bored with himself, and doing whatever drugs are placed in front of him. It feels a bit too personal, but I recommend it, and it is free to read on the Chunklet website.
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I finally procured a digitized copy of the much-requested Evergreen cassette Go Kart Ride. For the uninitiated, Evergreen was a Louisville rock band heavily influenced by the likes of the Minutemen and Bad Brains, who later substituted a vocalist (Sean McLaughlin) and a drummer (Britt Walford) and acquired a bluesy, danceable rock sound. A young James Murphy recorded their unbelievable self-titled full-length album. Before that, there were a slew of seven-inch records and this cassette. According to the Louisville Hardcore website (which was instrumental in my researching the city’s musical history during my book-writing excursion (don’t ask how it’s going)), it was released in 1993 by Self Destruct, the same label which released the self-titled seven-inch EP, several compilations, and a few albums from Kinghorse. Kinghorse, of course, formed out of the ashes of Maurice, a band comprised of pre-Slint Britt Walford and Dave Pajo with Mike Bucayu and Sean Garrison (a Louisville music legend if ever there was one). Kinghorse is a must-hear for fans of punk and hardcore. Stephen George compared them to Black Sabbath and tried to help me get an interview with Sean Garrison (never happened). Will Chatham from Crain talked to me about playing shows with the above mentioned bands as well as his experiences living next door to Mike Bucayu when Chatham roomed with Paul Oldham on Rufer Avenue. Louisville’s musical history is full of crossed paths and incredible stories. I could go on for hours, but instead I’ll bite my fingernails in anticipation of tonight’s LOST episode and present you with the Evergreen cassette!
Evergreen
Go Kart Ride
MediaFire Download Link
Track Listing:
01) Man That Crawls
02) Avarice
03) Cold Dark Figure
04) Blood
05) Say You Are
06) Liquid (Live Rubberband Bass)
07) Knowledge
08) Feed
