World Famous In San Francisco

Dear Excuses For Skipping,

Word on the street is that you all are not exactly happy with World Famous In San Francisco. First off, if we hurt anyone's feelings we'd like to sincerely apologize. That wasn't our intention, we we're trying to be funny. Most likely, you're still not laughing, I know, but give us a chance to explain.

What you might not realize is that most of the people we make fun of on this blog are people we are friends with and really love a lot. The Lovemakers for instance. Bart Davenport, for instance. Sugar and Gold for instance. These are people we've played tons of shows with, partied with, gosh even attended funerals with and have genuinely been really supportive of one another. We are writing an open letter to you because we don't really know you and you can only write open letters to people you don't know and we realized that you might not understand that some of our friends really like it and laugh about it when we make fun of them on this blog. We can see how others, who don't know us and do not know when we're joking might be put off. That being said, sometimes a friends music just isn't someone's cup of tea, or perhaps you heard a song and hated it but then when you find out what the song is actually about you end up really liking it. We don't know. We just love music and we love Don Rickles. Are we getting anywhere with you?

We were/are trying to spoof internet culture. (i.e. the LOL craze, bitchy gossip sites, web journals, fuzz.com, myspace, and last but not least open letters) Maybe we did it a little too well. (Have you noticed how all the negative posts get all the comments? There are many more positive reviews about bands on this site then there are negative posts, unfortunately they tend to go unnoticed.) Feelings have been hurt and for that we're sorry, but the negative posts seem to bring in more readers so basically, a blog's gotta do what a blog's gotta do.

You know, some people have accused Elton Tom of being a pathetic attempt at mimicking Perez Hilton when in fact that's what his older brothers and sisters, who constantly made fun of him, called him in the 70's. He was a totally lazy gay kid who worshipped and played elton John songs on the piano all day long. In the context of creating this spoof called World Famous In San Francisco, it all just fell into place. We basically grew up being made fun of, and, I might add that we liked it very much.

Well, at least we have a sense of humor, which, like music, might not be everyone's cup of tea. Remember, there's no such thing as bad publicity. Anyway, you all are on the road right now and for that we think you rock. We're hoping we can be friends. If not for real, then at least on myspace.

much love and success to you,

World Famous In San Francisco