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(antiMusic) We ran a mailbag earlier this week but a couple of issues have come up with this week’s coverage so we’re posting this update/mailbag today. But first, we have a new feature we’re gonna call “Tune In” that will showcase some of the rare radio stations out there that still broadcast cool music. Today we’re giving a quick shout out to Philly’s Rock Station 94 WYSP. They are one of the growing number of radio stations that syndicate the Day in Rock on their website. But they also stream live on their site 24/7 so they get blasted at anti HQ quite a bit and have fueled many a Day in Rock postings with their mix of modern and classic rock. Not many stations would follow Hendrix with Stone Temple Pilots and then Zeppelin, but that’s why we like them! Check em out at 94wysp.com. Now to the updates and mailbag.
A couple quick clarifications on the Nine Inch Mystery story from Thursday, which ended with a bit of humor about a cryptic message that reportedly appeared on the Nine Inch Nails site. First a quick recap so you know what is being discussed here. That story was taken from a Metal Underground report that stated: “The band’s website was also updated yesterday with the message ‘Two Weeks’, creating speculation that the band may release yet another album soon.” A reader emailed us and said that the message was actually posted last week. We couldn’t find it on the site today to confirm that, but NIN did post a new video under the heading “Spend The Day With Us: Watch This Video 2500 Times”. Gotta love Trent’s humor. Some are reading into that video post that Trent will be signing all the deluxe editions of “Ghosts”. But guessing at anything (even a half joking guess) can turn around and bite you in the rear. As we learned yesterday.

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It happened in 1996. Mario Lavandeira Jr. can’t recall the exact date, but it was late in his senior year at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, the all-boys Catholic institution that relocated to Miami from Cuba in 1961 after alumnus Fidel Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista. Educators, parents, and students filled Belen’s old 100-seat hall, on the second floor of the main building. Lavandeira was among a dozen teenage boys taking the stage for a school talent show that day.
Waiting in the wings amid a four-man rock band that played Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and a well-dressed crooner who sang “The Impossible Dream” from Man of La Mancha, Lavandeira was outfitted in a white bunny costume that covered everything but his pudgy, pimply face. When his turn came, the 12th-grader hopped onstage toting several props, including a spoon, a jar, and a watermelon. “Hi! I’m Spider Rabbit!” he introduced himself in a cheerfully creepy voice. “Gee, it is so nice to be here.”
Lavandeira ate imaginary testicles from the jar and dined on a pretend soldier’s brain. He smashed the watermelon on the floor. It was his interpretation of Spider Rabbit, a highly abstract one-man, one-act play written by beat poet and playwright Michael McClure during the Vietnam War. More than a decade later, Lavandeira can’t remember why he chose it. But he does know his Spider Rabbit performance solidified his place as a freakish outsider.
“It was actually one of my proudest moments in high school, because so many people hated it,” he recalls. “The principal almost puked, and the club moderator that put on the show cursed at me to get my shit off the stage.”
The reaction to his deranged bunny bit foreshadowed Lavandeira’s future as the most hated celebrity blogger in the universe. But under his nom de guerre, Perez Hilton, the self-anointed Queen of All Media has gone from being the ultimate outcast to being the consummate Hollywood insider, proving that if a bitchy, Miami-born Cuban-American homosexual can’t make it here, he can at least make it in La-La Land. !Ay, hijo! His blog, PerezHilton.com, draws about seven million visitors a day with its 24/7 dissection of the trials and tribulations of celebrities — warts, wastedness, warped morals, and all.

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