Happy Friday the 13th! Ahhhhhh!! Eminem is returning to Hollywood! AHHHHHHHH! He’s playing the lead role in a 3-D horror flick called Shady Talez! YaaaAAAA! Look how they spelled Tales!! Yes this is all true, and the above image is part of a 4-issue Marvel comic series that will accompany the movie. No word on a release date yet…
Dan Deacon HOSPITALIZED! Whoa. Apparently he performs with such ferocity that he totally fucked up his back and had to cancel the rest of his tour.
A post on the Facebook page for Deacon’s show at Clark University tomorrow night says, “DAN DEACON HAS POSTPONED THIS SHOW on 11/14/2009 DUE TO HOSPITALIZATION WITH ACUTE SCIATICA. THE SHOW WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO JANUARY.” – Pitchfork
Beanie Sigel ft. 50 Cent – I Go Off
The Beanie Sigel vs. Jay-Z feud just got ridiculous…Sigel went and recruited 50 Cent and they put together a shall-we-say, ‘gutter,’ diss track for Mr. Empire State himself. That snarling Beanie Sigel has a lot of anger towards jigga, I’m still not really sure why, but if jay doesn’t respond it’s gonna be pretty…anti-climactic. Especially after 50 calls him out at the end: “It’s your move.”
Is everyone excited for New Moon!?
And for all you New Yorkers willing to brave this icy weather, here’s what’s going on in the music world tonight:
so Dan Deacon’s first couple albums are a tough listen, no fooling, but man oh man if Bromst isn’t one of my favorite albums of the year, i don’t know what is what. tonight he takes his one-man frenzy to the Echo, and he and opening band Nuclear Power Pants reprise their fun-filled evening with another fun-filled evening at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock. three thumbs up show from jesus satan.
New Yorkers keep an eye out, too, he’ll be playing two dates mid-November at the Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute and the SUNY Purchase.
aww. so cute! guess what else. betcha don’t know. Dan Deacon has been added to this year’s FYF Fest, and so has the Dillinger Escape Plan and Torche. great lineup this year, just amazing.
methinks thoueth dotheth protesteth tooeth mucheth for publicitieth… lots of rumors (i doubt that) circulating the web that Dan Deacon does acid because of this old crack job viral video from director Liam Lynch for his song Drinking Out Of Cups. at least enough for him to spew the diatribe included. please don’t get me wrong, i love me some Deacon, but i’ll tell you what, if he and/or Lynch weren’t on drugs of any kind while making this song and/or video, then he probably has some fairly schizophrenic tendencies. so how’s THAT for a rumor, Deacon?
below is a copy and paste of Deacon’s MySpace bulletin via Pitchfork (thanks guys, as always. have fun at your little festival this coming weekend. you’ll be in my thoughts!):
the video for ‘drinking out of cups’ (2003 meetle mice) seems to be going viral again, this time in the comedy world. sara silverman posted it on her twitter and ‘opie and anthony’ discussed it on their radio show. there is an amazing amount of disinformation and completely wrong information about this piece and i just want to clear some things up.
in 2002 i recorded myself watching television with the sound off doing a character that was meant to embody long island culture (where i grew up). i was NOT on acid when i made this piece. i have NEVER DONE ACID.
while i have no problem with psychedelics and think that they are important to human culture, i do want it to be known that i was not on any psychedelics or any drugs while making this piece. it was all stream of conscience, reacting to watching the tv, changing the channels, with the sound of, talking to it as if it were a person communicating back to me.
the track was on my 2003 album meetle mice. in 2005 or 2006 liam lynch came across the track as it was getting passed around on message boards and file sharing sites. he contacted me about making a video for it and about using my song ‘big big big big big’ as the theme song to his podcast show. i love liams work and of course said yes. the video has grown in popularity to the point where i get fan mail from soliders in iraq, blog about my celebrity comedians and its gotten 2.8 million views on youtube.
this is all great and whatever but i want people to know this video was created without drugs or acid. i’m glad that people like the video but lets just make this perfectly clear:
1. I WAS NOT ON ACID WHILE MAKING THIS VIDEO
2. I WAS NOT LOCKED IN THE CLOSED AND BEING RECORDED
3. I RECORDED THE TRACK 100% SOBER
4. I USED THE TRACK A SCHOOL PROJECT AS A SOLO VOICE/TAPE PIECE
5. I HAVE NEVER DONE ACID, AND LIKE JEFF LEWIS, NO I DON’T WANT ANY ACID, THANK YOU
6. YES, THAT IS ME TALKING AND I WROTE THE PIECE
7. ITS A CHARACTER SATIRIZING LONG ISLAND STEREOTYPES
8. THE SONG CAME OUT IN 2003
9. THE VIDEO CAME OUT IN 2006
its really insane to me that i have been the subject of two separate viral videos that exist simultaneously inside and outside of my music career. the internet is a strange place. i don’t really know how i feel about this kind of stuff. while my work is weird and some what “experimental” its not that weird or that “experimental” where it should cause so much confusion and bewilderment among the mainstream audiences that it comes across. but i guess thats what happens when anything is out of the immediate ordinary.
anyway, thanks for taking the time to read this. please stick up for me if you see on message boards or youtube comment sections or anywhere if you see it being stated that i am on acid while making that piece. i made the piece to be funny and a piece of absurd humor. it was edited down and crafted with care. while it seems like a mindless ramble, some time and effort went into making it. if that ads or distracts from the piece so be it, it wasn’t meant to be a process piece and i never thought i’d be explaining it or that it would be seen by nearly 3 million people.
i guess i should just be glad so many people enjoy it. however, to have it be stated that i was on acid time and time again takes away from any of the creative process i put into the piece. i’m not sure i’m getting my point across but i am tired of writing this and need to get back to work on whartscape. love you all.
dan deacon
Hey broke NY music fans! looking for an awesome way to spend your Sundays? Well I sure as fuck got one. This summer, JELLY is producing 8 FREE shows on at the riverfront in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 90 Kent Ave btw N8th and N9th St. The shows will all take place on Sundays between the 12th of July and the 30th of August, from 2-8pm. And this isn’t what you’d expect for the free shows, this is the good stuff. I’ll be going to at least half of these, so if you want your picture taken, just lose some clothing and play on the slip n’ slide.
Things they’ll have: “DODGEBALL, basketball, DJ’s, bands, burgers the works!”
Things you shouldn’t bring: Click here (funny ha ha).
Dan Deacon is pretty rad and shit. for instance, if you go to his site, www.dandeacon.com, he’s got a ton of weird free songs to download just because he likes you. that’s some forward thinking right there. his new album, Bromst, is still weird, but a lot more accessible, and he’s super fun to watch live. so yay and stuff because he’s playing with a THIRTEEN MOTHERFUCKING PIECE ENSEMBLE tonight at the Troubadour. so that should be, like, crazy. Future Islands and Teeth Mountain are opening.
Dan Deacon is pretty rad and shit. for instance, if you go to his site, www.dandeacon.com, he’s got a ton of weird free songs to download just because he likes you. that’s some forward thinking right there. his new album, Bromst, is still weird, but a lot more accessible, and he’s super fun to watch live. so yay and stuff because he’s playing with a THIRTEEN MOTHERFUCKING PIECE ENSEMBLE on Wednesday, April 22nd at the Troubadour. so that should be, like, crazy. Future Islands and Teeth Mountain are opening.
Is everyone excited for New Moon!?
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