From the WHM Blog - Justin Hilbun 1979-2009.

RIP Justin Hilbun

Well, it's official. Though he and I were talking about it a few nights ago there will never be another Way High Men performance.

Justin Hilbun, the singer, songwriter, guitarist, bassist, drummer, sound engineer, badassmotherfucker, greatest friend in the world extraordinaire is no longer with us.

Better to burn out than fade away I guess.

We'll miss you man. We had the best times in our lives. Slept on floors, in seedy hotels, hit on the same girls, drank from the same whiskey, wine, beer & tequila bottles, shared many a stage, bed, floor, meal, drink, t-shirt, make out buddy. The best travel companion & business partner. The greatest friend. We miss you. We love you.

WHM

The final JG myspace post... Sad.

BR, Tampa, Seattle, Shreveport, NO. We're there. So did you buy our record on cdbaby yet? We're tired of buying our own record. Sam has bought 231 of them already. Hilbun just toured Europe playing JG tunes by himself. Judge Genius actually became his European name. So tomorrow is Paul May's birthday. Buy a record for it. Or do nothing. Go to Tampa and buy him liquor. When's our next show?

*Editors Note, Feb 12, 2013 - Sorry, brosef. That was all she wrote. What a run.

JG slowly succumbs to the death of mileage

we're just spread out across the country.....bringing the rock individually. And we're all still drunk. buy our record.

*Editors Note, Feb 12, 2013 - This really was kind of a down year for JG. I don't think we ever really officially played another show. We managed to get into the practice room one final night on NYE 2007 and record a bunch of cool tunes we never really did anything with. We did manage to finish "Crazy Horses" though. Dig around for it. We'll put it on the music page sometime soon.

JG plays NGT Hair Metal Night

IF YOU MISS THIS FUCKING SHOW, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE!

Judge Genius will be playing the NGT 80's Hair Metal Night this Friday night. Come see us play some seriously old school tunes. I have 4 very important words for you. "It's the Final Countdown"! That's all we're going to say.

Brandon Moves To Shreveport

For those of you who don't know already, our guitarist Brandon has taken a job in Shreveport. Calm down. Don't worry it's not the end of th JG era yet. He will be commuting to and fro whenever needed. But this does mean that our shows will more few and far between. This will definitely make each show more explosive than the previous ones. We'll be so amped up on meth there may be a heartattack on stage. Now go buy our record.

Love and porn
JG

Rampaging Deer Trashes Apartment

Looks like the JG Deerhead has been up to no good again...

Rampaging Deer Trashes ApartmentFamily Pit Bull Knocked UnconsciousRACINE, Wis. (June 6) - Jerry Falkner and his family have been temporarily displaced from their apartment after a deer rampaged through it, but he's just glad the incident did not result in any problems worse than it did.

"I heard glass breaking and I thought someone was breaking in," he said of the incident Monday morning which awakened him as the deer broke through a window. "The next thing I know, a deer is running toward my room."

The animal ran into the bathroom, and the family locked it inside. But the Falkners did not immediately know that their pit bull, Shadow, was inside that room with the deer.

The deer kicked on the water, flooding the apartment, and briefly knocked the dog unconscious.

Police were able with the family's help to get the dog out of the bathroom, while leaving the deer confined, and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials then tranquilized the doe and took it away.

Police Officer Victor Cera said the deer was apparently behind the apartment building when it was spooked by dogs let out of a kennel. Falkner said he believed the doe came through the window to elude children who cornered it near two 7-foot-high fences behind the apartment.

"In the 16 years that I've been doing this, I've seen all kinds of stuff," Cera said. "But this is probably the most bizarre."

Falkner said it could have been a lot worse.

"Imagine if it would have been this window," he said as he pointed to the window of a nearby room where his children, ages 5 and 6, had been sleeping when the deer arrived. "After this incident, it makes me think it's safer to stay on the second floor than the first floor."

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONGVIEW

Man, what a weekend.

For all of you who came out to see us in Longview on saturday night, thank you so very much. We had an absolute blast and the videos will be coming out soon enough. Of all the many Chinese/American restaurants we've ever played, Canton's Hawaii Club ranks amongst the very best. And we're not just saying that. We really REALLY fucking mean it. Hopefully we'll be back soon.

For those of you who missed the show, you missed a whale of a time. We'll try to recap it for you. Sam was late getting to the house on Saturday morning to leave, so the band scolded him appropriately. This was immedietly followed by a 6 hour roadtrip down I10, up I49, then down I20 where we exited the interstate and then missed the club, driving for several miles into neighboring Hallsville. We later realized that we were in the wrong town, but a kind word to the citizens of Hallsville: You have a very clean city. Keep up the good work.

We turned around and realized we missed the club because the sign was written in Cantonese, which was unfortunate because everyone knows the members of Judge Genius are more skilled in Mandarin, but oh well. We then checked into the Majestic Inn, watched the LSU/UCLA game, and drank a bunch of beer and got all fucked up. We had to quickly drink our sorrows away because Tyrus Thomas and Big Baby were shut down the entire game, and UCLA ran Glen Davis to death, causing one of the most disgusting and pathetic examples of American Basketball ever - the likes of which have never been seen before.

Then it was off to the club. Divergence played first and rocked the shit out of the place. Hats off to you boys. Great stuff and we hope to get you to BR one of these days. After that, the Way Highmen blew the doors off of the joint. There was beer swilling, foot tapping, and rock and roll bouncing off every wall as TWHM showed Canton's just "who was the high now". Great show, fellas.

Then JG got up there and threw down like no other. It was a good show and we enjoyed the dog shit out of ourselves. It also marked the intro of Jeedge the Deer Head, as well as several remarks about meth, whores, LSU basketball, Joe Donahue being for sale though also infected with Hepatits C (which isn't really true, we don't think), and Lord knows what else. Great crowd and great vibe from everyone in the room. Thanks to all who saw it.

Next thing I know, we were back in the hotel room eating the delicious meat loaf and mashed potatoes Canton's gave us (it was fucking awesome, seriously!), and talking about breasts that look like 50lb. bags of flour, and also talking about crapping out 9 volt batteries. Then we each slowly streamed out of consciousness.

TRULY an amazing weekend we will not forget. Thanks so very much to Dawn with Monarch Management and Cantons for setting up this show. We will be back there and cannot wait. If you bought one of our discs, crank that shit up. If you liked us, leave us a comment. If we disgusted you... also, leave us a comment