Miscellaneous Writings of Joe Viglione May 2006

The only scandal in the book is our own escapades - Jo Jo & I on tour in West Palm Beach when I was Director of Research for a national TV company (that hotel will NEVER forget us! HA HA), when Jo Jo nearly got us thrown off an international flight and the feds boarded the plane (the stewardess said about me "He's very nice" meaning it was all HER fault (it was!). I told the marshalls "If you take her off this plane you'll be in Philadelphia court on Monday morning." They thought about it and said "She's your responsibility - one word and you're BOTH off the plane." I had to hold my hand on her mouth till we were airborne. What happened? She had taken her sweet time walking through the airport and they gave our First Class seats away. When she realized common folk had grabbed our First Class seats she yelled out "F..k You" and everyone looked up. Coincidentally, a manager of a Boston area band who knew me was on the plane, he looks up and yells out "It's Joe Vig" - great - now everyone is staring at me and knows my name. I'm recognized while JoJo is pulling her star trip. We had to sit on the back of the plane but at least we got home.

JO JO & JIMI AT WOODSTOCK:
Jo Jo's talking to me about Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock for the book on Jimi. All our stories float from one book to another. And they are informative and fun!

OK, it's 1:28 AM - back to work on the Hendrix book now...
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May 22

Well, today is my ex's birthday - J.C. (no, not the main character in The Da Vinci Code! Stop it!, the one from 1997-1999) - my relationships usually last 2 years, except for Jo Jo which is 20 years - ahh fond memories of THAT relationship with J.C. when Jo Jo locked us in Bozzie's room in Winthrop and tried to have a threesome. Thankfully the ex unlocked the door and we got the hell out! HA! Had a dream last night about the other EX from 12 or so years ago, very bizarre, with another mutual friend in the mix. We were off to a concert but I remember driving up a steep hill in the dream alone and there was a lot of ice (mind you it is May) and the dream ended so we didn't get to the concert - and there was definite distance between all of us in the dream. They are both something I am not - stoners. So it was an impossibility anyway...when you hear my anti-drug tirade you'll understand why there's absolutely no communicating with people who smoke pot. They just don't understand people while on that wavelength - or lack of a wavelength. So maybe the dream was just reiterating what I already know - dangerous people worth staying away from.
BUT - was rudely awakened by the neighbors chopping down a tree early a.m. I mean, really, this is the second neighbor in ten years to chop down a perfectly good tree. It is horrendous - ecologically - and the shade was very nice - now there's this like big patch of space in the backyard. Really stressful to us Greenpeace type people.
...today I'm interviewing Mickey Bliss on Visual Radio - Mickey is the legendary keyboard player / booking agent for THE KIRKLAND's CLUB BOHEMIA - the coolest nightclub in the Boston area. We are going to talk about music and ...religion. And the TV station is a former Christian Science Church. Mrs. Eddy will be watching, of that I'm sure...

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May 18th

OK, you've entered the zone of creative absurdity - reading my material changes people...forever...my life is pretty crazy...tonight some guy in a pick-up truck slammed into a woman driving a smaller car at the rotary - it was pretty intense - luckily she got out of the car and walked - but this happened right before I was entering the rotary...her car did a 180 in the middle of the rotary and traffic just kept going through the incident like "ho hum", very weird, she got on her cellphone. The dude in the pickup looked kind of intimidating...yikes....last night two women came out of a restaurant with a bunch of kids and birthday balloons. They stood in the doorway and wouldn't let people into the restaurant because they were deciding whatever they were deciding...so when I finally got into the venue, such as it was, and got my food to go - about 6 minutes later - the first woman in the doorway stepped on the gas in the parking lot zipping through AND cut me off - with an SUV full of kids she was hell bent on raising hell. Of course she was in front of me at the stoplight and BAM, some dude hits me from behind. At this point I'm pretty much in the Twilight Zone - there is NO WAY you can remove yourself from these weirdo situations - they happen IN FRONT OF YOU, BEHIND YOU - we just have to watch and experience this insanity...so I get out of my car and there's no damage to the bumper and he says "It was a mistake", which I realized but I said "You don't understand - She cuts me off - you bump into me"

THINK ABOUT THIS: If she didn't cut me off in the parking lot of the restaurant about a quarter of a mile back the dude would've slammed into her SUV and might've hurt some of the passengers. Was I there to stop that?

The guy saw my frustration but he found it humorous (in a nice way; because after all he had hit me - asleep at the wheel as he was)...it was just too much to deal with on a psychic level. What do we do, just stay home, or do we experience this total disconnect from normal living that is exacted on us by forces out of our control. Ya can't make this stuff up and it is really getting bothersome! Maybe that's why we're all enamoured of MY SPACE...get us onto the Matrix and out of the insanity of the "real world".
MORPHEUS: "What is real?"



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May 17th
Dear Diary,


The life of a rock critic/TV host, is so demanding.
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I had very strange dreams this morning which won't be posted here, - ok, maybe a little. There was an ex-friend, a woman, sitting at the end of a long road. In the front of the part of the road where I was a friendly guy was talking but I don't recall any of the conversations. It was clear he was in the present and she was in the past - and we seem to have come out of a big hardware store like Home Depot or something. And thankfully Jo Jo is in England
(and Jo Jo has nothing nice to say about the woman in the dream; Jo Jo always knows best! in fact, a friend just wrote a funny that that woman in question has a name we should avoid! So we'll leave it at that!)

You can read more of them (my interesting dreams) in my forthcoming book THE SALT WATER SUMMERS and other short stories. It's 6:35 AM (Wednesday May 17th)...sometimes I slip into my own webpage (Click on blue sections - I really don't know how to work html; my ex from 1998 knew that... c'est la vie...
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That link is my MAd FAXER site with a lot of my reviews and stuff about my TV show....

As I was saying, sometimes I (and you, being the new cyberspace we) slip into the pages of the web and...and...
and we look for Keanu Reeves to tell us secrets of The Matrix. Hey, at least Keanu learned how to be an actor while doing that trilogy. Awake from the Matrix? He stumbled through the first movie and really seemed like he evoloved into The One in the other two because he got his bearings...true Genius of the Wachowski Brothers - get a good-looking actor who can't act...put him through tons of training - and by the third film he actually CAN act - and we watched the process happen before our very eyes!

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the same can't be said of Tom Cruise...who just keeps stumbling through movies. If Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was to Keanu what Frisky Business was to Tom "Man Desperately In Need Of A Boyfriend" Cruise, well Mission Impossible III would've been better with Christian Bale.
It was OK for something to do, but not worth repeated spins. Cruise should've quit before ruining "Interview with a Vampire". He's a pretty good film producer, but his six degrees of Michael Jackson is so tiresome...

Dear Diary May 16, 2006
Dear Diary

Well, the estranged wife phoned me last week to wish me a Happy Birthday but she was two days off as I was heading into the gym on the cellphone (or is that I was on the cellphone while on my way to the gym). I was on the phone with Marty or Jen or both as we are planning a trip to Atlanta for the Billboard Awards and didn't realize Joanne was phoning in from the U.K. She sang Happy Birthday for 59 seconds...a new world's record? We'll have to put it on her upcoming album on Wampus Media. THE BEST OF JO JO LAINE. Meanwhile Helanie has been phoning me that she is going to run off to England to marry Jo Jo. Can you say, Polygamy? Not that Jo Jo & I haven't been enamoured of interesting situations in our day, but that was long ago on a planet far away when we were all younger and cuter, and my God the thought of Helanie invading our space would make me feel like I'm living in THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
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it's 5:14 PM and time to get the rest of the mail ready for the post office.