well well well.

after a long long long absence from the blogging world......the myspace world.....I is back with a vengeance.

check out the video for "THAT ONE"

this is not a MOWO! single.....this will never be for sale. However, it is a giant F U to John McCain for being such a smug prick and NOT having the respect to call Barack Obama either

A. Senator Obama
B. Barack
C. Mr. President ( yeah boyee )
D. All of the above

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmOUP0U5PNk
here is the link if you want to watch it at youtube

its also on my myspace page.

Hey McCain, have a little respect. Look the man in the eyes. Im starting to think you are actually racist.

ENJOY! GObama!™

be well,

MOWO!™

My father passed away this week. Those of you who know anything about me or my life and family know that my father was easily my best friend. I spoke with him daily and I loved him without question. Without a single regret or word unsaid.

I always joked with him about having gone into the wrong business as he was easily the funniest person I've ever been around. As great as a record producer and record man as he was, he easily could have written for Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm. Easily. Too easily.

He and I had both gone through a weird run of health issues of late , he had beaten Prostate cancer and I had spent the whole of last summer keeping my eye on him making sure he was cool.He, in his typical style was far more concerned and interested in my well being than his own. My health was far more important, thats just how he was.

I even recently moved back into his neighborhood in Manhattan so that we could spend more time together. For the 2 or so weeks since the 28th of November,I spent a grand total of about 9 days in my apartment after moving in before doing some traveling. I spoke with him everyone of those days I was in my new place and hung out with him for lunch or dinner including my birthday ( Nov 29th ). Im glad I have those experiences. They sound simple and sort of mundane, but guess what? They aren't. Im really numb writing this right now.

Here are a couple of facts about my father's career you should know. He signed Roberta Flack , Bette MIdler and made classic albums with them. Regarding Roberta Flack he made her only classic albums actually. He also co-produced the Roberta Flack Donny Hathaway duet record. Before he produced pop / r&b stuff he was a jazz guy and he worked with and produced Joe Zawinul , Chick Corea, Les McCann , Eddie Harris ,Stan Getz, David Fathead Newman , Rahsaan Roland Kirk,Keith Jarret,Gary Burton,Charles Mingus , Charles Lloyd, and so many other artists I cant even begin to list them all.He is also the only person ever to do a session that had Dr. John and Kate Smith in the same room. For those of you who even know who both of those people are , you know that that's about as hip as it gets. I didnt even mention Aaron Neville , The Neville Brothers, The Allman Brothers or Leon Redbone. The names are just popping into my head as I type.Nothing about my fathers work was safe, straight down the middle or compromised. Was every album a hit? No. Did he ever work on crap for a check? No.( well once but Buddy Rich was a prick and the check was big and he got yelled at for a solid week..so you know what?..fuck you buddy rich...how's that you prick? Lets see what you and your black belt think about that? ) My old man was a straight up guy. He didn't understand or have any interest in playing into the business politics of the record business. He just wanted, and did , make great music. he was in the RECORD business. Not what we know today as the record BUSINESS.

He was the kind of guy that would jeopardize his career to help someone. After Rahsaan Roland Kirk suffered from a stroke a record executive at the major label he was signed to ( both the label and the executive will remain nameless ) refused to pay Rahsaan/ Keep in mind, Rahsaan was a blind man who had just suffered a debilitating stroke. My father, Rahsaan's producer , but more importantly Rahsaan's friend, locked the executive in his office the old fashioned way by jamming a chair under the doorknob and then proceeded to shall we say convince the executive in question to make sure a certain check was delivered that afternoon to Rahsaan. My old mans career in fact suffered from that passion and that event, but at the end of the day. I wouldn't want things any other way. He didn't take any shit and he did the right thing for his friend in need.

From middle period of his career until his dying day he only cared and dealt with the legacy of unissued recordings (with the exception of producing Jane Monheits first couple of albums).He had the unique experience of being able to reissue recordings of not only many of the Atlantic artists he loved but many of the recordings he had in fact produced ( maybe he was a smart business man? ) Major labels dont really care about music for the most part ( a fact we now know to be true and see on a daily basis ) My father and I actually ran a reissue label together called 32 Records at the and of the 90's that also acted as a conduit for a lot of those Atlantic Records reissues. He loved Atlantic.

On the day of his death He was literally working on a 60th anniversary box set for Atlantic Records which he was dedicating to Neshui Ertegun ( I've never known how to spell their names ,I'm sorry if I messed it up again, I do love that BIG MAC, the studio manager at Atlantic Studios back in the day used to call Ahmet, OMLETTE!!!.......genius ), . I will now be taking over that project and dedicating it to my old man , with the thought that the idea was to have it honor Neshui,but now it will honor both of them. Nobody else ran the jazz at Atlantic. If you think you did, Im sorry if im insulting you, You did not. He was the living steward of that collection and its number one fan. It was a two man operation. Neshui and Joel.

The interesting thing about my father is that , unlike a lot of his peers who got caught up in grammies and making millions of dollars and career goals is the following. He really only cared about his family and our well being. Im not painting the man out to be a saint here. He was a terrible business man, something we always laughed with him about.He'd make 50 and spend 51...and I loved him for it.I used to think it was something that was a big deal , but you know what. It doesnt mean a single fucking thing. He really only cared about us. His kids. Business isn't for everyone. I'll never forget him paying for my first semester of college in cash from a car he sold , he then borrowed a car and san legal license drove me to school and paid the nice people in the bursors office in cash. He'd also fed ex me walking around money while I was in school as well. He'd literally stick cash in the envelope and send me $40 of his probably $80 bucks to his name at the time.He wasn't a guy that gave a fuck about rules or cared what anybody thought save me and my brothers. He wanted me to have bass strings and food money. He was just that kind of guy. Wouldn't hesitate to give me anything he had on him.

Some fun fathering facts about joel dorn

he liked to tell strangers I was adopted ( I always got a huge laugh out of that )

He liked to ask me if I wanted to go to the local toy store in philly and then change his mind everytime I said yes. ( I was 7....and knew it was funny )

He liked to whistle/sing in public at the most awkward times ( I hear larry david does the same thing. Larry, my old man and you would have been great friends )

He once asked a woman my mother worked for if she could cash a check for him, she responded by saying yes but wanted to know how much was the check for , he said "A penny" she said ( totally missing the joke) "why on earth do you need to cash a check for a penny? He said " I need some walking around money"

he turned me on to Laurel and Hardy , WC Fields , Fellini , Miles, Motown , Wagner , Tex Avery , Seinfeld , Sam Cooke and Lenny Bruce and to me he was as hip , cool and funny and soulful as any of them.

Always, he just liked to laugh with us, his sons, and hang and make sure we were cool.

Even while going through radiation treatments for prostate cancer, he made it down to everyone of my gigs last summer. If I was doing something. He was there. Period.

At the end of the day......grammies? snore........hit records?........snore.....schmoozing with record business weasels to help his career , snore........( my father actually snored btw)....he was just about us and always there for us. That's what I loved most about him and will continue to always love about him. He made things right, he always let you know you were loved.

My old man and I both love sports and I take delight in knowing he went out still being able to throw a 98 mph fastball. He still had it, Luckily I didnt have to see him lose it. He went out strong as a bull.

My father was the fucking best. Joel Dorn 4-7-42 - 12-17-07 best father ever.

That's all I gotta say for the time being.

be well,

or rather as my father liked to sign off,

"keep a light in the window"

adam dorn.

DAMMIT DO IT!!!!!

we cant let the likes of RUFUS WAINWRIGHT BEAT US..........NO NO NO NO............screw that.......no whining up in here........WE ARE WINNERS AND NPR HAS SELECTED US TO WIN THIS mf'er........

that means , every vote I get........from say you.......means I buy you a car or like a home ( what with all this sub prime rate foreclosing going on, I can buy hunderds of homes.......) DO THE RIGHT THING.............FIGHT THE POWER.............RUFUS MUST GO DOWN

VOTE FOR MOWO!!!!! ON NPR!!!! TICKLE IT SONG OF THE YEAR 2007.....

hey......

who loves ya baby!?!?!?........MOWO! , thats who........so why not show me some love back by voting MOWO! on the song of the year poll on NPR's "ALL SONGS CONSIDERED SONG OF THE YEAR POLL"

here is the link.

http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=833977

I dont have a chance in hell.......some indie rock doofus will win....

but hey.......aint it worth asking the MOWO! massive to throw down a bit of love for some music thats actually based on making your ass move and putting a smile on your face? Sure......FEIST is a star now......Im like the Ralph Kramden of the record business, Im the bus driver to the stars......

if you vote for me and I win........well wont that be an amazing feeling........we'll all feel like we did something great

so here is the link again!

http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=833977

NPR is full of smart , sophisticated people , they wouldnt put my album in there if they didnt think it was one of the best......and you guys wouldnt stop by often and read my absolutely moronic writings if you didnt think I was on the verge of some sort of breakthrough or a mental episode.

so once again here is the link

http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=833977

VOTE MOWO!

WE WIN if I WIN.........we'll all put the TEA in TEAM.......and have a nice cup of hot tea together and celebrate the underdog comeback story of the year.......why would the killers or wilco deserve this??!?! they are millionaires and sell out stadiums.......anybody could vote for them ,its too easy

http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=833977

VOTE FOR MOWO! , MOWO! FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008!!!!!!!!

( did I post the link enough.......is it the right link even!?!?! hahahahahaha )

be well,

MOWO!

CHECKERS........IT really just starts and ends with CHECKERS......I don't mean former President Richard M. Nixon's little dog "checkers" I mean the fast food chain.......CHECKERS.....not the game..........the fast food place. Now Im clear and we can begin a tail of epic proportions.

I went to Miami over the weekend for a DJ gig. I admit , I don't DJ very often anymore and Im not the best DJ on the planet. My focus is on the live band and playing as many live shows as possible. Pretty straight forward basic stuff. But I was booked to DJ and DJ i was gonna do DAMMIT!

My friend Kesselman came down to Miami with me , thinking that it would be fun and why not , he hadn't ever been there and we could hang out , have some laughs and spend a day or so together down there and have a good time. have us a little adventure.

AND THEN CHECKERS HAPPENED.

Checkers, located on US 1 and roughly 33rd street near downtown MIAMI but not quite in DOWNTOWN MIAMI is a bastion of weirdness/american dreams gone wrong.

I opted to pull up and do the walk up experience at CHECKERS seeing as we had ( unbeknownst to me at the time 5 complete hours before my dj gig would take place ) In his defense , Kesselman had mentioned doing the drive through as his option of choice. I poo poo'ed that. I was a walk up and see what's what kind of fella that evening. I paid a bit of a price for it that night.

We were greeted by a friendly neighborhood crack addict still in hospital issue gown and pants. Apparently this man was only 17 cents shy of getting a specific burger meal. I quickly gave him two dollars with which he promptly jumped ahead of me in the little line with to make his order. I pointed out to him that he might want to let me order seeing as I just helped him out. He obliged. I had found a somewhat polite crack addict. Still strange nonetheless. why is it that folks lik this always happen to be 23 cents or 17 cents away from their meal goal? Oh wait I know the answer to this question, they are crack addicts......thats the answer. Nuff said.

Let me now explain the ordering process. Maybe I should explain it by asking a question first? Ever order take out chinese food from a take away place in NORTH PHILADELPHIA?

if so, dont read any further. If not

this is how it went.

I walked up to the window......a woman dressed in CHECKERS full costume barely slid open a window that could withstand a blast from a healthy sized chunk of C4 and asked me

"what you want!"

I said.....I'll have a large vanilla milkshake please almost in a voice similar to Richard E grant in WITHNAIL AND I.....i was very polite, Im always very polite.

to which she said

"ok".........and slammed the barely EVER opened window.

I should mention that this was the order window and roughly 8-10 feet to the right was the pick up window.

About 9 minutes later or what felt like it, I was given a SMALL vanilla milkshake that Im now convinced was full of dioxin and biohazard materials and I was charged $1.71 for it. I paid and then the magic happened. ( this magic also happened for kesselman who was brave enough to order a small sized 7 meal.....the fact that he studied the menu that closely cracked me up in and of itself. ) I had to wait like 4 minutes for my change......4 minutes to get 29 cents, 29 cents I would gladly given to her to hasten my departure.

The big picture touch screen computer utilized to facilitate my order apparently didn't tell you the employee what the change was for $2 on a bill totaling $1.71. A calculator was then brought into the picture and this took about 2 minutes of fiddling to produce a result. All the while I was holding my SMALL milk shake wondering where my large milkshake was. I then ( when the window briefly opened to gain me access to the cashier ) asked her where my large milk shake was. I got a baffled look and was told I ordered a small milk shake. Apparently at CHECKERS "the customer is always wrong" I kind of dig that and let it go. The exchange between us was exciting , comedic , confusing and sad all at once. Not only had she messed my order up she literally owed me .29 cents and it took her about 2 minutes to figure out that amount. I got my change back with a smile and all the while, my favorite crackhead was milling about eager to order his burger meal and talking to me or was that kesselman or was that the sidewalk in a language best described as Spanglish-Old Danish , mumbling all the while. I think I heard some danish in there. Im not 100% sure.

I wont even go into the details of Kesselmans order. It was something along the lines of Kafka meets Tennessee Williams. The whole scene still has me scratching my head and Im not doing it any justice by trying to put it into words. He even ate some of the food. Im not sure if he should get a medal or if I should never speak to him again for having eaten the food or both. I chose to stay friends with him. I had in fact brought him to hell as my guest. It was the least I could do to stay friends.

It was miami in a nutshell. I think. Im not sure , but it was very MIAMI like. MIAMI is an interesting place.

One other crack addict stopped me for money at the CHECKERS order line and we then quickly got into our car and went back to the venue. Where we waited for about 3-4 more hours before I dj'ed.

fun.

we stayed at a motel that was interesting as well. Let me quickly describe it

Our initial room smelled like a mating area for Salamanders and Frogs....sort of like an elementary school aquarium gone very wrong.....it was such a bad smell we changed rooms. The new room simply smelled like a place where mildew had visited a lot but was now somewhat being kept at bay by highly toxic materials that were just as bad for our health. We went to bed at about 4:15 am............Kesselman repeatedly thanked me for having brought him to hell. I should also note that the act of changing our rooms at roughly 3:56 am yielded the following experience. There was a couple of some sort of Eastern European descent essentially fornicating in the pool in plain sight, a man and two women sitting at a pool side table drinking beers who could all see the couple in question who were clearly not friends with the nearly fornicating couple in question and then there was the kicker.........there was a woman, id say in her late 60's standing in her doorway in what can only be described as the sort of nightgown Edith Bunker would wear ashing her cigarette at us as we walked by , lost trying to find our room ,trying to find some solace. Two nice boys, lost in the vortex of hell , just looking for room 202 but constantly walking by room 666. Kesselman mentioned the film "1408"........ I refused to go there and quickly hit the hay.This woman may even have lived there. It was truly a sight to behold and the stuff of documentaries. I could easily do a doc about this motel. 5 people would watch it , but i could do it.

The next morning/afternoon we ate at the rascal house which was a nice little move and then the NY FOOTBALL JETS promptly kicked the MIAMI FOOTBALL DOLPHINS asses in a game of football and somehow I felt redeemed.........just a little bit. We got the airport about 3 hours early , had no bags to check and we parked ourselves at the CHILLIS near our gate. ( CHILLIS seems to only be in AIRPORTS i go to of late.....I had some bloody mary's that had zero affect on me and then got on what was basically a pleasant flight.......back to civilization )

now where are things standing?

I now have a horrible hacking cough, and a cold. My ear is messed up and I wonder if Kesselman will ever truly be my close friend again.

Oh miami........you fickle mistress.......home to old yentas who talk so much their tongues get a sunburn and well........crack addicts that are only .17 cents away from a dream burger meal.

i will miss thee. Truly.

be well,

MOWO!--

take from my website, I wrote this piece today. REALLY REALLY ANGRY. I dont normally curse in my writing and I dont normally vent like this. IM really beyond pissed. THE voice has a history of dissing people I care about , my father included and I have had just about enough. It would be one thing if it was like the NY TIMES.......but you know what........it aint the TIMES, its a shitty paper and this is what I ahd to say about it :


THE VILLAGE VOICE - THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO D. piece.....a REACTION.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
DEAR VILLAGE VOICE,

FUCK YOU.......yes......I said it .... FUCK YOU!!! In the time honored tradtion of Al Goldstein famous host of NYC's 1980's cable access legend show "Midnight Blue", I am telling an entity to go FUCK ITSELF.

Your cover story about my colleague David "Disco D" Shayman was vile. Are you not aware of the fact that he has friends that would have to read that piece of shit article and a mother that might have to see it? You guys have sucked for years but this is an all time low.

Disco and I shared a manager for a couple of years and while I wouldnt call us best friends , we did share a nice relationship when we saw each other and he was a great guy. He did not deserve to be treated like he was in your piece. But what's to be expected from a paper like yours? A piece of shit I literally step over on the streets of nyc as I walk from place to place.

What I do know is this, THE VILLAGE VOICE has essentially become a directory for Asian Escort Ads and Transvestite hooker services.The last 1/3rd of you paper is a collection of tranny ads and a "me so horney, me love you long time" festival So, if you are a lonely , balding , miserable prick of a human being ( which based on the way you guys write about shit would lead me to believe the majority of your staff fits this description ) I would say the last 30 odd ages of your magazine go to serve your employees empty dreams and fantasies more so than the readers glancing through your TERRIBLE paper.

"HAPPY ENDING"....."MASSAGEY THIS?!?!"....."MAKE BANANA CRY?" time for you VILLAGE VOICE

shame on you!!!

GO FUCK YOURSELF!

MOCEAN WORKER....aka ADAM DORN .....AKA.......the guy that has officially shot you not one BUT two BIRDS........DOUBLE BIRD Action for you mf'ers

be well, ( not the Village Voice )

MOWO!--

check out these two cool MOWO! interviews on national radio

NPR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11791823


and PRI :

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/fairgame/local-fairgame-608492.mp3

FUN FUN FUN

yeee haa!

be well,

MOWO!™

wow....

myspace gives me a feature for a week and i now know what its like to be one of the popular kids in high school

was getting between 7-12K spins a day and a ton of nice emails and new friends.

well its over now. Im back to being little ol me.......i thought I was going to be a drug addicted rock star by the end of the week with all the attention. I expected to be in rehab by sunday and a week later possibly living on an island off the coast of Indonesia with a little indian boy as my assistant. ( see mighty boosh on that ref )

anyway.........I really do want to thank the folks at myspace for putting the spotlight on me during the week of release. Unlike most major label releases or releases in general.......we're going to work this album for the better part of a year and a half so , dont expect me to vanish and call it a day with this album a month in after its release like most labels do. Part of self releasing and doing this completely by myself is that you dont give up and you keep trying stuff and getting out there.

so..........the show goes on...........albeit with 200 myspace spins a day and not 7,500

all good...........it was great while it lasted and I think a lot of folks got turned on to the new album and also maybe made the connection to how they knew some of the other music.

so tough nowadays with just the sheer amount of music thats out there.

so...........early days yet my friends..........much more MOWO! goodness and offer..........remixes , new videos , new hairdos , new newness.....

word up

be well,

MOWO!™

so.....

We did a record release party the other night and man.........it was insane. URSULA 1000 ruled the decks and then........my band..........my little juggernaut of "can do spirit" and "refried funk" tore the place apart.......not once people........BUT TWICE.

wow...........was such an amazing feeling to finally play with musicians again and get my bass on. Not many people know that Im actually a musician. Not even my closest friends as I stopped playing for like 7-8 years. I had some people looking at me like I had three heads and 9 arms........it was hysterical.

I wanna thank the members of the band for bringing it and putting out such a great vibe. The folks in the club really were into it and it was just a great evening in general.

one for the books, hopefully one of many more to come for this band and earth in general. ( wow did I jsut say earth in general....hahaha...sorry )

anyway.......the video is now up on the myspace page. I think I'm gonna swap it out in a couple of days for a bigger one........I put up the cropped version and its a bit small me thinks.

check out the album if you can........tell everyone you know about it if you can.........jump up and down and scream SHAKE YA BOOGIE if you can........do something..........COME ON ALREADY PEOPLE!!!! hahaha

be well,

MOWO!™

wow...

I woke up today to a nice bunch of friend requests having NO idea whatsoever that MYSPACE has featured my lil old self on their music page. THANKS MYSPACE :)

The new album is released tomorrow and the band is gonna play at NUBLU here in NYC to celebrate that fact.

We'll be joined by international superstar DJ ..URSULA 1000......its gonna rock. Come down if you can.

very exciting indeed.

be well,

MOWO!™

That's right friends.....

Even one month ahead of its release , CINCO DE MOWO! took down the mighty mighty heavyweight champions LCD SOUNDSYSTEM to become the new #1 album on the chart this week.

Im not saying anything about kicking their asses and banishing them, for that would be stupid, they were number one for like 11 weeks in a row and will sell something along the lines of 40 times the amount of albums I will sell........but, for this one moment........I am the 1985 Villinova Wildcats beating those GIANT Georgtown Hoyas.......cinderalla story baby.......

LCD.......I kicked yer f'ing asses today........hahahaha , yeah right!

Anyway........thanks so much for the support out there at college radio , I cant wait to get the band out on the road and come to your town and in the style of TENACIOUS D........kick your f'ing asses with the MIGHTY MOWO! GROOVES

word up

be well,

MOWO!™