Buck Up and Stop Whining, You Weak Willed Fuckfaces!

   When I heard Mojo Nixon was going to be at the Press Club, I 
figured I would drop by and see what he's been up to.... And here it 
is.
   Mojo and the Toad Liquors just finished a new record called 
Whereabouts Unknown.  Produced by Eric Roscoe Amble of the 
Del Lords, this will be the first release on Mojo's own Blutarski 
Records. Mojo has left Triple X Records to start Blutarski (named 
after John Belushi's character in Animal House) with his 
manager, Bullethead. The new record features soon to be classics 
like Bring Me The Head Of David Geffen, Got My Penis Enlarged, I 
Love You More Than Bigfoot Trucks But Not More Than Football  and 
Buck Up And Stop Whining You Weak Willed Fuckfaces.
   Mojo's always got something that's bugging him, so I asked him what 
it was lately and he started talking about his new song, Mr. Correct. 
   "It's about living in a glass house and spitting on fur coats. There's a 
line `A vegetarian in Doc Martens is the king of stupidity.' It's about 
people who get all upset over styrofoam. They pick one issue to pitch 
a bitch over when in fact they're riding around in internal 
combustion engines. Unless you're a dirt clod living in the woods, 
you're part of the problem. You can't escape."
   Another new development with Mojo is his 10 1/2 month old son, 
Race Cannonball McMillan whom he describes as "Very 
rambunctious. He's the worst aspects of me and my wife combined 
into one tidy package."
   Mojo just bought his other son, Ruben, who is 12, a skateboard. His 
wife, Adair, wasn't too excited, but Mojo thinks skating is an a-ok 
activity. In fact he wrote an improvised song exclusively for Heckler 
on the subject. You can hear it by clicking here for Macintosh (.aiff) 179k  
or clicking here for PC (.wav) 170k He's also planning on learning to 
snowboard with Ruben this winter. Another interesting athletic 
anecdote I discovered was that Mojo used to race bicycles, "like Greg 
Lemond," and was the Virginia High School Bicycle Racing State 
Champion.
   Since Mojo's been around the indie music scene for over a decade 
and watched it grow from almost nothing to the mega-bucks 
industry it is today, I asked him what he thought about the 
legitimization of `alternative' and `punk' rock.
   "Who's that band that sold all those records? Green Day? Those 
guys aren't punk, they're pop. They're pop weirdos. To me punk 
implies that you might get your ass kicked. Who's Green Day gonna 
beat up? Third Graders? They're all dwarfs."
   With that last piece of wisdom, I pointed the way to Zelda's Pizza 
as Mojo and the band were getting hungry. Check out the new 
records, and if Mojo comes to your town to play live, don't miss that 
show. He's more entertaining than Green Day in a mud pit.
-John Baccigaluppi