Seems your Dandy Warhols have had the same general website template for over five years. So I figured it’s probably time to change it up, since everyone just looks at the world wide web on telephones now in the future. While there is never a good time to initiate this kind of operation, the band is recording a record and nothing else is going on, so it is probably the only time to do it. “SO WHAT GOTHMAN?” So if you see the site lookin’ green around the gills, just know that I’m working on making it look better, and that my trial and error methods of interweb administration is probably the closest you will ever be to watching a great master like Picasso, Rembrandt, or Julian Schnabel work. Yes I totally threw out a Schnabel!
Dandywarhols.com will be unavailable for maybe four hours on Sunday morning (Pacific) to replace a busted something-or-other. Also, our server people are upgrading their network this weekend, so service might be spotty. Why don’t you go see a movie or something.
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.
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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.)
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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.
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Well, that’s it. There were a couple of real news items in there, somewhere.
A lot of people (no one) write, “hey Gothman, it seems to me — the untrained ignorant eye of unabashed, unblinking reason — like you people don’t really do anything there at the Odditorium. Y’alls’re just distracting The Dandy Warhols from making new music.” First off, Imaginary Complaint Provocateur, I have to tell you that it’s HIGHLY offensive to be referred to as “you people”. It’s 2009, not 1956. Come on, dude. Second, we would not classify the following expletive-laden cartoons as distracting in ANY way:
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exou-JcR_UE
by Scott “Poopie and/or National Hero” Simons, our lighting and nightlife director.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvdySTBGx4M
by Gothman, the dude writing this needlessly sarcastic post, coffee drinker.
If you think that sitting around making up, and laughing at, cartoons like these keep us, and the rest of The Dandy Warhols gang, from the important business of curing the world’s ills with NEW Dandy Warhols musical entertainment, then sir, I think I do not think that I want to have much to do with you.
Things are acting a little different around here. A new site is being set up, so you will bear with us as things are getting sorted. A beefier Dandy Warhols dot com is in the pot… so chunky you can eat it with a fork.
Hey there whoever is reading this, it’s Courtney and I have recently acquired a handheld personal wireless device so I’m going to have Gothman (or whomever) put up anything cool that I run across in my daily wanderings about.
We are going to put up a new website (which is currently under construction) and it will be far simpler to navigate, so for now he will just stick it in the “news” section.
Okay. Yesterday whilst finishing my “Amigos” remix with Jacob, he showed me this:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae7Ld_8Y6tE
It reminded me that Bauhaus is indeed my favorite band ever and why. Also that I was the singer for Bauhaus for a few minutes in DC once. I like to call it that cuz it’s funny but really all I did was sing “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” with Daniel, Kevin and David J. which is pretty much the same as when sammy hagar sang for van halen but that we were smart enough to limit it to one song. Ever.
Sorry for the cheap shot, Sammy, but it was just right there, ya know.
Anyhoo.
This next clip is dark, sweet and campy and basically everything I love about old film. the lighting is so beautiful and the story is obviously very sad. Marlene just looks amazing. She actually did have Bette Davis Eyes back when they called them “bedroom eyes”.
Now here’s a quick look at Marlene Dietrich, my favorite female archetype ever:
httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BniYAiuQBeg
Incidentally she is also my favorite singer from the 20’s / 30’s era largely because she has a low voice that never gets shrill as many of those old recordings do. btw the movie is called Dishonored.
