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>From: ****@aol.com
>Sent: Jun 29, 2006 8:08 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Gozdilla Pod
>
>Hi. I was listening to your podcast on vacation. I don't have anything
>since 4/15/06 have you gone out of biz? Appreciate the insights.
>John

Dear John,

Yeah, I got busy grinding out two new books in Tokyo and I forgot to pack a decent microphone. I was also dedicated to being extremely lazy in whatever few moments of non-panic that occurred. Something had to give, and it turned out to be podcasting and making people and speech programs say crazy things.

Now that I’m between massive projects and safely back in an undisclosed location, I would like to officially announce, coming very, very soon…

HOT TEARS OF SHAME - SEASON TWO: THE WAY TO VIRGIN SPACE

The theme for the new series is LOVE.

Message from the Producer

As Col. Baldwin and Counter-ESPY brought the Mysterian Dome to its knees, I often wondered if their actions were justified—should we have fought them, or attempted to parley for a more peaceful solution? And perhaps the enemy had their own reasons for attacking the earth. By the end of Season One, the Mystery Frequency helps Patrick to understand the true implications of love.

Love becomes one of the main themes for SEASON TWO - "THE WAY TO VIRGIN SPACE". And Patrick must undergo even harsher situations because of his newly found understanding of love.

Could you die for your loved ones? In the face of an enemy, could you throw down your life to protect the ones you love? This is the situation that Patrick is about to confront. There are many forms of love. The love for humanity was presented in the first series, in which young people fight for the sake of human beings and the Earth.

Continuing in "THE WAY TO VIRGIN SPACE," we again see that love means to dedicate oneself to others. A human does not live alone; he or she can live only when there are many people around them.

The message throughout HOT TEARS OF SHAME is "love," and I will be happy if the listeners see how wonderful it is to live his or her life--which comes only once--for the future, while living and cooperating with many others.

Comments

[danno!]

Find Love at Planet X! Where all the girls look like Kumi Mizuno. Don't forget to bring lots of water.
-Controller of Planet X

[Anders HJ]

"Where all the girls look like Kumi Mizuno."

Interesting that you mention Kumi. I was just about to send a private email to one of you guys about her rumored relationship with Nick Adams. Even if it isn't true it's a fantastic story about east meets west/love/popular culture and I figured I should write something about them in one of my future literary projects, maybe a short story-fanzine. Do any of you guys know anything more, was Nick hopelessly in love with her? Was she the reason that he committed suicide? Wasn't there an article in Pulp about them? I can't find it when I google now, tough.

[Patrick Macias]

I met and interviewed Kumi for Eiga Hiho. I should probably transcribe the darn thing and put it up here. And yes, the burning love of Nick Adams definately came up...

[Steve Harrison]

There was that wonderful bit of sillyness in one of the CornPone Flicks shorts, I think it was one of the Bad Anime Dubbing episodes, where Nick Adams was used as an euphemism for sex and/or penis. As in "want to slip her the old heat seeking moisture missile...introduce her to john thomas...the python of love...the old NIICCCK ADAMS"

Somehow on some level I think he'd approve.

But stay away from those Planet X chicks.

[dave merrill]

Nick Adams killed himself because his career and his marraige were both DOA and he couldn't get arrested, let alone a decent TV or movie role. He'd been making a big public ass out of himself for a few years (breaking up with his wife on live TV, famously shilling for an oscar and publically pouting when he didn't get it) so his downward spiral had been in progress for a while. Doubt Kumi Mizuno had anything to do with it.

I don't believe we used the term "heat seeking moisture missile", but I wish we had. CB did come up with the phrase "plucked turkey of love", which should have been the title of a Mudhoney EP sometime in the mid 1990s.

[danno!]

Say what you will about Nick, but MONSTER ZERO wouldn't be half as much fun with him in it. Compare Nick in FRANKENSTIEN CONQUORS THE WORLD to Russ Tamblyn's weakass phoned-in performance in WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS. Nick Adams kicked ass and took names and the bastard made Kumi cry. But hey, what do you expect from a guy who hung out with James Dean and studied martial arts with Elvis? Nick was the P.I.M.P.