06/29/22 Show 109 : While I Won't Get Out Of Bed For Less Than $500, We Could Always Put Wheels On The Bed

The Gerard Cosloy Radio Hour (That Feels Like Two Hours)

following up from another recent IG post, the televised revelation that is Dean Cain’s “Masters Of Illusion” (it’s been on for nearly a decade — this is a hiding in plain sight of nearly Byron Allen-esque proportions) led me to investigate whether or not Cain had ever booked illusionist supreme DAVID SLEAZE on the program. The sprawling wiki entry from Sleaze’s alter ego, character actor/filmmaker Greg Travis suggested otherwise, which strikes me as the single greatest injustice this side of no local nightspot booking me to DJ in nearly 5 years. Yes, it’s true i have turned down countless offers during that spell, however they were all under conditions I could not in good conscience abide by. In short, I’m holding out for a late afternoon/early slot at the Westgate Central Market location with a guarantee that a) I can play whatever I want, and b) I can leave at any point with my full fee ($500) if anyone tries to speak to me.
It has been suggested by at least one local venue owner such demands are unreasonable but I think what he was really trying to say was, “we realize booking you would simply expose every other DJ in town as a fraud and/or zero-talent and we’d prefer to showcase utter mediocrity for the rest of our days”. And I suspect David Sleaze knows exactly what I am talking about.