"We'd like to know a little about you for our files"


Who are you..?

I will tell you who I am NOT.I am not an ex-manager of someone.I am not an ex employee of someone's previous label.I am not an ex-bandmate.I am not anyone vaguely connected with someone's ex band.Not any of a certain person ex boyfriends.So if this person thinks they have figured out who I am in recent weeks.She is wrong.

And you are..?

A well connected appreciator.Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your opinion.I am the sort of person you want as your champion in this industry and don't want as an enemy.

Your name..?

Never reveal your name on the internet.However some people on my mailing list have recently (last week) been sent my picture (handsome devil!) and they swear they have met me before.They probably have too.

Age
older than 25 younger than 40

Height..?
6ft.

Weight..?
12 stone.

Married..?
Nope.Girlfriends.yes.(not at the same time!)

Gay..?
Nope.Very hetrosexual.I have several gay friends and have been chatted up numerous times by gay men (I must be their type!).I support gay rights but do not practice them..

"..Listen I know where the Himilayas are.But I've never been up'em.."

Hair Colour?
Dark brown.

Eyes?

light gray/blue.

Do you live in England?

Nope.

Are you English?

Nope

Do you write under an alias?

Yes.DryBaby.

Would we have read your words somewhere besides here?

Yes

Reveal some (so far secret) details we would shocked to find out?

I am (was?) Charm Pinkerton,& Litten. I single handedly wrote most of the original notes on WendyJames.nu (1,300 entries,yep true)before it was hacked by a fake Charm in the late 90's (who faked the "cancer" story which was circulated by the UK tabloids.The fake Charm may have been a tabloid journalist).I also provided 90% of the images there.Most of the images on the current TRW site were actually sourced by me in the late 90's as that is where TRW got their images for the front page.I had some images sourced from original negatives and cleaned up for website use on WendyJames.nu in the late 90's.That site (wendyjames.nu)has since closed.Charm Pinkerton ended with that.I dont mind I do not own their copyrights.Frankly no ones going to claim copyright on them anyway...

Some pictures were from magazines long gone bankrupt but I sourced the prints from the original photographers in some cases.Thus their very high quality.Next time you log onto TRW's front page remember that...

As Litten(2004-2006) I contributed 100's of articles/messages to The Vamp board.I do not contribute there anymore.I contributed in depth studies of Racine and the individuals involved.I posted very rare interviews and explained for people there who the people in Racine were.I also made the original various RARE DEMO tapes from the 90's available on line a few years ago.They were subsequently offered for a fee on Ebay which I did NOT approve of.I gave them to everyone for nothing under another alias.Next time you listen to them remember that too...

As Litten I NEVER posted to TRW message board knowing others would.I did however encourage most of the original contributors to post there and through mailing individuals personally helped to create the original list of 150 people there and the 400 odd on The Vamp board.Subsequent events were nothing to do with me...

Basically I was THE cheerleader for Racine on the net in 2004 and early 2005 when no one (truly no one) gave a damn (some would say that still applies in certain media areas to this day).Many of the early net Racine events can be traced back to me.Ironically I had nothing to do with myspace then as I believed then (and still do now) it is a very limiting service but sadly the current mindset in Racine is myspace all the way.I very publically (as everyone now knows) disagree and quite publically accept I have become hated for it by a certain individual.She knows who she is.I still think I am right and will be proved so...

Why do you write the Blogs still..?

I enjoy writing the Blogs so much as I continue to interact with certain people.Many many people as I found out recently.I was shocked they wanted to continue reading them.

Things which you are most proud of..

Not being afraid to (metaphorically) kick a certain person up the arse when she I thought needed it (she would of course disagree she needed it!).Never being afraid to row against the tide.I appreciate someone but I don't kiss ass.Every human being should be treated with dignity but we all sit down on a toilet in the same way.I am no better than anyone else I just have certain skills they don't but I am certain they have skills I sorely lack.So we are even.Truly...

The humour of the Blogs and the wit of my personal blogs/diatribes.Which I have been told make some people laugh out loud at their computer screens (especially the dialogue in the Blogs) and talk a lot of sense (as well as quite a bit of showboating!!)

My skills and ability to get people "on side" with my ideas/concepts.My kindness to my friends.My "always on"creative mind ( a rarer thing than you might think)

My rhino skin which allows me to deflect criticism by accepting that if you give it you must take it.I admit to NOT being insecure about any criticism (A huge benefit when you criticise others and they have the absolute right to fight back)

Never running away from any punishment due me and never being a coward.Nothing wrong with being scared of something that is human but cowardise is a really repulsive attribute to rival arrogance.Confidence is a hugely attractive characteristic.Humility is charming also.

I am a genius at reading the true character of a person and this has helped me a lot in my life.So far I have never been ripped off or tricked.In other words "Never Get Wet".

Things you are most ashamed of..

Driving hugely drunk down a (deserted) street in Amsterdam in the middle of a big snow storm a few years ago.I was virtually hanging out of the car and driving right down the exact middle of the street.Luckily no one was killed.It is by far the STUPIDEST THING I ever did.Amazingly I was not arrested.I was a happy drunk (not an alcholic) but I gave up alcohol then(2004)

Sometimes in the heat of the moment (writing) being much crueler than I should be.I have a vicious tongue and despite what some people think I do regret somene might be hurt by my words.However my writing comes almost of its own accord sometimes as anybody who writes will testify.I may be a bastard sometimes but I am a readable bastard and the fact that you are reading this blog says a lot.

My temper.I am not Gandhi.I do bear grudges and admit to getting satisfaction in watching people I don't like suffer.Luckily for me my judgement in this area is often spot on.

Thing that surprised YOU most about the Blog feedback?

Many people say they like the "fictional" character of someone (which I created) more than the real life person.They say I have made "her" (she is not real) into a witty,spunky likeable independent person well able to stand up for themselves and explain their failures while being optimistic about their potential success....

Also many find "her" bad language dialogue appealing as it reveals a vunerable side.The fact that there are lines of dialogue one after the other also makes "her" seem clever/razor sharp and funny...

Not a bad image to have.

Why do I Use MySpace?

Well basically for publicity for the Blogs to be absolutely honest.I was wondering where I could get the Blogs the sort of exposure relevent to what they contain.They are parodies of a musical situation so I chose myspace as this is where my "main" (for want of a better word) audience would be.If I did parodies of a movie situation I would have chosen a movie based site.If they were parodies of literary situations I would have,of course chosen a book based site...

Frankly I am not a huge myspace activist (I think it is creaky,crashes too many times,needs to be updated to reflect the Mac generation (ipod,i tunes etc) and is becoming far too cautious with it's "terms of service" getting more conservative with every passing day.This is foolish when other similiar (and better) sites are in fact going in the opposite direction and relaxing their TOS to reflect the Wild West atmosphere of the internet in 21st century...
Applying (rapidly outdated )20th century laws to a 21st century phenomenon is like applying 19th century laws to 20th century lifestyles would have been(imagine what sort of world we would live in if homosexuality/lebianism for instance was still a criminal offense or you were "obliged" to show "due deference" to politicians/members of royalty or law officers? Exactly my point).So to recap I used myspace to get attention for the Blogs and display some of the photos (just a taster really).Taking a calculated (EVERYTHING I do is calculated) risk that this would lead to positive feedback and mailing requests.Which it more than did.I was swamped and am very pleased and happy to mail to these wonderful people who "get" me.Frankly my expectations have been overwhelmed.I though only a small number of people would contact me but it is huge.

Will you continue to post Blogs on MySpace?

Personal commentary ones like this,maybe.Ones like the musical parody? They will be continue to be written (5 already this week,plenty of subject matter!) but they will be DIRECT MAILED to people to a) avoid any "conflict" with any TOS and b) to avoid people looking over my shoulder looking for things to complain about.They have I am sure lots of things in their own life to complain about without looking for any more to take up their "valuable" time.That way the (very,very many) people who genuinely want to read (and comment/participate on) the Blogs will be able to and people who don't...er..won't have to have their eyeballs bothered/offended.They can go to any one of the many other sites which is devoted to their tastes.If they can find one.Without having to burden their minds with details of what I am doing.Myself and my mailers will get on with our activities across the web.
I will also be posting a regular mailer to people with relevent information and photos/videos (lots of photos/video!)also through DIRECT MAIL.Of course this mailer will have all relevant contacts and web addresses and in certain cases the passwords needed to access anything I choose to put behind a password system(just for the ultra Top Secret stuff).No biggie.I was never going to conduct my business in the full glare of prying eyes.As I said that period was just for publicity.Now that is achieved.It goes private.
As far as myspace is concerned.It was NEVER the centre of my universe and as I now have the mailing list/feedback I don't need it frankly.Still it will stay on my (very long)list of sites I frequent as it is handy for mailing other myspacers on their pages.Frankly it's services are weak compared to what is available elsewhere on the vast info superhighway.

How would you describe the Blogs?

Parodies of an existing musical situation and all persons connected directly and indirectly to it.The "characters" are of course fictional but are based on easily recognisable individuals.The dialogue is heavily based on real information and is designed to answer questions which have remained (deliberately) unanswered up to this point.The humour is deliberately dark and I am well aware that certain people are stung by it.
Parody is NOT ILLEGAL and has existed for many hundreds of years.Examples of parodies include certain passages in the Bible (true!),historical accounts and drawings,impersonations (Micheal Jackson,Bob Dylan,The Rolling Stones,Actors from The X Files,Marlon Brando,the list is almost endless)cartoons (South Park which makes its agenda very clear in it's opening title sequences to offend and parody EVERYONE and EVERYTHING)and musical sound a likes (The Rutles.The Bootleg Beatles...and Oasis..lol!) and even parodies at award ceremonies by actors themselves (MTV movie awards,Oscars,Emmys and Grammys) of recognisable people and situations.

It very oftens upset the target of the parody (South park/Tom Cruise or Russell Crowe/Steve Martin's parody of his poetry & "singing" career,Juliette Lewis and jokes about her using her scientology contacts to help her "music" career) and they often mistakenly rush to their lawyers thinking they can stop the parody or silence it (that rarely happens as it is fair comment of a public figure).Recent events in relation to the Tom Cruise parody (Paramount/Tom Cruise/South Park) would seem to suggest he in fact may have miscalculated which side Paramount would come down on.His lawyers clearly told him South Park would suffer and Paramount would stick with him.Wrong.Expect Mr Cruise to change lawyers very soon...

Mr Cruise (a very very good actor,let me make that clear.I like him) has "parted company" with Paramount and South Park are releasing their parody of him on dvd uncensored very soon through Paramount Home DVD.It is not cancelled as was orginally "requested" by Tom's lawyers as Paramount know who is their bread winner for the next few years.Team America was a huge money spinner for South Park/Paramount (great movie.A Parody classic) and also the South Park team are developing other potential successful movies with Paramount.Tom's lawyers should have done their homework.They are paid enough.Although not for much longer...

Will South Park parody Tom Cruise's bad luck in a future edition.....You bet they will!

Spinal Tap is rumoured to be based heavily on Black Sabbath's experiences in the US in the early 70's (the lead singer has a blond perm like Ozzy Osbourne had and his girlfriend becomes the bands temporary manager as Sharon Osbourne did.The famous "Dobly" joke is rumoured to have been based on something which Sharon said at the time)

Nobody is ever going to claim it is FACT but of course it was faction (fact and fiction)based on anecdotes and stories about that band and others.It is widely praised for being THE most accurate portrait of the experiences (usually bad) a band can have in the US market when things don't go according to plan.Hypocritical A&R people (who hate the band behind their backs but kiss ass while they think it will be good for their career until another client comes along on the way up),idiotic press/media people (who organise ridiculous interviews with people who obvious don't give a flying fig (careful!) about the band and forget them after the interview is over),and self centred managers (who claim to know what their talking about but are clearly bullshitting about the bands "positive feedback" when they are blatantly bombing)and a tour which goes from bad to worse as time goes on.

I doubt Christopher Guest (who co wrote and produced it and starred in it) contacted many Black Sabbeth fans or The Osbournes themselves and asked their permission.Basically asking them if it was okay to send up "fictional" versions of obviously real life people? No he did not and why should he?

It's called artistic licence for a reason and he has gone onto to do similiar parodies of obviously well known people/events ever since even returning to the music biz with A Mighty Wind (see if you can guess which character in that is clearly based on the reclusive Leonard Cohen and his well documented "stress" problems in the 70's)

As for criticism,do you think Mc Donalds welcomed the documentary Super Size Me when it was being made as part of a "healthy democratic critique" of their business and behaviour as they now claim through their PR company? Of course not.They tried to have it stopped and used many aspects of the internet to attempt to "spin" their version of the facts the documentary makers were saying well in advance of the movie's release and claiming copyright infringement for use of even the name and company logo!.It all backfired in their face (they honestly though it wouldn't though!) and made an already bad situation (for them) worse than it would have been.In the process they gave the documentary makers all the positive publicity they would need.
and then there is Wal Mart..Enron...The Hit men (documentary about Universal Records) coming very soon and not flattering at all (you will notice Universal recently chose this exact moment to announce their "free downloads" service,what an incredible co-incidence!)..the list goes on.
Do you think Hunter S.Thompson worried when he called Richard Nixon a "scum sucking pig" and his publishers were "requested" to remove his words by "friends and fans of President Nixon"?
Not a bit of it.He went onto to trash these "lackies of Satan" and made them regret their efforts by publically naming and shaming them.Up to that point there had always been an "unwritten rule" that people were allowed to complain anonymously but Hunter made sure as many people as possible knew these people were siding with the corrupt Nixon who later was impeached.

Parody and criticism are here to stay in one medium or another.Newspaper,Magazines,television,radio,web sites,downloads,mailers,etc.

Die hard fans and overly sensitive artists should get used to that fact or they risk being seen as humourless ego trippers deluding themselves about their status...

END.

And THIS is the full version of the "biography" my pen pal Bernie is circulating across the internet for me...

Like a good little doggie.

EXACTLY what I wanted her to do...

Only she didn't know it at the time...

DryBaby And Bernadette Giacomazzo..

(look her up on Google..)