KillRockStars/ParkingLot.

Well, sometimes to make some extra cash I have to be an audience extra.
Which means that any tv shows that have a studio audience and that you couldn't imagine anyone voluntarily wanting to go watch that show in person usually have to hire people like me to go sit in the audience and pretend to clap and be excited for minimum wage.
www.standingroomonly.tv

This morning I was booked to be an audience extra for "Comics Unleashed With Byron Allen."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_9n5U3Q5KA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnAzn_wsRl0

(I'm actually in the audience for this episode maybe you can find me if you look hard enough)

Comics Unleashed is a pretty ironic title because these comedians are technically completely leashed.
Byron Allen asks them only questions to lead them into bit from their standup routine. There's literally no non-act banter allowed it seems like so they're pretty much 100% leashed.
If you'll notice, Byron Allen asks these people completely random questions that have nothing to do with anything anyone is talking about.
Also, even though there is a paid studio audience, they clearly have to add laugh track to most of those jokes.
Try sitting through like six of those episodes in a row at home on your couch comfortably, then imagine doing it in a hot studio crammed between a bunch of random people you've never met for like 8 hours.
Its not the worst thing you could be doing I guess. Still its not great.
Plus everybody who works there treats you like shit.

Anyway,  the reason today stood out was that one of the guests was Cameron Esposito.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6GsXowrZBA

Heres why that matters to me.

She has a new comedy album recently put out by the record label Kill Rock Stars.

So heres my KillRockStars story.

This one time, Portia, the president of the KillRockStars label began emailing back and forth with my band Manhattan Murder Mystery.

Eventually after a few weeks of talking about what are plans were and stuff like that, she tells me that she's coming into town the next weekend and she wanted to know if I could set up a show that Friday somewhere so that she could come watch us play.

The date she asked us to play just also happened to be my birthday.

So I guess I got a little bit excited because the president of a fairly big record label seemed to like our band a lot and wanted to come see us play on my birthday. So it looked like all the hard work finally paid off.

I set up a show at the F House specifically just for her to see us.
Jon Barba played too.
People made me a birthday cake.
We had a pretty good show I think.
Portia came.
I talked to her for a while.
After we finished playing I didn't see her around.
Also I didn't hear from her for a long time.

I emailed her a couple times and she basically strung us along.
It was always stuff like "big fan, let me know when you play in Portland" stuff like that.
When we did play in Portland she wouldn't come.

Now a couple years have passed and I'm pretty much assuming its not gonna work out.

So there I was today, somebody she signed to her label was getting interviewed on national television while I have to sit through it miserable to try and earn enough money to buy a bottle of whiskey so that I can get drunk at the show I'm playing at later.

I guess the only revenge I'll ever get is that MMM is working on a new album right now and its called "KillRockStars" and its pretty much about all that and they're probably not gonna be into releasing that one either.

However, before that album comes out….

These dudes randomly heard us on KXLU a couple months ago and they hit us up and were just like "hey I don't know you but I wanna make a video for that song I heard on KXLU."
We said yes.
This is it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRtc7V3Vap4

So, I got that going for me.