No, I’m not talking about winning the lottery, or being struck by lightning, or getting some high quality footage of Bigfoot in the Easter clearance aisle at Walgreens, although I’m pretty sure that’s who I saw yesterday and they have a real sweet tooth. They didn’t leave me even one box of 30% off purple Peeps. They’re not as good as the original yellow Peeps, but those are long gone, and 30% off brings the purple ones in at a very attractive price point.

And BTW – during a long and hysterical conversation with our friend and drummer Daren, I learned, much to my horror, that someone somewhere in the Peeps Headquarters decided that making Dr. Pepper flavored Peeps was a good idea.

Please, listen to me, even with a 30% discount, do not be tempted to try and sneak these “things” out of Bigfoot’s basket. Let him or her have them. It’s going to be the way we finally uncover their secret civilization buried deep inside a mountain in Washington state near the Canadian border. Using Google Earth, someone will spot a pile of uneaten Dr. Pepper flavored Peeps outside a cave entrance hidden by giant redwood trees, and then we’ll have them.

And to the marketing department at Peeps HQ, please, for the love of Mike & Ike, please stop the insanity before it goes too far. Peeps are yellow. Peeps are sugar and it’s pretty cool to watch what happens to them when you put them in the microwave and hit the “Popcorn” setting.

So no, the one in a million chance has nothing to do with the lottery, lightning or Bigfoot.

Victoria and I are staying with our amazing friend Scott in La Crescenta. He lives on a beautiful mountainside and all the fresh air starts playing tricks on you and you start thinking, “Hey, let’s go for a walk!”

Well, after puffing, panting and wheezing my way up the hill (Victoria was totally fine), we finally reached the top and it was time to let gravity work for us for a minute and start down the hill to a fresh cup of coffee. As we’re heading down we see a gentleman walking up the hill. Not just walking, he was almost sprinting. No puffing, panting or wheezing. The guy was in amazing shape.

He had on a cool Motown T-shirt and after “Good Morning’s,” Victoria says, “Great t-shirt.” The guy says thanks and looks at Victoria’s Metropolis t-shirt and says, “Metropolis? With orchestra? I’m going to see that. I have it bookmarked twice in Facebook.” We were a little stunned and said, “That’s us.”

So yeah…. a one in a million encounter on a hillside in La Crescenta.

So if you wanna join us on our walk of fame, here’s the link to Vox Lumiere Metropolis – Only 4 LA shows – April 30th & May 1st!

The only downside to all of this is if I have to walk up and down all the hills out here in La Crescenta in order to find all the folks coming to the shows, I’m gonna have to get in much better shape.

And there seem to be a *lot* of people coming to the shows. Seriously, the VIP tickets are almost completely gone. If you’re in the LA area we would love to see you, and if you know folks out this way… we’d love to meet them.

We may not have time to get together for a walk before the gigs, but maybe we can organize a group hike for the end of next week, or coffee… getting together for coffee sounds good.

Okay… I just heard a rumor about asparagus flavored Peeps and I gotta go finish my letter to David Shaffer and Gardner Jett, Co-CEOs of Just Born, the makers of Peeps.

That’s it. I’m not gonna get all mushy.

See ya ~ Kevin

p.s. The website is one in a million. The socials are arm wrestling Bigfoot for the last Dr. Pepper flavored Peep.