Holy Shit, is that DPD Pete eating a cheeseburger?!

I almost choked, last night when I saw Die Princess Die/God's Gang/Snakeface/Wulf Anderson singer/guitarist Pete Chekvala taking a big healthy bite out of a hamburger in a Carl's Jr. commercial. It's an old commercial that is re-airing. I think the first time around that commercial paid for a year's worth of his comfortable living. Lucky Bastard. He lives quite the charmed Los Angeles life. Not that I'm bitter, maybe just a little jealous, but he deserves it. He's also been in a Bacardi commercial, a car commercial [I think he's driving a mitsubishi], and the movie "The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down," among other things. I've yet to see the movie, any good? Anyway, he's nice and a super charming guy, and he likes to party. Hard.



[Mary Roth and an "intoxicated" Pete Chekvala at the Spin-sponsored afterparty for the screening of "The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down." Pete ironically played "The Sober Guy" in the movie. (taken from Spin.com]

Read the interview with Die Princess Die in Modern Fix to get a good idea of what a DPD show is like.

Unpublished interviews.

I have a handful of interviews I did for modern fix that never got printed. Some of them were too outdated for print because I took too long to transcribe them, the magazine took too long to put out the issue, or they just didn't have room for it in the issue. Unfortunately, rock music interviews don't have a whole lot of shelf life.

Bands that really should have gotten the exposure when it counted:
Dios (Malos)
Tera Melos
The Robot Ate Me

I think I have a couple more. I'll be posting them intermittently.

Planes Mistaken For Stars at the Tower bar. 9/21

Tonight I will be going to see the mighty mighty Planes Mistaken for Stars. The first (and only) time I saw PMFS, they were opening for Converge at the Che Cafe. I'm pretty sure this was in 2001 after "Jane Doe" and "Fucking Fight" had just come out. I forgot who else played. The show was sold out, so a small group of us watched the show from an open door to the side of and just behind the stage. We got there a couple of songs into their set, and they were already shirtless and covered in sweat. I was fucking mesmerized. They put everything they had into playing. I was blown away. Later the door man let us inside for the Converge set after a few people left (fools). Converge was equally mind blowing. I had up until then just sort of dismissed the whole metal-core genre as a whole. I listened to punk before I listened to hardcore, not metal. Even though the floor looked more like a fucking martial arts exhibition than a pit, which was a little disconcerting, it was fun. Jacob Bannon is hell of a front man and an amazing artist. He and Gared O'Donnell are my fucking heroes. I interviewed Gared a couple of years ago for Modern Fix after the release of "Up in them Guts." I spoke with him for more than a hour, and transcribed about 6 times more than the magazine's interview format called for. They printed it on a page and a half, and posted the interview in its entirety online. Their online format changed, and I don't think it's online any longer. As soon as I get home I'll post the full interview, and review tonight's show at the Tower Bar in San Diego. I'm still in Riverside, but leave today. I have tomorrow off, and then I'll be working in Orange county for the following week. yay for me.