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Battle of the Bands:

Air Guitar at the Talking Heads Loser's Lounge

Björn rocked some David Byrne air guitar action at the Talking Heads Loser's Lounge last Saturday night.



There will be a repeat performance of the LOSER'S LOUNGE tribute to the Talking Heads on Thursday Oct 12 at CBGB. This will be one of the FINAL 4 SHOWS at the historic rock club before it shuts its doors forever. My guess is that Mr. Byrne will make a special appearance, but who knows.

Tickets are still available here.

Video of Air Guitar on Conan, Plus - Japan's Air Sex Champ!

Here's video of my appearance on Conan:


BJORN TUROQUE AIR GUITARS ON CONAN

In other news, Japan not only rules the air guitar, but apparently they also have an AIR SEX COMPETITION (bringing new meaning to the idea of what it means to be "big in Japan."

Japan's air sex world champion licks himself into shape

Japan has recently claimed the world air guitar championship, but Weekly Playboy (10/2) notes that less well known is that Japan already had a world champ in another virtual sport -- air sex!

Just like air guitar pits competitors prancing around on stage empty handed but acting as though they were playing a hot riff, air sex requires players to simulate sauciness as though with a partner, but actually while alone.

"Air sex was originally invented by guys who couldn't get girlfriends, but desperately want to have sex," J-Taro Sugisaku, the self-professed creator of air sex, tells Weekly Playboy.

Sugimura tells the weekly that air sex began when a mostly male group gathered at a theater in the trendy Tokyo district of Shimo Kitazawa earlier this year. They began talking about sex techniques, then started demonstrating them. Soon, a competition developed to come up with the most outrageous display of faked fornication.

The full article is here.

Conan the Barb-Air-ian, Bjorn Turoque and Air America

Yes, last night Bjorn Turoque rocked Conan with some mad air guitar. At the end of the show, Al "Air America" Franken joined in for an impromptu air band (Conan played air tamborine). It was truly amazing.

For those googlers out there wondering, "What was that song that air guitar dude played last night on Conan..." I suggest you buy my book, TO AIR IS HUMAN. The answer awaits you in its pages. Plus, it's a damn funny book. I promise. And it's not just about air guitar, it's about the idea of chasing down a dream, no matter how ridiculous, absurd, or invisible that dream may be.

It's all the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of your average rock memoir (take Motley Crue's biography, The Dirt, for example) only the instruments are made of air. Seriously, it's paperback. It's almost as affordable as an air guitar. Just buy it.

Backstage after the show, I gave Conan a handmade Finnish guitar made out of a bathroom scale -- a gift from the Oulu Music Video Festival and Air Guitar World Championships. He loved it.


My Driver, Bruce, who picked me up in a limo to go to Rockefeller Center.


My name on the door.


Me and Conan. I look frightening


Me giving Conan the guitar


Conan rocks the "Weight Watcher" Finnish guitar