Uncle Stavro's been busy this summer with the whole "trying not to die" thing that's been flustering all you 'living' people of late. He's made playlists & scripts for at least 3 shows, but can't record them because of...age-related hearing issues. As a proud member of the Armata de Strigoi (army of the undead), diseases quickly find themselves wasted on us vampiric types.

Bugger all. These shows are complete. Perhaps I can make one or 2 of them...

Tyro Arrgula [tie-row arr-gyoo-lah]

1965 - 1989 (Age: 54 ...cumulatively)

Status: Dead

"No sir. I don't like it."

Newest member of the Arrgula vampire clan. Cornish son of Viscount Vyslo Arrgula, young (comparatively) nephew of Stavro Arrgolus and inventor [in June, 1985] of the Cement Civet Cat™ (Big Butch Lesbian Industries, €17.50 MSRP). The inanimate cat's most famous use (making coffee from its crap) is one of the most disgusting things invented by the Arrgula vampires - after all, they do not drink...coffee. The date of the invention is notable as Tyro is the only 'inventor' in his clan to create his amusing inanimate animal tchotchke while he was alive. Both the Stone Stoat™ and the infamous Rubber Hamster™ were invented hundreds of years into their respective creator's vampirism.

Or so says the bio in my copy of The Sims 2 Nightlife and The Sims 3 Late Night expansion packs. On this site, the account bearing this name was created exclusively to provide a non-admin view in order to test new site functions and to check the function of malfunctioning functions that become dysfunctional. Elsewhere, it's used on sites that don't fit the categories of the other personas, each of which has a site specialty.

On The Mad Music Show, Tyro will often replace his uncle Stavro as host  - and, like the other vampires, be especially critical of his uncle's snide, curmudgeonly delivery as host. The main difference being that, unlike the other vampires, he doesn't affect a stupid accent to annoy Stavro. Though he did have a heavy Cornish accent when he was alive. Apparently, when vampirism sets in, the undead suddenly sound like Canadian voice actors. Go figure.

Ok, this is the sort of show I'm putting together. If there's anyone out there left to hear it, tell me what you think about this...

It's a show with a loose theme running through it rather than an absolute theme that needs to be adhered to at all times. The DJ segments will be kept shorter & more direct with fewer tangents about politics or rubber hamsters or whatever. The patter will be more focused on "getting on with it" so there can be more music.

And finally, all the bad language (and there will be a LOT of it) will be left to the artists rather than the DJ. There will still be an 'explicit' label on the show, but it will be for the song content and not for anything I happen to say, though I'll still announce the NSFW track titles. Sound good?

So here are the segment titles. Points for anyone who can tell where they're from.

Seg. 1: Define "Well Adjusted"

Seg. 2: "Verbing Weirds Language!"

Update 8/12: Playlist complete. Bgm for the show is chosen & the script assembled. Just need to write the banter now. Tyro is mowing my lawn back in Massachusetts while I'm here in San Marino at Grandpa Pious' place hiding out from the damned virus. I'm told it's still not safe to go back to the states, so I'll make my shows here.

I've had no motivation to make a new show this year. None at all. This plague has given me plenty of motivation not to. Even the show I was making about the plague ground to a halt.

So now that there's a pause in the insanity, I'm suddenly presented with a golden opportunity to make this show in the next few weeks before I have to start thinking about Halloween. Since this show's theme was motivation and I have none, it can be a show about someone other than me who becomes motivated to do something.

To do what, you ask? It can't be anything positive; that wouldn't be any fun. How about something we can all identify with in these evil times? How about drinking heavily, then going out in leaky boats, blowing things up with cannons and...plundering - yes, that sounds good. ARRRR!

A show about motivation - or the lack of it.

I've little or no motivation to make a new show, but Halloween is coming. I always seem to find the drive to make holiday shows. It just may be considerably longer before I find motivation to make a regular show again.