Galactic Cowboys Reunion Interview, Part 1: Ben and Monty – The Present

Galactic Cowboys (Alan Doss, drums; Ben Huggins, vocals; Monty Colvin, bass, Wally Farkas, guitar) will be playing their first live dates in 10 years roughly one month from now. Three dates in Texas in three nights: Aug. 13-15; Dallas, Austin, and Houston. Fans have been waiting a long time, and they’re about to get something very special. Not only will these shows feature a longer, broader, and deeper set of material than the band has ever presented before, but Dane Sonnier, guitarist on the Cowboys first two albums, will join the band on stage.

GonzoGeek got in touch with the band not just to figure out what was happening now, but also to explore some of the ghosts from the past, attempting to answer at least a few of the questions we’d long wondered about. This first part of the interview talks with Ben and Monty about current band events. Part 2 will revisit Galactic Cowboys’ past with these two. Part 3 looks at both present and past with Alan and Wally.

Get your spacesuits on kids! We might not get a chance to do this again.

Sarah Palin: Go Gently Into That Good Nighto

Who Gotcha's the Gotcha Media?

So, it’s the holiday weekend and me and my in-laws are sitting around watching tv and we hear ‘…with 18 months to go in her term…’ accompanied by a photo of The Barracudinator or whatever they’re calling Gov. Palin these days.

“What was that?”

“Don’t know, try another station.”

We flip around and come to:

“Sarah Palin’s stunning resignation.  Blah, blah, blah.”

And immediately we start conjecturizing.

Wonder what she’s done wrong.”

“No doubt, she’s trying to get out in front of something.”

“Bet it has something to do with that pipeline she’s trying to build.”

“The old boy network she swapped out for one of her own has something on her.”

“Bribes.  I’m thinking bribes.  Or ‘consulting fees’.  Whatever they’re calling them.”

And on and on it went in the same vein.  Notably missing from the discussion was :

Lucha Minis Murdered by Hookers!

 

Sometimes there are stories you just can’t make up.

This would be one of those stories.

Free Beer! Milwaukee bar holds fundraiser for drunk driver

From the ‘is that even legal’ department: A Milwaukee-area bar is holding a fundraiser July 11 to pay legal expenses for a man accused of killing his girlfriend while driving his motorcycle drunk after the two had been patronizing the establishment.

The event will feature bikini car washes, a pig roast, and FREE BEER! No, really.

Protests are planned. The bar — Fatties on the Lake – says the event will go on anyway, with free camping and rides offered to those who might overindulge.

LUCHA LIBRE THEATER – Los Campeones Justicieros

Back in November, Stephe and I attended Wizard World Texas.  One of my great finds at the convention was a DVD containing a lucha libre double feature.

Meet your leading man

I’ve been wanting to review it every since, but one thing or another kept blocking my ability to sit down and watch the movie and properly review it.

That is until now.

Hold on to your hats kids, we are about to step into the surreal world of lucha libre films.  What’s that you may ask?  Its a movie from Mexico that features its most famous luchadors (wrestlers) in the role of superhero/detective/savior.  They face off against all kinds of world threatening menaces:  zombies, aliens, vampires, and, in this one, a mad scientist.

Let’s start the show shall we?

SKSA ‘Teamwork’ is a lie

“Teamwork Baseball is committed to developing player skills and sportsmanship.” That’s what the website says. True enough; as long as they believe the player is ‘worth’ continuing to develop. If not, any number of exciting alternate possibilities emerge, none of which have anything to do with coaching or sportsmanship.

It’s possible that the main coaches will stop coaching a player altogether, up to and including a scenario like the following:

Did Michael Jackson fake his own death?

For as long as I’ve known him Stephe has been very big on conspiracy theories.  The internet was like the Holy Grail for him in that regard.  He plugged into all kinds of conspiracy theory websites and groups.  He gets emails with theories so convoluted they make my head spin.

So, it came as no surprise today when he forwarded part of an email regardin the death o Michael Jackson and the theory that he faked his own death.  What did surprise me how plausible this one was.

See for yourself.  The email read…

Gimme Gold – Santo Gold

The name that will last forever

Once upon a long time ago, cable was new and not available everywhere.

Seriously.

In those long gone days, if you wanted to watch something more than ABC, CBS, NBC or PBS you had to head to the UHF dial.

“What’s that?” our younger reader(s) might ask.  Well, it used to be the home of old movies, local legends and, of course, wrestling.

It was also the first home of the infomercial.

All of these things came together in a truly surreal moment back in the mid-80s.

Its been well chronicled on this website that I like(d) wrestling.  As a kid I used to love to travel to visit my relatives in Mississippi because I could see regional shows I couldn’t catch in Louisiana.

It was my search for one of these regional shows that led me to discover Santo Gold.

Magical Mat-stery Tour: Ides of June update

Had a lot going as of late, so any opinionating will be brief.

But let me just say this.

What does it indicate when WWE does a “special” three-hour episode of Raw, and the only guys who put on matches worth watching on the whole show are on Smackdown?

Also, Donald Trump buying Raw might officially be WWE’s shark-jumping moment.

The wish-I’d-watched-more-Misawa-matches details, after the jump.

Where Nikki Sixx Meets Darfur

I last was in touch with this dude in about 1998 or 1999. He was involved with a band in the Bay area back then. I believe they were called the Last Americans. But I’d known him off and on since about 4-years old before then. Anyway, he’s obviously done a great job chasing his dreams, and I couldn’t be happier to see him doing something with his platform. War West Michigan! War James Michael.