Top Of The World, Ma!

Coming up on this weekends show (if I can speak, sing or even breathe):

• The Morbid Tabernacle Choir (it'll get finished some day)
• A Triple X version of West Side Story
• A song that was featured on a NATIONAL RADIO SHOW

Folks,

I'm still rattling around at death's door here which is a shame because most of my ideas in the last couple of weeks have been musical. For example, on Tuesday, I stayed home sick and listened to Penn Jillette's radio show over the computer. www.pennradio.com and they were talking about Lisa Marie Nowak, the astronaut who drove 900 miles in an adult diaper to confront the girlfriend of the man she had a thing for.

Penn began wondering what she listened to on the drive and then Penn had the idea that there ought to be a pop song encouraging people to NOT to do anything crazy which is the opposite of the other do something crazy songs like I Want You, Crazy, 500 miles, etc. So I wrote one.

I wrote the lyrics and emailed them asking if they wanted to actually hear the song then I went back to sleep. Remember I'm sick as hell over here. I checked my email right before I was going back to sleep around 11:00PM and there was an email from Michael Goudeau, Penn's radio sidekick saying I should send the MP3 along.

This meant actually recording it, rather in haste, half asleep and sounding like Dylan. Which I did and sent in, somewhat sheepishly, figuring they'd not waste the time to go back to yesterday's show. But they did.

They not only practically opened the show talking about the song but then they couldn't play it right away so it didn't actually get played till half way through the show at about the 21 minute mark and then they mispronounced my name and didn't plug my website.

Still, they liked it and Penn Jillette has officially laughed at my jokes. Which is nice. You can check it out here: http://podcast.penn.freefm.com/penn/181197.mp3 The song is at about the 21 minute mark but the whole show is good and they mention me not by name a whole lot early on in a way that caused me great anxiety.

If I get my voice back, I might just record a fresher version of the song for y'all for this weekend.