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Just got into NYC. Crap weather, of course.
Boston show last night was superfun. I haven’t been drinking or smoking either so that I can have the stamina to sing my little heart out on this rigorous schedule. Got the night off here so with 12 hrs of sleep the vocal chords should be tip-top for tomorrow.
Canadian and Canadien gigs were awesome as well. I guess I should probably just count on not being party tourguy from here on out.
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From the popular SPIN Magazine:
Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter Anya Marina, who turned heads with her 2009 album, Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II, and landed in SPIN’s Breaking Out section, is back November 15 with a new EP called Spirit School. Like Seduction, it boasts collabos with some of her rockin’ pals, including Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor — hear their song “Whatsit” below!
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Well now if you’re a writer who aspires to be clever I can tell you firsthand that “The Gunseller” will most likely make you want to quit. It did in my case.
This guy’s control over his effusive cleverness is uncommon to say the least. I laugh out loud around twice a page. And I don’t mean the nauseating little abbreviation that people put next to the equally nauseating sideways smiley face when they’ve texted you something that they feel is inappropriate, completely not-funny or both. I actually mean that I actually laugh out loud.
Incidentally, the plot just happens to rock as hard as a Ludlum novel (which of course he wryly alludes to early on) and not once do you feel like you’re reading a “first novel”. If you’ve read “Don’t Point That Thing at Me” and dug it, this is quite similar and I feel that it’s just as good.
“Soon I Will Be Invincible” has a great first couple pages but quickly becomes quite the opposite. This book makes me want to write the book that the cover makes me wish that he wrote. The story is basically a comic book story very similar to X-Men but told from the point of view of one of the supervillains and includes his entire life story. This isn’t a novel idea in the world of graphic novels but it apparently is novel in the world of novel novels.
The guy is a good writer but I can’t help thinking that his editor could or should have made this book a more consistently enjoyable experience for me but just working a little bit harder. I struggled through some Mojave Desert dryness and gave up for a while. I’ll letcha know if it gets any better when I try it again.
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Okay then, Minneapolis. That beer is called Surly Darkness and it’s made about three miles from the club we just played. Had a great show too.
Wisconsin……cheeses christ!
The cheese store is called Fromagination and wow is it spectacular. I’m having a bowl of red pepper/tomato soup into which I have had them grate some St Pauline capri.
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(2009) A nifty but noticeably unsatisfying jewish movie for jewish people about jewishness and jewish things on top of which they had a hard time thinking up an ending again. |
(1996) Dude, I totally cried n shit. |
(2010) At first it seems like a very astute movie about the true nature of relationships, but on a deeper level it’s about how great Tony Blair was and how Bill Clinton was a real shitbag. |
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Regarding “Jude the Obscure”:
Fuck this guy.
Fuck this book.
Gross. Cheap tales of misery. And death and poverty despair, etc. Like when they get kicked out of their last little hovel and they find the two babies and the little boy hanging in the closet from cords around their necks with a note that says “becuz we are too menny”. Oh good one, buddy that deserves a sideways smiley face 🙂
This entire work seems bent on making one point, which is that marriage is a bad idea. That’s it. What an horrible man to drag readers through all that crap just to make such a point. And ya know what’s worse? I still don’t believe him. Wtf?!
Anyhoo, the guy is an amazing writer so I’m gonna do a little research and see if The Madding Crowd is his only non-tragedy. Jezuz I feel like I’ve been through the wars.
Oh and btw, I read “Tess” only up until she gets raped by the wealthy shitbag dude.
Right, good ol’ Tom Hardy. Jerk.
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Alright, I’m having a fucked up relationship with ol’ Tom Hardy now. He’s a sado-masochist. I think I hate him……or rather am disappointed and a little grossed out by how he chose to spend his genius. He seems to have totally derailed to total bitterness at some point.
I have tried to start three more of his bigboys and all of them are simply tragedies wherein good and wonderful people are slowly tricked and trapped into small and mean peoples awful little worlds. It is a slow and painful demise based mostly on our vain desires for other people and how its always the wrong people that we desire most. We die dirty cold wet and starving and sad and lonely.
Gross.
Damn, I can’t put myself through that right now in my life but I just love reading this guy’s sentences. They’re just amazing. And I love going into this guys world and being there for hours.
Dammit.
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NO SHOWS WHAT?