It’s contest time again on the Howard Stern show. http://www.howardstern.com/restless.html If anyone can make something out of this Restless, Restless "song" that Vinnie Favale and Tom Gesimondo wrote, $5,000 would be theirs. Hmmm…The last time I asked someone to enter one of Howard’s contest I ended up almost arrested and cited for criminal trespassing. (tomorrow is the hearing) But when this contest was announced and Vinnie said on the air that his song in his opinion would make a good rap song, this was a no-brainer. Only one man came to mind: from the home of Michael Jackson, the one they call Lyrical Lizard. Lyrical Lizard is the rapper from Gary, Indiana responsible for the songs on the Beetlejuice Uncensored DVD that you may have heard on the show. Whose got the juice? Lyrical Lizard is who. He has been making waves in the music industry ever since. Thankful for his exposure on Howard’s show the driven Lizard started looking for other opportunities closer to home and it is paying off. Recently he has become somewhat of a regular on the Mancow show. But his ties to Howard run deep thanks to Beetlejuice and food. You know those white things in your mouth that you chew food with. You see Lyrical is the proud owner of something very special and rare.

A couple of years ago I visited Beetlejuice’s website, www.jollydwarf.com and I saw that Sean, his manager, was conducting an auction on a tooth lost by Beetlejuice. Now THAT is some cool memorabilia I thought. I emailed Sean and suggested to him that if he didn’t sell the tooth maybe he could donate it to the shrine. He got back to me and told me that he decided not to sell the tooth and instead would loan it to me to display in my collection. Awesome!! I told him to just say the word whenever he wanted it back and on display it went. Many fans have toured the shrine and have taken a gander at the tooth including my dentist and took one look at it and said "Easiest $70 you can make. Gum disease, just pull that sucker right out with your fingers." In fact that is what Beet did again THIS time to his biggest tooth in Vegas. (hmm, that gives me an idea…haha) A year or so later after receiving the tooth Rev Bob and company including Beetlejuice were coming to my town to do a comedy show. Sean contacted me a few weeks before and asked if I would come to the show and return the tooth. He wanted to gold-plate it and wear it around his neck. As per our agreement I said that I would, no problem. But before I gave up one of my prize possessions I talked to a jeweler friend of mine. "He doesn’t want to plate that.", he said,. "It will be difficult and besides it will wear off. He should make a mold of it." "Make a mold? Say, if we make a mold of it we could mass produce them and sell them. "RICH!!!! RICH!!!!! I’M GOING TO BE RICH!!!!" Hahaha I ran the idea past Sean and we decided to give it a try, making ten of them, 5 for him and 5 for me.

Sean took his five and after trying to sell them on his site for a couple of weeks and getting no response he gave them to his crew: one to his wife, one to Puppet, two to Beet, and one for himself. I was hoping he would give one to Howard on the air but he never did. The ones I had I decided to give to the best Stern fans I know. I sent one each to the best fansite webmasters, True Fans of Stern: Dean from deansplanet.com, Mark from markfriggin.com, Kevin from koam.com and one for myself. The fifth one I had had a defect in it and I was going to return it to the jeweler. As instructed by Sean I brought the 5 pieces of jewelry to the comedy show. I also brought the one defect to show Sean. Sean, however, didn’t make it that night. He had gotten into a fight with the owner of the club the night before. Haha I gave the jewelry to Rev Bob to deliver to Sean, he would be seeing him again later that week. At some point I showed Jim Florentine who was also performing that night the defect. He didn’t think it looked that bad. It’s yours, I said. Jim has always been such a cool guy to me. He even took the time between radio interviews the last time in town to make the trip and tour the shrine. He was definitely worthy of being a tooth brother. And that was about it on the tooth project until a short time ago Pond, a super member on my message board, www.howardshrine.net who knew about the jewelry mentioned it in our of her posts. Lyrical Lizard read her comments, contacted me and asked if he could get one from me so that we could wear it when he did some radio appearances promoting the Beetlejuice DVD and he needed it like yesterday. Wanting to help out and no time to get any made, I sent him mine. Lyrical in return sent me, an autograph photo of himself, one of his L.I.F.E cds, an autographed Beetlejuice VHS signed by the Beet, and authorization from Sean to make 5 more pieces. He also agreed to do an Exclusive interview for The Planet. Nice. I asked the lovely Pond for help with this interview and she submitted some questions for the Lizard. Thank you Pond and thank you Lyrical Lizard for the cool stuff and interview.

Doc: What are your long term goals in the music industry?

Lizard: I’m doing them right now. My main goals were to have my music played and heard by millions of listeners a day. Well, I'm being played for 14 million plus listeners a day on "Mancow's Morning Madhouse" with the theme song I did for the #1 radio show in Chicago and in syndication. Another goal was to get my name and music on the retail store shelves forever and I'm doing that this year too with the release of the "Beetle Uncensored" DVD along with my second release entitled "The Lizard Of Oz!!!".Those along with the worldwide calabs (collaborations) thru the internet. My main goal was to have people remember the name "Lyrical Lizard".

Thanks Lyrical and without further adieu, making it's debut, here is the Lyrical Lizard’s entry into the Restless, Restless contest. Personally, I love it…………I like it………..I’ve changed my miiiinnnnddd!!!

• Lizard Lizard - Restless

UPDATE: Out of the thousands of entries just three songs were chosen to compete for the chance to win the grand prize of $5,000. Lyrical Lizard's song was not one of the three but it did get a play on the show and praise all across the board. Congratulations Lizard on another excellent job......unfortunately, for some odd reason that is still not clear, Howard credited the song to Kidd Chris and not the lizard man. Here is that clip

http://www.lyricallizard.com/sounds/lizard-stern.mp3