As you all celebrate the end of 2011 with drunken debauchery, remember that MFUJ is in exile. Doesn't mean they've stopped recording music. Weeeell, meet me in the bottom! Bring me my running shoes.

Well, this is it. Honestly, we didn't think we'd make it to the end of the year. This blog sort of started as a joke. Really, genius? Sarcastic, italicized voice! Hey, i missed you dude! Really? Yeah man. How's it been? Oh, well. Ok I guess. My sciatica acts up once in a while but no it's no big deal. How are the kids? Well, you know the older one is always bullying the other one and the girl is headed for the ivy leagues. Wow. That's fantastic. Yeah, I guess. Wait, weren't you in the middle of something? Huh? Yeah, you know, the whole we-can't-believe-we're-still-around-writing-this-blog speech. Ohhh.... that. Well? What? Aren't you going to continue? Yeah, sure. Thanks, sarcastic, italicized voice! Whatever, you can go **** yourself. You're the best.

Now where were we... ah yes. We didn't even think this blog would last past April 2011...but somehow it did and you all helped us make that happen. It's your fault. What did I tell you about blaming our readers? Not to do it? Yes. Whatever. *sigh* This blog entry seems to be a man at war against himself. How appropriate since MFUJ is essentially a story about an artist at war with himself. The Id versus the super ego, earthly desires versus one's conscience, art versus commerce, denim and leather versus spandex and hairspray... it's all there., we think. It's a much deeper more interesting story than we cna convey with our words here. But if we can't convey that the story is good by writing it, does that mean the story has been awful this whole time?

   Let's go down memory lane as we celebrate blog # 55:

1) Our first entry started off by insulting the audience (hmm sounds familiar), then reintroduced Brick as a blog hero. we then had an awkward passage comparing our blog to achieving multiple orgasms, or something like that. Hmm? were we not supposed to say orgasms? Was that too edgy? Too late now.

2) Our next blog talked about endings, beginnings and had some fake movie trailer in it. I also mentioned my novel (which I'm currently editing) but no one cared so we only mentioned it a few more times later.

3) For our third entry we did a short story based on true-ish events about the soul draining nature of working as a salesman. it had something to do with pyramid schemes, Radiohead and the Soft Parade.

4) This was a hypocritical jab at the NY Times for having a typo on there website. See what I did their? Haha. We crack ourselves up.

5) A generic Shadow haiku, back when he still did those. Oh and Metallica Live in Moscow '91. \m/

6) Tigerman's first "To My Future First Wife". Who knew it would have three sequels? Maybe we did.

7) A story entry that had the band members begin there job hunt by working on their resumes. Hilarity  and hijinks ensued.

8) Tigerman's Resume. Is anybody hiring? He really needs a job. Just take a look at his skill set... never mind. Just give him the job!

9) A Placeholder blog that had a conversation between Brick and Slate. Bonus Points for Personal Jesus being used as the end of blog song. Last blog of March, our first month blogging as MFUJSF.

10) Part two of the Long and winding road to adulthood... I wonder why we stopped that subplot? More advice on finding a job by someone who has never had one and building tensions between the band members that would lead up to the midseason finale.

11) Another short story, based on a dream. it stank. We made up for it with Bowie's (arguably best) song, Moonage Daydream.

12) Slate attempt at writing an op-ed  that took on mandatory school lunches. Welcome to my nightmare indeed.

13) Shadow wrote a haiku about a world leader who stole a pen while being filmed for television. Jane's Addiction performed an appropriately titled song. Good Times.

14) MFUJ still made music? Apparently they did. I should have known... Also something about a stolen Poland Spring (product placement).

15) A plot based entry between Brick and Shadow about the guitarist's growing dissatisfaction/depression. Cue Soundgarden.

16) Brick's past is revealed. or re-revealed, depending on how much you knew. Awesome 70's Scorpions song was featured

17) The Second "To My Future First Wife". Two more of these. Sweet song.

18) Slate's flashback episode. More Soundgarden? Why not?

19) MFUJ record without instruments and Leadbelly kicked ass.

20) The first of a two-parter leading up to the reintroduction of G Mod, series Villain/Manager. Classical music used to maximize pretentiousness.

22) The Midseason finale: Enter G Mod. Questions were answered. Answers were questioned. We took a month off to finish the novel.

23) We return with a whimper and a joke about cheesy songs. We begged for ratings and our readership swelled like a...cigar, which is just a cigar.

24) A melodramatic entry about Brick being depressed about his book. Awesome Killing Joke song.

25) The Third "To My Future First Wife". We were just as surprised as you that he chose a Dio0-era Sabbath song.

26) Packagegate. A joke about a congressman who got in trouble for posting pictures of his, amazon delivery... And the thinly veiled  metaphors of KISS.

27) A lengthy entry about g Mod changing things up and stirring up trouble. The future of the band is in jeopardy as Brick contemplates leaving.  Faith No More save the day.

28) Making Music is easy as the band releases un released songs. One of our most popular entries.

29) A very Slate entry. Yeah, it was all about Young Lust. The last entry for June.

30) Plot driven episode about how the cover of Hey Hey, My My was recorded. brick was all :( and Slate was all :P. We were all o_0 when Brick had a heart attack in the shower. Take that, Showtime!

31) A journey through Brick's melancholy prison of the mind. Would he survive? Well, keep reading. see that's drama.

32) We apologized for the dark turn of events but didn't change the plot. And there was an epic Neil Young Jam.

33) MFUJ turns 4 years old and no one cared. Surprise, surprise.

34) We announced our plans to return to the internet video game. Not a game, just a video. A webisode. "Don't think about all those things you feel, just be glad to be here". Wish we could have followed that advice, FC Kahuna. Cute lady singer, btw. Our last July entry. Not a particularly productive month or moth.

35) The Webisode debuts and continues to gain views to this day. The Boys are back, indeed.

36) A letter from G Mod about MUJ being downgraded to MFU+. A smart political joke that fell on deaf eyes. Blind ears. Whatever.

37) More about Brick's depression and a depressing Smiths song (redundant?) T_T

38) Shadow's history is taken out of the shadows. Ughh... Play some Bonzo already.

39) G Mod gets arrested at a supermarket. The band is defiant in it's desire to release a second webisode. By band, we mean G Mod.

40) Our first of two "Serious" blog entries. We tried to write about depression and creativity. it ended up being trite. Oh well. Good John Lennon Song.

41) A light hearted short story about brick and a lady-thief. Only three people read it. Take it away, Chicago.

42) Brick finally confronts the source of his emo-ness and wakes up a rejuvenated badass. Would it last though?

43) Brick goes all super saiyan in his newfound confidence. No more DBZ references, I'm begging you! But his power level was over 9000! *Facepalm*

44) Our longest original short story to date (a Twilight Zone tribute) about a scary ice cream truck? Or was it all about a fear of success? Who knows?

45) State of the blog report. It was strong. Ironically no one read it.

46) We were serious about that second webisode. It just took a long time to get serious and film it. Oh, and I ain't no ******* son of a *****!

47) Our second serious entry tried to be sincere about our memories of 9/11. It wasn't a good entry.

48) The only way we could follow up such a sad entry was with our most ridiculous recurring entry, the fourth "To My Future First Wife". It was surprisingly popular.

49) An episode that summarized the growing power struggles within the band now that Brick had regained his mojo. Placeholder.

50) What was supposed to be the big season finale and premiere was hijacked by Brick when he released a cover medley by himself and stole his own band's thunder. Although it's questionable that he stole their thunder since no one read this entry.

51) Brick taunts G Mod and Slate as tensions grow and no second webisode has aired yet. There was trouble in the air but no one knew what was going to happen. Would the band implode or would someone else ruin it?

52) Our most popular entry thus far. The premiere of the epic second webisode.

53) Our second most popular entry. The times they were a changing as Brick released a song about Occupy Wall Street and the band's HQ became occupied by a group of protesters lead by a bear in a Che Guevara t shirt. This was effectively a season finale even though we've released a few entries after this.

54) Our Christmas entry. We did a bob Dylan cover song. Huh? We missed an entry by Shadow about the third webisode? Oh. Well whatever. We're up to the present already, who cares.

55) New Year's Eve Entry. We do an awkward argument at the beginning before trying to justify our blog as art until inevtiably doing an netry-by-entry commentary track. Hey wait a minute... This was this last entry.

Well thanks for indulging us. We now want to share our end of the year cover song(s). Last year we covered "I Woke Up in Love this Morning" by the Partridge family (another avian based band). This year we covered Tiger Man by Elvis (where has this song been all our lives?) and Meet Me in the Bottom by Howlin' Wolf.

Happy New Year everybody! We'll see you in 2012 with the third MFUJSF webisode, an epic duet with an awesome female singer/songwriter and the coming apocalypse (I'm kidding, I think).

Really optimistic, huh? Peace and love to you all.

Merry Christmas, you Masters of War! X's and O's to everyone else. You're stone cold. I thought I knew you so well.

Happy Holidays from your favorite/least favorite band of all time. While you all celebrate with your loved ones, remember one thing: MFUJ lives! Well, right now only Brick is publishing music with his solo band, the Falcons.

Enjoy his attempt at covering Dylan (Bob, to be specific). Try not to laugh too loudly.

Enjoyed it? You didn't? oh well. How about we leave the music to the pros. Take it away, Rainbow! No Dio? Fine... Whatever.

666 is the number of the beast? How about 7, as in Windows 7? A friendly rant from MFUJ's long suffering drummer and video uploading expert, Shadow.

Hey folks. This is Shadow. You may know me as the drummer for the seminal progressive grunge punk metal blues band , Mike's F'd Up Journey. Or you may be familiar with one of my books, such as WTF?: Shadow's Guide to Internet Speak, Memes and Other Things Your Grandpa Doesn't Know About (Unless He Does). I want to explain something to you guys.

As you may well know, a group of protesters, led by a charismatic bear in a Che Guevara t-shirt have Occupied the space outside of the MFUJ office. That forced G Mod, Slate, Brick and Tigerman to go into exile in the mountains. I remained behind to keep our stuff safe. I'm not going to write about those guys here, though.

We had a third webisode filmed and ready to be edited and uploaded to a youtube near you. The problem was that after I received the footage from the other band members, our computer crashed and we were forced to get a new one. Unfortunately the camera we have been using has not been able to function properly because apparently Windows 7 is funny that way. Who knows when we will be able to show you the next webisode.

Well, that was about it. A short rant. I'm not going to waste my time by being vitriolic.

Watch this video and go away. I have a cover song to work on.

Angry protestors Occupy the vacant lawn outside MFUJ’s main (and only) office, forcing the band to lock the building down, flee and take refuge in the mountains. G Mod: “Hey, what’s that over there? 99 red balloons?”*Exit, pursued by a bear*

Yes, the countrywide Occupy protesters have turned their sights on your beloved band, MFUJ. Well, they were really after G Mod since he’s part of the dreaded 1%. We’ll get to them eventually. Let’s start with the events that led up to this…this…ugh… Cluster****?  Yeah, I guess.

Obviously the band was dealing with the fallout from the completion of the second Webisode. With no acting segment keeping him busy, Brick focused all his energy on producing a solo project, the Falcons. He began with the song 99

Did you hear the difference between this and MFUJ? Neither did we.

Ah, the rest of the fallout from the video:

- Slate was suspended following his mind fart of an appearance in the recent video. No one knows what the bearded one would do with all his free time. We have one guess: Turducken. The devil’s poultry.

-Tigerman, after finally being given some airtime was promised to have an instrumental segment to bridge the show’s opening and closing acts. He started sharpening his claws and practicing his bass scales only to realize he didn’t actually know nay scales and that he actually just grabbed a sea bass and began clawing away at it. His fur smelled for days.

-Shadow, who has been almost completely ignored has been given the go ahead for the first act of the episode. What can we expect? How about him drumming on a plastic kit, some bad haikus and plenty of guilty monologues about deceiving Brick? Plus cameos from other MFUJ members. Fun stuff, really.

 So as G Mod was trying to plan the third episode, he heard some angry shouts coming from outside the window. He looked outside and saw a large group of protesters occupying his front lawn declaring that G Mod was the enemy  along with the rest of the 1%.

Flustered and confused, G Mod shouted “What’s wrong with being #1?”

They replied by telling him that he and his ‘kind’ controlled the majority of the wealth in the country.

“But,” he replied, “I don’t actually have any money. The band hasn’t exactly made any profit and thanks to some unwise investments on my part, like buying swampland and betting that music would get better this decade, we’re actually in the bottom 1%.”

The protestors would hear none of it and began drumming incessantly outside of his window. He quickly called an emergency meeting of the band in a voice so shrill that it forced every single member to show up just to get him to stop yelling.

“Men! We have been surrounded by an angry mob.”

“What are they angry about?”asked Tigerman as he finished his gazelle burger.

“They think we’re 1%ers.” G Mod said with a downward inflection.

“Say what now?” Brick asked in disbelief.

Shadow followed up with “Did youexpalin to them how poorly our fifth album has done?”

“Yeah, gorilla brain, I did. But they would have none of it. They’re out for blood. Or they just want to get high and camp. I can’t keep track of what these protesters are like.”

“What do we do?” asked Slate.

 “We retreat.” Gmod said as he began gathering his essential belongings together. “I have a safe house in the mountains that’ll keep us…safe.”

“Do we have to?” Brick whined.

“Well, if ya want to take your chances with the 99% you seem to love so much… Be my guest.”

With all discussion coming to a halt, the band members gather their most precious possessions and follow G Mod’s lead. Only Shadow remained behind to watch hold the fort. The other band members emerged out of the building and came face to face with the protesters. Among them was an irate bear in a Che Guevarra T-Shirt offering absolution to all who could offer him a few minutes of paradise.

In a moment of stupendous desperation, G Mod shouted: “Hey, what’s that over there? 99 red balloons?” and surprisingly it worked, giving the band time to run to the old SUV as the angered bear pursued them.

Stay tuned...

MFUJ made the impossible possible: The second MFUJSF Webisode is ready for your viewing pleasure. Bet you didn’t think we’d actually do it, did you? Well we did. So there. Oh and Scary is on his way…

Breaking news from MFUJ’s manager, G Mod:

“The second webisode has finally been filmed, edited and uploaded on the tube for you. Go and watch. Now, you fools! Before it’s too late!”

Reactions from the other band members:

Tigerman was elated at finally getting a speaking role in a MFUJ production since he missed out on the original 2007 web series that starred Brick, Slate, Shadow and G Mod. “This Webisode is fantastic, but as not as fantastic and lovely as you, dear lady that is reading this blog entry. Are you single?”

Shadow was not available for comments since, like in the first webisode, he was not featured in the video. G Mod has confirmed however that Shadow will be featured prominently as will Brick, whether they want to or not.

Brick was very casual about the release of the video. He was more excited about the remastered release of MFUJ’s 2008 concert Live at Gamespot Studio:

“Although some individual tracks were released as individual videos, I’m glad that the whole setlist has finally been compiled and released as a unit. Had we known about our newfound ability of posting clips over 15 minutes long, we would have done a single video. Oh well. A trilogy works fine. Oh, and we’re glad to finally release Intergeddon in its entirety, as it was meant to be heard. We might do a remastered version with instrumentals added to the tracks besides the three that were already songs. I’m busy, busy, busy. Oh and look out for a new song soon now that the second webisode is done.”

Slate was the only one who was unenthusiastic about the new webisode’s release.. “Damn cat got all of my airtime. Now I hear that I won’t even get a part in the next webisode. What the ****?”

 The following is rated TV-MA, the way all real shows should be. **** all that non adult content **** that they try to shove down your ****ing throat. Content moderated by the unimaginative censors who take out their own unhappiness by restricting the fun for the rest of us.

Enjoyed the episode? Of course you did…unless you didn’t. And now let’s end with a ba great band playing an ironically appropriate song at the beginning of their career. I give you Alice in Chains.

Brick (to the other members of MFUJ): “If you’ve got webisode problems, I feel bad for you son. I’ve got 99 problems but a blog ain’t one… HIT ME!” The other members of MFUJ: could we play something Alternative/metal/classic rocky? Maybe by someone named after a city? Brick: Fine. I understand about indecision but all I want is to have my Peace of Mind…

And so the 50^th blog entry came and went and there was no second MFUJ webisode to be found. Oh noes! Oh noes indeed. The MFUJ offices were full of tension and dismay as Brick, the band’s leader, had cut his hair, released a solo cover medley and just totally began making up for time lost on self-pity and pining away for a love he could never find.

The floor plan to the office began to resemble a map of warring states. The main office area was held by the faction of G Mod, the sinister though sometimes obtuse manager of MFUJ, and Slate, the libidinous front man and occasional singer (when he wasn’t busy showing off his package to unsuspecting members of the fairer sex http://mfujsansfrontieres.blogspot.com/2011/06/slate-tweets-blurry-photos-of-his.html). The basement is home camp to Shadow, the intelligent but greedy drummer with a strong guilt trip that was just waiting to burst (http://mfujsansfrontieres.blogspot.com/2011/08/shadow-saw-description-for-rock-video.html). The kitchen was the domain of Tigerman, the band’s lovesick bassist with a childlike naiveté when it comes to love i.e. he believed that a woman could actual love a 6 foot tall tiger creature whose only skills in life were playing bass and writing love letters http://mfujsansfrontieres.blogspot.com/2011/08/shadow-saw-description-for-rock-video.html).  The upstairs suite was where Brick spent most of his days.

It was there, behind closed doors, that he was not only working on his guitar chops by finally learning some damn scales but also working on actual music. He had unearthed a lost treasure(?) recorded way back in 2008 during the sessions for the original MFUJ album based on lyrics that Slate had scribbled into a notebook during his long exile: Choking on Insanity (G Mod Says to listen to this song now! http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10661993 ) He was also working on a brand new song called “We are the 99!” which might possibly have been the single for his solo album if he could somehow escape the shackles of the MFUJ machine.

While Brick was busy with old punk songs and mixed metaphors, G Mod was busy plotting the band’s second webisode with Slate downstairs.

“We’ll start off with the G Mod credit sequence” the repulsive megalomaniac began.

“What about starting with a skit?” asked the tattooed singer, “You know, like last time?”  http://mfujsansfrontieres.blogspot.com/2011/08/boys-are-back-in-towner-on-screen-debut.html

“And put up with your limitations as an actor? No thanks, dragon boy.”

“I don’t think it was that bad…”

“Really?”, replied the wry manager as he lowered his sunglasses.

“It was all Brick’s fault. He kept pining after…”

“No. Don’t say her name.”

“Why? It’s not like she’ll even read this.”

“It’s for legal reasons.”

“But he showed her name on his iPod during the episode. The song is named after her.”

“Enough. I don’t want any discussion of broads on my time, understand?”

“Broads? Sheesh. And Brick thinks my lingo is outdated. That was some gnarly anachronism there, chief.”

“Now after the opening credits and my little speech, I think we’ll have the tiger do some little skit to build on his ‘to my first wife’ series.”

“What?! That furball gets a segment and I don’t?”

“You blew it, kid. The cat gets his turn this time.”

“Whatever…” replies the deflated Slate.

G Mod makes a few notes on his yellow notepad:

-Open episode with the lovesick pussycat.

- Don’t let Slate hog the camera…again.

-Find the phone number for that sexy waitress from that diner I was at last night. What was her name? Trixie? Daisy? Bessie? Why am I listing cow names? Was that a diner or did I pass out in a barn again? Gotta take it easy. This job is killing me.

-Get more milk.

While Slate was being ignored, Shadow was pacing around the basement ,a drumstick in each hand. After doing twenty laps around the rugged old rug, the contemplative drummer stood in the center of the room, facing the wall of mirrors that the band used for low budget music videos.

“I’m standing in a room filled with nothing but the reverberations of my voice. No one but me can hear the sound as it bounces off the walls and back at me. If no one else hears the noise, does that mean there isn’t any? And if there isn’t any, does that mean that I am an illusion, even to myself?”

On a slightly less existential note, Tigerman made himself a pizza using a loaf of garlic bread, some spaghetti sauce and some havarti cheese from the fridge. Yes, it’s good to have the kitchen all to yourself if you’re a 6 foot tall tiger creature-thingy.

Stay tuned for more meandering updates leading up to the big season finale… we hope.

Take it away, Boston. Please…

Oh no he didn’t! Did the MFUJ guitarist steal his own band’s thunder by releasing a cover medley before the debut of the second MFUJ webisode? I guess it's 'Occupy MFUJSF' day or something. Did we just say ‘oh no he didn’t'? Our sincerest apologies. How about a little Faith no More? We good? I mean ‘are we good'?

If you have been paying attention to this blog, you’ll know that we originally planned for this blog entry to be the official MFUJ Webisode #2 screening party extravaganza. We had balloons ordered, a caterer hired and we rented out a big screen and projector to show the webisode to the whole unsuspecting community surrounding the MFUJSF office building. However there was one thing we did not count on: Lead guitarist and MFUJ founding member, Brick, upstaging his own band’s big MFUJSF 49^th blog entry which was supposed to lead up to the big 50^th entry season (series?) finale.

MFUJ tyrant, err… manager, G Mod was shocked at “Brick’s callous and selfish actions to steal away attention from the mirth and profitability of a group webisode.”

The offending clip was posted on the band’s youtube page:

After a rough start covering the Doors and Tom Waits, he totally rips through classics by the Misfits (We Are 138) and Nirvana (Aneurysm).

Some might be wondering why Brick might be doing stuff that would compromise the well being and profit making potential of his own band? For those who have never read our blog before…Hello South America! …Let’s give you a brief chart of Brick’s character arc.

Phase 1) Snarky rebellious teenager

Phase 2) Bleeding heart pacifist

Phase 3) Starving artist

Phase 4) Sellout douchebag

Phase 5) Depressed, hollow husk of a man

Phase 6) Depressed blog protagonist

Phase 7) Rejuvenated badass

Phase 8) TBD

 Well, this certainly means there will be a lot of tension built up for our big season finale in our next entry. Stay tuned for the other band members' reactions to the New Brick, whether it’s true that he’s working on a solo album and what that could mean for the future of the semi-fictional band.

We leave you with Faith No More.