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Need singers and musicians to perform EVERY Beatles song on Dec. 7th in NYC

http://forthebenefitofmrbuffet.blogspot.com/2008/11/we-need-singers-december-7th.html

 

 Click link to sign up ^

 



See you there 😉

Go here and look at this
http://forthebenefitofmrbuffet.blogspot.com/
I'm playing every original Beatles song (189 in total) in one day on ukulele,
At Spike Hill in Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn, Sunday, Dec 7, 2008, noon to midnight. I need Singers!
Here's the set list, Write back to me and claim your songs. We are doing them in alphabetical order and will confirm and hopefully rehearse with you in advance. You can bring a band or just let me accompany you on uke, the only provision being we play the song in the same key as The Beatles. i don't mind slowing down or speeding up but changing keys 189 times is just too much.

Across The Universe The Beatles 3:44
All I've Got To Do The Beatles
All My Loving The Beatles 2:12
All Together Now The Beatles 2:09
All You Need Is Love G The Beatles 3:48
And I Love Her The Beatles 2:31
And Your Bird Can Sing The Beatles 2:02
Another Girl Anytime At All The Beatles 2:13
Ask Me Why The Beatles 2:24
Baby You're A Rich Man C The Beatles 3:01
Baby's In Black The Beatles
Back in the USSR The Beatles 2:43
The Ballad Of John And Yoko
Because
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite D-
Birthday
Blackbird The Beatles 2:18
Blue Jay Way C
Can't Buy Me Love The Beatles 2:15
Carry That Weight The Beatles 1:37
Come Together The Beatles
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
A Day In The Life G The Beatles 5:34
Day Tripper The Beatles 2:48 Album
Dig A Pony The Beatles 3:55 Let it Be
Dig It The Beatles 0:50 Let It Be PM
Do You Want To Know A Secret
Doctor Robert The Beatles
Don't Bother Me The Beatles 2:26
Don't Let Me Down The Beatles 3:35
Don't Pass Me By The Beatles 3:50
Drive My Car The Beatles 2:28 1962-1967
Eight Days A Week The Beatles 2:48
Eleanor Rigby E- The Beatles 2:06
The End The Beatles 2:20 Abbey Road
Every Little Thing The Beatles 2:05
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey
Fixing A Hole F The Beatles 2:37
Flying C 2:17
The Fool On The Hill
Magical Mystery Tour
For No One Aflat The Beatles
For You Blue The Beatles 2:56
From Me To You The Beatles 1:56
Get Back The Beatles 3:12
Getting Better C
Girl The Beatles 2:34 Rex M
Glass Onion The Beatles 2:18 Rex M
Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, The End
Good Day Sunshine B/A Rex M
Good Morning Good Morning A Rex M
Good Night The Beatles 3:12 Rex M
Got to Get You Into My LIfe G Rex M
Happiness Is A Warm Gun Rex M
A Hard Day's Night G Rex M
Hello Goodbye C The Beatles 3:30
Help! The Beatles 2:18
Helter Skelter The Beatles 4:30
Her Majesty D The Beatles 0:23 PM
Here Comes The Sun The Beatles 3:06
Here There And Everywhere G
Hey Bulldog The Beatles 3:14
Hey Jude The Beatles 7:03
Hold Me Tight The Beatles 2:33
Honey Pie The Beatles 2:40
I Am The Walrus A The Beatles 4:35
I Call Your Name The Beatles 2:05
I Me Mine The Beatles 2:26 Let It Be
I Need You The Beatles 2:31
I Saw Her Standing There The Beatles 2:55
I Should Have Known Better The Beatles 2:44
I Wanna Be Your Man The Beatles 1:59
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
I Want To Tell You A The Beatles 2:24
I Want You (She's So Heavy) The Beatles 7:48
I Will The Beatles 1:46
I'll Be Back The Beatles 2:22
I'll Cry Instead The Beatles 1:48
I'll Follow The Sun The Beatles 1:51
I'll Get You The Beatles 2:03
I'm A Loser The Beatles 2:33
I'm Down The Beatles 2:32
I'm Happy Just to Dance With You
I'm Looking Through You The Beatles 2:28
I'm Only Sleeping The Beatles 2:57
I'm So Tired The Beatles 2:03
I've Got A Feeling The Beatles
I've Just Seen A Face The Beatles 2:07
If I Fell The Beatles 2:22
If I Needed Someone The Beatles 2:24

In My Life The Beatles 2:25
The Inner Light E flat The Beatles 2:58
It Won't Be Long The Beatles 2:11
It's All Too Much The Beatles 6:28
It's Only Love The Beatles 1:59
Julia The Beatles 2:54
Lady Madonna A The Beatles 2:17 PM
Let it Be The Beatles 3:52
Little Child The Beatles 1:45
The Long and Winding Road The Beatles 3:35
Long, Long, Long The Beatles 3:04
Love Me Do The Beatles 2:24
Love You To C The Beatles 3:01
Lovely Rita E The Beatles 2:42
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds A The Beatles 3:28
Maggie Mae The Beatles 0:41 Let It Be
Magical Mystery Tour E The Beatles 2:49
Martha My Dear The Beatles 2:29
Maxwell's Silver Hammer The Beatles 3:27
Mean Mr. Mustard The Beatles 1:06
Michelle The Beatles 2:42 PM
Misery The Beatles 1:50
Please Please Me
Mother Nature's Son The Beatles 2:48
Mr Moonlight The Beatles 2:37
The Night Before The Beatles 2:37
No Reply The Beatles 2:17
Norwegian Wood The Beatles 2:03
Not A Second Time The Beatles 2:08
Nowhere Man The Beatles 2:44
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da The Beatles 3:09
Octopus's Garden The Beatles 2:51
Oh! Darling The Beatles 3:26
Old Brown Shoe The Beatles 3:20
One After 909 The Beatles 3:09
Only A Northern Song The Beatles 2:44
P.S. I Love You The Beatles 2:06
Paperback Writer The Beatles 2:18
Penny Lane B The Beatles 2:59 2
Piggies The Beatles 2:01
Please Please Me The Beatles 2:05
Polythene Pam The Beatles 1:11
Rain The Beatles 3:02 Past Masters Rock
Revolution The Beatles 3:24
Rocky Raccoon The Beatles 3:41
Run For Your Life The Beatles 2:19
Savoy Truffle The Beatles 2:55
Sexy Sadie The Beatles 3:15
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
She Loves You The Beatles 2:21
She Said She Said Bflat The Beatles 2:37
She's A Woman The Beatles 3:03
She's Leaving Home E The Beatles 3:35
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Something The Beatles 3:16
Strawberry Fields Forever A The Beatles 4:07
Sun King The Beatles 2:26 PM
Taxman D The Beatles 2:38
Tell Me What You See The Beatles 2:36
Tell Me Why The Beatles 2:10
Thank You Girl The Beatles 2:07
There's A Place The Beatles 1:53
Things We Said Today The Beatles 2:39
Think For Yourself The Beatles 2:19
This Boy The Beatles 2:16
Ticket to Ride The Beatles 3:10
Tomorrow Never Knows C The Beatles 2:58
Two Of Us The Beatles 3:36 Let It Be
Wait The Beatles 2:17 Rubber Soul
We Can Work It Out The Beatles 2:12
What Goes On The Beatles 2:46
What You're Doing The Beatles 2:31
When I Get Home The Beatles 2:18
When I'm Sixty Four C The Beatles 2:38
While My Guitar Gently Weeps The Beatles 4:45
Why Dont We Do It In The Road The Beatles 1:41
Wild Honey Pie The Beatles 1:01
With A Little Help From My Friends E
Within You, Without You C Band
The Word The Beatles 2:44
Yellow Submarine G The Beatles
Yer Blues The Beatles 4:01
Yes It Is The Beatles 2:40
Yesterday The Beatles 2:05
You Can't Do That
You Know My Name (Look up the Number
You Like Me Too Much
You Never Give Me Your Money
You Won't See Me
You're Going To Lose That Girl
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Your Mother Should Know C The Beatles 2:30

Call Roger at 646-255-3052 to simplify things if you look.

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Burning candle at both ends (as usual)

Last night (Thursday) I massaged Gene Simmons (we watched the pathetic Republican Convention- what a crock of SHIT that was). Then directly after Jim Norton (comedian you see on most Comedy Central Roasts and you hear every morning if you get the Opy and Anthony show). I have known Jim, who wrote a book called "Happy Endings", for years. Hmmmm, he has never asked for one, so I wonder wtf that is about? lol. Jim is a self confessed massage WHORE, he gets them all the time, mostly from me, but if I am away, from my team or other therapists, he has to have them. 

I am so tired I am going to cry. It is 9am and I am STILL up. By the way,  Gene is in NYC because he just appeared on the Today Show. From Gene's blog:

GENE SIMMONS Keynote Speaker
at AARP CONVENTION, WASH DC

   Heading out to NY to do the TODAY SHOW to promo my forthcoming Keynote Speech at the Annual AARP CONVENTION on September 6th in Washington DC, in front of 30,000 people.
   Then head off to Toronto on September 7th for a Charity Event hosted by Magna, the world's largest auto parts entity.

 

 

Gene is so fucking cool, omg!Oh, he turned me on to a show I have never heard of, probably because it's on the Cartoon Network lol, It's called Robot Chicken . WICKED FUNNY. 

The night before, I went and saw one of my best friends, Jonesy , do his live stand up comedy act at the EastVille Comedy club . He is there every Wednesday. Super funny!!! I predict Jonesy is going to be as big as Jim Carrey someday, mark my words. He is the fucking BOMB!! We are both New Englanders and have the same smart ass sense of humor. We bond!

I can't write anymore, I am falling asleep here. The sun is out, it looks like it will be another scorcher! Oh, last night in NYC, I saw numerous Cock Roachers! OMFG!! They are everywhere (so is garbage). I do miss the clean streets of Berlin right about now. I was talking to a woman on the street out side the hotel I I massaged Gene at, and a fucking Cock Roach landed on her neck. We both flipped out, hysterical, screaming, omfg!!!!! She said some of them can fly? Holy fuck, if it landed on me, I would have passed out. I loathe those seedy mother fuckers. 

 

 
   
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More love from the world of massage

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The guilt is going to kill me

I am so f*cking busy since I landed, massage clients of mine are kind of fighting over who gets the next massage. They have been waiting for months, so new clients sadly have to wait a bit. This one man has been asking for a massage the last couple days and I told him he could have one next week. Now I feel like a prick. Look what he wrote me today:

 

 

"We had spoken / e-mailed several months ago. I had read some of your advice in the New York Press. I had written to you and you always responded to me in a very funny and considerate way. As a normal man, your picture attached to your
work always drove me crazy. Anyway, I'm in the Army Reserves and my unit is
being activated. I am leaving the city today and will be head to Camp Shelby,
Mississippi on September 3rd to get ready for our deployment. for the past few
weeks, I've been doing some things in the city that I had thought about but
never did. For example, earlier this month I went to my first Yankees game.
I've been hitting restaurants that I've seen but never tried. Things like that.
Yesterday I got this wild idea that perhaps I would be able to meet you so I
took a chance and decided to write. I should have planned ahead but I won't get
into my organizational abilities. Unfortunately, I will have to wait many
months until I get the opportunity to meet you.

Thank you for getting back to me.

Brian" 
 

 I hope he makes it back to the US alive. 

Fuck George Bush and the Government for sending so many people to fight wars he started. I was thinking something last night that will sound like me nagging AGAIN, but it's my blog and I will vent if I want to. So there. One thing that pisses me off SO MUCH about the USA is the fucking AIR CONDITIONING. It is SO FUCKING COLD in all restaurants, shops, cafes, bars, cars, homes, hotels, omfg!!! I went into Blimpies last night (sandwich shop that originated in Hoboken, NJ) and ordered a healthy sub on whole wheat but it was BELOW zero in there (all employees wearing heavy sweat shirts, jeans, hats) that I HAD to take it to go. I ate it in my fucking car outside. I turned blue just waiting for them to put the sandwich together, couldn't wait to get the fuck out of there.  You go out to eat here and it's colder than a meat locker. THEN they serve you ICE WATER. OMFG. I don't know ANYONE in Europe who has an air condition and my friends all think I am a diva because I have a fan in my room. A tiny, plastic fan, mostly to drown out the noise of my annoying neighbors who love to recycle their glass bottles at 8 am. My friends whine about how much electricity my fan is using. ha ha. If they ONLY knew what goes on over here in yank land. 

 Jasmine told me during her school orientation she had to wear a jacket, hat and scarf as she was freezing. What the FUCK is wrong with this place? Every apartment I have been in has at LEAST two air conditioners running full power, full time. NO WONDER there is an energy crisis. Come on people. It is summer, enjoy the summer weather. You HAVE to bring so much clothing with you when you go out here. It is HOT as FUCK outside, but if you go ANYWHERE indoors, you freeze your cunt off. Most Americans are over weight, which makes them sweat and feel extra hot, so they "need" the air conditioning so they don't sweat like a pig. If everyone would eat less, use less energy, the world MIGHT start to like us. BUT NO, we were NEVER taught to think this way here in the USA. No one teaches you to turn off lights when you leave a room, turn down the heat if you don't need it, recycle, etc. They just consume, consume, CONSUME without thinking "hey, maybe I should do my part and save electricity and energy and recycle as the world is only getting more and more crowded and someday energy supplies may deplete!". You would think the massive BLACK OUTS they have would wake people up. BUT NO! The Government would never hold a press conference and say "come on people!!! recycle or fucking die!!" because we have to keep up the "land of the free" charade. 

Land of the FREE: Free to waste, free to ignore, free to consume without any concerns of the rest of the world, which, like it or not, do effect everyone. I find myself wearing MORE clothes in the summer here than I do in the winter. It's out of control. THEN there are the dryers. Everyone in the USA has a dryer to dry their clothes. I don't know ANYONE in Germany that owns a dryer. NO ONE. We hang our shit dry and it's no big deal. Clothes last MUCH longer that way anyways. I even hung Jasmine's cloth diapers dry every fucking day. Took a while, but it feels great to conserve. It's hard coming back here to the land of waste, I mean, plenty. 

Cracked me up the other day (more like a smirk of disbelief) when they were discussing on the news how Californians are the first folk in the USA to start taking care of their left over food wastes. AS IN, instead of throwing your orange peels and left over food in the normal trash, they put it all in a special container, handed out to them by the town office and it gets picked up and used as fuel/soil fertilizer. NO FUCKING SHIT Sherlock. I have been doing that, just like everyone else in Germany and most of Europe for YEARS. In the USA, they even have garbage disposals built into their sinks and they STILL throw left overs in the trash, which is why we have land fill problems. We have to wake up here and change the way we do things. It's so annoying how far "we" are behind here in the USA. Very sad. I apologize for our ignorance. Sorry. 

x

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NYC is still fabulous

The last few days I spent in Berlin, I was living off of 4 to 5 hours of sleep and loads of extra stress. I had ONE hour of sleep the “night” before I left for NYC so when I got on the plane, I was craving shut eye something fierce.

Finally back in NYC and started massaging as soon as I hit the ground.

Got a message that Adam of Maroon 5 wants a massage ASAP…

maroon_5_and_dot_SMALL

This was taken the last time I massaged Adam ^ and you can see his left arm wasn’t covered yet in his new tattoo:

Maroon 5 is on tour and I am handling their massage needs (sending out Dot Bots to any show they want a massage at) but Adam is in town just to finish his sleeve tattoo ^ above. I think it looks fucking awesome. Forgot the name of the tattoo artist, but I know it wasn’t done at Last Writes (where I had mine done).

 

Closer look ^

Anyways, after I massaged Adam I had to rush over to massage Billy Idol’s manager. I have also been taking care of the Billy Idol tour, massage wise. Going to see his show tomorrow here in the city. Super excited as he has Brian Tichy on drums, I LOVE watching Brian play. OMG!!

Jasmine starts University tomorrow, another OMG. We are preparing and getting ready to move her into her dorm tomorrow early. Sleep is a thing of the past for me. Still getting over 400 emails per day too. I can hear my heart beating, it’s that loud. Heart attack approaching soon, stay tuned. lol. PLUS all of my regular clients all want a massage (They say they have been waiting months) and every friend and relative all want to chat on the phone, I am gonna snap. Hoping things settle down soon, but that is never the case when you are anywhere near NYC. This place is alive and kicking and the energy it radiates is contagious and can not be stopped. The weather here is AMAZING. Hot, sunny, nice breeze!! FINALLY I got a bit of summer. YAY!!
Jasmine wants to go power walking, gotta go

x

ps.NEWEST  Maroon 5 tour dates:

Maroon 5 2013

02/25 Grand Rapids, MI- Van Andel Arena
02/27 Kansas City, MO- Sprint Center < Dr. Zach
03/01 Moline, IL- I Wireless Center
03/03 Omaha, NE- CenturyLink Center Omaha
03/04 Saint Paul, MN- Xcel Energy Center
03/07 Calgary, AB- Scotiabank Saddledome
03/09 Vancouver, BC- Rogers Arena
03/11 Seattle, WA- KeyArena at Seattle Center
03/13 San Jose, CA- HP Pavilion at San Jose
03/15 Los Angeles, CA- Staples Center
03/16 Las Vegas, NV- Mandalay Bay Events Center
03/19 Houston, TX- Toyota Center
03/21 Dallas, TX- American Airlines Center < ABBY
03/22 Tulsa, OK- BOK Center
03/24 Nashville, TN- Bridgestone Arena
03/26 Birmingham, AL- BJCC Arena
03/27 Atlanta, GA- Philips Arena < ALICE
03/29 Sunrise, FL- BB&T Center
03/30 Orlando, FL- Amway Center
04/01 Jacksonville, FL- Jacksonville Veterans Mem. Arena < BRANDI
04/03 Washington, DC- Verizon Center
04/04 Philadelphia, PA- Wells Fargo Center
04/06 Rosemont, IL- Allstate Arena

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Swamped

Having fun in NYC, but by that I mean, having fun working.  I am so swamped I feel I will never get around to doing my France and Italy blog and now I have another Foreigner (the rock group) blog to do. LOTS going on. Penthouse Forum are so on the ball compared to the last news paper I wrote for here in NYC. They pay promptly, answer my emails promptly (and politely) and even sent me a dozen copies of the May 2008 issue that I am on the cover of. I opened it and found the BEST intro ever. My column feels at home. Love it! I scanned it in:

 

I massaged Kim Raver ( of the shows "24" and "Lipstick Jungle") again tonight- non stop massage for three hours. Wonderful lady. She can take as much pain as I can during a massage. Extreme deep tissue the whole time. Tough woman I tell ya. Funny how the women seem to be able to take more pain/pressure during the massage than men (apart from Harry Connick Junior who seems to be made of steel). My fingers are actually aching as I type this, THAT'S how strong the pressure was. Going to sleep it off

x 

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Bring “Ask Dr. Dot” back to the NY Press (hey, it’s worth a shot)

The NY Press is apparently regretting letting my sex column "Ask Dr. Dot" go this past September. How do I know? All of the bad press they are receiving about the hiring and firing of several sex columnists since mine was dropped. Hey, we all make mistakes. 

Please write to the editor of the NY Press (David Blum) that you would like to see my column back in their paper:

EDITORIAL@NYPRESS.COM