06/29/22 Show 109 : While I Won't Get Out Of Bed For Less Than $500, We Could Always Put Wheels On The Bed

following up from another recent IG post, the televised revelation that is Dean Cain’s “Masters Of Illusion” (it’s been on for nearly a decade  — this is a hiding in plain sight of nearly Byron Allen-esque proportions) led me to investigate whether or not Cain had ever booked illusionist supreme DAVID SLEAZE on the program.  The sprawling wiki entry from Sleaze’s alter ego, character actor/filmmaker Greg Travis suggested otherwise, which strikes me as the single greatest injustice this side of no local nightspot booking me to DJ in nearly 5 years. Yes, it’s true i have turned down countless offers during that spell, however they were all under conditions I could not in good conscience abide by.  In short, I’m holding out for a late afternoon/early slot at the Westgate Central Market location with a guarantee that a) I can play whatever I want, and b) I can leave at any point with my full fee ($500) if anyone tries to speak to me.   It has been suggested by at least one local venue owner such demands are unreasonable but I think what he was really trying to say was, “we realize booking you would simply expose every other DJ in town as a fraud and/or zero-talent and we’d prefer to showcase utter mediocrity for the rest of our days”.    And I suspect David Sleaze knows exactly what I am talking about.