News + Sound: Mike Edison has fun everywhere he goes

Mike Edison has inhabited the worlds of GG Allin, Al Goldstein, and Hulk Hogan. He's created, edited, destroyed and devoured piles of smut, gore, and drugs. He's lived the life of gossip royalty without the flashbulbs and packs of hungry paparrazos scrutinizing his every move.

What's next for a cat that's lived the high life at the low end? Writing a tell-some and working with Jon Spencer to turn it into a spoken word album. Titled I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World the book and album chronicle decades worth of debauchery--the sort that dreams are made of and nightmares are began by.

Mike Edison (w/ Jon Spencer) - "Pornography, Part 1" [NSFW]

Tales of going undercover to Jews for Jesus bible meetings collide head-on with an edgy eulogy for Edison’s friend and former bandmate GG Allin. “Pornography, Part I” recounts Edison’s stint as editor-in-chief of filth-bible Screw magazine, and includes an explicit recap of “Omar’s Anal Adventures,” as well as an over-the-top bashing of George Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Madonna, and more. Not content with taking on the US Government, Edison enters an epic (and side-splitting) feud with “self-righteous do-gooder” Hulk Hogan. (“Frankly,” says Edison, “he’s just not my kind of people.”) Finally, Ozzy Osborne shows up to steal Edison’s pot, and he tells the laugh-a-minute story with obvious delight, pummeling his stoned ex-colleagues at High Times.

I Have Fun Everywhere I Go the album is rife with Jon Spencer’s sonic hoodoo: fuzz guitars and blues explosions, science-fiction synthesizers, swirling church organs, and howling spookhouse theremins percolate behind Edison’s hilarious, no-holds-barrred storytelling and greasy sidewalk preaching. A sick brew of Lenny Bruce and Jack Kerouac, with high notes of Tom Waits, Sun Ra, and Richard Pryor, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go marks a revolutionary turn for the spoken word record.