Archive for February, 2009

February 23rd, 2009

They Don’t Make ‘Em Like The Used To: Chet Baker

Ladies and boys hold onto your panties I’m on a Chet Baker thing.

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I’ve got a record called The Best of Chet Baker Plays. Well I believe it. One of the best records I own. It’s all hits pretty much. What a guy.

He lived in Portland for a while. Guess he liked to shoot dope and be left alone. Played gigs with the local cats out on NE Vancouver. He left his saxaphone with the only white jazz cat, Billy Hood. Oh, actually I guess it was the pawn shop ticket for the sax. Not the sax itself. Apparently his daughter or grandkid still has it.

(If anyone can verify that story, would be nice to know. Thanks.)

Portland has a great dark history. We had the book Portland Confidential while we recorded Oddy or Warlords. It’s all about the creepy old place.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

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February 23rd, 2009

Courtney’s One Sentence Movie Reviews: Old Joy and A Star is Born

Old Joy (2006) – This is some of the best writing ever and once Will Oldham comes in, this movie explodes out of it’s “hard to watch local/indie” first few minutes.

A Star Is Born (1976 remake) – I laughed a couple times what with the kitch and all but mostly you just almost hurl.

The Bandit

“Anything big and dead serious is perfect for comedy. The bigger the target and the more it takes itself seriously the better.” - Bill Coker (retired director)

My neighbor was the 1st asst director on the Smokey and the Bandit movies and we were discussing the personal nature of what people think is brilliant comedy when that gem came out of his mouth.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

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February 19th, 2009

New Dandys Newsfeed Widget Blows Your Mind

The best part about our new newsfeed widget? Quite obviously, it’s exploring the mind-bending possibility of reading this post about newsfeed widget from the newsfeed widget.

Dude…

Grab it, embed it, trip out.

GOTHMAN

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February 19th, 2009

Denver

Well I tried to think of a great Autotuned® song but I can’t.

Anyhoo I’ve been in Denver for a few days and even went skiing for a half day. Nice. Jeez I’m sore. Well Denver was apparently just recently rated the most liveable city in America by someone who knows. Puh leeez. There’s a mall for every neighborhood and they’ve also distributed real big city ghettos so evenly that wheather you’re in a $300,000 or three million dollar neighborhood, you’re always three to eight blocks away from an actual ChicagoDetroitWashingtonDC styley ghetto.

Here’s the only photo I took: