The last leg of our touring for the year has got off to a great start. With the 3rd show being my favorite so far.
Here is a very flattering review of the Seattle show.
PS: This means we’ve played three great shows in a row in Seattle (Neumo’s, Bumbershoot and Showbox), a place I always considered us to be hit or miss. Nice to know we’ve got a place so close to home we can now count on enjoying. Way to go Seattle fans!
ZIA MCCABE
As far as plots and stories go this one is just plain silly. But then again that’s not what it’s about. If you’re into food, France and French wine this is what might be called an elegant romp and it’s definitely for you.
I’m gonna read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao next. Just as soon as we’ve had our two-day break from tour.
COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR
Our gig last night was magic. If I had gotten more than seven hours of sleep I’d still be reading but I’m too tired to concentrate on one thing for more than a few minutes. Or pages.
This is a whodunnit about a three-million dollar wine heist. I’m in heaven. It also happens to be written by my favorite kind of modern writer: a wit who can keep out of his own way.
Check out this cool, um,”art” installation on the U.S./Canadian border. (Click to enlarge.)
COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR
Apparently this book was discovered as a complete manuscript after Crichton’s death in 2008. I didn’t even know he had died. Well the book is pretty damn fun. It’s got me through four flight delays and one cancellation, three van rides and a seaplane.
One thing though, it’s been a while since I watched Captain Horatio Hornblower but I kept thinking that this was the same story. Or was it Yellowbeard.
COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR
Well it looks like this is how we get to Vancouver. God this has been a weird tour….and we’ve been out for exactly one day.
COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR
I forgot to stop at Powells so this was kinda the only choice left to me from the PDX news stand. It has the word “pirate” in the title and right below it is the sentence: “Crichton’s ultimate adventure.” Ooh, that sounds great.
Well, seventy pages in I can tell you that it’s pretty goofy. It reads like a book for kids but with pummelings and daggery. This book also seems to have an abundance of wenching. Oh well, at least the swashbuckling is gonna commence any page now…
COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR
The Dandy Warhols 2010 North American Tour resumes Wednesday night as we cross the border to Victoria for a show at Sugar Nightclub. Then it’s on to Vancouver the next night at Commodore Ballroom, and Seattle’s Showbox at the Market on Friday, December 3rd. We pick back up in San Diego (Solana Beach) on Tuesday, December 7th at Belly Up, then over to a rare show in Las Vegas at the Hard Rock on Wednesday the 8th. On Friday, December 10th we are in Los Angeles at Club Nokia, then up the coast to the City and County of San Francisco and the Regency Ballroom on Saturday (12/11) before returning home to Portland on Sunday the 12th for the final Dandys show of the year at the Crystal Ballroom.
Plus, some lucky so-and-sos will have a chance to win tickets to our shows in Seattle, LA, and SF from TheRFW.COM. God bless us everyone!
GOTHMAN
Hey ,the new CTT produced Wolfmen single “Marilyn Monroe (Wam Bam JFK)” is out today. You should try buying it, it’s pretty great.
The Wolfmen are Marco Pirroni and Chris Constantinou, of Adam and the Ants, Onassid, Sinead O’Connor and tons more awesome music. Their second album, Married to the Eiffel Tower, mixed by Courtney Taylor Taylor (I know that guy), will be out in early 2011.
GOTHMAN
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I’m in the South eagerly awaiting the big feast. All the kinfolk are sittin around watching FOX news. Ya know, I had nearly forgotten how to hate, be small or even get petty and mean about other people whom I don’t even know. But now thanks to only fifteen minutes in front of the TV, I have high blood pressure and am ready to torture and/or kill complete strangers.
Wow, I feel so dark and creepy right now, like my insides have been defiled. I need to lay down in a field of daisies.
Cryin’ out loud. Now I know where psychos, rapists, and serial killers go to get jacked up for visiting some evil upon the good and the innocent.
Here is a movie review:
Addams Family Values: It’s not a perfect movie, but on Thanksgiving Day it sure did cure the evil sickness that was put in me by accidentally watching 15 minutes of FOX News.
COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR
This week the Dandys are recording a cover of the Runaways’ “Cherry Bomb” (only one of the greatest rock songs of all time). Here’s Zia getting ready to put on some theremin. We’ll let you know when you can hear it.
I mean, not now. We won’t let you know now.
GOTHMAN
