For the past three years the San Francisco Bay Area has proven itself to be an idealic dreamland for the loud, gregarious, beautiful, absurd, and recently, brutal battles of competitive air guitar. The good citizens of the Bay have shown to be accepting, inviting, supportive and downright passionate about this very real *sport* and they will thus be rewarded with the ultimate prize – to be the host city for the 2008 U.S. Air Guitar Finals. No need to pull up the Pay Per View or YouTube or wait for text messages from friends lucky enough to be in the midst of wherever-air-guitar-competitions-used-to-be. Twenty-five regional winners will instead go air-to-air on the rectangled square circle of the Grand Ballroom in San Francisco this year. ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
8.08.08 – keep the date, as them engaged folk are wont to say. (That's August 8th, by the way – 2 weeks from now.)
A few reasons why you should go:
- The Finals are being held here because the Bay Area is a place that 'gets it'. They have earned the position of host by sheer numbers and enthusiasm. Come understand and be a part of the answers to Why Air Guitar? and Why Here? and Seriously?!
- Not one, not two, but three locals are representing the Bay Area – (two-time regional winner) Ricky Stinkfinger, local comedian and long-standing friend The Awesome (aka Shred Begly Jr, aka Alex Koll, and for those who remember the band Your Mother - The Flying Poof), and yours truly, Hot Lixx Hulahan. (Not to mention 22 other regional winners from all over the country who have earned their place in this prestigious competition!)
- HOOO! this stuff is FUN. It is as goofy as it is serious, as much rock show as it is sporting event, as much performance art as it is people just spazzing out for 60 seconds at a time. It is like nothing you've ever seen (unless you've seen it before).
We haven't even pinned down the judges yet but I have a feeling this will sell out long before we get that figured out, so don't let that hold you back. [In this last year we have had Greg Proops (Whose Line Is It Anyway?), Mitch from Flight of the Conchords, key figures from The Onion, The Daily Show, High Times, Vice, and Saturday Night Live. We had a Pulitzer prize winning author and an ACLU lawyer, a leprechaun, and even GOD herself made an appearance in Pittsburgh.] This year I am sure they will come up with people of equal talent and notoriety and ridiculousness.
So blah blah blah… Go here for tickets as they are already almost sold out:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C0040CBA03938A9?artistid=1231084&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1&brand=anotherplanet;1216918176265
(or just go to www.usairguitar.com and click on TCKETS)
If you buy a ticket, lemme know so I can make you up a Hot Lixx t-shirt. If this is gonna be my hometown show I gotta make sure everyone from out of town knows that!
XOXO
Craig, aka Hot Lixx Hulahan
www.hotlixxhulahan.com
p.s. I have been asked by 2's and 3's of people about how I'm going into this years' finals. Mentally I am gonna do what I always do – Have a good time and hang out with my nerdy air guitar friends. Physically, 2008's Hot Lixx Hulahan Finals Routine™ will be the standard fare – awkward rocking, uncomfortable sexual gestures, ruling tunes, and the requisite sweet-ass outfit. Today my lady and I went first to Folsom St where the leather daddys get their back-to-school wear, and then it was on to Polk St where the trannies find their androge-o-gear. Gauge that how you will.