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 Post subject: steely dan calls out owen wilson via luke. i'm not kidding.
PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:33 pm 
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http://www.steelydan.com/heyluke.html

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:37 pm 
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the dan has spoken

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that is hilarious.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:45 pm 
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Open letter to Steely Dan:

First, you were never a touring band to begin with, and you sure as hell shouldn't be touring 400 years after you stopped not touring to begin with. Second, you are yourselves ripping off one Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in your hash-addled letter. Third, you do not deserve copyright protection for your clever idea of a guy named Dupree who sleeps on couches. Nobody's going "oh man, it's like that guy in the song! I'm totally going to see this Owen Wilson movie!" Hopefully, no one is saying "I'm going to see this movie "at all. Sure, an acknowlegement might be polite, but I hope you understand that attaching the name "Dupree" to a stock vagabond character does not an original idea make. Unoriginal ideas are not afforded copyright protection. Thank you for your understanding.

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HaqDiesel Wrote:
Open letter to Steely Dan:

You suck.

Love,
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P.S. Anyone touring with Michael McDonald might as well shoot themselves in the head.

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Love,
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really?

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:49 pm 
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Really "love" or really "Aaron"?


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:51 pm 
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Well I've kicked around a lot since high school
I've worked a lot of nowhere gigs
From keyboard man in a rock'n ska band
To haulin' boss crude in the big rigs
Now I've come back home to plan my next move
From the comfort of my Aunt Faye's couch
When I see my little cousin Janine walk in
All I could say was ow-ow-ouch

CHORUS:
Honey how you've grown
Like a rose
Well we used to play
When we were three
How about a kiss for your cousin Dupree

She turned my life into a living hell
In those little tops and tight capris
I pretended to be readin' the National Probe
As I was watchin' her wax her skis
On Saturday night she walked in with her date
And backs him up against the wall
I tumbled off the couch and heard myself sing
In a voice I never knew I had before

CHORUS

I'll teach you everything I know
If you teach me how to do that dance
Life is short and quid pro quo
And what's so strange about a down-home family romance?

One night we're playin' gin by a cracklin' fire
And I decided to make my play
I said babe with my boyish charm and good looks
How can you stand it for one more day
She said maybe its the skeevy look in your eyes
Or that your mind has turned to applesauce
The dreary architecture of your soul
I said - but what is it exactly turns you off?

CHORUS


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:51 pm 
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i don't know. i forget. i am at work.

don't you know that if you put your name on the internet someone's gonna steat your identity? or your laptop?

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Guys, the letter is pretty obviously a ruse.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:54 pm 
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Spade Kitty Wrote:
Guys, the letter is pretty obviously a ruse.



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:55 pm 
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Spade Kitty Wrote:
Guys, the letter is pretty obviously a ruse.


I'm hoping everybody knows this and is just using the opportunity to take their digs at Steely Dan and write semi-facetious letters of their own.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:58 pm 
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there's a kernel of truth in every ruse.

a bitter, festering kernel.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:08 pm 
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katie, a princess Wrote:
Well I've kicked around a lot since high school
I've worked a lot of nowhere gigs
From keyboard man in a rock'n ska band
To haulin' boss crude in the big rigs
Now I've come back home to plan my next move
From the comfort of my Aunt Faye's couch
When I see my little cousin Janine walk in
All I could say was ow-ow-ouch

CHORUS:
Honey how you've grown
Like a rose
Well we used to play
When we were three
How about a kiss for your cousin Dupree

She turned my life into a living hell
In those little tops and tight capris
I pretended to be readin' the National Probe
As I was watchin' her wax her skis
On Saturday night she walked in with her date
And backs him up against the wall
I tumbled off the couch and heard myself sing
In a voice I never knew I had before

CHORUS

I'll teach you everything I know
If you teach me how to do that dance
Life is short and quid pro quo
And what's so strange about a down-home family romance?

One night we're playin' gin by a cracklin' fire
And I decided to make my play
I said babe with my boyish charm and good looks
How can you stand it for one more day
She said maybe its the skeevy look in your eyes
Or that your mind has turned to applesauce
The dreary architecture of your soul
I said - but what is it exactly turns you off?

CHORUS


Sadly, I wouldn't have needed to use Google.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:08 pm 
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so someone hacked into steely dan's site just to write a half-baked letter to luke wilson?

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:10 pm 
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i assumed Spade just meant Steely Dan were joking.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:13 pm 
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HaqDiesel Wrote:
Open letter to Steely Dan:

First, you were never a touring band to begin with, and you sure as hell shouldn't be touring 400 years after you stopped not touring to begin with. Second, you are yourselves ripping off one Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in your hash-addled letter. Third, you do not deserve copyright protection for your clever idea of a guy named Dupree who sleeps on couches. Nobody's going "oh man, it's like that guy in the song! I'm totally going to see this Owen Wilson movie!" Hopefully, no one is saying "I'm going to see this movie "at all. Sure, an acknowlegement might be polite, but I hope you understand that attaching the name "Dupree" to a stock vagabond character does not an original idea make. Unoriginal ideas are not afforded copyright protection. Thank you for your understanding.

Love,
Aaron


seriously.

these nerds need to realize that they're really not that important (as much as i love them).


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:13 pm 
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Well, they are weird old dudes who have written 30 years worth of songs dripping with snide cynicism


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:14 pm 
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the redworm Wrote:
so someone hacked into steely dan's site just to write a half-baked letter to luke wilson?


Right, because Steely Dan could never write anything tongue-in-cheek.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:15 pm 
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HaqDiesel Wrote:
i assumed Spade just meant Steely Dan were joking.


even if they were joking, which they may have been, i dont think that calling luke or owen out on having 'low standards' for 'the bread' is exactly a joke.
not that i entirely disagree.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:16 pm 
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hence the bitter, festering kernel.


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Fagen strikes me as someone who would be entertained by other's contempt of his person.


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np: Katy Lied

special thanks to Paul (fd4f) for getting me into this album and the Royal Scam


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:30 pm 
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I am constantly reminded how good the lyrics to Reelin in the Years are, and how crappily played out the tune is.. sigh

If it was a joke, why the fuck make it so long? By the end, I ended up where I started............ not caring.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:39 pm 
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If it wasn't a joke, why would they write it that way?

And yeah, there's probably some truth to it, but probably not a lot.


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