Five Years and No Free Records

This month is the five-year anniversary of Bad MonkeyX, the online music magazine created and run by Toronto song-and-dance-man jep clayton. Asked for comment on the occasion, jep growled that he had never received many free records (or CDs or whatever) which were a large part of why he started the site. A few at the start, and ongoing releases by soulmates Monkey Power Trio.

His girl Marjan interjected, "Yeah, but you never really tried to get them, either."

Jep cut her off quickly: "I did too. I just ..." He paused and looked downcast. "I was beginning to contact record labels when I lost the original domain name. I could never really get up the gumption after that."

"Well," she said. "That's ... It's kind of more like a blog, now," said Marjan, changing course.

"A blog that comes out three or four times a year," jep laughed. "Did I tell you I've signed up for an illustration course?"

"Where?" a friend (name changed to protect privacy of this person) asked.

"George Brown," jep said, glad to have successfully changed the subject.

No celebrations are scheduled.