Our annual all-ages Portland Christmas show — Big Gay Birthday Party in the Sky for Jesus — takes place Saturday, December 1st. For 2018, The Dandy Warhols team with Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in donating a portion of each ticket sold to SMYRC – Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Research Center – New Avenues for Youth.
December 1st is also World AIDS Day. Join the Sisters later that night for a moving vigil through downtown Portland’s gay community spaces. More information on this vigil: FACEBOOK EVENT
Oh we’re doing it, puddlestompers. The Dandy Warhols annual all-ages Christmas show at the Crystal Ballroom is a go! Saturday, December 1st is the date and tickets are in sale NOW. Whoa!
Original Dandys superstar, avant-garde artist, and our dear friend Jeffery Wonderful has left Earth. Jeffery was a mainstay in our early days, appearing in music videos and coming with us on tour to do sixties style projections.
But Jeffery was much more than that, though. He touched many during his brief stay among us animals, and our thoughts go out to his family and all his friends worldwide. Godspeed. Personal thoughts to follow.
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When I first starting running around downtown Portland as a 15yr old, around 1990, I met a cute boy that went by Jeffrey Wonderful. He said if I mailed him a love letter he would return one and include a “plethora” of stickers. I followed through and so did he. I learned a new word that day and made a new friend. The first friend I ever made in Portland. Several years before joining The Dandys. This boy ended up starring in our first video, became our first psychedelic lighting guy by swirling oils, food dye and water in a pyrex dish on an overhead projector and was a ton of fun on tour with us in the early days. He was one of a kind and will be deeply missed. ZIA MCCABE
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Jeffery Wonderful was an amazing spirit. His sense of humor and positive energy encapsulated Portland’s X-Ray Cafe scene of which we were a part.We cast him in two videos (“TV Theme Song” and “Little Drummer Boy”) and brought him on tour to do oil and water projections. Later on with his construction company he worked on projects at The Odditorium and my house. He did all the finishing work in my bedroom. Jeffery will be missed.
PETER G. HOLMSTRÖM
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I don’t recall meeting Jeffrey for the first time. A few years ago he had bowed out of managing the Rose City Rollers and was putting on avant-garde theatre in town.
We took Sheppard Fairey and his wife to see Jeffrey’s production of Hot Gun which was of course a gender bender redux of Top Gun, which is still a movie I’ve not seen.
Well it was amazing and we were in hysterics for two hours. We were chatting with Jeffrey afterwards and I mentioned that his other play was also ultra queer and funny as fuck and how did he do this adaptation and know when to stop rewriting and let it be funny.
The Dandy Warhols charity partner for this year’s Portland Christmas show is the Oregon Alliance for Gun Safety Foundation. One dollar from every ticket sold for the December 9th all-ages gig at the Crystal Ballroom goes to help the Alliance to educate leaders and the public on the causes of and solutions to the scourge of gun violence.
Oh hi. Have we not posted anything on our old dumb website this year at all? Well sorry!
Wanted to let you know that Zia will be defending her crown Schoolhouse Supplies 15th Annual Celebrity Spelling Bee January 29th in Portland. McCabe’s won the last two and is gunning for the Three-peat. Will she prove v-i-c-t-o-r-i-o-u-s? I don’t know, what’s that spell?
The Celebrity Spelling Bee is our annual fundraiser where our community of supporters come together to celebrate the success of Schoolhouse Supplies, and to honor those who helped make it happen.
This evening of intelligent fun, held on Thursday, January 29th, 2015 (5:00-9:00 pm) at the Portland Art Museum, brings together past Spelling Bee winners like 2014 champion, Zia McCabe, along with new challengers all vying for the title of Portland’s Spelling Champion.
I was finally in town for the Portland branch of the World Naked Bike Ride!
I snapped a few pics which promptly got me put in time out by Facebook. Soon after, a fan pointed out that I do have a web site after all and with my rebellious nature and zeal for freedom to express I can’t help but to repost them here. Enjoy!
Our friend Logan Lynn speaks to Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney, Portlandia), and Calvin Johnson (K-Records founder) about the Crystal Ballroom‘s centennial celebration their favorite memories of the legendary Portland venue.
Taylor-Taylor: Right now, it is the focal center of Portland’s world-renowned indie music scene. It is the single, central part of it. It gets the biggest bands, the best bands. The Vic in Chicago, The Fillmore in San Francisco, The 9:30 Club in Washington D.C., 1st Avenue in Minneapolis, Crystal in Portland — these are the legendary rooms.
Jeremy Wilson of the Dharma Bums started The Jeremy Wilson Foundation to assist musicians and artists in medical crisis. He wrote me personally in the hopes that I could reach some people before the end of this year. Not only is this a great organization to donate to but they have a very special offer right now that’s about to expire.
Thanks for reading and any contribution is much appreciated.
Happy New Year,
ZIA MCCABE
From Jeremy Wilson:
This year our 501(c)3 musicians’ health and services organization has taken part in the Willamette Weeks GiveGuide campaign. Monqui presents is our partner in the campaign. Not only have they made a $5000.00 cash donation to the JWF GiveGuide campaign, but they are also offering a 4 Person VIP Package to ALL Edgefield concerts (16 to 20 shows!) for 2014 if someone or some company makes a minimum of $6000.00 donation to the JWF through GiveGuide this year at http://bit.ly/1bZjoRQ before midnight December 31st – Tuesday (the VIP package is valued at $12,000.00) The VIP package includes – private covered seating area at Edgefield, all food and drinks supplied and private facilities too. Monqui does not make this available to the general public and mostly supplies the VIP area for their biggest concert sponsors. You can use the tickets for yourself, friends or as gifts to your business partners as well.
I hope you will consider this wonderful opportunity and make a donation today if you can; or let someone know that might be interested. We also are accepting ANY SIZE DONATION Please help us spread the word. Thanks for your time! And also, thanks for all the great things you do for this crazy world!! You bring much happiness!
Hope you are well and that we see each other soon. Happy New Years!
Your Friend,
Jeremy Wilson
PS – FYI. The JWF gave out $100,000.00 in assistance this year to musicians in medical emergency. 3x as much as the year before!
Donate HERE before midnight December 31st.
Sunday night – 12/15 – Rock! Holiday Birthday Party at Crystal Ballroom with Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Modern Kin, Bloco Alegria and after party with DJ Rescue (Zia). Tickets are $20:bit.ly/TDW1215tix
(The Dandy Warhols, Crystal Ballroom, and Jesus all politely decline any birthday gifts at their birthday party holiday slash rock show this Sunday (12/15) in Portland, but would appreciate an unwrapped toy (or cash donations) brought to our merchandise table to be donated toDoernbecher Children’s Hospitalon their behalf.)
Tuesday: 12/17 – Live and Direct from The Odditorium – Acoustic Review at 12pm, 3pm, and 11pm PST (UTC-8). Catch one, two or all three. No two performances are ever the same with us so don’t miss out. stageit.com/TheDandyWarhols.
Time: 7:00pm.Address:1624 NW Glisan.Venue phone: 503-223-4527.** Little Cloud Records Showcase with LSD & The Search For God, Sun Atoms, and Tremours **Buy Tickets
