This weeks interview conducted by Julye at Allen Wrench's Fortress of Bachelorhood.

Five Mi: So for the last 2 weeks you've been missing, or people though you were missing again.
Allen Wrench: Yeah, you're right. I guess it would have been easy for people to have believed that I had been kidnapped, OD'd or something like that again.

Five Mi: So what actually happened?
Allen Wrench: I was in the hospital for a much needed umbilical hernia operation. It really wasn't an emergency thing. I just wanted to get it taken care of.

Five Mi: How did you actually get the hernia?
Allen Wrench: I fairly sure that it came from all the heavy weight training. Plus with all the judo a lot of times I fight in categories that are out of my weight class.

Five Mi: Did it hurt?
Allen Wrench: Which? The hernia or the operation?

Five Mi: Both.
Allen Wrench: During about the last month I started to feel a little bit of a stabbing pain in my gut. I had been aware of it earlier and it was effecting my judo training, but more in a psychological way. It was always in the back of my mind so I wasn't training really hard. But it wasn't bothering me that much.

Now the operation on the other hand... that fucking killed! I was stuck on my couch for a week straight and wasn't able to do a god damn thing! Not only that I was totally unprepared for the whole ordeal.

Five Mi: In what way?
Allen Wrench: Man, I thought I was going to be up and around the next day! I didn't know I was going to be down and out for 2 weeks! I didn't even load up on food at the grocery store!

Five Mi: How were you able to survive?
Allen Wrench: Luckily one of my groupies had stopped by my pad. I was able to enslave her and make her bring me chicken wings and Pabst Blue Ribbon to go with all my pain pills.

Five Mi: How did the pain pills work?
Allen Wrench: They worked pretty good, but I took the whole bottle the first day. I gave a stolen check book to my groupie and she went down to the pharmacy to pick me up a bunch more.

Five Mi: It sounds like you're pretty lucky with your groupies.
Allen Wrench: Oh yeah totally. They bring me food and booze and give me massage's. It's great. Plus most of the time I'm broke. So I'm able to leech money off them. It's great being a rock star!

Five Mi: Are you still fucked up?
Allen Wrench: Oh yeah. I'm going to be jacked up for about the next 2 months. But I'll be well enough in time to start training for the Judo Masters World Championships next year. That was my main concern.

Five Mi: What else are you doing on your down time? Any music?
Allen Wrench: Yes, I'm working on a few things, but it's secret.

Five Mi: Any last comments?
Allen Wrench: Just thanks to all my groupies for blowing the superstar!