right now. It hadn't died in 1991 as I had previously suspected:)

I had no idea, consciously at least, when I chose to make this video that it would cause such a stir. In retrospect though, knowing myself, I'm certain that's why I chose it. I've been very surprised by some of the reaction to the song and prospective video so I wanted to be clear about my intentions:

"My goal for this video is to put a positive message out there about a taboo subject using humor as a tool. It is to strip away any shame associated with sex during any time of the month and to show that a woman's body, and all it's functions, are a beautiful thing.

I understand that my experiences as a male have nothing to do with a woman's perspective and her possible shame or pain around the subject. Most of my crew and 95% of the cast will be women. The intention of this video is not to be degrading but rather to celebrate love and intimacy."

-mhn

as you will learn in my autobiography (coming to bookstores in 2043) i grew up extremely sheltered in some ways. my first experience having sex with someone "on the rag" was when i had just moved to L.A. at 21. it was a one night stand with a girl i didn't really know.

i went to the bathroom after she did and there was blood on my towels. i started to freak out a little. why didn't she tell me she was bleeding? where was she bleeding? then i went to pee and saw the condom on my dick. HOLY CRAP! WTF IS GOING ON?? i seriously had no idea what "that time of the month" was or that it was even legal. i never mentioned it to the girl, who never brought it up either and it took me years to actually figure out what had happened that night. this was pre-internet if you can remember way back then. needless to say, i didn't call her again and felt lucky she didn't come back with the cops.

this brings me to today when i'm working on the script for "Ragtime Man" I don't know your thoughts on the subject but even today, it grosses me out. I think I've probably wanted to have sex during that special time with two people both gfs. it's an extremely intimate thing to me. right up there with anal and some other stuff that i won't get into because you and i aren't... well... intimate.

i've always thought of myself working out my issues through work which is probably why i chose this song and feel so strongly about making a video for it. who knows? maybe after this video, you'll be able to call me Nosferatu for i will be cured of that traumatic experience when i was a wee lad... prob not though.

mhn
song is here: www.myspace.com/mrcharlieking
we shoot May 20 in Pioneertown.

I wish this contest was a joke. No such luck. My asst. quit last week without notice to do wardrobe on a feature. It fucking blows. Here's what I need...

• 30-40 hrs a week
• Female (sorry. i just work better with chicks)
• Organized
• preferably knowledgeable in most of the following: mac!, iCal, quickbooks, photoshop and/or illustrator, final cut pro(i can teach)
• Good w/kids
• No drugs in or out of work. Especially cocaine, pills, heroin or anything addictive.
• Production Experience helpful but not necessary.
• On Time
• Able to travel.
• Loves Animals
• Cares about the Environment.
• Must have good taste. (sorry. can't take beyonce in the office)
• SOMEONE WHO'S INTERESTED IN STAYING WITH DEVIL'S NIGHT FOR A YEAR OR LONGER

Job Duties include...
• Organizing House
• Pet Care and Sitting when I'm out of town.
• Possible Kid Sitting.
• Scheduling for me.
• In house bookkeeping and organizing paperwork for Accountant.
• Coordinating construction in Santa Monica & Joshua Tree.
• Promotion of Angel City Drive In, Devil's Night Radio & Hicksville.
• Booking Rooms & Studio Time for Hicksville.
• Production help for upcoming music videos, feature film & TV show. Yay!
• Tedious computer work including mailing list and Devil's Night Radio inputing.
• Talking to people I don't want to/don't have time to.
• Listening to me babble about my love life or lack of one.

Pay is $15 an hour right now tax free. Hopefully will switch to salary soon. Hours are flexible. Starts now.

Another thing I REALLY like is someone who is ahead of me. This means they think of things that I haven't and takes initiative to take charge and do stuff. I don't expect you to do things the way I would do them but I do expect common sense which is a relative term, I know.

e-mail me your resume and ALL social networking profiles, myspace, facebook, twitter, etc. to morgan@devilsnight.com. I'm just gonna look them up anyways so u might as well start early and save me the hassle;-)

mhn

ps - go buy my friend Kim Lenz's new record. It's fantastic & came out last night on her website www.kimlenz.com

pss - contestants of the "Win a Chance to Stalk Morgan" contest are not eligible for the "Win a Chance to be Morgan's Assistant" contest.

WIN A CHANCE TO STALK MORGAN!

You love Morgan...his dj skills, his movies, his music videos, his drive in, radio station, twitter tweets, his everything!

Well, now you can put that emotion and devotion to good use and STALK HIM! Yes, you, the obsessed fan, can WIN A CHANCE TO STALK MORGAN! Imagine...following Morgan home after his dj gigs...invading his privacy...transforming his discarded trash into your own personal talisman! Now, you can turn that nightmarish dream into dreamy reality by stalking Morgan!

* YOU get to spy on him!
* YOU get to write him rambling letters!
* YOU get to call him up in the middle of the night and tell him what you're doing with your hand!

Here's how to enter:
1) No purchase necessary. But, you do have to buy the Matters of Consequence movie(not available in stores). That's the rules, sorry.

2) Study, memorize, and absorb the entire movie, and have text from it tattooed upon your person, and/or scrawled in blood (preferably your own) on a mirror in a public restroom or Pottery Barn.

3) You must have ticket stubs from at least 13 Shim Sham Club shows and 13 Drive Ins. You also must memorize all 557 of his Tweets on Twitter and be able to recite any line from any tweet at any time at Morgan's discretion.

4) After one of his dj nights at Bar 107, introduce yourself to Morgan, tell him you are interested in stalking him, and see if he's "cool" with it. If he's not, please see rule #5.

5) "WIN A CHANCE TO STALK MORGAN" contest is open only to super-hot "model quality" non-smoker female residents of the United States and/or a lush tropical Latin-American nation who are single, aged 21 to 35, heterosexual, disease-free, sober(when necessary), employed or independently-wealthy, physically fit, leggy, easy yet pure, AND NOT professional (nor amateur) psychotic stalkers. English-speaking is optional but preferred, although exotic tropical dialects are welcome.

6) Although the word "STALK" is used in the contest name, at no time will activities associated with stalking be permitted, including but not limited to invasion of privacy, obsessive and fawning attention, threats of violence and/or suicide, breaking and entering, frequent and unwelcome telephone calls, bank fraud, mail theft, wiretapping, endangerment of relatives, appliance tampering, automobile sabotage, automobile tampering, appliance sabotage, murder, rape, arson, assault, and/or anything else scary, mean, dangerous, irreparable, illegal, or naughty. Also, please don't stalk his friends, either, thanks.

7) Nudity is permitted at all times, unless you are icky. In fact, please email some of your own personal nudity to Morgan now.

8) Although the contest winner is indeed required to have sex with Morgan at his sole discretion, at no time is contestant allowed to carry, bear, or raise Morgan's current or future children.

9) This contest is a total joke, please do not stalk Morgan. However, please do have sex with Morgan. That's absolutely fine.

10) Employees of Bar 107, Angel City Drive In, Devil's Night and/or their immediate families, and Morgan himself, may not stalk Morgan. However, employees of the pornography industry are encouraged to apply.

11) Void where prohibited, except the sex part. Thank you, and please stalk safely.

COMING SOON: "WIN A CHANCE TO GIVE MORGAN ALL YOUR VICODIN!"

in 1997 i decided i was ready to make a feature film. i wrote it around my friends and locations i knew i could get for free. my favorite band at the time was the iMPOSTERS so i had their music in mind while writing and even wrote one of the lead parts for Morty Coyle (you may know him as DJ Morty), the singer.

these were the days when i spent a lot of time at The Viper Room and these were my experiences. the Pussycat Dolls were a burlesque troupe that performed there and Morty's gf was in the group. so was Christina Applegate but this before they became the Hip-Hop singing Star-Fucking concoction they are now. i still love robin and am really excited for her accomplishments. it's just not my thing.

things of note besides the ascension of The Pussycat Dolls:
• We all look soooo young!
• Peter Dante based his role in Grandma's Boy of "Dante" on his role in MoC where he plays "Peter"
• Jason Wiles became a big TV Star and is now a super talented director.
• The budget was only $120,000 and it's amazing we pulled it off on 35mm film
• I am still friends or at least in touch with all these people:)

i recently ran out of DVDs of the film so i've decided to put it on youtube and turn it into webisodes. i have no idea if this will work. honestly, just a few years ago, the idea of someone watching my film in pieces and not on the big screen would make me wanna vomit.

times have changed. i've changed. technology is exciting and i now don't care how people see it or even if they like it. i just think it should be available. it was an important time in my life and, as i've become addicted to blogging and tweeting, it feels good to share what was my diary entry for the years 1995-1998.

Episode 1 is now(or very soon) on my youtube channel: www.youtube.com/devilsnight666. i'll put new episodes up as soon as i can and let u know when i do. best way to find out is to follow me on www.twitter.com/devilsnight. i put EVERYthing there.

please remember to click on *WATCH IN HIGH QUALITY*... i would never put it on youtube if they didn't have this option.

hope u enjoy!
mhn

1. I've been acting for the first time in 12 years and I really love it.

2. "Cowboys & Aliens" the TV Pilot I'm writing with Stephanie is going amazing. I think it will be the best work i've done. I also LOVE having a writing partner.

3. My kitten, a boy named Sue, is sleeping next to me and purring very loudly. Did u know he has extra toes?

4. I'm going to finish my Silent Musical re-write this week for sure!

5. I have an internet gf who has no interest in actually meeting me in person. It only makes me love her more.

6. I am doing a super secret Gram Rabbit project that I can't wait to share about. I'm soooo excited about it!

7. I went to a bar in the middle of nowhere this week called The Palms. I tried to move a barstool and when the top came off leaving only the pole, a man named George informed me, "Oh. That's the gay stool."

8. I have a date with a real live girl later this week and she doesn't even have a bf.

9. The Hicksville Trailer Palace is on hold because of the San Bernadino planning dept. I'm hatching a new and better plan though.

10. I'm addicted to twitter.

11. I miss Erin and wish we could live next door to each other and have Tea every day.

12. I got arrested this week.

13. I am really happy right now:)

Stephanie & I the night we decided she would help write Cowboys & Aliens


Giant Rock in Landers (part of C&A)


The Integretron shot in mirrors (part of C&A)


George


"Working Class"


On Set of "WC"




xo
m

So i got suspended from my DJ Job for a month. I'm sure i could be an asshole and go find another place to work but, honestly, for what I do there's nowhere that's going to be such a perfect fit as Bar 107. I get treated like a rock star there but when I acted like one, well... here's what happened.

Last Saturday I DJ'd it was one of my most epic nights where I had everyone in the front bar and dance floor singing along and cheering with every new song i played. This is why I like Saturdays. Because it's packed and everyone is fired up to let loose and have fun...

If you've ever heard me DJ, You know that the way I get everyone so crazy is to have peaks and valleys to my set. A DJ set should have the same rhythm to having sex with someone you care about. If it was just hard and fast all the time, it is really bad. So, I slow it down, build it back up. Make sure i save the climax for the right time which is generally about 1:30a. I'll tease them before that of course but believe me, I'm no premature ejaculator... In fact, I have a genre on my iPod called "Cum Shots" and these are the songs i play during that peak.

This being said, at around the time I was about to start building, I laid my foundation. This week, I totally slowed it down by playing "Tango 'til They're Sore" by Tom Waits. I know my bartender loves this song and it is important to keep the bartenders happy as well.

About 30 sec into the song, these 3 girls under the DJ booth start booing. Really loudly. It was really fucking rude to be honest. I mean, imagine if I went to someone's job and started booing at them. Let's picture it. I'm in Starbucks and they get me a soy decaf latte instead of a soy regular latte and i just start, at the top of my lungs, "Boooooooooooo. Boooooooooo."

I happened to be drinking bottled water(which i know is bad for the enviro but i keep forgetting to bring my own) spit a few drops of water on them and they stop. That settles that you would think.

An hour later, they are standing under the booth again and I see them and one of them flips me off. So i spit a bit more water because, well, obviously they weren't getting the point. I then played "I Don't Care About You, Fuck You" by Fear. Normally in these situations, I stop the music, grab the mic and embarrass the crap out of them. This poor creature a couple weeks ago requested "Single Ladies" and didn't understand why i wouldn't play it. that was her fate.

So i get a text last night that I am suspended. I was shocked actually. I owned a nightclub that was way bigger than 107 and I always had my employees back in situations like this. I have never been in trouble there. In fact, to the contrary, i come in for FREE on my time off and fix the dance floor lights because i care about the place and want it to do well. Of course I would talk to my employee so they knew their behavior wasn't ok but that would be the end of it. I would explain to the customers their part in it as well. What evs... Not my bar and I am so glad not to be in the bar business anymore.

The funny thing is the people that are really getting punished are the Bar 107 bartenders and customers. They consistently ring much more bar sales when I dj and most customers walk out of there having known that they had a great fucking time. Me, I'm not doing it for the money so there will be an artistic void i suppose but I'm working on so much other stuff right now that the time off is probably a blessing...

Sorry Morgan Becomes Eclectic fans... See u April 18th. In the meantime just put on Devil's Night Radio and dance around in yr underwear. Oh and take pictures and send them to me please. Unless you're icky. Then please don't.
xo
m

FYI... a few of my blogs are "preferred" generally because they are pretty intimate, have to do with a public figure, or are about something illegal. if you want to read them; here's the rules:
1) you have to be subscribed to my blog. This helps me keep track of who's on the preferred list.
2) email me with the e-mail you sign in with so i can find you to add you to the preferred list.
3) confidentiality is extremely important. obviously it's on the honor system but please don't repeat to your friends things that you have heard on my blog.

So... now to the good stuff...

My natural artistic cycle is pretty predictable. I generally hide out in bed for a few weeks and don't feel like doing anything. I'm told this is called, "depression" and I suppose that's true. My therapist and I are working hard to end those periods. At the end of this time though, I tend to explode with creativity for a few months and more than make up for the fact i wasted that time in bed. That's where I am now:)

Stuff I'm simultaneously working on right now:

a) The Hicksville Trailer Palace.
I blogged about this earlier. This is the trailer park/music studio/post house i want to build in Joshua Tree. I'm super excited about it and just waiting to hear back from the planning dept. to make sure i'm zoned properly for such a place. It's super exciting and will start as early as next week.

b) Silent Musical
this is the feature i'm going to be directing later this year... hopefully. it might have to push into next year depending on my composer's schedules and who i cast as the female lead. i love the story though and i can't wait to enter that world and live for a few months.

c) Kim Lenz Music Video.
my friend just gave me her new record that comes out in April. It's really fantastic and we're going to do a video for a song called, "I'll Tell You When" which I immediately turned into being about S&M whether the song is or not. I'm going to use the song as an opportunity to do a tribute to the late, great Bettie Page by reproducing some of her Irving Claw bondage films. I've asked Dita Von Teese to play Bettie. We used to work together when she would guest perform for my burlesque show in New Orleans and we got to hang out a bunch down there and when i would visit L.A. She's super sweet and easy to work with so hopefully she's interested.

d) Cowboys and Aliens
I mentioned this in an earlier blog too. I'm hoping to get back out to Joshua Tree this week with Stephanie to get to work on the pilot. The best way to describe it would be "Twin Peaks" meets "The X-Files" Not sure if it would be for TV or not. I'm kinda excited about making content for the internet especially since David Lynch is launching a channel soon. dlf.tv... Either way, we have to finish it by May because Stephanie is leaving for Africa to be a Producer and Actress in a feature she wrote at my place in JT. I've never heard of someone getting a 9mil budget for their first feature but I'm so happy for her:)

e) The Purple Knif Show.
I've become a huge fan of a radio show Lux Interior of the Cramps made back in 1984 where he played a bunch of music that he loved and inspired the Cramps. I play the show every Sunday at 6p PST on DNR and want to make another, up to, 12 episodes using the same format of great old garage music, random sci fi sound bytes, and echoed out vocal dj tracks. I called Ivy yesterday and left her a message to see if she wanted to be involved. I haven't talked to her since Lux died and before that since backstage last time they played a few years ago... I love her and it would be amazing to hang out with her and pick music.

f) Untitled Voodoo Organist Project
I'm hoping it's going to work out that the Voodoo Organist records his new record out at Hicksville. I'm a big fan and it would be a great first record to be made there. We also might make a video which I would love to use as an opportunity to pay homage to one of my favorite movies, "Ichi the Killer"

g) Spankers Radio.
I had a great idea while watching the Spankers last night to do a 13 episode run of an old time radio variety show. The Spankers have so many amazing songs to use and they are so funny. The show would be "Live from The Hicksville Trailer Palace in Joshua Tree, California" so i would also be using it to promote the Trailer Park as well. The plan is to go out to Joshua Tree for a couple days after their next tour and knock out all 13 episodes. That probably won't be until fall but, as you can tell, it's not like i'll be sitting around with my thumb up my butt until then... well maybe I will but that would just be for pleasure and not because i didn't have anything else to do;-)

mhn

1. i haven't finished the re-write on the silent musical but it's close.

2. my friend stephanie pinola will be writing my joshua tree pilot w/me and it's called, "Cowboys and Aliens" which i stole from a Gram Rabbit song(they're doing the music).

3. i'm in a really crappy custody battle with my ex because she thought it would be a good idea to move her drug/sex addict, relapsing husband straight out of rehab and in with our daughter.

4. it's looking like i will be expanding Rancho Diablo. I will be getting the land next door and turning it into a Vintage Trailer Park that will be available for nightly rentals as well as a space to do post production on your film or record your record. I will be adding 4 vintage trailers, 1 Gypsy style trailer and a little apartment that will be a replica of The Black Lodge from Twin Peaks.

5. I had a date this week with a great girl but found out she still lives with her bf. We still went to Jumbo's and had a swell time:)

6. I fucking love http://icanhascheezburger.com/

7. I'm addicted to twitter and update it much too much. I just don't get facebook and think the only good thing about it is the chat function so i can drunk chat or insomnia chat in the middle of the night with my friends in europe who are up during normal hours.

8. I am really loving The Graveyard Book. I'm going to ask Neil Gaiman to do a radio tag for Devil's Night Radio.

9. Speaking of the devil... Devil's Night Radio works pretty well on the iPhone although if you are driving on the freeway, it has trouble changing from tower to tower so it's going to take a bit for them to perfect it. You can get the app in the iTunes store and it's called ooTunes.

10. My kitten, a boy named Sue, is sleeping on my tummy.

11. I just finished editing my daughter's first music video for her. It's pretty fucking cute and i'll let everyone know when it's on youtube.

12. I have been listening to TV on the Radio and Bon Iver a lot lately.

13. The movie i was supposed to be acting in this weekend pushed the dates so i shaved my beard and started over. Couldn't take it anymore.

I remember the first time I met Lux and Ivy. They were playing at The Shim Sham in New Orleans (my old club) and needed a ride from their hotel to the club. I pulled up to the hotel and was parallel parking when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw them standing on the front porch of their hotel. I crashed into the car behind me.

I was so nervous to meet them. It took about 2 minutes for me to feel better about the situation. Lux was very quiet but Ivy was so unbelievably sweet and made me feel right at ease. Every so often, Lux would chime in with a sentence or two but for the most part, I spent my time chatting with Ivy over the next couple days as they played the club for two nights. When I told them I was closing the club and moving back to L.A., they immediately invited me up to the house and told me to call when I got back.

I never get star struck but with them it was hard not too. I was such a big fan and they were such interesting people. Within a month of returning to L.A., they invited me to the cemetery screening of Chinatown. Even though it was all of our first time at the cemetery and even though Chinatown is one of my favorite movies, I couldn't care less about any of that. All I could think about was, "Holy Shit! I'm sitting in a fucking cemetery watching a movie with the fucking Cramps!"

Shortly after, I got to go up to their house to talk about the fact that I wanted to make a documentary about them. Their house is so unbelievable. There was a whole room dedicated to their record collection. Lux told me that he had to go under house and reinforce the floor because it was sagging under the weight of the records. They then took me to a great tiki restaurant by their place and confirmed they wanted to do the doc... It was one of the greatest days of my life...

I realize now what was really going on with me that day. Sure I was a fan of their music and interested in working with them but much more than that I had found what I was looking for. They were the role model I had been searching for my whole life of a relationship that works. Of course I thought they were amazing people but since I grew up without parents(they both died when I was young), I think I secretly wanted them to adopt me. The way they interacted. The lifestyle of semi-seclusion where they would go for months held up with just each other and then emerge to give another gift to the world in the form of a record or tour and then back to seclusion. The way Ivy ran the show and took care of him. How she appreciated and loved him for all his idiosyncrasies. And man did they have gooooooooood taste. I was in awe of them so much more as people than I could of ever been of them as musicians...

Sadly, the doc didn't work out and I haven't been good about keeping in touch the past couple years. I just figured I'd see them next time they played and do a better job from that point of going up there to visit and keep in touch. Now I am so sad. Not for myself because I got the gift of seeing what true rock and roll love looks like. I'm sad for Ivy. I can't imagine what life is going to look like for her. Lux was her everything and visa versa. As strong and perfect as that love looked from the outside, I can only imagine what it would feel like to be in it and to lose it so suddenly and prematurely...

I love you Ivy. I wish I could adopt YOU now and hold you and make the pain go away. I wish. I wish...

m

here's a pic of lux, ivy and my lucky daughter who has met more rock stars at 8 than most people do in their life: