Well, we had this big party New Years at the Odditorium, and honestly I don’t remember much of it, for although I do not ever imbibe in alcoholic elixirs, I was experimenting with psychedelics (like they did in the 1960s), so my account of the evening is certainly flawed. I think everyone who attended had the greatest New Year in history. Ask them. I mean, how couldn’t they?
I mean, that’s pretty legendary.
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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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Here’s a third video for “This Is The Tide” made by our friend Joe Kaczmarek, who you will remember from Rick Bain’s Genius Position all those years ago. Years? Decades?? Technicaly 1999 was three decades ago, right? Anyway…
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Just a quick note to let you know that Zia’s Brush Prairie will be performing Thursday night in Portland at Kelly’s Olympian Knife Shop (21+/$3/info). Meanwhile, Peter’s Pete International Airport will be in Seattle Thursday performing in theFuzzy Ball shoegaze/psychedelic event at Neumos (21+/$10/info), and the following night in Portland at the Wonder Ballroom (21+/$10/info).
One more thing, here’s Peter on INTO THE WOODS.TV‘s Learning Curve explaining his pedals and how he gets the sound on Pete International Airport’s namesake song.
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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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Last night’s show was pretty great. There’s no place like home. Probably a good thing that’s the end of the tour, because last night would be pretty hard to top. Wow, what a great crowd.
The Dandys want to thank all the great crowds who took planes and trains and busses and found parking and got baby sitters and worked an extra hour or two just to come see us in 2010. Hope you had a blast. It might be the most fun we’ve ever head. But I bet we have more fun in 2011. It’s always more and more fun. How does that even work??
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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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