Steely Dan Not a Fan of Owen Wilson's Dirty Work

to my knowledge, anon, we did no such thing. it could be a server issue or something else of which i am currently unaware. we didn't delete anyhting. just take a step back and relax, anon. if anything is a joke it may be your overreaction.

"communist censorship stance" ?

breeeeeathe

Y'all deleted my post about "want-to-be's"? When did Austinist take a communist censorship stance? Way to go guys. What a joke.

Steely Dan is totaly hip, always will be. Why does this issue of age seem to come up from lame little want-to-be's? Come tomorrow, even you will be older you freaking slip-joints.

You dinks must think all the tunes you listen to today started the day you got hooked on music. You're ignorant at least.

Please, don't listen too, or involve yourselves with perfection, until you grow-up! If you want to be some what mature, borrow someones head-phones and give 'Aja' a day in court. If you can't dig that, then go back to Kiss 100, or what ever it is you little folks groove to.

Between today's truesday, researching Marxs, and all of this crazy banter... I think I may have to go home. It's ridikkilis to be having this much fun fo' fee, I mean, free. Thanks for the props True C.

ps: your open letter was a brilliant thing. A thing of brilliance. Like, totally seriously for sure.

In de fayyyyce test tube adamr! Oh no he, like, d'nt!

"why so defensive?"

-Childhood trauma or the Steely Dan punishment booth, don't ask.

Anyway, yeah, I get it, let the old farts crack a joke. But, we're neglecting the real victims here, not the Wilson bros., but the ageless, faceless Hollywood movie machine. They put out quality films that draw from our cultural subconscious so that we can better appreciate what it means to be American. If we had to put a price on "intellectual property" then we'd all be broke.

Wasn't it Richard Marx that said:

Hold on to the nights

hold on to the memories...

from each according to his abilities,

to each according to his needs?

If that's the case, then, well, Hollywood is God and who are we, or the Dildo band, to say anything about it? I don't know if anything I said makes sense, even to me, but I do know that I'm happy to be a living American that can occasionally enjoy some exceptionally minty gum.

i thought studio 54 had a strict no test tubes policy

Why is Steely Dan staying at a hotel in Corpus after a S.A. gig? Was the Cotulla Best Western booked up?

Sheesh adamr, why so defensive? Walt and Don don't think they've got anyone figured out. They're just a couple of funky middle-aged dudes who share a love of really great music...as well as an ascerbic wit.

This is their idea of funny. Were someone to take a similar shot at them, they'd likley think it was hysterical. Indeed, when Fagen sold VIP packages to his solo tour earlier this year, Becker ridiculed him for it.

By the way, they've always been open about where they got the name of the band. I think what's bugging them is that the filmmakers didn't so much as give a nod to "Cousin Dupree."

Why, why do you make me want piangere? I can't help it if Great Uncle Fezzendorf's exploits granted me my generous trust, thus enabling me to comment on every Austinist post ever (if I want to).

In reality I did have a great uncle who sold a brick factory to the Kennedys and I was probably conceived at a Steely Dan concert, or maybe it was a KISS concert, or Studio 54. Who knows?

oh, adam...i almost sent you a personal email telling you what a legend you were. then i read your postscript and now i must tell you publicly that you are a rapscallion and i rebuke you.

although, i don't drink, i am with "hail the dan." those dudes are legends of the highest order, and were you not the great nephew of a wealthy shipping magnate, you would be fired post haste. alora.

Hey, I listen to Cinderella fulltime. Maybe I just got a little too passionate. I really hate it when old, hipster doofusses think they've got everyone 20-35 figured as "like"-spittin' mo-rons. It's terrible. It's not the first time musicians proved to be jerkfaces.

i'm wary of people who aren't down with the dan- like people who don't drink or don't like chocolate. sorry, i just don't get it. sure, maybe it's not good for me, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying it.

Dear, like, Don and, you know, Walt, man:

This is generation x, or, like, y, or, you know, zero, hu-hu,

-hey, pass the bong dude.

-shhhh, I'm writing a comment.

Anyways, um, what? Oh yeah, thanks for patronizing two actors in the most, like, hilarious way. You know what though, you should like totally give back your band name then you hippy-crites...

-Ewww, burn. You carried those dirty old bitches to the curb.

-I know right, but shut up I'm totally not done.

Um, right, so yeah. You need to fess up for taking the name of your band from the dildo in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Harry Truman is rolling in his grave ever since you picked up a guitar, before you can trash the hero of Shanghai Nights and his brother, the dude who dates the superchick in that movie.

-Jackie Chan is an alien man.

-You're an alien man, now shut up.

So why don't you old dudes bring your stationary and pens and, you know, like come down to the Supertramp concert, whenever that is, and we can hold hands and stick Dupree swag in your butts, you know, nothing you wouldn't want to do anyway. Then we'll take you to, like, a bar and make veiled threats referencing large eastern European antagonists. Then you can apologize on, um, News Channel 8 in the morning for being washed up, like, douchebags, man.

All the best,

generation not yours.

P.S. without ironic stance or sarcasm I can honestly say Steely Dan really sucks. If you think otherwise you just don't know what's good for you.

Freakin' hysterical. Walter Becker & Donald Fagen have a wry, bone dry sense of humor -- just read their liner notes or check out their websites.

This smacks of Becker more than Fagen to me. Either way, I'm sure they were genuinely annoyed but decided to deal using sarcasm and wit. Love it.

Yeah, I'm a tad biased.

okay, that is officially very strange. are they desperate for press?