For all you twats out there - oops I mean twits...or tweets?

me on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/babypengy (I know surprising choice of nicknames)
Joe H on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/joehasselvander

The two men in my life

Me with my brother Simon at the Prospect Park train station in Brooklyn - photo by SDK.




Sexy Joe onstage with Raven in Osaka Japan June 10, 2009

Joe only plays with cool people...

Joe Hasselvander rehearsing with 60's Psychedelic hard rock legends BLUE CHEER!! Ass kicking Drum solo at 5.27!!!

Another famous friend!!

My buddy Steve is now an internet celebrity!!! I am surrounded by talented and famous people!!!

Click this link to see him!!

Nurse Betty Strikes again...

WHY THE FUCK WOULD I TRY TO GET JOE THROWN OUT OF RAVEN? ARE YOU ON FUCKING CRACK!!? WHY THE HELL WOULD I WANT TO DO THAT? DOES THAT EVEN MAKE SENSE!??? Or is this the jealous rantings of someone who will never work with Raven or anyone associated with them ever again. Even Wacko hates you.

Seriously think before you talk shit about me or I'll tell the world how you are an UNBORN BABY MURDERER!!
Stay tuned, for tales of how someone in the medical profession paid for an "opertion" that is illegal in some states...oh yeah..I'll fucking tell...you start shit about me I have NO RESPECT for you!!!

Good night nurse!

Sometimes these titles just come to me, call it divine inspiration. Or divine comedy. Either way I am a genius.

So for the both of you who are following the "hack blag" saga as started on blabbermouth, here is the latest update.

this is all here say because Joe found out about this through a third party. Apparently - the "singer" decided he no longer wanted to be a part of this project. For reasons known only to himself I guess, like I said Joe heard about this second hand because THE GUY WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO SING FOR HIM OBVIOUSLY HAS NO RESPECT FOR JOE OR HE WOULD HAVE BEEN A MAN AND TOLD HIM PERSONALLY.

Oooh looks like my CAPS LOCK got stuck briefly. Sorry.

So in summary, the Blabbermouth Blowhard stole all of Joe's myspace friends in an attempt to "promote the band" as he said, then he quit the band - then deleted all of Joe's (and my) myspace friends he lifted.

And there was something told to us about this "singer" wanting to keep Joe and the bass player out of the publishing -thereby excluding them from any money this band would make.

Uhhhm yeah except its not a band yet....

Its Ok, I showed Joe old band guest books where Ed Finley, The Headbanger and countless other fictional people with the same IP address all posted within ten minutes of each other saying the same thing with the same grammatical and spelling errors. Something to the effect of "he is one crazy motherfucker" may have come out of JOe's mouth, I don't remember exactly I was laughing too hard.

So in summary again, this "singer" decided it would be in his best interests to not be in a band with the mighty Joe Hasselvander, except he kind of forgot to call Joe Hasselvander to tell him.

What do you expect from someone who hides in a closet on their job site while talking on a cell phone?

And you know what, this does involve me because this "singer" was someone I thought was my friend, then someone claiming to be Mrs Blabbermouth Blowhard because apparently once you're married you lose your first name, sent Joe an email that was seriously designed to break Joe and I up. So thanks for that but it backfired didn't it?

:)

New Wave of British Heavy Metal n' Stuff

First of all, who told that dim wit Dane Lars Ulrich that he is an expert of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (herewith referred to as NWOBHM)? One - He's not BRITISH! (Neither am I but insert jokes about having some British in me....I won't say it because i"m a classy broad..) Two - he's an expert on nothing - not even drumming. Sheesh I didn't mean this to be an anti- Lars rant but i have to start out with that for reasons that will become clear shortly.

About 19 years ago, I was obsessed with Iron maiden and collected everything that remotely concerned them. I had a closet full of t-shirts, denim jacket with a huge Killers patch on the front, and of course all the cd's and singles up to that point. I was going to school at community college which involved a 30 minute bus ride each way. I had recently brought the compilation, NWOBHM '79 revisited, assembled by the aforementioned twit Ulrich and that would be my traveling music for months.

This double CD set did have some great bands, notably the awesomely fantastic Godfathers of Thrash, the almighty RAVEN!! erm...Saxon, Fist, Iron maiden of course, Angel Witch, Holocaust, Diamond Head (2 songs! WHY!?) Jaguar, Tygers of Ping Pong, Blitzkrieg.... all great bands. This is all I had of this era of music for years until I went investigating on my own. This is the focal point of my anger at that tennis playing midget. While there are some great bands, he FORGOT SO MANY AWESOME ONES! I can only imagine he couldn't get the copyrights? or he couldn't find the band members? Why else would he leave out TANK!!! And Demon? And Avenger! Ethel the Frog, black Rose, The E.F. Band, Tarot, Girl, GEORDIE! ? What the fuck!! It should have been a triple CD set!! I'm getting pissed just thinking about the awesomeness that was negleted!!!


In 2006 my friend Bob from Attacker invited the British Band Elixir over to the US to play some shows locally, one in Happy world land aka Brooklyn, and the first in New Jersey. I went along to see them and the instant they started the song "The Star of Beshaan" my jaw dropped to the floor and my eyes went straight. Where had this band been all my life?? I actually had the pleasure of working for them on that mini tour as merchandise whore and NYC tour guide. This was the beginning of a friendship that continus to this day. I actually flew out to the UK for the British Steel Festival -which was a celebration of NWOBHM - and of course I run the Myspace site which is now the official site for the fest - British Steel on Myspace.

Also in 2006 I met Cliff Evans, the guitar player for Tank, and took the alcoholics tour of London! It was through Cliff in a roundabout way that I met my fiancee, Joe Hasselvander, drummer of...wait for it....NWOBHM legends Raven!!

Its a small world after all and with Joe I have the ultimate NWOBHM collectible!!