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(2008) Wow, this is one of the worst after school specials I’ve ever seen (hammy writing, flagrant overacting etc.), yet I must’ve been asked about thirty times if I’d seen it. |
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(1984) who woulda guessed that this movie was actually really funny? |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) Whoa, for a second there I thought Agatha Christie was alive and well and writing under a Swedish pseudonym and oh, watching way too much Law & Order SVU. |
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(1964) In spite of Peter O’Toole’s over-the-top performance, this movie somehow manages to still be totally boring. |
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Here are some random pics from tour: this one is in Las Vegas at some Elvis installation, thus the TCS w/lightning bolt (which means “takin care of business in a flash”). He demanded that his crew do exactly that. Barnsey took this one.
The show in LA. I think my cousin Julia took this one.
Our friend Cary Haider took this at the portland gig. Looks cool. I wish you could see my boots better cuz they’re the ones I designed for Fleuvog several years back. They look better than ever. I’ve had to re-sole them a couple times but damn they’ve aged well.
Portland. Stephanie took this
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Well we’ve just finished what I’m pretty sure was my favorite year of touring. Ever. Thanks to everyone who came to see our gigs, bought and/or listened to our records, wore our t shirts, watched our videos, read or wrote articles about us, and generally enjoyed us in any ways that I haven’t thought of here.
It has been brought to my attention that there is something I need to clarify before I can go on vacation though:
Traditionally it takes us about a year and a half to make a record. About halfway through I need to organize lyrics and arrangements, then again months later before the record is finished. This part takes anywhere from a week to a couple months (in the worst case scenario) depending upon how much procrastinating I’ve done in regards to lyrics. Unless you have a songwriting partner, no one can help you with this. These are long, dark unhappy days generally.
In the multitude of interviews this year I was asked repeatedly if I felt badly about Zia and Brent writing ‘This is the Tide’, as though I had been put out to pasture. Jeez. My usual reply was that I was the one who got to come in for an hour and a half while they spent fifteen hour days working out the tedium of details, but apparently this made it sound like traditionally I make the records while they breeze through for an hour and a half whenever they’re feeling whimsical. That is a ridiculous interpretation, and now that I’ve cleared it up i’m officially on vacation.
Hooray and Merry Christmas everyone.
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Here’s how they deal with that pesky graffiti in SF. They screw in a protective sheet of plexiglass over it…. If it’s really really cool.
Check out this book of sheet music. I’ve seen this once before. I believe it was in Dublin maybe ten years ago.
Actually Fatty just told me he has one as well. Sweet. Maybe one day I’ll sit down and check that it’s all correct. Or even close.
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My favorite bar.
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Wikileaks: is everyone aware of what this really is? It’s a dream of what we all wish we are. It’s what we make movies about: a benevolent superpower.
They are saying “let us know, We can handle it” BUT THEN, when the money systems companies did what is wrong with “the system” like a tired cliche’, they said “NOPE”.
This is gorgeous X-men shit putting our Orwellian recent past in a full-nelson until it says uncle. Hysterical and I find it deeply comforting.
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My tour manager told me we took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
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I received this link from a couple friends who said they loved it. I haven’t read it because I don’t feel comfortable reading press, but go ahead. It’s Zia approved.
The Sound of Songwriting: With Courtney Taylor of the Dandy Warhols
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