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The Best Show on WFMU => Mike And His Ilk. => Topic started by: MikeInManhattan on December 09, 2009, 04:37:07 PM

Title: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: MikeInManhattan on December 09, 2009, 04:37:07 PM
FOTs-turned-Disciples-of-Mike (DOMs) are playing a show at Hank's Saloon in Brooklyn, NY this Saturday Dec. 12.

Mike, what can I offer you to MC the show? How can we turn an already sordid night of humble chaos into AP-Mikestock. We have plenty of songs about alienation, dissociative disorders, objectum sexuality. And you can co-host with Frank From Weehawken. Seriously, what will it take, Mike? We'll show Hoarders on the bar TVs, have the DJ play some Dead in between bands.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v211/lambgravy/dec12flyer_v4.jpg)
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: Christina on December 09, 2009, 04:55:11 PM
FOTs-turned-Disciples-of-Mike (DOMs) are playing a show at Hank's Saloon in Brooklyn, NY this Saturday Dec. 12.

Mike, what can I offer you to MC the show? How can we turn an already sordid night of humble chaos into AP-Mikestock.

Calling Mike's fans DOMs is a good start ...
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: B_Buster on December 09, 2009, 05:02:19 PM
Yeah. I'm thinking Disciples of Mike is even better than The Sick Clique. Can you be more specific describing the music I would be hearing? Also, do you really want a middle-aged man standing around at a punk show? I would think not.
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: Smelodies on December 09, 2009, 05:21:50 PM
Can yous play a '73 "Eyes"?
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: MikeInManhattan on December 09, 2009, 05:31:50 PM
Yeah. I'm thinking Disciples of Mike is even better than The Sick Clique. Can you be more specific describing the music I would be hearing? Also, do you really want a middle-aged man standing around at a punk show? I would think not.

Mike, Middle-aged men are our target demographic. Songs about making your kids shovel snow barefoot, making examples out of your friends, Flomax, arguing with your barber, Roth IRAs. Isn't that what growing old is all about?

And you are correct: Family Fun is a bit on the unpolished side. Dirty punk & roll with a touch of John Phillips Sousa. Songs about revenge, pills, sleepover parties of yesteryear.
http://www.myspace.com/familyfunmusic

Mt. Olympus is insane boogie-metal. A parking lot freakout waiting to happen.
http://www.myspace.com/mountainolympus

Any Day Parade is drunken country (drunkry?) from Jersey City with a sultry female voice singing of loss, love, the drinking before, after, during.
http://www.myspace.com/anydayparade

AP-MikeStock - Think of it, Mike - A dopesick, paranoid musical celebration for all the world's shunned and maladjusted.  I'd love to see a flyer on top of some hoarder's trash pile.
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: B_Buster on December 09, 2009, 05:49:17 PM
You're making a good case, Mike.
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on December 09, 2009, 08:46:48 PM

Mt. Olympus is insane boogie-metal. A parking lot freakout waiting to happen.
http://www.myspace.com/mountainolympus

Also, the only band featuring a member of my immediate family on guitar.  Not 100% sure I'll be there (middle-aged-guy-at-a-punk-show issue, busy schedule), but I hear Family Fun's got a bottle of hot sauce for me and I intend to claim it.
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: MikeInManhattan on December 10, 2009, 11:18:21 AM

Mt. Olympus is insane boogie-metal. A parking lot freakout waiting to happen.
http://www.myspace.com/mountainolympus

Also, the only band featuring a member of my immediate family on guitar.  Not 100% sure I'll be there (middle-aged-guy-at-a-punk-show issue, busy schedule), but I hear Family Fun's got a bottle of hot sauce for me and I intend to claim it.

Shaggy,
Your brother shreds like the Nemco Food Equipment Easy Shredder, available for $251.17 online. Seriously, kid is awesome...
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on December 10, 2009, 12:17:25 PM
Yeah, I'm very proud of him.

http://www.richardspectacular.com/ (view with speakers on)

Speaking of the Mike Show, I used to push him around the neighborhood in a stroller, and I once beat a kid up for insulting him.  Actually he wasn't insulted, he was a baby and probably didn't even notice, but the kid made fun of him.
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: B_Buster on December 10, 2009, 12:21:27 PM
I will go if Jason goes! He can help me with my notes for the intros.
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: MikeInManhattan on December 10, 2009, 01:49:16 PM
I will go if Jason goes! He can help me with my notes for the intros.

I'm sure the music alone is fodder enough for notes.  Hosting perks include:
- Bus fare
- A special Hank's beer flight
- A burned CD-R of Terrapin Station autographed by Family Fun and Mt. Olympus
- A copy of Salesman which to me is one of the more depressing movies I've seen in the past few years
- phallic-inspired Japanese candy or the nearest American equivalent
- Limited PeRdition Family Fun brand hot sauce
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: DanFromBrooklyn on December 10, 2009, 01:56:50 PM
I'll be there! I will leave the FOT for the DOM if you come, Mike.
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: B_Buster on December 10, 2009, 02:05:44 PM
If I can get 5 more converts, I will definitely go!
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: B_Buster on December 10, 2009, 05:13:23 PM
Jeez, don't everyone rush in at once! And I thought I was low ballin it by asking for 5 converts.
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on December 10, 2009, 07:48:35 PM
Man, this is tempting.  But I have to do all my grading by Monday.  I'll see what I can get done in the next couple of days.
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: MikeInManhattan on December 10, 2009, 07:50:16 PM
Jeez, don't everyone rush in at once! And I thought I was low ballin it by asking for 5 converts.

Mike, potential converts won't be reading this until 2AM or so, the operating hours for true DOMs.
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: FrankFromWeehawken on December 11, 2009, 11:03:45 AM
Will I have to cut up my FOT card that I got with my Best Show premium this year at the door?
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: B_Buster on December 12, 2009, 11:28:14 AM
There will be no cutting up of FOT cards. FOT and DOM strive for peace and harmony (like Steven Seagal's aikido).

Unfortunately, I can't make it out to Brooklyn tonight, but just remember that wherever two or more are gathered to drink in my name, there I am!
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: Christina on December 12, 2009, 11:45:46 AM
There will be no cutting up of FOT cards. FOT and DOM strive for peace and harmony (like Steven Seagal's aikido).

Unfortunately, I can't make it out to Brooklyn tonight, but just remember that wherever two or more are gathered to drink in my name, there I am!

"Wherever there's a guy sharing a horrible traumatic story with another guy, there I am!"
Title: Re: Family Fun & Mt. Olympus - Music for Mike Show Fans
Post by: MikeInManhattan on December 12, 2009, 01:21:32 PM
Mike, that's too bad, but completely understandable. We'll be sure to dedicate Novelty Tombstone to you, a song already about traumatic childhood experiences. Partly about how one of member of FF was made to shave his dad when he got in trouble. I wish it ended there.

And the plus side is that we'll have more time and prep for a real APMikestock (I did get a copy of the Gabe episode of Intervention just in case so we'll have that on a projector for next time).

Also, I still have Al Goldstein in my phone for a strange reason. A live Q&A panel, maybe?