the dandy warhols

2003: Black Box Recorder, PASSIONOIA

Sometime in the late 90s, a friend of my girlfriend’s made her a mix CD with the Auteurs’ “After Murder Park” on it. I don’t think it made much impression at the time; it was pleasant enough, apart from the whole being about the Moors…

2000: The Autumns, IN THE RUSSET GOLD OF THIS VAIN HOUR

It was probably 1997 when the Autumns spent the night in my apartment. I was at home when my girlfriend called me from the radio station where she was interviewing them. I’m not sure why I wasn’t there; maybe I’d been at work. She put…