Most of you have probably seen the movie "DiG!" by now and know how awesome it is. For those of you who haven't, it's a documentary basically about the love/hate relationship of two bands: the gifted-but-selfdestructive-and-therefore-unkown Brian Jonestown Massacre and the commercially-successful-but-really-only-in-Europe Dandy Warhols. Long story short, the movie makes you think "these are the two coolest bands on Earth, why haven't I seen them before?"
Well, in the past couple of months Il Gato has had the opportunity to see both live and he has an answer to that question: It's because in real life they both really suck. Hard.
At Friday's Dandys' show, their telegenic frontman Courtney Taylor was wearing both a CBGB t-shirt and a retro Delta pilot's cap. Somebody else in the band was doing the whole scarf-with-a-tshirt look, eventhough it was 85 degrees in the theater. Not that I'm judging a book by its cover: they then played an hour and a half set of songs that had no discernable beginning or end. Just one long mass of music played at the exact same tempo and with the exact same instrumentation. They did throw in covers of "Little Drum Boy" and ACDC's "Hell's Bells" for a little dash of irony to please the Urban Outfitters crowd. Truly awful.
On a different note, the movie "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" is a hoot. Robert Downey plays an actor trying to learn to be a detective by following around a gay Hollywood detective named Gay Perry, played by Val Kilmer. Val Kilmer is as watchable as ever. Plus, he's gained at least 55 pounds since "Top Gun" and been giving a lot of really weird interviews lately, so I think he might be in the middle of pulling a real Brando on us. Only time will tell.
Sample dialogue:
Kilmer: Do you know what you'll find in the dictionary next to the word 'idiot'?
Downey: My picture?
Kilmer: No, the definition of the word idiot, which is what you are.
Well, in the past couple of months Il Gato has had the opportunity to see both live and he has an answer to that question: It's because in real life they both really suck. Hard.
At Friday's Dandys' show, their telegenic frontman Courtney Taylor was wearing both a CBGB t-shirt and a retro Delta pilot's cap. Somebody else in the band was doing the whole scarf-with-a-tshirt look, eventhough it was 85 degrees in the theater. Not that I'm judging a book by its cover: they then played an hour and a half set of songs that had no discernable beginning or end. Just one long mass of music played at the exact same tempo and with the exact same instrumentation. They did throw in covers of "Little Drum Boy" and ACDC's "Hell's Bells" for a little dash of irony to please the Urban Outfitters crowd. Truly awful.
On a different note, the movie "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" is a hoot. Robert Downey plays an actor trying to learn to be a detective by following around a gay Hollywood detective named Gay Perry, played by Val Kilmer. Val Kilmer is as watchable as ever. Plus, he's gained at least 55 pounds since "Top Gun" and been giving a lot of really weird interviews lately, so I think he might be in the middle of pulling a real Brando on us. Only time will tell.
Sample dialogue:
Kilmer: Do you know what you'll find in the dictionary next to the word 'idiot'?
Downey: My picture?
Kilmer: No, the definition of the word idiot, which is what you are.
posted by il Gatto Grande at
9:30 AM
2 Comments:
i think "the dandys" have a couple catchy tunes, but you're right: on the whole, they basically suck. and they're definitely an urban outfitter type of band.
hey big cat, did you follow the rest of the season of "rome"? historic political intrigue complimented by violence, incest, and lesbianism. could it get any better?
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