Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Ongoing Drama of Mikey Pump...
Sweethearts!
I am much too lazy to tell you of the most recent Mikey Pump debacle here, but you can read all about it on my MySpace blog.
Click Here to go to our page and then select: Mikey Pump Tragedy: The Bed of Beer, third box down in the right column.
It's true dolls: He did it again!
Stay Fabulous!
Miss Billy XOXOXOX
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Does Anybody Actually Read This Thing????
Hey Sugar Babies!
Seeing that I promised to post to this blog more often, I was sitting here wondering what to write when I had a thought... Does anybody actually read this thing? And while I'm at it... Does anybody actually visit the bezillion web sites I've put up to promote the band? I mean, seriously, with two blogs and about 8 band related web sites going on, I've come to a single conclusion. NOTE TO SELF: Get a life!
Seriously, while the internet is a magnificent invention, it is not without it's hindrances. Only moments ago, while involved in this wretched blogging adventure, I smelled something burning... dinner! And that's most certainly not the worst of it. There's the flat-ass-hunched-over-bleary-eyed-smoke-a-pack-of-cigarettes-an-hour side to the whole thing as well. Daaaarlings, I'm a positive wreck!
Well, I shouldn't complain as I have a band... a truly wonderful group of guys who I absolutely adore working with. To be honest, cupcakes, I'm gleefully giddy over my current situation. Todd, Mikey and Mikelvan totally rock! You clearly MUST come to our next show and see for yourself... Friday, November 7th on the Land Rover Stage near the intersection of Casino Center and Colorado. There is a $2 admission charge and we are on from 7pm to 7:45pm.
After that we'll most likely stop over at 3rd Street Revolution Gallery as it is that wacky-artist-musician guy, Lee Orona's, birthday! Hope to see you all. Until then,
Stay Fabulous!
Miss Billy XOXOXOXO
Seeing that I promised to post to this blog more often, I was sitting here wondering what to write when I had a thought... Does anybody actually read this thing? And while I'm at it... Does anybody actually visit the bezillion web sites I've put up to promote the band? I mean, seriously, with two blogs and about 8 band related web sites going on, I've come to a single conclusion. NOTE TO SELF: Get a life!
Seriously, while the internet is a magnificent invention, it is not without it's hindrances. Only moments ago, while involved in this wretched blogging adventure, I smelled something burning... dinner! And that's most certainly not the worst of it. There's the flat-ass-hunched-over-bleary-eyed-smoke-a-pack-of-cigarettes-an-hour side to the whole thing as well. Daaaarlings, I'm a positive wreck!
Well, I shouldn't complain as I have a band... a truly wonderful group of guys who I absolutely adore working with. To be honest, cupcakes, I'm gleefully giddy over my current situation. Todd, Mikey and Mikelvan totally rock! You clearly MUST come to our next show and see for yourself... Friday, November 7th on the Land Rover Stage near the intersection of Casino Center and Colorado. There is a $2 admission charge and we are on from 7pm to 7:45pm.
After that we'll most likely stop over at 3rd Street Revolution Gallery as it is that wacky-artist-musician guy, Lee Orona's, birthday! Hope to see you all. Until then,
Stay Fabulous!
Miss Billy XOXOXOXO
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Ooooh Babies... Into S&M?
Good Morning, Love Muffins!
When all else fails, darlings, it appears bribery becomes my final alternative... and so I do what I must!
If you're into S&M... and honestly who isn't these days?... your whip (I mean ship) has come in. I've just loaded our Fan Exclusive song, "It's So Romantic," into our ReverbNation player. And what that means is, if you're not a fan, you can't hear it. But fret not, dumplings, it's easy to become a fan. All you have to do is visit our band profile on ReverbNation, join the mailing list or become a fan and... Voila! You're in for an audio spanking!
Now Mikey Pump is positively horrified that I would make, "It's So Romantic," available for anybody to hear. He maintains that it is rather sloppy and somewhat ill-arranged. Now for the most part, I agree with that. It is an older song written in a style that we are not known for. But... and I do mean a big butt... I maintain Mikey doesn't want you to hear this song because, lyrically, it is much too revealing... hmmmm?
So bend over, Babies, and as always,
Stay Fabulous!
Miss Billy XOXOXOXO
When all else fails, darlings, it appears bribery becomes my final alternative... and so I do what I must!
If you're into S&M... and honestly who isn't these days?... your whip (I mean ship) has come in. I've just loaded our Fan Exclusive song, "It's So Romantic," into our ReverbNation player. And what that means is, if you're not a fan, you can't hear it. But fret not, dumplings, it's easy to become a fan. All you have to do is visit our band profile on ReverbNation, join the mailing list or become a fan and... Voila! You're in for an audio spanking!
Now Mikey Pump is positively horrified that I would make, "It's So Romantic," available for anybody to hear. He maintains that it is rather sloppy and somewhat ill-arranged. Now for the most part, I agree with that. It is an older song written in a style that we are not known for. But... and I do mean a big butt... I maintain Mikey doesn't want you to hear this song because, lyrically, it is much too revealing... hmmmm?
So bend over, Babies, and as always,
Stay Fabulous!
Miss Billy XOXOXOXO
Friday, October 24, 2008
A Little Favor, Honey-Pies?
Daaaarling Ones!
Alas it is with great hope that I ask you this teeny-tiny favor. Please sign up for our mailing list! Just imagine the pride you will feel when you say to your friends, "I'm on the Billy Dare & The Pumps Mailing List!" They will positively chortle with glee and say..., "Who cares?" But, dumplings, that is not the point. The point is that we moved up from 29 slots overnight on the ReverbNation comedy act charts (from #90 to #61) and YOU can help us go higher. Now, I realize these are not the Billboard Charts. On the contrary, these charts basically monitor the success of the band's internet marketing campaign. It takes into consideration how many people visit our various web sites, how many listen to our songs, how many buy our music and how many sign up for our mailing list, ranking our efforts among other like-acts... and dammit... I want to be #1! So if you'd just take a second and enter your email address into the Join Our Mailing List Box in the column to the left, I PROMISE you will receive nothing more than the band newsletter every month or so... and my devotion.
Have wonderful weekend and, as always,
Stay Fabulous!
Miss Billy XOXOXOXO
Alas it is with great hope that I ask you this teeny-tiny favor. Please sign up for our mailing list! Just imagine the pride you will feel when you say to your friends, "I'm on the Billy Dare & The Pumps Mailing List!" They will positively chortle with glee and say..., "Who cares?" But, dumplings, that is not the point. The point is that we moved up from 29 slots overnight on the ReverbNation comedy act charts (from #90 to #61) and YOU can help us go higher. Now, I realize these are not the Billboard Charts. On the contrary, these charts basically monitor the success of the band's internet marketing campaign. It takes into consideration how many people visit our various web sites, how many listen to our songs, how many buy our music and how many sign up for our mailing list, ranking our efforts among other like-acts... and dammit... I want to be #1! So if you'd just take a second and enter your email address into the Join Our Mailing List Box in the column to the left, I PROMISE you will receive nothing more than the band newsletter every month or so... and my devotion.
Have wonderful weekend and, as always,
Stay Fabulous!
Miss Billy XOXOXOXO
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
It's Like Potato Salad...
Oy Vey, Cupcakes! I have waaaaaaaaaay too many blogs and web sites going! I have the band blog at: http://myspace.com/billydarethepumps and this one, plus ALL of the web sites! Now I am not exactly sure why I am the one in the band who is responsible for internet promotions. Certainly I'm not technologically gifted, nor do I particularly enjoy working in the cyberspace medium, but such is my lot in life... and it all came about much like it did when I became the official potato salad person at every freakin' family function.
It began when my now deceased Aunt Millie (who had always been the official potato salad person), cleverly crafted the ultimate deception when I asked her for her recipe. I suppose, in retrospect, I should have been suspect of both her eagerness to share her recipe as well as her insistence upon showing me how to prepare it... but I was young and naive. So, with quite a bit of fanfare, I got together with my Aunt Millie to learn the "secret" recipe. Shortly into the preparation, I realized there was no "secret" at all... it was just potato salad. But by that point the transition of responsibility had shifted. From that point onward, Aunt Millie was off the hook and I became the extended family's potato salad bitch.
Now you've all heard the phrase, "Do it to me once, shame on you. Do it to me twice, shame on me," haven't you? Well, what follows that? Do it to me three times and I'm a freakin' imbecile? If so, I'm a freakin' imbecile! You think I would have learned with the potato salad, but NO! Next came the jello shots. It began quite innocently. I was having a little soiree and thought it might be fun to offer jello shots to the guests. I'd never made, nor do I like, jello shots, but what the hell? It seemed like a good idea at the time.
So (and here is where I must warn that you can never be too careful in precedent-setting activities) I asked Miss Kathy to bring the jello shots... which she did. Well, honey-pies, everybody positively LOVED them! With each chortle of, "These are divine!," I would respond, "Miss Kathy made them." Unfortunately nobody seemed to hear that part. We were, after all, at MY soiree and... well, you get the idea... from the family potato salad bitch, I've become the official bringer of jello shots to every social gala, soiree and what-not.
Seriously babies, how many animals must sacrifice their hooves so our set can enjoy their vodka in gelatinous technicolor? Alas, as it happened with the potato salad and the jello shots, I am now the band's internet bitch!
Stay Fabulous!
Miss Billy XOXOXO
It began when my now deceased Aunt Millie (who had always been the official potato salad person), cleverly crafted the ultimate deception when I asked her for her recipe. I suppose, in retrospect, I should have been suspect of both her eagerness to share her recipe as well as her insistence upon showing me how to prepare it... but I was young and naive. So, with quite a bit of fanfare, I got together with my Aunt Millie to learn the "secret" recipe. Shortly into the preparation, I realized there was no "secret" at all... it was just potato salad. But by that point the transition of responsibility had shifted. From that point onward, Aunt Millie was off the hook and I became the extended family's potato salad bitch.
Now you've all heard the phrase, "Do it to me once, shame on you. Do it to me twice, shame on me," haven't you? Well, what follows that? Do it to me three times and I'm a freakin' imbecile? If so, I'm a freakin' imbecile! You think I would have learned with the potato salad, but NO! Next came the jello shots. It began quite innocently. I was having a little soiree and thought it might be fun to offer jello shots to the guests. I'd never made, nor do I like, jello shots, but what the hell? It seemed like a good idea at the time.
So (and here is where I must warn that you can never be too careful in precedent-setting activities) I asked Miss Kathy to bring the jello shots... which she did. Well, honey-pies, everybody positively LOVED them! With each chortle of, "These are divine!," I would respond, "Miss Kathy made them." Unfortunately nobody seemed to hear that part. We were, after all, at MY soiree and... well, you get the idea... from the family potato salad bitch, I've become the official bringer of jello shots to every social gala, soiree and what-not.
Seriously babies, how many animals must sacrifice their hooves so our set can enjoy their vodka in gelatinous technicolor? Alas, as it happened with the potato salad and the jello shots, I am now the band's internet bitch!
Stay Fabulous!
Miss Billy XOXOXO
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
It's All About Mikey!
Daaaarlings!
Horror of all horrors! Just when I thought I'd found the PERFECT magazine diet... which I followed to the letter for three days, mind you... I hop on the scale this morning and gained three pounds! Think about it... three pounds in three days. If I stayed on it for a year, I'd gain 365 pounds! Clearly this diet was a viscous hoax engineered by snarly, thin girls who wanted to ensure that there would be no competition for the Size 2's on the retail rack. But seriously, muffins, I am soooooo mad!
Meanwhile, band practice has come to a grinding halt. Several months ago, when absolutely nothing spectacular was happening with the band, Mikey Pump planned a trip to visit relatives in the east. Well, I dropped him off at McCarren at the crack of dawn today and just received a text that he's landed safely. So I'm totally stressed because we have a gig coming up on November 7th and will be sans bass player for a week.
Aha! Maybe that's why I gained the three pounds... it's stress weight! Maybe there is no snarly, thin girl conspiracy! Maybe Mikey Pump is the mastermind behind this whole thing! Yeah, that's it. It's all about Mikey!
Stay Fabulous!
Miss Billy XOXOXO
Horror of all horrors! Just when I thought I'd found the PERFECT magazine diet... which I followed to the letter for three days, mind you... I hop on the scale this morning and gained three pounds! Think about it... three pounds in three days. If I stayed on it for a year, I'd gain 365 pounds! Clearly this diet was a viscous hoax engineered by snarly, thin girls who wanted to ensure that there would be no competition for the Size 2's on the retail rack. But seriously, muffins, I am soooooo mad!
Meanwhile, band practice has come to a grinding halt. Several months ago, when absolutely nothing spectacular was happening with the band, Mikey Pump planned a trip to visit relatives in the east. Well, I dropped him off at McCarren at the crack of dawn today and just received a text that he's landed safely. So I'm totally stressed because we have a gig coming up on November 7th and will be sans bass player for a week.
Aha! Maybe that's why I gained the three pounds... it's stress weight! Maybe there is no snarly, thin girl conspiracy! Maybe Mikey Pump is the mastermind behind this whole thing! Yeah, that's it. It's all about Mikey!
Stay Fabulous!
Miss Billy XOXOXO
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Wherever have I been?
Mikelvan -- Our New & Marvelous Drummer!
Ah My Precious Ones!
I realize it has been absolutely forever since I've written, but I've been soooooo busy. You see, in an effort to become more fit, I've taken up social climbing! From a former star of Minsky's burlesque theatre to the Queen of England's florist -- ok, perhaps the Queen herself would have been more or a coups -- I've been meeting the most fabulous people lately. But perhaps the most delightful of my most recent encounters is our new drummer, Mikelvan! Alas, baby-dolls, we are once a four-piece again and doors are opening left and right. So all is divine in Miss Billyville!
We've got a big show coming up on Friday, November 7th on the Land Rover Stage, located near the corner of Casino Center & Colorado in the Las Vegas Dowtown Art District. It is an outdoor venue and is being sponsored by the First Friday Organization. We are doing a short set from 7pm to 7:45pm. Admission to First Friday is a mere $2, so don't get cheap on me, cupcakes! Apparently they are expecting in excess of 7000 people which should be cool... or at the very least crowded.
Mostly I've been in a promotional frenzy, setting up web sites and online stores and all sorts of things to promote the band. Fortunately my efforts seem to be paying off... which makes the endless hours I've spent sitting on my ass in front of the computer somewhat more tolerable. So here are some links to the new sites:
Billy Dare & The Pumps: This is our main site and it's completely updated. We've added music, an online store and more.
Billy Dare & The Pumps MySpace Page: On this site you can listen to our songs, buy our songs, read my other blog and become our friend!
Billy Dare & The Pumps ReverbNation Page: Sign up for our mailing list here or join our street team, listen to and buy music... whatever... just more shameless promotion.
So angels... that's pretty much what's been up these days. I positively promise I will write more often... at least for a while. Until next time,
Stay Fabulous!
Miss Billy XOXOXO
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