Be Your Own Pet
MOMMY
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True story time: Be Your Own Pet opened for my band the Dirtbombs back in May of 2005. I believe they only had an (essentially) self-released CD single out at that time. The hype was building, if they hadn't already signed a proper record deal they were just on the verge of doing so.
There was an excitement building, arguably as many people in the room to check them out as to see us, but you know, it was charming that they were all 15 or 16 years old.
I swear on everything that I hold holy, my thoughts at that time were "I think their third album is going to be amazing."
We'd play more shows with them, become friends, I moved to Nashville, put out a record by one of their side projects...our lives became more and more entwined.
I'd have half a thought thinking that the second Turbo Fruits album, coupled with the Jemina Pearl solo album and the second Jeff The Brotherhood album, in an odd way, kinda accomplished the expectations of that missing third album.
So imagine my absolute PRIDE first raised punching the air enthusiasm when "MOMMY" landed at Third Man and...it's absolutely amazing. Just like my prediction from 18 years earlier.
I'm giving away an autographed copy of "MOMMY" on LP and CD in addition to a BYOP tote bag all to the best comment here. The writing prompt is...tell me the best prediction you ever made. Extra points the longer it took to come to fruition. Can be real life or if your imagination is super good...totally make it up. Deadline to post is midnight central time Thursday August 31st.
I predict that we are all living in a dream from which we will never wake up.
I was in college when the Be Your Own Pet debut album came out – I played it non-stop but didn’t get the chance to see them live before they called it quits. I DID correctly predict back then that one day they’d reunite and I’d finally get the chance to see them – but I could have NEVER predicted that I’d get to see them open for Jack White at Barclays Center in Brooklyn last year. The lesson I learned? DREAM BIGGER.
I recently saw a story about a red panda in a zoo that looks exactly like a man in a panda costume. This confirmed my prediction/suspicion that we would someday find out that pandas are not real animals. For years I’ve said that there is a conspiracy amongst koalas that they get real high on eucalyptus, put on panda costumes, and then hang out in bamboo with their bamboo munchies. Now humans are in on the conspiracy also.
It was a long journey but my prediction of Betamax beating out VHS finally happened.
I remember when the Seal released the music video for “Kissed by a Rose” on MTV. Back when MTV played music videos. It was the original version (singing about a woman in a white dress on a beach), and I remember thinking, “This song’s going to be a huge hit.” 6 months later, it was part of the Batman Forever soundtrack. It was playing everywhere. They re-released the music video to have clips from Batman Forever movie.
I predicted Danny Kaye’s death a day before it happened back in 1987. Sad but true.
Three years ago I predicted my daughter’s pregnancy. We were at a family party and I looked at her and said “you’re pregnant”. I was told “don’t put that on me”! Two weeks later we found out that I was correct. I now have a happy healthy grandson.
I predicted that an artist named Lana del Rey would start putting out very average music on multiple variants and they would be worth too much money…unfortunately, it came to fruition and people are wasting lots of money on bad to average music.
Very early in John Mayer’s career I predicted that he would become the Jerry Garcia of our the current generation and low and behold he has actually added his magical touch to Dead & Company for almost a decade. This work will greatly influence his style / trajectory and he will very likely become the Jerry Garcia of our generation. In the immortal words of Joe Strummer. “The future is unwritten!” Now if only I had been so lucky with predicting my lottery numbers…
About twenty years ago, I predicted that Ozzy Osbourne would die, and started buying as many vinyl copies of original Black Sabbath recordings as possible. It has since been explained to me that while Ozzy is not technically immortal, we will need to wait for the universe to collapse in order for his passing to occur. In order to understand this using a linear definition of time, this should occur in approximately 4.666 billion Earth years. Per the Zubrin formula, adjusting for inflation, this will take place in 5.184 billion years on Mars (where Ozzy and other anthropods will be when he ceases to exist in all known dimensions).