This is Awkward

You know that I never tire of writing about the subject of love.  Foz the Hook has a bunch of love songs, including My Kind of Mess, and the Ballad of Casino Kit.  Someday soon we will put songs like Between a Bed and a Chair and Her Head on a Pillow back in the set, which will shock and confuse you with their not-funniness.  In those cases we have substituted good for funny with the help of a dead gay playwright from St. Louis (Note:  As far as I know Tennessee Williams died of old age – we had nothing to do with it). 

Love.  This brings me to the subject if our recent appearance on the live podcast performance of Awkward Moments by Collin A. Bullock.  It was a pretty great show, and we recorded it with Collin and Mike Lebovitz, Chris Condren, Jacob Williams, and Byron.  Collin has completed the post-production stuff and the recording is now available for your listening pleasure.

We played a little at the beginning and the end.  But, in the middle Collin embarked on a mission of trying destroy as many romantic relationships as possible, and the comics who stood the lose the most played right along.  There are some pretty wild moments in there, and Mike Lebovitz provides some particularly hilarious and soul-searching insights.  It’s like he also understands that in comedy it is often useful to substitute good for funny.

Anyway, the show definitely lives up to its title this time – awkward and funny.  It is well worth your time listening to it, and not just because we play at the end.

Also, speaking of good and funny:  will you be at Cole’s tonight at 9:00?  FtH will be opening the comedy show like we always do.  We never play the same set the same way twice.  In fact, every single song we have ever played over the course of two years has been different than every other performance. 

That’s what I call love.

Foz Gets Awkward With Collin Bullock

What a beautiful night we had last week at Foz the Hook’s Poison Valentine Pageant.  So romantic.

But all good things must end so other good things might take their place.  That is why Foz the Hook, your new favorite band, will be taking the stage this very night with our pal, Collin Bullock on his bill for Awkward Moments With Collin Bullock, a LIVE recording of his podcast by the same name.  Fantastic!

We presume that Collin will want to talk about all sorts of awkward moments that FtH has brought you over the last couple of years, including but not limited to…

The time Old Foz and Jason Earl Folks kissed each other on stage in front of everybody at Foz the Hook’s Poison Valentines Pageant on Wednesday, February 8, 2012.

That time I just talked about when Jason Earl Folks put on a cowboy hat and kissed Foz.

The time a couple sitting immediately in front of the stage wouldn’t stop talking, so Foz went out in the audience and sat with them during Whiskey What Done It.  That was last night, but it has happened before.

There was this one time that that thing happened, but there were two ladies (same table as #3), and they wouldn’t shut up.  When Foz sat down with them they gave him the old stink-eye and tried to continue their conversation.  They were bound and determined that they would not recognize the fact that they were sitting in the front row of a music show (full house of our usual fans, making their usual racket).  These ladies made sure to show me that I was the boorish interloper for sitting at their table and interrupting their conversation with a performance of music.  We all laughed at them, not with them.  Still, they were immune to the awkwardness of the situation.

So come out to Cole’s tonight, and see Awkward moments With Collin Bullock, featuring FtH, Mike Lebovitz, Chris Condren, Byron, Jacob Williams, and the two ladies in the front row who won’t shut up. 

The fun begins at 8 and goes to 10.  It will be recorded live, so be prepared to hear what your voice sounds like on a recording.