Didn't we lose track of this ?
Now, here it goes :
2007/10 :
Quote:the Tocotronic show is blowing my ear holes out! every night is the best night ever and the people are great. I'm writing this from Vienna backstage after my show. i can hear Toco downstairs and all the thousands of people screaming. its so loud through the walls. i have a beer and my typewriter right next to me. i was floating again on stage tonight. my little feets didnt even touch the ground once.
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Hello my dear friend,
can you guess what i am doing these days?
i am on the Tocotronic tour now. everyday we drive a bit then go to the club and hang out and make jokes and eat cookies and drink tea and beer and then we sound check then i play my show and its soooo much fun because i love that guitar and i love to plug it into my amp and make loud sounds.
then i watch Tocotronic play from the side of the stage. they are great every night and really the nicest people in the whole world. its good to be on tour with people like them. always smiling and happy with only nice things to say....strange!
i have my first book for sale at the merch booth every night and they are selling like crazy. my book is called "3GIRLS". and while Tocotronic sound checks i am writing my 2nd book page by page every day. Oh and i got a new haircut yesterday by Adeline.
ill write you again soon to tell you new things as they happen
love
your best friend,
troy
Quote: Thursday, September 25, 2008
Santiago the Beast
Hello Dear friend This is Troy Von Balthazar,
I am writing today to regretfully inform you that I will not be able to perform on the next Troy Von Balthazar tour starting sunday night.
I feel that my talents are better suited for relaxing here in the spa room.
To make up for any distress this may cause and to fulfill my contractual obligations I have sent my half brother Santiago out on the tour disguised as me.
Santiago and I have spent the last week in the studio learning the songs that he is to perform on this tour.
I think he sounds pretty close the original at this point, and though he isn't nearly as handsome as I am, I can only hope that his rotten looks will not detract from the underlying beauty of the music he is set to perform.
Please dear friend, when you see Santiago, don't let his two glass eyes fool you!
Inside those sightless doll eyes beats the heart of a Saint, the loins of a master lover, and the tiny brain of a pastry chef.
I am sure that he will do my music great honor and the disguise will work so seamlessly that no one will ever know that The Great Troy Von Balthazar himself was not on stage singing you those haunting lullaby's.
Though he is my half brother I should warn you that Santiago has a very bad temper and a VORACIOUS sexual appetite. I beg you please give him whatever he asks for on this tour and please don't taunt him or put your hands inside the cage.
He is a human being after all.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Troy von Balthazar
(Dictated to nude steward, Spa Room Ritz Carlton Hotel, Rome Italy 9/25/08)
TVB TOUR DATES
France :
28.09 Le Guilvinec/ Clc du Guilvinec w/ Berry
30/09 : Paris La Cigale w/ BERRY
1/10 : Feyzin // L'Epicerie Moderne (solo show!)
3/10 : Valence // Le Mistral (solo show !)
9/10 : Toulouse // Saint des Seins (solo show!)
11/10 : Sarzeau w/ BERRY
23/10 : Nantes / La Bouche d'Air w/ BERRY
31/10 : Troyes w/ BERRY
1/11: Factory festival (Nivelles, BELGIUM) with Girls in Hawaii, Austin Lace,
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5/11: Rennes w/ BERRY
14/11 : Saint Andre de Cubzac w/ BERRY
18/11 : Montigny le Bretonneux w/ BERRY
22/11 : Claye Souilly w/ BERRY
27/11 : Beauvais w/ BERRY
28/11 : Sotteville les Rouen w/ BERRY
29/11 : l'Emporium Galorium ROUEN (solo show!)
------Germany------!!
2/12 Berlin-acoustic show
3/12 Berlin - Postbahnhof
4/12 tba
5/12 Hamburg - uebel & gefaehrlich
6/12 Cologne - underground
About tour dates, please see
shows page for more info.
Quote:08 Dec 2008, 13:34
3GIRLS book of the month!
hello friends,
just a note to let you know that my book 3GIRLS is available and rocking at:
Yvon lambert Bookshop
108 rue Vieille du Temple
75003 Paris
and online at http://www.sinnbus.de
It was voted "book of the month" by Magic magazine in their December issue (read the review in french below)*.
I'm writing the next one NOW. I'ts going to blow your brain holes.
love,
troy
*You can find the review following
this link
Quote:Friday, February 13, 2009
all turtles are evil
Current mood: aroused
all turtles are evil
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Back in the 1940's when I was still a young girl I lived in Brazil deep in the amazon forest. When I was four years old I saw my first man eating turtle up close. That year I was drinking a lot and my memory is a little hazy but that encounter changed my life forever, and left me with only three remaining toes.
It all started after a long night of drinking in the bar. I had just met some nice sailors and we were getting along fine. I'd gone outside to smoke a cigarette and get some fresh air when I saw something move in the corner of my eye. I was pretty drunk at that point but as I stared into the dark amazon water I could swear there was something moving down there. From out of the murky water I saw what looked like two glowing eyes. I bent down to get a closer look and saw clearly two evil green eyes the size of saucers staring back at me!
I let out a horrible scream but no sound came out of my throat. I was frozen in terror at the edge of the water.
Back in the 1940's the amazon was a totally different river. There were crocodile, snakes, underwater sea chickens and other dangerous animals but we were all so toughened by the forest life that we would swim daily in the deep waters.
I'm not Jacques Cousteau but I've never seen a turtle as evil as the one I saw that night. It's eyes were the size of lamp-lights, it's teeth were like giant white pickles, jagged, bitter, and deadly.
My first impulse was to kick his rotten face before he could attack. My feet are as hard as wood from running through the forest chasing monkeys for dinner so I swung my leg back and aimed for his green lizard-like face.
I'm not Jacques Cousteau but kicking a turtle hurts, and remember I was only four years old and completely drunk so my aim might have been slightly off. What I thought was his face was actually his bottom and my foot disappeared into darkness...
To this day that was one of the most awkward moments of my life and I shutter to recall the rest of this horrific adventure.
I should tell you that I did study with Jacques Cousteau for many years and learned how to fight most animals to the death. I can strangle about any fish you throw at me and I always carry a knife in my shoe to kill birds and horses. Most of the time I just kill for the thrill of it, and to swim in the lakes of blood while I praise my lord that lives below me.
So there I was standing at the rivers edge with my foot lost in the darkness of the monsters sweet buttocks. Just then I heard a roar from the beneath me and watched the monster turtle swing its giant head out of the water. I could see the confusion in its eyes and smell its horrible breath. It's eyes were locked in mine and they pleaded as if to say....."why there?"
If i were Jacques Cousteau I might have reacted differently but all those vodka shots made me so light headed that I instinctively jumped onto the monsters back and dug my heels into his rough green hide.
We took off like a flash across the dark amazon river, both of us screaming in terror.
We were moving so fast and the monster was thrashing about so wildly that I could feel the foot beginning to uncork itself from its the monsters unsightly bottom.
I was beginning to slip but I knew I would be killed if I let go, so I dug in deeper and could feel my toes crunching and breaking off inside the beast like little brown breadsticks.
Just as I thought I couldn't hold on a second longer the monster leaped from the water with me on his back and I could feel myself losing consciousness.
The last thing I saw was the little village with it's groovy sailor bars, the river glowing in the moonlight and the green black trees of my beloved amazon far below us.
I now live with the turtle on the moon and we dance together beneath the fiery sky.
It's hard dancing with only three toes left after the others were ripped from me on that memorable night. I thought I would never walk again, but the turtle (who I now call Donnie) nursed me back to health and gave me the confidence to dance again.
"So dance my children
dance for the light
dance for youth remembered
for youth, despite
the tragedy of getting older
the wonderment of flight
the toes we lost,
the toes we found
and now my friends...goodnight."
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Quote:Friday, March 13, 2009
new TVB tour and EP CD!!!
TVB 3 EP tour
Hello my dear friend,
Soon I will be embarking on a tour of France, where the people dance with no pants.
I will join them in their dance, but ill be wearing pants (because I'm shy).
Will you join us?
I'll have a new CD at the shows. its called "TVB 3 EP"
11 songs of that will make you want to walk around without any pants whatsoever.
You'll forget you even own pants!!!!
I'll also have my book "3GIRLS" at the shows.
so if you want to get weird, or just listen to some weird music come and join the party.
I'll be there in weird town waiting for you, bottomless.
Love
Your best friend in the world,
Troy
TVB 3 EP shows
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april 3 Nancy
april 4 METZ
april 7 PRAGUE
april 12 Dunkerque
april 14 Lille
april 15 GRENOBLE
april 17 PARIS
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