Mark And Brian

On Saturday night, party at Mark and Brian's Costume Ball at The Show at Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa, featuring the haunting melodies of Here Come The Mummies.

The morning radio duo, heard locally on KDGL The Eagle 95.5 FM, will host two costume contests — best overall and sexiest woman — each with a $1,000 prize, Thompson said.

“We want to see women in their sluttiest costumes,” Phelps said.

The boys are bringing out show favorites Kelli Gates, Frank Sontag, Preva Lohla and producer Ted Lekas, but the evening's highlight will be Here Come the Mummies.

We caught up with band member Java Mummy via e-mail, and asked all the mummified questions we could think of. Here's what he had to type:

DESERT POST WEEKLY: If you sing and play a variety of instruments — which you do quite well for guys who have been wrapped in the same linens for a couple of millennia — why don't you do live interviews? Are you saving your voices for the stage?

JAVA MUMMY: It is not the case of “why not” but “can not.” Due to our curse, we can only talk (in any other language but Grunt) while playing music. We used to do interviews, but the interviewers got sick of getting the same grunt of an answer to every question.

Listening to your music, I really liked “Bump,” “Ra Ra Ra Ra,” “Attack of the Weiner Man” and “Dirty Minds.” How long did it take for the band to come up this unique sound?

We never try to achieve a sound, we just play, and the sound emanates. We do have thousands of years under our belts, however, so listen to your grandparents, kids, and practice.

Which performers or bands have influenced your music? Which groups do you think have borrowed your style and damned them to life in the netherworld in the process?

All bands borrow from what they hear; it is just part of the creative process. You hear some great music, and it becomes part of you. I am sure that Earth, Wind, Fire heard some music influenced by us, digested it, wrote a great song with bits of it, and then we heard their tunes and were influenced in turn. I should also mention that we are heavily influenced by sexy ladies and Thai food.

Do you write your own tunes or are there songwriters you haul around in unused sarcophagi to write for you?

We write and produce our own stuff. It is difficult to find quality song writers willing to write wiener jokes, that really just come naturally to us. We have talked about using a producer, but we always are finished with the new recording by the time we have come to any consensus about it.

This question is for the ladies — are mummies anatomically correct? You're not like Ken dolls, are you?

Fully intact — and I stress “fully.” Like I said above, we like the love game, and you need the proper implements to win.”

Do you ever perform “Walk Like An Egyptian” in your set?

Never. We don't do covers though we do do Bangles under the covers.

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