As I am sure you all must know....me and Miss Pussycat got out.....most of our instruments were also evacuated, but the entire electronics lab was destroyed and many Pussycat paintings and puppets were also lost. Also, the house (SPELLCASTER LODGE) is questionable.......the front gable blew off and the whole downstairs (the LODGE) was REALLY the underwater dance club for about 3-4 days. Unfortunately the only things dancing were dead animals, benzine, E-coli, fire ants, and human feces........Our entire building structure being condemned is a real possibility. The good news is that as far as I know all Rhinestone Records Krewe are ok......Trachiotomy rode it out along with Strangebone (Jeff Matson), DJ Math Problem (Brian Marchese), Mikey Serabrini, Danger Dan Fusilier (famous painter of Mother in Law), Jamie & Raven, and many others. Antoinette K-Doe (of the MOTHER IN LAW LOUNGE) also stayed and survived but her lounge saw even deeper water than the Lodge. I know that many of you are having various benefits and you should send your money to any place that makes the most sense to you....if you are donating directly to the Lodge please know that the $ will go to replace equiptment and to re-build the Spellcaster because we have no insurance of any kind. It will also go to keep the show on the road for many of the above mentioned Hurricane heroes. The reason I am writing this is because I have been asked by benefit organizers to explain somehow what is happening and where the benefit funds for Rhinestone Records will go.......so, that is my explaination about money........as far as what is happening.......i don't know what the fuck is happening.....this is biblical and it is breaking my heart to see New Orleans burnt, flooded, neglected, ethnically cleansed, and basically shoved underwater to drown........but we can breath underwater baby. Cajun Atlantis has just begun to emerge and the moment those fuckers let us back in the gates, we are going straight to the gun store and then to the boat bar for all the free drinks we can drink. Thank you all for everything........WE LOVE YOU!...............sincerely, Mr.Q and all of Rhinestone Records
In other news, i will be in Seattle this weekend, am flying to Chicago next
wednesday for about a week or so and will eventually end up in memphis
for the GonerFest on the weekend of the 25th of September...i don't really
know what i'm gonna do from there but i will probably hook up with my
old carpentry boss and get back down to NOLA as soon as they open
the doors to the motherfucker...all im bringing are my tools and a bag of
clothes all my records and shit are staying up here in portland...probably
gonna look into getting some disease immunizations while in Chicago too
...it just doesn't make any sense to me to sit up here and flip fucking
hamburgerswhen the only place i've ever felt at home in is totally shattered...
and anyone who's giving up on this is a fucking PUSSY...
new orleans will always be new orleans no matter what it looks like
and the only thing thats gonna make it change is if the people that give it it's character decide to bail right now. oh yeah...we also raised eleven hundred
bucks the other night at our hurricane benefit up here for the goner fund.
See ya at the gun store.
angele [email] said at 12:26 PM 09-07-2005: Thanks. All this matters to me. And as far as pussies go, ART BOONPARN!!! Yer a pussy for bailing and moving to NY!!! Gooko Suave... More like Gooko Su-disloyal-moving-to-NY-guy!!!
I can't wait til New Orleans is open again. I'm going to cling to that place like a barnacle from now on.
mattmuscle said at 3:34 PM 09-07-2005: no way man...
art hung in like a champ!
after partying with king louie he
shacked up in the american can company lofts
and had to be rescued by a helicopter!
angele [email] said at 3:42 PM 09-07-2005: Wow
I had no idea.
I did not hear this incredible story. All I got was a text message saying "God don't want me yet, mate" last Saturday while I was at the Lakeside Lounge... Which made me very happy. Then, T-shirt Tony griped that he's bailing from his job at Absurditee in order to join the ranks of other expatriots in NY....
T-ShirtTony said at 6:42 AM 02-05-2006: Angele! What the FUCK? What is this utter bullshit? How dare you take the word of that bastard over mine. You are seriously on my shit list, along with Ben for not setting the story straight. Art and Louie smoked crack in my office the saturday night before Katrina and still was NOT fired. He told me he QUIT in order to become a 'junkie rock star ala Johnny Thunders' in New York. I have 26 cents to my name and have lost my home and business and due to fucko's incompitence and laziness and failure to keep the bookwork straight I am unable to receive any help from the gov.
So before passing judgement on me and feeling sorry for that idiot, let it be known that he was still high and drunk from a fifth of Knob Creek that he and Louie stole from me and laughing and joking about Charlie's inability to surf while he was being 'rescued' from American Can Co. Meanwhile, I have to borrow cash from family and friends in order to eat.
By my latest estimates he owes me at least $30,000.00 for penalties and fees(not including all of the lost business caused by his stupidity and coke addiction and all of the free stuff he gave away to his little friends and all of the free orders he let others do for thier crappy bands, and all of the hundreds of misprinted and reprinted items due to his apathy). I would have phoned you about this matter only I lost my phone service due to him as well. I started that business with $12 in my pocket when I was young and able and worked many years to build it up only to have it pissed away by some spoiled rich kid. How about some help instead of ridicule? - T-Sirt Tony
laura [email] said at 10:25 PM 09-07-2005: Hooray for Swampy Goodness in NYC soon...
Sat NOV 12 - BROOKLYN, NY @ venue tba
Sun NOV 13 - NEW YORK CITY @ Mercury Lounge w/ An Albatross
