Thanks so much to everyone who came out to the show on Friday night @ Mojo 13. The other bands were great, and the crowd was super nice and fun. Extra points to Jerad for spectacular sound engineering. And a special thanks to Ally for typically excellent camera work, as evidenced below:

Starry Eyed Virginians

We decided (as one should almost always do when in Philly) to get cheese steaks. We went to Pat's b/c that is where it is at, especially after 2am when my personal fav Jim's is likely closed. So at around 2:30am, myself, my wife, my sister, and three of her friends ended up in Pat's exceptionally long line.

One of the girls wondered if they had chicken cheese steaks. Knowing they did not, I politely walked up to the front of the line to gaze at the menu to see what other offerings might be appropriate. (She ended up getting a cheese steak)

While standing there alone, I observed as a group of let's say 6 guys began heckling a group of 'hippies' who were standing in the area. Now, I went to school in Newark, DE so I know me from some hippies. These guys being harassed, they were not hippies. They were more like dressed down bike messengers. And that's cool. All's I'm saying is that the amount of abuse they were taking was well disproportionate to any modicum of social dis-integration they were displaying through their bikes, longish hair, and khaki pants.

So I am literally like a foot and a half from this group of aggressive morons who are literally yelling things like "take a shower, you f*cking hippies" and "you're not a Republican - f8ck you!" (I swear to god that was actually said).

I am standing there, incredulous, and I KNOW one thing. These guys are not from around here. The cheese steak district inevitably draws tourists, and some of these tourists are inevitably assholes. But most are not, and the Philadelphian in line for a steak sandwich from Pat's, Geno's, Jim's or elsewhere is there for one reason and one reason only: to eat a cheese steak. Specifically, they are not there to start a fight.

As I stood there, incredulous, I attempted to warp my face to reflect my incredulity and I asked the group, "where are you guys from?" in my most polite yet "screw-off" voice. As I might have suspected, the answer came in relative unison: Virginia.

I went back to my group, at the back of the line, writing the incident off as stupid and over. And then, to my DELIGHT, a brawl between these two groups broke out. So of course, I walked over to the middle of it and started video-ing:

from my notes on the video sharing website "youtube":

Watch as these "f*cking c*cks*ck*rs" from Virginia beat up on some stupid preppy hippies. You can't really tell in the video, but the guy who walks past with a hat on has mad blood dripping down his face, likely from a bike lock swung at him by a 'hippy'. I am on the border of being drunk and decide it is a good idea to stand in the middle of all this with my camera phone, until my wife comes up and I realize that now she is in danger and that is not cool. An edited version of this would be wiser to post, but the girl who wants me to "stop the video" has the most OBNOXIOUS voice of all time, and thus must be presented for your listening displeasure.

(An aside about Geno's... I used to be a Geno's supporter, at least I viewed them as equal entities... my rational for this was, of course, Geno's cameo in the Boyz to Men video... but all that has changed, for a number of reasons, over the past ten years. In the end, the quality of Pat's steak is better, and they don't seem to be such jerks about the whole thing... this is especially true with the sign that has hung in Geno's for the past few years "You must order in ENGLISH" b/c they are xeno-centric/phobic assholes who can't wrap their heads around what it might have been like when their own great grandmothers were fresh off the boat. Hey Geno's.... take a dick with ya!)

I know I've gone WAAAAYYY over my Pearl Jam limit of late, and i promise, it will subside.

But this is pretty cool, so dig up on it.

Pearl Jam / Austin City Limits TV Taping / Time Lapse from Jonathan Jackson on Vimeo.

from DANTHOLOGY:

MOST PLAYED ARTISTS
Week Ending 11.08.09

1. Destructors666
2. Jonny Manak And The Depressives
3. Fed Up
4. The Pivot Foots
5. The Chuckies
6. The Headies
7. C.D. Truth
8. Pinhead Gunpowder
9. The Rogue Nations
10. Yesterday's Ring
11. The Dick Panthers
12. Werevilsdare
13. Dirty Boulevard
14. Ellen Degenerate
15. Ese
16. My Son The Bum
17. North Lincoln
18. Revenge Of The Mormons
19. Skinny Dick Jones
20. The Bomb
21. A.F.S.
22. Control
23. Disassociate
24. Fanshen
25. Kamikaze

That is correct! Two Madison Underground artists in Hussiskunk's Top 25, with Tit Patrol coming in at 35 and climbing! (I hope!) Congrats to my fellow Headies (21 spins last week) and Skinny Dick Jones (18 spins last week)! And, most importantly, drop Hussieskunk an email (request@hussieskunk.com) and request your fave Maddy tracks and help us reach the top! May I suggest The Headies - "Super Booty." Thanks everybody!

BRIAN MCGEE & THE HOLLOW SPEED

LIVE

November 7, 2009

@ MOJO 13

w/ My Friends

One Great Show: Three Great Fliers!

THE GOOD IRISHMAN!

We've all known for quite some time that Delaware's Mr. Kevin Murphy is an Class A gentleman and model citizen. But our man had to take it to the next level last night.

Dateline: Wilmington, DE

(courtesy Wilmington NewsJournal)

story by Terri Sanginiti

Woman robbed, Good Samaritan beaten in Wilmington

A 31-year-old Wilmington woman was robbed at gunpoint and a neighbor who attempted to help her was assaulted early today in Wilmington’s west side.

The incident occurred about 12:45 a.m. in the 500 block of S. Harrison St., said Wilmington police spokesman Master Sgt. Steven Barnes.

The victim told officers that she was standing outside her home when two men walked up.

She said she tried to get inside the door, but the men grabbed her and pulled her back outside and demanded cash.

The victim said she handed over what cash she had, when two residents on the block attempted to intervene.

The assailants, one of whom was armed with a black semi-automatic handgun, beat the 30-year-old man in the face and tore the 28-year-old woman’s purse from her arm.

The two men then ran south on Harrison Street and out of sight, Barnes said.

Police are asking anyone with information on this robbery to call detectives at 576-3620 or Delaware Crime Stoppers at (800) TIP-3333.

Paraphrased from the man himself: "I got off of work and went to the bar with some friends afterwards. When I got home, I noticed a neighbor being robbed by two guys. I went up, knocked the gun out of the one guys hand, tussled with him a bit, and then they ran off. Sure, as the newspaper reported, I got punched in the face and have some scraped knuckles, but I hit him twice in the head with a bottle of Löwenbräu, so I think he got the worse end of the deal...."

Murph, you truly are a modern hero! Three cheers for Murph!

THE DAILY SLOUGH

It finally comes out where Jon Stewart's ardent hatred of Philadelphia comes from. He tells his guest, later in this episode, of a time, as a boy, when he came to Philly for a sports event wearing a Giants hat, which was promptly knocked off his head and stolen as a band of ruffians took him to the ground, beating him up. Fair enough, Jon.

However, I must take issue with one of the clips in the tableau below... the shot of the crowd of guys wearing green and white chanting "T-I-T-S Tits! Tits! Tits!" is implied to be Eagles fans. I remember when that happened, and those guys are totally Jets fans at a Jets game. However, the Eagles bus shown with the moniker "show us your tits" clearly painted above the Eagles logo is genuine, I'm sure.

Great, hilarious video though. And we may be bigger douches, but NY fans are bigger prigs, no?

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