I got super sick for most of 07 and the beginning of 08. I have a weird muscle-wasting disease

Drugs now control that, but I had to have surgery AND Vicodin and everything! Although Vicodin isn’t as fun as I remember, it’s actually needed when you need it. But that sorta put a cramp in my style, I had just finished producing a record, touring with my own band, I had an essay (of all things) inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, and I had a super big photography show that was on the cover of our local paper. When everything settled down, I noticed a pain in my bladder, and I ignored it; it lasted for three weeks. I went to the doctor, said I thought I had a bladder infection, and he tested me, but there was no infection. Then I was like, this is weird, I have this super bad pain (which, well, pain is just pain, I don’t think that much of it), and he was like, “get thee to an MRI,” and bang, I was classified as a sick person. They gave me drugs that needed other drugs to counteract the drugs. I played a lot of World of Warcraft 🙂 But anyway, I am super on the mend, everything is really good, I didn’t lose any organs, I am back playing tennis and being a sick spaz.

The gateway summer event this year was not Coachella, as it has been every other year; it was The Gods of Thunder, the Kiss tribute band, playing at Santa Fe Swap Meet. My review of the show is that, although they played at 12 PM, 3 PM, and 6 PM, we saw the 3 PM show but missed the 6 PM because I became fascinated by the number of Kat Von D posters (all in Spanish) you can buy at the swap meet. I went around and photographed all of them, but my iPhone erased them. Attending the event were my LA Turbojugend sisters and brothers: Kami, Joan of Ass, my big sister X Lord, Adam, Carly, Ronnie James, and Chuck. The summer closed with Summer Camp West, which is a 6 week every sunday pool party event at my house, hosted by my roommate Pesci In between was just a whole lot of metal; Judas Priest live on Jimmy Kimmel (Rock in the Parking Lot on Hollywood and Highland), Iron Maiden at the Forum, Ace Frehley (the member of Kiss) at House of Blues, Nick Cave at the Hollywood Bowl, Tony Slug in Long Beach, the Lads 25 year reunion, Desert Hot Springs, trips to Magic Mountain for roller coaster raging and thrown in for good measure lots of trips to the aquarium and zoo.