Episode XXVII: A Suckerpunch To The Nuts! (pt.1 of 2)
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Tom makes the grave error of a) inviting Buffalo Music Award winning hard rock band Suckerpunch into his home and his heart, b) letting co-host Alie (Desiderio's) bartend with only Wild Turkey as a hard liquor and c) trying to host a cohesive interview show throughout. Total bedlam ensues as Tom, Alie and the band gear up for a 'parter of two' that will rock your f-ing socks off!
Tom slurs through the phone after seven drunken hours with his little brother and an opening day viewing of Benjamin Button to talk movies, the Jewish tradition of seeing movies on Christmas Day, and to discern (and re-discern) the reason why Greg Sterlace fled from Buffalo, the city that made him a worldwide icon.
Tom speaks with last-minute yuletide guest Greg Sterlace and his Ventroliquist Yoko Paula to discuss their About Schmidt-esque road-trip sojourn between massive gaps of dead air. Author, poet and performer Josh Smith (co-hosts) on Christmas Eve as he typically only celebrates Boxing Day and Kwanza.
The Big Words Poltergeist strikes again when Tom fucks up the first show he produces (11/08), loses a good fifteen minutes due largely to his burgeoning incompetence as his own producer, and what was intended to be the first show of two turns into the second show out of two. As for the show itself, Tom interviews award-winning musical great Kevin McCarthy.
Tom chillaxes with his home-boy Kevin McCarthy while they talk music industry, traditional Irish drinking music, and the inadvertent 3-way musical love when session drummer Tom Brown pops in for a 'stop and chat' and some musical genius occurs.
Tom sits down at his penthouse apartment for a full hour show along with a 'Bonus Round' with Jon Elston (one of the head scribes with Road Less Traveled Theater at the Market Arcade) about their new hit play 'Triangles' as well as redheads, the Cohen Bros., tenured hack David Lynch and their painfully traumatic (and tremendously successful) high school years..
Tom 'flips the script' with modelling/acting/singing Buffalo legend Bob 'Ernie' Insana, co-host Nick Jacobowski (sp?) & a two-person studio audience at Tom's Lancaster Bungalow. Bob sets it off on acting coaches, his tail-chasing days with Jack Nicholson & Warren Beatty, and the art of 'a cappella', a form of musical enchantment.




