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Ghosts of April Fools Past

There was this April Fools Popeye cartoon that I couldn’t find on YouTube. (And by couldn’t find I mean I didn’t actually look.) This was just like a normal Popeye cartoon – Popeye and Bluto are beating the garbage out of each other for no reason – except after Bluto dive bombs Popeye with a Spitfire or Popeye drops the Chrysler Building on Bluto, they shout out “April Fools!” Yeah, that makes it all better.  Oh, it’s all in good fun.

Anyway, I could not come up with a good enough prank (LAZY) to pull on youse guys, so here’s one of those videos we made while recording The Dandy Warhols Are Sound in 2002, which is as pranky like as we can get around here.

GOTHMAN

This Side of Paradise

Have you read This Side of Paradise ? Holy fuck. Read the first two sentences and weep. Man am I gonna love this. We should call our record The Dandy Warhols are The Father and Mother of Amory Blaine.

And the story that happens between his dizzying feats of sentence writing isn’t half bad either.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

A Virtuous Follow-Up

Well I finally got back to and finished this book.   If you’re into Henry VIII like I am, you should definitely read it.

As I said earlier, the writing style is a bit shotgun in its approach. It’s basically a few hundred pages of anecdotes and assumptions/insights into Henry VII as an old man and Henry VIII as a young one in their respective courts and its a great study in the motives and manipulations that made European empires back in those days as well.

Since this book ends quite abruptly at the introduction of Thomas Wolsey, I suggest that you have ready a book about Henry’s adult years.  Perhaps beginning with the end of his first marriage so that you don’t find yourself lying there in bed thinking “damn that ended abruptly”.

This is the kind of writing which I love and there’s a small abundance of it here.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

Virtuous Prince

I’d love to tell this guy how much I love and admire his attention to prose and from the perspective of “clarity IS style”.  Opon  further consideration I had to temper it with the reality that his style of storytelling is most reminiscent of two elderly yet passionate, drunk yet focused, Tudor geeks having a long drunken jack-off at a bar session with the elegance to let each other speak fully before clipping off on a somewhat relevant tangent.

All Tudorphile of course.

I’m really enjoying it.  Thanks, dude.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

Friday News Dump For 03/12/10

So I’m thinking about getting a whippet. But my landlord just said I couldn’t have pets. The nerve! (Like I didn’t know already.) Should I just move or what? Keep in mind that I have lived int his apartment for six years and before that Fathead lived here for six years. It’s obviously the best apartment ten feet from an interstate in the WORLD.  Sure, it will never survive even the smallest of earthquakes, it really feels like home. But dogs are pretty funny.

ITEM:  When I was talking about working on a new record, I did not mean the Capitol Records retrospective slated for release in a few months. But yeah, that’s coming. Two new Dandys song? Never before seen photographs?  Full greyscale packaging? What? Want a preview of it?

Wait, I think that might be one of those shirts you get at Urban Outfitters.  Guys, the Capitol logo is a classic.  It’s the greatest logo in all of music.  Yes, even better than that dog staring into an old-timey phonograph.  That dog died 100 years ago, it’s depressing.

ITEM:  Fathead’s on Twitter now.  You can follow him at @fatheaddeboer.  Court still tweets at @courtneyTaylor2, and Lee helms the band Twitter at @TheDandyWarhols. I also just spend like an hour setting up a Beat The World Twitter @BeatTheWorldRec. What’s the deal with this Fail Whale?  Why is he so smug?

(I had the idea today that if Dorothy Parker TWEETED her classic line, “boys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses”, that 90% of her responses would not only get the joke, but most of those would angrily try to prove her wrong. “Actually I take great offense to this statement. I wear glasses and I sleep with ten different guys a week.” Crumbs.)

ITEM: Short notice notice – DJRescue (ZIA!) has got her thing going at Jinx (232 NW 12) this afternoon, 4-7. I challenge you to stop by, you peoples at Weiden + Kennedy, you peoples at Powells, you people at other places working within a ten block radius.

Well, that’s it. There were a couple of real news items in there, somewhere.

GOTHMAN

Zia Weekly DJ Gig At Jinx In PDX

For all you party goers who like to get to drinking early and keep it on the cheap, I’ve got a great new weekly
that you’ll dig the most. It kicks off this Friday at Jinx in NW Portland at 4pm. I’ll play some kick ass vinyl while you enjoy the Happy Hour menu and Drink Specials (thanks New Deal Vodka).

Be there or be lame.

ZIA MCCABE

Union War

This is what I’ve been obsessively into lately.  This guy is a friend whose band has had us open for them on a couple Frenchy festivals.  This track is so exactly what I love.  It just kills me.

INDOCHINE – UNION WAR

COURTNEY TAYLOR TAYLOR

Changes Coming In Digital Media Delivery

Hey, you.  Our digital partner, Topspin Media, is currently rolling out a lot of really cool changes in the way we can bring our music to you.  In order to take advantage of what Topspin now has to offer, and pass those new fun things on to you, all of the old links to buy our digital music are coming down like the Berlin Wall that one time.  But don’t fret, kid.  You will be able to buy direct from us again very soon. Like “before you are ready for it” soon.  Like when your mom goes to the store and you think you have enough time to try one some of her make-up but she comes back early and you look like Liz Taylor in that one Warhol print.  Yes, that fast.

Also, we are taking this opportunity to totally redo our merch store.  We’re working on some big stuff to make for a better online shopping experience. This, too, is coming very soon.

I guess that’s it.  As always, thanks for your support.

GOTHMAN

CTT: Firefly

Firefly & Serenity

(2002 & 2005)

Firefly: Ok, this show is one of my favorite things ever… but that said, I just wanna warn you that to truly get the epic experience out of it that we all so desperately desire, you’ll have to earn it by patiently cringing through some good size chunks of cheese.

Serenity: Surprisingly, most of this movie comes across like a campy send-up of the show, but once again if you just hang in there…

Movie Review Archive

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

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