Steely Dan: "Steely Dan's name has been popping up as a hip musical crush. Remember, this glossy bop-pop was the indifferent aristocracy to punk rock's stone-throwing in the late 70's. People fought

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"Et tu, Henley?"

"Well, yeah."

One of these Nightflys

On my lunch break in midtown Manhattan eating Nathan’s cheese fries outside and listening to Countdown to Ecstasy

all the poor people eatin with the cheese on the fries

Tell all your buddies that it ain't no drag

It was fo-dee-eight hours til Lonnie came arouuuuunnnnnnd

my retirement plan is to stay after closing time at the guernsey fair until I detect the el supremo

43rd anniversary of the release of Gaucho

"Hey Sixty-Two"

Here is every food and drink Steely Dan have ever mentioned in a song. pic.twitter.com/hbAgl1O9WO

— Joan Ocean . Com (@Joanocean) August 3, 2023

It depends if you think the "fine Columbian" is a reference to peanut butter

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I mean, they did name an album after pretzels.

Christgau's latest Substack newsletter is a review of a book about SD (with references to several others) and man, if you thought he was a shit writer in short capsule form...he really has disappeared entirely up his own ass.

poll

hard not to vote for szechuan DUMPLINGS!

I can't decide whether an SD cookbook or SD drinking game would be more enjoyable. SD themed edition of Great British Bake Off?

Breadisattva?

Reelin' in the Yeast?

Katy Fried?

three piña coladas sounds nice

libations

Deacon Blueberry

Charlie Crepe

The Royal Ham

The Royal Scampi

Countdown to Eggstacy

Everyone’s Gone to the Mochi

Pretzel Lobster

i just got this email TODAY

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Barry Town obviously

Wish they had gone into Steely Dan solo projects as well, if only to nab the mango cooler from Morph the Cat.

If you wanted to see the killer "Show-Biz Kids" Midnight Special clip in its original context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0PLCH0TYB0

BILLY PRESTON! BO DIDDLEY! NED DOHENY!

They play My Old school at the end too

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It continues… pic.twitter.com/Wvt16ZLeux

— Jerry Koenigsmark (@jkingsmoney) May 10, 2024

fagen completely otm on both whiplash and fred armisen

z_tbd otm

May Nineteen

"white people invented jazz" LOL

I haven't seen the Armisen sketch - if it's really that bad, I'm not surprised but massively disappointed if Carrie Brownstein approved (and I imagine she probably did only because it's her show too).

My favorite takedown of Chazelle's film came from Glenn Kenny, which he saw about the same time he caught Birdman (made by another director whose work he usually didn't like):

Birdman made its positive impression on me because it swept me up in the contrivances of its world. Damien Chazelle's Whiplash did not. On leaving the screening I attended, I thought, "It's not that the movie gets jazz wrong—although it does—it’s that it gets LIFE ON THE PLANET EARTH wrong." (The aforementioned Mr. Brody has written most trenchantly on how it gets jazz wrong.) There's a lot of dynamic filmmaking on display here, most of it in the service of utter horseshit.

I haven't seen the Armisen sketch - if it's really that bad, I'm not surprised but massively disappointed if Carrie Brownstein approved (and I imagine she probably did only because it's her show too).

It's not from Portlandia, it's a bit from an Armisen stand-up show.

Whiplash is like a dream where an annoying angry bigot yells at you and the music sucks

The tempo of the song “whiplash” must be played at 330+ bpm because any slower version of it would take even longer to listen to and would cross the line into the unendurable

Make it ring, make it bleed, make it really sore

Whiplash is like a dream where an annoying angry bigot yells at you and the music sucks

That's reality, and it's the Kanye listening party

Fred Armisen's bit on jazz sucks, because Fred Armisen sucks. But it also sucks because it's just a dumber version of Paul F. Tompkins' bit, which is actually good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CxTyWquofo

May the nineteen be with you!