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Posted on 14th October 2008
Attention People of New York City:
Hello. This is your man Dave Hill with something you will never see coming. I am doing my seriously good Dave Hill Explosion show again. I know, I know- just let that sink in for a second. Okay, now let’s keep moving. Anyway, the Explosion I make reference to is happening THIS THURSDAY, October 16, at 9:30pm at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, the same place I pretty much always do it but for purposes of clarity I am mentioning here all over again as is my wont. As I sit here this morning, half-cocked on gimlets, reeking of camphor, and covered from head to toe in duct tape residue, I am reminded that sometimes in life you just have to go for it, which is exactly what I intend to do this Thursday when I explode like a motherf#@ker at my explosive Explosion show. Talk about good times- I have pretty much nailed it this time around, so much in fact that this Explosion is going to make all the other ones look like I was just practicing, not unlike a great Samurai warrior (a kind of warrior that practiced warrior stuff all the time until he was so good at being a warrior that it was actually kind of ridiculous). The Samurai felt that the path of the warrior was one of honor and I simply could not agree more. That is still not going to stop me from taking my shirt off during my show though. You paid five bucks- you deserve a show. Anyway, I really hope you can make it this Thursday. Joining me on the show for a record third time is none other than musician, DJ, and tea magnate Moby as well as singer/songwriter/rock warrior Walter Schreifels, whom you no doubt know from such legendary New York bands as Gorilla Biscuits, Youth of Today, Quicksand, Rival Schools, Walking Concert and probably some other bands I do not even know about. Filling in for my irreplaceable and irascible sibebitch Phil, who is away fulfilling community service hours but will be back soon unless the DA can come up with the prints, will be Mr. Doug Gillard, whom you no doubt know from the popular rock band Guided by Voices. All of this for just five bucks and whatever falls out of your pockets. You can get tickets right here.
Love,
Dave Hill
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Posted on 11th October 2008
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Posted on 8th October 2008
Hi there,
This is your man Dave Hill writing to remind you one last time that if you are into seeing/hearing three slightly older yet highly boneable guys play loud and rocking rock music, then you have just hit a street called Easy because TONIGHT at 7:30ishpm at the Mercury Lounge my rocking rock band Valley Lodge will be rocking you, rocking you so much, like a gentle embrace and a bit of the rough stuff all rolled into one and making you seriously think about calling in sick to work tomorrow and/or asking your roommate not to come home tonight because you really need the place all to yourself (for intercourse!). And just in case you are not entirely convinced of my band’s unstoppable unstoppability by what I have to say here in these e-mails, check out this music blog that calls our debut album one of the TOP 5 Power Pop albums of all-time. Normally I like to call bullsh*t on anything anyone says on the Internet, but since the rest of the picks on this list are completely reasonable, I am inclined to think this writer is entirely correct and that our debut album is in fact perfect. Anyway, I really hope you can make it tonight. There is another great band called Stuyvesant going on before us at 6:30pmish. Come out tonight and do your part in making Thursday (the new Friday) Wednesday’s bitch. Tonight is Wednesday though, just to clarify.
Love,
Dave Hill
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Posted on 3rd October 2008
Hi there. Recently I made some videos for the Sundance Channel on how to vote in the upcoming election. The first video is above. The rest you can see right here. I hope you enjoy them. The one thing missing from these videos though is the part where I tell you to vote for Barack Obama, so I am telling you now: Vote for Barack Obama or I will stab you and me.
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Posted on 2nd October 2008
Here is another excitement installation of my ongoing web-type thing I have been doing for New York Magazine. This time around I am riding the elevator with Mister Steve Guttenberg, one of the nicest and fun-to-be-around show business professionals I have ever met. I hope you enjoy it a whole bunch.
In other news, my friend Carolyn Monastra is an excellent photographer and now she totally has a website. Go look at it right now or I will freak out. She took the picture above. I can’t believe no one yelled at that girl for messing up the course like that.
Dave Hill
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Posted on 2nd October 2008
Attention People of New York City:
Watch out for your nuts and/or general private region because this Wednesday, October 8 at 7:30pm (with some wiggle room), my f#@kin’ rock band Valley Lodge is gonna be f@%kin’ rocking and stuff at the Mercury Lounge over there on Houston. This is an early show so as to leave time for hanging and banging with the band and stuff after the rock show, which is awesome. Of particular excitement this time around is the fact that this show vaguely corresponds with the release of our first album in Japan, something I am not even making up. You can find evidence of the whole thing right here, like, for real. As you can probably imagine, we (meaning my f#%kin’ rock band Valley Lodge) are considered geniuses in Japan. We are also considered to be pretty tall over there, a joke referencing the disparity between average adult male heights in the United States and Japan (5’10” and 5’7” respectively). Speaking of our Japanese invasion, the photo above is of the cover of our Japanese album. We decided to have a half-naked chick on the cover for this version because the odds of my mom ever seeing it are pretty slim so I figured we might as well go for it. Am I right or am I right? If someone would have told the 13 year-old me that one day I would be in a rock band that has an album out in Japan with a half-naked chick on the cover I would have told them to get out of the basement. Then I would get back to trying to descramble the pay channels on the cable box. Speaking of which, I remember one weekend the cable company gave everyone free Showtime for the weekend and they played “Body Heat” like five times. It was awesome. Lawrence Kasdan’s first directorial effort is a throwback to the early days of film noir. The scene is a beastly hot Florida coastal town, where naive attorney Ned (William Hurt) is entranced by the alluring Matty (Kathleen Turner in her film debut). Ned is manipulated into killing Matty’s much older husband (Richard Crenna), the plan being that Ned’s knowledge of legal matters will enable both conspirators to escape scott-free. This might have been the case, had not Matty been infinitely craftier than the cloddish Ned. Just when it seems as though the film has run out of plot twists, we’re handed yet another surprise.
Anyway, I really hope you can make it to the show next week. We are seriously good at rocking. You can hear it for yourself right here. Also, another excellent band is playing right before us at 6:30ish. They are called Stuyvesant and are all the way from New Jersey. Why not make a night of it? If everything goes as planned you could make it home in time for your programs. And if you come to the show and don’t have a nice time you can wind up and kick me in the nuts. F it.
Heading out to the highway,
Dave Hill
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Posted on 1st October 2008
Sometimes when I’m feeling down, all I need to do is watch Yngwie J. Malmsteen do a little shredding and suddenly everything is back in perspective. If I could play like him I would probably never leave the house. But if I had hair like him I would leave the house as much as possible. That’s not the sort of hair you keep to yourself. It says it right there in the Bible.
