May 21, 2009.

I recently received an email from a pen-pal of mine, formerly in Cambodia, now living in Washington, D.C.; he wondered if we might be performing some Galaxie 500 songs at our upcoming shows (in Philadelphia, D.C., and at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City). Yes, we are planning on playing a bunch of Galaxie 500 songs; we did this at the Zipper Factory last year and it was fun and I managed to hit all the high notes. The Galaxie 500 video “Fourth of July” ran on New York Noise last week, followed by amusing comments from some young children. Warning: the video contains violent war imagery in addition to gorilla and clown suits. You can view it here; click on Episode 89, Section 1:

http://nyc.gov/html/nycmg/nyctv/html/music/nynoise.shtml

We rehearsed this week with drummer Jason Bemis Lawrence, who usually sits behind the traps for the Caledonia Mission, and is (like Anthony Lamarca), a graduate of the New School’s jazz program.

June 30 will find us performing the Andy Warhol Screen Test show at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles June 20. We will also be doing a live radio session on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic – June 18. And I’m doing a book reading at Skylight Books 5pm Sunday the 21st (Father’s Day). One father wrote to us this week – said that he was clearing the table after dinner and stumbled upon this drawing of yours truly, created by his 10-year-old son Lucas. Thank you Lucas.

- Dean

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