Reunion Hues
I
t might seem like hyperbole to say that
Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz is currently juggling so many diverse projects that he’s probably conceiving new
ones in his sleep. But that's not too far from
the truth, chortles the affable musician,
who is prone to punctuating discussions of
his creative outlets with a drawn-out,
unabashedly-excited "Yeeee-AAAAAYyuhhh!" "I had a dream the other night that
Obama actually came over to my house,
but that did not happen," he says. "And I
don't think there's any realistic way to
make that happen, so none of these things
I dream up turn out very well for me."
Then again, his parents do, in fact, know
Obama's veep Joe Biden. "They met while
working on his senatorial campaign," he
adds, considering his extensive web of
connections. But nah, he decides. "I think
we're still a couple of steps away from a
sleepover!"
Not that the musician would even be
around if the Commander in Chief rang his
doorbell. Which could one day happen,
judging by the velocity at which this 35year-old has been traveling since 2012,
when he re-formed Fall Out Boy after taking a depressurizing three-year hiatus.
What activities are occupying his time? He
owns two bars, both called Angels and
Kings, in New York and his native
Chicago. He oversees a film production
company dubbed Bartskull, and a clothing
line once dubbed Clandestine Industries
that he'll soon be re-launching out of
Japan. He often accepts TV and film
cameos (he's appeared in "Californication"
and "One Tree Hill," and just taped a punky
role in the Nickelodeon network's reworking of the Jack Black movie "School of
Rock").
But wait. There's more. The
Renaissance man anchors Oxygen's reality
TV competition "Best Ink," for up-andcoming tattoo artists. He has his own
Saturday morning radio show on Sirius
XM, "Hits and Misses," and runs his own
recording label, DCD2, formerly known as
Decaydence. He also has his own signature-model Squier Precision bass, and –
with James Montgomery – he just published his first novel, Gray, a semi-autobiographical tale of rock star life. ("I have a
whole newfound respect for people who
write for a living – I don't think that's a
process that I could ever do again," he
sighs.) Additionally, his rugged features
and ear-to-ear grin wound up becoming
tabloid staples, as he was followed by
paparazzi everywhere he went with his
then-wife Ashlee Simpson (whom he
divorced in 2011) and their photogenic
young son Bronx Mowgli. With his new
galpal Meagan Camper, h HYH