Wincing The Fight Away: Sub Pop Comments On Marty Crandall & Elyse Sewell's Arrest
Anyone with Garden State in their collection or a soft spot for "New Slang" has heard the news that Shins keyboardist/etc Marty Crandall and ex-girlfriend (and ex-America's Top Model contestant) Elyse Sewell got in some sort of scuffle Friday, landing them both in a Sacramento County jail. After she was released on Saturday, Sewell posted photos of her bruised arm at LiveJournal, which she's since locked, explaining to her peeps:
Hi guys! I'm feeling much better on this new day (after sleeping until noon). I've decided to heed the advice of many commenters (lawyerly types) and friends-lock my last entry about the legal foibles between me and my ex-boyfriend.We were staying out of it, but then Sub Pop issued a statement, which assures the facts some. Via P4K:
Marty Crandall and his ex-girlfriend Elyse Sewell were both arrested over the weekend following an argument at a Sacramento hotel which resulted in hotel staff calling the police.Crandall faces the judge tomorrow, but he's facing his critics today. Ultragrrrl snagged a pretty funny Wikipedia screengrab, but we dug up a video that's even more apropos.They were both taken into police custody and released over the weekend.
There will be no further comment at this time and we would appreciate their privacy being respected.
What's your take? Bob Nastanovich couldn't be reached for comment.
UPDATE: Crandall wasn't charged. Neither was Sewell. The Portland Mercury spoke with Diane Richardson of the Sacramento County District Attorney's office, who told them: "Both defendants have not been charged. The case was rejected due [to] insufficient evidence." In honor of the moment, here's a photo of the crazy kids in better times. (Does he ever wear a shirt?) No word if Marty will be consulted by Dr. Phil against his will.
Elyse gets the last word via her LJ.
Gettin' ready. I fancy my court appearance to be pretty fly despite puffy eyes and the giant jail boil on my chin that yesterday, in my anxiety, I picked into scabrous oblivion. Better pack some candy in case I end up in jail tonight and regret not grabbing my last chance for an M&M:We call bullshit on the M&M eating.
Soon I will find out whether I will be prosecuted or the District Attorney will drop the felony charges. Ugh, how distasteful that I even have to think about those boring legal words. Out with "own recognizance." In with "puissance." Out with "remand." In with "undine."
Do not prosecute!
Pray for mojo.
Update: The D.A. has rejected the case against me. I am free. I wish the same outcome for Marty and have no intention of pursuing any further legal action. I would not wish entanglement in the widening gyre of the American legal system upon my worst enemy.
It was incredibly naive of me not to realize that my blog entry about this incident would become tabloid fodder. That was not my intention. I consider the small circle of people who frequent this LJ to be a support group; the much larger world of tabloid readers is certainly not. I will never speak of this again, nor malign Marty in this space. And tomorrow this'll be fishwrap.
Expect few updates to this journal in the next couple of weeks as I will be untangling the web of seven years of cohabitation with my ex-boyfriend, packing up my shit, and thickening up a plot to travel and work in more temperate climes.
Posted at 6:46 PM
Tags: Elyse Sewell | Marty Crandall | The Shins
I like the shins as much as the next guy, but when a male strikes a female that is unacceptable.
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I would let her smack me around
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How, exactly, does that gormless goon even get the opportunity to hover within the vicinity of a girl who looks like that? Do pretty girls really dig on this sort of 70's style soft rock? Christ, he just plays the keyboards. I always thought that 'Garden State' was just a movie. Maybe Braff knew something I didn't.
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What was her side of the story? Her journal entry is friends locked.
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the fact that she went straight to her myspace blog and posted pictures, etc, leads me to believe she was anything but an innocent victim in this episode. make your case before any blame is directed at you kind of thing.
not saying that this guy didn't assault her, but she is obviously crazy.
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Someone needs to post what she wrote.
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there's a lot that could be going on. let's look at this (subjectively): she's a model, so she thinks she's hot shit. he's in the shits, er, Shins, so he thinks he's hot shit. the two of them get shitfaced, and then the shit really hits the fan.
to be serious though, there's a lot of things that can cause bruises besides a fist. let's say, the edge of a counter from when you're stumbly drunk, or even a clasping hand on a fair skinned model's forearm that's trying to beat the shit out of some shitty keyboardist. it's not just dudes who throw punches. i'm just saying.
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from elyse's lj:
Think you had a shitty weekend? Nah. Why not compare it to mine?
1.) On the drive home (home?) from Albuquerque to Portland, my ex-boyfriend got shitfaced and roughed me up in a Sacramento hotel. I escaped from the room through a blitzkrieg of violence and talked to hotel security, who called the fuzz.
2.) Because he had a bite mark, inflicted in self-defense, on his arm, Marty told the police to PRESS CHARGES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST ME. Now I am a felon.
3.) I spent the night in jail. Dig the hilarous monetary contents of my wallet as described by the pig who booked me:
4.) Jailors. America's Next Top Model fans, all. As the warden took pics of my bloody knuckles for evidence (!!!! evidence!), he quipped, "So there goes that hand modeling job, huh? What's Tyra going to say about this?" And here is how I was summoned from the holding cell for a strip-search, complete with a thorough plumbing of the boodissy: "Hey, Supermodel! Git over here!"
4.) A bail bondsman (!!! I have a bail bondsman!) got me out of the hoosegow this morning and took me to a hotel room where I now await my court date. Martin Lesley Crandall is still incarcerated. You can follow his saga by searching for his name on sacsheriff.com (inmate information).
So I'm stuck in Sac-town, alone and lonely, for 4-5 days until court. Court! OMFG.
On the flip side, I'm single and um, ready to mingle. Blind date, anyone?
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Single? Mingle? Show me your O-face...oh, Oh, OH!
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First off - what the fuck is Sub Pop doing by commenting on this event? It has absolutely nothing to do with any release by 'The Shins' or whathaveyou. They should stick to releasing records instead of commenting on the personal lives of an artist who is in a band on their roster.
Secondly, if the lj entry is real, then obviously it was not a soul-destroying event everyone wants to make it out to be. Sounds like the lady likes the attention.
Thirdly.. why does anyone care?
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The Shins are one of the most over-hyped bands in existence next to Radiohead.
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He got smashed and started knocking her around. She, however, is a seemingly together, intelligent young woman and managed to compose an entry in her journal about it, without sounding moapy and emo. This does not indicate that she may be to blame. The Shin is the one who got fucked up and hit a woman.
Get your heads on straight.
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Shall I remind you all of the Isaac Brock rape allegations a few years ago? We must be wary of all positions.
They were both arrested. It seems reasonable to suspect the fight was either caused by or resulted in their break up, meaning the relationship was probably not stable. Sewell's blog is not an indicator of anything, guilt or innocence, and she took it down on lawyer's advice to avoid such conjecture. The bottom line is, who knows what happened. Hopefully, both parties were intoxicated. At the least, it seems what must have been a destructive relationship had come to an end.
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a. he doesn't just play keys, he plays the bass and i think he might even play guitar.
b. subpop didn't really comment on any one's personal lives other than the fact that they are just that... personal lives. they just stated the necessary known facts and that they wish to make no further comment.
...jus' sayin' is all.
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she has a "livejournal".. .
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if you knows either of these people personaly and didnt see the incident take place and havent even read a detail account of what happened then you have no right to comment about it realy
p.s. dont dog the shins
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if you dont no these people personaly didnt see the incident take place and havent read both versions of the event then its pointless commenting about it.
p.s. dont dog the shins
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That guy in the youtube clip who looks like a roadie for Nazareth circa 1974 is right. The Shins suck.
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So writing about something that happened to her in her livejournal equals attention-seeking? Writing snappily about something traumatic means it wasn't really traumatic to begin with? Ever heard of "gallows" humor?
Maybe everyone would be more concerned if the Shins' keyboardist bet on some dogfights or something.
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Sounds more to me like they were both kicking the crap out of each other.
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actually according to elyse, he had one bite mark on his arm which was 'self defense'. and if you see the pictures of her it looks a lot worse. personally this just makes me sad because i feel like i know the two of them personally, from being a shins freak a few years back and watching top model religiously. of course i do not. but still...:(
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Both of them suck. Period.
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