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I have been right about Gaucho since 2006.

― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 September 2023 16:46 (two years ago)

Back in 2006 I was the dandy of Gamma Chi

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 1 September 2023 17:02 (two years ago)

My college did not really have a frat culture so I had no context for Gamma Chi.

That said, I used to be in a band with a dude who had been in a fraternity. We once did a cover of the Loggins/Messina "Danny's Song" ("even though we ain't got money" etc.) And he sang it as Delta Chi, which I guess was his collegiate affiliation.

― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 1 September 2023 17:08 (two years ago)

in 2006 the first record i played at my new apartment was aja

― brimstead, Friday, 1 September 2023 17:44 (two years ago)

In 2006 I had a Morph the Cat poster over my desk at work

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 1 September 2023 17:46 (two years ago)

holy christ scott, what a thing of beauty

― tremolo, Friday, 1 September 2023 19:08 (two years ago)

Wow yeah I need that Here at the Western World 12". Some days it's my favorite Dan song

― J. Sam, Saturday, 2 September 2023 16:59 (two years ago)

Party at Scott’s house

― calstars, Saturday, 2 September 2023 17:18 (two years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/steely-dan-drop-off-eagles-tour-dates-due-to-illness-donald-fagen-reportedly-hospitalized/

The Eagles killing Fagan is a little too on-brand.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 21:19 (two years ago)

They stabbed him with their steely knives

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 22:47 (two years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzTvGKBXsAEZltJ.jpg

"Et tu, Henley?"

"Well, yeah."

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 22:53 (two years ago)

One of these Nightflys

― The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 23:29 (two years ago)

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

― calstars, Thursday, 19 October 2023 16:19 (two years ago)

all the poor people eatin with the cheese on the fries

― budo jeru, Thursday, 19 October 2023 17:04 (two years ago)

Tell all your buddies that it ain't no drag

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 19 October 2023 17:25 (two years ago)

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

― calstars, Thursday, 19 October 2023 17:38 (two years ago)

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

― Florin Cuchares, Friday, 20 October 2023 03:57 (two years ago)

one month passes...

43rd anniversary of the release of Gaucho

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 22:23 (two years ago)

"Hey Sixty-Two"

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 00:02 (two years ago)

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

― 龜, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:24 (two years ago)

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

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:32 (two years ago)

https://intelligence.coffee/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/image2-1.jpg

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:34 (two years ago)

I mean, they did name an album after pretzels.

― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:48 (two years ago)

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.

― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:49 (two years ago)

poll

― flopson, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 19:01 (two years ago)

hard not to vote for szechuan DUMPLINGS!

― flopson, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 19:02 (two years ago)

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

― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 19:09 (two years ago)

Breadisattva?

Reelin' in the Yeast?

Katy Fried?

― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 19:19 (two years ago)

three piña coladas sounds nice

― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 19:30 (two years ago)

libations

― calstars, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 20:37 (two years ago)

Deacon Blueberry

― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 21:18 (two years ago)

Charlie Crepe

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 21:56 (two years ago)

The Royal Ham

― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 22:06 (two years ago)

The Royal Scampi

― nickn, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 22:35 (two years ago)

Countdown to Eggstacy

― J. Sam, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 23:34 (two years ago)

Everyone’s Gone to the Mochi

― calstars, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 23:39 (two years ago)

Pretzel Lobster

― birdistheword, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:46 (two years ago)

i just got this email TODAY

https://i.imgur.com/YAa2514.png

― omar little, Thursday, 23 November 2023 02:10 (two years ago)

Barry Town obviously

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 November 2023 02:26 (two years ago)

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

― peace, man, Saturday, 25 November 2023 17:21 (two years ago)

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!

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 02:14 (two years ago)

They play My Old school at the end too

― calstars, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 03:14 (two years ago)

five months pass...

2/2
It continues… pic.twitter.com/Wvt16ZLeux
— Jerry Koenigsmark (@jkingsmoney) May 10, 2024

fagen completely otm on both whiplash and fred armisen

― z_tbd, Sunday, 12 May 2024 15:22 (two years ago)

z_tbd otm

― omar little, Sunday, 12 May 2024 17:16 (two years ago)

May Nineteen

― calstars, Sunday, 19 May 2024 16:44 (two years ago)

"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.

― birdistheword, Sunday, 19 May 2024 19:24 (two years ago)

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.

― JRN, Sunday, 19 May 2024 20:59 (two years ago)

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

― z_tbd, Sunday, 19 May 2024 23:35 (two years ago)

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

― z_tbd, Sunday, 19 May 2024 23:37 (two years ago)

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

― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Sunday, 19 May 2024 23:44 (two years ago)

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