Come out this Thursday and a video by my friend Lydia Brownfield

Hey all, come out to Fontana's Thursday night for SMARTASS rock trivia. There is happy hour for the first hour and apparently the bar is springin' for some FREE pizza! Dinner and a show for WAY cheap! You can't beat it with a scarf covered mic stand.

This is a song about our friend Prentiss who is fighting breast cancer, successfully I'm told, down in Houston this next month. Prentiss is a photographer I went to school with at Portfolio Center, she is the closest thing to a sister I have, next to Lydia, and I love them very much and am sending awesome vibes out to Prentiss for her brave struggle. She never gets down and is one of the most positive people I have ever met. She is my heroine and I pray she beats this thing and stays around for a long while.

I'm sure she will.

This is a song Lydia wrote for her and it's awesome.

We're BACK!

Quick note to let you know SMARTASS is back on! Thursday nights at Fontana's in the LES form 7-9pm, come compete for bar tabs! If anyone is interested in guest DJing, do let me know! More later!

Smartass on hiatus for now.

Yes, I overstepped, as I am wont to do from time to time. After some much needed time away from NYC (a whole MONTH), the game was annexed to other more available hosts by the club.

At least they agreed not to use the name. Still sorta stings after working hard for a couple of years to build the game. It's fine though, breaks in routine are good.

AND I'm able to make a little more cash now doing what, I apparently, do well.

I hopefully, will return to the rock and roll trivia soon in a bigger and better way. Until then I wish my successors much luck and success. I still host games in Midtown at Mercury Bar on Sundays at 8pm, The Hill in Murray Hill on Mondays at 7pm, Joshua Tree bar on Tuesdays at 8pm, and soon at Buffalo Wild Wings in Brooklyn on Wednesdays for The National Trivia Assoc. (nationaltrivia.com)

Come on out some night, it's a good time too! Will let all 3 of you loyal readers know when Smartass returns! And thanks!!!

I'll be back this week!

Hi, I've been on "temporary hiatus", which is what most bands call it when they are tired and fed up and feeling lazy and unproductive. 

Not "hospitalized due to exhaustion", which is what they call it when one of them has a drug overdose. 

I will be back at Piano's next Monday night after a month off so get them brains and livers up to game weight!

Til then, here is a video of Eric Violette, who is the lead singer of the Free Credit Report.com band, and the proof that reality is a whole lot weirder than fiction. Enjoy. (Yes, he wrote this.)

Kanye on SNL

Are you FUCKING kidding me??! Why does ANYONE in the realm of music put up with this shit??? Forget that it isn't rock and roll, forget that it's a blatant rip of of Bjork...shit, forget he has ZERO talent.

Sad fact is, that man has NO talent. Nothing. Not a producer, not a performer, not a rapper. Nothing hip-hop or rock here folks. Just move along.

Fuck you Lorne Michaels, just fuck you.






(BTW, how the fuck do you spell your first name anyway)?!

Read the post below first, as this is a PS (that means post-script)

This is when eMpTVee was last relevant, when they used to cover important bands and went to shows to talk to fans.

I like mine scrambled...with goat cheddar.

I've been to Stinky in Brooklyn way too much lately. (GO, they have the best cheeses in the world, we had an amazing French Taleggio this week from there that had a name that, I swear, was ALMOST pronounced 'Tom Cruise', but is,..oh, hell just ask for the Tom Cruise, they'll know). Shit...this has fuck all to do with trivia or rock.

I'm 'blogging' again. I swore I wouldn't do that. But, DO go to Stinky, Patrick the owner is an amazingly sweet person.

The winners tonight were:

"I WAN'T EGGS" (Named after what some fighter said after being given smelling salts after being knocked out by Muhammed Ali. They also tied twice and won both times. Congrats.)

And here is a true rock and roll moment. Westerberg being serious (for once) with an amazing performance of my fav 'Mats song 'Answering Machine'. Cheers!