We’ve kinda been obsessing over that guy Mark Donatelli from ‘The MArk & Riley Show’ (see previous post below the pineapple).
He’s amazing! Granted, he is a self professed ‘meth head’ living out of a storage space in Utah, but, god damn it, he’s got more charisma than you or I could ever hope to muster.
As far as we can ascertain he’s had a pretty tough life. Sexually abused at the age of seven, prostitute in his teens, got into bad drugs round the same time… He’s generally lived a dispossessed, itinerant lifestyle since forever.
However, he’s managed to maintain all his teeth and a very sunny disposition despite the shitty hand he was dealt.
At the moment he lives in the Allman brothers (not those Allman Brothers)laundry room… I think. One of the Allmans, Quin, plays in that band ‘The Used’. Which is neither here nor there, but now you know… The other Allman is Riley. He’s the one with Dave Pirner’s haircut.
Let me make one thing very clear- We genuinely like Mark. He’s a diamond in the rough. We are not doing some lame, “Ha-ha. Look at the messed up guy” thing. That’s not us. Leave that to the creepy rat-bastards responsible for ‘Bum Fight’.
Anyway, we dig Mark. We don’t particularly want him to come visit, but we dig him. Sure, he’s fucked up, but it’s what he does with it.
He’ll have an agent in 2010 for sure.

Check out his myspace page, and specifically the song ‘IM THE SHIT’. Hope you like vocoder-drenched profanity.