Tag: 2010

Big Takeover Review 10/30/10

Written by Zia McCabe on . Posted in The Dandy Warhols, Zia.

Here is something I found today that I liked.

Big Takeover: The Dandy Warhols with Blue Giant-The Vic Theater (Chicago, IL)-Saturday, October 30th, 2010

CLIPPED …More than anything, their 2 hour set brought about a sense of rich perspective on the band’s best works, which are definitely something to be proud of. “Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth” and “We Used to Be Friends” appeared quite early on and garnered a great camaraderie amongst Dandies fans. “I Love You” was ripe with a keener sense of lust and Taylor sang “Holiday” in its most stripped down form by himself after excusing the band and quipping that they all needed to take a break and use the restroom. “Boys Better,” “Bohemian Like You,” and “Get Off” came later and felt epically catchy. Another highlight, “Good Morning” provided such a rich melancholy that one couldn’t help but close her/his eyes just to feel the pleasurable waves pass through the thick air hovering about….

…READ THE WHOLE THING HERE…

ZIA MCCABE

Actual Laugh Out Loud

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on . Posted in Courtney, The Dandy Warhols.

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.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

Cheeses Christ

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on . Posted in Courtney, The Dandy Warhols.

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.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

Courtney Movie Reviews: A Serious Man, Jerry Maguire, Special Relationship

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on . Posted in Courtney, Movie Reviews.

A Serious Man

(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.

Jerry Maguire

(1996)

Dude, I totally cried n shit.

The Special Relationship

(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.

Movie Review Archive

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

Regarding “Jude the Obscure”

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on . Posted in Courtney.

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.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

Dirty Cold Wet and Starving and Sad and Lonely

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on . Posted in Courtney.

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.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

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