Just a reminder, Zia will be soothing your St. Patrick’s hangover with her show on W + K Radio is this morning at 11a (Pacific). Listen at W + K Radio, on your media player (iTunes, etc.), or below in the embedded player.
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Read more about Zia’s show HERE
GOTHMAN
You will be pleased to know that we have selected the winner of our Mis Amigos Remix Contest – make way for Luc, who will receive a one-time pressing on Acetate of his mix signed by the band. Nice one, Luc. We’ve put together a playlist featuring some of our favorite mixes. Listen below, they’re great.
We didn’t forget the designers – the winner of the cover design will be announced next week.
And hey, thanks to everyone who sent in their remix – you guys did a great job, so much so we really had our work cut-out for us in selecting a winner. We want everyone to hear your cool tune – if you haven’t done so, or if you have any other remix or mash-up you want to to hear, share it on Soundcloud. Thanks again, guys.
GOTHMAN
In a rather interesting and often arresting book called “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” the author states that the chickens in these horrible modern style chicken farms, which are of course often the subject of urban myth, are genetically identical. Well it just so happens that one huge benefit of being in The Dandy Warhols is that some of the brightest minds on earth are big fans who have become great friends. So I went ahead and emailed Dr. Howard Pryor who leads a lab of the leading stem cell researchers on earth right now.
You might know his work because of South Park’s “Eek-a-penis.”
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Yup, they’re the ones who grew a human ear on the back of a mouse.
Anyhoo, I emailed him this:
There have been several attempts at making a video for “I Am A Scientist”, this is my new favorite!
Whoops, won’t embed. Go see it here – Science
Click Watch Video once you’re there, the site is a bit confusing
ZIA MCCABE
I watched the Blazers lose.
I went to the game and at the end I felt like it was me too who had lost.
Why?
That’s crazy. I could have just as well rooted for Dallas. I have about as much in common with Dirk Nowitzki as I do with any of the Portland Trail Blazers. Am I the only one who wonders why I put myself through the emotional trauma of going to a basketball game? When “we” got posession with thirty-ish seconds left I got an adrenaline rush that nearly stopped my heart. It couldn’t have been worse if they had passed ME the ball.
So dumb. It’s all that old monkey wiring still hangin around inside our poor old monkey brains. Weird.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH-krlgo2e8
COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR
Just a reminder, the virgin voyage of Zia’s show on W + K Radio is this morning at 11a (Pacific). You can listen at W + K, on your media player (like iTunes), or below in the embedded player.
[pro-player width=’400′ height=’32’ type=’MP3′]http://www.live365.com/play/wkradiostation[/pro-player]
Read more about Zia’s show HERE
GOTHMAN
One of the only baroque records that I truly love is a collection of tafelmusik by Johann Heinrich Schmeltzer. Back in those days the very wealthy and powerful would hire their favorite composer to make music to dine to. Thus tablemusic became a genre.
Recently we have begun recording some very cool music that I’m hoping will become an album of perfect modern tafelmusik. Somebody’s gotta do it. We have a lot of dinner parties so we’ll be able to take it for a lot of test runs. Fun. As we go, I’ll put little thirty second bits of it up that FatHead records live on his laptop microphone.
COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR
Oh my gosh Anton’s new stuff has fat beats. He just sent me about half a dozen tracks and it’s amazing.
I’ll ask him if I can put a little bit of it up on here.
There’s one particular track that I think might be the coolest one that any of us or our friends has ever made.
He sings really cool on this stuff too.
Jeez. Really some unbelievably cool beats here. Damn. Leave it to Anton.
COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR
Henry from Spindrift gives a little insight on their current US/CAN tour with label/tour mates The Upsidedown.
Alright we’re just about decided on the remixes of Amigos. It was very difficult since a multitude of genius remixers went ahead and got involved. Maybe we’ll announce on Monday.
Well, Denver again. That magical land where there’s no traffic jams. Really. I’ve never been in traffic in Denver.
Anyhoo check this out. This is one of the coolest installations I’ve seen anywhere. This is in the Denver Art Museum.
Heres what it looks like:
And here’s what it does with flash photography:
“Fox Games” by Sandy Skoglund
They’re having an exhibit of 300 rock posters which FatHead and I will be checking out later this month between skiing.
COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR
