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we are in the midst of the heat wave that of course has nothing to do with global positioning or warming (sic)… in my opinion the real ‘inconvenient truth’ is in fact that the last time a lot of people were able to get together on a single cause in the western world was probably for world war two, i cant think of much like mindedness after that, just a lot of conflict and division… today i saw in my favorite magazine; the new york times that athletes who tried to get their red blood cell counts up by lying in oxygen tents etc, situations replicating mountain climbing and the like would be penalized by the doping committee… i think they are missing the point here: athletes should be penalized for exercising! why not just go all the way, exercise creates unfair advantages, raises hormone and blood levels, should be banned like dope! one of my myspace associates, Jerry, sent me finally a copy of Takashi Miike’s IMPRINT, this is the ‘Masters of Horror’ episode that HBO deemed to horrifyingly horrible to be seen by even the grittiest of american Horror fans (apparently it ran in the UK however)… IMPRINT is pretty damn rough i have to admit, i’m tempted to say it make AUDITION look like an episode of friends by comparison but i wont… sadly i am leaning in the direction that says that IMPRINT is indeed to heavy duty for our delicate american sensibilities, as long as we stick to REAL murder torture and mayhem its ok here… Miike in presenting this stuff in an elegant and sensual context makes it all the more horrendous, i loved it but its the kind of thing that does imprint itself so be warned… im starting to get feedback on the BBC docu, thus far most of the comments have been very positive… hopefully it’ll air in the states soon, its filled with points that i might take time to address at some time later on… one thing i may have mentioned is that when one is stuck in the midst of media it becomes all consuming, i frequently am sleepless with racing thoughts about who said what and how that statement might be misconstrued on and on… there is a cut off point however as i realize one could spend their life retracting and adjusting statements they made… this stuff is endless thats it, stuff in the works for soon

so we have the demise of a latter day Achilles and one of the weirdest events that i can recall all in one… the vilified Christian Renaldo was able to suck it up with twenty thousand people booing him whenever he touched the ball so what happened to Zidane, today i heard that Materazzi called him a “terrorist” which makes little sense… i am reminded of Tysons ear incident and Frankie at the Hall Of Fame induction but those events pale in the face of the grandeur and scope of the Zindane headbutt… just like everyone else i was really thrown by the thing it just seems so crazy and off…

a couple of things… first barbara just found this thing on youtube that is great its at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=PIblEAMxrjY or put ‘RAMONES WARHOL STEIN’ into the youtube search or go to my myspace page which is: http://www.myspace.com/esxp it brings back a lot of memories… contrary to things i’ve heard over the years the Ramones and i were very close up until the end… there was a period when i was the only one who had Johnny’s phone number and Joey or one of the others would call me and say “tell John to call so and so…” this went on for maybe four or five months… its grimly ironic but somehow appropriate for the topic of our discussion in this clip to be the decline of rock i miss all those guys a great deal i wish they were still around… “Andy Warhols Fifteen Minutes” was a short lived show produced by the Warhol gang that ran on MTV… i dont recall how many episodes were aired but not too many… i also did a piece of music that became the shows theme… i must have been on it various times, i really only remember this and an interview with Bill Burroughs i did… this was shot in the last very deluxe Warhol factory in midtown, Andy wasnt around and word was he was out with a cold or flu… the next day we all heard that he had died (for me that puts the date of this taping at Feb.21 1987)… as a result this thing is sort of steeped in sadness… for you UK fans The Blondie BBC doc airs on Friday, July 21 at 10:35 pm on BBC 1 in the UK…i really like this thing, everyone worked hard on it… it still presents a ton of issues for all of you maniacal super fans, myself included, theres a lot of unresolved stuff in it and i’m sort of looking forward to fielding questions about it… BUT its by far the best docu done about BLONDIE in a long time if ever… i’m sure it will air in the states soon beyond that FRANCE-ITALY!!!! hey i said the Germans too what the fuck do i know… lets hope that like some of the heavier preceeding games it doesnt go into penalty kicks

due to general weirdness i just got the last 185 or so e-mails at once… so i see that a lot of you want more info about the tour being shut down… the problem with doing make up dates immediately is that all the shows that were booked by regional promoters were for the ‘road rage’ blondie/cars show… simply none of these guys are gonna take just us without the cars without a bunch of re-negotiation, its not just a matter of plugging us back into shows, theres a lot of considerations about size of venues etc… i’m sorry about all of this i somehow thought that most everyone would realize some of it but i still got complaints about my ignoring the situation… believe me i think ticket prices us and other acts are way over the top these days but there is not much i can do about the expenses of touring… there are other elements that added to the high ticket price of roadrage but you are gonna have to figure them out, theres just stuff it wouldn’t be right for me to go into here im sorry that any of you are disappointed, hopefully not as disappointed as british or german cup fans cause we will still be around whereas the 2006 world cup is a one shot… i really thought the germans had a good shot, i didnt think enough about the german-italian soccer jinx speaking of that im also feeling bad about some of you who were coming long distances (like from overseas) who couldn’t cancel flights, hotel stuff etc… at this point i dont know how to make it up maybe we can do something in the future… i can only personally apologize to fans who were disappointed and hassled by all this situation

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

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