Back In Black
Cause I’m back on the track
And I’m beatin the flack
Nobody’s gonna get me on another rap
So look at me now
I’m just makin my play
Don’t try to push your luck, just get out of my way

Welcome to the brand new version of CRAPtv 2007, where we have lots of interesting stuff coming your way in the upcoming months.

But we are Back in Black because, it was a dark winter for the founders of CRAPtv, so dark I couldn’t even correctly go public with our story until the light of summer recently started showing its face. In short, our old friend Timmy The Woodsman passed away in early February. He left this world via suicide and while that couldn’t have been a complete surprise to anyone who knew Timmy, it was still incredibly sad. Timmy the Woodsman was of course the star of The Hot Show, a whacked out pilot CRAPtv produced back in 2001. A lot has happened since then to say the least. We have been through the ringer and back. Amazingly there are two books chronicling the life and times of CRAPtv that both feature intimate portraits of the one and only Timmy The Woodsman. The first one, The Royal Nonesuch: Or, What Will I Do When I Grow Up? was written by CRAPtv’s ex-partner, Glasgow Phillips and was released about a month after they found Timmy hanging from that tree. I had some seriously mixed feelings about Glasgow’s Royal Nonesuch, so the timing of Timmy’s death and Glasgow’s book release was fairly rough for everybody involved. But we carry on and there is more to come. Glasgow’s book and book reviews are all over the web by now, so feel free to check out one perspective on CRAP history and prepare for another version to spring loose sometime in 2008.

What more can I say about Timmy? Well a lot. My experiences with him were one of many major catalysts to set the creation of SCRAP Book taking motion. Timmy himself was almost always in motion, he was man on the move, a man on a mission, he was fairly out of control, but super charming and strangely loveable, but easily hateable too. Timmy the Woodsman even provided the inspiration for the epic South Park character Timmy! The Woodsman was the ultimate class clown court jester, he was a professional fuck up, who happened into some success when he hooked up our crappy company. One thing is for sure, Timmy was shot through a Hollywood cannon and got a bigger ride than he possibly could have imagined the day he swaggered through the doors of CRAPtv, back in the Fall of 1999.

Sometime in early 2001 things took a major turn for the worse for Timmy. Sadly he got sucked into a system of institutions that he could never shake himself free from. After several years of trying to get free he began to lose hope and eventually succumbed to his demons. Of course it was not quite that simple, but let’s hope he has finally found his freedom.