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There is a ray of sunshine coming from a dark and dreary day here in Portland. This morning, Zia and Travis welcomed in Matilda Louise McCabe into the world. Says Kellie:

“Hey everyone, I wanted to pass on the news that Matilda come into the world at 5:12 this morning (Peter’s birthday).  Long labor but Zia was a total trouper.  Tildy Lou is 8lbs 9oz and everyone is doing well.”

We should have a photo of the lil gal and her lovely mum int he next couple days. In the meantime, enjoy this Halloween photo with Zia and Sean Gothman as Zia. Dumb, I know.

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DIG is out in NY and LA this week, and lots of other places in the coming weeks. To see if it’s playing near you, check out the DIG site.

Us? We’re almost done with our new record. Clark Stiles came up to work with Gregg Williams for a few weeks, and this week, our trumpet player, Achilleas, flew in to lay some horn on some tracks. Just a couple more things, and it’s time to mix. Yum, mix

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At Work

It’s coming along.

If you can believe, we came home from hot and sunny Europe to cold and rainy Portland. People are always complaining about it raining here, which we think is bullshit — rain is great. It allows you to spend more time stationary with good music and good friends. So there.

Anyway, the reason for this little blurb was not to chide those poor pluviophobic souls out there. Ondi Timoner wanted you all to see the new trailer for DIG! View it for yourselves HERE. Or THERE.

Had a great time this summer. See you next time. Thanks. Ciao.

Zia and Travis are expecting their first baby, Matilda Louise, November 9th. Zia saw the first ultrasound yesterday, and apparently, Matilda has Zia’s nose. “Yeah, but all babies have your nose,” Odditorium smartypants Scott Simons was heard to say.

Zia is planning on printing up some TDW baby clothes with our banana logo and selling them this summer. Stay tuned.

The first day of summer finds Portland cloudy and cool. Well, so far. It’s not turned hot yet, but I expect the place to turn into Rio de Janeiro any second now. Court and Fathead have other plans, though, for the forthcoming week. The Slimmer Twins will be in sunny (??) Los Angeles for the DIG! premier at the Los Angeles Film Festival this Friday (06/25). Howdy do. Drop by and say hi, if you can get through the throngs of industry goons. Thick as thieves they will be, we expect. 

UPDATE: Zia and Peter are now going to fly down for the L.A. premierE as well. So, if you’re in the US, this is probably your only chance to see the four of them together all year.

Our only dates for 2004 are now listed on the SHOWS page. It’s BBQ season, what can we do?

There will be a couple of screenings of Dig at the San Francisco Film Festival this weekend. Saturday  April 17th @ 6:30pm AMC Kabuki and Monday April 19th @ 9:00 pm AMC Kabuki. Check it out if you can, Zia will be around, so say hi, if you can.

We Do This For The Dinners

We had an amazing time this week doing what we do best, throwing fancy dinner parties and entertaining out-of-town guests. Our friend David dropped by The Odditorium on Monday (04/12) for a tour and a quick game of pool.. Then it was dinner for David’s band, made for us by our friends at Obo. Unbelievable. After dinner, a little informal All-Star Jam with us and David’s band. They’re amazing, they really are. The show (04/13) at the Rose Garden was over the top. These people are pros. Hats off to David and his friends, drop by anytime.

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While that would have been enough for most rockers, we still had work to do. No, not on our new record (we hear you, we’re gonna get into it), but we had more out-of-towners to entertain. By fate or dumb luck or both, Wednesday (04/14), The Strokes, The Vines, and Jet were all in town. So we said “Hey, c’mon over–you know what the roof looks like.” So, it was Big Rock and Roll Dinner pt. 2. with food by our friends at Colosso, followed by The Vines/Jet show at Roseland, followed by one of those late night rock parties that your mother always warned you about. After the mess was finally cleaned up late Thursday (04/15) afternoon, it was time for The Strokes show at Roseland. Sadly the night before had burned through our twelve cases of free Guinness we received just for being The Dandy Warhols, so no party was held, which is good, because our new smoke-eater was really starting to wheeze. :cough: