The Internet.  Am I right?  Anyway, I have a cold and was trying to fix some stuff under the hood of this website and accidentally deleted a whole bunch of posts on this blog, pretty much everything from the last three months, in the process.  I am hoping to recover this info somehow.  It’s gotta be somewhere, right?  Right?!  Ugh.  Hopefully I’ll find all of it or at least repost most of it here as I continue to remember what I deleted.  In the meantime, please come see me in London on November 20 at Kings Place and listen to my incredible podcast.  Okay, I am going to do drink some Robitussin or something now. The Internet- she is cruel, no?

Love,
Dave Hill

Attention People of London:

Cancel all your plans because I am coming to your town to perform an entire hour of various seriously entertaining things on November 20 at Kings Place, which is totally a place in your town and I just checked. If you have ever wanted to be in a dark room and listen to me talk, sing, dance, read, and do other stuff that will totally make you want to have intercourse with me for a seriously long time, you have just hit the jackpot because that is pretty much the deal with this show I am doing. As if all that is not enough, the great Romesh Ranganathan will be doing an hour of stellar comedy either immediately before or after me (I’m not sure who’s on first- probably me since I’ll be the foreigner). You can get tickets right here and you should or I will f#$king lose my mind. Seriously come to this show and if you don’t have a great time you can push me into the Thames with all my clothes on or maybe even while wearing absolutely nothing at all. How’s that for a deal? I know, right? Anyway, be there or else I don’t even know what.

Love,
Dave Hill

Hi. How are you? I’m really great. Thanks for asking. Anyway, recently I made some videos with my friends Miles Kahn and Meredith Scardino. The videos are parodies of the popular Match.com commmercials that are on the television. You can get a taste of things by watching the video above and then seem them all right here. Okay, thanks.

Love,
Dave Hill

That’s right, the 29th episode of my incredible podcast is here. Deal with it. Get ready to have your ass handed to you by me and show business’ Jon Benjamin (whom you no doubt know from such programs as the incredible “Jon Benjamin Has a Van,” “Archer,” “Bob’s Burgers,” and a ton of other films and programs besides those) as we discuss topics including but not limited to dildos, tennis, and a mysterious man named Ronnie. You can listen to the whole thing right here. Thanks. That would be so great.

Still street,
Dave Hill

Dave Hill at Fashion Week from Put This On on Vimeo.

Hi. How are you? I’m just plain electric. Thanks so much for asking. Anyway, I have recently appeared in two incredible Internet videos and I wanted to tell you about them here on my website, which in turn is also on the Internet (stay with me!). The first one is my coverage of the most recent New York Fashion Week for Jesse Thorn’s excellent web series “Put This On,” which should be on television if you ask me because it is great and also I am on it, which makes it even greater. You can watch the video above. As usual, I pretty much hit it out of the park.

The other video I am totally in is by the Diamonds Wow! sketch group, who wrote a funny parody of Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” and then totally asked me to sing it and be in the video they made for it. I hope you like it so much. I take my shirt off too. In short, it pretty much has everything.

Have an unstoppable day,
Dave Hill

A couple days ago, I got word that retired Cleveland music critic Jane Scott died. It was sad to hear, but- making it to 92- she had a nice long life. Jane became a rock critic at the age of 45 and kept on doing it until she was 83. It was always great to run into her at shows back in Cleveland. She had seen and interviewed pretty much every band ever, from the Beatles to Cannibal Corpse. I remember her telling me a great story at a party once about watching the first lunar landing with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Holy shit I was jealous. And Jane was one of the first journalists I ever did an interview with. There’s a great writeup about Jane in the New York Times here and in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, her old employer, here. You can try to be as cool as Jane, but you won’t be. She was a total badass.

Dave Hill

Every so often here on my blogs, I like to recommend things I’ve been enjoying lately to other people, like you, the reader, for example. Today is one of those days.
The first thing I wanted to mention is the new Bob Mould book “SEE A LITTLE LIGHT: The Trail of Rage and Melody.” As a longtime fan of Bob’s music (Husker Du, Sugar, solo albums, other stuff), I had been looking forward to reading this book ever since I heard he was writing it. And it totally delivered, covering topics including but not limited to punk rock, professional wrestling, and military porn. In short, it pretty much has everything. Here is a nice writeup in New York Magazine and above is a cool interview he did recently with the Wall Street Journal music dude. Buy Bob’s book. If you don’t like it, you can kick me in the nuts. Go buy all his records too if you don’t have them already. What is your problem?

Another thing I have been totally into lately is Ghost, a great band from Sweden that sounds like Mercyful Fate, Blue Oyster Cult, and themselves. They mention Satan a lot in their lyrics, a good rock move if you can squeeze it in. Also, the singer dresses up as a Satanic pope of sorts, which is always a nice touch. I’m really bummed I didn’t think of that. So much for being an ideas man. Anyway, above is a video of “Ghost” playing their song “Ritual” from their debut “Opus Eponymous.” I like these guys so much I am thinking of buying a T-shirt.

Dave Hill

Attention Rock People:

Hello. This is your man Dave Hill. As many of you know, in addition to my incredible show business exploits, I am also one of the greatest rock people of all-time. In keeping with this tradition, my incredible rock band Valley Lodge will be unleashing the fury on everyone who shows up next Friday, June 17 at the Mercury Lounge, the popular rock club, at 9:30pm, which is when the show starts. We have not played a show in a long time and we have been practicing scales and stuff ever since the last one, so you can pretty much bet that the amount of heat we will be bringing will be extreme in nature. Also, I got a new axe (i.e. guitar), which is great for me, and my pants are tighter than anyone in the medical community would ever recommend. As if all of that is not enough, we will totally be playing with two other great bands, .357 Lover (featuring the great Corn Mo on lead throat) and Gowanus (named after the river, I think). Most bands suck but my band and the other two I just mentioned are awesome and chicks want to make out with us, like, a lot. Ask anyone. I really hope you can make it because we will be playing all the hits and we are even on iTunes, which is for champions. Also, we are going to be on an all-new episode of MTV’s “Beavis and Butthead” this fall and I am not even making this up. So there. Deal with it. Anyway, you can get tickets and more info on everything I was just talking about right here.

Still street,
Dave Hill, rock-capable person

On this, the 26th episode of my incredible podcast, I go toe-to-toe with actor, writer, model, musician, and general man-about-town Michael Cavadias, whom you no doubt know as the dude dressed up like a woman and hanging out with Robert Downey Jr. in the hit movie “Wonder Boys” and also as a member of the NYC cabaret collective the Citizens Band. Cancel everything and listen closely as Michael and I argue about everything from the hit movie “Wonder Boys” to Reaganomics and some of the stuff that is between those two things. You can listen to the whole thing right here.

Love,
Dave Hill

Hi. How are you? I’m really great. Thanks for asking. Anyway, if you would like to read an interview with me, Dave Hill, then you have just hit Easy Street because recently I was interviewed by the great Giancarlo Ditrapano for Vice. You can read the whole thing right here to get greater insight into me, my universe, and my overall bangability. I hope you enjoy it so much.

Dave Hill